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Show ywii Dorts Templars come within 2 points of upsetting impressive Morgan By Greg Dettinger Manti traveled to Morgan to play a bigger more experienced team and nearly shook them off of their horse as they went down by only two points, Kenny Cox led the Manti scoring with 19 points shooting 58 from the floor. Morgan jumped into the lead early in the st quarter as they took 67-6- 5. 1 advantage of the home town crowd and were up 1 at the buzzer, but this did not deter the 18-1- of the stick-to-it-ive-ne- ss Templars as they entered the second quarter. When the dust settled at the end of the 2nd quarter Morgan had only managed to outscore Manti 5 as they headed into the locker room with a 9 point lead, 35-217-1- 6. The Templars came out in the second half determined to force the Trojans off their horse and out of their game. At the end of the 3rd quarter, Manti had managed to cut the scoring margin to only one point as they headed into the 4th quarter down 59-4Ira Rice, 9. Kenny Cox and Kurt Keisel shifted into overdrive as they led the Templars in outscoring their giving Manti the opponents 16-- 8, chance to take the lead in the last couple of minutes. The Templars missed four last minute free throws, letting Morgan slip by with a slim 5 victory. Manti heads into an important week as they will host the Juab 67-6- Wasps on Wednesday, T eb. 5 and a 4 ranked North Summit team on Friday, Feb. 7. Badgers avenge earlier loss to Ricks with win in Rexburg By Ken Beazer The sweet taste Colleges of Snow 76-7- pay-bac- k 3 victory last week over Ricks road Col- lege will be hard to duplicate. Looking to redeem themselves of their only home loss of the season, the Badgers rode into Badgers were unable to garner a road sweep, losing to the conference's No. team. NIC. 1 qualify for state .By Greg Dettinger Five wrestlers from Manti qualified for the state division tournament to be held Friday and Saturday, Feb. at UVSC. The team finished in 7th place out of eight teams. Cody Strickland finished 2nd, Jeff Lindsay finished 6th, Brandon 2-- A 7-- Olsen finished 8, 6th, Jesse Strickland finished 3rd and Riley Anderson also finished for 6th qualifying them for the state tournament. The top six places from each region will go to state and the 1st and 2nd place finishers from each region will have a first round bye in this bracket. Riley Anderson at 125 pounds 16-m- weekend with UVSC and SLCC Rexburg, Idaho and rode away on Friday and Saturday in Snow with a desperately needed SWAC College's Activity Center. road victory. The victory keeps Not all was rosy on the them among the SWACs elite and SWACs road last week as the Five Manti wrestlers . sets up a home showdown this will wrestle Cody Curtis from Beaver. Jeff Lindsay at 130 pounds will wrestle Quinn Butler of Monticello, Jesse Strickland at 152 pounds will wrestle Troy Schrotke of Parowan and HW Brandon Olsen will face Earl Dyer of San Juan. Morgan finished 1st, followed by South Summit, Millard, Juab, Gunnison, Grantsville, Manti and North Summit. The state tournament will include both and schools 2-- A 3-- A and will be at Utah Valley State College in Orem beginning at 8:30 p.m. on Friday Feb. 7th with the champion.-.- iip rounds scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. on Saturday Feb. 8th. ! 97-8- 0, giv ing Snow College a weekend split. The ictory against Ricks could not hav e been predicted during the game's first few minutes. The Vikings lit up the nets early, running Ricks College out to a nine point lead and forcing Coach Jon Judkins into a timeout. The ease with which the Vikings grabbed the early lead may have lulled the Vikings, and their crowd, into a false sense of security. Cementing the feeling amongst the Viking faithful was the fact that three of the Badger starters were forced from die game with foul trouble. Enter the Badgers bench. David Fife, Lee Robinson and Jeff Kindred entered the game and brought Snow College back into contention. Before the crowd could sense danger. Snow College had entered the locker room w ith a six point lead. half-tim- e The lead by Snow was not surprising itself, it was the subtle way in which they obtained the lead that was worthy of note. They played like a team void of pressure, thus turning up the heat on their Ricks six-poi- nt V counterparts. The second-hal- was filled with each team with by neither team able to throw the micro-rallie- knock-o- f s ut punch. Near perfect foul shooting and disciplined offensive execution, keyed the Badgers victory march and gave them the much-neede- d road vv in. The following game V Q 'W' against NIC, the Badgers ran into a hornets nest. The Catdinals remembered well the shellacking they received earlier this year in Ephraim and returned the favor, e racing out to an 8 point 1 half-tim- lead and never looking back, on their way to a 97-8- 0 victory over Snow. With the weekend split, the Badgers are in good position to make a run at the SWACs upper echelon this weekend against 8 v. Wini bn il hullUlifrnwilMi.1 JiW. ihnifc UVSC and SLCC. Two victories this weekend at home would put the Badgers in an enviable position and go a long way to building momentum for the SWAC Tournament in March. lyujuim It s never a good idea to keep a 6 9 2601b. man waiting. For answers on loans in minutes, call In Salt Lake call 537-LOA-N. T?sr IF is, L, i r 1L |