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Show WEEKLY REFLEX KAYSVILLE It was DeGraw that set the tone of the battle on the very first play from scrimmage. Spence took the handoff from quarterback Ben Horne around the right end and went mid-fiel- Davis High scored two touchdowns in the last five minutes of play to hand Bountiful a setback in Region Four last week. 36-3- 0 THE DART win gives them and the Braves a yards for the winning score. Hadley ran for three more giving the Braves a third and five near Coach Paul Waite called for a fake hand off to Eggett and Schmutz kept the ball around the end. The Darts werent fooled though, and the Braves faced a fourth and six situation. By DAVE WIGHAM 77 yards untouched for the first score with less than a minute gone in the game. That play surprised me I remember thinking to myself its not suppose to be this easy. co- SENIOR JAY McCaan got off a great kick putting the Darts in a deep hole on their own three yard line with just over a minute to play. After two incomplete passes the play came in from the sidelines, as Spence DeGraw explains. Its called motion right 49 streak. When I went in motion I went too far from the rest of the line because I couldnt hear championship in league play, but the Davis side goes to the state quarterfinals as the top team with the win. For the pure fan, this was one of the greatest football games seen in a long time. For Davis fans it was a fantastic finish while their counterparts from Bountiful could only look on with disappointment from the stands. the quarterback. When of time with their running attack. The Braves did pick up one first down on a pass from Phillip Schmutz to tight end Matt Thornley, but then the Dart defense put the clamps on. Big Rob Eggett ran for a couple of yards and then Steve the first period. The fireworks were just starting as neither team seemed able to stop the other from moving the football. Bountiful started a drive on their own 35 yard line and appeared to have things going their way when Schmutz overthrew a pass and Doug Wehrli, the move in from Bountiful, intercepted and returned the ball to mid-fiel- BOUNTIFUL wasted no time evening up the score as they scored on their first possession, although, it came a bit harder than the Dart score. Davis actually held the Braves on their first three plays but then the Darts fumbled the punt with junior Art Miller falling on it for the Braves on the Davis 16 yard line. I headed up field I looked back for the flags in case I had gone up too quick. 1 knew I had the halfback beat because, he moved up thinking we were throwing in the flat to me again, we had done that a couple of times during the night. Then I had to concentrate on catching the ball. I had dropped a couple already and I'm not known for my pass receiving ability. As soon as I caught it I told myself there was no way anyone was going to catch me. AND THEY didnt as the speedy senior rambled 97 BOUNTIFUL appeared to have the game won when Dave Wilson recovered an attempted onsides kick with just over four minutes left. Bountiful is known for their ability to hang on to the ball for long periods 7 with just over four minutes in Todd Smith ran a couple of times, then the Braves called a draw play to big Rob Eggett who rambled 14 yards for the score. BACK CAME the Darts with Drew Olson and DeGraw finding huge holes in the Bountiful defense. When they got close it was fullback Troy Meacham who took the pigskin over the goahne. lhe kick was good and the Darts led 14- - DAVIS WAS unable to move, mainly due to a holding penalty, and they punted back to the Braves. After a couple of first downs Rob Eggett fumbled with Wehrli falling on the ball for Davis at the Bountiful 39 yard line. On the first play, Todd Beck of Bountiful made a fine interception at his own five yard line. At this point Coach Waite went to his ball controlled ground attack and the Braves took fifteen plays to go 59 yards for the touchdown. The drive was typical Bountiful with Eggett and Smith running the ball with an occasional short pass to Jay McCaan. Smith went th final two yards around the right end with about a minute remaining in the first half. Bountiful faked the kick with Eric Johnson run ning the ball in for two points and the Braves led at the half DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL, NORTH DAVIS LEADER, OCTOBER 29. 1981 couple of weeks. Schmutz then hit Dave Wilson in the end zone for the two point conversion and the Braves led 2 with 11:56 left in the game. Davis went back to work on offense but safety Dave Wilson picked off a Dart pass and gave his Brave team good field Mike position near Gee had entered the game for the injured Smith and on his first carry he went around left end and found daylight and out ran everyone for the score. This time Steve Hadley kicked the extra point and the Braves led 23-2- THE THIRD period was more of the same. Bountiful took the ball and marched down the field only to have Wehrli intercept again by tight end Matt Thornley, who pre- vented him from scoring. Davis went to their bread and butter with DeGraw and Meacham running, the key play was a third and twelve situation in which Ben Home hit DeGraw with a fine pass to the Braves three yard line and a first down. DeGraw then went around the end for the touchdown. The Darts ran a reverse to DeGraw who found the end zone again and Davis was on top Bountiful put together the go ahead touchdown with another long drive. Twice the Braves went for the six points on fourth down opportunities 22-1- and both times they succeeded. On a fourth and nine pass, interference was called on Davis giving the Braves a first down on the Darts 15 yard line. THEN ON fourth and three from the five yard line Eggett bulled his way into the end zone. The play just before this one saw Bountiful lose Todd Smith to a knee injury for a mid-fiel- 30-2- 2. THE DARTS werent going to give up that easy as they came right back down the Braves throats. DeGraw and Meacham took turns running and catching the ball and soon found themselves inside the Bountiful ten yard line with a first down. DeGraw went around end for six yards. Then DeGraw again for two more and finally Meacham went over left tackle untouched for the touchdown. The attempt at the two points failed when DeGraw lost his footing and fell down behind the line. AT THIS time the Darts tried the onsides kick but it didnt work. Little did they know theyd still pull it out. Darts DeGraw Relives 36-3-0 Davis Victory... of Utah. "Even on that play By KEITH DUNCAN - No one. KAYSVILLE except the players and the coaches, could feel the real electricity and intensity that generated from Davis-Bountif- ul gridiron clash here last Friday night. such an emotional thing. said I really cant reDeGraw. member Ben calling the signals at the line of scrimmage, but I just had a feeling about the time to take off. THE COUNT seemed like he said. With the snap of the ball. DeGraw took off like he was trying to defend his 100 meter championship. He never broke stride as Hornes pass connected on the numbers. Whether it was the OF COURSE there were fans, on either side, that were touched by the emotionalism of the prep w ar. but no one felt it in the genuine way the players were touched. 0 Davis win goes The into the record books as a simple typed line and will never really mean anything to those who never payed for a ticket. a long one regardless. BUT TO those who did attend, especially the players, that simple typed line will bring back memories that will live on for lifetimes. Spencer DeGraw. a hero in the victory, called the whole really weird, so experience emotional. was decisive. 36-3- T E SEAF.R been in a game that was so emotional and so intense. said Spence. "M feelings about the game got a chance to settle a few days later. "Looking back on it is weird. During the game I was on such an emotional high. I didn't notice the fans or anything that didn't directly have something todo w ith the game. It was almost like we were in a box. said DeGraw . IT W S this speedy and oft times explosive prepster that caught a Ben Home pass in full stride and raced down the Davis sidelines untouched for the final and few points that gave the Darts their first victory over Bountiful in three years and more importantly set state ihem up in the I9SI quarterfinals at the University 4-- emotionalism of this game, in fact it was an offensive lineman. Cary Blood, that showed DeGraw just how emotional the game was for the players. Cary had a holding call pinned on him after I had picked up some yardage. 1 was taken back a bit when he began to almost cry about the penalty. it was unmistakable speed of DeGraw or a defensive mistake on the part of the Braves, it didn't matter, the touchdown , HE WAS saying to himself. Why now. Why in such an important game. I realized then just how much this game really meant to us. I remember walking back to the huddle and talking to Cary, trying to turn his frustrations into anger. It worked, he played great from then on." said DeGraw. There is little question that the Davis triumph last Friday is going to make the rivalary even more heated in years to come. It has always been intense and Friday's battle was a classic in a long list. Davis-Bountif- ul AS PLAYERS. DeGraw says the entire team was confident they would win. We walked through the halls Friday and though we wouldn't talk about it much, we just smiled at each other, confident we would win. said DeGraw. And because of that confidence DeGraw may have been upset when he came to the sidelines w ith two minutes left in the game. "THE GUYS on the sidelines looked like we had lost the game, like there w asnt any hope. 1 yelled a couple of things to get them up again. I knew it wasn't over yet." he said. DeGraw. who carried for ov er 142 y ards on the day. also scored the first touchdown of the night. It happened to be the first play after the opening kickolTandof it. DeGraw says. It came so early and so easy it didn't seem like it was for real. I was looking for yellow dags on that play. he said. BUT IT wasn't only; Graw that was caught up in the De- FACTORY SECONDS AND USED WINDSHIELDS SAVES! OVER 1,000 IN STOCK I HAVE a good friend. Darrel Welling who plays for Bountiful. But he's about the only friend I have from there. said DeGraw half jokingly . When DeGraw was a sophomore he remembers the Dart's victory over Bountiful on the sophomore level. They hadn't forgotten (hat. because - In a third KAYSVILLE down and ten situation and with just a little over a minute remaining. Davis quarterback Ben Horne must have felt a bit overwhelmed after staring at the 97 yards his team would have to cover in order to beat Bountiful. EVEN THOUGH it seemed like four miles for us. I just had a feeling that we might do it, said the senior signal caller. The first two passes w ere incomplete which still didn't damper feelings, after the second incomplete pass. Cary Blood (offensive hncmanl. came up to me and said this one is going all the wav, remembered Home. OPEN SATURDAY TIL' NOON LAYTON 376-121- KAYSVILLE 3 Of 376-121- 4 571 N. RUIN LAYTON A- -l OGDEN 396-923- OR 399-565- 6 jtf.zrntST.OMf QUALITY GLASS Sawley, There Was So Much At up until this year it was their only loss as a group. said DeGraw. Stake Against Bountiful High THE DAVIS studentbody president also preferred to call 0 the triumph a more meaningful victory than the two victories Bountiful had taken in the past two years. "This was a league game where a region championship was on the line. The past two 36-3- Ward Sawley. whose Davis Darts bounced Bountif ul 0 last Friday night to grab a years have been practice 36-3- games and don't think they had quite as much meaning." he said. 1 DEGRAW ILL now have two weeks to prepare for the View winner of the Alta-Sk- y contest which will take place on Nov. 7 at the University of Utah. And he could probably use the rest too. During third quarter action last Friday he was hit hard on the leg and last Saturday had to use crutches to get around. However. Sunday he reported the leg was feeling much better. DEGRAW ended his comments w ith the assurati ve comment. 1 guess I finally proved to those who thought I couldn't catch a football that I cun. He said it with a bit of share of the Region Four championship and advance into the state playoffs as the first place team from that region, says the excitine contest was the most important game in those kids career. Quarterback Ben Horne and head coach, Ward Sawley must have had plenty of sessions like the one above last Friday in the Darts victory over the Braves. Horne threw a 97 yard touchdown to DeGraw in the closing seconds for a come from behind victory. 36-3- 0 WARD SAM LEY called for a 49 streak, designated to run right along the Davis sideline w ith Spencer DeGraw the man that was supposed to catch it. I rolled out and right before I threw the ball I hesitated a bit because I wanted to set for a good throw and not hase it intercepted. said Horne, After I released the ball the only thing I could think of was if I had gone over the line of the hours of going over films. THE PASS sailed yards in the air right into the hands of a striding DeGraw. "It was a great pass. said Sawley. DeGraw, who had plainly defeated his pass defender on (he play, knew their wasn't any flags behind him. "I just knew it was good. he said. 30-4- 0 HORNE WAS wilting to thank everyone else except himself about the sictory and the next play. "The lineman were doing their job all night and if they made mistakes, they were few, said Horne. "Blood. Storey, Steed. Mackey and Bock couldn't have done better on that w inning touchdow n play." he said. "WEDESLRUD to win." said Horne. "And I guess Bountiful thought they should have won too." But Home's positive feeling about the Dart triumph stems from the tremendous preparation put mtothe game. We've never prepared for a game like we did this one." said Home. He was talking about the many things brought up in practice, the extra team meetings and THE TWO times that Bountiful had beaten us in the FOR THE game, Davis punted only once and their mistakes were very few. r, Davis vs Alta-Sk- y -- believed him," continued Home. Wehrli ended the night with two interceptions which must have been a big feather in his cap. HORNE SAYS DeGraw' first long run for a touchdow n may have been the thing to get the ball rolling. It was a very basic play and we carried it out better than we hase all year. I guess right there we figured that If we didn't make miv takes, we might have a good chance of beating those guys. "On the other hand we knew that mistakes against a good team like Bountiful would kill us. THERE WAS so much at stake. Now they've won they can take some of the pressure off of even getting into the pluyolF s said Sawley. He was right too. Had the Darts lost the Friday night encounter they would have had to play Highland in a game this week to even get into the playoffs. And if you remember the last time the Rams and Darts met. that game would have war. been an BOUNTIFUL had a solid team, we were impressed. But it seemed that time just ran out. and we were on top when it did. First we'd score, then they would, then us. and so forth. We just couldn't stop each other. I ans sure got their money's worth in that one." he said. all-o- Sawley felt for sure the game would have been bounii-li- d s had they gained a first down on their last possession. BUT IT still looked Weak for us w hen they punted out on the third-yarline. That's exd actly what they wanted." admitted Sawley. But as the story goes. DeGraw look off down the sidelines and caught a Bountiful defensive back unawares. The Horne pass was missed King intercepted by inches. It sailed over a defender's fingers, however, and landed in the arms of DeGraw who raced down the sidelines for the winning touchdown. IVE SAID in the past I still hadn't seen Spence have the kind of game I knew he could have. But last Friday night he finally had it. It was his best game of the year by far," said Sawley. Sawley, who has now taken his Darts to the state playoffs for the past three years, not only wanted to remember the long touchdown runs DeGraw and others made, but seemed proud also of the way Davis moved the ball all night. last two years were bitter games, but they weren't league games like this one was. Last Friday's game had a lot more importance than they did and that's why we put so much time into prepanng for them." said Home. The Davis quarterback said that Bountiful-transfeDoug Wehrli. also had a lot to do with their win. He encouraged us all week and kept us going. He told us that we could beat Bountiful and we WITH DEGRAW on the outside and Meacham up the middle we were unstoppable. said Sawley. Sawley. like many of his players, also recognized the emotionalism that stemmed from this game. There was so much at stake like I've said and the fact both teams had prepared so well for the game, that thee couldn't help but be high emotions in this game," BUT THE Darts can put all that behind them and begin to prepare for their quarterfinal game against the w inner of the Alta-Sk- y View game. 1 he next time the Darts will play will be on Saturday. Nov. 7, at 2:30 p.m. at the U. of U. Sawley admits that many of his play ers enjoyed their finest games of the year including Spencer DeGraw who scored both the first and last touchdowns and long ones at that. humor mixed in. scrimmage. The highly successful Davis mentor also gave a bunch of credit to Troy Meacham, the Davis fullback, who scored twice in the game and also had an all important two point conversion. By KEITH DUNCAN Horne Wasnt Going To Allow An Interception By KEITH DUNCAN last Spencer DeGraw scored the first and last touchdown Bountiful. Darts lead the past Friday night to help IT WAS a great night for football. It wasn't too cold for the fans and yet was cool enough that the players weren't having problems overheating. We've had some great moments and some sad ones, but cat.h week we'se come baik anJ tried to do something Kttcr than the week before. he concluded. WEUOII.DVT stop them and likewise, they couldn't stop us." said Saw ley . ' ll was one of the greatest high school View Winner Sat., Nov. 7 2:30 P.M. games I've been involved with." he said further. BOATS AND TRAILER STORAGE Morgan Farms 1500 East Fiddler $110 376-813- 1 -- Creek Rd. $150 |