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Show American For k, Dixie in Semis; Lehi Downs Manti Page 6—THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Friday, March 12, 1976 Pioneers Face Cavemen Nearly Reach Century Mark, 98-84 By ROGER GILLESPIE Herald Sports Writer One thing that concerned American Fork coach Carl Ingersoll as he took his team into the state 3-A Tournament was that his team has been plagued withslowstarts during theregular season. He needn't worry anymore American Fork raced to a court. Offensively, the Cavemenhit 13 of 17 shots those first eight minutes, but equally Bond's 22 points on11 of 15 from important, on defense they caused 10 turnovers. David Dean was once again the major culprit for the thefield. It was by far Bond's team. Contain said, and the Pioneer: return to action late in the season after suffering a foot year injury earlier i in the Gary Cook also had a fine scoring night for the Cavemen dropping through eight of 11 handled Well. that myth was laid to shots from the field tournament cu } underway at the University of Utah In other first reund act Wasatch dumped South Sevier best performance since his Cavemen as hepicked Cedar's pocket twice on cleansteals and drove the lengthof the floor one. Withthe score 6-4 in their favor, the Region Six champs re M4 straigh rest of the way to whip the Redmen98-84 and advance into points to go up by 16 at 20-4 and try as they might, the Redmen first half and at one point Bo! hit six shots in a row tonightat 8:50 p.m. substantial dent in that lead all night, although they gave it While Bond and Cook were torrid from the field, the rest of eight minutes the Cavemen must have been frightening to their best shot Cedar narrowed the Flyers who were watching the game from the Marriott Center seats after having nipped Logan 55-53 earlier in the day to get into the semifinals. While the intensity was extreme on both sides in the crucial first quarter, American Fork simply crushed the Redmen on both ends of the once TOO together a whip Manti 6447 round Cook hit the only five shots he took in the the semifinals against Dixie simply could not make any first By ROGER GILLESPIE Herald Sports Writer All seasonlong the opposition AmericanFork players were in double figures, led by Mike stunning 27-10 first period lead and played Cedar City even the Those Wasps in Semis again evident in this game. Six weren't but by then the gamewas over sizzling 68 per cent It was an even the biggest lead the Cavemen could muster was 22 when they led 6745 near the end of the third period Excellent nee, a key to the success the Cavemen have defense achieved all year, Cavementhroughoutthe game shooting exhibition pressured efforts gamefromgetting out of hand Cookin’ must with 1:29 remaii they led 28-24 — exactly the es up fora in Steve Hair once again led his With Arnold's First Year teamwith 22 points but it was whenhecouldn't scorethat put He finished his first year at the helm of BYU basketball with a 6-8 WAC record and a 12-14 overall record and nary a word of criticism can be heard around town. In fact, many are boosting Frank’s first year as very successful and someeven feel he should be considered for Coachof the Year honors. In a community that has at times even been critical of winning coaches that’s somekind of magic — especiallyin view of the fact that the previous coach got his walking papers after posting a 5-9 WAC record and an identical 12-14 overall record. Arnold’s magic is obviously not a result of pulling a lot of wins out of a hat. He hasn’t done that. His magic apparentlyrests in the manner ofthe winning or the losing. naivein the tournament — he wears an “afro” hairstyle — didn't score until the second quarter and by that time his team was down, 31-14 Brian Hansen was assigned Butby then it wastoo late Herald SportsEditor winners in the 3-A T Thursday 4 tthe the thrills were for the losers as “quiet elation” following the who were elimi: Judge and the title which has just barely slipped heir grasp the last two years They seemed convinced that sided scor rial coach Jim victory 78-71 shootout in the 1 and other consolation gam Judgeand Bingham will now ures in the st. Tom face eachother tc p. in the col Bingham got balanced scoring with four players in while double fig W paced by the hot hand M k Sidwell who pu high of 36 point: Rob while Grove and Cypru: the sidelines. American Fork having the Mates Mur finish Kip Staheli was the hero for guard hit tied ame minute proved winner shot that and then later scored a what to be the eventual Staheli scored 35-26 Likethe fans Arnold was also pleased withhis first year ‘It’s the most enjoyable yearI’ve hadin the 20 years I've beenin the business. We didn’t haveasingle minor problemon our team, andin this business that's unique he said No matter who herecruits Arnold has a good nucleus returning next year Jay Cheesman, Verne Thompson, Steve Craig and Vance Lawall had great moments during the season. Cheesman was named to the All-WAC team. Thompson came on too late for such an honor, but the last few games played with that type of ability Craig is developing fast, and Law hada couple of outstanding games, Mark Handy who was sidelined with an eyeinjury, will aiso be back, along with Tim Mould, Very Law, Misho Ostarcevic, and Craig Chr istensen. Agile Chad Duke and rugged Doug Clyde scored 22 points between them and controlled the backboards for Wasatch. Doug Anderson pumpedin 19 and Randy Madsenscored18 to pace the Ramupseteffort. In the final gameof the quarterfinal round, Morgan broke opena close gamein the and went on to Delta from the titie lead to the final end of three quarters but Peterson and Merrill ( of lay-ups. Iverson when the string of “We wanted to work the ball around for the best possible shot and I'd say we the day Soares admitted to being somewhat over anxious in the early son each hit a pair of Jumpers to stretch the Morgan victory margin LEHI (4) Scares Cooper KHarr Welch Nelson, Carlton Totals going and blamed this for his three quick fouls. “T MANTI (47) GFP Abegglen S17 22 12 39 44 10 05 00 14 00 M00 1854 ILM 47 4 20 28 4 Manti Wasatch 71, South Sevier 62 ‘Wasatch 18:964971 South Sevier 142844 Pioneer de own hanc his scored three Vikings tournament with a 2 lass to Logan. In that game h igs 4di yoting eyes and € w match for the Grizzlies However, the Vikings came plus a Kirk Abegglen bomb to take a 22-20 lead s into his pont and buckets personally while Keith Harr added another to push the k te third margin at th Judge id its third Pleasant Grove Once Soai and Lehi worked for the good shot n Sevier—Mason 3, 44, 10, R 2.00, 4; Madsen 6, 611, 18 m7. 56, 19, K. Forbush 2, 00, 4 on 3, 040, 6, Porter0, 1,1, Totals 2.1622, 62 State Tourney Slates Class A Thursday's Results 58 (championship) consolation 8. Cedar City 48 Pleasant Grove46 consolation Friday's Schedule 11.50 am, Uintah ys. Murray (Second round losers: Tooele vs. Spring lle 310 pm, Bear River vs Davis chumpanship 5M pm, Cedarvs Logan(second round scoring for the a row, despite bei with three fouls in the midway first period. Staheli and Jave Reber both ha Beck also h wint to lead the Grizzlies. Bruce Gardner, one of Logan's best players. was lir AMERICAN FORK (98) t GRE Ar ry CEDARCTPY (4 Mi 0 B19 58 2 more than once this year for their quick whistle on the The highlight of the season was beating Utah in Salt Lake, a trick that always endears a coach to rabid BYU fans. In that game the Cougars played their best basketball of the season as they hit on 63 per cent of their shots and played beautiful team basketball. Attendanceis up an averageof 1,620 per gameandenthusiasmis high for next year While Arnold has the fans eating out of his handat the moment herealizes that the future depends on recruiting — andthat's what he's doing now the Rams threatened on several occasions, neverlost. raight lay-ups to "EASANT GROVE (46) nip Logan, 35-53 the Flyers against Loganas the lead the plars sec three Jayins through the Soares - less for for the opening round and then sparkplug the Pioneers had shot whichjust beat the buzzer acle to quarter when the Waspstook 120-1 lead Leh coming backto beat Judge in Thursday shotat the end of game, scored at the endof the first quarter advanced into the top four by replaying the helped by a John Harr hope they very we Dixie is the next ob points the tournament's two games of the tou! BYU fans have enjoyed watching this team play. Although not a winning year, it was a fun year of basketball> There were numerous close games tat tle Cougars came within a whisker of winning, and there were some close ones they managed to win The Cougars were competitive in all but two games, once in Logan against the Aggies, and once in Tempeagainst Arizona State. In those games they managed to bounce back to make the final scores respectable, losing in Logan by 11 and in Tempe by15 a short jump or the 48-46 in one easant Grove finals and once pints 20 Wasatch in its win over South Sevier. The5-7 guardscored 12 of the seas ( Pirates twice, once by a lop Pleasant narrow t th Allre They Little Curt Gomm dumped through Once Soares returned, school was quickly out for the outgunned Templars. Until reserve Den riton scored he Miners had beaten th Grove credit lation thriller Bingham ousted ( Se poise intensity shownin the opening st Judge praise Memorial who s. In earlier g Ame tournament game behind them but they also realized that two more traight igh 1 the somethrills for thefans and the Center, but little consol games remain between them peeemselve et Consolation action provided The American Fork locker room could best be described game. To a man the Cavemen were happy to have the Cedar sack to give a good accounting By JOE WATTS ball game andit was only after Hairwas finally free to shoot other players ply swallowed hard anddid ‘y had to do extend to guard Hair for most of the he fouled out with 5:53 remaining in the game that lost when he went to the seemed to bepicked up ment. Cooper played one ofhis finest gamesof the season leading the Pioneers past the Templars, 64-47. Judge Edges Vikings; Bingham Bumps Cyprus the Redmen in the hole. The kid with the most appropriate Frank Arnold is working some kind of magic on the BYUfans Richfield. Rick Gundry led North Sanpete with 13 points as the Ha1 Iso had four men in controlof the game and though same margin. Whatever skills K jelsen balanced attack which saw four players in double figures for straight points in the second field and the Redmen lost against American Fork after LEHI'S HOWARD COOPER shot over Manti's Doug through 13 points to pace a in thefirst to nose out Binghamdespite hitting 60 per cent from the an exceptional 57 per cent thurnp the Hawks, 62-52. Welby until the start of the third period. When he went out, his team led 16-12 and when hereturned hitting 32 of 56 from the field for BYU FansAre Pleased had troublegetting doublefigures. period and didn’t play again be wondering whatis necessary to win inthis tournament. It tookall they had By JOE WATTS Todd Pioneer v of that there was no question And it had to be, because Soares picked up his third foul 31 attempts which kept the Cedar and playing a key reserve r the flounder, converting only 16 of Watts a 63-56 winner over ina frenzy, Keith Harr making several sensational defensive Only at the foul line did they Richfield 73 points, butstill had enoughto With HowardCooper playing than Manti with 21 points. up for North Sanpete, a team the Wildcats had beaten twice already this year by a total of Jensen, at 6-9 the Wildcats answerto Ev Soares — pumped Morgan, against Welchdid most of their damage on defense, however, where they limited the mad bomber. Kirk Abegglen, to just 12 points on five field goals in 17 attempts and continually becamethe Templar shooters Forward Steve Connor led and wil! play Lehi tonigh' North Sanpete, 62-52 and face Cyprus because the Cedar was once 2 Delta, this afternoonat 4:10. better Tuesday's exhibition the from closerange, while Cooper added 14 and Keith Harrscored nine. Guards Harr and John at 8:10. Richfield advanced inte the semifinal round r safely getting by 71-62 far behind. As a team. than duplicated shooting of t pening round game, hitting 41 of 60 shots for a the margin to 11 at 91-80 with little more than two minutes remaining of it was no contest. Soaresled his team in scoring with 23, most RP DAVID DEAN, AMERICAN FORK'’S Sparkplug guard, goes up for a short jump shot in last nights quarterfinal round gamewith Cedar, Also pictured for the Cavemen are Mike Bond (54) and Gary Cook (34). Trying to block the ball is Cedar City’s Kim Neilson. American Fork won 98-84 to advance into tonight's semifinal round lowers 10 pm, Bingham vs, Judge consolation 850 pm, American Fork vs Dixie semifinals Saturday's Schedule 2pm Murray Uintah winner vs. Cedar Lage. winner(4thplace) 3%) pin, Bear River Davis loser vs American Fork Dixie loser (3rdplace: pele Springville winner vs inner, (Sth nner VS Winner huarrpionship) Cass 2A Thursday's Results obi 64 Manti 5? Wasatch 71, South Sevier &2 rth Sanpete 52 Morgan6Delta56 Friday's Games % pm, North Sanpete vs Delta consolation: 10 pm. Richfield vs Morgan duurpionship D pm. Sath Server Manti pation 8.10 pm, Wasateh Lehi hampionship Saturday's Games Lan, Wasatch«Lehi loser ¥ Richfield Morgan loser (rdplace) 3 p.m. South Sevier lant winner VS Delta: North Sanpete winner (4thplace A pm, Wasatch Lehi winner ¥s. Richfield Morgan |