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Show 3 THE GREEN SHEET Thursday, December 20, 1984 Sports Pirates Rip Warriors For Consolation Honors - Cougars Capture Classic Crown As Granger Falls MAGNA. A new name is being engraved on the Green Sheet Classic traveling trophy Kearns high captured top honors tournament for the in the four-teafirst time Saturday night, downing d seven-year-ol- Granger 52-3- 6 The Cougars may actually have title in Thursdays opening round when they stunned host won the m a thriller worthy of a Cyprus tournament Cyprus rebounded to defeat Taylorsville 2 and followed that up with an win over Tuesday night to improve to 42 All four teams will be m their final action before the holiday break Taylorsville will take on Granite on the Farmer floor tonight (Thursday) Granger will journey to West 51-5- 0 61-4- 80-6- 4 Jordan for a 3:15 tipoff Friday Kearns will host Clearfield at 3 p m and Higland is at Cuprus at 5 30 The teams will not see further action until Dec. 28 Kearns 52, Granger 46 Granger was able to stay with the Cougars for a half, but the combination of Kearns size and experience proved to be too much for the Lancers as Kearns ran away in the fourth period The Cougars were patient against a good Granger zone in the first period which ended 10-- 8 for the eventual champs In the second the leads Cougars ran out to seven-poin- t several times, only to see Granger storm back behind the shooting of Ryan Stephens The Cougars owned a lead They outscored the Lancers 3 in the third period Tourney MVP John Hatch and forward Scott Chappel were the keys for the Cougars as they scored 18 and 12 points respectively Hatch on 7x10 from the field and 4x5 from the line and Chappel on 10x12 from the chanty stripe Chappel also blocked five shots and had seven rebounds m his finest overall outing of his career, according to Coach Kenyon Clark By converting 18x25 from the line, the Cougars stayed in command of the contest Stephens paced Granger with 12 points and Fred Ross played well with 10 Granger missed the services of senior Marc Hasenberg who will ill, but Coach Ed Grey was pleased with his teams first half play in both contests 20-1- 6 16-1- C prus 61, Tay lorsville and took a lead, only to have Hatch and company snatch it right back The Pirates missed three late shots before Scott Chappel grabbed a carom and let the clock run out Kearns was helped by more than two dozen Pirate turnovers that frustrated Wilson, still, they held the Cougars to just seven points in the second period to close within three, and took a 40 35 lead in the third period before two Hatch buckets 9 made it going into the final eight minutes of play After falling behind by four, the Cougar defense took command, holding the Pirates scoreless for 40-3- MAGNA Kearns high s John Hatch was named most valuable player and headed the all tournament team in the Green Sheet Classic which concluded Saturday night at Cyprus Hatch, who might have been a Cyprus Pirate had he not chosen to attend neighboring Kearns when Granite District allowed students that option when Cyprus was on double sessions, poured in 21 points against his former teammates and went on to score 18 against Granger in the championship contest He also pulled down 23 rebounds in the two contests The Cougar forw ard w as joined on the all tournament team by Cyprus guard Cory Gust, the tournaments leading scorer with 19 points against Kearns and 24 against Taylorsville Hatch's teammate, forward Scott Chappell, whose play was especially outstanding in the championship game, was named Granger forward Mike Wilding and guard Derek Bolton and Taylorsville guard Christ Seaman rounded out the team, selected by the coaches The players received a handsome plaque Thats more like it, commented Coach Mark Wilson after his team had blown several opportunities in the Kearns game and was forced to settle for consolation honors in 21-1- Kearns 51, Cyprus 50 Thursdays contest had all the drama of Cougar Pirate match ups of old The Pirates may have learned a valuable lesson - you can't play poorly and expect to win, although the Bucs had their chances down the stretch Kearns got off to a magnificent start and a 19 10 lead after one period, but the Bucs stormed back -- test HANDS ON . . . Jeff Pace (35) of Kearns battles with Fred Ross (24fof Granger for rebound as their teammates freeze in anticipation during title con- - of Green Sheet Classic Saturday at Cyprus high, U&CK amucEl JEAN 25 to 55 OFF ENTIRE STOIC) NGELS ALVIN OUIS LL OLYESTER R P M LEVIS LEE -B- RITTANIA OCEAN PACIFIC HAGGAR -A-CFARAH FLIGHT UNION BAY -J- AYMAR -LMANY MORE' RAPHAEL KLEIN O POLYWOOLS CORDUROYS -P- TRI-BLEN- WOOL -A- 6 Hatch Is Tourney's MVP 42 Like Granger the Warriors were the contest for the first half, but Wilson got his teams attention m the locker room and it came out smoking It was only 23 19 at half time, but the Pirates outscored the War1 in that pivotal third riors period Cory Gust, who challenged Hatch for MVP honors, poured m 24 points while Chad Sheppick contributed 13 Kelly Goodfellow played hard off the Pirate bench Toff Mitchell and David Houtz scored a dozen each for the Warriors, but Cyprus had too much depth and fire power almost four minutes while the lead with Cougars assumed a less than a minute left to play Gust cashed in with two charity tosses and Goodfellow scored with a half minute left, but that was the end of the point production and the Cougars carried home the win Having already beaten Granger once, Kearns took a lot of confidence into Saturdays finale Hatch was magnificent with 21 points on 7x13 and 7x11 and had 13 rebounds Chappell added 12 on a pair of buckets and 8x9 from the line Gust led Cyprus with 19, hitting Continued on page 4 Bengals Top Colts r Lose To Layton COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS After 5 battling to a one point, victory 56-5- of Layton Friday, Brightons Bengals put together one of their better efforts of the season in stoppTuesday night ing Cottonwood Cottonwood was coming off a 58 54 loss to a tough Bountiful team on Friday night Brightons final contest before Christmas will be at home with East on tomorrow (Friday) at 3 p m On Dec 28, the Bengals will host Weber in a 7 30 p m game Cottonwood will be at Murray tonight at 7 30 and then entertain 64-4- 5 East on Reid felt, however, that as the key to the w in We kept them from getting the outside shot and moving the ball inI was also side, he reported pleased with our transition game We really moved the ball up the floor Coach defense w well Cottonwoods top scorer was Jason Adams w ith nine points "We rebounded well, but had out worst shooting night of season, hitting only 40 percent, commented Cottonwood coach Blair Martineau We had good shots, we just couldnt get them to fall Dec 28 Bountiful 58, Cottonwood 54 Brighton 64, Cottonwood 45 Brighton jumped out to a 15-- 6 lead at the end of the first period and led 35 23 at the half The Bengals continued to add to the margin m the third period which ended with the Bengals in front 52 35 Brighton outscored the Colts 12 10 in the final eight minutes Scott Sperry hit for 17 points, Eddie McDaniels for 15, John Beuchert for 14 and Todd Reid and Rich Saunders for six each Todd Coomes and Dave Stott also played well off the bench According to Brighton coach Duke Reids stats, the Bengals outshot Cottonwood, hitting 62 percent from the field Bountiful really had trouble shakthe Colts Friday night The Braves led 14 8 after the first period, but by the end of the second, Cottonwood was back to within three, ing 26 23 Bountiful stretched the at 44 33 with three quarters gone, but the Colts to finish outscored the Braves within four Adams 14 points was high for Cottonwood followed by Craig Sorensen and Steve Cuthbert each w ith 12 We didnt play that well against Bountiful and we only shot 53 percent from the foul line, reported We also missed Coach Martineau a lot of inside shots margin to 11 21-1- 4 vpocosco OCOCCOCOOOCCOCSOOCOCOSSCOOCOCOSOOCOOO A LITTLE CRACK CAN COST 1 YOU BIG MONEY THIS HOLIDAY SEASON I DENIM O Choose from plain and pleated A styles in Slacks and Corduroys Basic and Fashion models in Jeans "t Orig. $1800 THE GLASS DOCTOR'S PRESCRIPTION . . . to $6500 Selection may vary by store. 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