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Show 3 Thursday, December THE GREEN SHEET 12, 1985 Spouts Warriors Claim Win Over Vikings, 2-- 0 d d outre-bounde- d 43-3- 15-1- 32-2- 7 44-3- 8 Layton Rally Downs KHS KEARNS. An outmanned Kearns team ran out of steam in the second half as Layton came from behind to 27-2- 1 claim a 4 victory here Friday night. The Cougars will still be looking for their first win of the infant campaign when they go to Springville tomorrow (Friday) to test the Red Devils. On Tuesday they are slated to play at Viewmont. Kearns led throughout the contest until the Lancers took command in the fourth period, but it was a third quarter that proved to be the undoing for Coach Kenyon Clarks club. 1 Kearns had a lead after a good start in the first period and still at the half. The visitors led trimmed that to in the third period and them ran away with the contest in the fourth. On the plus side for the Couears 54-4- Burn-ingha- 4 6-- 3 six-poi- 17-1- 27-2- 1 33-3- 1 Lose To Braves After finally experiencing both, I can now say that it's a lot nicer to talk about a win than a loss. MURRAY. full-cou- rt 54-5- 0 foul-fille- Farmer Loss StreakEnds 54-5- 0 Coach Dan Leatherwood was forcshooting a miserable 4x18. It was a ragged game as both ed to use his bench as three players teams unveiled their fouled out of the contest, and he adpress. Taylorsville had 17 turnovers, mitted he was pleased with the play but forced the Vikings into 19. The of several reserves. The Warriors turned a Warriors were cold from the field, edge into victory as Ryan converting only 15x50 shots. Viewmont canned 16x47, but had its pro- Brown had 11 boards and Todd blems from the line, connecting on Hailstone nine as the visitors 18x39 while Taylorsville hit a respecthe Vikings 3 table 24x37. after one Taylorsville led period of play and stretched that to at the half. It was after three periods to set up the strange fourth period in which the Warriors got just one field goal. Jason Almond led Taylorsville scoring with 16, hitting 10x12 charity shots. Hailstone added a dozen points, including 6x6 from the line. Lance Bringhurst checked in with seven. In clutch reserve roles Mike was a rebounding edge against Johnson scored five points and dishthe bigger Lancers. Kava Afu led the ed out three assists while sophomore Cougars with seven and Troy Kehoe Matt Brooks contributed six points added six. Kearns also cut its tur- and four rebounds. novers to 14 in the contest. Game honors went to Jason of Viewmont with 21 points. The big difference was at the line The Warriors will travel to Woods where the Cougar aggressive style resulted in Layton scoring 26x39 Cross to talje on a young Wildcat while Kearns was 6x10. The Cougars team that is Friday. On Tuesday had five more field goals, 19, than they will play their home opener against a fine Ben Lomond team the visitors. that features junior guard Curt The leading scorer for Kearns was said to be the finest prep Miller, Gary Bowles with 10. Mike Peterson, in Utah since Danny Vranes. Afu and Jerry Gibson all earned player The Scots are considered one of the Clarks praise for their play. states best teams in any The games leading scorer was Matt Brimhall from Layton with 29 points, including 15x21 from the line. Clark noted that several Cougars who have been sidelined with injuries are starting to round into shape and should help the club when they return. BOUNTIFUL. Taylorsville high e record to with ran its a victory over Viewmont here affair. Friday night in a The two teams shot 34 free throws in a fourth period that saw the officials call everything they had let go early in the game. The Warriors made the most of the opportunities, hitting half of the 16 shots they attempted while the home squad was pre-leagu- With Win Over MHS Charlie Whitings Granite Farmers brought a 22 game drought to a close Tuesday night, but it wasnt easy. They fought with an equally determined Murray team before finally final emerging with a skant margin. in Murray tied the score at the final minute of action then both team took turns turning the ball over. Granite ended up putting Murray on the line with 15 seconds left and the Spartans hit on. one of two s to take a edge. Granite's Lane Stevens then drove down the middle and was fouled on his way to sinking a layup. Stevens missed the foul pitch that wouldve edge, giving Granite a leaving Murray with one last chance with 10 seconds left. The Spartans got the last shot off, a jumper that glanced off the front of the rim as the buzzer sounded. We led for most of the game, but, when you havent won in a long time, sometimes kids dont know how to stated Coach play with a lead, Whiting. They finally put it together on the last shot, did what they were told and won the game. But as pleasant an experience as it was for Granite, it was pure pain for Murray and coach Craig Hammer, still looking for his first win as head tooth-and-na- il 58-5- 56-5- 6 free-throw- 57-5- 6 two-poi- coach We had our chances, he noted. We must have missed the front end in the of four of five final minutes. Then we had a blocking foul called against us that we felt was a charge. That gave them the ball and a chance to post the winning 8 46-3- 2 points. Whiting and the Farmers will now hope to extend that winning streak to two Friday when they travel to West Jordan for a 7:30 p m. game. Mue slate inrrays rugged cludes a game at Bountiful, played Wednesday after sports deadline, followed by a trip to Cottonwood on Friday at3:30p.m. Gary Trost led Granites scoring with 14 points, while Shawn Christiansen and John Moses each added eight. For Murray, Mike Gill had 19 points and John Hunt 17. Granite shot better from the field than from the foul line, hitting 24x40 fielders for 60 percent and 10x20 at the line for 50 percent. Murray was 19x33 from the field for around 55 percent and 19x54 at the line for 54 percent. What really killed the Spartans was turnovers. Murray ended up turning the ball over 24 times. Hillcrest 63, Murray 49 Killcrest held an eight-poin- t edge, over Murray at the end of the first period. But eight minutes later, the margin had shrunk to just two points, Something must have happened to the Huskies between halves, however. They came out 20-1- 26-2- smoking in the third quarter, outsconng Murray 20-- and moving out to a lead. Both teams added 17 points in the final period. Hillcrest displayed surprisingly balanced scoring for an opening game with Shawn Whitehead hitting for 17 points, Doug Adams for 12, Sean Petersen for 10, Rull Dailey nine and Jim Riding eight For Murray, John Hunt led with 16 points. He was followed by Mike Gill and Richard Davis with eight Spartans Drop Ice Test BOUNTIFUL. Valley North conindependent) tinued its undefeated season with a win over Murray Saturday night at Bountiful. (Ogden-are- a 2 Murrays goals were scored by Darren Wack and Chirs Haymond in the first and third periods respectively. Paul Snow and Eric Radcliff earned two assists each. For Valley North, John Anderson earned a hat trick with three goals and Kerry King had one Kurtis Hadden and Kerry King had two assists each and Jason Hill and Greg Bowden one apiece Murrays next game will be Valley independent) CotSaturday at 2.30 pm at the tonwood Recreation Center. South (Salt Lake-are- a - Titans Rip Spartans, Jags HOLLADAY. Olympus highs basketball team sandwiched a tough loss to Bountiful Friday night with impressive wins over West Jordan Tuesday night and Murray last Wednesday. The Titans toppled the Spartans but ran into an awesome inside game at Bountiful two night later;' But falling to the Braves against West Jordan Tuesday, Olympus turned things around on the boards, doubling the Jaguars in and powered to a rebounding, victory. Oly will now travel to Woods Cross for its next game on Tuesday night then entertains Timpview on Friday, Dec. 20. Both games will start 79-6- 57-4- 37-1- 72-5- 0 at7:30p.m. Olympus 72, West Jordan George with 11 and Darren Butterfield with 10. West Jordan got nearly half its points from the foul line, where they were 24x47 for 89 percent. OLympus was 10x11 for 91 percent. But from the field it was a different story, West Jordan shot just 29 percent to ' the TitanS 49 percent. I think it was just a case of us playing really well and West Jordan having an off night, commented coach Huber. We boxed out better on the boards and I think our defense really bothered them. We just played terrible, was about all West Jordan coach Dan Cowan had to say. We stayed within 10 points or so through the first half and on into the third quarter, then they just buried us. j 50 The Titans appeared to play angry in this one, eager to put behind them the loss to Bountiful on Friday. They doubled the Jags point production in the first period 18-- then advanced at the half. that margin to 14, In the third quarter, they outscored 1 to go up West Jordan Olympus led by as much 29 points in the final stanza, before Coach Ron Huber emptied his bench. The Titans stayed in a half-coupress and that seemed to really give the Jaguars a lot of problmes. Of course, Olys domination on the boards gave the Titans more chances and took away from West Jordans. Mitch Johnsons 19 boards were one more than West Jordan had as a team. Johnson also led Olympus in scoring with 22 points. Matt Barnes added 20, Trent Wright nine and Mark Smith and junior Scott Pehrson each had eight. For West Jordan, Scott Beebee hit for 12 points followed by Curtis 9 33-1- 53-3- 20-1- rt Olympus 79, Murray 64 Coach Huber couldnt have been happier with the way his season started. The Titans never trailed and were not even seriously threatened by the youngish Spartans. at the end of the first Oly led quarter then enlarged that seven-poin- t margin to 20, 5 at the half. Murray was only able to shave a a couple of points off that lead in the third quarter, which ended with the Titan on top Olympus coasted through the final eight minutes. The top Titan scorer was Mitch Johnson with 22 points. He was followed by Matt Barnes, Mark Smith and Mike Anglessey, all with 14 points. Murray was led by John Hunt with 16 points and Mike Gill with 15. 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