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Show THE GREEN SHEET 4 Thursday, December 10, 1987 irfr Kearns Grabs Two Wins KEARNS. Cougar basketball team that has already had more than its share of close contests, winning 50-4- 9 in the final seconds at West Jordan Friday, finally got in front and won big, 73-6at Springville Tuesday night. Kearns will be at Viewmont tomorrow (Friday) then entertains powerful Bonneville, which has knocked off already Cottonwood, Tuesday, both games starting at 7:30 p.m. Kearns 73, Springville 62 The play of center Nathan Wickizer was key to the Kearns win Tuesday, as he picked up 20 points, 15 rebounds and blocked at least eight shots and probably more, according to coach Kenyon Clark. Danny Cosby had high point honors with 23, while Brady Clark added 10 and Dean Larsen a crucial eight, including 0 that broke three-point- momentum had in building up that eight point lead, we wouldnt have been in that position at the end." Kearns led at the end of the first leading pretty quarter much from the opening tip. However, in the second period, Wickizer was hit with his third foul on a call that drew a technical foul response from the game wrapped up. Danny Cosby led Kearns scoring with 19 points, while Wickizer added 10 and Bills nine, including two fourth quarter Clark had five points, three steals and 15 assists, an excellent floor Cougar bench. The combination of game. Overall, Kearns shot 47 Wickizer sitting down and the percent from the field, but 50 technical foul seemed to spark the range, percent from three-poin- t took who gradually Jags, equal to its free throw shooting command, leading at the break (6x12). The one stat that did 23-2disturb coach Clark was the 18 Kearns battled back to tie 32-3- 2 turnovers registered. going into the final period, but Kevin Draper hit for 16 points to West Jordan finally seemed to get back in the same form that gave it Continued on next page a win over Bountiful last week. 12-1- Spring-ville- s down GRANITE PARK . . . Coach Charley Whitings Granite team to went up the mountain played well defensively. Kearns trailed at the end of the first period. But, by the close of the second, had outscored to lead the the Red Devils 23-midway point The margin was nine, after the third stanza and Kearns began to run the floor and break into the middle for some easy baskets. Kearns kept that pace through the fourth quarter, winding up with the 11 point Mountain Crest Friday night knowing it would be facing a "mountain" of a team as some of the home team players were not 8 only tall but weighed 240 pounds 34-2or more. 50-4So Granite decided to turn the affair, game into a but were outgunned, if not outrun by the score of 95-7The Farmers will continue their tough preleague play tomorrow (Friday) when they host Olympus in their first home game and will edge. then play Skyline at Skyline on "We got the ball in the right and will travel to Bear Tuesday players hands," praised coach River for a Wednesday night Clark. "We got ahead and we game. All games are set for 7:30 stayed ahead. We really are p.m. on looking better, especially Granite managed to stay close in defense." Kearns helped itself the first half and went to the stay in front with some 72 percent locker room down only 49-3foul shooting, 23x32 overall and They then came out in the third 16x22 in the fourth quarter. quarter and warmed up to get within four with three minutes to play in the period. Kearns 50, West Jordan 49 Coach said that Whiting "everything seemed to go wrong Strangely enough, West Jordan at that point as our press, which had its biggest lead of the game we went into, broke down and the with just 53 seconds left in it. home team was able to score Then Wickizer and Tom Bills several easy baskets." each canned a three pointer to draw the Cougars to within two. West Jordan then fouled Brady Clark with four seconds and the senior guard hit the front end of The second shot the bounced off the rim and into 18-1- 1 6. run-and-g- 2. -- (14). Action is from the first half of Friday night interegional action. Kearns got a bucket at the buzzer from Nathan Wickizer to win 50-4- Improving T'ville Wins Two TAYLORSVILLE. Coach Dan Leatherwoods Warriors won a close one at Woods Cross on Tuesday by using their superior height to good advantage on their way to a victory, following the heels of their 72 58 win over East Friday. The Warriors wound up with 32 rebounds against 18 for the home team but could never pull away to much of a lead as Woods Cross outside shooters kept them in the 78-6- 6 game. Taylorsville will be at home Friday against Hillciest and will to next travel Wednesday Viewmont. Both games are at 7 30. The Warriors played a cool deliberate game against the home team using patience against the pressing defense. The score was knotted at fifteen at the quarter, but Coach Dan Leatherwoods team, using balanced scoring, half time pulled away to a lead, and maintained the lead at at the end of three. The Warriors, getting the ball inside consistently, wound up with 27x49 from two point range 37-3- 0 56-5- 0 for 55 percent while Woods Cross was also shooting well with 17x32 and six from thirteen from home run range. The balanced scoring mentioned by Coach Leatherwood came with Chad Christensen scoring 21, with 9x16 fem the field, 3x4 from the lire, nine rebounds, eight assists and three steals. Tyler Dow, who was in early foul tr able, contributed 13 on 4x8 shooting, 5x9 from the line, and four steals. Jeff Leatherwood had eleven on 3x7 regular range, one of three from home run range, 2x4 from the stripe, and had 10 assists and eight rebounds. Matt Brooks, who only played the first half, had ten on 4x5 from the field, 2x4 from the chanty stripe, and four rebounds. Bill Van Ry had ten points for his team on 3x4 shooting and a perfect 4x4 from the line, all of these coming late in the game when they were needed. Joey Gleason had nine points and played well during the latter stages of the game and also had nine big rebounds, and Troy Wallace added four as well as handing out five assists. Taylorsville 72, East 58 Taylorsville was in charge all the way and, in fact, led by 20 or more through most of the second half. Down the stretch run coach Leatherwood went to his bench heavily and East closed the gap a bit before the final horn. the Warriors never Though trailed, they did get a bit of scare in the first quarter. After pulling 0 out to a margin early, Taylorsville watched East come to within a point, 15-1by the end of the period. East went cold in the second quarter, due at least in part to Taylorsvilles defense, and ended up with only field goal in the entire period, as the Warriors The outscored the Leopards 14-score at the break was 29-1- 9 Taylorsville. The Warriors built their margin 7-- to 20 in the third quarter and went into the final period up by East then outscored 17, in the slightly, Taylorsville, 24-2with fourth quarter, Warrior substitutes playing most of the way. "Some of our kids are playing better," reported coach Leather-woo"but some are still not finding the track yet. I think East had an off night too." Tyler Dow led Taylorsvilles scoring with 27 points, going t 13x17 from range and lxl at the foul line. lie also had 14 rebounds, three assists and four steals. Chad Christensen had 17 points, going 4x11 from two point range, 1x3 from the three-poiline and 2x3 at the chanty stripe with nine rebounds and two assists. Jeff Leatherwood had nine points (3x8 from 1x3 from three-pointfive seven rebounds, adding assists and two steals. Bill VanRy and Troy six points added Wallace four points and six 51-3- d, two-poin- two-poin- t, ), three-pointer- , Granite also had trouble with their shooting from then on and where they had been hittirg almost 50 percent of their shots for the game they wound up shooting only 36 percent. The Granite team, which does not have a lot of size, has some outside good shooters as evidenced by their making six of twelve "home run" attempts during the game. Interestingly enough, the Farmers have made 13 of 29 from the three point range for 45 percent while shooting 30 of 97 regular shots for an average of 31 percent. Coach Whiting said that the game was a good one for his team and that he has been able to learn a great deal about what his team can and cannot do and he is sure that will help his team in future games. Scott Walton was high man with 24, Ken point Christensen had 14, and Corey Langston 10 to lead Granite and a substitute, Kevin Brotherson, came into the game to take rebound honors with ten. Whiting also said that he feels that Mountain Crest may be one of the best 3A teams in the state as the ,win gave it a 0 record while Granite dropped to 4-- 0-- Are you receiving payments from the sale of your home? Would you like CASH today e. Wickizers hands. The big center, in the same motion, fired it back at the bucket and banked it home. "It was just one of those things, noted an elated coach Clark. "You call a play, but you know the chances are against you. Things just worked out right for us." Cowan Coach was equally surprised, but greatly disappoint- instead of payments? WE BUY MORTGAGES Nationwide Highest Prices Paid First Fidelity Mortgage Corp ed. "It was a once in a lifetime thing," he stated. "If we had played the entire game like we 278-333- 0 assists. Taylorsville shot 28x55 from line and inside the three-poi2x6 outside it. The Wamors were 50 percent from the line, 10x20. really did a job Taylorsville rebounding, ending up with a 16-- 8 52-2including edge, 36-2offensivley and 1 defensively. SAVE YOUR GREEN SHEET 9 cm mm receipt! IT MAY BE WORTH MORE THAN YOU THINK. Each week we will print the address of a local resident. If your address is listed you have won $10. If you have a November carrier receipt you and your carrier will split the GRAND PRIZE JACKPOT, which will start at $25 and grow by $25 per week. GOOD LUCK! I MAGNA. Cyprus high had the misfortune to run into two of the top basketball teams in the state in its two most recent contest, playing Highland tough, though losing 89-8Tuesday, and falling to fleet footed Judge 87-6- 9 Friday. It wont get any easier for Mark Wilson and the Pirates, who must travel up to north to take on Bonneville tomorrow powerful (Friday) then visit Tooele one week later, both games starting at 7:30 p.m. This week's winning address: 1540 West 4950 South 4 There was no winner last week GRAND PRIZE JACKPOT Highland 89, Cyprus 84 It was a close first half, the Pirates trailing at the close of the opening period by just two, 24-2However, it in the second quarter, Cyprus exploded for 28 points, while the Rams managed 22, and led by six at the half, 50-4In the third quarter, Highland was able to narrow the gap to WEEK 5 -- $1 00 ) I J Winners need to present proof of address and a carrier receipt by pm. Monday the week following publication at the Green Sheet, E. 4905 South, Murray. 5 155 . Continued on next page. s. Mustangs Trample Farmers On Friday the stretch. Clark and Danny Stirland also EYE OF THE STORM . . . Kearns' Brady Clark (14) rsoars into the middle, surrounded by West Jordans Troy Taylor (10), Jason Perkins (44) and Lane Funk With less than a minute left, the Jags, owning an eight-poiadvantage, looked to have the ' |