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Show 9 Thursday, Dec. IS, THE GREEN SHEET 1988 SPORTS Warrior Women Pick Up Three Basketball Wins TAYLORSVILLE. Paced by a performance by Natalie Williams and a effort by Wendy Taylor, Taylorsville gradually wore down a gritty bunch of visitors from Bingham Friday in girls basketball, eventually winning The Lady Warriors will host Weber today (Thursday) at 3:30 p.m., while Bingham will be at Clearfield tomorrow (Friday) at 4. 28-poi- nt 20-poi- nt 69-4- On Tuesday, Taylorsville will travel to Viewmont for a 5:30 p.m. game. At the end of the first period of play Friday, the game was still close, Taylorsville holding an 11-- 7 But the advantage. Lady Warriors continued build in the second period, outscoring Bingham 16-1- 2 for a 27-1- 9 halftime lead. Taylorsville shifted into high gear for the third quarter, as Taylor posted 10 of the Lady Warriors 21 points. Bingham answered with just 11 and trailed with one quarter to play. After Williams and Taylor, Trudy Derrick was the next highest scorer for Taylorsville with seven points, while Jill Chapman added six. Stephan had 15 points to lead Bingham with Bleak, Dimond, and Johnston each contributing six. Taylorsville 48-3- 0 from both the field and the line and had a big edge in rebounding. 'We felt extremely good about the win," commented Taylorsville coach John Lambourne. "The important thing for us was that, even with Williams sitting out much of the third quarter due to foul trouble, we were still able go to an from an t shot 50 18-poi- eight-poin- lead." The then Lady Warriors followed with victories at West Jordan 54-3- 8 Monday and Layton 51-4- Tuesday. Tuesdays contest 8 closest enced was the Taylorsville has experithis season. Coach Lambourne noted that Layton shot extremely well and "we just didnt play well at all." Natalie Williams did pick up 23 points in the contest, while Wendy Taylor added 10 and Trudy Derrick eight. The game was close all the way, Taylorsville starting out with a first quarter lead. By the midway point, though, the Lady Warriors held a slim 9 edge. The Taylorsville lead was six 21-1- er Lambourne felt Mondays win at West Jordan was "probably our best overall game of the year," as Taylorsville broke away from an first quarter tie to led by at the half and five, at end of three quarters. Taylorsville then outscored West Jordan 2 in the final period. Williams had 21 points, Taylor 13 and sophomore Jill Chapman added nine. Johnson had 11 points to lead West Jordan, while Dennis contributed seven. 1 35-2- 6 8, hard-fightin- The game on Tuesday started out as though the Diggers would run the Colts right out of the gym as Jordan hit 5x7 three-poibombs in the first quarter and at one time had a 20-- lead, but the Colts narrowed that to at the quarter and to at the nt g 8 76-6- 6. MURRAY. After registering three goals in the opening period, Highland highs hockey team added four more in each of the second and third periods Thursday night in route to an 11-- 2 victory over Murray. Murrays two goals scored by Mike Scott and Pearson Haymond. Ryan Pool, Jeremy Miller and Pearson earned one assist each. Goalie Jay Stevens was credited with 17 saves. Chris Thomas led the scoring for Highland with five goals, while Kurt Bumingham had two, Scott Warner, Jason Wright, Larry Limb and Dave Hunter one each. Greg Peterson earned a four at the three-quartpoints, 43-3mark. Layton halved that margin by the final buzzer. 23-1- at Woods Cross. free Twenty-nin- e Icemen Beaten 31-2- 11-1- SANDY. throws played a big part in the Cottonwood Colts winning their fifth game against one loss as they defeated a Jordan team at Jordan Tuesday night, Cottonwood will open its Region Three schedule tomorrow (Friday) entertaining Kearns in a 7:30 game and will travel to Olympus on Tuesday for a 6 p.m. game. Jordan played at Orem on Wednesday after press time and will not play again until Dec. 22 20-1- 2 34-3- 2 half. The Colts, working the ball inside well, went ahead with Justin Weidauer making five points in less than a minute of the third quarter and then took off on a run to go up as Jordan was hurt by foul trouble of point guard Spence Tueller. The score at the end of the third for the Colts. quarter was Williams had a Ryan sensational for the game Beetdiggers and scored 17 of his 27 points in the second game-highalf, plus he was a demon on the boards as he fought the much taller Colt team. Dan Murry came through with 10 points. Weidauer led his team with 22 points while Kurt Warner, whose passing handed out a number of assists, came through with 18 with Jason Schlenske having 12, Glen 10-poi- 5 7, Colts Improve To 5--1 With Pair Of Wins 47-3- 9 52-4- 6 h needle-threadin- g Anderson 11. Cottonwood went to the free throw line 46 times and hit on 29 while Jordan went 17 times and hit nine. Jordan had five assists, Anthony Jenkinson and all in the first Thomas three, Jeremy Hermans-equarter, while Cottonwood had and Warner one each. one. Murrays next game will be with Cottonwood 77, Layton bi Judge Saturday at 4 p.m. on Colts started slowly with The Cottonwood Heights recreation 4A champions the defending center ice. first a quarter lead taking 19-1- three-pointer- s, n 21-1- 3 defense took over from then on, holding Layton to 14 points in the second quarter and to six in the third, while scoring 41 points on the way jo a 54-4- 1 lead after three quarters. Good free throw shooting has been one of the marks of this years Colt team and it was in evidence on Friday as the team hit 21x24 including a perfect 10x10 in the second half. Coach Blair Martineau said that he didnt feel Layton has as good a team as last years but it was a good shooting team as seven evidenced the by three-pointer- s the Lancers scored, four of which came in the fourth quarter. However, the Colts still held Layton to 45 percent shooting overall, while hitting 53 percent from the field. Justin Weidauer scored 27 points and 13 rebounds to lead the Colts, while Jason Schlenske had 19 along with five rebounds. Travis Warner scored 11 and dished out 11 assists, while Kurt Haws was a perfect 8x8 from the but Cottonwoods GIVE IT BACK . . . Taylorsville center Natalie Williams battles with Bingham opponent for possession of the basketball In action from Friday Pine View Cagers Hand Murray Girls Fifth Straight Setback afternoon contest staged at Taylorsville. The Lady Warriors gradually pulled away from the scrappy Bingham high team, eventually winning 69-4- 4. Unbeaten Bulldogs Upend Pirates, Lancers, Huskies in Busy Week MAGNA Judge Memorials sixth win against no defeats did not come easily Tuesday as the Cyprus Pirates, playing on their home floor, came within an eyelash of registering a big upset before they went down Judge will now have two of its toughest games, preleague traveling to Davis tomorrow East (Friday) and hosting a team on Tuesday. It was a big week for Judge which beat Hillcrest on Friday, on Saturday, and Granger then the Cyprus win. Hillcrest, which was idle Tuesday, will travel to Orem for an opening league game Friday and will host Alta at 6 Tuesday. Granger will open its league season Friday at Taylorsville in a 7:30 game and will play host to Skyline Tuesday at 6. It is interesting to note that both 81-7- 5-- 1 80-6- 0 90-7- 8 Regions Two and Three will play their Tuesday games at 6 p.m. Cyprus will host Tooele in a preseason game on Friday at 6 p.m. The Pirates claimed second in the Box Elder tournament, beating the host club and losing to Bonneville. Details were not supplied. Cyprus, according to Judge Coach Jim Yerkovich, took avantage of every opportunity during the first half Tuesday and led at the quarter and were at the half. Judge came up back in the third quarter, which has been one of the best quarters for the team all year. The highly-regarde- d 21-1- 9 45-3- 8 Bulldogs took the lead at 60-5- 9 and then built up the lead to 10 at times during the last quarter, thanks largely to the fine play of Rob Solvason. Cyprus ran a zone with a chaser on Judges prolific scorer Jimmy Soto, which affected his scoring, but he still managed to hit for 21 plus having eight assists. Chris Jones chase in on 26 points, even though he sat out almost a quarter with foul trouble. He also had nine rebounds, seven assists and six recoveries. Nathan Semerad led Judge in 11 while rebounding with Solvason had 14 points. Judge shot 46 percent from the floor and had its worst night of the young season at the foul line as they connected on only 57 percent. Cyprus had a Brad with attack scoring Rammell hitting for three on his way to 19 points while Andy Gonzales, who was especially effective the first half, came through with 18. Jeff OBryan and Warren Ayala each scored 13. well-balanc- three-pointe- rs Judge 90, Granger 78 The floor at the old Judge gymnasium had hardly cooled off from the 140 point onslaught the night before when Grander and Judge tipped it up Saturday night. When this one ended 168 points had been scored and the first made it quarter score of 27-2- 6 appear that an NBA game was being played. Judge led almost all the way in the racehorse game, stretching its lead to 45-4- 3 at the half and then to at the end of three. Granger came within five on several but the occasions, pressing Judge defense, plus the Bulldogs great speed, accounted for the final margin. The output gave Judge its fifth straight victory without a loss and raised its average to 83 points a game, which is by far the greatest offensive output of any Judge team. Coach Jim Yerkovich says he has never had a team with the ability to play this type of open, running, offense and, until somebody shuts them down, that this is the way the Bulldogs 70-6- 1 12-poi- nt 90-poi- will play. One of the turning points in this game was that Judges pressing defense seemed to wear Granger down in the second half, resulting in a lot of recoveries and easy baskets. To illustrate, Chris Jones had 12 recoveries in the game and Coach Yerkovich stated this is only the fourth time in his 23 years at the school that one of his players netted double figures in recoveries. Jones came close to a "quadruple double" scoring 21 points, having 12 recoveries and 12 rebounds and also dished out seven assists. Jones running mate, Jimmy Soto, scored 35 points and had eight assists. Soto is averaging 32 points per game through the first five outings. Nathan Semerad had a tremendous night against the much taller Granger players, scoring 14 points and pulling down 15 rebounds, while Justin Walsh also had 7 rebounds, Rob Solvason accounted for 10 points and six assists. Judge shot for 51 percent and had 53 rebounds. Granger Coach Steve Paur was pleased with the play of his team and pointed out that one of the things that hurt his team was Judges hitting 10x11 from the foul line down the stretch. He also felt that while his team is playing better each game, the Lancers entire an played without some lapses. Mike Maynard had 21 points and 16 rebounds for Granger, while Dave Ryan scored 20. Darren Birch had 14, Mike Wagstaff, filling in for the injured Jeff Hudson, had 1 5. havent Judge 80, Hillcrest 60 Fridays o game was another affair with a big Judge third quarter breaking open what had been a close game. Basically, it was the use of nine players that seemed to be the difference, as Judges substitutes played a big part. Tony Dailey and Ryan Sylvies scored well in the first half for Hillcrest, while Jones and Soto were doing the bulk of Judges scoring. But it was a last second driving basket by substitute guard Mike Bierschmidt that half gave the Bulldogs a time lead. In the third quarter, Judges pressing defense enabled it to widen the lead then, in the fourth quarter, pull away from the Huskies. The insertion of scrappy guard Tim Green also caused the Huskies problems, as he seemed to be all all of the floor. He also added 12 points, including a key Soto scored 27 with Jones adding 22 points, seven assists and seven recoveries. Hillcrest Coach Steve Margetts felt his teams 10x31 performance at the foul line "just crushed us." to At one point, according with the Huskies ; Margetts, a lead, holding Hillcrests defense stopped Judge three straight times, only to watch its offense fan on three straight trips to the line. Sylvies led Hillcrests scoring with 15 points, while Dailey and Aaron Love added 14 each each and Chris Arambula 11. Hillcrest shot 58 percent from the floor, but Margetts had Judge down for 31x44. Judge also outrebounded Hillcrest 36-3- three-pointe- 0 r. six-poi- nt 30-2- MURRAY. Despite her dropping its fifth game in teams a row, to visiting Pine View Friday, Murray girls basketball coach Becky Anderson isnt ready to push the panic button, stating she has been greatly encouraged by the marked improved her players have shown in recent 68-6- 3 weeks. Tomorrow (Friday) Murray will host Granger then travel to Kearns Tuesday, both games starting at 3:30 p.m. Fridays game ran as close as the final score ended. In fact, Pine , lead at the Views end of the first quarter was its biggest of the contest. By the half, Murray closed the gap to one, and was down by just with one period to three, five-poin- t, 14-9- 28-2- 7, 46-4- 3, play. Junior forward Josh Peacock and sophomore guard Kim Olsen led Murrays scoring with 15 points, while Sara Wack, another sophomore guard, added 14 and senior center Ginger McBride 10. Incredibly, Murray turned the ball over 41 times, yet still did enough things right to stay close to a good Pine View team. Among the other players that are seeing action as starters are senior inside player Dani Baldwin and junior forward Mindy Runolsson. "Were a young team, lacking Anderson experience," stated, "but weve really improved since Lehi walked all over us in our first game." According to Anderson, Murray followed the Lehi contest with a loss to Grantsville. After another tough setback to East, Murray gave Logan all it wanted before again falling by a half dozen. six-poi- free throw line. WITH CHRISTMAS JUST AROUND THE CORNER, HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THE mum emhues? Golden Eagles Hockey Stocking Staffers 5 Games For Just $2000! .(EJdwun) 3. Mount Crest 96, Granger 73 What had been a close game through the first three quarters went amiss in the final period for the Lancers Thursday, as the visiting Mountain Crest team pulled away. It was a game that was much closer than the final score indicated. at Granger was down only the end of three, but the Lancers got a little further behind and were forced to go into a pressing defense in the fourth quarter. The veteran visitors took advantage for some easy baskets and made their free throws. In fact, the Mustangs hit on 24x30 from the charity stripe for the game. The lapses, which Coach Paur has talked about, happened early in as the Granger quarter committed three costly turnovers to start the period. Granger lost one of its starting players in the second quarter game as Jeff Hudson suffered an injury. Orin Houston replaced him and had 19 points, while Mike Maynard came through with 12 points and 15 rebounds. 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