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Show t Junior High Athlete REGION Fernandes flirts with stardom STANDINGS by Keith Duncan and Harry Hall Fred Fernandes has to be the most likely candidate for the junior high athlete over the past three years. He has participated on more championship athletic squads than anyone would ever dream of. It might be safe to say that if he continues at the pace hes burning up at, the city of Roy and Roy High may very well be in for a lot of surprises and due recognition in years to come. The man that is probably most closely associated with Freds accomplishments over his career, is Harry Hall, the athletic director for Hill Air Force Base. Harry has acted as a coach and has been very instrumental in Fernandes success. Freds past accomplishments in sports are surely unequalled. Mr. Hall has compiled nearly all those records and heralded teams into the following. It has to be phenominal for an athlete so young to attain all the past success that Fred has. His past honors have been derived from football, basketball, slow-pitc- h softball, lawn hockey, basketball and a number of other sports. FOOTBALL 7 years of age 8 years of age - Played on Coach Chuck Smith, 70 lb. C Team which was undefeated, untied and unscored Prep cage standings REGION ONE . ; - spot for Tournament Berth. tie for Tournament Berth. Leading prep scorers Region One Leading Scorers on. 9 (7-0- ) of age - Played on 70 lb. A team which lost two games by close scores. ) 10 years of age - Played Quarterback and defensive back on 70 lb. A team which won the Wasatch Front Championship with a 0 record. 11 years of age - Played Quarterback and defensive back on 85 lb. a team that lost in overtime in the Wasatch Front Football Championship game ). Fred had pneumonia this season and missed four games in the middle of the season. 12 years of age - Played Quarterback and defensive back on 100 lb. A team with team finishing with a 2 record. (Orlie Nickerson was coach) 13 years of age - Played Quarterback and Defensive back for Roy Junior league High with team having a record. 14 years of age - Played halfback and defensive back for Roy Junior High scoring 15 touchdowns and leading his team to a 0 season record and Weber County Championship. During most of Freds Football activity, Jon Nickerson was alongside and shared in most of the spotlight as an outstanding participant. (Jon quarterbacked for the 85 lb. A team while years (5-2- 9-- (8-1- 2:30 Region 1 No. 2 (Box Elder, Roy, Skyview) vs. Region 4 No. 3 (Hillcrest, Granger, Brighton). 4:10 Region 2 No. 1 (Clearfield, Layton) vs. Region 3 No. 4 (South) 6:30 Region 4 No. Skyview, Box Elder) 8:10 Region 3 No. Lomond, Viewmont) 2 1 (Orem) vs. Region 1 (Highland) vs. Region No. 3 (Roy, 2 No. 4 (Ben TUESDAY, MARCH 16 2:30 Region 3 No. 2 (Skyline, West) vs. Region 2 No. 3 (Viewmont, Ben Lomond) 4:10 Region 1 No. 1 (Weber) vs. Region 4 No. 4 (Hillcrest, Granger, Brighton) 630 Region 2 No. 2 (Clearfield, Layton) vs. Region 3 No. 3 (Skyline, West) 8:10 Region 4 No. 1 (Provo) vs. Region 3 No. 5 (East, Cottonwood, Olympus) STATES TOP WRESTLING POWERS 90 Orem Tigers 80 Bengals Brighton 64 Provo Bulldogs 62 Granger 59 Box Elder Bees 57 Clearfield Falcons 57 Hillcrest Huskies Cottonwood Colts Olympus Titans West Panthers Highland Rams 51 49 49 42 Viewmont Vikings 40 5-- 9-- Fred was sick). BASEBALL 8 years of age 9 years of age - From 9 years of age through 14 years of age, 6 years, Fred has played with the same team as catcher. The league age was one year older than Freds age. Fred has been the catcher for all six years and mostly has been the leadoff hitter. In the six years the team lost one game each year in league play and were defeated in the first round of the Weber County playoffs when he was 9 and 10 and then won the Weber County Championship when he was 11, 12 and 13. They also won the Weber County Championship when he was 14 with the title decided on league play. During this period of time the team was coached by Jim Manning, now serving a mission in Japan for the LDS Church, for the first 4 years and by Ralph Knudson for the past 1V4 years. Ralph Knudson is an assistant in the coaching staff at Sandridge Junior High. Fred has been the starting catcher for Roy Junior High for the past two years, quite an accomplishment for a 7th and 8th grade. SLOW-PITCSOFTBALL softball Fred has played slow-pitc- h for the Roy First Ward Explorer team the past two years and was very instrumental in leading the team to the Hooper, Utah Stake Championship in H Troy Bullaf d (left) and Mike Chavex (right) will get volved in Morgan Lions Tournament this week. in- Tourney begins The Morgan Lions Club will be sponsoring their annual basketball tournament at Morgan High School this Thursday, Friday and Saturday. This tournament is specifically for boys in the eighth grade and under. Two teams from Roy will be visiting the three day affair and their chances for victory are the brightest in years. On the opening day of the tournament, Thursday, Hooper (Sand Ridge) will play against Box Elder at 6 p.m. At 7:30 p.m., Mt. Ogden is to tangle with the Morgan Maron team. 8:20 finds the Roy (Arbys Bucks) squad playing St. Ambrose of Salt Lake. In the nights final game, Park City and the Morgan White team square off. Hooper and Box Elder will be the favorites to capture the title this season, after a team from Wahlquist won the tournament last year. Arbys Bucks of Roy finished fourth, second, and third the past three years with Harry Hall serving as the head coach. On Friday the winners and losers battle each other and on Saturday, the championship game is set. Some big names around Roy these cage playing days hve been members of past teams that have gone to play in Morgan, are in 1973, Conrad Hafen and John Garner, now a couple of junior varsity stars with Roy High; 1974 saw Kurt Bennington and Fred Fernandes the standouts, and last year both Fernandes and Jon Nickerson were the steady Fred Fernandes has been a coaches dream, a fans delight and a torrid athlete in his three years at Roy Junior High School. Here he stops for a second to analyze situation against Greg Wood. 1975 with outstanding offensive and defensive abilities. Fred hit two home runs in one inning of a tournament game in 1975. The Roy First Ward team finished with a 6 record in 1975 and narrowly missed participating in the Tourney. LAWN HOCKEY - Fred found time to help win the Roy City Recreation Lawn Hockey Championship when he was 10 and 11. . recreation games but was allowed to participate in other games. The with Freds Arbys Bucks were presence. The team again won the BASKETBALL 8 years of age - Fred was 3rd grader and played on a 5th grade team when he group of boys from the Salt Lake City 10th in the nation while winning one and losing two. The Bucks finished 2nd in Morgan and 6th in Layton 8th grade tournaments this year. Fred made r. 13 years of age - Fred started the season by helping the Roy 1st Ward team win the Hooper Utah State preseason basketball championship for boys up to 18 years of age. (All of Freds teammates were still to reach their 15th 14-- All-Ar- remembers losing 33-- 3 and winning only once or twice. 9 years of age - Fred joined the Bucks and won the Roy City Championship with a 0 record. (Season record was 264) 10 years of age - Fred moved up with the 6th graders to help win the Roy City Championship and Weber County Championship with a season record of Fred started playing in the Utah National Guard Program where he was old. The Bucks also used as a won the Intermountair. AAU 11 and under title. 11 years of age - Fred helped win the Roy City Championship for the third straight time and also helped the Arbys Bucks win the Ogden Area Utah National Guard League Championship. The Bucks lost out in the Weber County Semi-Finand the final of the National Guard Championship. The Bucks finished 4th in the Morgan Lions Tournament and 4th in the Layton City Tournament. The team won the Intermountain AAU 12 and under title. Season record was 12 years of age - Fred made the Roy Junior High 9th grade team where he saw a lot of bench time. He missed ten 9-- 36-1- 0. al 49-1- 0. Coeds enter state by Keith Duncan The public address system blared Helen Reddys 1 Am Women! Madison s full. Square Garden was Queens College and Immaulata College took the floor to play the first womens collegiate basketball game in Madison Square Garden. People would note later that February afternoon, with some surprise, how well the women played. There was surprise in their voices. But they could not help but note that the stands emptied when the mens game began. That crowd had come to see the women play. Most could witness this historic event on ABCs Wide World of Sports. Slowly the nation is realizing that womens basketball is here and here to stay. Perhaps they were drawn out of at Madison curiosity. The money-meSquare Garden apparently did not think so. They have booked another womens game in 1976. Again, Queens is the home team. This time they have invited Delta State University of Cleveland, Royals home court and runs through Saturday with the championship contest being put on at Highland High. two-third- n Mississippi, the current national champion. Roys third place Region One coed basketball squad will enter state tournament play this week. Coach Janet Johnsons squad traveled to East High on Wednesday to play a fine Provo Bulldog team. The tournament is being staged at both East High and at the Coach Johnson is in her third year as a coed coach at Roy and is elated over a couple of astonishing factors. She claims that being in the first state tournament for women is something to feel rather good about. She also expressed feelings that having a portion of the tournament put on her home court was a joyous feeling. Local teams that will ploy on Royals home floor will be Clearfield vs. Cottonwood, Ben Lomond vs. South and Weber vs. Granite. tournament begins on The Wednesday, with preliminary games set at both Roy High School and at East High. Preliminary action continues on Thursday and Fridays at Roy High, with other games also set on Thursday at East High and on Friday at Bountiful High. The championship finals are scheduled for Saturday at Highland. The Roy women ended their season with a win over visiting Rock in Springs. Overall the team finished in league play. Annette league and Day, Toni Green, Diana Stimson, Sue Ann Bodily, Diane Wheelwright and Rhonda Hibdon will be the mainstays for Roy this week in the tournament. 52-4- 5 6-- 5 2 36-1- 0 National Guard League championship in Ogden but lost out in the first round of the tournament. The team took second place in the Intermountain AAU 12 and under tournament and Fred was selected to go to the National AAU tournament in Arvada, Colo, with a area. The team finished all-sta- birthday). Fred gained a starting position during the regular season to lead the Roy team to an unbeaten 18-- 0 record and increasing their unbeaten string to 28. Fred is planning on again playing in the 14 and under Intermountain AAU Junior Olympics Basketball Tournament and an opportunity to play in the National Tournament in Las Vegas, .. . Nev. Freds total performance as he enters competition in the 15 year age group includes some 36 championships and a host of impressed sports-minde- d people. He was president of his 7th and 8th grade class at Roy Junior High and is looking forward to his final three months of junior high competition and with total expectation to his high school years. Fred has two brothers who both excelled in Roy High School Athletics where Frank served as a guard in football and a in track (10th in State) and Mark served as a defensive back and running back in football and in track where he finished d 3rd in the State in the dash. Some of the players that performed with Fred in basketball, baseball, softball and track and field include Kurt Bennington, Craig Manning, Scott Van Sickle, Curtis Brown, Cory Colohan, Mike Nichols, Larry Guinn, Jon Nickerson and Wayne Hall. Harry Hall served as recreation coach in basketball and assisted for 2l2 years in baseball. Mr. Hall also transported Fred and his friends to several AAU track meets where Fred accumulated some 15 medals and ribbons and pare track and field ticipated in a meet with some 1,000 participants. (Fred wants to know when the rest period comes). shot-putt- on the Roy Junior High 9th Grade team where 16 points per game in the 18 game schedule and was a big part in a 17-- 1 season. Fred played with the National Guard Program where he helped Arbys Bucks win the Metropolitan Championship in the Utah National Guard. The Bucks finished 5th in Layton and 3rd in Morgan this yera with Fred selected as an team member. Fred played in the AAU 14 and under tournament and was sleected to play in the National Tournament, however, the team was unable to compete because of travel expense. Total season 37-14 years of age - Fred again made the starting lineup of the Roy Jr. High team where he averaged 22 points per game in and 19.5 points per game he averaged all-st- 5. pre-seas- 100-yar- five-stat- Lakers drop eleventh by Ben Hyde Although it took until the last few seconds of the game, the Box Elder Bees wore down the pesky Bonneville Lakers to hand Bonneville its eleventh consecutive defeat, Even though the Lakers turned in one of their finest games of the season, they did so largely on the strength of Brian Castlemain and Sophomore Kurt Child. Child had his best performance of the year, scoring 21 points to keep Bonneville challenging the Bees throughout the game. His development continues to provide Coach Gaylen Hansen with some consolation for an otherwise dismal season. Castlemain, though, continued to act as the epitome of 13 points consistancy, contributing toward the Laker cause. Meanwhile, Box Elder, with a 5 record, closed its Region campaign by clinching at least a tie for a state playoff berth. They were led by Scott Correy, who scored 21 points. Marlin Jensen contributed 14, and Wade Hall added 13 for the victorious Bees. The Lakers balanced scoring, led by Castlemains 6 points, kept Bonneville just slightly out of reach of the Bees. 65-5- 7-- The defending Region I champs resembled the powerful Lakers of a year ago, as their scrappy offense and hustling defense kept them ahead of at the end of the first Box Elder, 18-1- 7 quarter. To open the second period, Bonneville scored 4 unanswered points to extend the Lakers lead to But then Bonneville cooled off and Box Elder got the hot hand. Seven consecutive points were returned by the Bees, to give them a narrow lead. A pair of Kelly Kennedy fouls hots then tied the game, which were answered by two consecutive Box Elder field goals. Again, the tenacious Lakers refused to give up, coming back once more to tie the game at 28 apiece. The Bees, however, retained a slight edge at the half, as they scored a pair of foul shots to nab a lead. In spite of the expectations of the Bonneville fans for another Laker 3rd quarter slump, Bonneville again came back, refusing to let the Bees pull 1 away. After Box Elder took a lead, the Lakers roared back behind Childs 9 points, to tie the game, and again at the end of the period! After an exchange of baskets, eight consecutive points by Box Elder game them what appeared to be a commanding 8 lead. Yet the pugnacious Lakers still refused to succumb. With 1:30 left in the game, Child hit a basket to narrow the margin to but that was as close as Bonneville came. A Box Elder free throw gave them a edge, while Bonnevilles inexperience finally began to show. 22-1- 24-2- 2 32-2- 9 36-3- 44-4- 46-4- 6 56-4- 60-5- 8 |