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Show u ihvwix.i.c, vu. 1 7 a, rage ij Yellow flags, big plays, and Freddy Fernandes became hated enimies of the Weber Warriors last week as the team dropped its third straight to the visiting league contest, Roy Royals The loss spoiled the Warrior's 1978 Homecoming afternoon, but Weber made it interesting all the way, scoring the game's first touchdown and also the final The entire game was filled with yellow flags floating high into the air and floating quietly to the ground. It almost proved more thrilling than when the collection of balloons were let into the air early during the first quarter. Most of the penalties were against the Warriors and they came at crucial points in the game. The Royals were assesed with their amount of waving yellow flags also. At one point the Roy team was penalized three consecuative fifteen-yarderFred Fernandez, the Royals multitalented running back, broke loose for a long 70 yarder that resulted in Roys first touchdown. Another big play by Jon Nickerson and Kevin Christiansen, a long pass play, resulted in another Royal touchdown and Weber was never to regain the lead again. Its the things that have been hurting us all year long, its the big play. Weve had one or two every game. We had some problems hitting the open people all day. Our running game opened up the passing game, but we couldnt hit the open man and that hurt. We started out doing as 26-1- 3 ROYS FRED FERNANDES (20) grinds his way up the middle against Weber. Roy battled to a 3 Region One victory behind the running of Fernandes and 26-1- WFFl the passing of Jon Nickerson! action reported for Roy area Roy teams won six games, lost four and had two ties in W.F.F.L. action last week. The last Royal hope for a mini-boberth bowed out in a close battle with Ogden. 120 POUNDERS PETE GOFF 0 Ogden Ogden scored after Roy fumbled deep in its own territory, and Ogden was able to punch the ball in from eight yards out win the ball game. Roy fumbled three times near its own goal line, but was able to hold the opposition out until the last time. 12Q POUNDERS CO AC II WILLARD CRAGlNll-S- Brigham City 21 - Roy 6 Roys only score came on a crossbuck by Doug Williamson that was good for 30 yards in the first quarter. The strong Brigham City team scored twice in the first half on runs and once in the fourth quarter on a pass. ) 100 ENJI MATSUMURA Roy 32 - South Ogden 0 Our defense was great, smiled Coach Matsumura Defense scored a T.D. on a fumble recovery, and a blocked punt, and set up another on an The Royal ofintercepted pass. fensive unit scored on the old Statue of Liberty play, another on a quarterback end sweep, and one up the middle. They play Ogden at home in their final game. Set " RIC K EIDSEN ) Roy 13 - Logan 0 Running Back John Coy did all the scoring for Roy, but he had a lot of help from his friends The first T.D was set up on a 30 y ard pass from Ray Workman to Steve Eidsen, and the second one on a sustained drive that covered most of the field Defense was great, said a jubilant Coach Rick Eidsen. 100 85 A COACH (5-6- GERALD GILBERT (2-- Roy 26 Ogden 13 In a repeat with Ogden, the Royals doubled the score with relative ease. Doug Fullmer carried 30 yards on an play for the first touchdown, then Brad Williams burst through the middle for 25 yards and a second T.D Carl Taylor scored from 47 yards on an play, and Chad Evans intercepted an Ogden pass to score the last T.D. Ogden scored on two trick pass plays that caught the Royals napping. d 85 A COACH BUD NORMAN ) Ogden 40 - Roy 0 said a disappointed No contest Coach Norman. They just outclassed The Roy team closes out the as. (0-5- li' COACH RICHARD COWAN gives last minute instructions to John Boyd, an pounder, in the Kaysville game. Clearfield's team has been the wily team to score on the Kaysville team this year. Ho season against the other Roy 85-team at 9 a m. on Saturday. 85 B COACH JOHN LAMBROSE Roy 0 Bountiful 0 We had a 60 yard T I), run called back on a foolish clip away from the ball, groaned Coach lambrose. We should have won the ball game right there, he said. The Roy team held Bounliful for four downs on the three stand. yard line in a great goal-lin- e Bountiful began tearing Roy up through the middle, until the coaches defense and stopped changed to a them cold Roy was playing without the serices of Ladd Kendall, the main string quarterback. 85 B COACH KYLE PETERSON Roy 6 - Layton 6 They played over their heads, It was a growled Coach Peterson defensive battle all the way. The Roy team scored on a Stace Garver to Shane Opheikens, pass in the third quarter, after Layton had scored from 40 yards out Neither team was able to convert that extra Roy plays its last Saturday m Logan. 76, V COACH CHI CK SMITH Roy 28 - Ogden 12 game, point. It was an easy game, 1 ) admitted Chuck Smith, but out kids are getOur kids ting better every week. did a real fine job on defense. They did make one goof, he smiled, "and it cost them a touchdown. Roy entertains Logan in its final game, Saturday, at North Park. 70 B COACH TOM FOWLER (5-- 1 ) Roy 19 - Brigham City 0 Kim Palmer scored touchdowms on plays, and Scott Lloyd ran one in on a full back dive play. Richie Smith scored the only P.A.T. The Roy defense totally dominated Brigham City. The Brigham Players got only two first downs in the entire game. The whole defensive team said the happy played terrific, coach. 70 C COACH KURT BENNINGTON end-aroun- d excellent job. Our plan was to make sure we caught them off guard on the pass and we did, we caught them off several times. But later we couldnt captalize. We cant expect to win these ball games with just 12 points, we just cant. If our offense cant complete the pass we are going to have a hard time winning. You know you can't live by just the pass, anyone finds that out at the end of the game. And of course you just cant live by running the ball and we found that out in the second quarter," said Coach Joe James. Fernandes scored again on a talented trot from 25 yards out and that just as well put the game out of reach. Nickerson did find another Royal for a touchdown pass before the Roy squad completed their scoring. Steve Shaw, the Warriors junior quarterback, entered the game midway through the fourth quarter and hit for a couple of long passes, one to Bruce Thorpe. Thorpe had earlier hauled in a touchdown pass from Dave Green to start the scoring of the game. Shaw hit Martini just short of the goal line and moments later, Brian Ballif took the ball over the goal line for the final score of the game. Weber was to travel to Clearfield this past Wednesday and next week will host powerhouse Layton. ON THE BALL WITH BLISS A car-podiscussion triggered a survey I took last week to determine what percentage of little league football players go on to play high school football when they become of age Guestimates ranged from less thaft ten percent to not more than 25 percent. Everyone considered himself an expert, but the survey fooled us all. I chose the 70 pound leagues to do my survey because: They are the football beginners; This group includes eight, nine and ten year olds on a ratio similar to the 12th, 11th and 10th graders of the high school team; and some kids play only one year, before deciding that football is not their bag. I wanted to include every boy who would participate in little league football. Mike Hein of Roy Recreation reported that 118 to 125 70 pounders suited up for little league football this year. I used the 125 figure to make my comparison. I talked to 49 football players who are on the 1978 Roy High School football roster. Six of them confided that they had never played football below the junior high school level. This means that 41 of 49 or 83.7 percent of the high school varsity, had their beginning before they entered junior high school (There were one or two who began playing little league football after they were in the seventh grade). Most of the players played five or six years in little league. There was even one senior star, Dave Johnson, who had never before played football in any league before this season. On the negative side of my survey, I determined that six of every ten 70 pounders, presently playing W.F.F.L. football, will not be playing high school football, eight or ten years from now. It has been said that kids burn themselves out in little league sports and lose the competitive desire to play when they get older. The negative theory states that organized football fills a need when the boy is young and causes him to lose interest before he gets to high school. He has had his moments of glory, they proclaim, and there are no more goals to be reached. I cant accept that theory. I would rather believe that little league sports wet the appetite for higher andmore competitive sport. I maintain that kid find themselves in organized sports as youngsters, and pursue that course into adulthood. I credit the skills and talents theyy develop in childhood as the .spring board which creates super stars in any sport. Everyone knows of talented kids who gave up sports in childhood, though they had all the tools of being good athletes. Dont blame little league sports. We had the same dilema in my day, But on a broader scope. I believe that the little leagues help prove to a lot of kids, that they can succeed in sports. Roy High School is the smallest 4 A school in Utah, yet is able to compete with the best, in all major sports. I attribute much of Roys success to the fantastic programs of getting kids involved through recreation. West High School and Bountiful are two other schools who would qualify for 3A status in Utah, but elected to remain as 4A. These schools, like Roy, have been very competitive in baseball, basketball and football. Each has active little league programs to train the athletes of tomorrow. In the W.F.F.L., youngsters learn the basic fundamentals of football. It is execute precision plays. Ive seen not uncommon to see 10 and 11 year-old- s of line them call audibles at the scrimmage, pull guards for blocking on end the off work and option. Is it any wonder that todays high plays sweeps, school teams play such sophisticated football? Many of those high school seniors are playing in their tenth year of organized football. Support your favorite little league football team. You may be watching the makings of tomorrows superstars. Roy 28 - Layton 7 Roy had to settle for a tie with this Layton team, in the last game, and the Royals had something to prove in the rematch. Chad Riley scored three touchdowns on long sweeps, and Todd Wilson broke one up the middle. Layton got its only score end-aroun- d in the first half. 70 C COACH BILL KNlDSON Brigham City 14 - Roy 0 (0-- Bountiful scored a touchdown in the first and second quarters, but Roy was unable to get them back. Several Royal touchdown drives were bogged down at the 15 yard line to frustrate the team. Roy recovered four Layton fumbles, but was unable to capitalize 'on them. tar - . HARVEY SCHENCK is proud of the nine foot sail fish he landed in Mexico. The fish in at 138 pounds and took 50 minutes to land. ffiCsT weighed iii fcv THESE ROY JUNIOR High Red Devils who defeated Sand Ridge in softball last week include (I. to r.) Tina Lambrose, Wendy Perry, Betty Courney, Roxanne James, Jodi Jorgenson, Penny Ponder, Sharon Newman, Julie or, I" r. s. Nichols, Lisa Newey, Karren Bertagnolli, Lynne Fowler, Jill Bailey, Isaaca Hanson, Kim Wood, Pam Beckslead an Lynn Coe. Back row are coaches Nancy Flory, Jo Leigh Kerr and Dian Gibson. Big fish landed Harvey Schenck got more than he had planned on when he went with a square-dancin- g group several years ago to Mexico City, Tasco and Acapulco. He went deep sea fishing and landed a nine foot, 138 pound sail fish, which now hangs on his front room wall. Harvey, with his wife Alice and another couple went out on a 35 foot boat, for what he calls The biggest sporting thrill of my life. It took most of an hour to land the big fish, and Harvey admits, Ive never been so tired in my life. Mr. and Mrs. Schenck estimate that the fish cost them $400, including travel expense, boat fare, having the fish mounted and shipped to Utah and other odd expenses, but it is well-wor- th it. How do you like a big fish in your front room? we asked Mrs. Schenck. It wasn't planned that way," she replied, but it is too big for the basement. But Mrs. Schenck did admit that she didnt mind having the trophy there because it made Harvey proud. Harvey and Alice live at 19G9W. S. Roy. Stop by to tee ttdr pri:l catch. Harvey Is more th?3 3 teU how he caught it. 40 |