Show The Salt Lake Tribune Tuesday November Orem’s 'David’ Faces 'Goliath’ in 1)3 15 19X8 Playoff Finals 4-- A Alta Is Standing In Tigers’ Way By Dan Pattison Tribune Sports Writer Orem's own version of David quarterback Bryan Rowley faces yet anstate other Goliath Friday in the championship football game The Alta Hawks with their own football giant — running back Chad Knowles — stand between the Tigers and their second straight state title Rowley whose Tigers have been underdogs every step of the way in the state playoffs did a great Doug Flutie imitation last Friday in leading Orem to an upset of Brighton 28-Or as one observer put it "Not only did David beat Goliath but David kicked Goliath's butt " But w ith one step left the Rowley knows his task remains a big 4-- 7 one "Alta is just another one of those big teams But it s going to be tough to stop Chad Knowles so this game will be different than the rest" explained Rowley who has been nursing a sepa- rated shoulder throughout the playoffs The 6-- 3 195-poun- Knowles d rushed for 220 yards including a TD dash when the Region 2 rivals met Sept 23 The Hawks dominated that meeting 36-"You can t arm tackle a runner like him” Rowley said "We re going to have to hit him hard so that he'll go 95-yar- d — Orem quarterback Bryan Rowley and his Tiger teammates have beaten the odds Tribune staff pnoio by Rick Egan and passed every test in the state playoffs Only 1 hurdle remains: Alta in the finals i down" Sid Season Kicks Off at Brighton Tomorrow' By Craig Hansell Tribune Sports Writer Brighton will open Utah's ski season Wednesday morning when its Majestic and Mary lifs open at 9 a m The season gains more steam Friday when Alta Park City and Solitude plan to open for the season Alta which had 20 inches of snow cover at Monday opens its 50th season of operation Snowbird Snowbasin and Elk Meadows have all scheduled Nov 23 opening dates with Deer Valley and Sundance scheduled to open Dec Beaver Mountain Brian Head and Nordic Valley are awaiting more snow before setting opening dates according to Ski Utah officials This season Brighton has taken adknowlvantage of the edge of new owners Boyne USA to conditions enhance its early-seaso- n Brighton's Mike Doyle said the summer grooming program and the 50 acre snow making coverage will give snow-makin- n Brighton its The opening r Gun Boyne snow- air-wat- 10 making system's nt guns have laid per Majestic and the crews are working down the mountain to provide optimal conditions for Wednesday's opening Alta and Solitude are relying on forecasted storms for Friday's projected opening “We still need a good foot of wet stuff to open’’ said Solitude's Mike Gore “If we don't make it on Friday we will open Wednesday Nov 23 with four lifts" If the forecasts are correct Utah's ski season will be humming by the weekend Duke Tops First Hoop Poll For Eagles’ Fleur) By The Associated Press Duke a Final Four team two of the last three seasons was named the No 1 team Monday in The As- Salt Lake Golden Eagle rookie center Theoren Fleury was named the International Hockey League's player of the week Monday The Fleury had seven goals four assists for 11 points including two assist in four goals and a power-plagames last week Fleury scored four of Salt Lake’s eight goals in the Eawin over Denver Saturday in gles' the Salt Palace Though Fleury 20 played two regular-season and eight playoff games with the Eagles last season accumulating 14 goals and 15 assists he is still considered a rookie sociated Press’ preseason college basketball poll The Blue Devils who finished fifth in the final regular-seasopoll last season and went on to the Final Four and a semifinal loss to eventual champion Kansas revotes and easceived 33 first-placily outdistanced No 2 Georgetown e votes which had eight Duke which last held the top ranking over the final three polls of the 1985-8season — another in d game-winnin- best-eve- g conditions Week Earns IHL Honors 11-Poi- al down four to five feet of snow on up- 10th and 15th respectively n g v e 8-- 3 first-plac- 6 which it reached the Final Four — finished with 1257 points from the nationwide panel of sportswriters and broadcasters well ahead of the Hoyas' 1107 Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski wasn't overly pleased at being No 1 ly “If you're ranked very high earthere's a tendency to think you've already accomplished something and you really haven’t accomplished anything" he said “Those are just predictions In practice settings you have to be careful that there isn't a complacency that comes about" —Tribune Stoff Photo by Steve Wilson 0 Chad Knowles is a with him He hopes to top big-pla- y has Goliath though has respect for this David "Rowley is a great athlete" said Knowles "He pretty much carries his team He sparks them” More than one team has discovered you can't stop Knowles with arm tackles He has already gained over 2000 yards this season with 1250 yards rushing 650 yards receiving and 200 yards in kick returns In the last two weeks Chad rushed for 453 yards on 58 carries and six Neither Woods Cross touchdowns (29 carries for 275 yards) or Davis (29 carries for 178 yards) could stop him “He's Chad a great one He really ran over us the first time" said Orem Coach Tom Rabb "The key to stopping him is to prevent him from breaking the big one That's hard to do because he broke one for 90 yards against us the first game” Rabb has high praise for his own star too "Rowley came in under a lot of pressure to switch positions wide receiver to quarterback at the first of the year and he's really done a great job for us He hung in there until the rest of the team got the game experience We re really excited with his rusher who carries Alta Hawks 2000-yarseason with state title d they'll have to play David's role again ‘T il be pretty nervous at first I'll just have to go out and play It's not like we haven't been in this situation before" said Rowley "I'll just have to relax and concentrate on the game and everything will be all right We have accomplished a lot this year especially when we got the experience and started playing as a team “Right now being in this situation is unexpected” he added "But we believe in ourselves That's what 4 5 speed in the dash Knowles was the runnerup in the BYU Decathlon as a junior last throws spring He high jumps the discus 160 feet and 45 speed He has goals of competing in the Olympics or playing pro football "That's my dream And I have one advantage — I can pretty much play anywhere in football except the line" said Knowles whose father Gary played at BYU in 1964 and whose d 6-- brothers Darrin and Eric were linemen for Alta With so many weapons at Alta's disposal Rowley and the Tigers know all-stat- e counts” HOLlD'AYiTIRETSAVINGS HOURS 0 AM to 6 PM MOM THRU SAT TlPfAlTTO CENTER WEST VALLEY 3847 Redwood Road 973-701- 5 SI OOO INSTANT CREDIT Free Soft Drinks for Coming In 40000 AlX SEASON RADIAt? 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