| Show Manti girls win two more remain undefeated Karmal Mandel By such teams as South Summit Kanab and even 3A Granite Staff writer MANTI — With a crushing victory over Juab last Tuesday and a closely contested decision over Millard last Friday the Lady Templar basketball team has a perfect record after three weeks of play into the 5 season To this point Templars the Lady have handily defeated Friday’s game against the Millard Eagles started out easily for the Templars as the girls took a lead into the intermission However Manti’s key post player Sili Hofoka got into foul trouble early in the third quarter and was taken out of the game which allowed the Eagles to come back to within four points by the end of the quarter Templar Flead Coach Jim ‘‘It was our Nelson commented first game playing against a taller team and we had a hard time feeding the post” which forced Manti to take outside shots “It was a poor shooting night less than 30 per- cent” he said which helped account for the low scoring game The Eagles got their first lead of the game with two minutes left in the fourth quarter Flowevcr according to coach Nelson the girls “got real tough on defense and didn’t panic on either side of the ball” With a few outside shots some good rebounds and good shooting in the last minutes of the game Manti was able to pull ahead by four points for the win Starting die game on Friday for the Templars were Seniors Holly Harman and Lori Jonson Junior Andrea Litteral and Sophomores Sili Hafoka and Kassnndra Kassandra Tucker had a Tucker high of 8 points for the game four four steals and six reassists bounds Sili Hofoka had four steals points and four assists for the game The Lady Templar junior varsity team is also undefeated so far this year and the freshmen team has only lost one game to the Juab Wasps last week This and numerous blocked shots Off the bench Senior Karen Johnson helped shut out Millard’s six foot post players while junior week the Lady Templars will travel to North Summit on Tuesday and then will region- - play preview at Sevier Valley Tech in Richfield with Duchesne on Friday and Monticello on Saturday play Candalyn Kjar had a game high nine rebounds and Sophomore McKenzie Whipple had nine M second season loss physical” said Judkins CEU’s athletic play caused Snow to turn the ball over 20 times throughout the game and gradually chipped away at the more By John Hales and Gary Chidester Staff writer EPHRAIM — It was a seesaw week for Snow College men’s basketball Coming off a loss on Dec the Badgers rose up last win Thursday with a against the College of Eastern 4 Utah (CEU) only to fall again Saturday to the Rebels of Dixie State The game against the Eagles of CEU was an up againdown again Golden self Badger’s advantage By the half CEU had obtained the lead by half a bucket Down again But not out Regarding the second half which was a hard struggle to the end Judkins said “we were the aggressors but CEU kept coming up” The teams exchanged leads with nearly every basket until Snow finally took a decisive bout stand Both teams made an explosive start in what looked to be a defensive battle: neither team throws first couple scored for the min- utes Snow was the first to strike and when the Badgers took a lead five minutes into the half it looked like another blowout Up again Badger head coach Jon Judkins explained the early lead saying “We started the game well We got the ball inside and also hit some outside shots” But they lost their inside game about the same time CEU “picked up the pace and got making several free with only seconds re- maining Judkins said that free were a key to the game During the first half “we didn’t shoot well from the free throw line” Fie said That improved in the second half however and Brandon Sholly shot 100 percent from the foul line for eight of his 17 points for the game Three other Snow players Daniel boasted Henry led the way with 20 15 lam Elseth had points points to add and Moses Hawkins finished with 12 throws Judkins throws were the key to the game against Dixie as well but in a different way “I was disappointed with our free throw shooting” he said “It seemed when we were able to get some momentum or needed some momentum we were at the free throw line and we missed 50 percent from the free throw line is unaccept- able” Judkins said that his team prepared well but got a slow start and “we just shot the ball terribly” By the half Dixie was ahead of the Badgers by 13 points But things turned around for a time during the second half and Snow came to within one point of catching the Rebels Up again? Judkins says no “Things were going our way but then we made some bad shots which led to easy shots for the other teaih” Judkins did say however that his team did a good job of shutting down Dixie’s main players “We controlled their big guys” he said “but their subs killed us Their bench outplayed our bench” JOHN HALES MESSENGER PHOTO Badger Moses Hawkins (12) rises over CEU defenders for the easy basket Snow won The Badgers won their first the game 8474 but gave up thier next game to Dixie nine games but have dropped two of their last three games said that free rack up one more win Sanpete County runners represent well Templars fail to qualify for national competition on wayCookto ‘accomplishing plans’ By Bill hoping to adyance to Nationals Dec 11 in San Diego Among those with such as- Bedford Staff writer CA— For the WALNUT second year in a row cross country runners from Utah failed to advance to nationals from races in the Foot Locker Cross Country Western Regional Six cross country runners from Sanpete County traveled to Southern California on Dec in the event to participate which was held on the 5K course at Mt San Antonio lege in Walnut California Col- thousand runners from fourteen different western states congregated in About two the area to test their fitness on the challenging course with a select group also pirations was Bryce Carr North Sanpete High School’s senior whose entry had been accepted to run in a field of 200 in the elite “seeded” race with other top high school athletes The competition is unrelenting as the leaders hope to place in the top eight and earn an paid trip to San Diego to race in the nationals Moreover the course poses numerous tests of stamina and recovery ability with a series of very steep hills throughout the last two miles of the course Carr posted a 7:05 time for the 5K and finished in 81st place out of 200 the best ever show- - What do you think? yc Write a Letter to the Editor By ing at the ner Other event North by a local Sanpete run- parraces in Laura Curtis (junior Shaun Russon (freshman Eric Heywood (senior ticipants included girls) boys) boys) and Katie Curtis and Sylvia Bedford (freshman girls) In the freshmen girls’ race which consisted of 150 runners Sylvia Bedford placed 28th with a 22:00 and Katie Curtis came in 48th out of 150 runners with a time of 22:56 and ' Utah programs did however receive national recfor their ognition excellence as Fremont High Mountain View boys’ and girls’ both placed fifth in Nike’s First Annual Team Cross Country Nationals held the same day in Portland OR Only the top twenty highs school teams in the country were invited to the Other competition Craig Staff writer MANTI — The Templars upped their overall record to last Wednesday by hopping over the visiting Delta Rabbits while Coach Hugentobler happy for the win was not overly excited He maintained that his team is simply on track to accomplish all their plans this year He said that he knew they would start out slow and pick up momentum as the year progressed As evidence he offered the teamwork that his seniors displayed in the win over Delta something that has been lacking so far this year Custom Menus available for groups Please call for reservations COPY the game plan The “ looked like a team” Hugentobler said “we were 100 better" But continued “we’ve still got a long way to go” llowing Templars Andrew Clark poured in four three pointers that would have been five if not for traveling call In fact he had twice as many three pointers as all the Rabbits put together Taylor Salanoa added 11 Tyler Gunderson dropped eight Josh I lugentobler threw in seven and Frischnecht and Thompson contributed four each for a well rounded scoring attack On defense Manti’s zone appeared to be the answer to Delta’s double post offense lugentobler said the team was “realizing what we need to’ Coach do” And with three games that’s good news Wednesday they play at Millard Thursday they host Parawon and Fri- day they travel to take on Juab Millard and Juab will be tough both are listed in the top five in 2A state rankings “ This week we will see where we are” Hugentobler said Let’s hope they’re right on" schedule North Sanpete boys split games against Millard Juan Diego By Doug Johnson Staff writer Christmas Parties still accepted j£ More crisp passes around the perimeter more helping on defense more playing hard for the full 32 minutes and more fo- MT PLEASANT— North last Sanpete split two games week losing to Millard home and beating Juan Diego in Riverton at Wednesday’s game against Millard was frustrating for the Hawks as they played well enough in most areas to win but mental lapses cost them just enough to hand the game to the Eagles The game was close and North Sanpete throughout took a lead heading into the fourth quarter However they lost control early in the final period when senior forward Kyle Poulson picked up three quick fouls in the first 90 seconds and Millard went on a run Millard eventually stretched it to an point run for a com- 17 points But the Hawks continued to play like they were still playing catch-uand immediately fouled Millard’s Jacob Ellsworth in the backcourt Ellsworth sank both lead with less manding than six minutes to play at the 3:10 Down mark the Hawks went on a frenetic run led by Watson and Poulson on both ends of the flixir When John Anderson nailed three’s the game was tied at 52 with 58 seconds remaining Anderson was deadly from outside canning five cn route to a Sanpete to continue fouling The from the Eagles converted line in the final minute to take the win North Sanpete played tough defense with Anderson holding Millard scoring leader Clay Cooper to only two points Cooper came into the game averaging 19 points per outing “It’s a shame to let an effort like that go to free throws forcing North (see “Hawks” on A12) |
