Show Ogden Sports Standard-Examine- r Saturday Feb 7 1987 No flie here as laytomi wins By GARY HATCH Standard I I ' : i I I - '' r x Examiner LAYTON — When Layton and Gearfield meet on the hardwood it's never a affair A fact seemingly lost by Layton head coach Stan Buchanan until less than a minute remained in the first period of the Lancers’ game against Gearfield here Fri-- I day That’s when Buchanan threw" ' his tie into the stands in disgust and the Lancers rolled up their 9 sleeves and worked to an win over the visiting Falcons “I had to throw the tie up to my wife in the stands because if I didn’t I was probably going to throw it out on the floor” Bu- chanan said with a relieved smile sprawling across a chair in his of-fice after the game “Once when I was an assistant I threw my tie out onto the floor but I’ve got to mellow down a bit as head coach” Maybe the tie was was begin- ning to feel like a noose around his neck or maybe it was for in- surance that he’d be able to get the referee’s attention “At the same time Buchanan rid himself of the tie he jumped off 'the bench to protest calls The referee obliged with a technical 1 wanted a technical foul there There are some things you can let go on only so long without doing something” Buchanan said-v- r "Buchanan’s “T" was in protest of Stan Banks fourth "personal foul which effectively sat the smooth shooting forward down for the night ' And without Banks outside sdoring threat the Lancers had to ' shift roles Guard Rod Dixon and forward Robbie Trujillo combined for 43 points to fill the void quite nicely fRod and Rob both played just excellent games Rob got us the lbJ j i face boards and the points inside tonight and Rod was our floor general out there keeping the offense under control" For Layton it was a game of press and steal run and shoot And For Gearfield it was too many bad passes and not enough good shots “We just made too many mistakes” said Gearfield coach Gaig Hansen “You’ve got to give credit to a tough Layton defense That combined with our bad passing really hurt us" Hansen said In the opening minutes it looked like Layton’s pressing defense and offense was going to allow the Lancers to run away with the game Layton broke open a 6 lead with two minutes to go in the first on four fast breaks (three off Gearfield turnovers) But just as quickly as the Lancn ers built their lead a rash of fouls brought the Falcons back into the game and brought the wrath of the Layton fans and bench down on the referees Layton scored 39 second quar- -' ter points to go ahead 3 at the half and increased the lead to after three quarters Dixon led all Falcon scorers with 24 including one Layton (87) 24 11 Dixon 7 Chappell 5 19 10 R Trujillo 8 Banks 4 4 C Truji6 Tucker 2 Nance 2 0 Lovell 1 llo 2 5 Steverson 0 4 Campbell 0 3 Cantarella 1 87 Totals 28 Clearfield (59) 6 Brad Lar2 Bracken Larsen 5 2 3 Spangenthal sen 0 Hulse 5 Geertgens 6 0 12 9 Gard0 Freeman 2 Harris 0 3 Shupe 0 2 Price ner 3 Call 1 4 Birt 1 1 Hamblin 2 2 Totals 22 3 Russ Larsen 1 59 16 45 59 — 87 Layton 14 33 41 — 59 Clearfield Idaho By correspondent 'r mad” said Laker head coach ? WASHINGTON TERRACE — If it was a prize fight it would have been stopped early— no contest — It was obvious from the outset that Box Elder was no match for Bonneville Any hopes of a Bee upset were quickly dashed as the Lakers jumped out to a quick 0 lead and cruised to a convincing Region victory at Bonneville High School Friday night Bonneville which saw its region winning streak come oen end Tuesday night against Weber came out like gangbus-ter- s : TThey (Box Elder) caught us Gary Alverson “They came in tonight kind of high following their first league win the other night and we needed to bounce back with a win” Rich Hall got the hot hand early in the opening period for the Lakers The senior center pumped in seven first quarter y points as Bonneville lead 7 at the end of the quarter The second stanza turned out to be the Kendall Youngblood Show as the junior forward poured in nine points including a pair of impressive Bonneville had a commanding lead at halftime 7 It was Robert Clearfield Falcon’s High's Curtis Hulse No 24 reaches game with Layton High School Friday backward to grab a rebound during the night 5 Region 1 mark and a just a matter of what the final points Box Elder outscored Bon3 at the end of the overall record while the Bees fell neville score was going to be and However it wasn’t the point third period to keep the score to 6 heading Box Elder (50) production of any one player that earned the praise of Alverson It into the final frame 1 6 Nielsen 0 Mueller 2 11 2 Williams 1 was the defense and assist perforYoungblood and Eric Slawson Kennedy 4 0 Bischoff 0 0 Price shared scoring honors for the Cusick 0 mance of Mike Sivulich 2 Harris 4 0 Shiotani 0 “We played extremely well on Lakers with 14 points each Hall 0 9 Ash 3 8 Hone 10-- 2 Jensen defense" said Alverson “Our deadded 10 for the winners 2 Looslee 1 4 Bosgieter fensive intensity allowed us to Meanwhile Kelly Kennedy was 3 Hawks 0 0 Totals 18 50 come up with a lot of easy hoops the only Bee to hit double figures Bonneville (80) off of fast breaks I was especially with an 11 point effort 9 Youngblood 5 Sivulich 3 4 pleased with the way Mike 10 Woolverton 2 “It’s nice when you can give all 14 Hall 4 dished out the assists to the your kids a chance to play" said Porter 3 14 J 8 Slawson 4 4 D 4 Hansen 1 open man" Alverson “We’ve been in a lot of Butters 1 Wold 1 Sivulich ended the night with tough battles this year and it’s Butters 0 W) 0 Jones 0 3 2 Wamick 0 Woody 1 12 assists nine coming in the just nice to have a game like this Beard 3 80 6 Totals 28 first half when the Lakers built once in a while" 7 17 36 Box Elder —50 their insurmountable lead 17 40 58 — 80 Bonneville remains alone atop Bonneville Trailing by as many as 28 the conference standings with a- goals — Slawson 3 Royals top Warriors in that was the turning point" said Standard Examiner assistant sports editor Roy High head coach Ted Smith “This was a great win for us and ROY — It’s really too bad anyI just can’t say enough about our body had to lose a battle like this kids performance" one i Weber Coach Gary Weight But Roy High’s “Rod and Rob Show” made sure it wasn’t the whose team had knocked off previously unbeaten Bonneville just Rbyals three nights earlier accepted the With Weber High working the defeat with dignity clock down for one last potential disheartening “We had the ball with a chance shot Rod Belnap came up with a crucial steal and to win and that’s why it’s so hard to accept so hard to bounce two clutch free throws in a situa-- x back" Weight sighed “We had the last shot but it didn’t work 45 seconds with remaining tipn And Rob Saunders splashed in oul You hate to have a loser but four more key counters from the you’ve got to have a winner and foul line in the final 23 seconds you’ve got to have a loser — to lift Roy High past the rival that’s just the way basketball is" Indeed this duel had more in a classic Re5 Warriors boys basketball battle swings than an elementary school gion playground as each team took clash here Friday night “When Belnap stole the ball turns seizing the momentum onand nailed those two free throws ly to see it slip away again B ’ RANDY HOLLIS LAYNE THOMPSON Examine cuwipoi in nt — The : KAYSVILLE Darts’ brief skid is over Davis High got back on track in a big way by running past Woods in Region 4 action Cross Tfiday night is the key word here Running The Wildcats did lead once But afier that all they saw was the back of the Darts’ jerseys and most of the time they were battle pressure-packe- d bomb — Belnap’s bis fifth howitzer of the night — had given Roy at 3 edge midway through the fourth period but Weber’s Shaun Lewis countered to deadlock things at Belnap missed a driving layup with 1:49 to go giving Weber the ball back with a chance to win iL But with the Warriors trying to stall it out for the last shot swiped the ball away and was senior fouled and the cool calmly stepped to the line and converted both ends of a 5 for a Roy lead Saunders grabbed the rebound and was fouled on Weber’s subsequent miss and he too sank both clutch shots for a much more comfortable margin with 23 seconds to go And after Tafoya rebounded yet another desperate Weber attempt Saunders soon did the same thing again with time running out and canned two more to account for the final spread Belnap banged in 22 points to lead all scorers while Miles added 20 Saunders 13 and Brown eight more Brown and Tafoya — along with foul trouble — also did what Coach Smith called “a super job" of keeping Weber’s Jason Finder and twin towers Chris Koford from dominatf ing the play inside Scott Holmes splashed in 21 points for the Warriors including five of his own Finder finished with 16 points before fouling out in the final minute while Lewis added 14 including all six of his team’s points and Koford contributed 10 more to Weber’s cause “Basketball is a game of mo Davis Darts pierce Wildcat B HIGUERA Examiner staff Forget that stuff about a sinking has ship Weber State’s sunk To the depths But just like raising the Titanic the Wildcats are hoping to salvage a few things from this disastrous season And one of the only things still within their grasp at the moment is their Big Sky Conference record With six games left the ’Cats can still manage a 500 conference record or even with a few breaks a winning league record At overall and in Big Sky play if the season ended today Weber State would face Montana in the Big Sky tournament Currently the task at hand is Idaho a team mired in a slump just like the ’Cats The Vandals who are 8 overall and 4 in the Big Sky hav6 lost four of their last five and are coming off a loss to rival Idaho State Thursday night “Three of our four losses have been on the road" said Idaho Coach Tim Floyd a former assistant to Don Haskins at UTEP “That will happen to a lot of Big Sky teams Montana Montana State Idaho State are difficult places to play” In their first meeting with Weber State the Vandals thumped 8 the ’Cats But Floyd isn’t holding his breath for a repeat performance from his squad “We caught them at a good time" he said “It was our first conference game and our first conference game at home Wc had a good crowd People were excited and got into the game Those kind of things helped us" “But life is a little more difficult on the road as we found out last night We’ll be happy to get a at the buzzer if we can get it" A main area of concern for the Vandals according to Floyd will be his team’s ability to score points “If we’ve struggled in any area this year it’s been on the offensive end of the floor” he said “We have not been able to get any kind of consistency over the last six or seven games Earlier in the season if (Ken) Luckett wasn’t scoring (Andrew) Jackson would put up some points We’re not getting that now” Jackson remains the club’s leading scorer at 140 points per game followed by Ken Luckett (135) and Vinson Metcalf (114) Meanwhile Harry Willis continues to be the lone bright spot in the Wildcats stat sheet as the only WSC player averaging in double figures His 148 point average leads the team and his 107 rebound average leads the Big Sky Conference Against Boise State "Willis tallied 17 points and 17 rebounds Greg Boyd (98) is the second leading scorer followed by Darryl McDaniel (96) and Walt Tyler (88) The ’Cat’s woes have even left the players scratching their heads “We just all of a sudden collapse for a second" said guard Robert Maxwell “Then we have say ‘hey we can do it’ and build ourselves up It might be that somebody’s looking for somebody else to do something or somebody’s looking for somebody else to take over the leadership role for scoring I really haven’t figured it out" The Vandals have only beaten the ’Cats once in 10 tries in the Dee Events Center Tipoff is 7:30 sean Bonneville Lakers sting Box Elder Bees By TONY REYNA JON Standard break going at the other end of watching from a distance “Wc were much more aggres- - the floor by either shooting lalive offensively and defensively yups or pulling up for short tonight" said Davis Coach John jumpers before the Wildcats Robison “You’ve got to be very could recover Senior forward JefT Pearson led pleased as a coach when your team comes back and plays that the charge again for the Darts as he seemed to be everywhere way after losing two in a row" The Darts Curt Stoddard and When he tanked a Brandon Dyer cleared the boards one second before the buzcr to when Woods Cross couldn't sink end the first quarter Davis led any early shots Brad Richins and 2215 and the track meet was just Brian tmery got the Darts' fast beginning mentum and sometimes you get it going” Smith whose team remained second in the region race and raised its overall reat with the cord to win said “We got it going right at the end and I guess that’s the best time to have iL" Weber which had just free throw attempts slipped to on the in league play and season with the setback Web r (65) 21 Lewis 7 01 14 Holmes 6 10 C Finder 7 18 Koford 5 2 2 R McGarry McGarry 1 65 0 Totals 27 Tribe 0 Roy (71) 20 Ta22 Miles 7 Belnap 6 8 Saunders 5 Brown 2 foya 2 3 Flint 0 0 0 0 13 Thiol 1 4 71 Totals 22 17 36 59 — 65 Weber 20 36 58 — 71 Roy t goals — Holmes 5 BelSaunders Theil 3 Miles nap 5 pm defense for 87 - 65 win Time and time again Pearson worked his way dear for passes near the key Then he would his taller opponent and bank in two points lie finished with 35 points and hit free throws “He (Pcarvm) moved a lot better tonight ollcnsivcly than in the last couple of games" Robison said “Every time he plays hard like that he's going to be productive lie may not score 30 but going to get his share And fouled a lot which is what want because he’s shooting 96 percent from the foul line" It seemed like everything the Darts touched turned to gold Robison insertLeading ed fresh players from his bench Mike Welling York Major Brian Olsen and Paul Murray came in with five minutes remaining in the first half and quickly extendlead to 16 Djvis ed the he’s he wc gets then cruised into intermission leading “We have as much depth as anyone I’ll stack my bench up against anybody" said Robison “Wc really have eight starters and it’s unfortunate wc can only have five play at a time" The final outcome wasn’t in really much doubt as they played the final 16 minutes See WOODS CROSS on 2a |