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Show Page 1C North Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday, February 1, 1984 A Lancers Miss Shots; Layton Scores Win ' BARRY KAWA Review Staff LAYTON We just cant put it in the basket, explains Layton Coach Doug Moon. If it dont go in, it dont go in. And so goes the fortune of the Layton High Lancers this season. The Lancers shooting woes continued Friday as Roy jumped out to an early lead in the first quarter and coasted to an easy 73-5- 8 Region One wih. The league-leadin- g Royals raised their nt perfect region record to 0 and 10-- 5 overall with the convincing win. Layton suffered their fourth consecutive defeat after winning their first region game and are in league play and 5-- 1- -4 . 2-- over-al- l. Roy Coach Ted Smith said the Lancers came out shooting cold in the first quarter and the Royals were able to build a big lead, which they ended up needing to hold off a second quarter Layton charge. Moon said his Lancers took good shots but were unable to connect as has been their requiem for a basketball team this season. You can spend all year shooting the ball and if it wont go in a particular night, it wont go in, Moon said. Thats exactly what happened in the first quarter. Layton went nearly six minutes without scoring at the start of the game before James Beauregard finally broke the scoreless streak. Roy tallied 14 unanswered points in the meantime with many coming on Layton turnovers and never looked back. The Royals led 28-1- 9 at half-tim- e and increased it to 12 by the start of the fourth quarter. Smiths red hot Royals continued their trademark as a team without one dominant scorer as Greg Durand led the Royals for the first team this season 21 points. with a game-hig- h Scott Skinner returned to the line-u- p after an early season ankle injury and contributed 17, followed by Mike Coe with 11. The Royals shot a blistering 19 of 23 from the free throw line. The Lancers were led by Beauregard with 20, Steve Pearce with 14 and Darrell Martin with 10. The Lancers struggled at the line with a poor 10 of 19 performance with many of the misses coming on the open end of a The Royals travel to Clearfield tonight and to Bonneville on Friday. Both are crucial Region One games and the outcome of the interesting match-up- s could play an important part in deciding the region champion. Layton is on the road at Bonneville Tuesday and heads to Box Elder on Frifree-thro- w one-and-on- e. day. Moon said the struggling Lancers have three more weeks to prove to themselves that theyre not a bad basketball team. I dont know if we can win any more ball games or not, he said. The important thing is not to go belly-u- p and give it our best shot the rest of the season. Moon said his team is hitting on one or two cylinders each game instead of the five that is necessary to win in basketball. Youve got to have five guys playing the best they can each night to win, he explained. . I think if we can put it together then we would be okay." 4. SN i 'v "5'' s ' iU Staff Photos by Rodney Wright LANCER JAMES Beauregard stretches for a jump ball as Layton played host to hapless Roy Girls Basketball Falcons Lifted to Win Over Bees SCOTT MONSEN Review Correspondent BRIGHAM CITY - What a difference 20 seconds makes. Just ask Curtis Cook of the -- Clearfield Falcons. Cook stood at the free throw line with just 22 seconds left in the game and calmly sank two foul pitches to secure a?72-7- 0 Region one win over the Box Elder Bees here Friday night. However, just 20 ticks earlier Cook missed the front end of a which gave the Bees new life. But the Bees were unable to connect and gave the Falcons more opportunity. Free throw shooting seemed to one-and-o- ne Roy SHELLEY Review 16-Year-- be a problem for Clearfield and instead of winning the game, for them, nearly cost them the game. Several Falcons had a chance to increase the lead from the line late in the game, but couldnt connect. However, head coach Craig Hansen wasnt overly concerned. We actually had several players on the line, but we just didnt convert as well as we would have liked, Hansen said. Jeff Parry, Hal Schofield and Cook all missed free throws late in the game. As for the lower than usual free throw percentage Hansen re Most of them were marked, taken in pressure situations and youre going to have games like that once in a while. But, over all, game in and game out we have shot better, and I think free throw shooting will be one of our strong points as the season progresses. The key was our defense and rebounding in the second half, Hansen noted. We were able to take them (Box Elder) out of some of the things they were doing in the second half. - KANCITIS der. I would say that that is an have three wins but that 'wont 4 get us into the state tournament. Four wins should get at least a tie for the last spot, but we are still right in the title chase. If we beat Roy we should have a berth in the tournament as well as have an excellent chance to win the region. They have two important contests this week with Roy in Clearfield and Weber on the col- lapse. ROY It is an athletic event that has brought grown men and women to their knees, crawling across the finish line in a state of One who did finish is Rodkey Faust, 16, a sophomore at Roy High School. Not only has he completed three consecutive triathlons, he is the youngest participant. On February 11, ABC will air the October 1983 Ironman Triathlon at 3 p.m. Now closed to entrants under 18, Faust is allowed to enter because he successfully completed the triathlon before age limits first twelve. I told my Mom to remember where it was held because someday I wanted to be in it. -- The following year Faust and his mother, Elizabeth, who decided to attend a Christian mis- training sionary Hawaii, moved to center Kailua-Kon- a. announcing the triathlon. It was too late to enter, but he decided he would be ready for next years competition. Getting ready for the triathlon could easily become a full time job and is for some professional entrants. After all, swimming 2.4 miles in ocean waves, biking 112 miles and waking or running a maraI thon of 26.2 miles in the ref4K' quired 17 hours is not your everyday ahtletic event. While most of his friends were id asleep dreaming of Big Macs and W surfing, Faust, then a seventh grader, was getting up at 5:30 a.m. to train. And while his classmates rode a bus up a six mile mountain and one-haroad to school, Faust ran up or rode his bike. His total conditioning efforts included 40 miles of biking each day and eight miles of running, Photo by Shelley Kancltis daily swims. Faust is the youngest competitor in the plus After months of training Faust annual Ironman triathlon in Kona, Hawaii. Continued on page 2C. m y lf 4 4 v Rodkey Faust his spare time, IRONMAN COMPETITOR works on his bike in f if like everyone thought it close. would Clearfield was beaten 3 Friday by Box Elder to put both teams, along with Layton, into a three-wa- y 52-4- tie for first place. Layton demolished Roy 3 to stay in contention for the league race. At Clearfield the Bees, who normally play a tough inside game, hit well from the outside to overpower Falg the then cons. I cant say Box Elder will be the team to beat, said Clearfield assistant coach Candy Edwards. All three teams have an equally good shot at the ti60-3- tle, she said. Ms. Edwards said while Tie the Bees scored well from the outside, the Falcons could not hit their shots. We didnt play well. We couldnt hit outside, and they packed it in to stop our inside game, she said. Mandy Hennenberger led the Falcons with 13 points and eight rebounds. Shelly Heaps added nine points. At Roy the Royals lack of height continued to be a problem as Layton got the game rolling their way early and didnt let up. Everything we put up went in, said Layton coach Brent Checketts. It was one of those games where everything goes your way. Im happy with the poise and patience our team showed, he Darts Fall Short GARY HATCH are mor than a as they hit seven of eight foul shots in the last minute to stay the Darts final comeback. m KAYSVILLE They say two out of three isnt bad, but youll never be able to convince Davis coach Mike Gardner of that. Going into Fridays game against East, Gardner said he wanted his team to do three things: control the tempo of the game, get and shoot high percentage shots, and make free in throws. While walking down the street in his new town, Faust saw banners x gion One is shaping up just Review Sports Editor learned about the event while watching television when he was V. Three-Wa- y league-leadin- were established. A native Utahn, Faust - In Girls basketball in ad- vantage to us, although it doesnt guarantee anything. We held annually in Kona, Hawaii. A testimony to its difficulty is Referred to by some as the the fact that over five percent of gruelathon, it is officially the 850 highly trained profescalled the Ironman Triathlon. sional and amateur athletes who Seventeen punishing hours of entered the 1983 event failed to biking, swimming, and running finish it. almost complete physical Correspondent Region One Locked road Friday. Their schedule is in their favor, because they host the other three top teams, namely Roy, Bonneville and Box El- Endures Ironman Old Lancers won the game 73-5- 8 as Roy extended its shooting slump one more game. Friday. The Hey, this was a blowout, East coach Ed Palubinskas said. I told my team that anything more than a last second shot at the buzzer to win will be a rout. Thats how tough I expected this game to be, he added. Palubinskas said he expected Davis to shoot better from the line Friday because the Darts missed key free throws late in the game the last time the two teams met to allow East a win at The Darts played the first two parts of Gardners plan to perfection, but in the last five minutes of the fourth quarter Davis missed seven free throws in a the buzzer. Gardner said he expected his row, including the front ends of two to allow East team to shoot better from the d 9 a victory Fri- line this time also, and he added that hes confident the free day. I just feel bad that as hard as throws will start to fall for his these kids have played, they team. have to lose. All those guys We just want to get to the worked their butts off tonight. I state tournament where anybody really admire our players, can beat anybody. We have lost Gardner said. three games because of missed We did everything we wanted free but I know we can to do except make our foul makethrows, them and I am confident shots. he added. we will make them. And Gardner was right. His Darts did control the tempo of Im not worried about these k the game with the and kids. I know they11 bounce transition game when they had back, Gardner said. an opportunity, and when they The game was a close battle couldnt get the quick bucket the entire first half with neither they worked the ball inside. team leading more than four In fact, the Darts worked so points. well inside that Easts twin towEast opened up a brief ers, Reid Monson and Ed Peterlead late in the third quarsen, both were fouled out with more than two minutes to go in ter, and then capitalized on Davis missed free throws to the game. down the stretch. 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