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Show Competition, recreation and fitness Wednesday Dec. 4, 1935 Lancers spot Leopards, lose game on turnovers Layton suffers from mistakes, East GARY HATCH pull out the win down the after Grant hit a Review sports editor 5 win. Sure ball handling by Easts veteran club, contrasted by 26 turnovers from Laytons youthful Lancers may have proved to be the key to the Leopard win, said first-yeLancer coach Stan Buchanan. Our turnovers really hurt us. We turned the ball over 26 times and they only got 13, Buchanan said. But Buchanan wasnt discouraged with the loss. Turnovers sometimes come with a young team learning a new system. We still lost by just 10 points, Buchanan said. 65-5- ar I thought the kids really hustled and played hard. For the first game under a new coach with a new system, and with only eight days practice, I thought we played well, ot 35-al- 18-fo- ot free-thro- w . fast-pace- , nt he said. The experience and leadership showed in Easts two third-yea- r Josh Grant and starters, guard Tim Barney, who both hit from the outside late in the game and helped the Leopards Photy by Mathew Brown bank stretch. The Lancers were led by seLayton came out in a spurt at niors Rex Brimhall and Dusty the start of the second half and l, but that Perry, who saw considerable ac- tied the game at tion last season, but Laytons was the last time Layton was young supporting castEasts Josh close. Grant, one of the premier playBarney nailed three ers in the state, netted a game-hig- h jumpers and helped push the 25 points to lead the East margin to nine, which they held through the rest of the Leopards to tne win. Another key to the game was game. percentage. Laytons scoring leader was The Lancers hit just three of Brimhall who totaled 22 and he 11. was followe by Perry, who adbe will 15 points while grabbing 13 ded spendLayton players ing more time on that aspect of rebounds. their game come Monday, BuThe scoring was rounded by chanan said. Boyd Murray, Troy Johnson d The game started as a and Rod Dixon, who each had dogfight from the start four, and by Stan Banks, Dave and didnt let up all night. Harrison and Matt Peach, who Layton stayed with East and each added two. One bright spot for the Lane-- , actually led 10-- 8 with just over three minutes left in the first ers is even though they nearly quarter when the Lancers were doubled East in turnovers, the seemingly bitten by the turnover Lancers also nearly doubled the East in rebounds, grabbing a bug. Five consecutive steals folteam total of 34 to the Leopards lowed by fast breaks allowed the 18. That was one factor that kept Leopards to jump to an eight-poilead by the end of the Layton in the game, Buchanan said. quarter. To only lose by 10 after turnLayton controlled turnovers for awhile and battled back with ing the ball over like we did run of their own, but means we did some things right a two points was as close as they in other areas of our game. could come until intermission. Sometimes you just dig a hole The Leopards took a four for yourself that you just cant point lead into the lockerroom get out of, Buchanan said. 22-fo- shot as the buzzer sounded. LAYTON The Lancers spotted Easts Leopards eight points at the end of the first quarter in the basketball season opener for both teams Friday, and although the Lancers fought back the Leopards held on for a Laytons Rod Dixon (top) and Rex Brimhall tie up Easts Josh Grant on Friday. experience six-poi- nt Layton builds young team from solid foundation GARY HATCH Review sports editor Editors note: this is the first in a series of articles previewing the Lakeside Review areas four men's b'asketball teams tower of power. He is a strong and aggressive inside player, who moves and jumps surprisingly well for someone who plays near 230 pounds. ' T teams. When I saw him last summer I r LAYTON This season first-yethought he would be a project, but then he went out for football and got in realLayton coach Stan Buchanan is a builder. ly good shape, so all we have to do is Like a careful mason hes shaping keep him there, Buchanan said. rough stones and fitting them into place Perry saw little action at the in a new system laid on part of the beginning of the season last year, but foundation of last years 4A state tour- earned more minutes as the season went on and made a good showing in ney team. Back from that team Buchanan has the state tournament I think he kind of told himself he found two good cornerstones on which to build: senior forward Rex Brimhall can play this game. When hes in good and senior center Dusty Perry. shape, hes very capable of doing some Actually, rather than mere building surprising things things you wouldnt expect someone his size to be blocks, these two resemble small buildboth hover near able to do. Hes got good mobility and ings in themselves feet and both are built can jump well, Buchanan said. six and Both Buchanans big men are strong as solid as the proverbial brick outand because their talents dif- rebounders and good shot blockers on house defense. fer, they complement each other well. Add to these junior point guard Boyd At the second forward spot is sophoMurray, senior guard Troy Johnson and more Stan Banks. Stan jumps extremely well and has sophomore forward Stan Banks to an excellent outside shot. He is going to round out Buchanans starting five. Taken all together the Lancers are a be a good one. One of the problems he young team. Six sophomores dot the and some of the other younger players Layton roster, while just three juniors have is making the transition from and four seniors made the team. playing junior high ball to playing on Brimhall is the teams leading returnthe high school level. starter back and the Its like were accelerating them three only ing player, from last season. years in just one, Buchanan said. Junior point guard Boyd Murray was Though Brimhall is expected to be a rock for this years team, his hands are a linebacker for Laytons football team this year, but will be quarterbacking the anything but made of stone. And there is nary a trace of mortar on basketball team much of this winter. he shoots few Boyd is a strong player and is doing any of his shots a good job of running our offense. He is bricks. In fact, Buchanan says many of his learning more about the offense every key players are good shooters, though day and is continually improving. He is some are young, inexperienced and also a good shooter from the outside," Buchanan said. need confidence. The other guard position is manned Rex is our team leader, and he does it all. He is a. good jumper, a good by Johnson, another good shooter, Bushooter and gives 110 percent all the chanan said. He didnt shoot real well against time, Buchanan said. Perry lives up to his billing as the East, but he is a good shooter and will V 'v ' ar ' - s v ? Jf, .W r v i ,I N v V r 4 , f , - J ' V , VttX-.- V , , , v jt A t X ' s & t ' v 44 ? I , ; ' V r A . t: Sv h s yS- f .. JJ. .. If 1 i jf ' ' v 1 ; i veil 4 Vi - ' - - 4 v :f f I 'A. - - , ' i vv Kh t r-- , - , ; , one-ha- lf s I . & ys ? f Vy'V v 1 yj ' Jr ; Photo by Matthew Brown Laytons Dusty Perry (right) reaches to snatch a bail away from teammate Stan Banks and an East player shoot well for us this season. At about 2 he gives us good size at guard, Buchanan said. mentor expects the ceThe first-yement that eventually binds this team together will come from the bench. We are going to need a good, deep bench, I need the kids to be able to come in and spell the starters and get the rebounds or hit the outside shot. We need to develop our benchs 6-- ar in opener for both teams. Layton is a young Fridays team that needs to develop under a new coach. . We knew going into this season we but players who saw the most action in would be a young team and that wed the East game were sophomore Rod need to gain experience early. One of Dixon, junior Dave Harrison and sethe most important things Im going to nior Matt Peach. have to do is keep the kids up through The roster is rounded out by junior our tough preseason schedule. guard Lonnie Sorenson, sophomore Hopefully we can gain the experience we need by the time league rolls center Wes Nance, who injured his wrist against Easts junior varsity Friaround, Buchanan said. Its too early for Buchanan to know day and may be out for up to Six weeks, which of his team members will be and sophomore forwards Robbie Trujimost effective coming off the bench. llo, Mark Tucker and Steve Hughes. Roy team assumes unaccustomed position, loses opener Royals fall behind early then run to catch up, but can't match fast pace of big, strong Highland team HATCH sports editor LT LAKE Roys basket-ca- m d found itself in the to of racing position and up with a running team to second id up finishing land 4 on Friday, e been y, which has often in against running teams do a last, this year figures to itself. running the Royals got a hard mitiaSalt in to the up tempo game unac-me- 83-7- de-at- t on Friday. e Rams spurted to an early lead, held off a Royal challenge in the second period, pushed their lead to 10 points late in the half the kept it through the remainder of the contest,. The loss proved to coach Ted Smith that although the Royals may run more this year, they are going to have to tighten up on defense. What defense? Smith asked as he reviewed the game. There wasnt much defense in that game. In an early season game like that you just put the kids in there and see what they size can do. right now we stand about in our starting lineup down and Highland gets up the court pretty well, and we and were going to need to make think were going to have to do thmgs happen," Smith said. I thought for the that too Smith said. type of game that was played, we played well, to But were still going to have get better on defense, Smith Smith said. Our kids played hard and shot said. The veteran Roy coach says his the ball well. Theyve got some big kids, team comes up short on the meawill about 7 that they rotate in and suring stick and the Royals out," Smith said. imbalance offset run the to likely The bigger Rams used their they will have against bigger height early to jump to a teams. Were not going to overpower lead in the first quarter, but Roy, of .Paced by some hot outside shoot- anyone because of our lack . 6-- nt ing from Mark Newey came back and tied the game at 26-a- ll in the second quarter. But the Rams gathered themselves for another spurt before the half, taking a 2 lead into the locker room at intermission, and then held on' through the rest of the contest, ' Once we got down, we were forced into playing their up tempo game and just couldnt catch up, Smith said. The Rams were led by returning starter Newey, who burned the Rams for 26 points on the night. 44-3- Rob Sanders, who saw limited time playing as a reserve forward last year, scored 17 points in his starting debut. The Royal offense was also bolstered by three rotating guards, Teddy Smith, Rod Belnap and Craig Miles. Smith added 1 points, while Belnap scored eight and Miles came away with six for the game. The Royals will continue their preseason calendar Thursday and Friday as they play at the Ben Lomond invitational tournament in Odgen. 1 V A V r 1 I, I |