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Show Competition, recreation and fitness Review ic Falcons, Lancers, Darts net soccer wins Wednesday April 30, 1986 ' Three area high school soccer cess to play from goalie Kevin matches were held in spite of Moore, strong defense from Dave miserable weather conditions FriDean and Sontoya Boongrataung, day. and top midfield performances by n Clearfield shut out Roy, Art Copeland and George Voauc. blanked Box Elder, and Davis Layton evened its record to 2 edged East. in Region and overall. 8 Box Elder is on the seaTuesdays action saw Bonneville hand Box Elder a big loss, son. Weber shut out Roy and Layton Davis 3, East 2 upset Clearfield in Region 1. Also Tuesday, Davis scored a At Salt Lake City, it was big win over Bountiful in a crusnowy, wet, raining and muddy cial Region 4 contest. but Davis pulled out an overtime win in spite of the mess. Clearfield 4, Roy 0 It was hailing so hard it hurt, At Clearfield, the Falcons said Davis coach Bruce Bitner. 'East rolled up a 0 lead at the slogged their way through a sliphalf but the Darts answered back pery field to come up with a Rewith two straight goals one on gion victory over Roy. We had a little rain, a little a feed from Rodney Flood to hail it was very slippery, said Kyle Knowles and one from a Clearfield head coach John Mills. penalty kick by Knowles. The The Roy keeper was just all game ended regulation time at a Lay-to- 2-- 1 -1 0-- 5, 2-- 2-- 1 mud. 2-- 2 The Falcons took a 0 halftime lead behind a penalty goal by Mike Tureson and a direct kick from 15 yards out by Mike snag. With 30 seconds left in the first half of overtime play, Blake Hart scored on a feed from Jeff Pearson to put the Darts up 2 for the game. Kingsley. ' In the second half, Scott Thie-folBitner said fullbacks Trevor scored on a breakaway, and Page, Sam Gardiner, Flood, Curt Brad Mecham followed that up Stoddard and Danny Lattin with a shot from 10 yards out to played heads-u- p defense to keep finish the Clearfield scoring. East from taking away the game. Mills praised his teams outDavis is now 2 in Region 4 overall. standing defense, particularly and from sophomore Lance Ritter and junior Andy Shavers on the Layton 2, Clearfield 0 At Layton on Tuesday, the wing. Clearfield improves its record Lancers rallied behind the play of to 2 in Region 1 play, Don Khopha, Art Copeland and in the Kevin Moore to grab their first overall. Roy fills to win of the season. league and 4 overall. Khopha" got a breakaway on Layton 3, Box Elder 0 the left wing for the first goal and At Brigham City, the Lancers Copeland sealed the win on a shut out Box Elder amidst a hail penalty kick from 30 yards out storm. Mike Fox was the first to for Laytons second goal. score off an assist from Sookson Moore, sophomore goal keeper, Morakot and 15 minutes later had his work cut out for him as Don Khopha scored on a header the Falcons took more than 20 with the assist by .Darren Lloyd. The hail began to fall in the It was a typical Clcarfield-Layto- n second half but Khopha managed game, said Layton head another header goal off an assist coach Andrew Johnston. t. from John Holm to end the It was They Lancers scoring. probably had more Layton head coach Andrew than we did. But we were a little Johnston credited his teams suc luckier than them...They were on 2-- 3-- dt 3-- -1 3-- -2 -3 6-- shots-on-goa- Photo As is evidenced here, every time Roy got the ball close to the Clearfield goal, Falcon defenders were there en masse l. . hard-fough- shots-on-go- al the attack all the time. Layton improved to gion 1 play and are season. -2 in Reoverall. The loss dropped Clearfield to on the 2 in the league and 2-- -2 to repel the Royal threat in Region 1 by Robert Regan soccer action at Clearfield on Friday. Bees. and Cody Ross and Kevin Par- Scoring for Bonneville were sons with two goals apiece. Dirk Hilpert, Jorg Lammers. Trevor Cephalo and Alan Gibson, Robert Walker and meyer scored one goal each for Shawn Craig, with one goal each. See occer 2C young, inexperienced Bonneville 9, Box Elder 2 At Washington Terrace, the Lakers were just too big for the Kall-Bre- tt pa,e Track races take shape as season progresses Davis' Flint excited about Darts' progress Davis sprinters are all young, e as are most of the runners and both groups are improving. The hurdlers are also solid, Flint said. So far this season Davis has qualified six athletes in seven events for the State 4A meet, which will be held at Weber State College on May Kurt Black has qualified in both the 3,200 meters and the 1,600 meters, while Justin Julan- middle-distanc- 23-2- 4. der also has qualified in the 3,200 meter run. The rest of the Davis qualifiers come in the field events: Clay Singley, w'ho has the best throw in the state this season, will compete in the javelin, Greg Willard made the field in the high jump, Brian Jeffers in the shot put and David Snowball in the pole vault. But Flint says the Darts arent through yet. He hopes others will qualify in one of the remaining qualifying h , : sMw,' 'j s meets, and if some dont make the cut for the state meet, Flint says there are several who will certainly be a help in region. Both the mile relay and the sprint relay are made up of three sophomores each and are continually improving. The Darts are consistently strong in the javelin with David Snowball, Scott Robins and Scott Blamires following Singleys lead. Behind Willard in the high See Davis, page 4C . w X ? Is v v. -- ', In the first qualifying meet, the Weber State CollegeOgden Invitational, the Lancers were green, having competed only in a dual Standard-Examin- er meet against Weber. Layton finished 12th overall. At the qualifying meet two n weeks ago in West Jordan, finished fifth with 47 total points. (Weber finished fourth with 48 and Clearfield was third was third with 49.) So far, Layton has six athletes qualified in seven events. - Lay-to- Robert Porter, the Lancer's main weights man, has qualified in both the shot put and the discus. Steve Ford also qualified in the shot put, while Travis Vought has made the field in the javelin. Darrell Gray has qualified in the long jump, Clint Brower in the pole vault and John Wags-tafhas made it into the state meet in the intermediate hurif dles. parent when Jones lists those who have a chance at making state qualify ing marks in their respective events. Some of these athletes have come close to their marks in meets and some have only performed well in practice. Jones thinks three could qualify for state in the high jump: Graig Stevens, Wes Nance and Boyd Mathews. It will likely be just a matter of time (no pun intended) e Layton, page 4C be-Se- Laytons depth becomes ap Weight events bolster strong Falcon scores - MOB Layton's potential untapped in early meets iV iJ? ? Falcon coach While Jamison Kevin might not agree (he has hopes of the Falcons challenging for the Region crown) he will surely agree that the powshot put, discus er field events are the heart and and javelin soul of this seasons team. While the Falcons can boast the highest finishes in the area at the two qualifying meets Clearfield finished third at the Weber State Invitational and at meet. gion His reasoning being the Fal- the West Jordan coaches meet cons who will place high in the they have also faltered in a dual region meet will likely place al- meet against Roy. Clearfield owns a 1 dual most as high in the state meet. Although sprinkled with some solid runners, Clearfields boys track team relics heavily on its weight events for scoring. the And for good reason Falcons weight events marks are as good as anyone in the state's. Clearfields strength in that area even prompted one opposing coach to comment the Falcons might place higher in the state .meet than in the upcoming Re- first-ye- ar 1 1 3-- meet record with wins against Weber. Bonneville and Bov Elder. But the loss to Roy may have added a spark to the Falcons they needed. "I think the loss to Roy may have helped us, Jamison said. It taught the kids they have to work hard all the time and can't have letdowns. We were capable of beating Roy but they really took us to the cleaners. They ran very well that day and we just didn't perform. The next weekend at the West See Falcons, page 2C Royals may be dark horse at Region While Roy may not be considered a favorite for the state tour- nament, the Royals have some athletes state champion-calibe- r and may be a dark horse in the meet. upcoming Region 1 Roy finished a respectable 14th out of 40 teams that scored points at the Odgen State College Inviand tational, garnered 22 points at the Utah High School Track Coaches Association track meet at West Jordan two weeks ago. Standard-Ex-aminerWeb- V It - -- - smMm M ,PT Photo by Rodney Wright Roys Kerry Easthope here anchors the medley relay team at the Weber State Invi- - tational meet earlier this year. Easthope so runs the 3,200 and 1 ,600 meters. al- er While those figures are not frightening the frontrunners in 4 A. the Royal's two dual meet victories (against two losses) include a win over Clearlield. a team with strong track tradition and good marks this season. The Royals are led by distance runner Kerry Easthope, and three other runners that make up the medley relay team: Ken Carpenter, Phil Love and Steve Williams. Easthope has qualified for state in the 3,200 meters and will probably qualify for the 1,600 meters at the next meet, according to menMike Hein, Roys tor. Kerry ran the 3.200 meters at West Jordan and qualifield. He ran the 1,600 at the Weber State Invitational and he wasn't feeling good. Hein said. six-ye- ar 1 meet The relay team has qualified for state and Hein expects the mile relay team to qualify also. Those four, along with javelin thrower Todd Maw and hurdler Lars Ashby have been bearing the brunt of the Royals scoring so far this season. In the bigger meets we pretty much expect to get scoring from Easthope and the relays, and anything after that is a bonus, Hein said. But in the Region meet the Royals may be able to surprise a few teams. "We've got quite a few younger kids, juniors and sophomores. See Royals, page 2C |