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Show Competition, recreation and fitness H n i 4 r Wednesday January 14, 1907 LI de Statistics lie. KAYSVILLE Okay, but they fudge the truth a "This was statistically the most bizarre game I've ever bit And the statistical anomaly that currcd between the Davis and Highland High School basketball teams Friday night is a case in point. Highland hauled in 29 offensive rebounds and put up 84 field goal attempts to Davis three or four (they didnt even keep a final record of them) offensive rebounds and 44 shots. Those two statistics alone would seem to indicate a lopsided contest And it was, but it was tipped in favor of Davis, which easily handled the much taller Rams 86-6The game was never really very close, except a single Highland run in the middle of the second quarter that saw the Rams close to within 29-2- 6 after being down by eight and nine points most of the first half Part of the reason Davis had such an easy time of it was because the Darts shot 70 percent from the field. (Most high school teams dont shoot that well from the free throw line.) Again, however, the Darts field goal percentage is misleading. We shoot 70 percent from the field, but if you see our shot chart youll understand why, said Davis coach John Robison. Most of the shots we took were layups, Robison said. Many of those layups were the result of good movement without the ball and 6. crisp passing from the Dart perimeter players, including Brad Richins and his heretofore unheard of 18 assists. But while the Darts were streaming to the basket in rapid succession, the Rams, especially late in the game, were content to loft up mortar rounds from and beyond. 20-fe- et was Highland three-poi- three-for-2- from 4 Davis coach John Robison In contrast, Davis has taken only 25 shots during its entire presea- three-poi- nt son. This was statistically the most bizarre game Ive ever been associated with, Robison said. And Highland was never in it The Rams scored the first bucket to go up 2-- but from there Davis went on a 0 run that kept the Darts in the lead the rest of the way. The Darts played like a team possessed. 0, 9-- There is no question we played our best game of the year Friday, including the win over Brighton. Richins, (Brian) Emery and (Curt) Stoddard all had their best games of the year, and Im not sure that maybe (Brandon) Dyer and (Mike) Welling didnt have their best games too, Robison said. Jeff (Pearson) played great too, but he is so consistent its hard to say which game is his best, Robison said. Pearson led the Darts in scoring with 30, Stoddard added 20 and Emery put in 15. Together they had 65 points, one less than Highlands entire team. The Darts now take their momentum Friday down to Woods Cross, a team riding its own crest of momentum after winning at Viewmont in the league opener. The Wildcats stuck the Vikings with just their second loss of the season. Woods Cross has a lot of experience back from last years team and can be dangerous, Robison said. range. nt been associated with." Staff photo by Rodney Wright An inside move by Davis Jeff Pearson elicits a sheepish grin from a Ram defender. Highland found little to smile about the rest of the night, however, as Davis dismantled the Rams 86-6- 6. o LYNN AVERETT Layton flew to an early lead with the help of junior Rod Dixon. Dixons fast hands helped the Lancers as he came up with steal after steal and some easy baskets. 10-poi- nt Review correspondent LAYTON of Elder found the Lancers hostile as Layton blew the Bees off the 8 court Friday night in the Region opener for both The Bees 80-6- Box 1 Layton was up 8 after the first period, and were coasting This was a big game for us. along in the second when the Weve been talking about this Bees decided it was time to play start- ball. game since the ed," said second year head The Bees big man, Kraig coach Stan Buchanan. Mueller, started to take control Its hard to get that first win, and Box Elder pulled to within and I feel lucky about tonight, one 3 at the half. he added. We hit a cold spot during Luck may not have too much that period, and they (Box Elto do with it as the Lancers out- der) are a good team. If you played, outhustled, and outran dont put a hand in their face the Bees. theyre going to hit the shots, 25-1- schools. pre-seas- 44-4- y said Buchanan. Both teams were cold at the beginning of the second half. Neither team could buy a basket until Laytons Dixon hit a jumper with six minutes left in the third. Thats all it took. The Lancers took the que and started to pull away. Wes Nance and Stan Banks dominated the action in the paint while Dixon, Albert Chappell, Robbie Trujillo, and Mark Tucker controlled the perimeter. Box Elder played a stubborn game and played above their 8 record. Their downfall may have 2-- been their attempt to play the game which is what run-and-g- ace to first wi Layton plays best. We do like to run, but sometimes we run too fast and turn the ball over, said coach Bu- chanan. The Bees could only muster seven points during the third quarter while the Lancers scored 18. At the end of three the scoreboard read Layton 62, Box Elder 50. have stressed the importance of tonight (the region opener), he added. Layton played their best game of the season and they played well together with five players in double figures and one with nine. Thats what I like to see, balance, said coach Buchanan. Chappell lead Layton with 7 followed by Dixon with 16, Banks, Trujillo, and Tucker each had twelve, and Nance contributed nine. Game high honors went to Mueller from Box Elder with 22. The Bees supporting cast of Scott Cusick added 17, Kelly Kennedy chipped in 13, and Eddie Ash contributed nine coming 1 The fourth quarter was a carryover of the third. Layton turned on the speed and ran away from the Bees. This was a great team effort, and I was real pleased with the intensity of our guys, said Buchanan. I was worried that we might be too up because we off the bench. The win gives Layton a 6 record overall, but more important a standing in region. Were four weeks ahead of last years pace and were looking forward to next weeks match-u- p with Clearfield, said Buchanan. It should be a good game as Clearfield has won the last seven meetings. But Layton is taking a confident and a quick squad to the Falcons home. Theyre (Clearfield) an excellent team and theyre always tough at home, said Buchanan. Both teams will be in rewhen meet gion they Friday night, and it looks to be a good contest between two well coached teams. 5-- 1- -0 -0 3. ICO Roy turns cold and Clearfield takes win Roy opened its first game of best shooting teams in the state in the and they went seven-of-Clearfield responded with give second half. I think our defense had someand then take. The net result: Roy was left out thing to do with that, but I dont in the cold as Clearfield took its think youll see them hit that few first region win on the road shots in a half many times, Hanthe season hot and then cold and 3I 77-6- 3. The Royals began the game like they began most of their preseason games, running and hitting a good percentage of their shots, and Clearfield began the game uncustomarily giving the Royals whatever they wanted to do. But in the second half Clearfield began to take away some of sen said. Roy got out of the blocks fast, perhaps too fast. Maybe it was too easy. The Royals jumped to a 6 lead after the first quarter, mostly on the hot shooting of Craig Miles, who pumped in 12 22-1- first-quart- points three-pointer- including er two s. 9 Roy extended its lead minutes Roys offensive options and, at with five and the same time, Roys offense sud- left in the first half, but from 30-1- one-ha- lf denly went into the deep freeze. Im sure their defense had something to do with it quite a bit to do with it, said Roy coach Ted Smith. But it also seemed like we had some of the same scoring opportunities weve had in other games. We just couldnt convert, Smith said. Clearfield coach Craig Hansen agreed. We did a better job in the sec- ond half of stopping their fast break and their lobs inside to (Doug) Brown, and we put a little better defensive pressure on them. Plus they werent hitting their shots. They may be one of the there Clearfield began to respond. Eleven points is a lot to come back from on a good team and we were a little nervous, but the difference was we started to play a little smarter on defense, Hansen said. The Falcons began a comeback late in the first half. By intermission Clearfield had narrowed the gap to At halftime we talked about playing good solid defense and not being so ragged and beating ourselves, but we had no idea we could turn the game around as much as we did, Hansei) said. I thought they came out in the second half and outhustled us on defense and really took it to us 38-3- 1. on offense, Smith said. We gave up 27 points at the line. Some of that was late in the game when we had to foul, but a lot of it was because we were slow moving our feet on defense," Smith said. Clearfield finally forged ahead of the Royals at 4 with 3:10 left in the third quarter. 9 at The Falcons were up the end of the third and continued to build their lead as Roy became increasingly cold from the free-thro- w 45-4- 51-4- field. The Falcons added to their lead late in the game by hitting free throws, connecting on 16 of 20 attempts. Falcon guard Bracken Larsen who Hansen said played his best game of the year led all scorers with 22 points, inlcuding 8 from the free throw all-rou- 7-- line. Monty Geertgens and Bill Spangenthal also had 14 points each. And the Falcons got good support from its bench with Derek Freeman hitting for points and tying Spangenthall for rebounding honors with 10. For the Royals, Rob Saunders 5 points, folscored a team-hig- h lowed by Miles with 14 points. Rod Belnap added 12 points and Shane Tafoya had 10 points. Doug Brown hauled in 12 rebounds and added eight points 1 1 1 for Roy. |