Show 18— The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday September 20 1987 m -- ’Cats crunch Grizzlies in turnover special attempt failed By Shaun McKinnon The Bobcats made a slow and steady march back on their next possession — moving the ball came hard all night for Sky View — taking an d even dozen plays to get to the Logan line On the 13th play a third down and goal Chris SimUns dove in for the touchdown field goal Darrell Stoker missed a second the into seven seconds period attempt but Blair Hodson gave the Grizzlies another chance when he recovered a Sky View fumble witt 10:39 remaining in the half A sack on x though forced Logan to punt The Grizzlies finally took a lead in the game field goal with 4:35 when Stoker nailed a showing on the clock and Logan took the 7 advantage into the lockerroom at halftime after field goal try for the Elliott missed a sports writer SMITHFIELD — Sky View served itself a d couple of wedges of Logan fumble pie Friday night and crunched the Grizzlies 6 in front of n homecoming crowd at Bobcat Stadium Logan fumbled the ball twice in the third quarter and Sky View turned both into touchdowns The Bobcats scored on a third Grizzly turnover a pass interception in the fourth period to put the game out of reach "Those three turnovers in the second half were devastating" a distressed Logan coach Perry Christensen said “You look at it optimistically and say without those turnovers we had a chance to win the ballgame You look at it from the aspect coach (Jan) Hall will and I'm sure he’ll say they did a great job — and I think they did” "I'm so proud of our kids" Bobcat boss Hall said “I thought they responded very very well to the challenge I was very pleased with the way our offensive line performed tonight They were able to push it in every time we got down there in position We felt very fortunate one-yar- good-size- 28-1- near-capaci- ty 35-ya- rd third-and-si- 33-ya- rd 9-- 40-yar- d tonight" Sky View applied suffocating pressure on Logan’s offense — the ’Cats sacked Grizzly quarterback Scott Palmer seven times — and almost neutralized Bobby Pendleton The tailback picked up 108 yards d on 18 carries — his fourth game in as — this scored both of and season many outings Logan’s touchdowns but he couldn’t crash through the wall of mistakes and broken plays 185-pou- 100-yar- Logan quarterback Scott Palmer turns to hand off in game against Sky View Friday said “You nave to do things fundamentally sound yourself to beat them If your’re going to rely on a big play you might not get it because defensively they don’t give up that many” The Grizzlies actually gained 10 more yards — and sustained a 6 than Sky View — couple of drives with some savvy footwork but they couldn't convert the yardage and the big plays into points falling victim too many times to Sky View’s defensive swarm g The game was and physical and both sides suffered injuries The Bobcats’ Jeff Nyman went down in the first half and was taken to Logan Regional Hospital where he was examined for a possible broken leg The proved negative but doctors were concerned 216-20- hard-hittin- ys sports editor 7-- 210-poun- around the field Bobcat line Pendleton took the ball around the right side on Logan's first don and scored The Grizzlies faked the kick and tried a complicated reverse conversion but the pattern for a 17-ya- rd two-poi- By United Press bijg-tim- two-yar- See BOBCATS on page 22 nt - Gaston PASADENA Calif Green rushed for 115 yards and a touchdown Saturday helping The stubborn Scots brought to mind the definition of remarriage: the triumph of hope over experience The Scots’ experience had been of losing to Roy (25-0- ) to Cottonwood (27-0- ) Among Robinson's few words fol Christensen "They’re big and they laid on us We weren't doing our job on halfback swings We should have had a kid waiting but he was flying into the middle That’s a big play for them” Tulsa 5 Southern California dumped No 19 Boston College 7 and No 20 Penn State slammed Cincinnati 41-- 0 30-1- 23-1- ce K 10-ga- 23-1- 2-- 9) 6-- 0 21-ya- rd er In Los Angeles Rodney Peete defeat Fresno threw touchdown passes of 53 State 17-- 0 in a yards to Ken Henry and 51 to John Jackson helping game era Cal end No 19 Boston The Bruins who lost to -ranked Nebraska 3 last College's winning week Improved to 1 They streak with a 7 victory over open Pacific-1- 0 Conference play the Eagles next Saturday against Arizona In South Bend Ind — Tim The Bulldogs fell to 2 Brown recorded 275 yards in In other games involving Top total offense Saturday includNo 4 Ohio State ing two punt returns for 20 teams 4 No 8 touchdowns to lead No 9 Notre clubbed Oregon Clemson edged No 17 Georgia Dame to a 31-- 8 victory over No 0 No 11 Arkansas slammed 18 Michigan State 42-3- pained facial expression worn by the veteran "Silver Fox” as a potential upset unfolded Friday was not that of a man who was entirely beyond surprise Mustang lineman Brian Funk sized up the situation succinctly: “It was just not being ready to play ball It was overlooking them looking forward to Logan Roundy Scoring should have been a cinch But all evening Friday there was suspense Two plays before the third quarter concluded Anderson had hit down to Steve Pond on a that same 5 A clipping call however defensive UCLA second- are these: “Nothing anymore" But the coordinator Randall 6-- blanks ’Dogs International lowing games surprises me and and to Sky View (34-1in of out of gas the especially running third quarter Yet there they were as the fourth a lead they quarter began still up had maintained since the first play of the game But the Mustangs were on line thanks mainly to a the dutch completion on first and 35 from Kevin Anderson to Darrin 4-- buckled and broke under the sheer weight and numbers of their hosts The Mustangs struck for all 34 points in the fourth quarter prompting Robinson to observe “The kids just UCLA d 1-- 0 swarming Scots defense 14 0-- 1 score was 6 It was 14-- 6 at 6:46 It was 21-- 6 at 3:17 and 27-- 6 at 1:59 The shelling didn’t subside until the 1:20 mark Hopefully that was the worst of it for the Scots In the third quarter their size lineman Ramon Hernandez' lay motionless on the field He was carried off on a stretcher and transported by ambulance to Logan Regional Hospital Peliminary indications were that the injury was to the lower back and not to the neck as had been feared The regional opener places Mounwith a visit to Logan tain Crest at next up Possessors of a 5 record last season the 0 Mustangs showed emphatically Friday that with their size and skills the fourth quarter can be theirs “They're a good team” said BL frustrated by a suicide squadron of spirited lightweights who in the final head Scots coach Ralph Juarter as it “caved in" put “They finally outhorsed us” continued Johnson “We never could sustain anything offensively You can’t leave your defense on the field that long and expect to beat any- No the two teams and gave the Bobcats a edge in the overall series The ’Cats travel to Ogden a loser to Bear River Friday for a 4 pm contest next week Logan gave the Smithfield crowd a jolt in the early moments of the game Sky View quarterback Scott Elliott was sacked on the second play from scrimmage and trying to avoid the Logan blitz on the third play he dumped the ball off into the hands of Grizzly lineman Scott Willmore who ran back to the 2--2 do in just minutes” At 10:32 of the fourth quarter the HYRUM — Maybe it’s cause and effect but Jack Robinson a man of few words has many friends Chief among them are his Mountain Crest Mustang football players who rallied around their coach Friday evening and presented him and themselves with a record fourth straight win 34--6 against a brave but “outhorsed" Ben Lomond contingent Not that the Mustangs had all that much to celebrate at the end For three quarters the local Goliaths had The loss 13-1-2 1-- 0 decided to play If they play up to their potential you see what they can By Mike Ingraham body” 8 27-ya- rd about his knee which they wrapped and iced and split end Nyman could be sidelined for a week or more The Bobcats even their overall record to and jump off to a start in the Region 5 race in a league schedule Logan falls to 3 and that only gets tougher with next week's home date against Mountain Crest 34-- 6 winners over Ben Lomond Friday “It'll be a week in which we have to prove ourselves in practices again" Christensen said “We’ll have to rebuild and just let it ache a little bit and get it out of our way Now we can’t afford to lose any more football games" Sky View’s victory also snapped Logan’s three-gam- e winning streak in games between 1-- 26-1- scores (gulp) 34 fourth- - quarter points to win MC galumphed Palmer was sacked seven times in the Grizzlies' Bobcats “We got off to a really shaky start" Hall said “They jumped right ahead of us But our kids really responded They came back tough and Elliott ended up having a good game for us" Logan tried another reverse play on its second-ha- lf opening kickoff return Pendleton hobbled the ball and then trying to compete the handoff fumbled again and Sky View pounced on the ball “We have two kickoff teams and that was our reverse team” Christensen said “We were running the reverse and what happened was Bobby fumbled the ball first and so the timing was off He still tried to make the handoff for the reverse but they were through the wedge already because of the time it took him to get the ball picked up and as he handed it off a guy came from the right side The ball was kina of thrown to (Brad) Jones but he never got it” line the Working from Logan’s Bobcats struggled at first to move the ball and used up eight plays and more than four minutes to push 21 yards to the Grizzly six Ryan Larsen took a pitch around the right side and scored Then on ensuing kickoff Logan fumbled again and the 'Cats’ kicker Thurgood recovered on the Grizzly 37 This time it took only five plays and Elliott — e who had narrow escaped two sacks on d the series — crashed through from the line to put the Bobcats up 21-- 9 The Grizzlies found themselves in big trouble late in the third quarter stranded by a fumble and a penalty but on third down and about 1-- 24-1- all the way back to the Billed the ball Crest 43 where Anderson and Roundy prepared to make their crucial connection And four minutes before that clipping call the Mustangs who had just recovered a Scot fumble turned the ball back over on a fumble of their own So there was room for error on first and goal Dave Smith slammed into the right side of the line but BL’s Jason Campbell rose to the occasion On second and goal again from the 5 Roundy ripped Into the that same left side of the Scots line Brett Huggins tripped him up The Mustangs were still back on the 5 On third down Christensen spotted a new number on the field “Tight end!" he bellowed pointing to M(Ts No 87 Jason Fenton who was reporting for duty “Tlghtend!" Sure enough this time the sent Smith left behind Fenton who led him into the end zone Steve Jensen’s PAT gave the Mustangs all the points they would Mustangs need "They are a very strong-side- d team” said Christensen afterwards “They always run to their fight end” Knowing something and acting upon that knowledge are different operations as the Mustangs showed at the very outset of the game Having worked all week on defending what Christensen called “our patented reverse” the Ponies went blank when the Scots actually ran the play Brett Earl received Jensen's open- ing kickoff and scooted to his right Around the other way roared one of the region’s best players Mike Gomez Earl handed off to Gomez and continued upfield followed by most of the suckered Mustangs Meanwhile across the field Gomez was tearing up the west sideline avoided two tackles and was in the end zone “I don't know of anybody who runs that reverse but us and we’ve run it for years” said Christensen "There’s about five returns we can run out of it and every one of them looks the same If the other team doesn’t run in the lanes we try to sucker them with our guys crossing and pulling" Mike Hansen’s block of John Wood’s PAT attempt should have given the Mustangs some moxie But although the defense had its moments the battle was clearly being See MUSTANGS on page 22 Bucs strike early thump Cardinals - The West SODA SPRINGS Idaho Side Pirates struck quickly using two big plays in the first quarter to jump ahead of Soda Springs enroute to a 26--6 victory on the Cardinals' home turf on Friday pass Wayne Beckstead tossed a to Nathan Coates on the Pirates’ opening drive for the first score of the game ana Boyd Westover hauled in an interception on the Cardinals' first offensive play returning it 30 yards for the touchdown to give Wert Side a 12-- 0 lead Despite being at a considerable size disadvantage up front the Pirates were able to hold off the home team for much of the game surrendering the lone ce 40-ya- rd created by fumbles and penalties against Cardinal score in the third quarter on a West Side “It was the type of game where we weren’t as sharp as we’ve been yet we were able to win it against a strong defensive team" said Henderson “Our kids hung in there against bigger kids and found a way to win the game" Westover hooked up with Beckstead for a TD pass in the second quarter and tossed a strike to Tige Keller late in the game to complete the Pirate scoring West Side resumes conference action next week taking a 1 overall record into battle against Malad coached by former Pirate neadman Craig Buttars plunge by Bill Houseman "Soda Springs is a big physical team” said West Side coach Lyle Henderson "They created a lot of pressure inside so it would have been difficult to play a even with them if we didn't have Same two early touchdowns as a cush- ion" While giving up 170 yards on the ground to Soda Springs the Pirates were able to hold the Cardinal passing game in check allowing only two completions for negative yardage Soda Springs failed on several scoring oppurtunifies in the second 29-ya- 3-- half producing only one touchdown despite fine field position 21-2- Sports report — Utah State dropped a pair of matches in the BYU Preview Tournament on Friday falling to Southern Illinois 5 in an afternoon encounter and dropping three straight to Boise State 5 5 5 later in the day Adding to the disheartening news for the Aggies was the loss of Amy Olsen who went down with a pulled abductor muscle in the Boise State match Olsen joins middle blocker Jane Reynolds on the injured list creating further problems for coach Steve Carlat’s team in that PROVO 13-1- 19-1-7 7-- USU 1-- 13-1- 12-1- area Carlat plans to fill the hole by moving outside hitters Stacy Wheeler and Jenny Salen to the middle and employing freshman Misty Fluckiger to supply outside strength Positive notes coming out of the tournament for the Aggies were the team marks produced in several statistical departments In an earlier match against the University of California — Riverside the squad scored 72 kills 61 assists 72 digs and 18 blocks to establish seasonal highs the conclusion of the tournament the Aggies will continue play on the road heading to Idaho State for a match on Wednesday At Aggies lose two more harriers open season PROVO — The USU cross country team was slowed by the flu bug in their season opening meet at the BYU Invitational on Saturday finishing in a tie for 5th place in the five team field With several members recovering from the illness suffered earlier in the week the Aggies were led by Ty McTurk with a time of 19:21 over the 5000 meter course good for 13th place in the field Completing the pack for Vaughn Courtney s group was Nick! Rokich in 21st Chris ti Chidester 24th Jodi Woods 25th and Pam Rhees 26th Host BYU won the meet convincingly scoring 19 points to Utah's 48 Rounding out the field was Weber St with 71 followed by Utah State and Ricks with 109 points The Aggies next travel to Bozeman Mont to compete In the Montana State Invitational on Saturday Sept 26 Bobcat spikers top field - SALT LAKE CITY Sky View finished first in the SouthWest prep volleyball invitational tournament staged Friday and Saturday at South High School The Bobcats were 1 in the eight-tearound robin event Granger also posted a 1 mark but d had lost to Sky View in competition Also participating were teams from Granite South West West Jordan and Woods Cross “We felt very good about the tournament" coach Calvin Jensen said “Granite was very tough Woods Cross was tough When you start beating 4A schools that’s good for you The Cats finish play with a 7 record They begin league competition Thursday hosting Ben Lomond for a junior varsity match at 5 pm and a varsity match at 6:30 6-- m 6-- head-to-hea- pre-seas-on 14-- pm Padres ring up win HOUSTON (UPI) — Garry Templeton hit his I fifth homer of the season with two out in the 14th inning Saturday night canning the San Diego Padres to a M victory over the Houston Astros In Pittsburgh Keith Hernandez capped a five-rufifth inning with his sixth career grand slam Saturday night giving the New York Mets a 4 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates Hernandez hit a 1 pitch from Vincente Palacios 1 for his 17th home run of the season a career high Rick Aguilera 10-- 2 went 5 13 innings for hu sixth consecutive triumph since returning from the disabled list In St Louis Willie McGee capped a four-ru- n homer and rookie third inning with a two-ru- n pitcher Joe Magrane belted a solo shot Saturday night to lead the St Louis Cardinals to a 3 victory over the Chicago Cubs St Louis which beat Chicago for the 10th time in 14 games began the night with a 1 lead over New York and a two-gMontreal in the National LeagueEast In Kansas City Mo Mark McGwire drove in h nis 46th home run and a single and Dwayne Murphy also collected three RBI Saturday night to spark the Oakland Athletics to a victory over the Kansas City Royals ni 5-- 1-- 1-- 5-- ai 9-- 5 I |