Show I 't‘ ' "V V v- — — - - '’ k - r - -Y ' -- fc '- Page 14—Tho Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday December 11 1988 Grizzlies late§t victims as Tribe takes another By Mike Ingraham sports editor "They’re very explicit aren’t they "observed the Preston fan at the Recreation Center Friday She was referring to the unfortunate scraps of sewage being spouted by the Logan High School Rodent cheering section hut her analysis might also appjy to the play of the Preston Indians The Tribe made It explicit that after fonr games they are playing the basfcethantn Cache ValleyTAfter an opening loss to Mountain Crest they’ve slapped Sky View they’ve whipped Mountain Crest and Friday 9 at the they laid out Logan Becreathm Center "We started off good" said Preston ace Alan Bell when asked for an analysis Than they got better At the end of the first quarter the Indians had a precarious lt-1- lead Eight minutes law the Grizzlies went off ue floor cut and Needing down 8 Logan never recovered and saw a two game win streak end The Grizzlies will tackle Weber High School Friday standing 24 Preston with Its four starting seniors was to host Malad Saturday “They’ve got four good players and one great puyer” said Logan coach Larry Comadena of Preston The latter would be the feet 4 senior Bell who began all scoring with a quick Jumper and didn’t quit scoring until deep Into the fourth quarter 28 points Bell rang up a game-hig- h and 11 rebounds and is also credited with supplying at least half the excitement of the evening On nights that Logan’s Todd Wilson is on the floor others can do no more than be that game’s second best player But following Friday’s performance who should show up askingfor an autograph from Bell but Roger Wilson who as a former Grizzly coach and Todd’s dad knows whose signature will appreciate in value I 74-5- 7 41-2- 18-fo- : s t '! r ’5t n Logan's Joel Griffiths (52) defends Preston's Brooks Jensen Friday The Tribe was tough from everywhere on the Recreation Center floor firing S3 percent while sending Logan down in flames 9 Si 74-5- fl f 35-2- 5) er bench to rally past another Warrior turnover and suddenly the hoard read 5340 Sky View Wamsley get inside Urn but tried tqdouble t “when JLyan goto after people he's talpwe t Persistence — job rraftati) i btjllbdli r That’s the vlssson the Skypsy Besides tyro his recurrent boards that' View Bobcats taught the Weber Warriors “good job" included h 27 pout of- affects thfem Thfcy get worrying about 7248 fensive output The mark tied him those kind of things and they oon’t do Friday in a with Sky view’s Ryan Llryenfor as good a job as they would" cold victory Plagued by shooting h honors Which brings us to Eardley added to Weber anxieties at early in the game the Bobcats kept game-higonset of the fourth giving DeVries turnthe the behind Bobcat the impetus firing away finally finding the mart around a dose of Us own medicine on three In a third quarter surge that turned With his team trailing by nine early second-chanc- e hoops Despite sitting the momentum in the third period Larsen offered a with three fouls for what seemed an “We dug ourselves a hole and we had to work pretty hard to get out of preview of coming attractions A eternity to Bobcat fans Eardley from the top of the key managed 20 points on shots from au that hole" said SV Coach Alan three-printrush but the Warriors over the court His versatility was on the first began Wamsley “It would have been easy to to the margin on display early in the game when he maintain managed but they say ‘hey it’s over with’ nailed a pair of jumpers from jut two quick pops by DeVries t and scratched to back into get the free throw stripe outside Dave After a by Eardley llgame” — Is a good shooter Inside “Dave unveiled Larsen the main attraction And quite a deep hole it was with Weber's Jed DeVries contributing to tight defense complimented by accu- outside it doesrt really matter" said rate shooting Another threeyointer Wamsley “If they want to give Um the excavation A rebound bucket by the big center found it’s way to the hoop from the that shot from the junction bp’ll shoot with just over two minutes remaining hands of the senior guard and a quick 80 percent When they backed off and in the half pushed the Weber lead to its steal and layup brought the home let him have it tonight he was able to team within me at UtiL" largest at 0 Second opportunities The other par for Sky like that came frequently for DeVries from cue took a Larsen Jeff Nyman and his teammates as they ended the firing in a bomb of his own to give the View was Nyman who poured in six evening with 45 rebounds to Sky 'Cats their first lead of the game with straight during the fourth quarter View's 32 1:15 remaining in the third quarter See 'CATS on page 15 “We knew the DeVries kid hits the Larsen tossed down a forced I fi come-from-behi- nd er 48-4- 7 34-2- late-bloomi- ng i i' r of his team’s composure When the play sometimes degenerated Into slopdness with no ban control to speak of (Proton had 21 turnovers Logan II) Preston always onlled out of these wild flurries right side up Brad Jones whose brilliant first quarter (day at Marsh Valley helped the S41 Grizzlies gain a win gave Logan its last lead fell at the start of the second quarter Grizzly success depends upon control of the tempo — the slower the better as the seme at Marsh Valley might indicate But Preston refused to waits with Logan How they would respond to their first alien environment — all three of their previous games had been at home — was a subject of euriorsity to Filimoehala and by halftime he had most of an answer Golightly got things started in the and secono quarter with a three-pointfollowed that with another bucket from inside The Tribe was off to the races Logan chasing and almost overtaking with 2:45 to play the IndiansTto-g- f After a Grizzly timeout the Tribe took it away running off 12 unanswered points — a foul shot by Bell a three printer by Darren Larsen a layup by Jensen a flying twister by Golightly (who sailed under the basket and blew up the other side in an acrobatic move mat seemed to epitomize the breezy assurance of the visitors) and a capper by Brent Knapp off a fine feed from Jensen ' While Preston was flowing up and down and all around the Grizzlies were flailing and floundering Wilson whose recently accumulated football honors had almost made folks forget about his basketball heroism of the previous swing unfortunately picked this precise reign of terror to make his season's debut — he had been out with a bad back He proceeded to put up an air ball charge throw up another ahr ball nerve-jangli- ng er loo TUBE on page 15 Mustangs squeak past Spartans extremely hard" said backside “We tried to boards at that Many of Goughtly's grenades were launched from Florida prompting Comadena to remark “he needs to be one of those silos tor a nuclear war He could turn the key without any hesitation’’ Golightly's confidence and calmness in the face of Logan's always fierce defensive pressure was characteristic start ’Gats overcome h u Three hours each day over the summer Bell has been mewing bad news for the opposition practicing by himself or with brother wale at the church house The good news for the larger community is that although he’s spoken with several junior colleges his heart is with the Aggies Bell was an Inspiration but the Indians needed no grand gestures (although they got one on a second-perio- d slamdunk from Bell who couldn’t resist the temptation to swing on the rim perhaps a little longer than necessary The Indians were comfortable around the rim — they seriously outboarded smaller Logan “The difference was a lot of desire" said coach Dave Filimoehala “They wanted to win tonight They played with a lot of intensity and they wanted to beat Logan" The Indians made that dear Instantly when Blair Hodson’s three-pointboosting Logan to a 74 lead was answered immediately with one by Preston's Brooks Jensen Hodsou gave the Indians a hard time all evening especially on defense But as Comadena said the Tribe “had too many weapona” The most explosive was a junior Billy Golightly who provided the other naif of the entertainment at least as far as the considerable Preston crowd was cont cerned The community of Preston this season is ablaze with Christmas lights and it seems those folks have sent an advertising light show on the road in the person of Golightly He lit up the scoreboard for 20 points coming off the Bill Macrisa shorts writer fcAny coach wilg estyfirthat it takes a full 32 minutes ofhard ploy to win at the high school level these Yet days jmntain Crest’s basketball squad made do with only a solid eight minutes of play to down the Spartans of Murray 8947 Friday The visitors were back on their heels much of the second half but held together long enough for Kevin Andersen to sink two free throws in the final seconds to break a 8747 deadlock The Mustangs stand 1 The Mustangs blew it open with a stifling defense that helped MC go on a scoring spree in the second period On the other end of the court Murray could only find the basket twice for a total of five 8-- 23-pri- nt points “We were running a lot and getting a lot of layups off of our defense" said Mountain Crest center Matt Hansen The starting guards Kevin Andersen and Jeff Guymon proved to be the Ug guns for the Mustangs during the first half of the game Andersen finished 25 points (If of with a team-hig- h coming in the first half) and followed don toehtod in 14 MurraywObdy' led all sewers with points halftime lead by The Mountain Crest dwindled quickly as a sagging zone by Murray and sagging Intensity by the Mustangs cuTthe lead to 11 (5342) We didn’t get a lot of turnovers in the first half but they kind of hurt us in the third and fourth quarters" said 17-pri- nt Hansen “That’s what got them back into the game “A lack of concentration on our part hurt us too” The sagging defense by the Vikings stifled the Mustang Ug men Hansen for instance wu held to just two prints In fact the low-poplayers — Hansen Jaceson Maughan and Brandon Gunnell — were only able to combine for 18 of the team's 89 orints on the right ‘They really packed it inside on us with that sone" said Hansen st Aggie wrestlers discover the comforts of home By Bill Macriss sports writer USU21BSU15 Utah State wrestling returned home Saturday afternoon as the Aggies came away victorious in their first dual meet of the year downing the Broncos of Boise State 21-1- ' The young Aggie team a squad that does not boast a single senior on the roster had to fight back from and deficits before finally taking control of the match in the middle and upper weights “The older kids — the sophomores and juniors — came on in the upper weights to pull it said Aggie Head through Coach Mark Harris The meet the Aggies' first home match of the year marked the first time the two teams had met in head on competition this season But by no means were they unfamiliar with each other's wrestlers The Aggies had competed earlier this year against the Bisons in tournament play both at the Boise State Invitational and at the prestigious Las Vegas Invitational The biggest surprise of the meet came in the very first match of the day Pat Higa the who had Aggies’ finished eighth at Las Vegas and was ranked in the top 10 6-- i ( t I 1 ' i er ) t : 5 0 9-- 6 118 — John Andrews (BSU) dec PatHiga 17-1- 6 128 — Danny Tennett ( BSU ) dec Craig Stauffer 84 134 -- Lyle Magnum (USU) dec Brian Spenser 3 142 Todd Wood (USU) dec Tony Piva(BSU)6-- 2 150 Scott Klein (BSU) dec Nathan Sunkees (USU) - 5-- 5-- 4 nationally in his in 180 5-- - — Stuart Johnson (USU) pinned Wade ' Brown (BSU) 1:41 Heavyweight 6 Invitational “That (Higa's loss) was definitely a letdown” said Harris “But he came out so fiat and didn’t wrestle very well" Both teams were able to take two of the next four matches by Pat McDade (BSU) Chris Beck (USU) 1:33 weight winners) and division lost by a decision to Bison John Andrews an opponent Higa had beaten by 14 points earlier at the Boise 17-1- 158 — Jim Peacock (USU) dec Jim Heart (BSU) 104 187 — Bob Codden (USU) dec Randy Miller (BSU) 1 Mark Chef pinned (USU) Steve Utter (BSU) 54 $ second-perio- d pin by USU's Stuart Johnson blew the meet open as the Ags jumped out to an insurmountable 214 lead Boise's Pat McDade ranked third nationally in the heavyweight division earned a second-roun- d pin against Chris Beck but it proved too little too late “That (the 150 to 180ound classes) would probably weight decisions with USU's Lyle be our strongeR area" said Magnum and Todd Woods get- Harris “Ana then Higa up k wins to tie ting — we always look for front the team score at six apiece Um We Just After a win by BSU’s Scott Iood things from them get tonight" Klein over Nathan Sunkees at the weight class j The Aggies resume action Jan 10 when they return home Boise a 94 advantage Save took over to square off againrt Cal ( in only their Three decisions in a row (the Aggies’ Jim Peacock Bob second dual meet of the year Codden and Mark Chef all Meet time Is set for 7:00 pm back-to-bac- 150-pou- Stote-Fuilert- on A t ISU's Tony Pira (top) briefly held the advantage over USU's Todd Woods (bottom) but the Aggie was able to come back to win the 142 pound match Saturday 1 s i |