Show ieua Page 14— The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday August 30 1998 Stingy Grizzlies steamroll Scots Falk busts punt return Stephens makes two TD grabs sports writer For the last four years the name Emmett White hai been synonymous with Ben Lomond football Ben Lomond Emmett White Emmett White Ben Lomond You see how it works And when Ben Lomond marched into the valley Friday night to wage its annual pigskin war with the Logan Grizzlies guess who was in town? Why Mr While of course Alas tragically for the Scots the with 3262 rushing yards in Rman wasn't exactly traveling with the team Instead he was churning and burning across another valley gridiron — specifically the one in the mid- dle of Romney Stadium — while his former cohorts were getting their clocks cleaned at Crimson Field “With or without Emmett we wouldn't have won the game tonight" Ben Lomond head coach Guy Andenen said through a heavy sigh after the final Logan's season resulted in touchdowns with new starting quarterback Kurtis Loveland going for 60 yards and senior tailback Chris Falk breaking d runs Asked about his early success Loveland said 1 was surprised because it was my first game you know? Last year at Sky View my firet throw was an interception so this year I was kind of hoping to reverse that and that'i whit happened” On the evening Loveland completed passes for 133 yards and a pair of touchdowns He had no interceptions 50-an- 30-ya- rd be ¥ i horn mercifully sounded an end to the Grizzlies' 33-- 0 mauling of his Scotsmen Those guys are a very good 4A team They just bod us They beat us soundly In every phase of the game" Indeed The Grizzlies — who incidentally had no trouble with Ben Lomond even before White accepted a scholarship to play football at Utah Slate — employed a balanced offensive attack and a defense to open the 1998 football season in convincing fashion The first two offensive series of a fresh-faced Stephens What’s mote foe himself the called play junior Jason's ride so They were Muring onhave Jason do a 1 told coach to just quick out" Loveland said "That's play he sent in and it worked" On Logan’s next possession Falk took handoff skirted around a first-dow- n and tackle got an excellent downE right field block from wide receiver Steve Wbods ea route to a d gallop Two fonnd lots of Falk later again plays green on the right side and raced into foe end zone from 30 yards out The Grizzlies' offense cooled after 55-ya- rd By Scott Dunn 33-- 0 ah fo pi in A tx 30-yat- that going MM SUfflfl IPflKI JOUrVNi a Bon Lomond defender dnging to Mb anktea Logan right end Jaaon Stephans lunges Into the end zone to score the first of five Qrtzzflea touchdowns In their 33-- 0 shutout of the 8oots Friday night Stephana caught five passes for 79 yards and two TDa Falk meanwhile tallied for 83 of on them)" Falk said Tm really high on 55-LpyuTs 106 rushing yards and broke raid punt returns — the former for a TD — on his way to recording more than 200 yards of total offense Falk was quint to share Ms success with the Logan offensive line which pushed around a Ben Lomond defensive front foat avenged nearly 240 pounds per man They were big but it didn't surprise me (that we were able to move the ball our line this year They’re experienced and with Ferry’s schemes to keep defensive linemen on their heels I think we're Loveland: The line held all night long They gave me all the time I waited" on its three-and-o- ut fo '4k n next-thre- e series and foe teams filed into Iheii respective locker rooms at halftime with the score 14-- 0 When they emerged ft again for the second half Logan V defense took center stage On the first possession of the halt nine consecutive rushing plays most of them backfield left Bea out of a Lomond with a first down just outside line But the Grizzlies the Logan snuffed the Scots’ next four rushing attempts to kill the march with Stephens dragging down running back Kerry line on fourth-and-- 4 Barker at foe the enliven to Logan faithful and return full-hou- "si 3fi se h 10-yar- d 4 rd Loveland capped an march on the Grizzlies' first series with an scoring toss to fight end Jason 64-ya- rd ay See GRIZZLIES on Page 17 Spanish Fork flies by Cats Dons air it out for 227 yards Paul Lambert tPOni WTTOf SPANISH FORK — An ugly loss can turn even foe Sky View s Doug Snow is no exception best of coaches into Zen philosophers — and "You have to put points on the board to win" he noted Mowing his team's 21-- 7 season-openiloss to the Dons Friday ni ght While his team did put points on the board it also fell victim to a pair ofbig pass plays from foe Dons and crucial errors nun a young Bobcat offense to drop to 0-- 1 combo of quarterback Zac Spanish Farit’s Johnson and receiver TJ Leifson pounced on foe Bobcat defense early for touchdown tosses of 16 and 74 yards At die 3:08 minute mark of the first quartet Johnson hooked up with Leifson onu quick slant over foe mid-- ' die which the speedy receiver turned info a scamper and an eariv j4-- 0 advantace "Spanish Fatkuways does a good jobwlth their passing game and they're going to pop a few on you" Snow said Leifson finished the game with six receptions for 129 yards while Johnson racked up 227 yards on pass attempts Keyed by a pass to senior halfback Guy Combs the Sky View offense exhibited their first signs of life early in the second quarter and methodically marched down field to score on Combs' one-yadive Following the first quarter breakdowns the Sky View defensive secondary began to sniff out die Dons’ Seniors Richie Bowman and Brooks happy Hansen picked off a pair of Spanish Fork passes to help foe defense shut-oSpanish Fork in the second quartet The picks went for naught however as the offense bonedI down due to penalties and an inability to sustain ADOukCf strong drive Junior kicker Brett Alvey bounced foe ball off foe left upright from ds out Mowing the Hansen pick-o- ff to keep the Dons on top by seven "I thought in foe first half we moved foe ball pretty good but shot ourselves in fix foot with penalties and ng air-atta- ck 74-ya- rd ' J9 —m IH hMUnWnMVQ iMi Springvtte’a Shane Omar (37) grabs hold of Mountain Crest wkte receivsr Daniel Panes (14) by the tacemaak white teammate Ban Wabetor goes tor the night In SpringvMe The Red DevSs ware called for a penally on the play and the Mustangs scored two plays later i JOUmM bal 1 Friday 29-ya- rd rd Stangs bounce Springville 20-1- 2 throw-idenci- ut Aided by six Red Devil turnovers Mountain Crest takes ’98 season opener By Jeff Hunter sporta writer Down 6-- 0 following a touchdown pan from Brent Neel to Devin Morgan on the Devils’ 36-yar- d SPRINGVILLE — Stop and go Stop and go As if their trip down opening possession of the game the Mustangs rededoff 20 straight paints to pull ahead for good wasn't sporadic enough the Mustangs made sure their season open er against die Springville Red Devils ftiday night lied a similarly lag des penalties i lengthy delays Mountain Crest still managed to beguile the host Devils "I felt like we did good things" MC head coach Dan Cox declared "But we killed ourselves with 20-1- 2 penalties" Although they committed 16 infractions for a total of 188 yards the Mustangs (1-prevailed thanks to a defense that toughened up in the red zone six Springville turnovers (four interceptions two fumbles) and a couple of field goals off the foot of Davis Baldwin 0) "We'll take the win" Cox said "When you come down here and play Springville you got to play good football to beat them particularly early in the year because they give you a lot to look at touchdown run by Eric Watterson A seven-yar- d staked MC to a 6 lead in the first quarter and field goal — which was Baldwin added a set up by his own interception — with 3:35 left in the second quarter Looking to answer before halftime Springville (0-1- ) managed to drive down to file Stangs’ fine But with 24 seconds left Neel drilled a pass right at Mike Richardson who wu 10 yards away from the nearest Devil and the senior line-backer returned the ball 65 yards before finally being brought down "That wu a big play by Mike" Cox said I thought he wu going to get into the end zone for fine jumped and got him" us M the 30-yFollowing an incompletion and an illegal procedure penalty the Mustangs were facing second-and-1- 5 from the id fine with eight seconds left before the end of the half Cox called a time out to set up a final shot at a 7-- 27-ya- rd 19-ya- rd m 24-ya- score but Springville's defensive pressure quickly turned MC’s best-lai- d plans into a fight for survival for quarterback Davis Cox The senior now in his third complete season as a starter managed to dodge Devil defenders until he spotted wide receiver Lane Olsen sprinting across the back of the end zone a step ahead of Springville conerback Ryan dements Cox who had thrown an interception in a similar situation in the first quarter rifled a pus into Olsen's arms after the senior reached foe center of foe end zone "It wu fix same thing that had happened on my pkk but I just dared to throw it again and I found him" the younger Cm stated The touchdown and subsequent FAT by Baldwin left MC up 17-- 6 The Stangs tried to tun out fix final second of the half witfi a squib kick but the officials said that no time had expired giving the Red Devils one more hope which Cox promptly quelled with a interception In the second half the Stangs made ! gOOd on their opening drive thank to a td field goal SEC They got rhythm they got music Who could ask for anything more? While a bohemian boaster slapped out tribal beats on his drum at fieldside the Utah State women's soccer team tuned up for its upcoming season opener Saturday by thumping Salt Lake Community College 5--1 Now as USU’s 1998 campaign approaches (Idaho State comes calling Tuesday at 4 pm) Enos is hoping the beat goes on "We've been working on a rhythm of play a ay and we wanted to see it come to fight today" Enos said following the Aggies' second straight exhibition victory "And it did The team played great" style 0 aggressive attacking frontline and patient ball control out of foe backftekLBofo facets were as groovy as foe sideline - See STANGS on Page 19 dramming Saturday "We kept possession almost the entire game and Macken- that was key" USU goalie and Friday Mate's scripted scrimmage at Ronfoey Stadium gave first-yeUtah State head coicn Dave Arsumten a litfie taste of what it may be like for foe season opener — it also showed Mm some areu ar u situation we could" So how did fix Aggies look? "Things looked a litfie tagged uncertain at times Arslanian answered There are reasons that teqxenedJ We coaches knew fix potential of that But in fix long run foil will pay dividends for us" Utah comes to town for a 7:03 kickoff on Saturday "We are not where we want to be by any meaaabut at least we’re not were we used to be" Arslanian said "We have made really good progress in two weeks And we've got lots of things to dun up" All wu not doom and gloom Friday The hundred or so fans who watched fix scrimmage got to chert iev-- i era! times t ! The biggest play of the night came when senior quar VatmCK Riley Jmsen rofied rigte to get away from pres sure and aired out a pau to senior wide received Robert Scott Scott made a diving finger-ticatch in Ihfi endaouetofoe delight of Jensen and foe crowd That wu a heck of an athletic move" said Jease' tv the offeau left the field t ? Scott Made one of foe hardest bits'tf &e prevent an interception off a tipped pass Ha u Emily Sutherland scored off a smart cross by Gordy Mamie Bartelson scored unassisted and Disha Cracioft got the Agates final goal via an 25-ya- rd u a mystery T don’t know anything about them1 she admit- ted to a curious reporter "Do you?" By Shawn Harrison aajiXa iuJUa two-ho- ur i ttwtf by scrimmage This wu a great learning experience for our and players" said Arslanian after fix scrimmage We tried to make it u mTh ilk a pma The Aggies outshot SLCC 16-- 9 and each of foeir five goals wu netted by a different player: Ashley Cracroft and Jayme Gorily scored on'peaalty kicks program and therefore Mid Arslanian encouraged fiat-stil- l "I think they have a real promising team" Sftarp commented Their transition from defense to offense switching the ball from one side of the field to the other foey do that extremely wdL" first-yea- r See CATS on Page 17 need work zie Hyer said "We had possession so fix forwards could make runs and we could utilize our speed" "Utilize our speed" is a phrase new to the Aggies' vernacular as in the past two seasons foeir lack of it - speed that it— proved an achilles' heeL The difference in USUs speed of day did not unnoticed by SLCC coach Debbie Sharp who seen the Aggies in each of their first three sea- - assist by promising walk-o-n Mandy Butterfield The Aggies opponent Theaday Idaho State is 34-yar- 43-ya- Aggie booters drum SLCC By Scott Dunn sports writer es ' Utah State mtdBetdar Mamie Bartelson boots the bal away hum a 8aR Lake Community Odage defender Saturday during Vw Aggies' 5--1 exNMon tfn See ARSLANIAN on Fags 17 r 1 nmmmwmMiiMwm MMMM i— iiMMmS IPOOR |