Show I The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday February1 2004 — B7 Round Continued firom B2 Several times in each contest Mountain Crest’s cheerleaders and the student body behind diem — many of them clad in orange bought and distributed by the boys team at the first home region game — began counting down from 10 In unison as soon as the countdown reached one the cheerleaders and students said ‘Shhhhhh!’ and sat down in quick as they could and were completely quiet A few moments later the cheer squad and students suddenly jumped up and cheered as heartily as they could Third-yeMustangs coach Jim Crosbie explained the wildness of the fans “(At school on Wednesday) we had an assembly and talked about school spirit and what’s it gonna take to get people back (to the games) having some fun?” Crosbie said “The student- body got together (Wednesday )and rehearsed some cheers and decided it’s time to come out and have some fun You get that started and everybody’s gonna catch on to it and have some fun with it You know that’s' what high school’s all about I love to come out and coach but I'm from this school I remember how it was and places being packed and the kids having fun That’s something we need to rts ar of his club's recent success an offensive juggernaut the past few games While the Pirates have scored in tljp low 50s fdr the most part this season the scoring average has taken a dramatic jump in the past two weeks Excluding Friday night’s 4 setback at Malad the Bucs have averaged 70 points over their past three games — outscoring by a whopping 70-4-6 margin in the process ' West Side put up a season- high 78 points last Saturday against Soda Springs (78-5- has to do with confidence shooting the ball and hard work a lot of the credit has to go to forward Robert Bingham The last four games in which he has played in Bingham has owned the paint especially thfc glass as the senior has averaged 155 points and 127 rebounds in that span With Binghamnow being teamed in the low post it has helped to free up West Side’s perimeter 60-5- their-opponen- double-and-trip- le game 0) “(Robert) came out the second half of that Marsh Valley game and had a monstrous game” Ralphs said "He’s kind of been on a terror ever since And any time you can get great post play like that it opens things up for everyone “I just think the kids storied shooting the ball a little bit better” WS head coach Lee Ralphs said “These last four or five games we’ve been playing some pretty good basketball” Although Ralphs said a lot Great “I don’t think I was the most gifted at volleyball but it was what I loved so I did it” Thatcher said “I think now I can say track is my new love I’m loving it up here I love my teammates and the coaching is Continued frixhB2 Look out for sprinter Becky Tueller The freshman from Layton (Northridge High) won the 60 dash (770) and is still just scratching the surface as far as potential is concerned “What a great girl” Gensel said “She was a diamond in the rough when she got hue She’s becoming more and more like a diamond She keeps improving and showing me more and more things” Katie Thatcher participated in her first track meet in Cache Valley since her senior season at Mountain Crest two years ego A dominant hurdler in the prep ranks (she holds the state record in the 300 hurdles) Thatcher elected to pursue volleyball at Snow College She didn’t get a chance to compete in track at Snow because the school does not sponsor the sport Somewhere along the line she had a change of heart and transferred to USU and switched great” Notes: Sky View alumnus Josh Stokes ' played a key role in USU’s 4x400 relay win Running the third leg he made up ground on an unattached team and gave the lead to anchor Brad Martin Freshman Ashley Johnson (Mountain Crest) took the 3000 crown at 10:3262 Thatcher called Egan a “spitfire” and it’s easy to see why: The freshman from Latrobe Penn beat teammate Emily Prestwich in the mile (5:1166) and like Stokes spearheaded the win in the 4x400 relay Two Fieldhouse records were established Anna Dolegiewicz competing unattached threw 60-- 1 1 5 in the weight toss to break the old mark set by Maureen Griffin (Pocatello High) in 1997 Niklas Arrhenius (BYU) broke the shot put record with a throw of 61-- 9 It topped former Aggie Michael Mercer’s heave in 1971 ’ sports more time and more ways to save j to f— do” Who’s Larry? Sky View’s pep band was also having some fun Thursday night wen the Bobcat girls took on Logan For some reason they decided to try and rattle the Grizzly guards when they had the ball Each time Libbie Linton or Michelle Betgsjo touched the ball the band members would chant in unison What were they saying? “I think they were just chanting my name hut I don’t khow” Linton said after the ' game It may have started as Lib-bi“Lib-bi- e but it sure didn’t remain thqt way It was definitely “Lar-r- y Lar-ry- ” for most of the game "(Mi yeah I heard them” Linton said “I heard it change to Larry I didn't get it I thought maybe it was die ref but I don’t know” Several band members were asked “why Lariy?” They shrugged smiled and said they didn’t know why: ' Bergsjo dealt with some sort of grunting noise' but it died ' out as the game wore on The “Lar-ry- ” chant continued throughout: How did the extra atten- tion affect the Grizzly guard? She scored a season- -' high 15 points including had seven three rebounds and dished iut three assists in the Grizzlies 46-3-2 win ' Tonight was a kit of fun” Linton said: What? 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