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Show l 1 Sib 6A Tuesday December 24, 2002 AM) lj Lady Vikings dominate weak Mongooses By very, very small. With a student body of only a little over 60 students and a RICHARD SHAW Staff reporter The Meridian Lady transient Mon- gooses have a reputation fa- having a very weak basketball program. In the last three and a half years they have won only three games; thats one last year (it was their first in three years and it made headlines in the big papers) and two so far this year. But losing is only part of the reason they are considered weak. They cant score either. That's not to take anything away from East Carbon who thrashed the Provo schools team population of students as well. on Thursday night. The Lady Vikings played their cards...er...the game just right. They dominated in all aspects of 16-- 2, Hepworth was able to liberally substitute players and give a playing time. In the next two pe-- 1 riods the Lady Vikings only.',, scored 16(' points, but ity wasnt due tor better play by , ' Meridian, but. the fact East'?-- ' . 1 . ian. At the end of the first quar- Carbon had less' seasoned ers in the score was 45-- 8 and small private Utah County school, they started to cheer for them as well as their own team. Part of the Lady Mongooses, problem is that their school is score at all. the'j Meanwhile" Meridian was able to triple . points for the half There were a Chelsey Timothy, seen here driving around an opponent earlier in the season scored 11 points in the win over Meridian East Carbon put in 13 in that quarter. With a 29-- 2 lead going into Region 18 girfsbaskelliidlslBiidiiigs '' of number bright spots for East Carbon in this win besides; the victory it- -: self. Samantha Madrid was the; leading scorer with 17 points.-Thteam rebounded well and executed better than they have in many of their games this year. It was a good end to the calendar year, because the team now; has no games until after New Years Day when they face labiona in a The Lady Vikings, Samantha Madrid, is shown here play- ingtough defense on an opponent earlier in the season, but on Thursday night she was offensive minded points against Meridian. as she scored RICHARD SHAW Sports writer Before the game between luist Carbon and Waterford boys basketball game last Wednesday night, the Vikings head ciKich. Jeff Cisneros was contemplating what his team needed to do to get on the winning track this year. We play very well for a stretch and then we just let down and the other team runs us out of the gym," he said as the crowd Tiled in the Viking gym for the game. I think the problem is that sometimes we don't think in terms of a team; It's just something we need to start to do. One guy cant guard four guys, everyone needs to help out." While that team thinking" did improve during the game later that evening it still didn't get the Vikings to the Victory they wanted. The Ravens took the contest convincingly 75-3It began with the Vikings hitting a three point shot on their first trip down the court. That looked like a good sign, but 8. within a minute the Ravens had gone up 4--3 and from there it went down hill. At the end of the first period Witerford led However, the East Carbon hoys came out with a renewed energy in the second quarter and at first that showed some real promise, but then the Ravens begun to press at both ends of the floor. They took the ball away from East Carbon a number of times down the floor and broke away for fast breaks. To make it worse, even though the Vikings ran down the floor to defend on those breakaways and were putting a lot of pressure on the player 21-1- 0. with the ball out in front, Waterford didn't miss one of those layup opportunities. They lost the quarter and the half time score was 51-1- 7. That Ls the quarter that really did in the Vikings because after that they never could get going like they would have liked to. Alter half time, the East Carbon kids came out and made it a real game for the half. They started to play a more organized contest, non-leag- at the Duchesne County school; on Jan. 7 mid then resume league (day on Jan. 9 against Vifest Desert in a home game at the Viking 17 gymnasium. East Carbon falls in last By defense and were able to protect the ball better. Waterford only scored 1 1 points in the third period while the Vikings put up 10. The score was similar in the fourth quarter as the Ravens won the battle by only the slight margin of 13-1The Vikings did have some bright spots. Tony McFarland scored 15 and pulled down some great rebounds while Austin Preston put in 1 1 points. Preston hit two three pointers in the game. One of the obvious problems East Carbon has is the small number of kids they have on the team. Between the varsity and the junior varsity teams they only have 10 players, less than most teams have just for their varsity. This meaps many of the players must pkty a JV game earlier in the evening and then play much of the varsity game too. Thats four hours ofbasketball in about a five hour period, while other teams usually have fairly fresh players to play most of the varsity minutes. It was the first home game of the season for the Vikings and their last contest, They have played some good teams during the early season run, which will help them when non-leag-ue game they begin league play on Jan. 10 against West Desert in TVout Creek. 1. - . East Carton's Andy Fariaino (10) drives around the Raven's Tyson Break (30) in a CEU non-leag- ue contest last Wednesday men's basketball team continues winning ways By KAREN BASSO v Sports writer ; V final score, of 109-5- 6. This vio- tony brings the Eagles overall pro- season record to 10-- ; to participate in. a shooting frenzy as seven players scored in double figures. .lk During the match up, the Rounding out the double Eagles had the opportunity tol figure shooting roster was play each of theteami athletes. .'Corey Brown with 15 points, $ With the win coming off of a to-- Anthony Grant and, Chris) tal team effort, the Eagles feel Langhornewith 14 points each, j confident that the regular seasori v Mindaugas Katetynas with 1 1 ' will be a success. . andLanoeYateswithlOpoims.) in Leading CEU scoring was ev The Eagles continued to GJ Macon who posted 19 points, prepare for the regularseasrinj Macon shot 3 from the three - by r rJingiu(vvuAnGuuB( Kokand. point line while pulling' down ; tnumamenn thk .nine rebounds., Thiswasthefinalmatchupforj Following insooring was Do- - CEU who willrtturo to the rktHiroerwho scored 18 points.- - court Jaa2to kick offthe regu-He also racked uponesteaknine ';' lar Scenic WestAfhletic Con-- i rebounds and one blocked shot ference Season against Utah j The game allowed the Eagles Vfclky Community gollcgc. j 1. V The College of Eastern Utah jnenl basketball foam contin- ues to. cruise through die TWo of the most recent victories in the chain of wins that the Eagles have racked up came, two weekends ago as die team hosted Hill Air Force pre-seaso- Lady Eagles basketball team wraps up preseason games The College of Eastern Utah women's basketballteam competed in several games during the Dec 13 week- end. The match ups were the final games which the Eagles will play prior to the regular season which begins Jan. 2 against Utah Valley State College. The team comprised of former Eagles played an all-st- ar and UNLV athletes last Friday evening. The Lady Eagles played well and defeated the Sneaker team, 80-7-1. The following night CEU played an team which was made up of former CEU athletes. The 85-6- 5, Eagles easily defeated the bringing their preseason record to 5 overall. BYU all-st- ar 8-- : n. The Eagles 3-- lofHffler . game as they lead the visiting at the halt team, .The second half played out much like the first as the Eagles continued their scoring rally and capped off the pf 50-3- 0 ganjjcwitha " . their scoring' output to six.?' second, quarter in which the Provo team did not play- lineup. those two points almost came on a fluke which was proven by a the game. It was a night to remember for ECH fans who have often suffered through some overwhelming losses themselves. One Viking fan said the next day that they felt so bad for the kids from the ! lot of people it to Merid- ter hi .M ,rt, the second half, coach Ryan Right from the beginning the Lady Vikestook ..it . . ! |