Show o SPORTS Thursday February The Salt Lake Tribune Osguthorpe Gets Hot Boosts Mountain View Harris Rootenburg? B Whiting 2 Totals 15 40 Three-poi- Ringham goal- s- Mountain View 4 (Yoortwas 2 Johnson 2) 1 (Thorn) Layton 57 Viewmont 50 Amy Voss scored 20 points and Kim MorriU added 16 as Layton eliminated Viewmont 0 Wednesday in Class action 57-5- rolling over opponents in the regular season Osguth-orpe- s performance wasnt needed as much as in the last two games She scored 20 Monday as the Brums shook off persisAt tent West Jordan least she had the help of the Hansen then Osguthorpe was on her own Wednesday after Hansen picked up her fourth foul four minutes into the third BY LYA WODRASKA THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE After beating Skyline Wednesday to advance to the Class state championship game on Saturday Mountain View's girls basketball team celebrated with a few yells They should have taken turns kissing Lisa Osguth-orpe- s foot The senior has been hampered by a foot injury all season but she always steps up for the big games Wednesday was no different With Skyline making a comeback and Mountain View center Erin Hansen on the bench in foul trouble 52-4- 0 5-- 60-5- 0 quarter Osguthorpes string of baskets pushed Mountain with View's lead to five minutes remaining Skylines Sally Johnson and hit two Dana Voorhees added an40-2- 2 three-pointe- other cutting Mountain Osguthorpe scored four with View's lead to three minutes remaining straight buckets in the second half Osguthorpe finished with 22 points 15 in the second half while Hansen and Erin Thom scored 11 each Its the sign of a great player to step up like that Mountain View coach Dave Houle said "Every team has one they can go to and Lisa is ours Shes been that player all season But with Mountain View 42-3- 5 Osguthorpe responded with another basket then made several key free throws She also came up big on defense knocking the ball away and getting several rebounds We always think we have to win Osguthorpe said Were confident and it makes us get the job done It seemed the Bruins 18- -50 But Orem never panicked nabbing every rebound it could and turning them into points The Tigers trailed just at halftime then took their first lead of the night k when April Atuaia got a with 2:42 left in the l put-bae- last year when they lost to Alta by a point in the semis Now they have a shot at Mountain View in the championship Saturday at 2:30 pm Its the final many have wanted to see With the Bruins only loss Coming to a California team and the Miners undefeated Im proud of the way we fought when we were down by seven and had the guts to win Rasmussen said To- The lead switched back and forth until Kristen scored two buckets and Trina Knapp drained a three giving the Tigers the lead It was also Lofthouses 12- -42 15- -53 1J 18 -52 Mountain Vie 14 18 -- M Skvllne ) Mountain View Thom 11 Osguthorpe 22 Hansen 11 Van Dke 4 Cheesman 4 Totals 18 52 Voorhees 6 Johnson 16 Jensen 1 Skllne 6! GIRLS PREP PLAYOFFS or Friday's Games (At Salt Lake Community College) (Redwood Road Campus) Skvline ) ) vs West Jordan ) or Tunpview 230 59-5- 2 turn Lofthouse cut Orems lead to with one shot and t was fouled on a attempt with 43 seconds to go She hit two making it 64- 63-6- 2 three-poin- 184) vs Olympus ) Noon 10 a Place Game Cyprus (12 9) THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE American Fork boys basketball coach Bob Eckles was engrossed in the final minutes of Tuesdays Utah Jazz-MiaHeat game when the words tumbled out of his mouth so Fifth vs Weber 63 for Bingham Orems Jen Chalmers hit a to take long back the lead with 12 seconds Bingham called a timeout setting up Lofthouses drive They just said to go Lofthouse through them said maybe he was distracted Then again its state tournament time when coaches are usually so hesitant to say something that could end up on a bulletin board somewhere that they typically sound like cautious den mothers so this particular remark is too irresistible to be let go "We can beat Provo Eckles said What? Yeah Provo can be beat Absohe repeated lutely Olympus if they get hot can also beat Provo Maybe Mountain Crest too" Looks like they are going to have to state tourgo ahead and play this nament after all The tournament tips off Friday night at four high school sites each staging a pair of games (6 and 8 pm) But before American Fork can get its third shot at Provo ranked No 20 in the nation by USA Today the Cavemen have a long way to go American Fork with two starters (Jon Schaak and Mike Boice) from last finals team must travel to year's Hyrum in Cache Valley to take on Judge Memorial in a 6 p m game at Mountain Crest That should be one of the best games of the opening round since 12-Judge and 11-American Fork are both No 3 seeds 4-- 8 But Eckles isn't too happy about a tourney format that calls for two teams to make a long trip to play on another team's floor If you could tell me one positive thing about it I would like to hear it he said How many of our kids are going to drive through Sardine Canyon to Hyrum to watch us play especially if theres bad weather? Isnt this whole thing about the kids? State officials moved some football semifinals out of Cache Valley last fall when no northern Utah teams were involved However director Evan Excell said they wont alter the basketball format noting that the only school that has to travel a long distance to a neutral site besides American Fork and Judge is Sky View which will play Highland on Provos court This is the concept the coaches and UHSAA executive committee wanted when it was dialogued last year Excell said The coaches wanted more of a tournament atmosphere and they wanted to be able to scout their second-rounopponent so we adopted the doubleheader plan I know it looks bad in two instances with It's something they may want to look at again next year" Winners of Fridays eight games will advance to the state tournament quarterfinals on Tuesday at the Huntsman Center Eckles assessment notwithstand 4-- UH-SA- 4-- an- chored by the home team The eight winners will advance to the quarterfinals on Monday at the Huntsman Cen- ter Of course most coaches and fans would still prefer the old tournament but at least this way teams can scout their second-rount opponents Not that it wiould help the way the season hap gone A case could be d 4-- A Copper Daw n ) Mountain pm 8 Tunpnsogos At MetmUia View High 6 pm Taylorsville vs HiD pm 8 pm ) Hunter Uvton High 6 pm ) 8 pm Hillcrest vs View " At (144) vs Skyline Ringham Uyton ) vl At Orem High West made for at least 10 teams having decent shots at the championship Only Timpanogos Taylorsville Hunter Hillcrest and Jordan seem like incredible long shots but even those five could pull off an upset There might not be such a thing as an upset in this tournament said Welk One theory is that lacks dominant teams because it lacks dominant players Viewmonts Brad Crockett is the only player with a Division I offer he committed to Utah prior to the season but is only the scorer in with a 163 average Another theory that Region 1 was superior to the other two leagues is now being questioned even by Region 1 coaches The league was better in December as Cottonwood Davis and and Layton were ranked Viewmont No 5 at one point but many coaches believe Regions 2 and 3 especially Region 2 have caught up I wouldn't be surprised if a Region 2 team wins it said Bingham coach George Sluga Only two games pit teams with win) ning records: Mountain View plays host to 11-- Hunter and 14-Bingham meets 13-- Skyline at Lay-toThe Bingham-Skylin- e matchup is probably the marquee game I hope they think were some lowly West-sid- e team said Binghams Sluga 5-- 6 vs Jontan Jordan 8 vi Viewmont ) PAIRINGS CLASS At Mountain Crest Jridsyl Games BtaatakCrat High (164) 8 pm vs Murray vs American Judge Fori 6pm At Bountiful Timpview vs Box Bountiful vs Weber Olympus ) vs pm pm High 6 Elder Spanish Fork At Olympus Sprmgvilk vs Fremont pm 8pm ) High 6 pm 8pm At Prove High Sky View Provo ) vs Highland 8 vs East 6 p m pm 5-- eighth-leadin- g 6 9 7 n CLASS PAIRINGS Todays Qwterftmlt Dee Events Center Ogden Bear Rive1 (154) vs Duae (174) 10 am vs Richfield (174) 11 30 am Lets (18-Emery (154) vs Granite (134) 1pm 2 30 p m Uintah ) ) vs Pme View At the I Another intriguing matchup pits the teams of the future Brighton and Cottonwood The Bengals who usually start three sophomores (Garner t Meads Jesse Pinegar and the Lawrence Cowan) take on Cottonwood which starts a sophomore center (Derek Dawes) and two junior red-ho- guards (Josh Neeley and Jacob Watts) That game is at Copper Hills prior to the Copper game A lot of coaches are calling Copper Hills the tournament darkhorse but that could be a misnomer since the Grizzlies won their region and were No 2 in the final Tribune rankings- - State Championship May Be Decided Early 4-- A thin WODRASkA BY LYA f SALT LAKE TRIBUNE According to the schedule Class is staging girls basketball semifinal games at Salt Lake Community College todly and the final Saturday But with Olympus and second-rankeTimpview playing at 6 pm tonight the state championship could be decided early Lone Murray and Peak play in the other semifinal at 7:45 pm Olympus the defending state champion has swamped teams in the tournament with deadly three-poishooting and stingy defense Just as they did a year ago Lindsey Hille and Kristi Fehr have tormented defenses Weber didnt have an answer for 4-- Lehi(14-8)v- s 4 30 pm vs Emery Union 6 pm ) N Sanpete 7 30 pm vs Morgan ) Wasatch (174) vs Snow Canyon (192) 9pm She did all the way to the state championship game 26 12 1117-- 66 ) 9 2118 17- -65 ) McLean 10 Lofthouse 19 PeterBingham son 8 Powell 9 Jessee 5 Steffensen 3 Mason 3 Totals 23 66 Orem Berge 2 Knapp 12 Peterson 2 Chalmers 6 Atuaia 5 Saliby 24 Johnson 5 Totals 28 65 goals Bingham 6 (Lofthouse 8 Steffensen Powell Jessee) Orem 5 (Knapp 3 Bingham Orem Johnson At Copper HiQ High 6 Brighton n Cottonwood (14-6- Olympus m (Dee Events Center) Pme View (At Salt Lake Community College) (Redwood Road Campus) And Eckles says Judge is better than Bountiful which won a coin flip with the Bulldogs and is a playoff host stage doubleheaders Friday CLASS CLASS or (17-3- Noon Todays Games (At Weber State) pm Bountiful 5-- THE1 Championship vs Mountain View Friday Gums I Saturdays Bingham Get out the dartboards astrology charts and stock tables Draw slips of paper from a hat or just play until your hands hurt Any method of randomly picking a winner in the Class boys basketball tournament will probably work as weU as analyzing the matchups Its the craziest thing Its the most wide-ope- n tournament I have ever seen in my life says Orem coach Matt Logan And no one is arguing not even Layton which has the best record and deserves to be called ) the team to beat Layton has certainly been the most consistent said Davis coach Jay Welk tournament begins The Friday night under the format the third change in four years Four host high schools will Third Place Gamine 45 p m 7) BY JAY DREW FAIRINGS CLASi Orem THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE PRFP PLAYOFFS BOYS A Games Championship Lone Peak or Murray or Tunpview ) 330pm (14 Picking a Favorite in the Class o-- Boys Hoops Tourney Is a Gamble 5-- Fifth Place Game Lavton i Noon ) Saturdays Third Place Game Orem(17-6)v- s Logan y BY JAY DREW 3-- 10 Vakaiahi 2 Zoellner 1 Worsham 3 Schulz 6 Totals 15 43 Crockett West Jordan Lance 7 Chadwick 10 Palmer 9 Miltenberger2 Jensen 9 Rowley 7 Wallace 6 Goff 2 Totals 15 53 2 (Roberts) Taylorsville gosh West Jordan 4 Palmer 2 Jensen Rowley) class Provo May Not Be a Lock in In 5-- 53-4- 2 Friday's third 17- -57 ) in the game seemed an impossibility in the first quarter when Bingham took a 26-- 9 lead 38-3- 0 C-- a heroic performance as they built a 25-- 8 within Viewmont halftime lead denying three with 40 got seconds left seca bucket the in Skyline with a basket by Kristen ond quarter But Skylines Crockett but Morrill andefense caused several turnswered with a shot of her overs in the third and John- own son who finished with 16 Amber Nielsen scored 19 points started finding her and Crockett finished with range 14 for the Vikings Even though Hansen was on the bench the Eagles Vlfwmont 11 IS 11 12 18 18 couldnt shut down Osguth- Layton Hess 6 Anderson 2 Beckstead 5 Viewmont Gamer 3 Crockett 14 Nielsen 19 Totals 18 orpe 50 She has been in this situLayton Hazeii 4 Voss 20 Lowrv 2 Pullev 2 ation three times now and McCallister 4 Momll 16 Nelson 2 Davis 7 tals 19 57 she knows what to do Viewmont 3 (Nielsen) goals Houle said is an trouble Osguthorpes extra bone in her left foot West Jordan 53 The BYU signee will have Taylorsville 42 West Jordan earned the surgery to correct it and shes just 80 percent right to play Layton for fifth healthy Houle says place by defeating TaylorsShe wont let on how ville acin Class much it hurts Houle said tion The Warriors are elimShes playing with sheer inated from the tournament desire Its aching after evAlicia Chadwick scored 10 for the Jags and Jill Roberts ery game" No one is doubting that scored 12 for Taylorsville shell ignore the pain for one more game especially for TavlonvtUe (158) ) 11 11 10 13 IS WMtJonim the state championship Tiylorsvillt - Satterfield 9 Roberts 12 For the Tigers to be Bingham Gets a Win Over Orem Continued from wouldnt need 26 1998 Atuaia) d d third-ranke- d in the quarterfinals as Hille scored 22 and Fehr had 21 Iille a junior is one of the best shooters in the state and averaged 15 points in the regular season ji Whenever we play a pickup game Mn still battling through a screen when Hille gets her shot off Olym-jpu- s ( coach Devon Hartley said She Zinas one of the quickest shots in the game t The Fehr averages 17 points and showed she has a lethal three-poishot against Weber draining six She also has the ability to go inside Shell take a game over Hartley said She loves to get in and get the rebound and mix it up Timpview isn't exactly out looking for a shooter either The Thunder- 6-- 0 scorers birds are led by double-digRuth Donaldson and Camille Freeze Freeze scored 27 in the Thunder-bird- s win over Logan on Tuesday Olympus tried focusing on Webers strength its inside game in the quarterfinals and was burned by Lesley Shaws 20 points in the first half Im a little wary of doing that against Timpview Hartley said We dont want to focus too much on one player Weve got some good defensive players and Id rather play them head on In the later game Lone Peak could struggle offensively without Amber Harr who injured her knee and isnt expected to play The Knights have to lean on their good defense which will be tested by Murrays Jessica Dietlein and Lindy Whitley it Tourney ing 18-- 2 Provo is the heavy favorite to repeat as 4-champion But first the Bulldogs must get by the team East they beat in last year's final The Leopards have reeled off six straight wins after a horrible start Olympus ranked No 2 most of the host The year is also a first-roun- d Titans and their brilliant bomber John Hille have won 19 in a row Providing Olympus gets by Fremont at home Friday and the winner of the game on Tuesday the Region 5 champs would meet Provo in the semifinals But coaches say the bottom bracket is not that much stronger than the top bracket which has No 3 Mountain Crest No 5 Timpview and Bountiful last years champ "You put Provo in either bracket and thats the stronger one Eckles said Its pretty even really Mountain Crest coach John Nielsen said he believes Region 4 will fare well with the Mustangs Sky View Weber and possibly Box Elder making good showings As for American Fork which began the season with a lofty ranking but fell out of the rankings and never returned Eckles said the Cavemen could make another run similar to 1997s The Cavemen have played better since point guard Gary Eckles the coach's son returned three weeks ago from a football injury His leg had been broken in two places If we get hot watch out the coach said Provo youve been warned Weber-Springvil- 5-- Girls Hoops Tourney No Game Is Easy A BY LYA WODRASKA THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE All those coaches who say no game is easy will like the Class girls basketball tournament which continues today with the quarterfinals at Weber State A cliche is the truth here If theres a blowout someone needs to look into possible shady dealings The upsets started early with ReBear gion 7 champ and No River losing to Lehi in the first round Carbon the defending champ lost to Snow Canyon ar intah which lost to spent time in the imgs Morgan Richfield was also ousted early falling to Pine View Bring on the popcorn this is going to be entertaining The two big games feature Union against fourth-rankeWasatch Emery and Snow Canyon against second-rankeUnions only loss was to Kearns in d fifth-ranke- d d December and its long list of victims includes the Spartans Emery got its game together later and is riding its own 11 game streak Union's big task is stopping Adnanne Bradley Class leading scorer averaging 21 points a game The Cougars counter with Alicia Uresk and Bev Richens who average 15 and 12 points respecUvely We dont match up very well with them Emery coach Duane MerreU said We would have liked to have met them in the semis or finals but youve got to play them sometime to win" Wasatch-SnoCanyon is a familiar matchup with the Wasps beating Snow Canyon two years ago for the state title and again last year in the first round Meeting them for a third time makes me nervous Wasatch coach Roger Pyper said Theyve got a lot of motives LOOKING FOR A SLOW-PACEWEEKEND GETAWAY? 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This handy pocket guide provides you with history trivia and other information about Utah's most interesting towns and parks $695 Are 372-pag- Tribstore The Warriors are also stinging from the rankings change several weeks ago when Union past them into first They would love to have a shot at the Cougars It should be a game with Snow Canyon's Chanell Rose averaging 15 points and Dani Shaheen 13 The Wasps counter with Carrie Summerhays (16) and Tasha d g Wid-diso- n (13) The first game pits Lehi against Pine View The Pioneers had to beat Ben Lomond to get into the tournament before upsetting the Bears Pine View Region 9s second seed should give them a good game North Sanpete which tied with Emery for the Region 8 title but won the coin flip takes on Morgan in another even battle Kristen Bailey averages 12 points and Jenny Aagard 14 for the Hawks The Trojans are a balanced team with several scorers close to double figures Full content of The Salt Lake Tribune is available daily on the Web wwwsltribcom Available at 143 S Main Salt Lake City 50 stars and stripes - $1 295 Buy yours at the Tribstore 1 43 S Main Mezzanine Level 1 POOR i ! |