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Show Bryce Valley Mustangs Upset Escalante In Overtime By John Yardley The Bryce Valley Mustangs upped their league record to 2-1 Friday with a tingling 80-76 victory vic-tory over an ever improving Escalante Es-calante team in overtime. The win sets up a showdown with another big rival, Panguitch, this Friday on the PHS hardwoods. It will be an interesting matchup due to the fact Valley beat Panguitch Pangui-tch at Panguitch, BV defeated Valley Val-ley at Valley, Panguitch ran past Escalante at Escalante and Escalante barely missed the win over BV at Tropic. If that makes sense, and Region 12 basketball seldom does, then you might see how very big the game tomorrow night will be with both teams standing at 2-1 in league play. The winner of Pan-guitch-Bryce Valley may just very well be at least the second place winner in the division. Piute still looms as the league favorite. They gave the Mustangs their only loss of the season. In the thriller at Tropic, BV led at half time, 36-31, but the Moquis outscored the Mustangs 17-9 in the third to take the lead 48-45. Bryce Valley rallied back to take the lead when Brian Roundy bit a two- pointer to tie the game and was fouled. The free-throw would not fall and the game went to overtime. Bryce Valley played great in the o.t, jumping up be eight points, then coasting to the 80-76 final. Both teams had balanced scoring with Brady Syrett pumping in 23, Cary "Cannon" Clark 20, Eric Stout 16, and Tod Feltner 10 for the Mustangs. Star forward, Trevor Stewart went down early in the game with an injury. For Escalante, Todd Olsen, who has been very consistent of late drilled 19, including three 3-point-ers, Mat Liston hit for 19, and Brian Roundy, who also hit three "homers" scored 16. Escalante plays host to Piute and Monument Valley this weekend. week-end. Panguitch ran past Wayne 71-51 in, perhaps their best game of the year. PHS led 42-13 at half-time as they hit almost everything, and even better, played great defense. Clint Barney swished six, that's right six, three-pointers to lead the Bobcats. He finished with 20 on the night, but he was not the only hero. Travis Hatch with 14, David Tebbs with 10, Chris Henrie with 10, and Jason Orton with 12, who hit 5 for 5 at one point, all played very, very well. Panguitch played at Enterprise on Saturday, taking it on the chin 72-41. Barney was the only double figure scorer with 11. The Bobcats were cold as ice from the field and Enterprise is the odds on favorite to win it all again in '88. Escalante clobbered Fredonia 77-43 77-43 on Saturday. Mat Liston took over the 3-point gunning this time with three and a total of 21 points. Todd Olsen shelled in 16, Martell Simons, 12 and freshman Gary Gledhill scored 10. Bryce Valley continued their winning ways on Saturday as they traveled to East Carbon and came out victorious 77-66. Cannonball Clark ripped down 19 rebounds and scored 23 points for the Mustangs, while Eric Stout yanked down 20 rebounds and scored 22 counters. Brady Syrett hit for 10 points and Tod Feltner had his best scoring game with 14. |