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Show !EIMS MP 0ERS EFEIDPAY by Jack Hill Pleasant Grove "upset" Orem last Friday, 6-0 in a rugged defensive de-fensive battle on the Tiger's home grounds. When the Viking ship set sail for Orem, little chance for victory vic-tory was given them by some members of the community. This, however, failed to dim the team's enthusiasm and many of those who counted P.G. out before the kickoff, became be-came instant supporters when the Vikes came home dragging the Tiger by the tail. Dale Wright led a grinding ground attack that produced the game's only score. In the second quarter Wright raced 50 yards on a trap play for the T.D. but high snap prevented the Vikes from attempting the P.A.T. Wright carried the ball 22 times for 144 yards, which was 24 yards more than the entire Orem team produced during the game. Although the offense got the winning points the game was "won" by the defensive unit. PG's front four, Carl Christen-sen, Christen-sen, Kay Swenson, Jay Rob-bins Rob-bins and Sam Taylor limited the Tigers to 34 yards rushing. When the Tigers attempted to pass, a great rush by end's Brad Hardy, Ted Karren and middle linebacker Joe Smith resulted re-sulted in seven "sacks" of the Q.B. for a minus 41 yards. This pressure plus that from the front four enabled the Viking secondary to intercept two and hold Orem to 9 completions in 24 a ttempts. Kayle Gillman picked one off to stop) an Orem drive late in the secxnd quarter and Kelly Duke, playing his first varsity game, saved it with an interception inter-ception on the five yard line with less than two minutes to play. Pleasant Grove was forced to punt with 3:30 left to play and an errant snap gave the Tigers fantastic field position on the 19 yard line with ample time to score and win. The Viking defense put up a valiant stand and when the smoke cleared Duke had the ball and P.G. ran out the clock for a very sweet victory. Greg Carson, Brent Pulley, Brent Peterson, Tom Wood plus Gillman and Duke played well together as a defensive secondary. second-ary. Viking Coach Paul Gillespie who is an ex-Orem High player, play-er, was especially happy with the team effort and vimtory. Statistics P.G. Orem Rushing 176 34 Passing 5 86 Total Offense ... 181 120 Passing Attempt 5 24 Passing Comp. . . 1 9 Interceptions ... 2 0 First Downs . . 8 9 Punts 4 4 Avg. Distance 31 24 PI. Grove travels to Jordan High in Sandy tomorrow for a 5 p.m. clash with the Region V Beetdiggers. |