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Show Viking Thriller ... Vikings Come on Strong at Dixie, Not Quite Enough and passed the ball, completing com-pleting it for a first down, allowing the Flyers to run out the clock. STATISTICS IPCG. Dixie First Downs 10 18 Pass - comp 15-6 8-4 Yards passing 138 153 Yards rushing 147 237 Yards rushing 147 237 Total yards 285 390 Punts - Ave. 3-47 3-20 In the final analysis, it was just to much Scott Reber. The six foot 210 pound fullback was met time and time again with vicious head on tackles only to go over the Viking defender for another two yards. A local college will do well to offer him a football scholarship. by Jack Hill It was Scott Rebers power running against Pleasant Grove's trick plays last Wednesday Wed-nesday in Cedar City. "Playing off" to get into the State 3-A quarter-finals, P.G. met Dixie on the field of College of Southern Utah in i what was the most exiciting game of the year. A fumbled pitch on P.G.s j second possession gave Dixie j the ball on the Viking seven j yard line. On fourth and goal, Reber powered in for the I games first score. The try for two was stopped by Viking I Mark Ewell and Tom Strasburg. i " s tackle on Jackson, and behind a wall of Viking blockers raced the remaining 85 yards to tie the score. Paul Hebbert kicked the first of four P.A.T.s to give P.G. a 7-6 7-6 lead. Reber, who gained 134 yards yar-ds during the game, put Dixie back in front with 9:22 remaining in the second period. Once more the try for two points was stopped. The Flyers forced P.G. to punt and on first down, quarterback quar-terback Read hit Segmiller with a 30 yard pass to the Viking 20. Reber carried twice for 12 yards, Frei added three andReber scored his third T.D. from five yards out. Gary Allred, on his knees in the end zone, caught the two point pass from Ence. Jackson returned the kick-off 20 yards to the 40. Then the vikings began their best sustained drive of the game. Strasburg caried for 12, then eight more. Frampton turned the corner for seven on a keeper, Craig Walker added four and Strasburg powered for five to the six yard line. Frampton "checked off" twice at the line, gaining first four and then scoring. Hebberts P.A.T. brought the Vikes to 14-20 with :38 seconds left in the half. IMPOSSIBLE HAPPENS A clipping penalty on the kick-off moved Dixie half the distance to the goal and on first down, the impossible happened! Read hit Allred on the "fly" pattern. Allred took the perfect pass in stride and out ran the Viking defenders for an 86 yard score. The "bomb" made it 26-14 when the team went to the locker room for halftime. The defenses controled the game for the first nine minutes of the third period but with 3:05 on the clock, Frei powered in on a sweep to give Dixie a 34-14 lead, setting set-ting the stage for a Viking comeback. P.G.s first pass of the fourth four-th period was a beauty, a half-back pass from Strasburg to Greg Johnson. Johnson outfought a Dixie defender at the 25, turned the speed on and scored on a play that covered 57 yards. Hebbert Heb-bert did it again. P.G.s defense got the ball back. Craig Walker and Mark Ewell each reovered a Dixie fumble during the game and Johnson intercepted a pass, plays that characterized the fine defensive effort put forth by the defensive team. Frampton went to the air with five miutes to play, hitting hit-ting Russ Robinson with a 15 yard completion and a 10 yard toss to Nathan Carroll. HOOK AND LA TERAL The Vikes got 40 yards on a perfectly executed "hook and lateral." Robinson made the catch on a 10 yard curl, was hit immediately and as he was nearly on the ground, lateraled to Carroll who carried to the 16. Frampton then "drilled" a 16 yard T.D. pass to Brent Keetch. Hebberts toe made it 28-34 with 2:37 to play and the P.G. fans excitedly waited to see if the Vikings could get the ball again. Clyde Huntsman, Ty Harding, Har-ding, Casey Monson and Kirk Tanner lead the charge that held Dixie to third down and eight. Tanners crunching tackles were right out of the "how to do it book." Ray Odett, Dixie head coach, crossed the defense KURT CHRISTESON Longest scoring run of the year, a 93 yard effort ef-fort on a kick-off against Dixie. On the kick-off, Dixies Allred kicked the ball 57 yards yar-ds to Gary Jackson at the three. Jackson headed right to what looked to be disaster . . .no blocking! Just as he was "belted" at the 20 by two Flyer tacklers, Jackson pitched the ballto Kurt Christeson. Christeson gave ground, back to the 15, ran right past two Dixie defenders defen-ders who were cheering their teammates for the great |