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Show Onlv best make it to final four 1 7 111 T , , T Mark Clpmpnts cn j - 17 lead when the quarter ended. PG 1 h .ored 12 unanswered points SS was the ball game. Bear Zer never recovered and he Vikes led by as many as 13 m the fourth period, winning M-45. Fririav's semi-fmal coniet.1 against Judge Memorial another tGam thlf Seof as CoPach Sniputit 'We must have a good shooting night to win. The shots were there but hey wouldn't fall and Judge won 55-46 in Tgame that had the Vikes shooting rcent from the field. Even that low percentage is misleading PO hit four of their last five shots to raise the percentage to 33. Even with the shots not falling, PG was in the game, in fact, they were leading 33-32 in the final minute of the third period. "We're playing their big guys (Richard Holmes and Tom Lytle, both 6 foot 7) man to man and we are not switching off to stop the penetrators," said Allred in Mark Clements scored 7 Mosher was tops with is 'J-Mountain 'J-Mountain View. VanDyke had Flinders 11 and Greg Bahr 10Jl Brad Kitchen putting in 6 and ft! Larsen 2. ore Bahr was the most consist Viking during the tourney junior played aggressive deW while scoring in double figures Jf! game. Bahr led the team in S rebounds during the tourney again, taller opponents. 6 m Mosher had some outstandjn. scoring games and Kitchen was consistent strong inside player ' Another junior, VanDyke, had a tough assignment of defending tk! opposition's best outside shooter VanDyke held Orem's Mike Peterson to four points and Bear River's Brett Payne to a lonely goal, big factors in those two wins PG's season record of 16-8 region 8 co-championship and third place finish at state, star 1985 as a banner year for the Allred-coached Allred-coached Vikings. Just for the record, accord i. j By JACK IIIIX When high school basketball practice started over four months o no one in town expected Ssant Grove to contend or t e State Championship. Get in me sSte tourney, yes, but you have o be mediocre not to get in the lb Sam tournament. But contend or he title was just not in the cardso Pleasant Grove's blue and white VEvnegn the polls taken all season by the Deseret News and Daily Herald failed to ever mention PG. In tad one Deseret News writer went out of his way to degrade the quality of basketball played in Region i by saying that Region 8 basketball is "light years behind Region 7. Well the undersized and underrated un-derrated Vikings earned third place in the 3-A tourney by thumping 4-A bound Mountain View, 68-58, Saturday afternoon in the Marriott Center The win, the second over a Region 7 school in the tourney ., caiunoe the maligned helped salvage the mai.gneu reputation of Region 8 and give the Vikes their best finish since 1977 s second place squad. Pleasant Grove opened the tourney with a 48-46 upset win over Orem, Region 7's third place squad. (See story in last week's paper). They advanced to Wednesday's rematch with undefeated Region 5 winner, Bear River. The Bears had won 10 straight league games and had edged West in the opening round of the tourney. Again the Vikes, Region 8 co-champs, co-champs, were the underdogs, having lost 40-38 to the Bears in December. After a 10-10 first quarter, PG's shooters hit a dry spell and with 3:20 to play until half time, the Vikes were trailing 17-13. Two quick baskets knotted the score at 17 each and Larry Webb, Bear River coach, called a time out and made some player changes with 2:38 on the clock. PG used successive baskets from Tracy Flinders, Kerry VanDyke, Scott Mosher and Brad Kitchen to run 8 more straight points and a 25- descriDing me gcunc h'"" - " , The play worked beautifully and had PG been able to make the shots they have all year, the Vikes would have played Provo for the state championship. "The saddest words of tongue or pen are these four words, it might have been," said the poet. "Might have beens" are a dime a dozen and the Vikes put the loss behind them to tackle Mountain View. For the fourth time in as many games, PG was playing a team that had beaten them in pre-season play. This time the outcome was different. dif-ferent. Mountain View won the preseason pre-season meeting 55-53 on the game's last shot. Saturday PG took a 14-12 first quarter lead and increased it by one, 30-27 at halftime. After three quarters, with Pg leading 47-41, the crowd that was expecting a Mountain View comeback win, questioned whether the Bruins could do it. Hustling play from all seven of the Vikes who shared playing time during the tourney put the Bruins down 68-58. the official tournament program all four Viking opponents have bigger enrollments than PG. Orem 1906; Bear River, 835; Judge, 881)' and Mountain View, 1500. In fact according to the program, PG was the smallest school in the tourney. Coaching at a small school beating three teams in the state tourney that had beaten his team earlier, plus the way he handled his players and while taking an unranked team to a third place finish, earn Coach Allred my vote for "3-A Coach of the Year" honors, Along with assistants, Alan Bahr, Bruce Bushnell and John War' denburg, Allred has developed a tough competitive basketball program worthy of commendation. A team that makes it to the final four should get a player on the All-State All-State team. That will be a tough decision for the pickers. PG's success can be traced to the fact that Allred was able to get his players to play as a team without any one outstanding player. |
