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Show Vikings tie for number one in region He didn't score, but Mark Clements again demonstrated his value as a sticky defender and offensive general in directing the Viking attack. Campagni was the top scorer in the game with 20 while big Scott Carter had 15 and Skinner put in 12 for the Dino's. The win clinched part of the Region 8 Championship for PG and when Springville beat Spanish Fork, 66-61, the Vikes and Red Devils became co-champions. Since Springville edged PG twice by two points, the Red Devils go into the State 3-A tourney as the number one team. JUNIOR VARSITY A 24 point fourth quarter explosion ex-plosion boosted the Viking junior varsity to a 63-42 win over Carbon. The seasons last game for the jayvee was tight going into the final period when the Vikes outscored the visitors 24-9. When the Dino's started to foul, the Vikes hit 10 of 11 in the final 8 minutes to ice the win. Brent Larson, who also played well in the varsity game, had 17 points in three quarters of play with Nick Starr adding 13, Cody Bell 10, Mark Bronson 9 and Jim Debenham 8. The Alan Bahr coached jayvee finished Region 8 play with an 8-2 record. SOPHOMORE PG's sophomores broke open a 35-35 35-35 game in the final 8 minutes to notch their 10th straight league win, 55-47 over Carbon Tuesday. Three Vikes scored in double figures with Cody Bell tops with 14. Evan Thomas had 12, Todd Simmons Sim-mons 11 with Jeff Harris adding 7. Marcellus Cowper, a quick left handed Dino guard, was the games leading scorer with 16. Cowper demonstrated why he'll be a player to watch the next two years with his leaping ability and outside shooting. Coaches Bruce Bushnell and John Wardenburg led the team to a perfect 10-0 Region 8 record and a 15-4 season mark. Monday PG played Orem in the opening round of the 3-A Tourney. (See story this page). By JACK HILL Region Championships do not come easily. Neither do co-championships. co-championships. With 1:37 left to play in regulation last Tuesday, Pleasant Grove trailed an emotionally charged Carbon squad, 55-50. A majority of Viking fans had written off the Vikes and were already looking forward to going to State as the third place team from Region 8. The coaching staff may have had doubts but if the players were thinking defeat, they didn't show it in their play. With the Carbon bench and fans already celebrating the apparent win, Greg Bahr, as he frequently does, was in the right place at the right time. The junior forward grabbed a missed shot, went up and after being fouled, put the ball in the basket. Bahr buried the free throw to complete the three point play that left the Vikes down by three. But suddenly, the crowd sensed that the likelihood of a dramatic finish was now not only possible, but highly probable. Scott Mosher, who would later tie the game with a clutch jump shot was fouled and hit a free throw to pull the Vikes within two. Now it was time for a bit of luck; a break. Arnold Skinner unwillingly provided that break after he was fouled (a ticky foul according to the PG coaches) he missed! Skinner had made 8 of 8 from the line to that point in the game, buthis ninth attmept kicked off the iron and PG got the rebound. Patiently the Vikes worked the ball against the Carbon zone to set up Mosher's pressure 15 footer that tied the score at 56 sending the game into overtime. on the one point lead. The senior guard never flinched, and the net hardly rippled as he made both ends of the one and one. Crowd noise reached season high levels and lifted Vikings defenders. Seconds later, following a soaring rebound, VanDyke was fouled and repeated Flinders cool shooting performance and suddenly, the Dinos were out of it with PG leading 64-59. Bahr capped the scoring on a break-away lay up that he turned into another three point play to make a close game look lopsided in the scorebook. During the first half, PG had raced to a 32-23 lead but the see-saw game featured big see's and big saw's! Carbon scored the first 6 points of the third period to prompt Viking coach, Keith Allred, into calling a hasty timeout. Leading by three, PG came back with an 8 point run that was only halted when Darrell Stewart, former for-mer Payson player and now Carbon head coach, called time to slow the Vikes scoring streak. That 11 point margin, 40-29 looked good, but not for long. During the next nine minutes, the Dino's outscored PG 20-8 and took the lead for the first time at 49-48. Brad Kitchen and Brent Larson, PG's big men, played very well and did a great job against the bigger Dino front line. Kitchen had 7 points and more importantly, 11 rebounds. Larson picked up 6 key points and 6 rebounds. Mosher got the lead back for the Vikes at 50-49 but then the Dino's ran six straight and with the clock down to 1:37, the game seemed to be out of reach until Bahr's three point play. Mosher was high with 18, Van Dyke had 16 and Flinders 12. At the foul line PG hit 15 of 19. Carbon scored first in the extra three minutes with Frank Campagni Cam-pagni drilling a 12 footer. Carbon's brutal inside motion offense that uses pick after pick by the three big Dino's, was effective and Carbon was very deliberate in their shot selection. . Afteit tnissing his last three shots in regulation, Kerry VanDyke got the hot hand and hit two jumpers that put the Vikes ahead 60-58. Carbon would add a free throw from sophomore Scott Revas to make it a one point game, but the Dino scoring machine would score no more in this game. Now it was "white knuckle time" and pressure mounted as Tracy Flinders stepped to the line to build |