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Show Big celebration follows big win p.g. blab By MARCELLA WALKER - You'd have thought Pleasant Grove High School had just won the state championship by the wild celebration that followed our football foot-ball team's win over undefeated and first-ranked Provo last Friday night in Provo. The game had been a defensive struggle from beginning to end. Pleasant Grove was first to score and to the many cheering fans in attendance, it was just the prelude of things to come. However, that first score did not come until there was only about five minutes left in the third quarter. quar-ter. Up until then, Provo would make a little yardage and then Pleasant Grove would make a little yardage and it just went back and forth like that for the entire first half and beginning of the second half. J ust as it looked like one team or the other was going to score, something some-thing would happen, such as a fumble or interception or fourth down and long yardage. The elated PGHS fans were a little bit subdued after Provo tied the score at 7-7 but the Vikings dug in and played good defense for the last seven minutes of the game. Just when everybody figured the game would be going into overtime, over-time, and memories of that seven overtime game with Provo a few years ago were strong, Marc Sanderson San-derson intercepted a Provo pass and ran it down to the 11 yard line. The Vikes called two plays in the huddle and the seconds were ticking tick-ing by as they scrambled to get the two plays off before time ran out. A disheartened bunch of PG fans looked to the :00 on the scoreboard score-board after the second play and overtime was looming pretty big. of the buses and and students waved and cheered and the bus drivers were having the time of their lives. The team bus rocked with very tired but joyous players who sat in their gray T-shirts with smiles on their faces and continually gave high fives to each other. When the buses and car caravan following them reached Pleasant Grove, the bus drivers took a spin down Main Street with the horns going full tilt. We arrived at the top of the high school drag strip and a huge crowd of students and some parents, like us, roared a welcome home to the team who had their own special celebration and then headed for the locker room. Someone said it was too bad that a post-game dance had not been scheduled so that the students and team could really savor the win and enjoy some time together. The students probably celebrated cele-brated anyway by meeting at some of the eating establishments in the area. It was absolutely one of the most exciting games I have ever seen in my life. I was keyed up as high as the teenagers and I loved every minute of it. It brought back rich memories of my own high school days at Ogden High School and our trips to so many fun football games including the state playoffs. Our football coach was Chris Apostol. His son Kip now lives in Lindon with his family. Those were the days of the Little Brown Jug Games, the snake dances down Washington Blvd. following a victory, vic-tory, Chinese noodles at Kay's Noodle Parlor and all kinds of good fun. Yes, for a couple of hours on Friday night, I certainly felt like a teenager once again, and it was nice. But it pooped me out. All that jumping around and hollering is much harder on the body now than it was then. Even though I am not a graduate of Pleasant Grove High School, my husband is. And I am as devoted a fan as if I had been one, though. The entire community should , come on out and watch our Vikings play ball. Now that they have lights for night games it is more convenient conven-ient for everyone to be able to come and it is lots of fun. Just to prove to you how much ! fun it is, the Pleasant Grove Booster Club is asking everyone in the whole town to come to the football foot-ball game in Viking Stadium on Oct. 20 when the team will be playing play-ing Timpview. The Booster Club would like to establish a record for attendance at a Region Eight regular home football foot-ball game. They'd like to have at least 2,000 people to the game. The Boosters will sponsor a barbecue from 5 p.m. tO 7 p.m. in Battlecreek Park prior to the game. The menu will include hamburgers with all the fixins, salads, brownies, brown-ies, drinks, etc. They will pay tribute to a longstanding long-standing Viking fan during the game. The band will be on hand to provide cheering music, along with the cheerleaders, drill team, mascot, mas-cot, etc. Don't miss this opportunity to establish an attendance record and enjoy a great game at the same time. Ill see you there on Oct. 20. In the meantime, don't miss the non-league non-league game tonight, Oct. 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the stadium as the team plays Pineview. But then, the referee ordered another second put back on the clock because PG had called time out before the time expired. I don't think anyone in the stands even breathed as Jeff S wen-son wen-son booted that ball towards the goalposts and then as it sailed through the uprights, there was the loudest cheeringyou haveevery heard. Time was definitely expired then and a dejected Provo team shook hands with our players and walked from the field. It is just as well, there was no room left for them on the field anyway. All the rest of the PG team, all the fans, all the cheerleaders, everyone, eve-ryone, was out on that field hollering holler-ing and screaming and passers-by probably thought we had just won the state championship. The coaches and heroes of the game were hefted up onto shoulders shoul-ders for a parade around the field, fans hugged and jumped up and down and age was no detriment. My throat was hoarse from cheering and I know everyone else's was also. After a long time, we went out to the car and the school buses from PG were sounding their horns, students with cars were leaning heavily on their horns, and so did we. The windows were down in some |