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Show Cats Out-Mud Braves, Davis Over Vikes By DAVE WIGHAM Clipper Sports WOODS CROSS - The Wildcats Wild-cats accomplished two goals they had set for themselves last week in the mud. first they downed rival Bountiful 6-3 in a game they had waited for an entire year for and with the win they wrapped up the schools first ever state tournament berth. The victory put the Cats as 3-1 in region play and in a tie for second place with Highland. IN TIIK other league contest involving in-volving a local side the Vikings of Viewmont saw Davis score two quick touchdowns and from then on the Vikes could never get into the name as thev bowed to the Darts 42-6. The league standings heading into the final week of action finds the states top ranked team. Davis at the top with a 4-0 mark followed by Woods Cross and Highland at 3-1. Bountiful and Viewmont at next with 1-3 marks while Last is at 0-4. WOODS CROSS 6 BOUNTIFUL 3 It wasn't even a scoring play but both coaches pointed to one play in this mudhath as the key to victory . "Our defense played well all day except for that one play that they got on us" noted Bountiful coach Kim Peterson. "Our running game was neutralized but the offense came up w ith the one big play we needed to win" admitted Wildcat mentor Larry Eldracher. T1ILS SO called big play took place on the Cats first possession of the second half. To set it up you have to realize that Coach Kldracher hud sent in junior Todd Smith to run his club at quarterback, quarter-back, "it was my decision. Brad, (senior QB Brad Worthen) just wasn't havingagoodday. He's still our quarterback but he wasn't keying his receivers so I called on Todd." Smith, who was easy to pick out since his uniform was the only clean thing on the field, lofted a long pass downfield in the direction of Scott Jensen w ho was returning to action after a shoulder injury. Bountiful appeared to be in good position to defend the pass if not intercept it but Jensen came away with the ball on the Braves four yard line good for a 42 yard pickup. "OUR DEFENDER went for the interception and just mis-timed his leap" offered Peterson. In any event a couple of running plays later Smith snuck over from the one yard line lo give the Cats their six points which was enough for the win. BOUNTIFUL seemed to have things their way in the first half but all they had to show fortheirefforts was three points from a 26 yard field goal from junior Malt Bombard. Bom-bard. Three times the Braves gotin-side gotin-side the Cats ten yard line but on two of those occasions they came away w ith no points. "We made critical mistakes at times" Peterson noted, "twice inside in-side their ten and that was the difference." dif-ference." On one occasion the Braves were called for illegal motion mo-tion and then the othe time corner-back corner-back Kevin Cullimore simply read the play perfectly, stepped in front of the receiver and intercepted a pass. ALTHOUGH THE game was played in the mud neither coach felt it was a real determining factor, as Peterson noted "both teams played on the same field." Eldracher offered, "on a dry field 1 feel we could have scored more than six points but then Bountiful would probably have scored more than three on a dry field." "Our field was a lake but ihe kids ' really wanted to play so we plowed it. Plus with the possibility of a inter in-ter league playoff situation we wanted to get this game plaved" Eldracher noted. There will be no playoff for the Cats, they are in the stale tournament. DAVIS 42 VIEW MONT 6 The one thing Davis doesn't need is help in beating folks, they are good enough to beat teams on .their own. However the Darts aren't going to turn down any charity char-ity either, like most great' clubs they will capalize on mistakes and gifts. PLAYING football on even . terms with the Darts is tough enough but then vou find y ourselves behind by 13 points he-lore he-lore y our fans are in their seats is an uphill battle to say the least Junior Chris Card got the home town Dart fans excited on the very first play of the game as he scampered scam-pered 79 yards for a touchdown on the opening kickolT. Several Viking Vik-ing tacklers appeared to have a shot at Card, who is one of the premiere backs in the state although just a junior, but the Dart just kept running. The kick gave the Darts a 7-0 lead. THINGS didn't get much better for the Vikes as on their first possession pos-session they fumbled the ball righl , back to Davis. The Darts took advantage of the gift as Casey Lloyd lofted a touchdown pass to Card from 28 yards out. This time the kick missed but the Darts were up 1 3-0 and headed for a blowout. To be honest the Vikes did an admirable job in stopping the Darts for the most part on offense, Davis only had 8 first downs and less than 100 yards rushing for the night, but then the Darts went to the air. DAVIS ONLY connected on five pass plays but four of them went for six points each to three different diffe-rent receivers. "They had nine men on the line to slop the run so we threw over them" offered.3 Davis coach to the media. "lnlS y ear we have people who can throw and catch." Viewmonl actually only lost the second half by the score of 7-6 bu by then the Darts had already bum a 35-0 halftime advantage. "They are a good football team" ntea Vike mentor Warren Hatch "those two earlv touchdowns though tooK the wind out of our kids and e w ere never really able to get in the game from that point on." VIEWMONT avoided the shutout shut-out when sophomore Jason Birmingham Birm-ingham hit light end Casey Kle man from nine yards out. The V iK-ings iK-ings went for ihe two point conversion conver-sion but the pass fell incomplete- |