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Show ffiats Take 2nd, :Vikes Fourth With Big Win f DAVE WIGHAM lecer Scorls SALT LAKE CITV - Davis ithstixxi a Highland scare to cap-re cap-re the region title for the upteenth me in a row . six to be exact, but le story in these parts is Vicw-cnt Vicw-cnt downing Bountiful 7-0 for a ate berth and the Wildcats of 'csxKCross beating up on East to tcure second place in the region ,. k) the schools first ever trip to a ' a!e tournament. " DAVIS RELIED on big plays to )'. iea24-2 victory over Highland , ;.Su thus avoid a three way tie for k eague title as once again the $iontruph will remain in Kavs-lle. Kavs-lle. iBf Now that all the region games -. JH-heen plaved and the dust, or " Hmld we say mud. has cleared the v. urtsfind themselves at the of ', ,.lct,l.:pviiha5-0 record followed C '.Hid Cross at 4-1 . Highland at -; - Viewmont was fourth at 2-3. -; "iiniiuil fifth with a 1-4 mark and t. w m ihe cellar at 0-5. The top w clubs will remain in pads this '"' lek and participate in the opening U Hind of state football while the two will turn in the helmets f another year. ? VIEWMONT 7 BOUNTIFUL 0 v 'his was featured as a high scor- gamc with both sides putting r.' K bull in the air but some solid -Mense by both sides and a strong kept the score low. t '' BOUNTIFUL elected to receive rf.c e football to start the game and itheir first offensive series they v "Wed the ball away with Tony inks of the Vikings pouncing on from there it didn't take long for h k 10 put up what 'urned out oe'heonlyPointsofthegame.as jnior Bryan Hardy connected P "ght end Casey Kleinman J? nme yards out. Brian Bcecher fn in .Xtra Pint and 'he Vikes led P , less than three minutes '"e ln the game. ,m then on it was a shootout .;s.een a couple of sophomore tt: rorS W"h Jason Burningham . ,dRlngthe Pigskin for the Vikes : n"ivevU2tlful countering with Joey .J'.m. l. oth Posers had their mo-Irni mo-Irni u in the lon8 run it was iSt jsl . m that P'ckc" UP the , . u,yartls anJ more importantly f I j 'it. '9 oBr?!H,LCLLBS had chances to 3bC-.v the first half but each time dar , nied- Viewmont drop-Ve;uPle drop-Ve;uPle of passes which could lile th problems for the Braves ssed Braves Matt Bombard : enH0".-3 ncld 8a' attempt near pnd of the half. lles also plagued both sides with the ikes hav ing sev eral long gainers called back with vellow hankies. VIEWMONT unveiled a new look on both sides of the ball in this last region meeting and at limes it seemed to confuse the Braves. On offense the Vikes went to the shotgun shot-gun with no running backs and on defense they showed a one coverage cover-age for the first time this year. "I think our new look confused them a little" admitted Warren Hatch "but our defense was just the same aggressive bunch of kids that we've been all season." Viewmont had the best scoring opportunity of the second half as they came out with Burningham hitting three straight passes to guide them down inside the Braves ten. However on fourth and one the Bountiful defense rose to the challenge and stopped the scoring drive BOUNTIFUL GOT the football back with five minutes to play and after picking up a couple of first dow ns the Vike defense stood their ground. On a fourth and twelve situation the Vikes stopped Dusty Jacobs on a short pass play to get the ball back. Then it was Billy Bagley time. A year ago as a junior Bill made a fine defensive play to secure the Viking victory and this year it was his offensive play that enabled the Vikes to keep the ball. "BILLY is a great competitor and he wanted to win this game so we gave him the football, plus our line did a great job blocking" Hatch noted. With Bagley carrying the ball the Vikes were able to pick up a couple of first downs to run out the clock and secure the state berth. Both teams played well on defense, de-fense, as the score would indicate, with the Braves intercepting three passes and the Vikes picking two off. "It was a good high school game, one that saw both sides hit hard on defense" Hatch said. WOODS CROSS 28 EAST 7 The Wildcats moved this battle up to Thursday but it didn't bother them since they overcame an early East lead to walk away with this victory. Woods Cross had plenty to be fired up about this game since they knew exactly what would happen hap-pen if a three way tie would result. "DAVIS AND Highland wanted to have the coin flip early so they knew who to scout" Wildcat coach Larry Eldracher explained referring refer-ring to the possibility of Davis losing los-ing to the Rams and creating a three way tie for the title. "In that coin flip Woods Cross won the flip and - - '-' i i 37 "TT ' " .y i , rrri M'i' t - w- fc . - - - ; V; -S" , W- .-' - ,v t : r wn' 9 ' - . ' v i , ' THE VIKINGS bested the Braves 7-0 in last weeks action. ould have gone to state as the .umber one seed." All of that became academic when the Darts beat Highland on Friday, but going into Thursday's battle with East the Cats felt they were fighting for the top seed. AS MENTIONED the Leopards scored first, "we tried a pass play from deep in our own territory and they picked it off. Before our offense could tackle the guy he was at our one" Eldracher offered. But after that 7-0 advantage for the East siders the Wildcats dominated domin-ated this battle, in fact their defense de-fense only allowed the Leopards across mid-field once. SENIOR BRAD Worthen made sure that lead didn't hold up for long as he threw a ten yard scoring pass to Jeff Hawkins and after Mike Chabries kicked the point after af-ter the Cats were even at 7-7. The go ahead touchdown was vintage Woods Cross. East was forced to punt and the always dangerous dan-gerous Ron Gomez got his hands on the ball. "Ron started to the sideline but then made a great reverse re-verse pivot near the middle of the field and simply found the seam. We don't call him Ron on the team anymore we call him "Senior Gomez" because he's earned that title" Eldracher indicated. WOODS CROSS scored one more time before the intermission, this one set up by a Worthen to tight end Rob VanDemerwe pass with Gomez going over from one yard out. Chabries kicked his third point after a 2 1-7 Cat lead. : Midway through the third period: the Cats began playing some of: their younger players including; junior quarterback Todd Smith; who got in the scoring column with a nine yard toss to Scott Jensen.: Chabries made it 28-7 w ith his sure foot. "I WAS pleased with our game.: we played well. The big thing was our line faced a big challenge and they responded and played well": Eldracher said. |
