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Show MVP'S I Mathews, Bock Earn I! 1 picking the Most Valuable Players for this ' eaf-s team was no easy task. There were jany candidates, and good ones, from each of the high schools. WHEN ALL WAS said and done though the Tensive MVP goes to Kurt Mathews of Viewport View-port and the defensive award goes to Brian Bock of Davis. Viewmont was the most potent offense this year while Davis was the hardest 10 score on so these choices came a little easier in that light- . In talking to any opposing coach who was jT) approaching their game with Viewmont the I me of Mathews always seemed to pop up. J i His speed made him a very dangerous receiver i from anywhere on the field, and the threat of 1 him going deep seemed to be on the mind of . every coach an( c'eens've kack m tne state. "THE THING about Kurt" noted his coach Mark Pierce, "was that he was usually doubled teamed and sometimes teams would walk off a linebacker to block him off the line. That opened things up for us in other areas of the offense. So although his statistics might not be that great his contribution to the offense certainly cer-tainly was." The stats on Kurt for the year were 39 receptions, recep-tions, despite being double covered wherever he went for over 400 yards. It was the constant threat of Kurt that opened up other receivers on the club not to mention the running game. KURT CAME onto the scene as a sophomore, sopho-more, on the receiving end of seven touchdown touch-down passes, and since then college recruiters have been waiting for his graduation day. Kurt is the ideal college wide receiver. He is 6'2" and has sprinters speed. Kurt possesses excel lent hands and demonstrated this past season his willingness to catch the ball in a crow d and take a good hit. His fully stretched touchdown catch against West was as good a reception as anyone could make. Mathews will definitely turn up in a college program next fall, probably in a blue uniform. For the second straight year, Davis High holds the distinction of having a Most Valuable Player named to the Davis County High School Football All-Star Team. And for the second straight season, it's again a player on defense. LAST YEAR it was Davis' Troy Meacham and this year we have named the Dart's leading tackier and one of their team captains, senior Brian Bock. The numbers speak for themselves. Bock played in every Davis game, from Ben Lomond to Alta. Up until the Alta contest, the Darts had held 10 opponents to a mere 70 points, just a little over a touchdown per game. Bock from his middle linebacker position had a critical part to play in all of that. BRIAN, THOUGH not too big, fought with the same kind of intensity that earned him the vote of his fellow students as Davis' student-body student-body president. Administrators and coaches at the school agree on the kind of get-after-it type attitude Brian possesses. Though it wasn't only Bock w ho can be credited cre-dited with all the success the Dart's had defensively defen-sively in 1982, he w as a big part of it from the very beginning. He was one of only two people who had seen action in varsity his junior season, sea-son, he along with Rick Secrist. Which only goes to show how valuable he was to Davis when it came to leadership. That leadership by the way, went both ways, both on and off the field. Kurt Mathews (83) Viewmont and Brian Bock (65) Davis were selected as the Most Valuable Players. |