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Show v' " S A r i " - - . - ' " - X- . v. Jl -"' , -- . " -J if fx - N VIKING STEVE HENROID (7) LED THE VIEWMONT wrecking crew in their opener against Alta, j destroying the Hawks, 7-1. Viewmont is considered one of the several best teams in the tourrq ment. :5 WOODS CROSS OPENED THE 4-A STATE SOCCER playoffs Monday in a thrilling 3-2 loss to Brighton. The fast and hearty end-to-end play of both squads maybe hard to outdo during the rest of the tournament. i Vikes And Cats Flay Thrilling Openers i By DAVE WIG HAM Clipper Sports BOUNTIFUL - The last week of prep soccer, for region at least, was a very eventful one. During the past week Region Four saw a forfeit for-feit game, a couple of state playoff games, a game in a mudbath and a very crucial coin flip. HEADING INTO the final week of play Woods Cross and Viewmont View-mont were locked in a two way battle for the region title and even the last two games couldn't separate sepa-rate these two great clubs who then settled for co-champion status. However in order to get the proper seedings for this week's state tournament the two clubs were involved in a coin flip. As luck would have it the Vikings won the coin Hip and will go into the tourney as the number one club from this league. WOODS CROSS went as the number two team and had to down Box Elder 5-1 in a playoff to get into the state event. Bountiful finished third in region play and then lost a 3-1 heartbreaker to Bonneville Bon-neville in a state playoff game. Here is a look at what exactly happen last week. WOODS CROSS 3 DAVIS 1 This is the game that the defending defend-ing state champions Davis needed to win to have a shot at defending their crown. After one half their hopes were still alive as they led 1-0 but then second half goals by Chris Bingman, Derrick Bingman and Todd Benson ended the Darts season. VIEWMONT 7 EAST 2 This was the Vikes first encounter encoun-ter under the lights on their home field and they used the occasion to bury the Leopards. This game was never in question as the Vikes opened up early and never really quit scoring. ON THE night senior Chris Beckman scored a hat trick with Steve Henroid scoring two and Dennis De-nnis Smith along with Alan Ence getting a goal apiece. BOUNTIFUL 2 HIGHLAND 0 This was a game that the Braves could have won easily but they were only able to score twice. Steve Parkinson, just a sophomore, sopho-more, got both goals for the Bountiful Boun-tiful side which kept their state hopes alive with the win. WOODS CROSS 1 EAST 0 That score is actually misleading because the game was never played. play-ed. The East field was unplayable and when the Leopards refused to move to a neutral field the region declared the game a forfeit. "We did everything in our power to play the game but they just wouldn't cooperate" noted Wildcat coach Kevin Rigby. trm I 1 1 trrnr rrrt in II irr VIEWMONT 3 EAST 2 This is a makeup game that was played on the last day of the regular season and it was played in a mud-bath mud-bath in Salt Lake City. This was more like a swimming meet than a soccer game but the Vikings were able to get goals from Chris Beck-man, Beck-man, Bryan Beecher and Steve Henroid to come aw ay w ith the w in and a share of the region crown. WOODS CROSS 5 BOX ELDER 1 After losing the coin flip the Cats took out their frustration on the young Bee club. Box Elder scored first and it seemed to wake up the Cat players who then went on to dominate the game. CHRIS BINGMAN got the equalizer for the Cats on a beautiful i head ball into the top half off net. Box Elder was then guiltf giving up four penalty kicks uij Shawn Lavender, Chrie Bingnj Ruben Simonson and Eric 01s converted into goals. The w in set up a great first rel state match with Brighton and! Cats. J BONNEVILLE 3 BOLNTIFLI Although the score does) indicate it this is a gaj that the Bountiful faithfuls I -they should have won. Bonnevj only had a handful of good cha to score but they took full advl tage of those chances to score:( times while the Braves could oi get a single goal from sophprv Chad Williams. J. i rm rrn rn rn rn r-i i . 1 . |