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Show JWws borne badk9. Ibeat Wdber By KEITH DUNCAN BOUNTIFUL After a season opening loss to Layton, Larry Wall boldly predicted his Bountiful club would bounce back. . And they did. , The Braves avenged an '85 loss to the Weber Warriors this time by beating them 38-21 in front of their own home fans. There were many keys to Bountiful's first victory, but Wall liked to single out his team's intensity. "Our goal was to improve im-prove our intensity and the kids pleased me fairly well with what they showed. "We thought we had a good package both offensively and defensively and Friday night showed me that we still do. The key of course was our intensity, really wanting to get after them," said Wall. Bountiful scored a pair of touchdowns in both the first and second periods and allowed just one score to lead 28-7 in half-time, half-time, late in the game, and leading 38-14, the Braves allowed Weber to score off a kickoff return thus bringing the final tally to 38-21. But the big win over Weber was costly too. Bountiful sustained sus-tained key injuries to both of their running backs, Sid Smith and Brett Parkinson. Smith, the all-state returnee, suffered a dislocated shoulder in the first offensive series of the second half. Before that in the second quarter, Parkinson severely sprained his ankle. So for at least half the game, Bountiful played without their two regular -running backs. ' . The injuries to these two are serious enough that it will keep them out of action for at least one week for Parkinson and perhaps two weeks for Smith. Filling in for two good backs like Smith and Parkinson, isn't an easy thing to do. But Bountiful came up with a good one in tailback Sharif Hadley, a junior. Hadley seemingly did not allow the Braves to miss a beat at that spot as he ran the ball with authority. Hadley scored one of Bountiful's later touchdowns. Against Layton Hadley was injured and did not play, but came back against Weber to play all of the game at one defensive corner and most of the contest at tailback. "We were really pleased in Hadley's efforts," said Wall, "And we've got a few kids that can try to replace Smith, though that isn't an easy thing to do." In the first half especially, the Bountiful offense was as potent as it could get. Smith took charge on the ground by scoring three ' touchdowns and Joe Covey improved leaps and bounds over the first week. ''I was really pleased with our offensive line," continued Wall. "Assignment wise they really held them (Weber) out well, I was really proud of their efforts." . The front line consisted of Clark Stringfellow, Mark Fiet, Mitch Fry, Matt Roylance, Doug Rasmussen and Chad Rigby. Bountiful, who finally plays a home game this week against the undefeated Roy Royals, had to feel good about getting past the Warriors without two of their primary players in the line-up. "I: showed some character on the kids' part," said Wall, "Rod (Bockwoldt, Weber's coach) told me before the game that he felt good about his team and that they had played Davis right to the wire. Therefore, I felt we had beaten a fairly good football team. "Weber came out and scored on their first drive and it made us look a bit shaky in the beginning. But our kids stuck to their game plan and executed well and came back to put four straight scores on the board. "They're a hard working bunch of kids and good things will happen for them as long as they continue that habit." Roy comes to town this Friday night having not allowed a single point against either Ben Lomond or Ogden. They beat Ben Lomond 20-0 and made mince-meat of Ogden 48-0 last Friday night. Though Roy's competition hasn't been on the caliber as Bountiful's, Wall was quick to note, "that anytime you've got a team that is scoring points like they are and shuting out opponents, oppo-nents, you've got a good opponent to prepare for." Wall was happy that his club was coming home for a home game finally. "It really makes a difference to come home and play, the support is so much greater," he said. Covey, the three year starter for Bountiful at quarterback. was the only primary back that wasn't cut down by injuries. His poise and leadership helped spark the win over Weber. "I agree with Coach Wall, I thought it was our intensity. When we started to go, there was pretty much no way of stopping us. Things just kept on rolling. "Everyone improved too. Our defense made things happen and the offensive line was confident in what they were doing all night. Layton's stunts hurt us, but against Weber we picked them up fairly well. "We were disappointed in losing to Layton, no doubt. But I thought our practices last week were the key to the whole thing, they were the best we've had yet," said Covey. |