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Show Vikes give out early as Lancers roll 38-14 CUPPERJiM HASKETT Layton's fumbling the second half kick-off and by recovering it on Layton's 18. Two plays later Burn-ingham Burn-ingham had the Vikings on the scoreboard with a crisp 19-yard scoring pass to Allen. Allen was wide open in the end zone. Hank Howell booted the first of two PATs to make it 21-7. But the comeback was sustained long as Layton's Reid and Richard Lovelace, two runningbacks that Hatch called "excellent running-backs," running-backs," tore up nearly 140 yards in two straight Layton possessions to make it 35-7 with 1:17 left in the third quarter. "We had 'em (Reid and Lovelace) Love-lace) stopped several times, but they'd spin off and get eight or ten more yards. They really hurt us," admitted Hatch. Viewmont's only other score came from an impressive 80 yard drive in the fourth quarter, with . Burningham finally going in for the score from two yards out. Bender, Wersland and Jerry Ford were all contributing factors in the scoring jaunt. For the evening, Burningham gained 228 yards passing with 13 completions in 22 attempts. That's nearly 500 yards passing in just two games. Wersland, despite some costly fumbles, regained his composure comp-osure and ended the night with 85 yards on 13 carries. Viewmont came out of the contest con-test with one costly injury. Kevin Moon appears to have reinjured his knee and may be out for sometime. "We executed much better on offense against Layton, so were . real happy about that," said Hatch, "Had we executed that well against Clearfield, we may have scored a ton of points. Burningham Burn-ingham is hitting his targets and Wersland established himself as a runner. "Defensively we felt strong after our game with Clearfield. Now, if it's not as strong as we tought it By KEITH DUNCAN VIEWMONT "We preached to the kids all week long, that Layton is a team that thrives on momentum. If we got on top of them early, it might be a great ball-game. ball-game. "But if they got on top early, we might be in trouble," were the words of Viewmont's Warren Hatch as he assessed his club's 35-14 35-14 loss last Friday night. Unfortunately for the Vikes, the Lancers simply grabbed the momentum Hatch talked about and the visitors were off and running. run-ning. It began (Layton's early take over) with Layton's Troy Murray booming the opening kickoff into the end zone. Next came Layton's tenacity on defense which held Jason Burning-ham's Burning-ham's first passing attempt to a minus two yards. Further on it was a fumble that was picked up by Wil liam Reid and ran in for a quick 7-0 lead. ...... The momentum got even stronger stron-ger too. Tyrone Hess and Jim Bender were held to just two yards in the next series and Burningham's puni was shanked off his foot giving Layton excellent field position at Viewmont's 34. Just three plays later la-ter and Layton was ahead 14-0. Hatch was a prophet, he'd said it could happen all week long. They (the Vikes) were down 14-0 with a little over four minutes gone. "We allowed to happen, what we didn't want to happen," said Hatch. "For the rest of the game it was exchanges of offense." Down 14r0, Viewmont began to show the look of a fine football team. Starting from their own 10 yard line, Burningham, Jason Wersland and Jimmy Allen helped move the Vikings down to Layton's 19 before giving up the ball on a fumble. The only other score in the first half went to Layton when Reid scored for the second time on a 18 yard touchdown scamper. But besides be-sides that, the two clubs played the second twelve minutes fairly even. "We just couldn't capture the momentum," remembered Hatch, "Had we scored on our first serious se-rious drive, it would have been 14-7 14-7 and a much different game. "But as it was, Layton kept it on their side with an offense that executes ex-ecutes as well as any I've seen this early in the season." Defensively the Viking coach wasn't as impressed, saying "it wasn't something we couldn't overcome." For the evening the Vikings piled up two more total yards (33 1-329), had four more first downs and less penalties. "Being quite frank about it, I saw a lot of positive things in our club, but two big mistakes hurt us early on," said Hatch. Viewmont took advantage of VIEWMONT'S CHRIS HALES leaps for pass against Layton defender. Hales has become a pleasant surprise for the Vikings at both tight end and at defensive end. was, we want to find out now." night. Viewmont will get another "I'm glad we are facing strong strong test before league begins clubs right now, because it's bound when they travel to face a 2-0 Bon- to get us ready for a tough league neville High team this Friday slate," concluded Hatch. |