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Show Preps wrap up preseason football By GARY R. BLODGETT S porta Editor Friday night will be the last chance for high school football teams to "work out the kinks" and find out who's the best at each position. The 1987 preseason is just about over. Following Friday's encounters, all teams will concentrate on their individual league rivals. This week will be the "last shot" for inter-league inter-league competition. But that's what makes it interesting interest-ing especially in Davis County where the preseason tilts have given prep fans a look at the south vs. the north or to see what brand of football is being played in neighboring neigh-boring counties. And that's the way it will be Friday Fri-day night. Bountiful and Viewmont will venture into Weber County to play Roy and Bonneville respectively. Clearfield and Davis will clash at Kaysville; Woods Cross will entertain enter-tain Mountain Crest; and Layton will host the powerful Highland Rams from Salt Lake City. All games are at 7:30 p.m. Beginning on Friday. Sept. 18, south Davis County teams will begin be-gin Region Four action. Bountiful will test Highland at the Rams' field in a 3:30 p.m. afternoon after-noon encounter; Viewmont will host Woods Cross at 7:30 p.m. ; and Davis will travel to East High of Salt Lake City for a 5 p.m. contest. Based on results of the first two games, Clearfield should be a heavy favorite to dump the struggling strug-gling Davis High Darts. But don't count on it. Davis is not a down-and-out team, never has been. And when the Darts come to life, watch out. Right now, Coach Jim Dickson is frustrated. In fact, he's one word mad. This could mean trouble, with a Davis High's Jeff Kinard carries the ball for a good gain against Layton in last week's preseason matchup. Leading the attack are Joe Frodsham (56) and Kevin Cottrell (72). Prep preseason schedule concludes Friday night. capital "T," for any team that happens hap-pens to be on the same playing field when the Darts finally put things together. I think it's going to happen hap-pen tomorrow night with the Falcons Fal-cons as the victims. After losing its first game, Bountiful Boun-tiful bounced back last week and looked superb in drubbing Olympus Olym-pus 35-6. Roy, a two-game winner in the early grid season, is tough and will be hungry for win no. 3 to open the regular season. But if the Braves' Mike Bearson and speedster Sharif Hadley live up to their expectations and quarterback quar-terback Aaron Kendrick throws the oval like he did last week, the Braves are going to be tough to beat. It should be a close game, but I will count on the "Big-B" defense to make the difference and predict Bountiful by 10 points. In the Viewmont-Bonneville game it would be foolish to set your sights on a team that has not scored in eight quarters to upset an undefeated unde-feated team with the talent of the Lakers. That's not to say that the Vikings won't score I believe that they will but they won't score enough to upset the highly touted Lakers from south Ogden. The difficult game to predict is ' between Highland and Layton. Highland is without its outstanding outstand-ing signal caller and several other top seniors who graduated, gradu-ated, but the Rams are still a good, well-balanced team. The Rams have looked good so far this pre-' pre-' season and could give Layton its toughest match yet. But Layton has a lot going for it, too. The Lancers are one of the most fired-up bunch of kids ever to take to the gridiron and with a new coach at the helm should make it three in a row. I predict Layton to win by one touchdown. Woods Cross has been improving impro-ving with each game and should be primed for its first win of the season sea-son and I predict that the Wildcats Wild-cats will have something to celebrate, cele-brate, a three-point' victory over Mountain Crest. In the only other preseason game in the area, Weber's Warriors should have little trouble beating East High. I'm giving Weber the nod by 14 points after all, it is my alma mater. |