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Wednesday, December 19, 2012<br />
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<strong>Sanpete</strong> <strong>Messenger</strong><br />
Lady Hawks earn overtime win against Provo<br />
By Bryan Strain<br />
Staff writer<br />
MT. PLEASANT—Through Dec. 11,<br />
the Lady Hawks girls basketball team tallied<br />
three victories and two defeats in December<br />
play, including an away game win against<br />
the Class 4A Provo Bulldogs Dec. 4.<br />
The Lady Hawks started strong against<br />
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The Bulldogs fought back, outscoring<br />
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North <strong>Sanpete</strong> still walked away with a 24-<br />
21 lead at halftime.<br />
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the lead, but they couldn’t keep the Lady<br />
Hawks down.<br />
The score was tied at 44 at the end of the<br />
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outscored the Bulldogs 6-4 securing the victory<br />
by a basket.<br />
Taylor Gordon led the Lady Hawks in<br />
scoring with 17 points including three baskets<br />
from 3-point range. Taylor just barely<br />
beat teammate McKenna Birch who scored<br />
15 points with two baskets from 3-point<br />
range.<br />
After the Provo victory, the Lady Hawks<br />
played in the Juan Diego Christmas Classic.<br />
The Lady Hawks came out strong<br />
against the Juan Diego Soaring Eagle Dec.<br />
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one point.<br />
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the half by two at 25-23.<br />
But the Soaring Eagle took over, making<br />
No. 20 Snow downed by<br />
SLCC in first league loss<br />
By Doug Johnson<br />
Staff Writer<br />
EPHRAIM—The No.<br />
20-ranked Snow College<br />
Badgers overwhelmed the<br />
Mustangs of Western Wyoming<br />
College last Wednesday,<br />
only to lost their first<br />
game of league play to the<br />
Salt Lake Community College<br />
Bruins three days later.<br />
The Badgers ran away<br />
from the Mustangs with 52<br />
second-half points to win<br />
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during a game against the Wasatch Wasps on Tuesday, Dec. 11.<br />
the second half all Juan Diego.<br />
They took the lead by four and the end<br />
of the third and added seven more to close<br />
out the Lady Hawks 56-47.<br />
Taylor Gordon led all scorers with 22<br />
points, including two baskets from 3-point<br />
range.<br />
In their second game of the tournament<br />
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Union High School Cougars.<br />
The Hawks were down by one at the end<br />
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a way to put a lid on the hoop, holding the<br />
Lady Hawks to just three points and outscoring<br />
them by 10.<br />
The 11-point Cougar lead was just too<br />
much for the Hawks to overcome, as Union<br />
77-49. The loss to the Bruins<br />
was much closer, 70-74, but<br />
halted the Badgers’ ninegame<br />
win streak and upped<br />
the Bruins’ streak to six<br />
straight.<br />
Against Western Wyoming,<br />
Snow canned eight<br />
three-pointers in the second<br />
half, four of them from London<br />
Simonsen (Salem Hills<br />
High School) who came off<br />
the bench to tie for game-<br />
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held on in the second half to win 48-41.<br />
Ashley Nuttall led all scorers with 14<br />
points, including one basket from 3-point<br />
range.<br />
The Hawks closed out the tournament<br />
Dec. 8, with a 37-34 victory over American<br />
Leadership Academy. Keisha Jorgenson led<br />
the team in scoring with 11 points.<br />
On Dec. 11, the Lady Hawks hosted the<br />
Wasatch Wasps, losing 51-32. The Hawks<br />
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of play. The half-time score was close at 18-<br />
20 with the Hawks down by two.<br />
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the Hawks 23-6.<br />
The Lady Hawks defended well in the<br />
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back at the Wasps.<br />
North <strong>Sanpete</strong> boys drop four<br />
in a row, season record now 0-6<br />
By Bryan Strain<br />
Staff writer<br />
MT. PLEASANT—The<br />
North <strong>Sanpete</strong> Hawks boys basketball<br />
team lost four away games<br />
over the last two weeks, including<br />
losses to Manti 55-47, Grantsville<br />
59-50, Rowland Hall 61-55 and<br />
Wasatch Academy 73 -39.<br />
Playing at Manti Dec. 5, the<br />
Hawks and Templars were evenly<br />
matched at the half with the score<br />
tied at 23.<br />
The Templars came back<br />
from the halftime break to outscore<br />
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giving the Templars a 9-point<br />
lead.<br />
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favored the Hawks by 1 point as<br />
they tried to battle back from the<br />
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held off the Hawks to win by<br />
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on Dec. 7, the Hawks fell<br />
to the Grantsville Cowboys. The<br />
Hawks led 11-10 at the end of<br />
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“Justin was a great leader<br />
up front and wanted<br />
the offensive line to be<br />
the strength of the team,”<br />
Hughes said. “He loved to<br />
practice and brought great<br />
effort every day. He played<br />
well in every game and<br />
earned all of his opportunities<br />
and awards.”<br />
Powell (5’11”, 175<br />
lbs.) had 41 receptions<br />
for 1,231 yards, the second<br />
highest yardage total<br />
in Snow College history.<br />
Blessed with explosive<br />
speed, Powell led the nation<br />
with 30.0 yards per reception<br />
and was third nationally<br />
with 14 touchdowns.<br />
An all-around athlete,<br />
Powell was named the Ohio<br />
Division II high school<br />
basketball player of the<br />
year in 2011 while at Toledo’s<br />
Rogers High School.<br />
Powell will be a Hawkeye<br />
next year, having accepted<br />
a scholarship offer from the<br />
University of Iowa.<br />
“Damond is the most<br />
explosive receiver we have<br />
had in my time at Snow,”<br />
Hughes said. “He was capable<br />
of making a big play<br />
every time he touched the<br />
ball and he usually did<br />
make the big play. I have<br />
loved watching him grow<br />
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at Snow.”<br />
Miller (6’2”, 240 lbs.)<br />
recorded 39 tackles this<br />
season from his defensive<br />
end position. Miller had 13<br />
sacks individually, second<br />
most nationally. He was in<br />
on 19 tackles for loss and<br />
recorded two safeties for<br />
the Badgers, who led the<br />
nation as a team with eight<br />
safeties.<br />
Miller was named defensive<br />
MVP in this year’s<br />
Carrier Dome Bowl.<br />
“I love to coach guys<br />
like Jake,” Hughes said.<br />
“He’s a blue-collar guy.<br />
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He’s a great student in the<br />
classroom and he would<br />
do anything for the team.<br />
Plus, he was very productive<br />
and had an outstanding<br />
season.”<br />
Van Orden (6’1”, 196<br />
lbs.) was second in the<br />
nation in punting with an<br />
average of 40.8 yards per<br />
kick. With Snow’s explosive<br />
offense, many of Van<br />
Orden’s punts this season<br />
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in the opponent’s territory.<br />
Fourteen of his 41 punts<br />
pinned opponents inside<br />
their own 20-yard line,<br />
making Van Orden a key<br />
part in the record-setting<br />
eight safeties recorded by<br />
the Badgers defense this<br />
season.<br />
Along with Hautau,<br />
Van Orden is the second<br />
player who prepped at East<br />
High School in Salt Lake<br />
City to be named to the<br />
All-America team.<br />
“Chris was a huge<br />
part of our team’s success,”<br />
Hughes said. “He<br />
controlled field position<br />
for us by pinning our opponent<br />
inside their 10-yard<br />
line multiple times and also<br />
made some clutch punts to<br />
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really needed it.”<br />
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the season ranked No. 3 in<br />
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poll with an 11-1 record and<br />
was the undefeated champion<br />
of the Western States<br />
Football League at 8-0.<br />
The Badgers secured<br />
the league title with a 40-<br />
26 win over the Arizona<br />
Western Matadors in<br />
Yuma, Ariz. The Badgers<br />
closed out their season<br />
with a commanding 47-<br />
21 win over previously<br />
undefeated ASA College<br />
of Brooklyn, N.Y., in the<br />
inaugural Carrier Dome<br />
Bowl played in Syracuse,<br />
N.Y., on Dec. 1.<br />
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