‘Home teams take pence as wins. Fr in junior high games _ The home-court advantage stood ‘up in Tuesday’s opening Junior high — _ round of games in the Weber County Junior High School basketball season. ? basketball Sand Ridge claimed a 45-38 leading scorer. victory over arch-rival Roy; Val- Rob Thomas poured in 2 points for the Minutemen and Ken Borque checked in with 11. ley surprised T.H. Bell, 74-58; Wahlquist dumped North Og- den, 51-37; and South Ogden At crushed Box Elder’s 9th grade team, 63-35, in a practice game. At Sand Ridge, the Scorpions led the entire game and never al- Scott Holmes Rick Morgan scoring 12 points and Brett Flint 10 more for Roy. defensive Quinn Tidwell efforts and Lee from finished with 16 Eric Borchert had 17 points for South Ogden and Mike Sivulich added 13. Oliver, while Shawn Lewis was Valley’s es Hunt opening up a 33-point lead midway through the third period. At Valley, the Bulldogs got good Eagles’ Wahiquist, while Ryan McGarry had 12 points for the Knights. At South Ogden, the Spartans had little trouble with Box Elder, with 13 points and Shane Tafoya 10, with Doug points and Hunt got 15 more for Rod Belnap paced Sand Ridge added the and combined for 31 points, and Wahilquist limited North Ogden to just 14 second-half points with a good defensive effort. lowed the Redskins to get closer than the final seven-point spread. @ _ Wahlquist, Holmes —— Three teams remain perfect Wahiquist, Sand Ridge, South Ogden Score junior high wins Wahlquist, Sand Ridge and South Ogden claimed victoTies in the Weber County Junior High basketball league _ Friday _ after the loop’s first week of play. 7 _ The Eagles whipped Valley 45-42 in overtime, Sand _ Ridge slipped past North Ogden 56-55 and South Ogden | to remain undefeated had an easy time with T.H. Bell, 72-44. | Roy, 0-1, was idle in league play but defeated Box Elder’s ninth-grade team in a practic game, 46-39. | : At T.H. Bell, the Minute-_ men outscored South Ogden _ 21-12 in the second quarter to | pull within 34-29 at halftime. _ But the Spartans broke T.H. Bell’s half-court press in the ~ - second half to pull away with. ease. Guard Mike _ adding 12 more. Shawn Lewis was the only Valley player in double figures as the Bulldogs Sivulich poured in 21 points and Darrin Bideaux and Danny Butters added 17 and 10 points, respectively, to pace South dropped to 1-1 on the year. At North Ridge fell Ogden, behind Sand 32-22 at halftime, but rebounded with Ogden, now 1-0. T.H. Bell, better shooting in the second 0-2 on the young season, was stanza to take a close win led by Rob Thomas and Ken > from the Knights. Borque with 12 points each. Sand Ridge, 2-0, received At Wahlquist, Valley’s Lee 17 points apiece from Rod Oliver hit a shot at the buzzer . Belnap and Shane Tafoya, to lift the Bulldogs into a 38with Craig Miles adding 16 38 tie at the end of regulation - more. North Ogden, which play against the Eagles. But. slipped to 0-2 with the loss, Wahlquist’s Doug Hunt conwas led by Ryan McGarry nected on a 20-foot shot with with 20 points. Tyler Tribe _ even secon left_in overtime | to_improve the Eagles to oo had 12 for the losers. . Roy’s victory over Box El- Scott Holmes hit 13 points to lead Wahlquist, with Hunt der was attained by way of balanced scoring by the Red-_ kins. on the season. : i } Se | South Ogden, North Ogden and Sand Ridge each swept impressive victories in Tuesday’s ac. tion involving Weber County Junior High School win of the season at the expense of Roy, which re- mains winless. teams. Wahlquist, 81-45: while North Ogden rolled past Roy, 55-42, and Sand Ridge scored a lopsided 6223 victory over Valley. . At South Ogden, the Spartans rolled up a whopping 26-0 lead after the first quarter and then coasted the rest of the way for an easy win over” Wahlquist, which had shared the league lead. Kendall Youngblood poured in 25 points and Mike Sivulich added 20 as South Ogden raised its record fered its first setback in slipping to a 2-1 slate. At North Ogden, the Knights earned their first to 2-0. Scott Holmes hit -16 points and Doug Hunt had 13 more for Wahlquist, which suf- Casey McGarry Barker scored accounted 17 points : and | Ryan for 15 points to help North Ogden improve its record to 1-2. Roy’s Scott Jor- gensen, Bryan Me¢Bride and Riko Reese each had eight points for the 0-2 Redskins. oe At Sand Ridge, coach Gary Strong was able to play all 15 of his players in the blowout against Valley. 7 Fourteen Scorpions scored in the game, led by Shane Tafoya’s 20 points. The win gives Sand Ridge a 3-0 record for the season while Valley drops to 1-2 overail. a