Darts Defeat Scots: . Take Over Top Spot 43 8 ama, 1 By : KAYSVILLE—The Ray Wight Davis Darts were just plain poison for the Ben Lomond Scots last night as they bombarded the hoop from all angles to hang up a convincing 74-40 victory last night in the Davis gym and take over firm possession of first place in Region II. The loss ‘into second dropped Ben Lomond| | place with a 4-1 rec- and the other a long set shot by ord. ‘Brad Cowley, to stretch the half| Passing nicely much of the time ‘time lead to 10 points. and with Jim Chatlin hitting well It was even-steven for just a ‘from the field,’ the Seots stayed ‘close in the first quarter, gradu- moment in the third quarter as ‘ally dropped behind during the sec- Palfreyman » hoisted a layup for ond quarter to trail 34-24 at the Davis and Chatlin came back with half, then saw the game split wide a ringer ftom the corner. open in the third frame as the Dart But then the roof<commenced to ‘scoring machine went into. high sag for the plucky Scots:as,.Gard| gear. ‘ner. hit two in succession, DuckThe two Mikes, Gardner and | worth plunked a one-handed jumper | Duckworth. were standouts in the from keyhole area and Blood cona Davis machine, with Al Pal- | nected on a close one. freyman controlling both back-| | The Davis lead mounted steadily boards much of the night and ‘scor-| 'to 45-28 with 4:17 left and to 53-35 ‘ing four times from the field. ‘at the quarter.. | Aldee Konopnicki, who came into Reserves for both sides played 'the game late, dropped. 10 points much of the fourth quarter and the for Davis and Gary Larkin had # only question was how wide the | and played a whale of a game on final margin would be. | defense. Duckworth led all scores. Kanopnicki was devastating from ‘with 18 and Gardner had 9. 'close and from the corners and fre| Jim .Chatlin carried the scoring| quent steals helped drop Ben Lo ‘load for the Scots, counting 14 | mond farther behind. Brad Cowley 'points before he went out on fouls dropped the final basket, a nice iwith just over three minutes left -swisher from the corner. to play. | Box score: Davis, |a relaxed standing-room and only /hit. persistently from used its devastating ‘tack to spread-eagle | mond defense. | OPENED | at ease home before! pen crowd, : T the field and long-range the Ben LomoND 5446 at- DAVIS oa sc 1 2 2 4 Madsen Downs opened the scoring with a st a : Patterson 1 1 0 2 6 3214 Chatlin 12 00 4 Grow Palfreyran Konopnicki coe | foul conversion fer Ben Lomond: | and that was the last time the Scots ‘2 15 14 10 40 | Davies Gc. Oscditckecenusecis 19 lw head. Ben Were anea Gardner came right back with a long set Shot and-two out of two from the foul line. Ray Blood fired | another long one over the heads of | the Ben Lomond defenders and the| Darts had a 6-1 lead with less than| two minutes used up. | Davis kept up its effective long range: shooting, but Ben Lomond was working through for field goals | by Madsen, Chatlin, and Downs. It took successive tipups by. Lar- | | kin and Palfreyman to give Davis a 19-14 margin at the first quarter. Davis began to quicken the pace in the second quarter, moving to a/ | 27-18 lead in three | scoring spurt | field goals by | minutes powered by Duckworth. on a' three But Ben Lomond was not far off ithe pace, with Chatlin counting one ‘from the field and Kim Buttars | twice from the field and twice from cae! foul line to help out the cause. Lomond ...... wea Lit Larkin 5 1111 Lo- Se ; e ben 2 3 2 6 Buttars SCORING et nkun Totals sagt 4.19 8 5 1010 e898 eae 31 21 1274 24 34 35 40 53 74