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Show H I Frank Marcellm up for a lay-up in a hair raising rais-ing basketball game last week against Tintic. "Well, We Blew It" By Nedra Morgan In a neck and neck ball game played last Friday night in Park City, the Miner's Min-er's met their match with the team from Tintic. The action came down to the final quarter. With 20 seconds to play and two points to make, Tintic took the ball from the Miners to score the basket Park City needed for the tie point. The game ended in a final score of 79-75. The Miners were sieged with fouls. In the fourth quarter, quar-ter, with the pressure mounting, three of the starting start-ing players, No. 13, Frank Marcellin, No. 21, Doug Burns and No. 41, Willy Mur-nin, Mur-nin, fouled out of action. "We played the first quarter quar-ter very well," said Coach Ron Stephans in a telephone interview with The Park Record. "We were ahead 22 -11 and we really put the pressure on them." Tintic gained points during the second quarter to lead by one at half-time. The score continued to shift back and forth, but by the end of the third, Tintic heldfast to their lead by two points. The pressure shifted to Park City in the fourth. It was up to them to break the seemingly deadlocked game, but as the Coach stated simply, "Well, we blew it. We had the ball with 20 seconds sec-onds to play and they made the point. We shot twice but we missed each one," he said. The team is understandably understand-ably dismayed by this defeat. de-feat. Contrary to a misprint in The Record, it was a game they needed to capture a three-way tie in their League. It looked hopeful that they would after last week's winning game against Wendover. Now they are tied with the Wendover Wildcats for the fourth place spot. But they are looking optimistically op-timistically ahead to the Regional Re-gional tournaments. These games are scheduled sched-uled for next week, March 3, 4 and 6 at South Summit High School in Kamas. "The leagues are exciting," said the Coach, "but the tournaments tourna-ments are where it's at." |