Show ap ar ta 9 by A T roberts A edges out tooele thoele 38 33 en na nal umea l leecie palle J hoop encounter tooele thoele loot ioa its second successive pre season encounter friday dec dee 5 as the lincoln tigers led by lavell edwards jumped to a 5 point lead in the 1st quarter and made it stick throughout the remainder of the game to hang up a 38 33 win each team boasted two first team all state football stars in the starting lineups edwards and ralph willett represented lincoln while charlie lee and glen bones hamilton were the tooele thoele stars the game itself was rather loose ly played with the play getting pretty rugged at times lincoln jumped to a 7 point lead before the buffs could split the strings from thea then on tooele thoele was in the ball game all the way but couldn t catch the high flying tigers edwards was the big gun for lincoln as he potted em in from all over the floor to walk off with high scoring honors for the night 14 points 12 from the field and 2 out of 2 charity tosses charlie lee was tooele thoele e big point getter meshing through the hoop 5 field goals and 3 foul tosses for 13 points tooele thoele s passing ragged tofele tooele s big trouble was ragged passing time after time the buffs threw the ball away having the advantage over lincoln in height tooele thoele f failed ailed to put it to use by i ot tail ng their shots and letting the tigers take the ball on the re bound tooele thoele has a tall team and a potentially great cage tion if they will only show a little more fight and hustle its it s still early in the season and as soon as the boys sharpen their shooting eyes a bit and develop better co ord nation with their passing too ele will be a mighty tough outfit to beat lee was the best player for too ele tanking 13 points and play ing a fine defective game lefty loren dunn showed flashes of bril I 1 liance especially with his lay up shots as he added 7 points to too eles ele s losing cause bantam billy griffith by all odds the smallest player on the floor was a thorn in ahe side of the lincoln players and split the strings for six po ants no buro iwami handled the ball like a magician as he turned in a stellar role from his guard posit position ign B s win first game coach johnson sent in 9 players as he attempted to f nd a smooth working quintet that would cl ck monday dec dee 15 tooele thoele entertains the payson lions and friday dec 19 coach johnson takes his squad to ogden for a return engagement with the weber warriors in this game tooele thoele wil be bf out to avenge a 44 16 shellacking that weber gave the buffs in the opening game fridays opening game was a real eal thriller as the tooele thoele B squad took a 34 32 close one TOOELE G T F P rupp I 1 2 0 02 0 4 dunn I 1 3 1 1 7 lee c 5 6 3 13 iwami g 0 1 0 0 hamilton g 0 1 1 1 leatham f 0 4 2 2 griffith 3 0 0 6 rolph 0 0 0 0 gillespie 0 0 0 0 TOTAL 13 13 7 33 LINCOLN G T F P edwards f 6 2 2 14 willett t f 1 2 1 3 boulter c 3 1 1 7 ferguson g 1 5 3 5 I 1 ferguson g 4 0 0 8 baker g 0 1 I 1 I 1 alien allen c 0 0 0 0 balser g 0 0 ij 0 0 TOTAL is 15 8 11 38 score by quarters tooele thoele 5 13 22 33 lincoln 10 20 28 38 officials delpapa bevan from the lincoln B team lin coin coln led all the way until the last minute when chubby sank a lay up shot that put the buffs lut in front 33 32 A few second later tooele thoele sank a foul shot and the game ended 34 32 the game was just as close as the score and each team sank 13 field goals too ele made 8 out of 17 foul tosses count as lincoln made 6 out of 15 which just about tells the story guard gene christensen of lin coin in was high point man of the game with 10 points center larry stevenson and forward joe nelson were high for tooele thoele with 8 and 6 points respectively |