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Show Flashy fA' Team Takes Game Final Jimmy Gilbert's "five balls of fire" finished big three basketball competition Friday with a 31-27 victory over the previously unbeaten unbeat-en Ecide "A" team on the Cub court. . This victory, although too late to win the championship, definitely disproved the invincibility of East's "dream-team." After the terrific letdown the Cubs suffered following follow-ing Dick North's ejection from the Leopard-Cub clash, side line prog-nosticators prog-nosticators predicted a poor showing show-ing when the two teams met again, especially since North had answered answer-ed the call of the armed forces and would not be available to spark his team on to victory. This is where the "bench-guess-ers" missed the bus. Lowder Does Well Coach Gilbert called on "Dee-ber" "Dee-ber" Lowder to take the forward slot and Dee came through very nicely. What South's student body prexy might lack in finesse and shooting ability was amply replaced replac-ed by pure grit and determination. His before-the-game speech on the student body assembly earlier Friday Fri-day spurred the boys on and they jumped away to an early game lead, never to be headed. Some day the lads on the hill are going to learn not to stick their necks out quite so far when they say that South is a good winner, but a poor loser. Cubs Take West, 49-27 After they drubbed West, 49-27, in the season opener, the Cubs ran into plenty of trouble against Oswald's Os-wald's men when they met at the Deseret Gym. For one half it was nip and tuck between the two fives with no more than four points separating sep-arating them at any time. South managed to gain the half-time lead, but shortly after the second half opened North was ousted on fouls and the Cub attack fell apart. South failed to count a single field goal in the second period and fell before the Leopards, 35-25. West's Panthers put up a good scrap against South in their second sec-ond encounter, dropping a 34-29 decision after staging a brilliant rally which fell just short of victory. vic-tory. Yabbah Leads Scorers Paul (Yabbah) Roberts led Cub scorers during league play with a 35 point total closely followed by Eldon Story with 32. Clair Empey bucketed 26 for the season and Dick North made 21 in two games. Chick Woolf , the fifth member of the starting lineup, totaled only 14 points, but Chick played a Herculean Her-culean role in his backboard work. South's entry into the junior A. A. U. meet, which will take place March 16 to 20, gives Southerner fans more chances to support their ' team. Chances are that South might meet East in one of those games and this can well settle once and for all just who's best. j |