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Show . . Rams. Tigers to Settle Race Saturday j STANDINGS i Parowan 6 1 . .757 Milford 5 1 .833 Delta 2 4 .333 Millard .-i:..: 2 5 .286 Beaver '. 1 5 .1C7 Coach John Wood's Parowan Rams and Coach Lee Pettey's Milford Tigers continued their winning ways in the Millard Division- basketball race last Friday, Fri-day, but the Tigers Tolled along a lot easier than did the Rams. In fact Parowan had to qomo from behind In the last few minutes min-utes against Beaver to win by a close 57- to 52 score while Milford Mil-ford had no trouble at all in winning from Millard at Fillmore Fill-more by an 8-1 to 30 score. Beaver, after handing Milford its only loss so far In league play early in the season, had the same idea in mind against Parowan Par-owan last week and for more than three quarters of the game it looked like they would do just that. Beaver played a hustling hard ball game and were hitting very well from outside to go Into an 8 to 3 lead in the first few minutes of the game and were ahead 17 to 8 as the quarter end. ed. The Rams cut that lead to 29-25 by the halftime rest by scoring 17 points to 12 or Beaver, Bea-ver, in fact Coach John Wood's squad forged ahead by one point twice during the quarter, only to drop back again before the hot shooting Beavers. The Beavers outscored Parowan Paro-wan in the third period 14 to 13 to end that period with a five point 43-38 lead, and maintained this lead to midway of the fourth quarter when the Rams came up and went ahead by one point. This lead went to three points and back to one a time or two before the Rams could stretch it to five as the final whistle sounded. sound-ed. The Rams were definitely cold ;tt the hoop but the fine shooting shoot-ing and all around play of Don Burton and the steady play and scoring of other members of the squad finally paid off. Burton got 22 points. Whitney got 11 and Simkins 10 to lead the Ram scoring while four of the Beaver players hit in the double figures. Up at Fillmore McGinn and Bown of Milford had a field day hitting 28 and 23 points, respee- tively, in routing the Millard five which played Parowan right , down to the wire the week be-; be-; fore. The Tigers took a 24 to 7 , lead in the first quarter, led 4G to 17 at halftime and went on to the lopsided victory. Two games were played on i Wednesday nieht of this week 'Beaver at Milford and Millard I at Delta, but neither radio nor i the Salt Lake papers carried the ! results of the games. If Milford j won, and she should have done I the Tigers and Parowan Hams I will be in a tie going into Satur-j Satur-j day night's game in Parowan with the division championship at stake. PAROWAN S7 BEAVER 2 GTFP GTFP 5 3 (I 10 Slmklni HrMntin 6 1 O 12 I9D4Z! Burton ' MuriWk R 1 CI 12 6 6 2 14 Whltnry THvlnr O 1 0 0 I 3 4 2 M Thornton Dean 4 4 3 11 0 2 1 1 RoWnton Aihworth 6 S 17 0 0 0 O Rohb C.rty 0 10 0 0 2 2 2 Uitcr 23 23 11 57 TOTALS 22 13 i .'.2 Score by quarters: Parowan 2S 3H !V7 Beaver 17 28 43 t2 |