Show leaders in recreational loop 7 rad rack un F lopsided lop sided victories it was a case of the rich feeding on the poor last thursday night as the tour four top teams in the recreational league coasted to easy overwhelming over whelming victories over the bottom four teams its it s be ginning to become more apparent every passing week that our pre dictions of new town eagles TOD no I 1 and C Y 0 being the best teams in this league is a good one and with only two weeks left in regular league play it s al most a cinch that these teams will form the entries in the post season round robin eagles claw En glands 64 29 the high scoring and powerful eagles found En glands a soft touch in the first game and went on to win an easy victory by the score of 64 29 it was just too much scoring power and all around team work on the part of the eagles and not enough of the same f for or england s scoring honors for the eagles was almost evenly divided with angelo cerroni copping game hon ors with 19 points cerroni pulled every shot in the bag to collect his points hook pivot fade away a way lay up long and tip in to put on his best display of the season bill mckendrick chipped in with 17 counters and turned in a great floor game with bill barrel paulos duplicating his feat of a week ago dunking in another 14 points keever jankovich contin aed to dominate the back boards just as he has done in every game and besides holding the engana s scoring forward dick griffith to only 4 points posted 7 more mark ers to the eagle total keith all red got 7 points point s and still holds the fourth spot in the top five ing parade for En england glands s stepped to the front as chief point maker with eight points dick griffith i who a week ago was a up among the top five was held to 4 points and surrendered his spot to erb johnson from american legion new town returns to winning ways tips deseret 62 35 yew new town returned to the winners circle after their defeat by TOD I 1 last week with a going away 62 35 win over deseret this game was fairly close during the first part of the game when des eret matched the t he new towners downers basket for basket sensational and accurate shooting of bill biddell riddell and leon gates kept deseret right on the heels of new town and at one time in the game they had a 12 11 advantage over the team that holds down the number two spot in the standings but deseret couldn coulden t keep up the pace and new town led by clarke johnsen pulled away to get the over ahel ming victory in the second half bill riddell played a beautiful game for deseret and headed the scoring parade with 14 counters scoring honors for new town was evenly divided with three men johnsen with 13 bob doc wassom with 11 and the loops leading scorer J johny with 10 bunched in that order holds fourth winning over am legion 57 27 unleashed a new found scoring punch and rolled to a 57 27 win over the hapless american leg ion quintet this game was settled in the first halt half as the youth piled plied up 23 points while holding the legionnaires to a pair of field goals and a like number of foul tosses lynn henwood center captured scoring honors in this fracas and also for the night as he pour ed el 10 11 field goals goa and I 2 charity pitches through the hoop for 22 tw points burr was the chief point maker for american legion with eleven points but it was the in ability of the entire legion team to hit the hoop that spelled the I 1 difference in this game A little more practice fro from rn the foul line would help the legion team as they were able to convert only 7 markers out of 25 tries from charty fly lane TOD I 1 keeps clean slate wins over st john 49 23 the front running TOD I 1 team kept its record unblemished as they passed and shot their way to 19 49 1923 23 win over st john little johnny nelson ran wild in the first half alt of the ball game to get 15 points and settle the issue of who was going to win this one in a hurry however in the second halt half of the game dan russell put the kibosh on this flashy little forward and held him to only six points and this is no small task nelson captured high scoring honors for the game with his 21 points but once again it is the over all class of TOD I 1 that continues to im press and please the fans it seems that no matter who major poudre sends into action the boys as a well oiled ma chine featuring close under the basket passing exceptional team wor k and deadly shooting A new player to the recreational league joe peterson played his first game for the number one team from the ordnance and displayed all the form of a great player during his stay in the game for st john is was the ing guarding of nelson by dan rus rug sell that was the brightest spot with jack evans continuing to be the chief scoring threat evans col lecter eleven points for top honors for st john it looks like the teams will hold their respective spots in the stand ings for the rest of the season with one outstanding game remaining on the schedule that one is the head long clash between TOD I 1 and the eagles it if TOD 1 hurdles this one they will cinch the league championship but should the eagles nip TOD then therace therace will end in a three way tie with TOD I 1 eagles and new town even stephen with a 7 1 record this important clash Is tentatively tat ively slated forthe 11 of march but there is a strong poss possibility ability that this date wll wil be changed so as not to conflict with the state high school basketball tournament in salt lake the individual scoring race Is narrowing down with each passing week and right now there ian t more than a gnats eyelash separating johnny the leader for seven consecutive weeks and johnny nelson nelson has played one less game than but his game average is only 3 of a percentage point less than s and if one of these two should happen to have an off night clarke johnsen Is in a position to apply the skids to th them e in with his 14 7 game average tor for seven contests |