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Show Rams drop pre-season battle to Piute 59 - 45 by Dennis Lowder The Parowan Rams suffer-ered suffer-ered another pre-season Hss last Friday evening on the hardwood. This time the tall Thunderbirds of Piute High School pulled away from the late challenge of the hard fighting Ram squad winning the contest 59-45. The Parowan team fell behind be-hind In the opening moments, until David Lamoreaux got a hot hand and reeled off 11 straight points. Gary Adams kept things rolling with some fine outside shooting and the Rams maintained a slim margin mar-gin in the first quarter. During the next two periods the cold shooting Rams could only muster 11 points managing manag-ing to stay within striking distance. Karl Bentley did a fine job on the boards In amongst the tall Thunderbirds timber of Terry Elder, Mark Cannon and Lynn Barnson. Parowan narrowed the gap to three points early in the 4th quarter but their fate was sealed moments later when Ram straters, Lamoreaux, R'ljjs Mortensen and David Rol-son Rol-son all fouled out of the ball game. Adams led the Parowan team and tied for high point honors with Cannon at 18 points. Lamoreaux added 17 counters. |