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Show Southerners Sweep Big -Six Grown Cubs Outplay Davis In Fast Contest To Remain Undefeated Wanting no part of a tie with Davis, the South high Cubs snatched two games from the Darts last night to go unchallenged unchalleng-ed as the classiest scoring machine in Big Six competition. The Cubs, in taking their third straight title, added to Wednesday's "C" team victory, a colorful pre-climatic "B" contest con-test and a thrilling 52-28 varsity victory. Over 3000 casaba fans, a recorl crowd to witness a Big Six championship tussle, jammed South's spacious plant to watch the Cubs continue superiority on the courts. South won the title with an undefeated un-defeated season. The second-place Davis five finished with seven wins and three defeats, having lost two to the Southerners and one to the Granite high quintet. The Granite Farmers suffered a tragic season, being outsmarted by the Cubs twice, Davis once and dropping an upset at the hands of the Jordan Beetdiggers, the dark horse squad of the season. The Leopards, traditional rivals of the State street sharpshooters, offered little in the way of hoop competition this season, which compensates somewhat for the gridiron thrashings the Cub eleven took from, the Eciders. Playing on their home court, . the Cubs were expected to take the final tilt. But when the junior varsity came through in flying . colors, there was nothing for the inspired Cub quintet to do but finish the season in traditional South high style. The Cub "B" quintet's firey attitude at-titude can be contributed to two factors. First, that grand fellow Pat Rvan, the junior varsity mentor, men-tor, imparted to his charges in traditional fashion the desire to add to the "glories of South." Secondly, the junior five was out for appeasement for the one-point setback it received in Bountiful on the Dart court. , Commendable for their offen-; offen-; sive performances were: lanky ; Larry Smith, the most improved ! member of the squad; Bob Pyper, . flashy forward; and Lyle Koller, l the Cubs most constant scoring threat. The junior guards exper- ienced a field day. Consistently t Ronald Grider a,nd Glenn Palmer . dunked long shots over the heads of apposing forwards in the frst half. At the beginning of the third frame the powerful Cub attack necessitated a change to man-toman in the Dart defense. Having worked against this defense almost al-most entirely all week, the Cubs felt little increase in pressure. Having clinched the title the previous week, the Southerners felt little of the "last game jitters" jit-ters" that usually predominates at such affairs. The boys in blue were truly a credit to their school, coach and themselves, performing per-forming as smoothly and confidently confi-dently as a well-rehearsed show. Highlighting an evening of fine hoop exhibition was uncanny shooting among the entire squad. Particular scoring ease was demonstrated dem-onstrated by Wallace (Dorf) Jones, the Cub's lanky center. Dorf bagged a total of 14 points to snatch the scoring honors of the evening. With a total of 12 counters, Anton Peterson took the , runnerup honors. Anton played a brilliant floor game, passing and faking the Davis defense into easy scoring opportunities for his teammates. A running score of the South high attack shows that the few times the Darts threatened the Cubs, Morris Kjar, scoring almost at will, threw in a total of 10 ringers, to keep the Cubs well out in front. Equally praiseworthy for inspired inspir-ed performances were Kent Peterson, Pet-erson, whose fast driving for the basket made the Cub quick break effective, and Bob Story, whose long passes to Kent played an important role in the South high victory. Fans unanimously agreed that South high has never before produced pro-duced a team with so much natural nat-ural basketball ability. |