Show by A T roberts chronicle sports editor VU r WV thoele suffers two straight setbacks set backs in state tourney for the first time in 31 years the thoele white buffaloes made the trek to the state basketball tournament but their recent siege of illness and alid the fine cage quintets from monroe and cedar city teamed up to make their stay a brief one billed as the feature game of opening day thoele ran smack into an unheralded team from south sevier the monroe rams and came out on the short end of a 37 27 score the first quarter was a very even ball game with tooele thoele sporting a 6 5 lead at the rest period in the second canto onn orin tuft and vaughan madsen speeded up the tempo and racked up 9 points while hold ng the buffs to 3 points and from then on it was all monroe as they built up a 14 9 lead at the halftime intermission and iced the ball game in the tho 3rd quarter when they had a 27 16 front run ning margin coach clarke johnsen was forced to substitute frequently all during the contest because of the weak ened condition of his squad and it until the fourth quarter that the buffs got back in the ball game and by then it was too little too late glen rupp was shuttled in and out of the game but managed to cop high scoring honors for tooele thoele with 9 points capt charlie lee played a nice game as did george bleazard and noboru iwami cedar city ousts tooele thoele thursday night tooele thoele met the speedy and flashy from cedar city who slaughtered the buff herd by 14 points the final score being 42 28 it was too much boyd adams one of the classiest forwards in the 16 team cage test fest adams dunked a total of 13 points through the net as the buffs bowed out of the 4 day meet tooele thoele using their height ad vantage controlled the ball for the biggest part of the game but there must have been a string strung a cross the hoop cause the pellet just would rit drop through for counters george bleazard ande and fjarlie e rl e lee were the high scorers rs i for boele tooele with 7 and 6 points respectively cedar city had a 34 19 lead at the end of the 3rd quarter so box score TOOELE MONROE P P 7 lee 0 tuft 8 2 leatham C tuft 5 5 bleazard Ble ozard gl GI glave ave 4 U 0 hamilton Bass Rass 3 0 iwami madsen 7 2 dunn anderson 0 9 bupp rupp nielson 10 2 buna bunn 27 t k TOTALS 37 score by quarters tooele thoele 6 9 16 27 monroe 5 14 27 37 officials mellett and kump CEDAR CITY TOOELE 13 adams lee loe 6 0 blackburn leatham 5 11 Wm teno rupp 5 3 corry hamilton 2 6 hunter ikemi I 1 7 hirschi bleazard azard 7 2 little bunn 0 0 southwick dunn I 1 0 bladen grif grifith ith 1 0 gillespie 0 42 TOTALS 28 score by quarters cedar city 13 24 34 42 tooele thoele 3 10 19 28 coach johnsen cleared his bench and every member of the squad saw action the defeat eliminated tooele thoele from the tournament and was the farewell performance for capt charlie lee george bleazard gor don bunn dale Leat leatham harn and billy griffith tooele thoele lasted quick but it was a fine team and a great bunch of kids and getting in the state tour cament is no small task tooele thoele has every reason in the world to be proud of their basketball team and since glen rupp loren dunn glen hamilton noboru iwami and chuck gillespie will all be back received plaudits at state basketball IT tournament 41 0 4 1 4 V arje 7 it 1 41 t N I 1 P et 70 k 1 4 f N 4 U af 5 at A 41 t A V P I 1 A M lf P vf to a X ewt u even though the tooele thoele has bas netball Icet ball team did not go fat far in the tournament they received plenty of support from the fans there and it wasn gasn t for lack of tac school spirit that they failed to win leading the tooele thoele aggie gallon gation through football and bas netball season this year have been the two peppy girls above dorothy nix and joyce fans will tell you they are about tops in the state macgregor photo next year plus all the members of coach johnny puan sputniks ik s fine team it is expected that the buffs will be even stronger next year |