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Show 'MOWER COACHES TEAM TO STATE TITLE Wilford Mower, Former High School Athlete, Wins Wyoming Title With Team A sports item of interest comes to us from Byron, Wyoming, this week of the splendid record achieved by the Byron, Wyoming, high school basketball team, and coached by Wilford Mower, local sports star and graduate of the Springville High. Coach Mower's team won the Wyoming class B basketball tournament recently held at Laramie, Wyoming. "The 1948 class B basketball championship was won by Byron with a 38 to 34 triumph over Han-na. Han-na. Byron, which placed third in the Big Horn basin district tourney, tour-ney, succeeds to the title held last year by Ten Sleep. . "The hard-fighting Byron five built up a 24-11 advantage at the half and withstood an inspired Hanna rally in the closing minutes. Hanna was the champion of the southwestern district." This quoted material was taken from the Wyoming paper. Besides taking the top honors, Coach Mower had three of his' players named on the class B all-state all-state player list. Superintendent J. A. Simons, also a former resident resi-dent of Springville, accompanied the team to the tournament. Coach and Mrs. Mower have resided at Byron for the past four or five years, where Mr. Mower has turned turn-ed out some winning teams in the sports field there. |