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Show Miners Meet Granite Tonight; Walloped Jordan Friday 36-26 Granite, only undefeated bas ketball team of Jordan district prep basketball competition, carries car-ries its title quest to Bingham high school tonight (Friday). Games begin at 7 and 8 p.m. Last week Granite blasted Davis Da-vis for its third straight victory, 34 to 20. On January 18 Granite overwhelmed Jordan - 38-20. Sports interest for the entire district dis-trict centers on the Copperton gymnasium tonight. The Granite stars the Miners' quintet will be . trying to bottle up are Keith Parkin, Wes Guest and Dick Ence. Hundreds of the Miners' followers follow-ers trekked to Sandy last Friday to see the BUS quintet down Jordan Jor-dan 36-26. Jordan led the Miners 6-5 at the end of the first quarter. In the next period the Bingham crew proved that the entire squad had range of the basket and could keep the ball from Jordan's scoring scor-ing range. At the half the Miners had gained 11 points and had prevented prevent-ed any Jordan gain. The score stood 16-6 at the half and 26-13 in the third quarter. Sheen was high man for the third consecutive consecu-tive time. Others making substan-' tial contributions to the total score were Gleason, Poulsen, Furgis, Thurmond and Nichols. Substitutes for the Miners were Crump, Bianchi, Copenhaver and Sullenger. |