Salt Lake Telegram | 1951-03-01 | Page 29 | Region One Quintets in Playoff

Reg Region ion One Qu Quintets i In Playoff By y Dave Da c Midweek court action In region one knotted two teams in a tie for fourth place with Logan and South Cache still slugging it out for or the coveted tourney spot South Cache was beaten by Weber 64 55 on Tuesday night night and Logan fell eU before BoxElder BoxElder Box BoxElder Elder 43 41 in a Wednesday hight tilt till In the oth other r region one game Ogden upset the region champ North Cache in a a. 41 33 duel A win by cither either of the two tso teams knotted at fourth place would have I meant a chance at a state tourney berth but both teams lost necessitating necessitating necessitating a play-off play sometime this week The winner of the play-off play will ill then have ha Carbon to play high for or the right to represent the region in the state tournament Center Out OutPlaying OutPlaying i Playing without the ser services ces of their scoring high-scoring center Bart Johnson the North Cache loop champions didn't show too well against the Ogden five They trailed all the way before the game ended with the kings on the bottom end of the 41 33 score 1 It H was a welcome finale for the Ogden team that hasn't done too well in league play As a matter of fact it was the third game gam that the Tigers have won this season in inthe inthe inthe the senior circuit and consequently can be considered a real upset in region one Paul Furlon Furlong was the boy who stood out in the Ogden attack as ashe ashe ashe I he popped 16 points through the thc hoop on the home floor The next best effort of the evening evenin had of North Cache taking 11 points for the champs Come to Life Ute Ogden had a point one-point lead in inthe inthe inthe the first quarter and by half time was 21 16 leader The Cache Yanks came to life in the third heat but the Ogden five pulled away in the final eight minutes The Box Elder five shove doff on a roaring start but had to fight hard in the last minutes of the game to save the victory from rom hands of the Logan team First quarter found Logan trailing trailing trail trail- ing 14 7 with the Bees very much in command By intermission time the Bee lead had been whittled to 22 18 am ane from there on the contest contest contest con con- test was on even cven grounds until the gun sounded with the Bees holding a slim two point edge Combined Points Lee Boothe hit for 16 points and Malmrose notched 10 for the winners Harris and Bates combined combined com corn for 22 2 pointy point for the losers The Tuesday night battle between between between be be- tween South Cache and Weber was wasa a scoring free affair Cordell Brown highest scorer in region one tanked 21 points for the Spartans Spar Spar- tans Hadfield registered 19 points and Sha IS 18 for the Warriors In the first half the teams were never separated by more than two points but Weber took the lead leadin I in the third quarter and never I it