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Show Milford and Tintic Share : Prep Basketball Spotlight With Other Unbeaten Fives By TOMMIK FORTES Milford and Tintic, two ot Utah's smallest high schools, shara the "lion's, portion" of the state basketball spotlight this week: with the unbeaten Provo and Lehl teams, which clash for the Alpine district lead, and with Monro and Salina, battling Friday for the North Sevier top spot rioyd Rotter's 'dope upsetting" Milford cagers play Fillmore and Beth Parkinson's strong Tintic this procedure, aa they have la the past i Davis va, Mmtr Both Davis and Murray will fee seeking the "comeback" trail when, they clash In the small Murray gym, while Cyprus, which last week ap-sat ap-sat Davis, will be trying to keep pace with Oranlte by winning oa Jordan's small floor. Jordan, tripped by Bingham, hopes to get back la the race by spilling the ambitious Pirates. quad meets Spanish Fork. Also among the principal attractions attrac-tions to fans ever the state are the Logan at Bear River, Davis at Murray, Cyprus at Jordan and Delta at Hinckley games. 8 1 a n d 1 a g eut with the most astounding p e r-formance r-formance this season sea-son is the Milford which, dl- Logan and Bear River win fight for a chance to threaten the northern north-ern lead South Cache now holds, while Delta, and Hinckley wiU be looking for a chance to climb inp behind Milford. Parowan, which Saturday contributed con-tributed to the "upset" list a triumph tri-umph over Dixie on the letter's floor at St George by a IS-2S score, travels to Cedar City this Friday, while Ogden, M-te winner ever Weber, geee te Boa Elder. - - - In Wednesday gamea South Emery should beat Castle Dale, North Emery Is favored by a slender slen-der margin at Carbon and Hurricane Hurri-cane Is expected to repulse the Valley Val-ley team ot Ordorvllle. Valley won 60-zl at home Baturday against Cedar City. rected for the first Kieyd Hotter time by Kotter, has stagsd two upsets up-sets in beating Hinckley and Delta, last ysar's champion and runner-up runner-up In ths Millard district - In the previous three and a half seasons the Milford team had lost 80 straight league games and sines the latter part of the 1M1 season had triumphed In only one of 63 consecutive con-secutive games. It waa started on the long skid when beaten by Beaver, 15-13, and Mlnersville, It-IS, in the wind-up of the 1S3 race. Six games three away from home must yet be played by Milford, but after its showing to date easaba fans should not be too greatly surprised sur-prised If the team comes through to ths slate meet for the first time. Makes Strong Bid Tintic Is anothsr team which haa nsvsr gained a stats tourney berth, but which mads a strong bid for a place last season. Already victorious victo-rious over Nephi and Payson, ths Eureka squad seems to hava a fine chance of "making the grade" this year. It also haa six more games, three of which will be at Eureka. Lehl upset the dope last week In winning over American Fork on the tatter's floor in one of the usual "ding-dong" battles these rivals of many ysars usually stags. Ths Pioneers Pio-neers havs displaysd ability to take advantags of sack opportunity of-fsrsd of-fsrsd and might movs anothsr step toward the Alpine district title this week. Traditional foes, Monroe and Salina Sa-lina are expected to finish "one-two" or "two-one" for the Sevier honors, with a play-off likely to determine which shall taks ths title. Each seems likely to win from the other when at home, or they may reverse |