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Show lwimirrdv Bogles' for Too.rin.ey Dairu , i in r Smelterites Nip Tooele; North Summit Five Next on Playoff List By TOMM1E PORTER Grimly determined to gain place to the state championship champion-ship basketball tournament, Murray high school eagers will enter their third play-off game of the week Saturday, on the neutral South high court, against the North Summit squad of i Art Btahap . . eages IS points calnsS TmM Seeth kl(h tmt to (park Murray's 41-S1 wla la rin for state prep . kaaketbsll tMimmil berth. Coalville. : The winner of that gam will have only three days of rest before be-fore the opening of the annual prep classic at the Utah fleldhous. Murray's determination to enter the tourney this season was dls-plsyed dls-plsyed Tuesday when it beat Bingham Bing-ham 3S at Jordan's gym, and Thursday when It ousted Tooele 41-27. ' These three rivals had finished fin-ished league play la a tie for the Jordan district third spot North Summit, . which had tied South Summit for first place In the Summit Sum-mit race, was relegated to second ateo van It dropped a play-off to the South Summit crew 25-30 at Granite Tuesday. am Set-an Two years ago Murray was forced to make a similar last-ditch struggle to gsln a tourney berth, when It tied Jordan and Cyprus for third place. In the play-off, Cyprus beat Jordan 28-11, then Murray downed Cyprus 25-23 and Park City 24-20 for a tourney place. Subsequently It downed Bear River 28-24 and American Fork 80-28, then dropped a 2S-33 decision to Davis and defeated Hinckley 30-22 for third place honors In the state meet. In 138, when Murray and Granite Gran-ite tied for the district third spot, Murray won the play-off 33-13 to march an to fourth place In ths tourney, while Granite, after beating beat-ing Morgan 21-18, drove through to the state championship. Beagh Battle It was sn uphill battle. In a very rough second halt, for Murray Thursday night The speedy Tooele quintet composed principally of sophomores. Jumped away to a 4-0 lead In the first three minutes and had a 8-1 margin before Murray rallied to make It S-5 as the first period ended. After Tooele had forged ahead 8-8 and t-7, Joe Brklorlch and Art Bishop begaa to find the range from the corners, snd the Smelterltes swept Into a 21-13 advantage before the half nded. Tooele missed many short tries and scored only two goals In the third canto as Brklorlch and Howard How-ard Wahlln made It 30-20 for Murray. Mur-ray. Rough, very aggressive play by both teams marked both this period and the last when the IS personal fouls called only partially checked the near free-for-all. The roars of the excited crowd of more than 2000 fans nearly smothered the sound of the officials' whistles. Maintain race Only one In the final quarter did Tooele trim Murray's margin to leas thsn 10 points as Biahop and Wahlln kept the hoop hot to more than match the effort of John Paulo, Ronkevlch and Baldwin. Bald-win. Half way through the last stanxa, the 8me!terites had a 36-23 margin, and the outcome was not long In doubt thereafter. The score: Mmf TwiHa S1IP 6 T F F ft 11 BTtorteB.f BmiilMrtr.f I I fi 13 Bi.hoo.f aQkorVb If J i I I II Wahlcn.a Paulas. I In IS S Fvrnll.s Stapl".K l 1 Olio Cvmnt.a kuMvlt.s 1 f 9 I I 1 Slmona.t Ellefc.e I AS if lrtakl.t Baldwin. f I 5 i Sop rt,raoa tMM i So SSSS Jack BulMJ alii iS 13 10 40 Tat SIS S ST Scot fcr aanrtu: Vurrar ...T77 1 1 Tooela 13 SS ST luraraa, O. Smfrh: wmpin. Push. |