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Show South Bountiful Battles Harvard in Meet Finals By CARLISLE STOUT With an All-Church tourney berth at stake, Harvard ward of Liberty stake and South Bountiful of South Davis stake will clash at 9 p. m. Saturday in the Deseret gym for the M Men division t basketball championship ot Salt Lake City. The victor In Saturday's final will compete In the All-L. D. S. Church meet at the Deseret gym starting March 20, while the runner-up plays the second place team from division 10 Wednesday lor another tourney post Harvard edged aside Bryan, 34-33, in the last three seconds, es " - despite 17 points f ;Tfby Art Thorn-f Thorn-f ' wall; and South "" Bountiful tipped I EdgehlU. 28 - 26, I In i photo-finish 1 . fZ. j Friday night at It ll af the Deseret gym Vl I', to gala the final L - fXi w round. I ' The husky and "ay JH elusive Ray Ol-J Ol-J " ,on tossed In the af v deciding points I -w-is;" f I for Harvard. 1 ' k f ' Bryan wss lesd-I lesd-I I -W V.-'Vlng. 33-32, with fc rXi weight seconds to ThernwaU g0, when a foul was called on Harvard. Art Thornwall, Bryan center, took the ball out of bounds Instesd and tossed toward Harvard's basket. Harvard Forward Ralph Swenaon Intercepted the ball and tossed it to Olson, who dumped In a one-hander. one-hander. Only two seconds remained re-mained and the final gun sounded before Brysa even had time to put the ball in plsy again. After trailing the whole game, Edgehill stsged a fierce rally In the final period, counting 10 points to Bountiful's five. With the score at 26-24 for Bountiful, Eddie Kil- (ore i uaara in a ions anoi. 10 lie the score st 26-all, with 43 seconds to play. Then Kilgore fouled Cleverly. Qeverly missed the shot, but Nelson stsndlng next to the basket, bounded into the air and tipped In the victory goal. Ptteta-nalsk GeaM Twenty-eighth slao edged out Centerville First in a photo-finish to sain a final post for consolstion honors. Forward Fred Sanford tossed In the deciding point with 30 seconds to go. San ford played brilliant ball throughout the gsme and accounted for IS points. Union and Jordan will battle at t p. m. Saturday In the new Jordan Jor-dan high gym for the division 10 championship. Union turned back Taylorsvllle, 30-27, and South Jordan Jor-dan edged Magna, 39-3S, to gain the last round. latea Fawkea AJasaal Taylorsvllle led Union most of the wsy. but Union Jumped ahead, 1-17, at the end of the third period. pe-riod. Taylorsvllle then tied the score at 36-all with five minutes to play, but Forward Curtis dropped la a goal for Union, and the winners were not headed sfter that. Behind the 27-point shooting of Ruas Oakeaon, speedy forward, who looped In the winning tallies. South Jordan edged out Magna In the last few minutes. |