Show grantsville Grants vilie ville s smooth working WorE eing five towns downs payson 31 25 tuesday looking like champions every inch of the way coach ray petersons cowboys handed the payson lions a 31 25 set back tuesday dec ember 23 at grantsville Grants ville payson led by guard gordon taylor held a slim 11 10 advantage at the end of the first canto but the cowboys with kent callister and bob sandberg putting on the steam by dropping in 6 and 4 points re spec took a 21 13 lead as the two teams left the floor for the half time intermission the lions came roaring back in the third period as taylor found his eye and closed the gap to a narrow 4 points as the quarter ended payson knots score dennis D xon potted 2 points and taylor racked up 2 more to knot the score at 25 25 as the final period got under way grantsville Grants ville called time out and after this break the ball game settled down in the hands of the cowboys rollie anderson made good on a charity toss jack noble added an other free throw just before he commit ed his fifth personal foul and had to leave the game sand berg shook himself loose for a lay up shot and marlin cook put on the clincher with a nice shot from out near the foul line to post the final reading on the score board at 25 31 calm and cocky 9 grantsville Grants ville rooters left the gym impressed mpr essed with the cool beliber ate style of ball the cowboys dis played all during the game with the score knotek at tit 25 25 and the cowboys from all appearances colder than a two day old flap jack it looked as though payson would pull the game out of the f re however grantsville Grants ville s quin tet refused to become rattled and their deliberate brand of ball pay ed off as they collected 6 markers while holding the lions scoreless in the closing minutes of play leading the lions in their losing battle was gordon taylor with 12 points and dennis dixon who play I 1 ed a beautiful defensive game con trolling the back boards and chip ping in with 7 points cowboys all play well the entire grantsville Grants ville squad played exceptionally good ball as they continue to show improve ment with every passing game kent callister led the scoring par ade with 14 points and played a great defensive game jack noble was all over the floor like spit on a hot stove jack was ejected on fouls midway in the fourth period but before he left he had poured 6 potts points through the hoop BOX SCORE grantsville GRANTS VILLE G T F P noble f 2 3 2 6 cook f 2 0 0 4 callister c 5 6 4 14 anderson g 0 1 1 1 sandberg g 3 1 0 6 G hunter g 0 0 0 0 TOTAL 12 11 7 31 PAYSON hormer f 0 2 1 1 B montague f 0 1 0 0 dixon c 2 4 3 7 taylor g 4 5 4 12 R montague g 1 3 1 3 wilson f 1 2 0 2 openshaw g 0 0 0 0 roach f 0 0 0 0 TOTAL 8 17 9 25 score by quarters grantsville Grants ville 10 21 25 31 payson 11 13 21 25 marl n cook perhaps the calm est eager cager on the floor passed and dribbled like a master and added 4 points to the cowboy total rol lie anderson was the boy who con took the ball away from the lions as he rustled the ball all evening breaking up the pay son offense time after time bob sandberg turned in a sparkling game from his guard spot and ser ved notice to all concerned that his place is where the action is taking place and not on the bench As the play for the marbles season approaches coach peterson s squad is fast rounding into one of the smooth working high powered that are as socia ted with grantsville Grants ville and dont don t forget that the cowboys still wear the crown of champion k mr and mrs willard atkin of logan are happy to announce the arrival of their first child a ing boy born december 28 in logan mr and mrs atkin are for mer residents of tooele thoele mr atkin is at present attending the sunday guests at the home of mr and mrs roy dunn and family of this city were mr and mrs william dunn and family of salt lake city mr and mrs cecil tate acied by their son and daughter in law mr and mrs hal tate of salt lake city spent the christmas weekend in pocatello idaho guests of mr and mrs H B fowler and family |