Show rupp scores 15 As tooele thoele buffs grab 41 30 win from Bisig ham about all the bingham miners got out pf their invasion of the auf falo court tuesday evening was a lot of bruises and floor burns for tooele thoele led by glen rupp who dunked in 15 points drubbed them easily to the tune of 41 30 the baby buffs started out the night by defeating the miner B team 34 31 in the main game the buffs got off to a slow start but led all the way fin finally nally clearing the bench in the last q quarter barter and letting every man on the squad play rupp completely dominated scoring hon ors by tossing in 5 field goals and 5 charity throws while team mate charlie lee garnered 8 and dale leatham harn contributed 6 it was no buro iwami however who caught the fancy of most of the fans with ins his steady level headed type of ball both offensively and defens ively iwami played most of the game and when he went out in the ath quarter was agven g ven an ovation that rocked the rafters fed red ball to tall men lefty loren dunn still not in the best of shape proved he can still get his share of counters as he dropped in 5 during his short ap bearance pe arance in the game the other buffaloes found that the best way to score was to use their superior height to advantage and they con fed the ball over the heads of the shorter Bing to such timber toppers as lee rupp dunn and bunn about all the miners could do was make a futile lunge for the ball and that s the reason some of them were on the floor mo most st of the time no little credit can be given to them for even though they were faced with sup enor height and weight they never quit fighting until the final gun and were like a bunch of wildcats every minute of the game one could rit help but feel that these I 1 little ittle guys were putting up a great show even though they were pretty sure of what the outcome was to be the total of 30 fouls called a B engham didiot did not necessarily mean they were playing rough they were only playing hard and fast and it was easy for them to foul foul their bigger opponents too ele made 19 points from free throws Lea leatham thain adds speed but play as they might the buffs never have the aggress aggressiveness iven ess that some teams do without speedy dale leatham although he is far below most of the other players in height he gets more rebounds and hawks the ball more than any of his team mates do and when he enters the game it immediate ly becomes much faster mickey culleton bigham guard guard played nice ball until he was fore ed to leave the game via the foul route early in the 3rd quarter don gust played a good floor game BOX SCORE TOOELE F G PF P rupp t f 5 5 1 15 lee f 2 3 2 8 dunn c I 1 I 1 1 0 hamilton g 3 0 3 1 iwami g 1 0 3 1 leatham g 4 1 1 6 bunn c 3 0 0 3 bleazard g 0 0 2 0 gillespie g 0 0 1 0 griffith f 0 1 1 2 TOTAL 19 1 12 41 BINGHAM B jenkins f a 0 1 1 2 gust f 2 1 3 4 manos c 3 1 5 S 5 stoddard g 0 0 5 0 culleton g I 1 1 5 3 D jenkins g 0 1 4 2 gons goris 1 1 2 3 morns morris 1 0 2 1 brown 0 2 2 4 nelson 0 3 1 6 TOTAL 8 10 30 31 score by quarters tooele thoele 9 23 33 41 bingham Bing hajn 6 9 16 30 making a nuisance of himself to the tooele thoele forwards cal nelson was individual high scorer tor for the losers cause tanking 6 points tom brown and harry manos also turn ed in good performances poulsen leads B s in the B game tooele thoele got off to a good lead but in the clos elos ing seconds the miners nearly caught them by bombarding the basket from all angles and scoring 8 points in the 3rd quarter while holding tooele thoele to 5 rudy pino was the hot man of the night and scored 15 tor for bingham followed by patty with 10 poulsen n led the with 13 counters while nelson made 9 tooele thoele has hurdled one more obstacle in the climb to the jor dan division title and if they can get by cyprus this week their only worry will be murray who is cur bently in second place in the st stand and ings cyprus has some fine players and is fully capable of dealing a sneak punch to the high riding buffs when they meet A capacity crowd was on hand tuesday night and tofele tooele s yell leaders were all bedecked in their new purple outfits there was plenty of spirit and a lot of good music and yells |