Show tourney bound buffs bounce grantsville Grant Grants ville for seventh straight when the tooele thoele buffs trampled the grantsville Giants Grants ville cowboys last fri fn day they practically cinched themselves a spot in the state class B tournament to be played in the U of U field house march 10 11 12 and 13 after a slow first half tooele thoele finally found the right bombina tion and the scoring range to stampede over the hapless cowpokes by the score of 38 24 it was grantsville grant Grants ville s strategy to play a close man to man defense always rushing always pressing in an attempt while waiting for the breaks of the game to come their way it was a good plan but the breaks never came although they did hold the buffs to a hockey score of 9 ponts in the first half however tooele thoele went grantsville Grants ville just a 1 atle bet ter and the iron lid they clamped on ye olde bucket was so effective that could collect but four points in the same amount of time nary a field goal was made in 16 minutes of play all of the cow boy counters coming from the free throw line I 1 fouls prove costly and the price grantsville Grants ville paid for the close guarding eventually proved to be disastrous marim marlin cook committed his fifth personal foul early in the third canto and left the game to be followed by kay jefferies Jef fenes and kent callister and with these boys went the six shooters of the cowboy posse without them the pokes were help less during the first half it was all glen horse rupp for tooele thoele as the leading scorer in the jordan district dunked in 7 of tooele thoele s 9 points rupp broke the ice in the ball game with a 2 pointer then followed with a charity toss to give the buffs a 3 0 lead grantsville Grants ville pulled up even on free throws by rollie anderson martin marlin cook and kent callister and that was the only time they were really in the game buffs roll during second half after the halftime intermission the buffs superior height began to tell and led by charlie lee the point crazed buffs broke through the ring of cowboys to stampede all over the place and go on to win by a 14 point margin fast gaming gaining the reputation of BOX X SCORE Grants gr antoville ants ville thoele tooele too ele P P 8 jefferes lef Jef fenes lee 13 0 sandberg Leat leatham harn 2 I 1 ual ballister lister rupp 11 3 cook hamilton 0 5 anderson iwana 0 I 1 noble dunn 11 4 hunter griffith 0 0 1 awrence bleazard Ble ozard 0 2 cole gillespie 0 bunn I 1 24 TOTALS 33 38 score by quarters grantsville Grants ville 3 4 13 24 tooele thoele 5 9 21 38 officials morgan being the best cage aggregation in tooele thoele high highs s history coach clarke John johnsen sens s team goes on week after week proving just why they are so powerful in almost every game a different player stands out a little above the rest in the first judge memorial game it was nobuko iwami and glen bones hamilton who were the stars tooele thoele went over to grants ville and loren dunn was the bright spot when bingham came to tooele thoele it was big glen horse rupp and it was rupp again a cyprus over in murray it was dale leatham that proved the difference in the two clubs in the battle for survival in the judge kennel na no one was outstanding as every player turned in a great game charlie lee outstanding however to the keen observer of the cage sport one player has turned in an outstanding perform ance in every contest perhaps he wont won t lead the scoring parade he might not be as flashy or have the color of some of his team mates but in every game he has been right in the thick of things al ways at the right place to do the right thing at the right time of course we are speaking of the team abtam captain charlie lee in this game it was lee who ame came on the floor in the second half when it appeared that the buffs were stalled to collect eleven paints control both back boards break up the cowboy attack and pull 11 his team mates together char lie ie was by far the outstanding player of this game and high er with 13 points nobuko iwami glen bones hamilton and dale leatham all turned in fine floor games lo 10 loren r en dunn and glen rupp used their height to advantage and wound up all even with 11 points each for the game but out manned cowboys it was key jefferies Jef fenes waco played the best ball scoring 8 points and rustling the ball in peat great p eat style kent callister and rol ie anderson caused the big buffs no end of grief with their slash ing drivie driving ig type of ball hawking and it was the loss of these boys that hurt the cowboys the most in the battle of the coach johnny s baby buffs collect ed their fifth win in seven starts and their second straight over grantsville Grants ville as they overcame a 5 10 deficit in the 1st quarter to win going away 27 24 timmer and ralph poulsen led the way in the scoring column with 10 and 14 points respectively with larry stevenson and chubby per fill posting great guard games to their credit clean slate with Grants grantsville ville that gives tooele thoele a clean sweep over their bitter rivals from grants ville for the 1948 casaba season four out of four and grantsville Grants ville has borrowed an old brooklyn by line wait until next year friday feb 20 thoele travels to cyprus and the following week they play the last home game of the season with murray this will be the last chance for the home town folks to see the buffs in ac tion unless the buffs do go to the state tournament the buffs fine record this year has made us look awfully good in predicting winners with only one miss in 10 tries As a wind up for the basketball season we 11 just strang along with tooele thoele and pick them over both cyprus and mur ray grantsville Grants ville to beat judge judge comes to grantsville Grants ville feb 20 and we think grantsville Grants ville will emerge from this one with their first victory of the year the next week they travel to bingham but bingham has improved more than grantsville Grants ville and will be playing on their home floors so we like bing ham in this one |