Washington County News | 1939-03-09 | Page 1 | Hurricane Wins 10 to Place Second in Dixie District

Hurricane Wins 10 To Place Second In Dixie District HURRICANE, Utah The current basketball season closed this week-end with Hurricane holding second place, with a record of 10 games won against two lost, both to" Dixie. In the game with Enterprise on Friday the locals won by the score of 2S-16. Enterprise was outclassed out-classed from the start, but kept fighting. Harvard Hinton led the scoring for the Tigers with five field goals, while D. Holt, Enterprise Enter-prise guard, contributed four field goals and a foul pitch to lead his team's scoring. The Hurricane guards. Warren Church and El-wood El-wood Reber, kept the Enterprise forwards well in check. Valley High Game The Hurricane team did its best scoring of the year in the final game of the season against Valley high on the latter's court Saturday night. The final score was 47-39 in Hurricane's favor. Hurricane took the lead early in the game and held it. Although Valley made it interesting all the way. The scoring for the Tigers was carried on chiefly by Hinton and Reber, each of whom counted 14 points and Woodbury, who collected col-lected 10. Jorgenson, star pivot man, with 14 and A. Chamberlain, Chamber-lain, with 13, carried the Valley quint's offense. One peculiar feature of the game was Hurricane's inability to convert their free throws, while from the field they have never been hotter all season. Twenty-three Twenty-three field goals were registered, but only eight free trys were made.