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Show Tigers Down Millard; Move Into Tie for Division Lead LOSE 1-POINTER TO DELTA; TIED WITH BEAVER FOR SECOND Going into the second round of casaba league play the Milford Tigers are one-up one-up on their first - round start. Friday night they turned the tables on the Millard Eagles, only team to defeat them this season, and racked up an impressive 64-59 victory, coming from behind to take the win. After forging ahead in the second quarter the Tigers led until the final period when, with two minutes gone ,the Eagles moved into a 47-47 tie Millard missed a chance at the foul line, then Fowles tipped one in after Berger missed a free throw and the local lads stayed in front the rest of the way. With 1:55 left Beckstrand put the Eagles within 1 point, 58-57 when he sank his free toss on a two-and-one call. With 47 secondis left Fowles tanked one for a 62-57 count, and each team tallied twice on foul shots for the final counters. count-ers. Beckstrand, leading scorer of the division, was held to 14 points but his teammate Mon-son Mon-son dunked in 25. Fowles led the Tigers with 22 and moved ahead of Beckstrand to lead the Millard Division sharpshooters; sharp-shooters; Gillins had 18 and Reese 10. Millard was outshot from the floor, 26 to 24 baskets. Wednesday night at Delta the Tigers trailed thruout the game, and in the final period put on a spurt that carried them to within one point or tleing the Rabbits. It was a disappointment for the Milford players and fans, moving them back into a second sec-ond place tie with Beaver. Saturday the Tigers are hosts to the Parowan Rams, and they wrind up the season on Friday, Feb. 14, at Beaver. The box scores: MILFORD G T F P Fowles 9 g 4 22 Nichols 0 4 3 3 Berger 2 1 0 4 Jones 2 3 1 5 Reese 5 0 0 10 Gillins 7 6 4 18 J Roberts 1 3 2 4 TOTALS 26 22 14 66 MILLARD G T F P Stevens . 4 1 0 8 George 0 1 0 0 Stevenson 1 8 3 5 Beckstrand 6 4 2 14 Monson 10 11 5 25 Melville 3 1 1 7 TOTALS 24 26 11 59 Score by quarters: Millard 10 24 39 59 Milford 5 26 47 64 MILFORD G T F P Fowles 13 5 5 21 Nichols 1 3 1 3 Berger 2 0 0 4 Jones 2 1 0 4 Reese .- 3 1 1 7 Gillins 2 5 4 8 Roberts 1 4 3 5 TOTALS 24 19 14 62 DELTA G T F P Callister :. 4 1 1 9 Nielson 3 4 2 8 B Bailey 2 10 8 12 R Bailey 1 5 4 18 Hales 5 8 6 16 TOTALS 21 28 21 63 Score by quarters: Milford 13 28 46 62 Delta 17 34 51 63 |