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Show Tigers Split Holiday Games, Meet Cowboys Here Friday The Tigers split for the weekend, week-end, winning at Lincoln 59-41 and losing to powerhouse Es-calante Es-calante 62-74. We're just not playing consistent con-sistent ball Coach Neilsen said after the game, noting that Richard Smith and Rpbt Edwards, Ed-wards, hit for 20 and 17 re- the scoring. He is averaging nearly that for the season and with him on the team, Escalan-te Escalan-te will be hard to beat. Against Lincoln the Tigers dropped 9 of 12 free sho's while at Escalante they hit only 4 for 9 and Escalante hit 16-24 enough for the winning margin. Escalante also hit 50 from the floor while Milford hit only 41. Quarter Scores Milford 10 26 42 59 Lincoln 6 19 24 41 Milford 6 21 39 62 Escalante 19 37 54 74 Tommy Mayer was the only other Tiger not mentioned tt get into double figures. He got 10 at Escalante. Friday nisrht, the Kanab Cowboys will invade the Tiirei gym and are rated very hiirh in the western division of the region. Danny Glover and Ken Brown return with the Cowboys, Cow-boys, and either are capable of breaking a ballgame open in second);. Kanaib and Mllfor"! are likely candidates for ih. division championship, which gives the champ an automatic berth into the state tournament. tourna-ment. spectively against Lincoln, but enly 4 and 6 at Escalante, while Jimmy Raines hit ftr only 6 against Lincoln but came back at Escalante with 31. The best news was see'.ng Jimmy pick up four fouls in the first half at Escalante and then play the whole second half without fouling out, he said. He has got to learn to slay out of foul trouble, and maybe he learned something Friday. Turn overs were costly he said. At Escalante, we failed to score the first six times wo got the ball. They outscored us by 13 points in the first quarter, quar-ter, and only beat us by 12. Escalante's big 6'6" center Bailey hit for 38 points to lead |