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Show Round Robin May Decide Co. Champ With Kanab and Piute just fighting it out to decide who goes into the state tournament seeded 1st from Region eight, the Round Robi.n shapes up to be a return match of the Cross County rivals, Milford and Beaver. First they will both have to win their preliminary ftames, with Milford facing Bryce Valley Thursday at 1:00 p.m. and then either Escala.nte or Parowan, Friday. Beaver meets Valley in the first game tonight at 7:00 p.m. and then Enterprise or Panguitch Friday. Fri-day. Supposing both Beaver County Coun-ty teams would win their first two games, they would meet for the third time this year at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday to battle for third and fourth spots in the state tourney. Each have won one game this year in their meetings, and they were tied in league play. A flip of the coin gave Coach Nielsen the choice of entering the tourney as 2nd or 3rd in the league standings. He said, "since Beaver Beav-er beat us by a lnrger score than we beat them, I figured they deserved to go into the Roi'.nd Robin in 2nd place." Five of the eight teams will advance to the state tourney at BYU on March 14, 15, 16, and 17. The Tigers easily overpowered overpower-ed Enterprise last Friday, 54-39, 54-39, but Robert Edwards rein-jured rein-jured his knee and will not be able to play in the Round Robin. Only Barnes and Raines got into double figures with 10 and 13 respectively while Workman Work-man and Edwards both sacked 8 in the low scoring game. The first quarter score was only 4-2 as the .name of the game was ball control. At the half Milford led 20-16 and 41-28 at the three quarter mark. Milford had superiority on the boards with 44 rebounds to 29 for Enterprise. They also made 16 turnover to 5 for their opponents. op-ponents. The Tigers will be looking for you in the cheering section in Cedar City during the Round Robin, don't let them be disa-pointed. disa-pointed. The JV lost 45-54 to Enterprise Enter-prise with Alan Mayer picking up 11 and Holm and Smith each nine. MHS Freshmen shined in a 58-43 win at Enterprise with Brad Gale hitting 18 points, Roger Barnes 12 and Edwards and Bradshaw each 8. |