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Show TIGERS UNDEFEATED FOR SEASON: b Tp tap CoialtasD Don't miss this one! Elsewhere in the region, Piute maintained their 3rd place lead with a 77-66 win over Escalante. Panguitch surprised Valley, 54-51 for their first season win. Bryce Valley knocked off Beaver, 77-72, after Russell Al-brecht Al-brecht fouled out In the fourth quarter. Milford continued undefeated unde-feated last week with a squeaker at Millard Monday, 49-47, and a romp at Parowan, Paro-wan, Friday 81 -46, While the rest of Region 8 was riddled with upsets, and Kanab picked pick-ed up a 2-0 forfeit from Enterprise, En-terprise, who hadeightplay-ers hadeightplay-ers suspended for a game, for training violations. Garland Tait pumped In the final basket for the win at Millard with eight seconds to go after Millard had taken the lead In the second quarter, outscorlng Milford 17 -4 during dur-ing the period, and taking a half time lead 31-23. The Tigers jumped off to an early lead, 17-14 at the quarter, then went cold, hitting hit-ting only 20 of 67 shots from ( the floor for 30. They also hit 9 of 11 foul shots for 82 to help keep them in the game, mainly on scrap and determination until they finally were able to go back ahead at the finish. They played a gutsy, determined de-termined game, when the shots just wouldn't fall, and refused to lose, even when they were still down 38-41 at the three-way buzzer. LEAGUE STANDINGS Won Lost Milford 8 0 Kanab 7 1 Piute 6 2 Beaver 5 3 Bryce Valley 4 . 4 Escalante 3 5 Valley 3 5 Enterprise 2 6 Parowan 1 7 Panguitch 1 7 Tait's winning shot also gave him scoring honors with 12, Jimmy Raines 11, Kevin Barnes and Russell Smith 8, Tom Jones 6, and Alan Mayer May-er 4. Condie had 15 for Millard Mil-lard and Robins 10, as Keith Gilllns' boys played a good game even though the Tigers' height kept them away from the boards . Milford's six scorers had 45 boards. Jones had 12, Smith and Raines each 11, to lead the rebounding. rebound-ing. At Parowan It was a rout with the starters barely logging log-ging two quarters each. Raines led the attack with 23 points and 13 rebounds; Jones had 15 and 8 to back him up, for the only two Tigers entering double figures fig-ures as all 12 players were in the scoring columns. Randy Ran-dy Kerr came off the bench to add 9, K. Barnes 8, and Smith 6. Johnson had 18 for the Rams and Robinson 12. Milford Mil-ford hit 35 of 65 for 54from the floor and 11 of 26 foul shots. Parowan hit 35 from the floor and 36 from the foul line. This week the Tigers go to Kanab. The Cowboys were idle last week with the forfeit for-feit from Enterprise, and will be rested, groomed and tough. When Milford scrambled scram-bled them In the season opener, open-er, they were only a week out of the football championship. They weren't even thinking basketball yet. However, they haven't lost since and it should be the league's top game. The Cowboys have size, talent, and desire, and a win would tie them with Milford for the top spot. If ... , Mi ' t r- f- - r Vfii piii ' T mi J I f 4 5 ' I f . ' t I ! r ioJ&d A f--' i - s07-ii ; !,' ?- .,.-- RARE PHOTO: It's rare to capture two complete teams In one picture, but the News photographer did, last week when the Milford ninth grade played Dixie. The Milford team In white, l.-.r., are: Donald Livingston 12, Ricky Puffer 10, Brad Kirk 20, John Horlacher 34, and Gary Mayer 30. Milford lost 40-48. |