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Show South Summit take tournament champs u O t.V w5 1 I They may have been looking look-ing for revenge for the semifinal semi-final loss at the state basketball bas-ketball tournament last year, or maybe they just got to rolling and couldn't quit, but no one can deny that the Wildcats Wild-cats from South Summit came to Milford to play ball last Friday and Saturday and it was a proud team that took home the championship trophy. Milford spotted them twenty points' in the first quarter, 24-4, and never fully ful-ly recovered as the Wildcats came out with the buzzer and pushed a full court press right down the Tigers' throats. At one point the Tigers were down 28 points before starting their comeback. They were sixminutes into the quarter before Milford scored and until those first free throws, the Tigers were having trouble getting the ball across the center stripe, as Jeff Peterson seemed to have more hands than the Milford guards could handle. Milford had 13 turnovers in the first quarter. The 72-62 loss came on the heels of a wild shooting free-for-all on Friday night that saw Milford score 100 points against Lincoln County Coun-ty and Randy Kerr set a personal per-sonal game record for the Tigers of 41 points and 23 rebounds, as the Tigers won 100-80 and gave the reserves reserv-es plenty of 4th quarter playing play-ing time. South Summit had their CHRISTMAS TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS: Proud Wildcats Wild-cats are, left to right, Tiny Woolstenhulme 20, Darrell Thomas, Kenny Walker, Paul Peterson, Mark Brown, Shorty Woolstenhulme, Jeff Peterson, Keny Ure, Richard Stokes, Tony Louderr, Dave Lefler and Coach Kent Frazier. The Kamas crew looked smooth against the Tigers and got revenge for the semi-final defeat in the state tournament last March. The score was 72-62. them. Saturday the full court press by the Kamas squad stymied them for the first quarter, before they started the slow process of catching catch-ing up. The game didn't last long enough as the Tigers were still 10 short when the final buzzer blew. Quarter scores were 24-4, 44-26, 60-36 and 72-62. Fans who missed the weekend week-end games may have missed a preview of the state cham -pionship . test coming up. We'll bet that one of them is in the finals. The top of Region Eight Division One tightened up, as Gunnison knocked off No. Sevier, 61-46, Beaver blasted blast-ed Parowan 45-30, and Ka-nab Ka-nab clipped Enterprise. That throws North Sevier, Gunnison Gunni-son and Beaver into a three-way three-way tie with 2-1 league records. rec-ords. In Division Two, Panguitch spoiled Wayne's record and Piute claimed a victory over Valley, while Bryce Valley continued their winning string with a win over Es-calante. Es-calante. Friday the Tigers are at home against powerful Gunnison. Gun-nison. Game times are at 5:40 and 7:30 p.m. problems Friday against So. Sevier, who, though much smaller, gave the Wildcats a run for their money and held the Kamas crew within four points, 52-48, in the Christmas Tournament opener. op-ener. Maybe the Wildcats don't wake up until the sun goes down. South Sevier knocked off Lincoln County in the opener Saturday, 75-63, 75-63, In a tight contest. Besides Kerr's 41 points in the Friday game, Mitch Bealer had 23 and Smith 10 for the Tigers. In the championship, Kerr led Milford with 22 points and 11 rebounds and Mark Nelson came off the bench to add 17, but Kendall (Tiny) Woolstenhulme led the Wildcats Wild-cats with 26 for game high. Jeff Peterson had 14, most on steals and Dave Lefler 12. Milford hit 39 (24-61) and So. Summit 37 (26-77). The Wildcats out -rebounded Milford 34-29. South Summit's Tiny Woolstenhulme Wool-stenhulme and Dave Lefler were picked to the All -Star team, along with Milford's Randy Kerr and Mitch Bealer Beal-er and Murray Mason of So. Sevier. Friday against a not-too-shabby Lincoln County, Nevada Ne-vada team, the Tigers were rolling and nothing could stop |
