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Show Doauor uc. Hlfamonl in quarterfinal bout some fine talent though not much size in Mitch Oakden and Daniel Robinson Robin-son at running backs. Steve Gillins and Jeff Williams fgive the Beavers adequate signal calling. Defensively, the Beavers are small but few teams r have run on them this year and it was the hardhitting hard-hitting defense that blocked a Cowboy punt and run it over the goal to beat Ka-nab. Ka-nab. If the Beavers are to shine again, it will take all-out performances from Jeff Lee, Roger Don Marshall, Mar-shall, Doug Farnsworth, Joe White, Jim Haslem, and David Crook. Marshall has some good young boys who will give The Beavers will carry Beaver County banners to Provo Friday at 1:30 p.m. for the quarterfinal game of the state football tournament tour-nament playoffs. Tickets I are available at Beaver 'I High School at reduced rates. j Their opponents will be Altamont, who finished in i a three-way tie with Mon- ticello and East Carbon at 6-2. Local scouts say that the Longhorns who blanked Monticello in the final game is the toughest of the three. ! That pair won the flip anyway, and East Carbon had to play-off with Dugway for a state berth Wednesday. Kanab and North Sevier will be , the other Region Eight teams. The Cowboys going in No. 1 place will meet Region Nine runner-up runner-up South Summit at Richfield Rich-field and North Sevier gets Region Nine top dog North Summit at noon Friday at Spanish Fork. Monticello takes its opening shot at the winner of Wednesday's playoff between East Carbon Car-bon and Dugway. Kanab and North Summit are rated the teams to beat this year, but defending champion Beaver doesn't figure to lay down until the final gun. Coach Al Marshall always al-ways manages to get top performances out of his boys in the state tourney and only once in seven years have they not been in the championship game. Four times they've brought home all the bacon. This year they've got him plenty of back-up. The Cowboys who tasted the championship two years ago would like to repeat. They have the size and talent if they've got enough spirit. North Summit Sum-mit obviously has the top offensive machine, but hasn't played against Region Re-gion Eight defense. They want it bad and will be hard to stop. The rest have all earned earn-ed the right to a state tourney berth, and could pull off some surprises. Tickets are available at participating schools. $2.50 tickets are $2.25 on advanced sale. |