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Show BINGHAM TAKES FIRST TWO GAMES IN BJWRNEY Thrills and suspense mark the ennual state Class B basketball tourney now unfolding in the George Albert Smith ficldhouse on the BYU campus at Provo where the tournament is being played this week, and the Bingham Bing-ham High Miners unbeaten in league play and winners of Jordan Jor-dan Division, are one of the sixteen six-teen teams playing in this tourney. tour-ney. Bingham 65, A. F. 39 Displaying power and all a-round a-round balance coupled with fine teamwork, the Bingham Miners overpowered their first round opponents, the American Fork Cavemen 65 to 39, in what was one of the feature games of the lower bracket in the B cage tourney tour-ney Wednesday afternoon. Right at the start of the game the two teams battled more or less on even terms. A. F. led briefly in the early part of the first quarter, 2-0, 8-5, 11-9 and 13-11 before Bingham Tim Leonard's Leon-ard's only basket of the ' game evened the count at 13 all. Bingham Bing-ham then dropped through a pair of foul pitches for a 15-13 lead at the quarter and the Miners Min-ers never trailed thereafter. With Castillo, Rekoutis, Lovat and ;Nicholls chipping in the Miners ' pushed out to a 25-19 lead at the : half, despite a gallant assault on the hoop by A.F.'s Al Hansen, i Bingham blistered the nets with Rekoutis and Castillo holding the torches. The Miners collected 40 points in the last half of the game as compared to A.F.'s 20. Leading the Miners scoring attack at-tack were Rekoutis with 22 points,-Castillo with 20 and Lovat Lo-vat with 10. The Miners also demonstrated de-monstrated a fast-reacting defense de-fense which can switch to an offensive fast break with loss of speed. All the team played fine games and contributed greatly to the Bingham cause. Bingham 72. DixU 37. The Bingham Miners played the Dixie Flyers from St. George in the second game of the tourney, tour-ney, yesterday, Thursday. The Bingham Miners trounced Dixie 72 to 37 in the second game last night. Bingham meets Gunnison in the semi-finals today, Friday, at 3:40 p.m. |