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Show Val Shumway, Brook Woodard and Jay Turner. Directing the Murray eleven were Ed Shumway, head coach; Ralph Stroble, Dee Christensen and Pete DaRonch, assistants. In the Midget contest, Kearns failed to muster the offensive punch it had displayed earlier in the season. Although playing East on even terms throughout the first half, the Kearns lads gave up a pair of touchdowns in the third stanza which made the difference in the ball game. The first East TD came on a pass interception, while the second came on a sustained I 4 drive. Kearns fans got their biggest offensive thrill when Hugh returned an East kick-o- ff all the way back to the 10, but East defenses thwarted further attempts to penetrate their territory. For the Kearns club, Dean Bona completed seven of nine aerial attempts from his quarterback slot, with Rick Kearney 1 Men-denh- all nabbing four of them. Defensively, Kim Justeson and Jesse Clark turned in yeoman performances, getting 17 and 12 unassisted tackles, respectively. Heading the Kearns coaching staff were Robert Wiley, head coach; Larry McArthur, THWARTED . . . Murray Mighty Mite Jay Turner (20) gets set to assist unidentified teammate in stopping touchdown effort by West runner in Ute Conference playoff won by Murray club. Garry Larson andArdeanBona, assistants. Missing Saturday's action was Kearns halfback Lonnie Harkness, who suffered a brok en arm three days earlier when his team tripped Granger 14-- 7 in a showdown contest between division In that game, Hugh Mendenhall scooted 50 yards with 35 seconds remaining to break a 7 tie. In the previous quarter, he had rallied his team from a seven point deficit by racing 25 yards for a TD and adding the extra point. Highlights of the Ute Confer ence playoffs held in Murray are scheduled to be seen on channel 2 this morning (Thursday). Both the Murray and Kearns teams are slated to see action again on Saturday in exhibition games. Murray's Mighty Mites and Juniors will play their counterparts from Olympus in the afternoon at Price. The games were scheduled to promote int erest in little league football at Price. IK... Also on Saturday, starting at 10 a.m., Kearns Midgets and . .. -. . ... Bantams will play teams of nun mil p ii iiwHSSSSVTo those age levels from Denver on the Babe Ruth field at Kearns. PILEUP . . . East defenders stack up a Kearns runner in a Ute Culver City, Calif, will be the destination of four little league Conference playoff game won by East on Saturday at Murray. Near teams from the Granger area the action is Jeff Miller (20) of Kearns. when they leave tomorrow (Fristrength of lenthy runs by fleet day) for games the following backs. day. -- 'j Murray Mighty Mif es Champ; Kearns Edged MURRAY. One Green Sheet emerged a champion during playoffs of two Ute Conference divisions at four age levels here on Saturday. The Murray Mighty Mites earned that honor when they area team outscored their counterparts from West by 19-- 6. Only other team from the Immediate area in the playoffs was the Kearns Midget eleven, beaten 12-- 0 by East. At the Bantam level, South 40-ya- rd downed Olympus 12-- 7. South, which had shared the National League title with Granger, edged the Granger squad 19-three days prior to Saturday's conference playoff. Conference titlist among the Juniors was Highland, conqueror of South by 42-- 6. Three days earlier, South advanced to the playoffs by nudging Murray 0, scoring with less than a minute to play. In the first of Saturday's four playoff contests, Murray's Mighty Mites extended their unbeaten string to 10 on the 14 9W 6-- f r. .if.' ft! ('3 . k j- "I' - i.IU another FOODS TITLE - (From Pg. 2, Col. 5) Orem a shocking 35-- 7 defeat in a Friday game at Kaysville. Paired with the 39-- 6 margin by which the Darts pounded Granger a week earlier, it gives Coach Gerald Purdy's team an Impressive playoff record. Skyline had a lot of trouble before posting a 14-squeeze over Payson on the Utah county team's home field. The unde feated Eagles, champ of Region Two, were relatively unim pressive. The Class A rematch pits the No. 1 and No. 2 team of Region Two. Skyline squeezed out a close, win over Davis in their seasonal clash, coming from behind to do it. 13 free-scori- ng Lancer Lack Is Experience Little varsity experience is represented on the cage squad DeMann. Granger high mentor Don Snow the for Along with plaudits is working with in preparation offensive standouts, coaches of for next week's opening game. the Mighty Mites praised dein The Lancers, fensive performances of Kenny Region Three's division one last Erlckson, Jimmy Hardman, season, are slated to begin a Mark OaRonche, Kevin Potter, schedule Bill Welte, Brent Chrlstensen, at West on Dec. 1. That outing be followed by three will straight home games, with opposition being Roy, Murray and Carbon. Two road games, Jor dan and Hillcrest will precede the first league contest at Kearns on Jan. 5. rd mm CONVENIENCE Murray's Cal Coleman scored a pair of TDs, the first coming in the opening period when he went 35 yards on an end sweep. A quarterback keep by Alan Peters added the extra point for a 7- -0 lead which Murray clung to beyond the half-tibreak. In the third quarter, Coleman exploded for a run, but was hauled down at the four. The next play found the fleet Murray back in the end zone, giving his team a 13-- 0 spread. Later the same period West set up its score on a long pass, but had to contend with a stout Murray defense four downs before netting the score on a reverse. The clincher for Murray came in the fourth canto, when Greg Jones sprinted right up the middle for 25 yards and six points. In addition to the scoring thrusts, Murray kept things hot for the West eleven, penetrating deep several times on long punt runs, including a return by Brook Woodard and three lengthy gallops by Bryan GRANGER. ps six-ga- pre-leag- ue Veteran Spartans Tall, Coaches See Potential There's a note cautious optimism in the camp of the Murray Spartans as they drill for the season-openibasket ball game at Box Elder on Dec. 1. Coach Jim Spencer is working with a squad, including four of last year's varit's a rangy sity starters. crew with good height even though there is no extremely big individual. In the '67 campaign, the Spartans won eight while dropping nine. Only loss from last year's team was top scorer and All Region selection Ron MURRAY. of EAGLE -- ADVERTISER MIHR4T (LTAB1 Thursday, Nov. 23, 1967 ng d. Murray will play back- season openers at Box Elder on Friday, Dec. 1 and at Bingham on the following Six of the eight night. games will be on fore ign floors, with the Spartans at Bountiful on Friday, Dec. 8 and Granger on Tuesday, the ck pre-leag- ue Two other seniors are on the 6-- 6; - Glen crew Ames, and Craig mil, who's Xine juniors v mg for varsity squad spots are Tom Woodard, Dick W alters, Dave Shaw. Gary Sanders, Andy Johnson, Mark Christensen, Bri Stringham and Jay Neilson. Spencer predicts a "red hot" race for honors in Region Three's division one. Getting n nods are last year's Class A state runnerup, -- , early-seaso- another G7 state Hillcrest; tourney contender in Judge; a good Granite siiuad and a dark-horJordan contingent. Only two of the five will gain the March tourney, along with two from division two, which is composed of Bingham, Kearns, Granger, Cyprus and Tooele. se 1 12th. They'll make their home bow against American Fork on Saturday, Dec. 16 and will be at the 19th. East on Tuesday, Cyprus will be at Murray on Thursday, Dec. 21 and the non-lowindup will be at Pleas ant Grove on Friday, Dec. 29. Showing well in early drills are six seniors, including two-ye- ar letterman Jon Winget, a 2 forward; Richard Kemp, a 3 forward; guards Blaine and Richard Church, and center Johnson, who's 6Dick Butler at 4, who's being pushed for a berth by Bob Jensen, also 4. op 6-- 6-- 6-- A Seasoned Cougar Squad Tall, five without a in the bunch may carry Cyprus colors into the opening of the basketball season here next week. Coach Dick Smuin's Pirates schedlead off their ule on Dec. 1, hosting Carbon high. Tom Turpin, 9, is one of four seniors on the current crew and the only returning regular from a team which last year knocked off both teams which Region represented Three's division one In the state tournament. Other seniors at the same height are Tom Mori and Ron Martinez, while the fourth, Steve Jenklnson, is MAGNA. starting six-foo- pre-leag- ue Coach Smith said he'll not know for sure if he'll have a six-fo- ot starter until he meas-sur- es the squad during the coming week. Among last year's Jayvee standouts in the group who are pushing the six-fo- ot mark are Gary Spears, Duane Catten and Randy Martin. The Buc squad was cut to a dozen on Tuesday, after a group of 18 had been vying for berths on the varsity crew. -2 6-- 6-- six-foot- Ma-cha- 6-- 4-- 4. losses. Regular season play found Coach Ken Griener's Lancers averaging nearly 280 yards per game, much of it coming on the passing of Todd Christensen, who found a variety of receivalong with running of Jer- ers, ald Warner and Jerry Davis. Christensen tossed 13 touchdown passes. Warner, who also had a younger brother, Randy, as a Larry Breeze, The Cougars, winners of only teammate, was the team's scor-'n- g two games last season, lead off champ with 10 TDs for 60 the campaign on points. A receiver of 19 passes, Dec. 1 at Ben Lomond. Home he lugged the ball at 4.6 per games with Carbon and West carry. Davis, with seven TDs for follow, before the team travels to Payson. Viewmont will play 42 points, ranked second In on Kearns maples next, before scoring, also snared 19 aerials and amassed 702 yards the Cougars play a three-gam- e road schedule at Judge, Granite rushing for an average of 5.2 and Highland, before leading off per carry. Other scorers Included Bruce the league season hosting GranTaggart, who, in addition to ger on Jan. 5. Kearns will compete in Reg- scoring four times, interception Three's division two during ed seven enemy passes; Randy the coming season. Other teams Warner with three TDs, while are Bingham, Cyprus, Granger one touchdown apiece was scored by David Gibson, Joe and Tooele. Two of the five squads will Sorensen, Terry Young, Wally and Rick Olsen. qualify for the state tourney in Crosby As a team, the Lancers March. racked up 198 points, a school high, while limiting foes to 97. Five of their opponents were -3 8. pre-leag- blanked. The highest output of the year 2 was in the conquest of GRANGER. A decade of football was capped at Granger high Kearns. Fourteen of the Lancers who this year with the best record since the school's athletic debut finished the season will be lost in 1958. through graduation, including Undefeated in regular season Rick Olsen, Todd Christensen, play, the Lancer gridders took Jerry Davis, Jerald Warner, a record of eight wins and a tie Tom Sessions, Bruce Taggart, into the state quarterfinals, Neal Hendrickson, Glen Kimmarking the only time the school ball, John Fassio, Jim Taylor, has fielded a team which has Wally Crosby, Bill Herzog, been unbeaten in regular season Terry Young and David Gibson. action. A 39-- 6 loss to eventual state finalist Davis, marked the end of the season for the Lancmark for ers, leaving an the entire campaign. The 1967 season left Granger school's COTIONWOOGETTO grid record at 34 wins, 50 losses and five ties. The campaign just ended represented only the third win Working Out KEARNS. Rare is the basketball coach who can begin the season with his entire starting team back from the previous year. Such is the case at Kearns high, where Coach John Wood, The 10-y- That Last GIFTS Pampers everything, including Permanent Press! High Speed Dryer Special Permanent Press Cycle Right temperature and tum- bling action these amazing new garments need dry wrinkle-freready to wear without ironing! Family-Siz- e Loads just right care for all kinds of fabrics! Automatic Dry adjusts drying time according to type of fabric and the moisture in the - GRANITE ning season for a Granger too. ball team. After winning its first game in 1958, Granger high copped a pair in 1959 and en joyed its first winning season in 1960 with a record of six wins, three losses. Only eight wins were garnered over the next four years and in 1965 the team broke even and Last mark stood as the year's second time the school had registered more grid wins than 41-1- Coach John Wood Crew Of '67 6-- 4; Lancer Mark Best In Decade -2 6-- Bucs Shorter Than Small in his second year at the cage helm, is rehearsing a rangy group of cagers, many with varsity experience. Working with a crew of 20 until this week, he has now trimmed the squad to 15. The only four seniors on the squad were all members of the first five a year ago. They are Tom EleRussell Bench, Bill Willahan, 6gante, and Scott Steele, 0. The other returning starter is George Thomas, a 3 junior. Other juniors working out inSteve Rigby, clude Dave Butterfield, Milt Chidest-e- r, la Steve Mimnaugh, Tom and Randy Harward, tallest of the junior group at 4. Juniors under six feet include Randy Park and Gary Pearce. Two sophomores round out the squad; Stan Ross, 6- and (From Pg. 2, Col. 8) pece, Beck, Burt and Smith were on the '67 Jayvee quintet which captured the Region Three title and posted a 15-- 3 record, winning the last 12 in succession. In all, Granite will play nine games. Following the East fracas, they'll enter tain Skyline on Dec. 5; play at Olympus on the Bthandat View- mont on the 12th; host Cyprus on Dec. 15; Kearns on the 22nd and be at Bingham on Dec. 29. Interrupting the region schedule will be Jan. 23 and Feb. 16 dates with Granger, which will not count in league standings. Hillcrest, Jordan, Murray and Judge will be in division one of Region Three with Granite. In division two, Bingham, Kearns, Granger, Cyprus and Tooele will vie. Two teams from each division will reach the state meet. e, non-leag- ue r', Happiness is load! S It Z,.-I Variable Time Dry Control 3 Heat Selections ? an Electric Dryer... . Model DE 820A raim3Kiiii m . . . 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