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Show I MURRAY (UTAH) Thunday, Feb. 29, 1908 Pirate - Lancer t fin Playoff Tilt Jk.Vi Set At Region Three Standings Team Hillcrest Murray W 8 4 4 2 2 Judge Granite Jordan L 0 4 4 6 6 DIVISION ONE P'ctg. Ff PA GRANGER. I 1.000 606 476 .500 536 525 1356 1203 1222 1142 944 1161 1083 1234 1194 9 1130 8 1196 8 1152 10 1119 16 1124 1138 1195 1146 1185 1326 6 6 12 8 10 9 9 .500 499 507 .250 529 574 .250 497 585 PA PF 2 1215 DIVISION TWO 5 5 5 4 Granger Cyprus Bingham Tooele Kearns 1 3 3 3 4 7 530 540 8 2 Is er Miner Again BATTLE? . . . Murray's Richard Johnson (in white) left game temporarily following this encounter with Granite's Golden Richards. HEAT OF er under watch of Murray's CraTg Hall, Richard - Playoff Today 8-- 4-- 64-6- 63 on post-seas- 52 erything to lose, choked a trifle, forced shots and trailed a good portion of the way. In the end, it was a flurry of foul pitches which sal vaged the win. During the final eight minutes, Murray was at the line 15 times and made connections on 10. The Farmers, on the other hand, had chances only five free-thro- w in the entire second half, hitting all of them. The two teams played evenly through the first three stanzas. at the quarter It was 14-ll and a deadlock at the half. Coach Jim Hill's team 2 lead picked up a scant in the third period and forged in front by five in the first three minutes of the last quar14 31-a- 43-4- ter. 64-5- 8, us two-minu- 65 Title With turn-arou- nd ns 11; M llictro & out-co- homo sot, jot sot. fail M ins I Craig Hall seven. Granite won the battle of 3. field goals, But the 24-2- pumped in on charities to the Farm- Spartans ers' On the boards, Winget col- lected 10 caroms; Kemp and Church seven apiece and Dick Butler five. Both teams had creditable turn-ov- er totals, each giving up the ball on miscues only 13 times. While the win was Murray's playoff ticket, the defeat left Granite in a cellar tie with Jordan, a team the Farmers two weeks ago. nipped 79-In Friday's prelim, the up- and-doSpartan Jayvees surprised a talented Granite reserve quintet with a 3 overtime defeat. The loss snapped a winning skein for the visitors and ended their season with 14 wins in 17 starts. Spartan at 3 seconds, who'd lost Granite, wound up the year at 78 75-7- 12-- 6. Coach Hal Erlckson, a Murray grad, piloted his future Farmers to a 21-1- lead and a 5 first-quart- er half-ti- me 32 edge. But Dee Jensen's In 24 tallies during the third quarter to overtake and pass their guests, 56-5- 4. It was deadlocked at the In the extra final horn, three minutes, the Murray underlings Grapplers Win Three Crowns two-poi- 63-6- 35-5- 50-6- 7 53-7- ay 35-4- 8 19-3- 23-3- 21-2- 4 10-2- 24-3- nd 38-- team poured 69-a- Region Point 7-- 76-7- Their tourney chances In jeopardy, the Spartans surged back to go ahead by four at te the mark. Granite closed it to a single fielder with a minute left, then watched the winners sack it up at the foul stripe. The Farmers, who beat on their own Murray 73-floor, got a great performance out of senior center Steve Wallace. He was deadly with a jumper, dealt the Spartans misery with his tip-iand controlled the backboards with 15 rebounds. Wallace hit 23 points, but had only limited help. Nor ally a prolific scorer, Golden Richards notched only nine; Rick Martin meshed eight. Dick Farmer, a junior newcomer to the varsity, also pushed In eight tallies and played a good floor game. Sophomore pivot Mark Buchl, who fouled out in the crucial final period, hit six. For the winners, Blaine Church was the scoring leader. His 19 points Included 9 at the foul stripe, all In the last period. Jon Winget hit six times from and added 2 -- of-3 foul shots for 14; Rich Kemp had 11 and McMillan had help from Gary Sanders, who fired 16 and Tom Woodard, with 14. Glen Park aided Burt with 13; Steve Brophy and Mike Pisto-rimeshed 10 apiece. Despite the setback, Gran31 ite's Jayvees captured the division title with a 1 record MURRAY. Hillcrest high's and now boast 29 wins in 34 Ron Hatch scorched the nets starts over a two year span. for 31 tallies in the final round of regularly scheduled games to'wrap up the individual scoring crown by a wide margin in Region Three's division one. Hatch was not Although SALT LAKE. Eight prep challenged by any player in wrestlers from Region Three his own division, he may have gained the finals of the state had division two in mind when meet here Saturday and three he fired his last field goal in won championships. a win over Jordan Friday Ben Lomond of Ogden cap- night. The bucket gave him tured the team title for the a nt margin over Bingsecond time, nosing out West ham's Wayne Steadman. 0. Cyprus was third at DIVISION ONE 41. Other teams from Region Three scoring were Kearns, Hayar, School fq rr TP Avg. H'crast 73 5071 196 24.5 seventh at 23; Bingham, ninth Hatch, 61 Kelly, 157 19.6 with 21; Granite, tied for 16th Winget,Judga Mur. 53 2649 132 16.5 128 16.0 with 13 points; Murray, in a Church, Mur. 39 Richards, Gr'ta 35 123 15.3 four-wtie for the next spot Kunz, Jordan 44 123 15.3 Gr'ta 46 111 13.8 with 11; Jordan 10 and Tooele Wallace, Mur. 29 Kemp, 81 13.S two. 41 Smith, Jdn. 107 13.3 Gr'ta Martin, 48 final matches 106 13.2 Winning their VanValkenbera, were Danny Rodriguez of CyHillcrest 41 106 13.2 prus, 105 pounds; Glen Hampton of Cyprus at 154 and The Hillcrest ace finished Blaine season with Overson, Bingham, the eight-gam- e 165. 196 tallies for an average Others who reached the fin- of 24.5 per game. Far behind in the runnerup als, but were defeated, were these wrestlers from the re- spot was Judge's Pat Kelly, whose team had finished its gion: Kent Overson of Kearns, league schedule a week beaten for the title earlier. His 157 counters gave by Stan Haramoto of Bear him an average of 19.6. A pair of Murray lads River. Stuart Lleberman of Granranked third and fourth, with ite, who lost to Rodriguez in Jon Winget finishing at 132 the championship. and 16.5, while Blaine Church Steve Healy of Kearns, loser had 128 and 16.0. to Mark Lovato of Clearfield Falling into the fifth spot in the behind Church was Granite's match. Terry Thompson of Murray, Golden Richards, completing who was beaten by Overson for the season with 123 and a 15.3 the crown. average, the same figures reRoger Ketchum of Cyprus, corded by Jordan sophomore who lost to Dave Sprankle of Ron Kunz. Davis in the Granite's Steve- - Wallace champmoved into the top 10, finishionship struggle. ing seventh on 111 points and 13.8. Murray's Richard Kemp, who played only six games because of an early injury, had a 13 5 average on 81 His eighth place points. position was just ahead of Jordan's Brad Smith, with 107 and 13.3. Tied for 10th with 106 and 13.2 were Granite's Rick Martin and Hillcrest's Pete Van Valkenburg. Hatch Gains Tie Judge For Tourney Berth 64-5- ' Johnson (52). Spartans Trip Granite MURRAY. Rallying gamely to overcome a fourth-quart- er deficit, the Murray high Spartans registered a 8 win over Granite here Friday night and moved into a second-pla- ce tie in the frenzied division cage race. The outcome forced a playoff between the Spartans and Judge this afternoon (Thursday) at 4:00 on the neutral Granite' floor. The winner will gain a state tourney berth. Hillcrest nailed down the division crown and a spot in the tourney with a perfect 0 record. Murray and Judge, the runners-u- p, are both 4. Coach Jim Spencer's team split two games with the Bulldogs during the regular seaon its son. Judge won 0 floor; Murray retaliated 68-in the return match. Today's game will mark the second time in three years a Murray team has been involved in a playoff. In '66, the Spartans nosed out Hillcrest 55-to grab a tourney spot. Granite nearly proved a spoiler in Friday's tussle. The Farmers were relaxed and methodical. Murray, with ev- - BEAD ON BUCKET. . .Granite high FarmDick Farmer (5) sets sights on two points, ll. collected seven tallies to Granite's four. Drew McMillan, a promising 3 junior, set the winners' tempo with 18 points. Paul Burt, a hustling Granite junior, equalled the output in the losing effort. 6-- c 105-pou- nd 112-pou- nd 165-pou- nd 180-pou- nd V Helping Your Your doctor's I,' W KKMM MD "I MHltt Mt ICtill III W Mtll 4 w'91.t. two-ho- . . . Granite's Golden Richards appears to have ball even with ed rim while watching, are MurRichard Kemp, Craig Hall, ray Spartans Blaine Church, Jon Winget. ck nt 15 Scoreboard Murray 64, Granite 58 Cyprus 76, Kearns 71 Hillcrest 74, Jordan 52 Tooele 58, Granger 51 Judge 78, Bingham 56 with Tooele's Lee Tate netting 167 tallies and a 20.8 average for the runnerup spot. Moving up one notch to third in the final week was Cyprus junior Gary Speris. He pushed through 22 tallies at Kearns' expense to finish with 138 points in seven games for a 19.7 average. In that same contest, Kearns high junior George Thomas picked up 17 and gained the fourth spot in scoring. His eight game total of 156 tallies gave him an average of 19.5. Granger ace Terry Healy was fifth with 17.7, while Cy- prus's Tom Turpin was sixth with 16. 5 and Lancer Doug Holt was next with 13.7. Tied for eighth and ninth at 12.8 were Bingham's Steve McKee and Tooele's Leo Gibby, the latter a newcomer to the leading 10. Rounding out the top 10 was Granger's Dave Ellett, with 12.2. Spring Run League Dates Baseball Meet Tonight At School ' SO. COTTONWOOD. The Spring Run League of the western Boys Baseball Assn. will hold a meeting at 7:30 tonight (Thursday) at Woodstock elementary, 6015 So. 13UQ East. Boys who are nine through 12 as of July 31 and reside in the area are being urged to attenolhe meetine. Par- ents are to accomDanv the boys. Registration fees may be paid at this time. Fred Delllskave. Dresident. will introduce boys and parents to the schedule for the coming season. Tryouts will De neid at Sutherland Ball Park (north east of Twin Peaks elementary) on April 13 and Apru zu at 9 a.m. YX1 Mimim FK Hi ' 1 K - (to B WMjmL kill V GEO Working for Better Health S3 0nEEre Kj:irCil: 11 t If your homt woi to bt robbtd, would your insurance htlp? !3 YES, IF WE'D WRITTEN ITI TALK HOME) Displayed by these Dealers: INSURANCE WITH US! Clint't Arch Browning Broadway tport Car Contra City Auto Mart t- H. ttroni Motor LEO flat-foot- WWW prticrip-Ho- n compounded prt citcly, accurately. For free delivery, call us. DYCIIES HIGH FLYER worfcfr most popular Bourbon ek BUSINESS Doctor to Help Our Traveler filth for around the world. GRANGER. An experiment al program to promote physical fitness among men in the area is scheduled to begin at Granger high in two weeks. course scheduled A for 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. each Thursday, is to get under way on March 14, according to Ken Griener, who will di rect the activity, along with Ken Schmidt. Both are Granur ger high coaches. Each session is to begin with about 30 minutes of "continuous exercise, with the balance of the time used for a variety of activities, including basketball, volley ball and weight lifting. Registration will be conducted from 7:30 to 9 p.m. on March 7 at the high school. The fee is $6. The race for thid, fourth and fifth was a bit closer, business! 11 69 51 ..end we know our OLD CROW Our traditional round for around the home. Player, School FO FT TP Avg. Steadman , 194 24.2 72 50-6Bingham 167 20.8 68 31-5Tate, Tooele 138 19.7 Speirs, Cyprus 40 58-736-6156 19.5 Thomas, Krns. 60 32-5142 17.7 55 Healy, G'ger 44-6132 16.5 Turpjrt, Cypi'JS 44 110 13.7 U 40 Holt. Eer McKee, B'ham 44 1526 103 12.8 25-4103 12.8 Gibby, Tooele 39 28-498 12.2 35 Ellett, G'ger ONLY ; &s TWO Physical Fitness Is Aim Of Course On Slate At Granger ut IS OUR Ii OlDCROtf MURRAY. Bingham's Wayne Steadman, idle during the final week of regularly scheduled league games, copped the individual scoring title in Region Three's division two. Finishing far out in front with 194 points in eight games for an average of 24.2 a game, Steadman became the second Bingham player in as many years to claim the title of league scoring king. Last year it was Wally Shulsen. DIVISION 10 9 500 559 League's Top Point-gett- 8 547 496 576 556 577 579 .625 .625 .625 .500 .125 Deprived of a division title with a loss at Tooele on Friday Granger high's Lancers came a step closer to missing the state tourney altogether when in they lost to Bingham 72-an overtime playoff game here Tuesday. The Granger quint will have a second chance to qualify for the state competition at 3:30 this afternoon (Thursday), when they tangle with Cyprus on the Kearns high court. The clubs exchanged wins during the regular season and ended in a three-wa- y tie with Bingham for the title of Region Three's division two. It was a suprise loss to on Friday Tooele by 58-that necessitated Granger's appearance in the playoff picture. A Cyprus -- Bingham playoff had been expected. Playing on the neutral Kearns court Tuesday afternoon, Granger was engaged in a duel most of the contest, even managing to break away for an eight-poilead, only to be caught Miners of by the Coach Udell Wankier. The teams were about even-u- p in the opening canto, Bingham leading by 16-after eight minutes. clear-c- W 14 12 KHS M,,,' IFtKFU L. O. tportt Car lavt Motor Town Auto Bataa Country Murray Toyota Daatari Ama.1 Crown MotofO M.ntova DodfO Pack. 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