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Show 1 nyn(r jjmymiyi iyirtiijyo wi i n my tip MBjytoyXtoyyn ii'1 ynim " mg mi jfciMiyiiiyil njWpi y fry DESERET r Region 2 in ?M h By TOM BROWN I seret News Sports Writer me -- hot action last night Sally settled it for most of t states Class AA schools. 1 ..t still hanging up is the de-- c - m in Region Twos Divi-- s ci One and that will be d l ied tonight. ' county schools were the c 'y ones left still battling for 1 1" right to represent their ie-- g n in tlie state Class AA I. 'Is which begin Monday at r1 -- University of Utah. Rest $ One and Four were s tied last week and Tuesday f lies settled half of Region T. and all of Region Three. South Highland dropped to officialT, night ly take over the fourth place la Region Two. East is No. 1 in he region and Highland fourth. The onlv hangup is in ti e county division where aiid Viewmont Jbuntiful square off tonight at 8 p.m. at Viewmont. The winner gets th No. 2 slot in the region, the ioer must face Clearfield for the No. 3 slot. v In other games in Region Tv- o. East sailed past West. V'l 73. a ori Olympus dropped Si., line. to Region Three, Kparns 1. as pped Bingham enrcted to "et the No. 1 seeding for the region. Murray goes to state as No. 2 in t, the reeion, followed by Cyprus and Granite. In other action in the re, gion, it was Cyprus 62, Tooele 57, while . the division one schools were idle. And in Region Four, in games that had no bearing on the finish of the standings, Pmvo dropped Snamsh Fork Orem dropped Ameriin overtime can Fork fsd Carbon beat Springville in the Iat game of the season for. both of those " s ' i- it - , K i , x - MI - A le 89-6- 6 89-6- 6 I xfc $ t, n 414 (5-1- (6-0- rf 3 71-5- about the South 80-6- 7 , I; :) A L 4 , 93-5- T 79-7- 7 7 7S-5- tjrms. t f i I I 1 - . Region Four entrants to state are Orem No. 1, Provo second and American Fork . Region 0-- e entrants are Weber first. Box Elder sec- - r SL HacEx AHlIer Reasons Like ' -.i ArcyhN ''MXi.'l Broken Record I v , By HACK MILLER If it is true that Cassius Clay flunked his VArmy mental tests I can see why. ij 3 Hes never kept his mouth shut long enough 'for anything to , go into his head. convinced many of that fact Monday when in about 35 groups around the USA jsind Canada for a telephone interview with iMuhammad Ali. LHe I Clay began blabbering from the first question. Half an hour later many of oar contingent left in Jiisgust. Others of us lingered to see if the man was going to offer one understandable wbrd. He did recite some poetry which,' we learned later, was part of a Vitalis advertisement. He which sgpined to have been rhymed a few lines some other from lines he had learned. pickups 4 He screeched like a parrot and at one time, When asked a simple question, he hurst into a verbal fit during which time he reminded us of how great two in Golden he was, reviewing all his titles Gloves, three in AAU affairs, one gold medal in the Olympics and a clean record in the heavy-weigpro program. ht Wi!l Crawl On His Knees ;iim Then he added, when someone got a word to and asked what he would do if Frazier did beat him: I will crawl around on my knees in shame 1 tand I will go to Frazier and touch him and praise jliim as the greatest And then Ill crawl around the ,nng on my hands and knees again. Do you really mean that and will you do it? I Ja reporter asked. v Clay said he would offering us another 10 minutes of noise. His standard answer was, This fight is a I AAkIAftM iVu To which newsmen asked why should the ght be held, and how could he expect people to iy money to see it? Which all brought another fit against Frazier. f He made a lot of other noise wnich is not worth the ink to print it. This writer thought maybe Clay would come on solid this fight, make some sense. Some have said they believe Clay is a bright man. If so he should have his due. But he did everything in the book Monday to prove that the bees are still in his belfry. A Better Side Of Clay Ive been in Clays presence before and after See MILLER COLUMN ms Page l 2 t pledge to win the Utah game, and the WAC title, in honor of Stan their' stricken. ' coach, ' Watts. This one is for Stan, the players said as they finished their chalk talks and went upon the maples Monday to shape for the Saturday afternoon game with Utah. All the seasons marbles are in the Utah ring Saturday. It See separate sforv about 6YC coach Stan Watts on Page D-is a television game to be 7. shown throughout the region. 1 :30 p.m. BYU won the first Utah game at BYU. It was virtually no contest as the Cats scratched into a 23-- lead, went out at halftime, and finished easy at In that game Kresimir with his Cosic was the hero Tipoffs at 9 54-3- 103-8- handoffs. He took 16 rebounds, made dozens of assists and confounded the Braves under either basket. He alone spooked the Utes, but Bemie Fryer and Jim Miller kept the fire under the offensive kettle. Even then BYU had 18 turnovers to Utahs 8 and got one less field goal than Utah. Utah got itself in foul trouble with 25 calls that offered the Cats 3S shots they made 31 of them. BYU fouled 19 times. With this background and the Utah promise that the Pumas would see a different day at Utah, thp Running Redskins are expected to mind their manners in several ways this rime. Utah will behave itself, and try to temper its fouling. This might give Cosic a little more leeway. Utha will attempt to blanket and the big Yugoslavian whether Jim Mahler, John Dearman and Early Laster can do it remains to be seen. Cosic is much improved over his last appearance against Utah and has become the No. 1 center in the NCAA region. It is quite likely that Utah will not run with the Cougars but will control this time the ball, play the slow-bur- n Other teams receiving votes: Manti, jucb. North Sanpete, Richfield, Delta, Hurricane. Numbers 4, 9 and 10 weren't in t!.e top ten. CLASS Sevier 1 2. Enterprise 2 3. Piute 4 4. Tabrona 3 Pcints 367 335 293 234 5. Duchesne 6 171 Team 1. N. B Points Team 167 Valley 127 Kanab 8 (tie) 89 Dugway Beaver 10 (tie) 89 North Rich 8 69 5 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Other teams receiving votes: Wendover, East Carbon, Wayne, Tintic, South Rich, St. Joseph, Gunnison, Milford, Escalante. Numbers 7 and 9 weren't in the top ten. Mon-ticell- o, Numbers with asterisks indicate standing last week iiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiiiiiiimniiiuiiiiiiimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiinmiMiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiii!iiiiiiiii!iiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii the tournament. While Coach Yerkovich wasnt able to vote for himself, the five coaches in the class who did gave him enough points throughout the year to put them on top. But Payson, which knocked off Judge in a game for tournament Saturday seeding night, was so close behind the Bulldogs and so far ahead of anyone else, that its hard to say that they were really No. 1 and 2. Again it looks like a tight race between Judge and Pay-sofor a title, thanks to votes n from Coach Craig Livingston of Wasatch, the Region Five representative; Doug Moon, Six: from Region Uintah Dave Nevens from Richfield from Region Seven ; Dick Hobbs, Cedar City and Lew Monsen, Millard from Region Eigh. North Sevier was the over j gion Sixs representative from Monticelio; Paul Back from I North Sevier in Region Seven ; t along with Quin Newby from Valley and Arlyn Hafen from J Kanab in Region Eight. it Nothing Par-Tem- p Suits A SUIT OF FASHION FOR TODAYS MAN power two or three more fireballs than Utah has when it comes to scoring. Any of seven Cougars could run in ringers for 30 points. On Utahs side the big scorers are Ken Gardner and Mike Newlin. Early Laster got 21 against BYU the last time around, and is picking up his offensive play. He could have another great day and the Utes will need firepower from as many spots as possible. Incentive is there on both sides. The winner will at least be (pending the outcome of the Ute games at the two Arizona schools). If Utah, loses to BYU it will end its play for the year. As an NCAA regional host it cannot play in an invitational tournament. If BYU loses, the Cougars could go to the NIT unless the Cats wind up in third place, and then the loser of the playoff game on the following Tuesday would likely get the NIT bid. This is still Coach Sears All new and ruggedly handsome . . . our new Classic and Traditional suits with center vent and wider lapels, both in luxurious 100 wool worsted. New Stan fashion colors, too! Watts basketball team. In 21 years he has won two NIT titles, six conference champi- Sizes 38-4- 4 in regular and long. Slip into one! onships. If the Cougars can get this one for him he will have seven thats getting the gonfalon about one third of the time. Braves Upset Millard Club CHARGE IT on Sears Revolving Charge North Summit IROIO a tournament favorite a year ago, but went back to Coalville after two days. The Graves did a complete turnabout this year bl upsetting the No. 3 ranked Millard Eain thefirst game gles, of the Gass A 1971 tourney was 30-4- 4, Wednesday. SECTION Sears Downtown 754 South State SHOP AT SEARS AND SAVE D Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Back Phone SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO. Sports 1, 2, 7, 8 I 35.5-(i(i.- 5 1 j of the favorite whelming Class B coaches and the Wolves are in prime eonten- - J tion for the state title. Voting tn the Class B board were Lee Ryan, Region Fives man from Tintic; Ray Odette, Re- BYU has scoring in many positions game. Brigham , Young University basketballeis have taken the CLASS A SAVE For Old Stan Deseret Newy Sports Editor Jy S fans BYU Pledge: 'This One Is ' f- A I, In Class AA. Coach Dick Milne and his Leopards look like good bets to take the state title and the other coaches in the class are backing him up. Milne was one of the representatives from Region Two on the Coaches Poll, Larry Maxwell of Highland was the other. Region One was represented by Logans Rod Tueller, Region Three by Jim Yerkovich of Judge and Region Four by Carbons Randy Spender. Judge's coach voted as a Class AA school, but the Bulldogs are playing A schools for j; SPORTS EDITOR 1 All four of those finished on top of tiieir respective classes and all four are considered as excellent prospects to walk off with the title in their Hass when the state finals conclude March 13. The final Deseret News Coaches Poll is the compilation of all the votes each team e eight received during weeks cf the poll. In previous weeks. 15 of die top high school coaches in the state picked their top ten schools and telephoned them to the Deseret News where they were compiled. This week, we took the totals from each week and added them up, and the results look strikingly like predictions for the outcome of the tournamenl. gion Three five slots ftr the state tournament and four to Region Two. Souvall has contended all year that Region Three can take three weaker teams to state, but that the city schools have to battle for just two slots. Im sick about it. You work your guts out all season and then can't take a great team to state because some other region hai more slots. what can you do? George. AA n Its a rotten shame, but South's Vance Loertseher drives hard through Highland's Duane Tippets for two points. CLASS TOM BROWN Deseret News Sports Writer Theres a chance, a good chance, that the final standings of the Deseret New s Coaches Poll could just tell the story for the state tournaEast. Judge or Pay-soments and North Sevier. f f ,( ? B crammed into the spacious fieldhoiiae. This is one of the finest teams in the region, but w'e cant go to state. George was talking about the inequity which resulted when the region board of managers decided to give Re- Hill-cres- 1 DESERET NEWS CAGE POLL Tell Finish them. It's just a shame that they cant see this team in the said Souvall tournament - r Larry D March 3, 1971 imimiiiiimmiiiiiimiMiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiMiiiimiiiiiiiiimiimiiijiiiiiiiiiiimimiiiinimiiiHiiimiiiiimmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiiitiiiiiiiiiimiiii1 Poll Could Max- well said before his Rams went out on the court against the South High Cubs. What he meant was that if the Cubs should happen to take Highland in this game, a playotf would develop pitting tiv If they same teams again beat us twice, they deserve to win. No such thing developed, however, as Highland uv, its height to sail past South on the Cubs home court. It a r eearea close in the beginning, but by the time third period buzzer went oh, the Cubs had lost any hope of ever making it to the finals. The Rams had just too much height with people like Wayne (""die. Scott Smith and Duane Tippets controlling the boards desnite the best efforts of Vance Loertrher and Steve Borup for the Cubs. The Cubs worked on Tippets, Smith ar.d Condie all the first half to draw them out o' their game and run up their fouls. And the tactic worked on the fiery little men. Randy and Scott Jackson Pratt as well. Both were clos) ing in on the red Five flag before Maxwell substituted I - o' deserve to win, Wednesday, , ond, Logan third and Ogden fourth. Highland 89, South 66 If they beat us twice, they ,'s Official NEWS, Shop Dailv, 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. J ,,es. and Sat. Till 6 p.m. Sunday, Noon to 5 p.m. t |