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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, March II, li II 1973 Bingham Wins Crown in Overtime Duel With Judge Hardy Sets Pace For Miner Club By Tom Wharton Tribune Sports Writer It would be unfair to say that Bruce Hardy led Bingham to a overtime victory over Judge Memorial in the Class basketball championship Saturday night in the U of U Special Events Center. locker room as Judge failed to win the state title game m its And yet it could not be said that the Bulldogs folded. After ' i into Hardy and waited patiently for the open shot. They rebounded well and held the Bulldogs potent outside shooting attack down. Bingham has been around for almost 60 years, said Sluga to his charges, and during that time, only two teams have ever won the state championship. That is a hum- bling thought. When you go out of here and back among your friends in school remember to be humble, because if you are then you will prove to me how great you rally can be. d to one Marty Giovacchini his average. point below Hardy scored 34 points. He took down many rebounds and he dribbled the ball through a tough Judge press. Giovacchini scored 19 for the Bulldogs. Still, with the words of a e stirring speech by Bingham coach George Sluga ringing in his ears, all Hardy could say was: The team is No. 1. There are no glory boys in this locker room. post-gam- Cougar II 34; Von Dyke, 2, 76. 8; Totals, 28, 8; Holt, 6; GiovacchiJudge Eagan, 3, 19; OBrien, 6, 12; ni, 6, 16; Moncini, 4, 10; Harte, 7, 2; Fite, Soltis, 1. M, 2; Barber, 1, 69. 1, 2; Totals, 29, Kennedy Road paid $6.80 and $5.20 while Cabins Price was $13.40. Bicker was fourth in the field of 10. . iotvd Yextf YoMngttor h PAUlVraUY met (hmf tinge, HtsiaMTAeHl V Hooded by Pool Willey, former Conodion Davit Cup Teom Coach. Whether, summer j beginner or advanced, each bay or giH will experience an exciting vocation while learning sportsmanship, attitudes and rules. Each two week, m- session will feature the finest in food, lodging, ond recreational facilities TENNIS CAMP eluding sailing, swimming, fishing. CANADA'S LEADING 1 ON THE BEAUTIFUIBC. COAST pm imwTuif Box 3 5212 Addraw PweaiSMon I Vancouver 13.8 The Hot One C.. Canute 604) 2 63-- 1 341 "Big, Beautiful Tribune Staff Photo by Lynn R. Johnson Bruce Hardy (25) of Bingham has the big edge in rebound battle in title game with Judge. Judge players are f By Tom Wharton Tribune Sports Writer By the way, said Bingham coach George Sluga after his team had finished winning the state championship. What was the score? The colorful Sluga was no different m victory as he was during a frustrating season that saw Bingham finish with a 5 record in league play. The win meant as much to Sluga as it did to any of the Bingham Canyon natives who made the journey to the Special Events Center to watch 4-spe- 59. The big story was the Miners victory, though, and it was shared with fans from Cyprus and Davis who joined the large Bingham throng in cheering the Miners to state. Unbelievable, unbelievmuttered the Miner able, fans as they filed out of the arena. Binghams victory was, if anything, just that was Davis 5-soe- 5-spe- Trophy 1 ( ) 4-spe- ed ed An at Sluga was an Bingham in 1960 when Udell Wankier coached the Miners to a state championship. After graduating from college, he spent five years as an assistant under Wankier and then four years as head coach before winning the state title the first time he made the tourna- ment A part of you was sitting on that bench with us all, said Sluga to Wankier in the room. Wankier dressing recently retired after 26 years of coaching high school sports. Ciusins Meet While the Bingham and for- mer Bingham coaches met in the locker room, two cousins coached against each other in the battle for the consolation championship. Davis Mike Gardner and Spanish Forks Joel Gardner lived next door to each other in Afton, Wyo., played frosh basketball together at Brigham Young University and coached with each other at Spanish Fork for one year before Mike took the head job at Davis. Their techniques Fork Pirates Trip Viking Club Finish For Third-Plac- e were Tribune Sports Writer A Cyprus High basketball team which has played six games in 11 days, used up its last bit of engery in the fourth quarter to defeat Pleasant and earn third Grove, state place in the Class basketball tournament at the University of Utah Saturday 3-- afternoon. Adamson Stars The Vikings, paced by Colby 19 points, pulled ahead of the Pirates in the third quarter by five points, but the Cyprus club scored seven straight tallies to take the lead for Adamsons finished with Yho Notion's Einost $1450 $1500 $1500 $1575 $1800 $1450 Iraki Vatu y 1106 SO. MAIN ST. 363-S07- r 1 W' New athletic director LaDell recomAndersen Thursday mended to the USU Athletic Council that Belnap be elevated to the head post. The Council gave its apprmal and the final okay from the Institutional Council Saturday was all that was needed for the new appointment. Belnap, a native of Ogden, graduated from Weber Junior College and later took his bachelor and masters degrees at Utah State. r- - He served as head baseball and assistant football and basketball coach at Weber High and in 1966 he was named head basketball coach at Weber High. He then served as general manager of the Odgen Dodgers (Pioneer League) and after his second season was named Minor League Executive of the Year by The Sporting News. Gordon (Dutch) Belnap New USU Cage Coach Belnap has been an assist 11-- 2 Both teams were humbled in the tourney openers by fourth place squads and they were eliminated from the title bracket Davis 60, Spanish F6rk 59 23 38 46 59 Spanish Fork 14 34 48 60 Davis Spanish Fork Brockbank, 4, 15; Johnston, 3, 11; Brown, 3, 7; Searle, 6, 13; Jones, 6, 13; 0; Partridge, 0, Powell, 0, 0; 59. 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"fjrelnn i: ' 1 Low profile for carefree, easy storage, hauling and handling with safety and gas economy. PURCHASE NOW WHILE PRICES ARE SO LOW) COME IN FOR FREE DEMONSTRATION TRIUMPH WEST 28-2- 4 Eyre, but made up for his lack of offense by playing an excellent floor game. Loutensock and Duane Potts TOIVLOIV T Belnap, 40, succeeds T.L. Plain, who resigned earlier last week after coaching the record for Aggies to a two years. The Darts were Region Five season champion with a and Spanish Forte, with an record, gained it a Region Six Jessen, the tournaments leading scorer going into the final day, was held to Pleasant Grove nudged to Killpack man-to-ma- n Craig good. within two m the fourth period, but Cyprus got hot again and reeled off nine straight points to put the game out of reach. I plan to have a run ning offense and employ a pressure Belnap defense, explained. I am very elated over this appointment and I am very excited over the new administration and over our new football program. I feel we have the nucleus of a good team here and I am now recruiting a junior college center to fill out our varsity needs I plan to elevate three members of our junior arsity team, freshmen Mike Rock, Derry Rupp and Dar rell Owens, to the varsity. sixth place. Davis took fourth place with the win. Leading Scorer 13 Most of our guys were running on pure guts, said Pirate coach Dick Smuin, and if Dave Killpack hadnt got hot, we would have been in deep trouble. The game was tied more 13 to times than a shoelace be exact going into the final quarter, but some hot shooting by Killpack and Jody Louten-soc- k in the final minutes gave Cyprus the margin it needed. 15; Tim, 14; and Mike, 12. After watching a stall, the Dons had to foul. The foul shot was missed and Jones rebounded. Spanish Forks last shot with 10 seconds left fell short and the Dons were forced to settle for points to end his high school career at the Magna school He was the only returning member of last years Pirate team, and was the point at which Smuin begin to build his surprising 1973 edition. 68-6- Hatter Than Ever" (650) $1600 ed 60, Spanish coach at USU for frte years and chief recruiter.' Belnap is married to tne former Faye Robins. The couple has three sons, Rob, ant By Ray Herbat Tribune Sports Writer LOGAN My immediate plans are to continue with our recruiting and then to reassemble the players to my said philosophy, coaching Gordon (Dutch) Belnap Saturday after he learned he was named by the Utah State University Institutional Council as head basketball new the coach. 60-5- 9 You bet, having those people behind us all the way helped, said members of the Bingham team in unison. By Tom Wharton $1600 $1675 $1700 $1775 $1975 ed (33), Mark Foltis (31). Bob Peisley (15) of Bingham looks hopefully at ball. Miners won tilt. similar almost exact, in fact. The final score of the game the game. . John Harte Whats Score? Coach Asks WAS Tiger (4) - 4 speeds 5 speeds Tiger (2) Bonneville (1) Bonneville (3) T ridents (11) Good Rebounding The Darts persistent rebounding paid off in the fourth quarter. Spanish Fork had only one offensive rebound and the Darts Pamsh and Taylor combined to propel - Davis to a lead with 54 seconds remaining. U SPRING BIKE SPECIALS! & more than a lead because of Craig Searle and Jim Jones. The two forwards were able to shoot with facility over their taller opponents. I two-fift- 12, 3, 6--7 v; run-mp- Hardy, excelled. At times they scored four and five field goals, but when they missed no one could challenge Roger Purdy and Alan Parrish and 5 Craig Taylor. The first half also was a story of Davis dominating the boards. However, the Darts found themselves 10 points down midway through the second quarter and at a four-poideficit at halftime because of erratic shooting. The third quarter was the first time Davis was able to tie the Dons. Spanish Fork kept the Darts from getting two-poi- 6-- TEOSCAKP Offensively, the Dons nt ARCADIA, CALIF. (UPI) -CCougar II, making his third try, raced to a 3 The junior hit six nose victory in the 36th g straight field goals. of the $170,000 Santa Bingham looked like it had -Anita Handicap Saturday but the game won going into the had to survive an inquiry to final moments but the Bullkeep the victory over Canadogs fought back with everyRoad. das Kennedy thing they had. Coming down the stretch in John OBrien and John the final stages of the one and Harte scored four points each mile race, Cougar in a minutes time and approand Kennedy Road appeared Giovacchini hit a beauto brush each other as they priately tiful jumper with 12 seconds battled for the lead with the to send the crowd of 6,500 Chilean thoroughbred gaining left into pandemonium. the victory by the nod of his Palmer, who had missed nose at the wire. two costly shots in the final But there was a wait of minutes, redeemed himself by nearly 10 minutes before the the Miners ahead for stewards continued Cougars putting with the first shot of the win in the race in which he good overtime. had finished second the previHolt, a talented sophomore, ous two years to triple bend put the Miners up by three in 1972 and ack ack in 1971. and Hardy hit two free throws Longshot Cabin was third. to put Bingham up by five. The winning time was two Peisley added a free throw minutes flat over a track and a basket and then Van slightly deadened by rains ear- Dyke added two free throws lier in the week. However, the to put the game out of reach. of In the end, a group of young clocking was just a second off the stakes record Bingham basketball players set in 1970 by Quicken Tree. showed just how far they had come in one week after losing The biggest crowd of the two of their last three league more than 60,000 meeting games. installed Cougar as a 2 faBingham 74, Judg 69 vorite although he hadnt run 14 3 48 63 74 Bingham 11 30 41 43 69 at the meeting. The Judge 7; PeisBingham Palmer, 3, returned $5, $4.20 and $3.40. 9; Egbert, 4, 10; ley, 4, hilean-bred 4 Strong Offense 6-- From that point on, Hardy matched a Judge team that suddenly found itself basket for basket TSTxfAtiCUU v - sr Close Gap Judge moved to within two points of the Miners as the second half began and Bingham failed to score in nearly four minutes. Van Dyke hit two free throws to break the ice and Peisley added a bucket. Anita Chase Goes to m 60-5- 9 A Those words said a great deal about a Miner ball club, beaten by 23 points by this same Judge team a short while ago, because this team, more than any one factor, won because it had heart. While there was celebration in the Miners dressing room, gloom prevailed in the Bulldog an o a Simply stated, Judge was beaten by a better ball club. The Miners worked the ball Hardy held Judge Memorials p Belnap in at USU near-perfe- being beaten badly for 23 minutes, Judge erased a seven-poiMmer lead with just over a minute to play to put the game into overtime. A team that can do that cannot fold. And yet Hardy, a quiet junior who speaks with his tions on the athletic field, did everything but run the score-boar- d Saturday night. Giot'acchin Held gBinywam Dons in Close Duel By Fred Kempe The shooting of the Spanish Fork Dons did not for their quite compensate as poor rebounding favonte Davis came from behind and eked out a victory at the Special Events Center Saturday. Spanish Fork was battling against a rebounding line that was four inches taller per man. It was evident as they were literally held down" to two offensive rebounds in the second half. Lead Erased Wayne Palmer, Bob Peisley, Lynn Egbert, Lynn Van Dyke and Golden Holt all contributed some important effort in leading the Miners to their first state championship in 13 years. Tm Its Official Now third try. 76-6- 9 highly-toute- Davis Beats 5 '-"- ''I ptjrr-H- f |