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Show 40P- - - - T : , . . T: ' , , . ' Os cll :; . ., . 7Ti.iti'''7'..6111-Lc- - t vrcara scarzcs (1:1) 4 SALT LAKE crTY, UTAH ndu ,g1tu C SECTION a. EZE113 6-74- OnTi 75 By PAVE KADLECIE FRIDAY,I MARCH , Deseret News Sports Writer 64 PROVONarrow the Class B championship field to four and . color all favorites as semifinal action approaches here Friday at George Albert Smith Fleldhouse. It's Emery versus Lehi and South Sevier versus Judge Memorial in a pair of battles to produce Saturday's finalists. Emery defeated Green River, and Lehi upended Hurd- to win the upper cane bracket semifinal berths while South Sevier defeated Dixie, 62- 47, and Judge Memorial over- -, for lower F S ' powered Millard, , bracket slots.. ; Battling it out for fourth place A are Green- - River, Hurricane, U Dixie and Millard. Green River tests Hurricane LE0 By in what should prove In be an ERRy interesting battle, while Dixie Deseret News Staff WRITER and Millard tangle In lower - PROVO Utah County stands ' bracket , a chance to have play. n an South Sevier 62, Dixie 47 ty''1 Last in Saturday's consola . SouthSevier gavelournament ton battleas PleasantGrove---- .i fans reason to believe it can go tests Morgan and American all the war to the State Basket-- 1 Rork takes on North Sanpete : ball Class B crown as it defeat-- 1 for Class 13 basketball honors. ; Pleasant Gr ove overcame 1 second-day- " ' first-nig. and defeated play. jitters 2 The fast - passing, sure - shoot- South Rich, Thursday to 4 ing club, paced by 6 guard gain its spot while Atherican--Dick Wade, jumped to an early Fork takes on North Sanpete lead, relied- on pressure jump- In its comeback,,role in George ers from Lynn Parsons and led Albert Smith Fieldhou.fe. all the way in posting the vic7 Morgan defeated North Se8 vier, and North Sanpete 4 in other play Moab, edged -Wade, a rangy, guard who likes to run, made it possible for consolation honors. for the Sevier club to alternate Am. Fork 73; tlintah its fast break With A. deliberate Americar! Fork gave its Utah attack. Cotmty cage- fam a reason to 24 while Wade counted for follow Caveman fortunes with Parsons hit for 16 and Billy, its second.convinchlg thrashing of now 6,-19- , , 1.6tk iCIw1IongcrE, 'ofentling Champs Llurray 8th 75-6- .ZN,. ' 1 1 Utah Counly , ide ive 69-5- - n -- t t "all-cou- , ,- . ht . 59-5- - 6-- 1"1 -- - - 71-6- 171:4' 55-5- sr long-rang- e USU 6th 'shouts , on for:loy.thUriday with hopes they'll 'senior title. Friday after battle' '8th to cla some have-oc'casi- ' ' , Ward Cagers go after their '70th victory Friday night' and straight All- - Church crown.- , roes Juniors - ' nira-31a- Ke , Clash-- p.m., Sehiors 8 p.m.::: 7 1 -- Ilet:Clash-- p .. 111 .0- Junior. finals In By HABIT WIXOM. Deseret News Sports Writer,. Big questions in the 1964 , By NORM SHEYA senior, basketball tourna.Deseret News Sports Writer ment have been narrowed down foes from the to one: Can anyone beat Murray Two long-tim- e same' alt Lake stake, Bonneville and Douglas, take the floor USU 6th will- trYit 8 p.m. Friday night in the University of Friday night to decide the Utah Fieldhousew tour- champion Of the At stake is the tament,,Junior 'Division. Action aenlor champlepship. - starts at 7 Panguitch wott' its secand game of the tournament by a over Cm-spread, cimiati. Cards to n, Canada, dropped Downey, Calif.,' Cardston and Panguitch were to clash for consolation honors at 2301 Bonneville and Douglas know ,: each other well. They have met - four times this season and each team has wow twice, Both hail from Bonneville ,Stake. Douglas won when it counted most in a battle for the league title and in the division finals. Bonneville built up a lead in the ,first half and then hung On for a 8 victory over Bountiful 14th. Bountiful, behind "ill the way, bounced hick to within three late in the third quarter but there the rally faltered. ' Bonneville displayed balanced scoring Heber Jacobsen and cen : ter Jbn Bedstead hit 18 and 13, respectively. Forward Joe Hurd did Craig bit timely baskets, Smith with 11. : Leading the second-hal- f ; back for the Bountiful five were Art Motley, Ralph Bates and Vaughn Hyde. Oakland couldn't keep pace with Dugway's overall speed -- ; and rebounding. Douglas led by 10 most of the game and extend-Ted it to 13 points at the end-f35-3- 4, one-poi- nt 44-3- 9. This 'time they clash at 7 p.m. for the title: For Murray 8th it was consecutive win No. 69 Thursday as the 'Yankees' of the burst the Roosevelt bubble, USU 6tb began slowly, but rolled methodically the rest of the way to crush Lomita, If USU 6th LI to prevent 85-7- 68-4- . ... - h Nits--sub- 63-5- -- Murray. . last-minu- te 49-4- 78-5- 63-5- Logan15th, 6546, and Roosevelt g! Those are the statistics. How much they prove will be known night. - t1SU took a 9 halftime lead to 54- over Lomita stretching 32 in the third quarter. The reserves took over, keeping the same margin at the final buzzer. For Lomita it was a crushing, defeat, USU proving they had the alert defense to ,stop the Californians.. Lomita was seldom colder at the hoop than this night. Still Bruce Burton garnered 19. High for USU was Lanny Nalder witb Phil Johnson' and 17, 33-1- jt . By Hack Miller About7-- - or it 58-4- win. 5 - - , ' , Douglas guard Ben Stowell, , quick and deceptive, drove in and,around the Oakland 'defense for 22 points and high poin -- honors: - When he missed Douglas' towering center Ron Pixton, pushed them back in He had 19 points. Region 12's. most uable - player' G e o r-- e Allen chipped in with nine. : 6-- 5, - ' ' - BONNEVILLE - et FP 2 14 2 1 4 Morley 4 Batas 3 Hyde 3 3 )3 Beckstaaft ,11 Si 0 0 Oh:pos01M 4 4 2 10 Hurd 4 - BOUNTIFUL - ST PP 6 511 3 rewards 1 5 2 0 I 0 Jackson 4 6 a Is Jacobsen C. GaIlmay 1 2I 2 44 0 LIttlefiete 7 2 a I 6 Preece 1 0 0- - 2 4 3 111 Smith a 0 V.Ltsrlst'sen 0 0 0 0 0 Talbot Butler 0 0 0 a S Terashlme Christensee ALLA - BO 2111 SS Halftime DOUGLAS 1 4 8 - 4 JO - - Totals n 14 41 score; Bonnevill; 40, BoOnti - - OAKLAND IND 4 Allen Henderson 5 Futter 4 Cestre 3 L. Jo040580 0 - Matheson 8 A. johmsco 0 Lynn Johnson t - , . Seth 3 310 Pixon 4 1 Pizza 0 0 1 Pots al Asian 6 6 72 Stowell 0 0 0 'Thomas 0 0 0 eurt , 0 Snow 17 la NI Halftime 3rd 24 11 17 T01815, ace-s- : Douglas 4 2 10 2 2 4 5 815 2 2 10 8 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0- - 0 0 1311 45 34 Doklend n frit u la.,ta, A, ow " " ,o. , , battle tor fourth place in the Dean and Don Sorenson who - - dealt class B scheme of things. the score blow that acfor the Win maight-Th- e counted 'rhe boxscore:'" .IOLITH SEVIER DTIXFIEp trio scored 14, 13 and 10 points: 0 OTFP . a 5 5 L. Christensit Chrtsten 3 2 2 respectively. Merlin Olsen had 13 and 12, re0 0 0 Frtimore 0 0 2 Andrus Russell Hatch Eddie Oaks and 4 3 3 11 Winn Miies 2 5 4 spectively. 7 5 216 Parsons Scott 0 000 counted 10 and 13 points for the 0 0 0 0 Nebeker , Wittwer 0 2 2 2 homeward-boun- d Probably no team hi Utes. , 12 0 0 24 Wade Hunt 3 t 5 11 annals has displayed a 2 0 4 Hewlett Shakespeare 1 0 0 2 The bosscore: 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jackson Bagley hotter first quarter than MurHeten 3 1 0 6 I 0 2 Johns AMERICAN PORK 73, OINTAN 57 Tulkmess 0 0 0 0 ray threw against Roosevelt, 1.11NTAN 0 000 AMERICAN - PORK Frei after eight min, leading 6 1112PP Sampson 2 3 1 1 5 Prisbey 2 Rasmussen 0 1 stem,. The margin widened to -- ' Fox Guinn 0 0 6 0 16 n IS 47 1 4 4 27 12 1 62 Vitals 20 at one point, 1, but ex3 4 3 SCOCO J. Cunn9BM Robinson 6 35 by quarters: 2 1 1 5 Wilson 2 5 3 7 17 14 South Goodrich 62 32 Sevier plosive Roosevelt was never Dixie Hatch 4 3 210 13 U 35 47 0 21 1 1 Birk 7 014 Burgess Alexander 0 3 1 1 counted out of the game even 0 2 1 1 ft Cunningham Busch 2 1 11 4 tehl Hurricane 62 .. a vj - 1 1 ch 1 1 1 28-14 , -- 81-6- 1 75, ,Though down. 513 Dean 4 1 - L..)I 713 - Oek313 2 4 jack Mike- Cooper 5 6 010 Sorensen The pl kids trerrreastDestruo Weeks 1 2 2 4 ern Iltah continued to drop them took matters into his own quar- 20 2 20 4 Greenwood 2 6 Merkely Perri O in from all 'anNgles on the court, terbacking hands and passed 'a 21 23 IP 73 37 23 27 to few to Totols I teammate Carl Rymer but Murray away, via lead Lehi to its win over touted Score Irt euirtersz 16 both fled and four lane. American Fork 73 11 ' 26 Uinte Hurricane 32 57 , High. Murray will have to do withofit and Terry Nofsinger Friday night Cooper's keyhole jumpers 28 P.6.59, South Rich 52 The big rebounding ace came occasional drivers counted Bert Steed SouthRichguard test in the points championship down with one 'rhursdays, fell scored 21 points but it was with it - and couldn't get up. that drops Hurricane into a bat Pleasant Grove's balance that tie for fourth place in state. Physicians said after the game e.But Cooper wasn't alone this sent the Randolph cagers homthat Terry would be out.of acfrom the Class B tournament time. The 0 forward who tion for some time.. as the Trojans, suffered their Roosevelt again showed the spends his offseason on the wares of Charles (Smiley) Denv- gridiron aided flanker team- second straight defeat: , Pleasant Grove, suffering er,-- who picked up 20 points, matellymer in getting his two from first-da- y jitters;came on and Gordon Eldredge with 15. dozen scores. to whip the yoimz-bu- t strong dth's triumph included Timely ' by guard talented Region Six entry. a output by Gary Ches. Jerry Smith kept the pressure 21 Viking Coach Don Crump got 18 tang, by Nofsinger and on the seeminglytaller Tigers from Pete Baum' performances who didn't haye their jumping double "figure from three of his cagers who In a tree Ihrow pitching conlegs on this time around. 'performed well hi defensive test, held at half lithe, Gary Hurricane missed the higher roles. Batchelor and Reed Newbold, Finding the double marks BIT 1st and South Jordan, re- scoring performances expected was. Grant .Atkinson, 15, Jim spectively, defended titles won See CLASS B on Page 2 See CONSOLATION on Page CI Monday night The two hit 65 , and 55 straight shots Monday, and proved it was no- - fluke Thursday. This time Batchelor hit 20 of ' THURSDAY 20, and Newbold 19 of , RESULTS . 1JSU SIXTH - Consolition. LOMITA ' OF TP 4 5 4 12 Olsen B. Burton 1 3 3 19 Pleasant GroVe- 59, touth Rich 52 1 6 3 11 ?Solder Smith 2 4 5 - Forish 1 0 02 5 5 3 13 Johnson Morgan 71, North SeVier 68 2 2 O'Brien 0 4' 2 1 9 Loth' American Fork73, Uintah 59 f 4 2 4 Johns Hasvold 1 0 0 2 2 2 1 5 Gunnell E. Burton 2 0 0 North 55, Grand (Moab) 54 Sanpete 1 1 3 Meyrick 3 Fresenius 1 1 0 0 - y - 1 1 3 3. 1 11 ted , 6-- er C-- , , , ALBUQUERQUE -- er -- 84-8- - a- soft drirk imown as - ' . Like Stan Watts said, half of them had - . What a bean-bustthat Thursday Meilen won by an ant's eyelash New was. throbber ,ltight , . root beer . a new kind of , kaopee' flavored.. tatofo- r- game !lime'''. Some big fellow came down' to the BYU bench- - the7 L seam& half and threw a sack of paper bits oll over the two Iltak's that drink the to contrast a Quite, BYT.1 coachesStan Watts and Roland Minson. ,, , , fixed uv for their coach Jack Gardner, the ' The 'ushered him from the pollee premises. --. a milkdrinker; when they , Then One of the 1, spectators let him sip milk tonic and milk of magnesia, of who had been extremely' pro- ' it dung the Wyoming game several years back. ' fa,ne during the whole OCCSSIOnc grabbed Minson by the shoul- When I arrived in Albuquerque early Thursday the 1 -der. Roland w h e e I e d and New Meilco's newscasts were - full of news about radio , . , cocked s 'mean right ; but ? NIT in . status the ' . ' ' ,let It go. 4 -- - didn't Someone had asked the NIT selection chairman whether , ' -'''''- '-' ' '' The police ceremoniously ush. ' New Mexico would be Inviter . -,,,,, ered this-ge- et from the pace, g , . And the answer was that if Utah and New Mexico came , 7 The game itself Was one of out about even hi this series the Utes would get the nod - on the those cliff - hangers. . A. real grounds a.that Utah had more prestige in the New - 7 :, screamer.. First -t- he-- partisans- basketball-I-milt:, e , 1 , wanted to tar and feather the ;.-1 officials. Then just tar them. And , -. .. . ' ' save the feathers.: -.1 Stirred ,1 - Up , TheFelings .. , , There- wasn't a rrmve that wu made that didn't test This announcement possibly stirred up some of the feel- L' ;2' the blood, pressure of every ,fan.,..A..,....14'. ing which prevailerut- - the Thursday game, And it could hall--"- to ' There were a. have made for little banners around touchy Saturday. things big the the NIT or bust." And BYU appeared to be in a . ...''- , -, Utah knew Thursday that if it 'could beat Wyoming . to bust the Lobo's big balloon. - , position anditYllcouldget:ever NewMexicoc that the MT bid . I. -would come to Utah even before Saturday. Evideqtly Friday they got , their, hid. ,t t 5 .:,,; -. , on BTU's chances were-Jul-the over-al- l season recSrd..., The tenseness of the situation- - beeamesiiparent-ligh-at -ut ' T 4 .BYU rooters gave up a real at first when a small group of But 'it didn't work o- th, so sounded BTU, cheer during the warm-u- p They program This leaves Arizona State as the NCAA team which will a polecat at u. wedding lonely, about as out of place as there Utah State March-1- 0 in Eugene, Ore go against . 'I' : - :' ' brunch 1 be some consolation in the feeling down here that might ' Yet on the court there was the utmost in sportsman- Arizona state is not ' the best 'team in this conference.' . , Who is? 1,, ship. ,,' L '1 .-,' . Most people you talk,. to think that Bruce Larson's - 1 -- -, - : Lost His contact Lenses - - - - -- -zona University team is best -------skip Kratch lost his contact But the record ' knees to ' 's, try and find ' ' ' Over in another part of the building Thurs- ' They gave him nether glass and while John Fair- utl coach- Don Reddish, ULe swimmers were child was talking to one of the coaches the latter spotted tcith most all'of :the contere!tee the lost eyepieces stuck to Fairchild's shoulder. Whereon , - swi7nming off - honors.. - yairehild walked over and returned the lens and allowed , , ' ' , -. Krozta time to replace It.!, "We missed one event,'' Don said, almost as if this - - -- sver4 a defeat.------One Cougar missed BYU Cougars . title-- in-- the showed up here with the fluas did Stan Watts. Bill Blu-- ', .TheUteshtvetheconterence-tank- III to suit up a great big, pat on the back for Don And his paddlers hospital here;-:-"to-o to use Bill ' have able been To Don Reddish, anything but first is no place at all. 'They might , Ute&.-----7--- -- , "i . "ce . mad ,. hall-and-h- alf , j ' '' - . k ' Mr.-Dfill- .- - ,. LciOk$51j3:1cApEsymmAR -- 1 - -- 5 1 --1 Cahoon - Craven 2 2 2 6 2 2 Thorne- Moses 1 0 0 2 o 0 2 Christensen Mullen 1 2 2 4 , 25 34 11 61 1114 11 41 Totals Lomita 19. Halftime scow. USIJ---3MURRAY aTIS ,: ROOSEVELT 3R0 P OFT OFT P -4 1 Denver 7 - - 6 20 9 Ferguson 5 21 Nofsingef bevel 5- 2- 2 2 10- - T 6 26 Chester E100redge 4 5- 3 11 - 10 111 limn 4 2 1 Johnson 0 5 3 3 Menlove Ellis 4 3 311 2 0 0 4 P. West 2 2 2 Ot, 1 0 0 2 Fristruo Peterson 0 4 4 4 0 e 2 0 0 ; 70 ee 46- Dawneurquist : wn ce Roosevelt 8Hu:711;r r Totals scere: Murray,,n-Eleh-ttt IS 25 72 Judge r I 14 ; 24 - n tion) 2 -- le - Third 32. Vs. Millard --(consolaiion) - ., ' '' .- .- :- ---- '' It ". -- - 4' -- -- -- -- SAS (Senior p.m.Lomito p.M.Green River vs. Hurricane (fourth place) 6 p.m.Pleasant Grove vs. Morgan (fourth place) 7:20 p.m.Emery vs.--- Lehi(championship) N Hr". ' Jaktimd Third). vs;- - Roosevelt Third . WORLD'S LARGEST , A A A , A A , k -" " Alk, A A A ,A AAA At A A; AAA A A-- A AL lik,A.Ak A, A,AL, AA. A , .. SELLER? 1 , UTA- 'at 146North Main St. I - - - , North vs. Cardston 230 consolation). -(Wolof 3.45 IsmAmerican Fork tnt, vs. South Jdrdan Second (senior consolation)., a.m.Bonneville vs. Douglas (itinior championship). g:IS p.m.Murray Eighth vs. USU Sixth (senior Championship). , , - - Thursday's Results SENIOR OtVISION Championship , usiLltstkISIomita ---- -- 85, Roosevelt Third 70 Consolation American Fork 12th 61. Loen ISM 55 South Jordan Second 43, Forest Deli 39 1JUNIOR DIVISION Chamoionshio 'Bonneville SS, Bountiful 14th Oakland, Third 45 Dpyg,as,J8, "OW Consolatiow -Fouffh-3- 1Cardston. Panguitch North 35, Cincinnati 34 , r 0,, ' Pt--.- -. ''ts . 4 4, s - . . - ,- .-- 9-,- 4 N Murray Eighth s , , It ,-- o' ti , ''''''''' . 4 - DA You - MEET THE NICEST PEOPLE-ON-A-HON- , it's the low price: the fcatastic mileage, the precision engineering tha 140404' onti convenience. lot most likely trs the hoc lint 1UI5 of OActylse T e! nship) p.mSouth-Sevier-vs;ludge-tcham- 4:3a -TIN-BOUNTIFUL; -NOW- Bountitul-le- th Third (Junior Third). .17 Fork vs. North Sanpete (console ' UTE FIELDMOUSE - - SCHEDULE i'----- Friday's Schedule - 69, jvIMaut 55 ' t ChamplonsMp - 11 a.m.--Dix- ie 12 :30 : 27 T 68, Green River 62 Lehi 75, Hurricane 62 South Sevier 62, Dixie ft sports- owning --- 1-- Financial- - -- Or -S- ECTION , 5 6, 7 i Honda. uiot today? 144 North Moto Join in. The first step is - $ob demonstration ride. ak. "ask Ak. ji A1,16, 411,,a, ALA AtA AA AAA AAA, Why goontifuL Utah AC 'N - long-rang- - tw.a.04:.i:gre ,, 58-4- T . nt , u 'N Dixie coach Doug Hunt missed It was a rejuvenated Cave--. his "double punch" and had man club that tore Uintah's of. e only Barry Hunt, a 0 guard, fense apart with its in double figures. bombing and driving layins. The-lo- ss sends 'Dlide into a It was Dean Burgess, Craig 6-- tick-- Friday , - . Murray 8th would have to be .favorite in this one,1 but 1.1S1.1 6th has upset several foes on the way to the championship game. The Cache, Valley kids upset LakevieW," 7 after beating Salt Lake 31st, 4 and North Hollywood, and Lo: n'titar 6846. si '' ' Winn,: 11. , - I the slight due determined Forest Dale, 39, while A.F.,12th topped Logan ' 15th South Jordan', small but last. once again Murray proved that a team working together has 'and explosive, meets more de-liberate AY. 12th and 5 ex-many ways to score. el BYU ice Herschel Pederson at crewwo-rkla the U. of U. Field-- , as- - a - fast, smoothly-runnin- g ! - 7, , unit Thursday, but they lacked Dale and Logan the needed rebounding power.'1 to cope with Murray. And re- - po3:45.p.m. the end of the road Allowing ,inthe bounding is something that beaten the first day by vsu 6th has In Merlin Olsen, North Hollywood Phil Johnson, and L, Nalder. and USLI 6th pro footballer Merlin - ,, Roosevelt and Lomita were Olsen showed fans how fast a to meet at 1:15 Friday for big man can be Merlin blazed third and Mb-plac- e In the up and down the court with the tourney. , agility of smaller team mate Cordell Ludt But there was little need to run in the last half, BULLETIN LISU holding a commanding Oat land 3rd slipped In a lead, and the USU starters were basket by little able to rest for the big, Bernie Ceske to take a 6543 South Jordan and American thriller from Bountiful lith Fork 12th moved into the Senior and win third place in the Junbasketball four7 consolation championship game, ior nament. with semifinal round victories. 43- , V .. -- 6-- p.m. , . South Jordan managed to 'yearsthey must stop the entire tern.. For And In the Junior realm, the Both Scored impressive wins question is who will take the Douglas, In the semifinals Thursday night. third game? Finalists and Bonneville,- from the ,same Bonneville dispo- sid of Bountiful stake, have Met four times this 14th, 5848; Douglas ended Oak- Television: 7 p.m., KSL-Tland's title !lopes by a 5845 mar -- ; , - - triumph:stretching straight over the past two h - A 8th from 'taking , their 70th' ray , - Ur ii. - ' ,, - 4 4, - - - |