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Show Tropic Upsets Marysvale In Basketball Thrille They Dood It - CoiMli I . ;, ii . it .if Hit' Tioptc Mustang Is ilialred a in I clieeml ly lii; Mcn'Pnm i .in bny- after victory over the Bulldogs Ieft to right; Hoc Smith, 1 aMar Shakespeare. Clifford Johnson, Halpli Chynoweth, Itli liarU Munson and Kenneth Gouldlng. Mike Wlntch, another star performer In tln game, was showering- when this picture was made. Thero was yipplng and yelling and dancing In the street down under the hill Friday evening after the Tropic Mustangs f-coied the upset of the year by defeating the Marysvale Bulldogs 45 to 4 3. In n basketball thriller on the Mustangs home court. Marysvale was leading 35 to 29 at the end of the third quarter, but the loss of Hay, high score man of the game, on fouls, and an upsurge of Tropic vigor turned the tide. Johnson timl Million, each with 11 ints nml Smith with 1(, toil the scoring for llio Mustangs. Hay with IS points and McnpN with II led for the Hull-logs. While the excitement was going down In Tropic, the Escalan-te Moquls were being scalped by tho rival tribe from Piute. 72 to 4C. Flashy Bob Davis, with 25 points for the Hute Chiefs, was high scorer for the game, with big Vernon Roundy, of Escalante, top scoring man In the league, wns "second with 21 points. Wednesday of last week Tan-guitch beat Flute and Tropic beat Escalante. This Friday Pangultch plas at Escalante, and Flute plays at Marysvale. Incident!)', Me salute (Vatli Fullmer of Piute for IiIh stand on liW disciplinary action. H had scu'ial of Ills "big" men tin ii in llicir suits after breaking tialiilng. and despite critl-( Nin lias gone on to rebuild n winning team in the middle ol I lie sensoii. |