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Show Piute Wins Basketball Title T-Birds, Mustangs Score Upsets The Garfield Loop of Region Seven in high school 'B' basketball wound up its season last Wednesday with what In show biz would be known as a "wow" finish. Three teams, Psnguttch, Valley and Piute were tied with f ive-won-two lost records-It wss decided to play the final league games on Wednes day night so that any necessary play-off could be held on Friday. Panguitch was dumped by Piute 66 to 63 at Junction. Going by the trouncing Panguitch gave the T-Birds on the Bobcat floor earlier in the season, this was an upset Hard-driving and favored. Valley, taking on the Bryce Valley Mustangs at Tropic, wound up on the short end of 74 to 71 score. Another upset. The Bryce boys discovered a solution for Kesry Workman of Valley - - let him score and then get down to the other end of the floor and outscore him. Workman shot a fat 35 points, but Bryce with four men in double figures, Just out-bombed the hoop. For Bryce it was Johnson, 20; Ott. 10; Pollock, 15, and Rose, 19. Johnny Orton scored 20 big points for Panguitch against Piute with tesmmates K. Orton 15; and Barney, 18, helping to swell the total - - but not enough to win. |