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Show ' " imw jp ' ' ' 111 " " '" 1 -mi.ii .i i i ; '. ' - 7 , i r. - ' ' T . - ... . , it Friday night's exciting game at Piute saw Bryant Shakespear drop in a last second three-pointer that made all the difference Bryant Shakespear threw in a shot from beyond the half line with time expiring last Friday night in Piute to give the Bryce Valley Mustangs a piece of the league championship in a thrilling 81-80 victory. Coupled with a Piute loss the next night to Wayne, the Mustangs Mus-tangs finished the year in a three-way three-way tie with Valley and the T-Birds for first in regular season play. In other games, Panguitch lost to Enterprise 55-42, while Escalante lost to Bryce Valley 99-77, 99-77, fell to Parowan in a heart-breaker heart-breaker 54-53 and then, unfortunately, unfortu-nately, lost again to Parowan in a d playoff game 61-58 to determine the final spot in the round robin. At Junction, Lee Robinson had given Piute the lead 80-78 with only 2.8 seconds remaining, when he hit for his 25th and 26th points of the night, but after the time expired ex-pired and the officials put the time back on the clock because of a BV time out call, Shakespear took the inbounds pass and shot it in for a three-pointer and the win. Thad Feltner had a terrific game with 26 and Mike Ahlstrom bombed for 17. Observers from both teams said this was one of the finest games they had ever seen. BV won again on for the Bryce Valley Mustangs. Saturday night's loss by Piute moved BV in for a three-way tie for the region first spot. Mustangs Grab Share Of League Championship Saturday 99-77 over Escalante with Derrick Clark and Feltner leading the scoring, but all the front line player scored well in the huge victory. vic-tory. Panguitch watched Enterprise stall the game away, after leading early, to fall in their final league game, 55-42. Brian Harris led the scoring with 15, with Brian and Ray Richards hitting doubles as well. Escalante ran into score-book problems on the road at Parowan on Friday in a game that cost them a possible trip to the tournament. In the rematch on Monday, Escalante led 31-22 at half, but saw the Rams come back behind Billy Robb's 30 points to win. The Moquis had a chance in the end as Parowan missed the front end of one and one's four times inside the last minute, but Clay Stewart's desperation despera-tion shot from the half-line at the buzzer was about two inches short and it spelled at the end of the season sea-son for the boys in red. Eric Hardi-son Hardi-son stepped up with a consistent 18 points, Jason Griffin drilled 11, Chad Lyman 10, in another fine outing. Clay Stewart hit 9, Gerry Lilies 6 and Brian Stowe, John Im-lay Im-lay and Travis Cottam played well in the loss. |