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Show Rams Edge Out Hard Fighting Delta Rabbits for Millard Division Lead TEAM STANDINGS , Parowan 2 0 1.000 j Delta 2 1 .667 Millard 1 1 .500 Beaver 1 1 .500 Milford 0 3 .000 Coach Bruce Decker's Parowan High School basketball team hurdled hur-dled another obstacle in its path toward the Millard Division championship and its third straight trip to the state Class B tournament in March, when it won a hard fought game from the Delta Rabbits last Friday night by a. 56 to 40 score, j ' The final score was the widest (spread between the two teams during the entire game and this margin was rolled up in the final minutes of play. While the Rams led all the way, most of the time by what could be considered a good margin, yet a Delta rally, which really began in the waning wan-ing minutes of the third period and continued into the fourth, brought that team up to within three points of the victors early in the fourth period. At that point Coach Decker sent in Donald Gurr for Rodney Bent-ley, Bent-ley, who had played a beautiful game up to that time, and Gurr hit two field goals and two foul pitches, and later another field goal, which coupled with steals by Donald Stubbs and Connell Mitchell, did away with any idea ,the visitors might have had of overtaking the Rams. Eric Clark, jbig Ram center, tallied 17 points (for high point honors and also turned in a fine offensive game, as did Larry King, other regular in the game. Parowan went into the lead 5-0 in the early minutes and held a 12 to 5 first quarter edge. This lead was maintained during the second period which ended 26-19 for the Ranw. At that stage Merlin Christensen's team made its strongest bid, showing that a Delta team is ncvei licked until un-til the final gun, and were behind be-hind 38 to 33 as the third quarter closed. This Ram lead was cut to three points until the Ram rally which broke Ihe game wide open midway in the fourth quarter quar-ter from whprp tVio h rolled on to its 16 point win. In the preliminary game, the Parowan B squad dropped the Delta B squad by a 37 to 26 score for its second win over B squads in the Millard division. In the other game last Friday in the Millard Division, Beaver won from Milford, 39 to 26 at the latter place in a mild upset, and Beaver came out of the cellar tie with its home county rival, leaving Milford in last place. Millard drew a bye in last Friday's Fri-day's play but comes to Parowan this Friday vvhile Beaver goes to Delta and Milford gets its bye for the first half of play. The home teams will be favored to win this week's games by comparing com-paring past performances, but almost anything can happen In this evenly matched group of teams. Box score of the Parowan-Del-ta game is as follows: DELTA 40 PAROWAN 58 RTFP OTFP 1 0 0 0 Bennrtt Clark 7 8 3 17 4 H 4 12 Vest King 2 10 4 4 6 4 12 Jpnupn Stuhln 5 4 2 12 12 13 Dutitnn Brntlcy 4 2 2 10 1 8 4 6 Moody (jutr 3 2 2 8 2 5 3 7 Schluppi Mitchell 14 3 5 . Haltrrman 0 0 0 O 12 29 16 40 TOTALS 22 19 12 56 Score ly qunrten: r'lt 5 1 9 33 40 Parowan 12 26 38 5tf |
