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Show Parowan Rams Demonstrate Top Playing Performance in Tourney After dropping its first game in the State Class B basketball tournament tour-nament at Provo last week, the Parowan High School team made a determined comeback and battled bat-tled into the final round In the consolation bracket. After dropping the opening game to Marysvale by a score of 55 to 53 in a torrid battle, the Rams came back to move toward consolation honors by defeating Lchi by a score of 47 to 45, and then trimming their southern rivals, the Hurricane Tigers, by a 57 to 47 score. These victories gave Coach Bruce Decker's Rams a berth in the consolation final with the highly touted Miners from Bingham. Bing-ham. Continuing their excellent play the Rams gave the favored miners a stiff battle, but lost out by a 54 to 49 margin. The loss robbed the Parowan squad of the chance to bring home the consolation conso-lation trophy, but nevertheless the Rams finished in eighth place in the tournament which was featured by strong teams in exceptionally ex-ceptionally close battles. With all regulars of the squad turning in consistent performances perform-ances the Rams were very much in the battle from beginning to end, and represented their region in an excellent manner. Against Lehi the Rams jumped into a 15 to 10 first quarter lead, but allowed al-lowed their opponents to tie the score at 27-all at half time. Coming Com-ing back strongly Decker's team jumped into a seven point 42 to 35 lead at the end of the third quarter, and stopped a desperate desper-ate Lehi rally in the final minutes min-utes to win by two points, 47 to 45. In the game against Hurricane the Rams started slowly and were trailing 12 to 10 at the end of the first period, but pulled into a 23-22 lead at half time. From the opening of the second half to the final gun the Rams were in complete control and pulled away to a 10-point, 57 to 47 win. In the' final game the Parowan Paro-wan team took an early lead over Bingham, a team that had been touted as one of the most likely teams to win the state championship, champion-ship, and were leading 15 to 13 at the end of the first quarter. However in the second period the superior height of the Miners began be-gan to have effect and with Man-nion Man-nion tipping in shots from under un-der the basket, the Rams fell behind be-hind 32 to 23 at half time. Undaunted Un-daunted the game Rams battled back to close the gap to five points, 41 to 3G in the third period per-iod on some timely shooting by Donald jStubbs, Ram sophomore, and then climbed to within two points of the winners, 51 to 49, before three last minute points by Bingham jumped the final victory margin to five points, 54 to 49. David Orton, who played steady stea-dy ball after the opening game and scored consistently to finish among the top scorers of the tournament, was placed on the third all-state team at the close of the meet. Orton, who rang up 1G points in the Bingham game, had a total of 52 points for the four games, the fourth highest in the meet. Only three players, each of whom gained first place all-state honors garnered gar-nered more points. Carlos Hansen, Han-sen, Richfield, lead all scorers Iwith 72 points, Jack Mannion of Bingham was second with 07 points, and Elgin Lowder of South Summit was third with 58. Roy Benson, who also turned in fine performances each night was only one point behind Orton in total scoring with 51, good enough to give him a three-way tie for fifth with Vernon Frazier of South Summit and George Le-Baron Le-Baron of Hurricane. Erie Clark, who played perhaps his best game of the season against Hurricane Hur-ricane in the semi-finals, scored 37 points in the four games. Tom Dobrusky garnered 30 points and came through with some splend-ed'ball splend-ed'ball rustling all the way. The steady and dependable defensive de-fensive work of Rodney Bent ley helped keep the Rams in the tournament, tour-nament, as did the timely shooting shoot-ing of Donald Stubbs, especially in the Bingham game. Gale Stolk the only other Parowan player to see action also did very well while on the floor. The Delta Rabbits, who lost twice to Parowan during the regular reg-ular season, made an excellent showing in the tournnment, winning win-ning their first two games, but losing tha last one to finish in sixth place. The Rabbits lost to South Sevier, the ultimate champions cham-pions in the semi-finals, by only two points, and then fell before the hustling South Summit team in the final battle for third and sixth place. Carl Winfield, Delta playmaker, won second all-state team recognition. |