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Show Invading Teams From North Set Local Squads After dominating play in two games in the Parowan gymnasium gymnas-ium Friday night, two northern Utah A teams continued their winning ways, defeating the two Iron County high school teams in games played in the CSU fieldhouse Saturday night. However, there was no domination domina-tion In the first game when Coach Monte BaUey's Ben Lomond Lo-mond team from Ogden was hard pressed to trim Coach Dick Jones' Parowan Rams' by a bare two points. Parowan had gone down to defeat de-feat by a wide margin 56 to 35, before Jordan High School Friday at Parowan, and Ben Lomond had taken the measure of Coach Ray Englestead's Cedar Redmen, 42 to 33. However, the outcome of the Parowan-Ben Lomond game at Cedar Saturday night was in doubt until the final gun, and the teams provided the fans with an exciting contest from beginning begin-ning to end. Although the visitors from Og-gen Og-gen led most of the way, they were never able to get a commanding com-manding lead, and the determined determin-ed Rams kept creeping up and frequently took narrow leads, only on-ly to see it melt away again, mostly as the result of hooks and tip-ins by the rugged Ogden cen- ter. The entire Parowan team played play-ed weJl with John Simkins and Connell Mitchell leading the way with consistent ball handling and Mitchell particularly with his ball rustling. The game between Jordan and Cedar, following the exciting Ben Lomond-Parowan game, was rather ra-ther anti-climatic, mostly because be-cause the Salt Lakers Jumped into a comanding lead in the first few minutes of play and continued to hold the upper hand throughout. Hitting sensationally in the early minutes Coach Art Hughes' team jumped into a 21 to 5 lead in the first quarter, and it looked like the cold Redmen were in for a bad night, indeed. Game as they come, the Hodmen Hod-men settled down to get back into the game and played on even terms for the balance of the game. The Cedar squad closed the gap to about 10 points on several occasions, but coi'.'d not overcome the big lead the visitors visit-ors had piled up early in the game. Most of the last Quarter was pjayed by Coach Englestead's Engle-stead's second stringers and they showed considerable promise although al-though Jordan pulled into a longer lead at their expense. Inability In-ability to convert on the shots they took and a dominance of the back board play by Jordan caused the downfall of the Red-men. |