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Show Rams Move Into Consolation After Lehi Defeat The Parowan high school basketball bas-ketball team, competing in the State Class B tournament in the Brigham Young university field-house field-house in Provo, dropped its opening open-ing game of the meet to a strong Lehi team by a 49 to 41 score in the third game of the opening day. The Rams went down to defeat after leading throughout most of the first half. John Benson opened the Ram scorine and the local team held a lead of from one to three points until the final minutes of the second quarter. At this point the Lehi team went ahead 22 to 21 and stretched that advantage to 27 to 22 as the half time horn sounded. The Rams faltered and dropped drop-ped further behond as the third quarter ended, losing their shooting shoot-ing eye and losing the ball by costly fumbles. We understand that the local players became tired while Lehi started to shoot and pass sensationally to roll up a 38 to 29 lead as the period ended. The Lehi Pioneers maintained this lead throughout the fourth period of play and finished the game with an eight point advantage. ad-vantage. John Benson, with 19 points led the scoring- for the game for both teams. Other Region Six teams fared l inc same as rarowan, uixie, me Dixie division champion, losing to Monroe by a 48 to 40 score in the second afternoon game, while Beaver, Millard division champion, cham-pion, lost to American Fork by 65 to 50 on a last quarter spurt by the Region 3 team. Beaver defeated North Emery 65-33 in the opening game of todays to-days play to continue in the consolation con-solation bracket, Dixie will play Cyprus at 6 p. m. and Parowan with meet Springville at 8:40, also al-so in the consolation bracket. This is -the- first time in 21 years that a Parowan high school basketball team has participated in the Utah State High school basketball tournament, and this year's team reached the state even the hard way, by finishing second to the Beaver team in the Millard division and then winning in a two grame playoff play-off between the 2nd and 3rd place teams of the Dixie and Millard Mil-lard divisions. During the course of the regular regu-lar league season, Coach Twist Jones Rams, with only two regulars reg-ulars back from last year, won 7 league games and lost three. Three of the wins were by one-point one-point margins, beating Beaver 48-47, Hinckley twice, 46 to 49 at Parowan and 60 to 59 at Hinckley. They lost to Delta 51 to 50 at I Delta, and lost to Millard 34-33 at Fillmore. Then in the playoff they came from behind in the last seconds to win' from Cedar Ce-dar by a 58 to 57 score. Members of this year's squad 1 participating in the big meet are John Benson, Melvin Mitchell, IMelvin Hvatt. Tommv Dohrnskv David Orton. Roy Benson, Milton Mortensen, Donald Stubbs, Donald Don-ald Gurr, Eric Clark and Gale Stolk, with Lyman Munford, athletic manager. They left here early Tuesday and we understand under-stand they are quartered in a motel at Springville. foreman 41 lehi 9 CIFP GTFP 3 6 3 9 Mitchell Anders-in 5 3 3 13 6 10 7 19 J. Bennon Durtnn 6 3 3 15 (i S 3 3 IVhrusky Jnllt-v 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 Hyatt Wathen 6 5 2 14 3 3 0 6 Ort.-n Fox 0 8 5 5 1 0 0 2 StuWKi Johnson 12 0 2 0 0 0 OR. BiTon Snitt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 M'irtnsen Peterson 0 0 0 0 14 24 13 41 TOTALS IS 21 13 49 Score Ly quarters: Parowan 17 22 29 41 U-hl 14 27 38 49 weed fire at the Abbott farm I north of Paragonah threatened the Thomas Abbott farmstead, but this was brought under con-, trol after a section of fence was burned out. j |