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Show Foul Line litters Haunt Rams ,flt State B Meet The Parowan High School bas- ketball team closed out a long ! season by winning one game and j losing two in the Class B. tour nament in Provo last week. The Rams lost their opening game to Union High School on Wednes- . ' day afternoon by a 47 to 44 score; j won from South Emery Thursday j evening by a 54 to 46 score, and then bowed out of the meet by i losing to Gunnison Friday after- noon 38 to 31. I Although the Parowan team. 1 -didn't play up to par with their reason's record, in the games at j Provo they either won or lost j from the foul line. In the open- I ing game with Union, Parowan got 18 field goals to 15 for Union, but could get only eight out of, j 17 tries from the foul line while' j the victors were getting 17 outi j of 27. Parowan also had very poor luck from the field, missing j many wide open scoring oppor-, tunities. j 1 In the Parowan-South Emery j game, both teams got 17 field j goals, but the Rams got 20 out j of 31 tries from the foul line to 12 out of 23 for the So. Emery) crew, thus winning this one from the charity strip.-?. This is about the average in foul shooting the ParoVan team has maintained during the regular season, and which has enabled the team to win several games lhat might otherwise have been lost. In their final game with Gunnison, Gun-nison, the team which won the r consolation title, the Rams again outscored their opponents from ! the field, but fell behind at the foul line. Parowan got 11 field i goals to nine for Gunnison, but ! were able to get only nine for 16 I from the charity stripe while j Gunnison was shooting 20 out of h "24 tries for an 80 per cent aver- age. Our percentage wasn't so "bad in this game but the num- ! Taer of tries was low. After a bad night at the hoop : "in the opening game the play of the Parowan team dropped below I par compared to the season play. |