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Show PAROWAN NEWS ! s. . ! I I MRS CLAUDIA SNYDER Final Play Gives Milford Victory FIANL TEAM STANDINGS (MiUard Division) Parowan .. 7 1 .875 Millard 6 2 .750 Beaver 5 3 .625 Delta 1 7 .125 Milford 1 7 .125 In the final basketball games in the Millard Division of Region! Six, the Millard Eagles took the measure of the Beaver Beavers by a 65 to 59 score in a game played at FiUmore, and the Milford Mil-ford Tigers won its first league game in three years, by eking out a 48 to 47 victory over the Delta Rabbits on the Milford floor. As a result of the first game Millard took second place honors in the division and won the right to meet the third place team in the Dixie Division on the first night of the Region round robin played to pick the third state tournament entry from this region. re-gion. This could be either Dixie or Hurricane, who finished their Dixie Division schedule in a tie for second place. Beaver will meet the second place Dixie division di-vision team. The location of the playoff hasn't been announced as yet. I Coach Lee Pcttey's Milford Tigers, Ti-gers, in winning their first game in division play In three years, tied Merjin Christ ensen's Delta Rabbits for last place in the di-, di-, vision standing, which is the lowest a Delta team has finished in division play in our memory. The Rabbits won only one game, that from Milford at Delta, earjy in the season. In the Milltrd Beaver game, the victorious Eagles had four men score in the double figures, with Bennett, as usual, leading with 23 points. He was followed by Palmer with 11 and Olpin and Verharen with 10 each. Beaver had three men in the double figure fig-ure mark. Easton had 16, Garrett : with 13 and Pearce with 12. The play was very even In this game , with the exception of the Third ; quarter when the Eagles' got 18 , points to four for Beaver, and al-i al-i though Beaver scored 22 points , to 10 for the EagJes in the final quarter, the lead piled up by the ultimate winners was too much to overcome. ; In the Milford-Delta game, the Tigers led during the first half, i the two teams were tied at the i1 end of the third quarter, with :! Milford getting the one point vie-I vie-I tory at the end. |