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Show Rams Drop Exciting Basketball Game To Hurricane Tigers in Overtime Battle 43-39 The Parowan High School basketball bas-ketball team lost its second game of the season to the Hurricane High Tigers last Saturday night in the Parowan gym after a thrilling contest which was nip and tuck following the opening period and which ended with a tied score at the end of the regulation regu-lation game, 38-all. In the three-minute overtime period the visitors managed to come up with five pointa to one for the Rams to win the game by a 43 to 39 score. Coach Lowell Caldwell's squad piaying without the services o' Kobin draff, veteran guard an'' "steady scorer for the team, fel' behind early In the game and trailed 15 to 9 at the end of the Initial period. The second quarter saw the Rams make a strong comeback to close the gap to a 25 to 23 score at halftime. The third quarter was the bos' fur the Parowan team especial ly defensively, as it hoH the Timers Ti-mers to two pointy while senrin-nine senrin-nine to take a 32 to 27 leaH a-the a-the quarter ended. But Coach Don Lay's boys came back to tie the I score at 38-all Just before the final horn to send the game into the overtime. The Rams were outscored by one basket from the field and each team hit 50Cr from the foul line but Hurricane had 26 tries from the charity stripe to 22 for the Rams. Coach Caldwell and the fans in attendance were quite happy with th improvement improve-ment shown by the near members mem-bers of the squad, who turned In good performances and indicated indi-cated that the Parowan team will have to be reckoned with by the time the division play gets under way in January The work of Juniors, Mike Hyatt, Hy-att, Gary Simklns and Karl Banks, and sophomore Mack Clark was very good and except for some mistakes that might be attributed to Inexperience, would have tucked this game away. This week's action has Coach Caldwell's squad playing two of the strong teams in Nevada in the annual Iron County tournament. tourna-ment. Opening round of play is set for the Parowan gym start-T start-T at 7 p. m. Friday with Coach Bruce Decker's Redmen playing :he Lincoln County High team of Panaca with the Rams playing '.he extra strong Western High -l Las Vegas in the nightcap. Saturday night the action moves to the CSU fieldhouse in Cedar City with the Rams meeting meet-ing the Panaca team In the 7 p. -n. erame and Cedar High taking on Western In the nightcap. The Rams will still be without the services of Graff in these games it is reported by Coach Caldwell Box score of the Parowan-Hur-ricane game is as follows: raaowAN at hubricane o it kp GTrr ' i) n 2 Tnlhot C'n1l 1 DO 3 1 M f Chirk HnliliK- 4 (i 4 J2 I) 2 1 1 S.mklM Strnlt..n IM 3 7 .1 1 IS M Hyatt Purler "t 2 12 I 4 H Murif Bnrrlt k 1 2 2 4 t 4 2 10 R Hyatt i;il...n 3 6 4 10 0 0 0 O Hanka 1 (i ii o Bentlry I I 1 1 :m TOTALS IS 26 13 43 Smr by quaiirra: Parowan H 21 32 as Xt Hurr.cane 15 25 27 3 43 |