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Show Parowan Third Wins Division Tourney Honors Parowan Third Ward M-Men basketball team emerged from the Division Two tournament held in Parowan Thursday, Friday Fri-day and Saturday as they posted a 49 to 45 win over defending Division Di-vision titlest, Cedar Sixth Ward - As the division champions the Parowan squad will represent nine-stake area in the all-church M-Men tournament, to be held in the George Albert Smith Field house on the campus of Brlgham Young University in Provo Mar. 23 through Mar. 23. Eight team toum.-.inent Include ed two teams from Cedar Stake, Cedar Third and Cedar Sixth; iMinersville Ward from Beaver .Stake; Las Vegas Third from Las I Vegas Stake; Sixth Ward from St. j George Stake; Hurricane North I Ward from Zion Park Stake, and Frertonia Ward from the Kanab Stake. Cedar Third Ward won third place honors with a 41 to 42 win over Las Vegas in the final evening eve-ning of play and the consolation championship, fourth place, was won by St. George Sixth with a 66 to 41 win over Fredonla. Fredonla Ward won the coveted covet-ed sportsmanship trophy at the tournament A ten-man all tournament team was also selected which Included In-cluded representatives from six of the eight teams in the tourney. tour-ney. Named to the all-tournament team were: John Wood and Roy Benson, f arowan; Bob Crane and Ranee Rollins, Cedar Sixth; Ted Atherley and Sheldon Hefner, Hef-ner, Cedar Third; Larry Weg-kamp Weg-kamp and Gordon Sprague, Las Vegas ; Pete Neiberg, St. George; and Fred Reid, Fredonla. Parowan won Its way into the championship game on the strength of two consecutive victories vic-tories in the first two rounds of play. In the opening round of play Parowan downed Miners-vilie Miners-vilie by a score of 57 to 42. They moved out !n front 15 to 11 at the enrt i-f the first ouartcr and held a 32 to 19 lead at hfilftlme, coasting to the victory in the last half. In the second round of play Parowan was forced to come from behind In the final period before they won a close decision over Las Vegas, 56 to 52. Parowan held a one-point margin at half-time, half-time, 28 to 27 but Vegas took the lead. 41 to 43 at the end of the third period. Donald Gurr hit seven points In the final quarter quar-ter to start a last quarter rally that moved Parowan Into the championship game. Cedar Sixth won a one-sided victory in the opening round by downing Hurricane 71 to 51. Sixth was the last entry In the tournament tourna-ment having replaced Uvada's stake entry on the opening day of the tournament when one of the Enterprise Wards withdrew. In the second round of play the Sixth and Third of Cedar Stake met it was their sixth meeting of the season and the Sixth won out in a battle that has developed strong rivalry as a result of league action. Sixth won by a score of 37 to 31 to even the series at three games each, and moved Into the finals. Cedar Third opmed the tournament tour-nament with a 75 to 39 win over Fredonla. lost In the second round to Cedar Sixth and barely edged out Las Vegas on the final eve- i jnlng to take third place honors. St. George, consolation champions, cham-pions, lost out to Las Vegas by a score of 53 to 38 In the opening 'round, but bounced back with two victories to take the honors. They won the second round of piay over wiinersviiie by a score of 55 to 44 and downed Fredonia convincingly 66 to 41 for fourth I place honors. j Hurricane came into the meet , with only a five man-squad, and still gave a very good account of themselves until late in each game in which they played. I : |
