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Show Visiting Hoop Stars Hand C S U Varsity Defeat First annual Don Marshall Scholarship Fund basketball game was played Friday evening eve-ning at the College of Southern Utah fleldhouse with the teammates team-mates and returning lettermen handing the CSU varsity a resounding re-sounding 124 to 83 setback. The game was played in three 20-minute 20-minute periods. At the first period intermission a special plaque was presented to Mrs. Don Marshall and his parents in behalf of the teammates team-mates who played with him on the 1951 team that finished sixth in the National Junior Collegiate Collegi-ate Athletic Association tournament tourna-ment at Hutchinson, Kansas The game, the first of an annual an-nual event, according to the athletic ath-letic department at CSU, will be played at the beginning of each season with proceeds to go toward to-ward the memorial scholarship. Coach Cleo Petty also announc-, ed that jersey No. 11, Marshall's number while at CSU, will be retired and placed on display in the fieldhouse trophy case. Marshall was killed in a truck accident in June of this year and the memorial scholarship fund game was promoted by his teammates. team-mates. Gathered for the event and coming out as the victors were the alumni crew, Including Boyd Adams and Bob Crane, both residing re-siding and coaching in Las Vegas, Ve-gas, Nev. at the present time; Ted Smith, in northern Utah and last year voted the outstanding player In the LDS M-Men All-Church All-Church tournament, and Nick Lunt, former Cedar City man now residing in Salt Lake City. Others who participated were Jim Thomas, former player at the University of Utah; Boyd Dover, a former Cedar High star; Zzvry Bertleson, coaching at Millard, and John Wood, coach at Paro-wan Paro-wan High School. Thomas led all scorers in tne tilt with a total of 26 points. He was followed by his teammates Adams and Smith, who tanked 24 each. Wood and Bertleson were close behind with 17 points each; Crane hit for six, Dover had 5 and Lunt got four. For the CSU Varsity It was their first appea-ance of the season sea-son and Coach Cleo Petty had 15 men in uniform for the event. He called on Don Chamberlain of East, Marian Roper, Spanish Fork; LaMar Pugh, Cyprus; Glen Gray, Monroe, and Larry Dehlin, Bingham, for his starting five. This quintet took an early lead in the pime, moving out as far as 14 ,xlnts in lead at one point, bat it didn't last as the alumni, led by Adams, got hot at the hoop and from then on It was the alumni all the way. Dehlin, the smallest man on the CSU squad, showed some fine oi'tside shooting in the canto as he hit six irom outside in the first half of play. He enHrj th evening with 18 points to lead the scoring for CSU. Pugh, a rugged rug-ged 6 foot 5 lncher from Cyprus, showed good strength under the board and came up with 15 points, mostly underneath for second high honors and the only other Thunderbird in the double figures. The T-Eirds showed spurt oi fine ball, but also showed the need for a lot of action as they failed to move the ball offensively offen-sively for the easy shots in the' key. Most of ' the ; Thunderbird scoring was from well out, except ex-cept for a few follow-ups under the bucket. Before the evening was over all members of the squad saw considerable aef ion as Coacb Prt-ty Prt-ty used the game to see hi squad! in action. With the exception crC Van Wagenen the entire sqnad! is new this season. He is the en-jly en-jly returning letterman of the 13k |