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Show Rams Hold League Lead with Victory over Beavers Coach John Wood's Tarowan High School basketball team won its third straight gam-? in league play last Friday night In the Parowan gym, to maintain main-tain its lead in the Millard Division Di-vision standings And. Milford stayed right on the Rams' heel! by racking up Its second vic'ory without a defeat by taking the measure of the Millard team in a game played Friday at Milford. Parowan defeated Beaver 54 to 34 and Milford took the measure of Millard 48 to 31 to drop the Eagles into third place in the di-vision di-vision standings. And Milford dropping into a tie with Delta at the bottom with no wins and two losses. The Parowan Beaver game started slowly with the Beavers freezing the ball and turning it into a control game. This result, ed In no score for several minutes, min-utes, but the Rams finally got the ball and scored about three minutes In'o the quar'er. The stall continued until Parowan stole the ball twice and made baskets. This caused the Beavers to change their style of ball, and the quarter ended 8 to 2 for the Rams. The home team hit for 16 points In the second quarter to 10 for Beaver, and went Into a 24 to 12 lead at halftime Very few fouls were called with Parowan Paro-wan not geting a charity shot in the first quarter and only two by half time. Coach Wood made several changes In his lineup to Mart the second half and the Beavers came back with a rush to cut the Ram lead from 12 to five points in about two minutes. Coach Wood switched back to his starting five and his team again settled down to play steady stea-dy ball and drew away again to take a 36 to 28 lead at the third quarter rest. Both coaches substituted freely in the final period which saw Coach Wood's boys stretch their lead to 20 points before the final horn for the 54 to 34 score. Th Milford Timers, who are apparently on their way to their first berth in the state Class B tournament, trimmed Millard by about the same margin Parowan had over Beaver to stay right be-hind be-hind the league-leading Rams. The Junior Varsity game, played play-ed at 6:30 p. m., saw the Parowan lads take the measure of the visiting vis-iting JV's from Beaver by a 11-33 11-33 score, with Coach Wood giving all the members of the squad a good opportunity to get some playing experience. Box score of the Parowan-Bea-ver game Is as follows: PAROWAN S4 BEAVER 14 nirr (i tfp 0 10 0 Kobh Bradnhaw 2 115 6 2 1 13 Slmklni Dran 5 2 111 1 0 0 2 LuUt Baldwin Oil 1 O 0 O O Oalton Hnllinptnn 10 0 2 0 0 0 0 Aiama Cray 6 3 0 12 H 0 0 16 Burton Athworlh 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 lN- kcr Couch 10 0 2 2 3 1 5 Rnbinnon Murdork 0 111 3 i ! 7 Thorni.m Taylor 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 ! Whitney 35 9 4M TOTALS 13 8 4 34 Score by quarter! : Bravrr . 2 12 2H 34 fireman .. . B li4 M |
