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Show Rams Win First Tourney Game With Late Surge The Parowan High School basketball bas-ketball team, making its eighth appearance in the state Class B tournamenat at Provo in a row, and playing the opening game for the third time in those eight years,, came from behind Wednesday Wed-nesday noon to win from the North Summit Braves from Morgan, Mor-gan, by a 61 to 57 score. Trailing at one time by 12, 41 to 29, Coach John Wood's boys fought back from that deficit to take the lead In the final few minutes of the game, and take the win, and move to the quarter-finals of the meet. The Rama will play the winner of the Gunnison Gun-nison vs. Uint.h game Wednesday, Wednes-day, at 6:20 tonight, Thursday. Parowan scored first In Wednesday's Wed-nesday's opener, were tied at 4-all 4-all then went out on lead 14 to 7 only to see the Braves come back to take a 16 to 14 lead at the first quarter rest. The Morgan Mor-gan team had stretched this lead to seven, 34 to 27 at halftlme, and ran the score to 41-29 before the Rams found themselves and began to fight back under the leadership of Kenyon Clark. j At the third quarter rest the Brave lead had been cut to 47 to 43. Coach Wood Inserted Max! Robinson. Larry Rowley and Ro ger Burt into the lineup, late In the third quarter with Rowley and Robinson playing the rest of the way. The score was tied at 49-all, 51-all and 53-alI before the final surge of the Rams took them out to the four point wn. Kenyon Clark led the last half victory drive and came up with 26 points to lead all scorers In the game, with all the other local lo-cal players chipping in to aid the cause. . In the first half surge for the Morgan team they shot 67 of their shots from the field to 35 for the Rams, but this cnanged to a considerable extent In the final quarter and a half. I |