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Show II. II. S. IVews BIRDIE LOU HILTON Juab trounces Hinckley . . . A capable Juab quintet headed by Sander, center, who made 17 points during the evening gave the battling Mustangs a 46-35 point setback Monday evening. Superior backboard playing and dead-eye accuracy in sinking the ball allowed allow-ed the Red and Gold Wasps to maintain the lead throughout the game. The game when only five seconds old Hinckley succeeded in racking up a basket. The Wasps soon retaliated re-taliated with a series of fast scoring barrage which put them on top at the end of the first canto 18-8. Hinckley still trailed at the half as Juab held the commanding leak of 30-16. The Mustangs were a match for the Wasps on the floor but failed to come thru with their shots. Arnold Peterson put in a slating shot to start a Mustang drive in the third period. The crowd went wild as the Mustangs narrowed the margin to within four points to end the quarter 35-31. The plucky pluc-ky HHS five fought hard to overtake over-take their visitors but the Wasps widened their Victory margin to 47-35 as the 'final buzzer sounded Hardy took high point honors for the Mustangs with a total of 10 . The Hinckley B team walked a-'way a-'way with the victory in the preliminary pre-liminary against the DHS rabbits to score of 32-25. Hinckley Humbles Invading Lynx An invading band of Lynx of the Lincoln high school, Panaca, Nev., went home on the short end of a 36-38 score Saturday evening as the Hinckley Mustangs succeeded succeed-ed in holding on to a victory margin mar-gin in the rough and tumble contest. con-test. Lincoln took the lead after a few seconds of hard play and dumped dum-ped in three baskets before the Mustangs made a gain. The Hinckley Hin-ckley quint succeeded, however, in closing up the gap in the scoring scor-ing duel as the period ended 8-10 favor Lincoln. The Mustangs came out of the chute fast in the second period determined to raise the score in their favor. Their hard riding was rewarded with success and they took the lead 16-12. A nip and tuck game raged between be-tween the two opponents as both teams put in a strong bid for victory vic-tory during the final two quarters. With two minutes remaining in the final period they battled a deadlock dead-lock of 34 all. The Mustangs took the inside rail in the race and had the Lynx four points as the period closed. A lucky shot as the buzzer buz-zer sounded went in for the Panaca Pan-aca boys and raised their score two points. Game honors went to Dale Bliss, HHS forward, who garnered 14 points. This game completed the hoop tour the Lincoln team have been making through region six. 8th Grade Presents Xmas Assembly The Eighth graders presented a Christmas assembly to the student-body student-body on Friday. Leon Lewis, class president took charge and announ ced the program as follows: Ray Western, accompanied by Maxine Reeves, sang "Bells of St. Mary's" after which Robert Torrens gave a clever reading entitled "Speaking "Speak-ing Pieces." Sherlene Talbot gave a trumpet solo, followed by a solo by Barbara Black. She sang "Teddie Bears Picnic." Gale Bennett Ben-nett performed on his harmonica and Robert .Blanch gave a modified modi-fied version of Mary had a Little Lamb. Anna Mae Webb sang a solo, "White Christmas", then Max Jensen gave several short stories. A piano solo was then given by Maxine Reeve, and the concluding number was given by Gale Bennett Ben-nett and Sherlene Talbot who sang "Star of the East." The numbers num-bers were all well prepared and greatly enjoyed. |