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Show Delta High Team Places Fourth In State Tourney Six Delia high seniors staged a fitting finale to their high school basketball career as Delta careened careen-ed into fourth place in the annual State Class "B" Tournament held in Salt Lake City, March 15-18. DELTA 31. ROOSEVELT 20 Both teams were as cold as an Alaskan Winter, but Delta stag ed a rally in the final canto that broke the ice above the hoop and netted them a 31-20 victory over the Roosevelt Rough-Riders during the first round of play. Jack Mc Lea, 6 ft. 2 in. Roosevelt center, paced the meager Rough-Rider Rough-Rider attack that potted only six fielders. The score at half-time read 13-10 with the "Uintans" holding hol-ding the advantage. A 16-15 third quarter score appeared on the score board to set the stage for the fourth period rally. In the final canto Monan Lov-ell Lov-ell splurged abrouptly with a flur ry of points to push Delta into an unsurmountable 10 point lead. High point honors fell to Ted Dalton and Monan Lovell, each with 10 markers. B. Y. HIGH 44. DELTA 21 Led by Tom Karren, a 6 ft. xk center from Canada, B. Y. high Wildcats staged a second half spree that resulted in a defeat to the Delta Rabbits. During first quarter both quintets quin-tets battled on even terms with BY high grasping a 4 point advant age. Max Eggertsen, Stan Collins, and Maurice Jackson fed the securing secur-ing lane with enough points to climb to a 10 point lead at intermission. inter-mission. During the first half Tom Karren hit a scoring draught with only 3 tallies but exploded with 15 points in the last 16 minutes of play. B. Y. high pulled into a safe lead on long shots and tip-ins. Ted Dalton paced the Delta aggression ag-gression with 7 points. DELTA 45, WASATCH 41 The revived Delta Rabbits dut-rushed dut-rushed the Watatch Wasps and swept them from further tournament tourna-ment contention with a 45-41 victory, vic-tory, only 12 hours after they had lost to BY high. Delta started out with a quick flurry of points as they piled up a 17-8 first quarter score. The undaunted un-daunted cagers from Heber City retaliated quickly and whittled the Rabbits faltering lead to a 3 point margin at half time. The third period witnessed a hectic struggle with the score being be-ing knotted at numerous intervals. inter-vals. With the final seconds ticking tick-ing away on the score board clock, John Whatcott parked a fielder in the net to make the score read 33-31 for the Delta hoopsters. Delta wasted little time in showing show-ing their final period supremacy by piling up a 10 point lead. The Wasps closed the gap in the final 60 seconds with two fielders in rapid succession. Bud Fullmer was extremely hot as he hit the hoop for 15 markers. Harold Snow's 11 tallies was the next best scoring effort. Harold Snow and Lloyd War ner continually swept the backboards back-boards to contribute toward the win. DELTA 47, SMELTERITES 32 Delta high grasped an impressive impress-ive 47-32 victory from the orange-clad orange-clad Murray Smelterites to place 4th in the State meet. Delta wasted no time in showing their supremacy over the players from the smelter town, as they rolled to a 16-10 opening quarter tally. With Harold Snow hitting with tip-ins and Ted Dalton bagging bag-ging his favorite long set shots, Delta continued to overwhelm the Jordan representatives with a 26-14 26-14 half time score. In the third canto Mario Bowen was the pace-setter of a threatening threaten-ing Murray rally that was stopped short before much damage had .been done. Jim Barthel's deadly left-handed hook shot, that had contributed greatly to Murray's win over Monroe Mon-roe and Beaver, was successfully countered. Barlhel reached the net for only 2 points. Mario Bowen led the Smelterite aggression with 12 markers. Roy Reading added 6 points to the Murray score. During the last three minutes of play Dick Clark, Lyn Prestwich, Clarence Prestwich, John Whatcott What-cott and Barth Black took over for Delta and did a commendable job. Ted Dalton led all scorers with 13 points. Harold Snow poked thru 11 counters. This was the final game in which 6 of the 10 Delta players will participate while in high school. The graduating Seniors as well as the two Juniors and two Sophomores played exceptionally well to gain the coveted berth in the tournament. Ted Daton was chosen on the second All-Tournament squad seeded se-eded by the Salt Lake Tribune. His spectacular tourney play earn-ed earn-ed him a berth at the guard line. The Deseret News picked both Dalton and Monan Lovell for honorable hon-orable mention. By Don Greathouse. |