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Show Win Over Delta Will Give Milford Tourney Berth BEAVER-MILLARD DISTRICT Team Standing Team W. L. Pet. Milford 5 0 1.000 Delta 3 2 .000 Hinckley 2 3 .400 Millard (Fillmore) 1 3 .250 Beaver 1 4 .200 Coming Games Delta at Milford, Friday. Millard County High (Fillmore) at Beaver, Friday. Friday night of this week the Milford high school has an opportunity oppor-tunity of clinching its first berth in the Utah state high school basketball bask-etball tournament which will be held in Salt Lake City, some time during march, the exact dates remaining re-maining to be set. This enviable position in which Milford finds itself comes about by reason of the 39-21 victory Milford scored over Hinckley M'onday night on the Mustangs' own floor but with between 150 and 200 Milford fans in attendance. Monday's results virtually eliminated elimi-nated Hinckley from the championship champion-ship race and put Delta on the spot to stop the phenomenal string of victories (and not a single defeat) de-feat) chalked up by Coach Floyd Kotter's "miracle team" since league play commenced. In the crucial game Friday night Delta plays the Milford team here, and though Milford is rated the better chance cf taking the game, almost anything may be expected from the visitors, who handed the Millard county high school team a 49-20 shellacking February 1 at Fillmore. They did not do so well last Saturday night on their home (Continued on last page) M M.H.S. jiasketball (Continued from first page) (Continued from first page) floor, however, winning over Beaver Bea-ver by a score of 30-24; but that victory was enough to give them runner-up rating to Milford after Milford's rout of the Mustangs. It is reported that there -will be a large delegation of Delta fans here for the game to see if Delta can't beat Milford and thus wrest a slim chance at the tourney berth to which the Milford players are pointing with all the ferocity of the Tigers for which they are named. Milford beat Delta, 28-26, January 13 in an overtime game at Delta, but both teams have gained a lot of valuable experience since then, with the Delta team having in their lineup Cahoon, a star forward, who was able to play only short periods in early games on account of football injuries. in-juries. It is possible that there also will be present a number of Beaver fans who would rather see these two fast teams in action than remain home for the game with Millard county high from Fillmore. Latest word from Delta is to the effect that fans have chartered a special car to come to Milford Friday afternoon and return home on No. 14. Both Gillins and Gillies, brilliant Milford forwards, were plenty "hot" in the game at Hinckley Monday night, the former finding the hoop for nine field goals anft one out of two trials for free points, while Gillies made four goals from the field and three conversions con-versions out of five free throw trials. Spendlove, playing right forward for the Mustang aggrega- j tion, had been the man most tout- j ed before the game, and for good j reason, too, when it is remem- I ibered that he scored 2S of his team's points in their 38-23 defeat I of Beaver February 1. It was not known just how well Nclan Williams, Wil-liams, Milford Sophomore guardJ j would be able to keep him sewed i. l " as he had never had just this ': et" a job cut eut for him be-!' be-!' :'e. But N'olar. did even more I than euulcl have been expected of :::r.. Syendlove was limited to aj : re two field itoals in three quar- j ters ef play Williams doing such a clean j..'o of it that his oppciieni v.'cr.t out of the game for persona! fouls before he didl The game was pretty much a nip-and-tuck affair during the first half but with Milford having simothir.g of an edge after the first few minutes cf play though Hinckley led, 7-5, at the end of the first quarter. Milford made a much better appearance during the next quarter, however, and the score at the half stood 1S-15 in Milford's favor. It was in the last half, however, that the Milford boys set out to show what they knew about really fast basketball with the result that they simply razzle-dazzled their opponents and the crowd . with their speed. Coach Kotter ran his whole second string onto the floor for the last few minutes of play, for the victory was assured as-sured with Milford scoring 21 points tho Mustangs' six in the last half! vvnen jumord played here in the schedule opener there was considerable consid-erable criticism of Stratton, the Hinckley official, not so much for his decisions but for his display of temperament on several occasions occas-ions during the evening, which served to keep tbe crowd in a bad mocd. It was considerable of a relief, re-lief, therefore, when a decision to use neutral officials was reached. Hunter and Probert of Fillmore were drafted for the occasion and did fine work and kept the huge crowd in good spirits. Milford's remaining games after Friday night, are against Millard county high school at Fillmore on February 17, and at home for the final game, February 24, with Beaver Bea-ver as the opponent. MILFORD 39 Players G T F P Gillies, rf 4 5 3 11 McKnight, If 3 3 17 Gillins, c 9 2 1 19 Bingham, rg 4 0 10 0 N. Williams, lg 0 2 11 Kirk, f 0 0 0 0 James, f 0 0 0 0 A. Williams, c 0 111 Carter, g 0 0 0 0 Hickman, g 0 0 0 0 Total 16 14 7 39 HINCKLEY 21 "Players G T F P Spendlove, rf 2 3 3 7 Woodall, If 0 5 3-3 Walker, c : 2 3 0 4 Bennett, rg 2 3 2 6 Allred, lg 0 111 Miner, f 0 0 0 0 Blake, f 0 0 0 0 Total 6 15 9 21 Referee, Hunter; umpire, Probert. Pro-bert. The score by quarters Milford 5 18 29 39 Hinckley 7 15 18 21 M |