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Show Milford High Wins Game With Fast Hinckley Quintet BEAVER-MILLARD DISTRICT Team Standing Team W. L. Pet, Milford 1 0 1.000 Beaver 1 0 1.000 Fillmore 0 0 .000 Hinckley 0 1 .000 Delta 0 1 .000 This Week's Games Milford at Delta. Beaver at Fillmore. ' I Hinckley bye. Coach Floyd Kotter's Milford high school basketball boys did themselves, their coach and the school and community proud Friday Fri-day night of last week when they sprung the biggest upset in five or six years of basketball and defeated de-feated the strong Hinckley high school team by a score of 29-27. The game was the first league game of the 1938-39 school year and the first league game to Joe won by Milfcrd in several seasons. Friday of this week the Milford team goes to Delta and, though it is going a bit strong to expect the local team to beat Delta on their floor at this time, it may be that they will again hit the stride which characterized their playing the latter part of the game against Hinckley, and, if they do, that particular par-ticular Friday the 13th will be plenty unlucky for the Rabbits. A week from this Friday, January Janu-ary 20, the Millard county high school team of Fillmore comes to Milford for a game that should be chalked up for our home boys, as Fillmore is doped out as about third in strength among the three Millard county teams. ' (Continued on imet page) I Milford Wins Game (Continued from first page) Last Friday night, while Milford was taking the measure of Hinckley, Hinck-ley, Beaver was defeating Delta by a score of 32-27 on the Beaver floor. In the game with Hinckley, the Milford team started off by again "playing over their heads," showing show-ing plenty of action but missing try after try for baskets, and it looked like it might be a repetition of past years' league losses for the first quarter of play, at the end of which the score was 8-3 in favor of the visitors. During the next quarter, however, both teams showed to equal advantage as far as basket-shooting was concerned, each team registering nine points, the visitors getting five of their points by way of foul conversions. In the third quarter the better condition con-dition of the Milford boys began to show to good advantage and Gillins began registering with his surehootingr while teammates were doing wonderful rustling and defensive work. . During the third quarter Milford registered 13 points to seven for the visitors and the large crowd of fans was in about the greatest stage of excitement in five or six years. With only a single point in Hinckley's favor at the beginning of the final period, the crowd paid little attention to another foul 1 conversion by the visitors for Mil ford was "plenty hot". Jess McKnight, guard and captain of the team, made a phenomenal shot from a deep side position and nothing short of a miracle team could have stopped Coach Kot-ter's Kot-ter's charges. After that shot, though Milford players made fruitless fruit-less shot after shot at the basket, Hinckley was afforded not even a hint of a look-in, their point-getting ability being confined to the single foul shot, the game ending with the score 29-27 and the team and crowd wild with elation. MILFORD 29 Players G T F P Gillins, rf 6 3 1 13 Gillies, If 2 0 0 4 Carter, c 0 0 0 0 Bingham, rg 1 0 0 2 McKnight, lg 3 4 17 Kirk, If 0 0 0 0 James, rf 0 0 0 0 A. Williams, c 0 0 0 0 N. Williams, rg 1 4 13 Hickman, lg 0 0 0 0 Johnson, lg 0 0 0 0 Total 13 11 3 29 Players G T F P HINCKLEY 27 Woodall, rf 4 2 19 Walker, If 1 0 0 2 Spendloce, c 3 2 17 Minner, rg 0 111 Bennett, lg 1 2 13 Allred, rf 0 4,3 3 Blake, lg 1 0 0 2 Elleason, If 0 0 0 0 Total 10 11 7 27 Score by quarters: Milford 3 12 25 29 Hinckley 8 17 26 27 Referee, Finlinson; umpire, Strat-ton. |