Show Templar Cage Prepare For Delta Friday At Snow H Manti ManU High School will play Delta High School in a basketball basketball basketball bas bas- game Friday Dec 18 at the Snow College The contest was origInally originally originally scheduled at the Manti ManU Armory but was shifted to Ephraim to allow seniors at to decorate for their Saturday night Senior Ball A preliminary between the sophomore teams of the two schools starts at pm p.m. Delta boasts a talented aggregate aggregate aggregate ag ag- ag- ag of athletes this year They battled their way to the finals of af the state Class B football championship before losing to North Summit Four of the five starters are veterans from last years year's team Merlin Christensen a veteran coach will bring his squad to Ephraim A quick steal of the ball and driving by Kay Engle- Engle stead gave Manti ManU the right last start in a game played Friday at Vernal The Tem Tern never relinquished the lead and won by a narrow 58 58 54 54 margin Starters for this game Included included In in- eluded Englestead Howard Knight John Ericksen and David Olsen Brent Cox came off the bench in the second half to tank nine valuable points Paul Jim Neson Nelson Nelson Nel Nel- son and Tony Anderson also came in for action at critical moments Howard Knight shot for 15 points John Ericksen did his usual creditable rebounding rebounding rebounding re re- re- re bounding and added eight counters Lanky David Olsen chipped in for six Tony Tany Anderson Anderson Anderson An An- derson 5 and Paul Frisch FrIsch- knecht 4 In a preliminary contest Douglas Olsen his way for 17 points in a little littleover littleover littleover over half a game as Manti ManU won 61 Next high s scorer was junior forward Bob Longaker Longaker Longaker Long- Long aker who arched in five field goals for 10 counters On the following night the Roosevelt quint defeated the 58 With 2 22 minuteS minuteS' minutes minutes minutes' min min- utes utes' to go Manti ManU led by a slim 51 50 margin but could not head off a couple of hot shooting junior guards Although he was able to play for only a little over half the game John Erickson tallied tallied tal tal- lied 17 points The 64 junior pivot player had a muscle bruise above the knee that forced him to the bench Kay Englestead also was unable to go the full distance because of physical ties Second high scorer was H Brent Cox with 14 points followed followed fol fol- lowed by David Olsen's 11 Englestead with eight Knight 6 and Nelson 1 completed the scoring Unions Union's eye dead-eye guards Lamb and Olsen dribbled and shot their way to 21 and 16 point outputs The preliminary action also saw Manti ManU winning 57 Inthis In 1 this game Douglas Olsen again led with 12 points Douglas Ludvigson scored 11 Fifteen boys made the trip They found faund the he people friendly friend friend- ly and hospitable according to Coach Wilbur Braithwaite Several hours were spent visiting the excellent western culture museum at Vernal Former Kent Anderson Anderson Anderson An An- derson Robert Cott Cotton n Jensen Jensen Jensen Jen Jen- sen and wife Ruth and Kenneth Ken neth Allred were on hand for the Uintah game |