Show Attempt To Evade Wasps Wasp's Sting Fri Mantis Manti's basketball team will travel to Nephi Friday to play the Juab Wasps It is expected expect expect- ed that Juab will put up a astern astern astern stern battle in this encounter After creating an excellent won-lost won record in season pre-season play the Kevin Clayton coached coach coach- ed crew met their match at atthe atthe atthe the hands of Gunnison and North Sanpete They defeated Wasatch Academy and are currently currently currently cur cur- in in fourth place A loss to Manti a at this stage would jeopardize their tournament tournament tournament tour tour- chances So an out all-out effort will be enlisted in the Friday fracus Four boys who saw heavy action for Juab in 1964 will likely answer th the starting call They are Randy Sperry a shot long-shot artist and offensive quarterback Bob Sheppard a left-handed left corner shot Bruce Beal whose specialty is the range long-range jump shot and Bob Howard a crafty inside faker who has a point 19 average average average aver aver- age and is one of the leagues league's top offensive A glance backward shows Manti ManU split games over aver the thelast thelast thelast last week A second quarter two-gun two salute by Dale Rosenlund Rosenlund Rosenlund Rosen- Rosen lund and Steven Beck proved to be fatal to the In a three-minute three scoring binge these two talented shooters fairly rippled the nets to give the Bulldogs a healthy edge The first and third quarter quarter quarter ter were evenly played and Manti ManU had an edge edgein in the final final final fi fi- nal canto But because of the big second second second sec sec- ond quarter explosion Gunnison Gunnison Gunnison Gun Gun- nison went on to a 60 51 win Mantis Manti's turn for a big quarter quarter quarter ter came two nights later at Wasatch Academy's expense With Kay Englestead stealing the dribble Paul hawking the ball David Olsen Olsen Olsen Ol- Ol sen potting from outside and John Ericksen moving inside the ran up a 22 2 first quarter lead Brent Cox Jim Nelson and Dee Keisel combined for 22 more quick points between them the final and the the- outcome final outcome read 71 David Olsen scored 16 Englestead 15 and Ericksen Ericksen Ericksen Erick Erick- sen 12 Also chipping in points were speedy Douglas Ludvigson Ludvig- Ludvig son and Bob Longaker a pair of junior comers At the time of this writing the respective order of teams are Gunnison Manti North Sanpete Juab and Wasatch Next home action for the is Friday February when Gunnison is on deck for the local hardwoods |