Show I SU Summit Entry Utah's Basketball Champs Says Bill Clegg sports writer in Sundays Sunday's Sundays Sunday's Sundays Sunday's Sun Sun- days day's Tribune Utah's first class B basketball crown I 1 rests testa on the heads of at a rugged and well- well 1 coached Wasatch high school quintet who staged a great second-half second drive to defeat Murray Murral 30 24 In a game that L was a battle of champions It is the first state crown the Wasps have ever cap- cap and It climaxes two great basketball basketball basketball bas- bas Campaigns during which the champions captured two Summit division division divi divi- division sion titles I Murrays Murray's working smooth-working crew completely completely completely com com- dominated the first 12 minutes of ot the game They played a precision offense to shake Cal Gillen and Jay I loose Tor for easy lay ins and ana these two snipers came through gh to push the ahead 17 10 late in the second canto Their good work coupled with a brilliant defensive Job by Keith Davies kept the Wasps hobbled and practically out of the game Davies Davie had the Herculean task of shadowing big Kent Murdock tournament high scorer and for two quarters Murdock scored only four points I But bottling Murd Murdock was only half halt tho the job and brother Harvey came thru with eight points In the half halt and tl the e Wasps narrowed the gap before the Intermission in intermission In- In to trail 19 15 at the end of ot two quarters The second halt half was all Murdock and with both barrels barrel After Christensen's basket brought the Wasps as close as 19 17 Kent and Harvey took over and the two personally scored all the remaining decimals for the champions cham cham- Kent banged nine straight points thru the tho net to Ignite the long-anticipated long rally while the who had played their hearts out in the grueling first half saw their own offense bog down as they tallied only two field goals in the two quarters Murdocks Murdock's barrage pushed the Wasps out In front 22 28 before beCore Harvey Murdock slipped another in to make it 28 22 with four tour minutes of play left lect Delquadro and Harvey Murdock each bagged another goal but once the Wasps caught up there was no holding them down The two Murdocks accumulated 25 points between them and shared honors for around all-around floor play while Gillen Delquadro and Davies were outstanding for Murray Gillen and Delquadro each s scored ored seven points while Davies turned in one of ot tho the greatest defensive Jobs of the until he went Kent out on fouls early in the third the third period Score by quarters Wasatch 4 15 IS 22 30 Murray 12 13 19 22 24 Thursdays Thursday's results Wasatch 36 38 Blanding 32 Fridays Friday's score Wasatch 36 38 36 Spanish Fork 35 85 From the Press Box Dox by Jimmy Hodg son Tribune Sports Editor Coach Mark Reeve of Park City has been the mo most re private in Uncle Qa turns turn's qi's s 's army th the l past we week k Reeve went I i i lito the service Wednesday sd the he day ber be- be bej j j r rb the state high r tournament o opined and has been stationed at Fort rort I i Douglas so Douglas so close and yet BO so far-away far I from Irom the proceedings of or the big court I classic Mark was was pa particularly Interested In this meet because hl his hll strong Park City City Miners lost out by a a. single point mar gin to Wasatch high lu in the play off for t I the Summit tit title Ie and nd for tor a 0 tourney tourny post I R Reeve ve figures figure he had the best beat B team iri In tir l. l lit ha hl had only h hail had a chance chan e to have ho proved it Its It's been i t u Gi W d 01 c JUa football t j-f j rm rm m also Vat I st 1 t t o In la a play play-oT play play-of losing In the last lut 30 seconds of play rh thence nu to Into r f I go the football 4 va was Cl on KP RP durin during the tho r. r j |