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Show State Games Highlight Basketball Season "and it was just great to get into the state tournament. A police escort accompanied the Miners out of town Wednesday Wed-nesday enroute to their first State Tournament berth in six years. "I don't know who arranged ar-ranged it," said Stepan, 'but we sure appreciate it." Senior starters Kelly Mack-ley, Mack-ley, Ron Schaefer, and Frank Marcellin played their last games for the Miners. With juniors Mike Alvey, and Scott Toly returning next year from the starting lineup and some strong reserves back, Coach Stepan can look optimistically to next year. The final eight places in the State Class "A" tournament are as follows: 1st, South Summit; 2nd, North Sevier; 3rd, Gunnison;- 4th, Milford; 5th, North Summit; 6th, Bryce Valley; 7th, Dugway; 8th, Panguitch. third place in the tournament, and Stepan said he really thought, the Gunnison squad would be in the championship before being be-ing upset by North Sevier, who went on to take second place to South Summit in Saturday Satur-day night's Championship game. Park City's game against Panguitch on Thursday was more of a ball game with the Miners behind by only five points at the end of the third quarter before dropping the game to the Panguitch squad, which 'took eighth in the toiirn- ' ament. ' "We- really came on at the end of the season," said Stepan, by David E. Neu I The Park City Miners met the tough competiton they expected ex-pected at the State Class "A" Tournament March 17-20 at Provo and lost 65-41 to Gunnison Gun-nison on Wednesday and 69-56 to Panguitch Thursday to finish fin-ish a season which came in like a lamb and went out like a lion. "You meet the best down there," said Miner Coach Ron Stepan. "We did as well as : expected." , ... . ' Gunnison, who .. easily outdistanced, out-distanced, the Miners in the opening game went on to take |