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Show J" READY FOR SEASON Santa Claus will come to Pleasant Grove Saturday at 5 p.m. tOj start official Christmas season. Viking Basketeers Win Two Games Last Week Pleasant Grove High School's basketbal team won games two and three last weekend by defeating Millard 62-53 on Friday Fri-day and blasting Emery 81-61 on Saturday. Both games were played in the Viking gym. Friday's game saw the Vikes trailing Millard 18-31 with 3 minutes remaining in the second sec-ond quarter only to rally to a 31-32 score at half time. A close second half was blown open in the closing minutes min-utes to give the Vikes the 11 point margin of victory. Raymond Ray-mond Green and Kaylon Whit-eley Whit-eley each scored 16 points and Green was top rebounder with 17. Saturday's game with Emery ound the Vikes shooting an amazing 59 per cent from the floor for the game and hitting on 18 of 24 in the second half, (75 per cent pace) to scorch the nets for an 81-61 victory. Freshman Layne Butt scored 24 points as he started the ball game in place of the injured in-jured Corby Adamson. One amazing statistic was poscted by PG's 6 foot 4 inch Center. Raymond Green. Green shot the ball 10 times in the game, seven from the field and three from the line, and made every one of them to score 17 points. P.G. 62 Millard 53 F.G. F.T. Pts. Whiteley 6 4-7 16 Bennett 3 1-2 ? Swenson 2 1-2 3 Green 8 0-0 16 Butt 4 2-3 10 Strasburg 2 1-1 5 Jolley 1 1-1 3 Totals 26 10-15 62 P.G. 8 Emery 61 Whiteley 3 1-1 7 Bennett 1 0-2 2 Swenson 8 1-2 17 Green 7 3-3 17 Butt 11 2-3 24 West 1 0-0 2 Jolley 4 3-5 11 Jackson 0 1-2 1 Totals . . 35 9-16 81 P.G. played North Sanpete last night, too late for press time. The Vikes travel to Am. Fork on Friday, Dec. 14 and up to Judge Memorial on Dec. 15. |