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Show Cavemen Win Two Games During Week Team Standing: W. L. Pet. American Fork 6 1 .857 Provo High 6 1 .857 Lehi 4 3 .571 Pleasant Grove 3 4 .438 B. Y. High 2 5 .285 Lincoln 0 7 .000 American Fork remained tied with Provo for first place in the Alpine division basketball league by winning win-ning two games the past week. The Cavemen downed Lincoln 45-17 here Friday in a gome that was even more one-sided than the score indicates. in-dicates. Tuesday evening they defeated de-feated Pleasant Grove in the lat-ter's lat-ter's gym, 44-27. Meanwhile, Provo defeated B. Y. high and Lehi. In the game with Pleasant Grove American Fork displayed their remarkable re-markable versatility and reserve strength. Their offense functioned flawlessly while defensively they1 kept P. G. forwards away from the basket, limiting the blue-clad boys to two field goals during the first half- During the second half A. F. reserve re-serve forwards, McAllister and Parker, Park-er, who replaced Hicks and Durrant, when the latter two went out on fouls, covered themselves with glory by doing their share to increase the Cavemen's lead. Too much credit cannot be given Doug Strong for his exceptional work in retrieving the ball at the Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove bankboard and for his coolness in passing the oval into clear territory after retrieving it. Dale Peters again proved his consistency con-sistency by being high point man with 16 counters, while Max Hog-gard Hog-gard scored ten and played a remarkable re-markable floor game. Bill Durrant was a tower of strength on both defense de-fense and offense. Virgil Cook and Nielson were the P. G. mainstays. American Fork meets B. Y. high school in a game at the local gym tonight (Friday). Pleasant Grove G T F P Cock, rf 2 2 2 6 Walker, If 1 4 1 3 West, c 1 3 1 3 Nielson, rg 0 3 2 2 Shoel, lg 2 4 1 5 Hawkins, f 0 0 0 0 Keetch, f 0 1 1 1 Harvey, f 1 o 0 2 Meeks, g 0 0 0 0 Swenson, c 1 4 3 5 Wright, g 0 0 0 0 Totals 8 21 11 26 American Fork G T F P Hicks, rf 1 4 2 4 Dun-ant, if 3 1 0 6 Peters, c 7 3 2 16 Huggard, rg 4 5 2 10 Strong, lg o 1 0 0 McAllister, f 1 4 2 4 Parker, f 2 0 0 4 Anderson, g o 0 0 0 Lee, g 0 0 0 0 Parduhn, c 0 0 0 0 Totals 18 18 8 44 Referee, Buttle; umpire, Collins. |