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Show Third, Manila, Grove Win Games; Vikings Play Carbon Friday (Tonight) Tonight in the Pleasant Grove high school gym the Vikings play host in a non-league game featuring featur-ing the Carbon Dinosaurs. The Carbon team have been playing some of the teams in the other ( half of the region and have lost successively to Payson, Nephi and j Springville. This does not mean necessarily that they are easy marks for the ! Grove team, as Nephi and Spring-ville Spring-ville are on top of the district down there and Payson is pulling I along in the runnerup spot in what some observers think will be the I district from which the state B champion will come. Pleasant Grove played some fairly good ball last Friday night before going down before Chris-tensen Chris-tensen and company. BY higfi was definitely and the Groveiles were again just hitting at a mediocre clip. They have played some fairly good floor games so far in league games so far but their shooting hasn't been up to a par with their playing, and strangely enough, that is what pays off in the end. M-Men basketball moved into the Second half last Monday night with the teams starting out their second go-around and the results were about as were expected. In the opener, First ward, who vvon the first half got toppled by Manila. The Manila team has been improving rapidly since their first few games, and went ahead in the first quarter and were never headed. head-ed. A last minute desperation spurt by the First crew, featuring some swishers by Jack Westover, threatened threat-ened but fell short as the whistle blew. Second ward got behind in their game with Grove and in the last few minutes brought up their score but were unable to overcome the lead but built up by the Grove warders. Lindon played their hard luck ball again, going ahead and staying stay-ing ahead until the final minute, and then losing by a lone basket. The Lindon boys should have the title of hard-luck team of the league, having lost two or three similar encounters in the half just ended. Last night's games featured Second Sec-ond vs. Lindon, Third vs. First and Manila vs. Grove. Results were not available as we went to press. In the games next Monday night Third ward will go against Grove, Manila will play Second and in the nightcap First ward will play Lindon. Scores of the leading individual scorers have not been computed since the half, when Harry Hall, Second warder was ahead with a 66 point, 5 game average of 13.2 Next week's issue will carry the scorers with last Monday, yesterdays yes-terdays (Thursdays) and next Monday's games added to those of the first half. |
