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Show First Ward Basket Ball Team Is On Its Way To Winning The All-Church Championship Pleasant Grove's high-powered First Ward M Men basketball team is now grooming: for the All - Church finals in Salt Lake City, after defeating- the classy Provo Fourth Ward in the Division Divis-ion Six tourney held at Orem last Saturday night. Coach Clen Gilbert's squad, which was runnerup in the All-1 Church meet last year, defeated Provo Fourth 45-41 for the Division Divis-ion Six title. Provo Fourth will play the runnerup of another district dist-rict to determine another berth in the Salt Lake joust. Tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock the victorious First Warders will be guests at a "V" banquet in the ward recreational hall. Team members, their wives and partners, part-ners, have been invited to attend. The Pleasant Grove First vs. Provo Fourth game was a thriller right down to the wire. The score at half-time was 19-18 for Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove, and the ultimate victors vic-tors led 35-32 at the third period mark. Lynn Burr of Provo Fourth, who topped the point getters of both teams with 18 points, was declared the most valuable man in the tournament and received a plaque from the Provo Kiwanis club, presented by Larry Hall in end-of-the-game ceremonies. Lloyd Whitlock, division director, di-rector, presented the championship champion-ship trophy to Garth Walker, captain of the Pleasant Grove First team. The sportmanship award went to the Windsor ward. Parlell Peterson, who assisted Mr. Whitlock in directing the tourney . made the presentation . J Basketball fobs were presented to 10 men adjudged most outstanding out-standing in the tourney. The 10 are Ken Williams, Vineyard; Bee-craft, Bee-craft, Provo eighth; Douglas Beck, Pleasant Grove; R. Weight, Provo Seventh; Junior Westover, Pleasant Grove; La Veil Swenson, Windsor; Dan Clay, Campus A; Kay Madsen, Vineyard; and Garth Walker, Pleaasnt Grove. PL. GROVE FIRST G. T. F. P. Harper 5 1 1 11 Beck 6 2 1 13 Westover 3 10 6 Walker 15 4 6 Gillman 4 4 19 Totals 19 13 7 45 PROVO FOURTH G. T. F. P. Whitlock 3 6 4 10 Burr 8 2 2 18 Blackwell 10 0 2 Hc-wes 3 0 0 6 Stapp 2 3 15 Collins 0 2 0 0 Totals 17 13 7 41 Score by quarters: Pleasant Grove 1st 12 19 35 45 Provo Fourth 8 18 32 41 |