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Show COLD VIKINGS LOSE OPENER TO LEHI LAST FRIDAY. 57-49 Scoring only one field goal in the entire first half, Pleasant Grove's highly touted Vikings went down to a stunning 49-57 defeat at the hands of the Lehi Pioneers last Friday night. A capacity crowd of students and adult fans from both communities were kept in a continuous con-tinuous uproar during the entire hectic melee. This scribe has been an ardent follower of high school basketball in these parts for the past 40 years. If memory isn't playing tricks, this is the first time since 1923 that a high schoool first half, cne field goal league game has been played in venerable PGHS gym. Recollection Recol-lection has it that the same thing happened to the Lincoln Tigers in a joust with the Vikings on a memorable mem-orable night 34 years ago. Which all goes to show that what happened hap-pened once can happen again. History His-tory has that habit. That the defeat came as a shock to all concerned is putting it mildly. mild-ly. . Rated by coaches and other "experts" as the team most likely to succeed, the Pleasant Grove contingent went into the game top-heavy top-heavy favorites to win. In fact, according ac-cording to a pre-game poll of the Region VII coaches, the Lehi aggregation ag-gregation was rated no better than third; and all this may have contributed con-tributed to the Viking demise. Ov-er-oonfidence is an insidious thing a coach's nightmare, to say the least. But this does not mean that Lehi didn't deserve to win. They were definitely the better team last Friday night. Such rangy and capable players as Ingram, Felt, Hayes and Colledge are potential trouble makers and will be heard from again before the season ends. They dominated both backboards and were able to score when opportunity op-portunity came. Of the Lehi starting start-ing five, not one player scored less than 6 points and when these were added to Ingram's 20 and Hayes's 15, the sum total was just too much to overcome. . Local morning-after "experts" were almost unanimously of the opinion that the Battle Creek Boys suffered again from the same malady mal-ady that contributed to their previous pre-vious defeat at the hands of Spanish Span-ish Fork, viz: inadequate team work. Basketball games are seldom won by the shooting of one or two men regardless of how good they are. Players who adopt this style will find themselves shooting out of position or too far u-t to be effective. ef-fective. The late Gene Roberts, father of basketball at BYU, summed up this philosophy thus: "the Kingdom King-dom of Basketball is founded on the gospel of passing, and many baskets bas-kets will flow unto those who believe be-lieve in it." This much may be said in favor of the Crump-men. They returned after the disastrous first half and almost closed the barn door; but the horses were gone. Winter was high for the evening with 24; Buck-ner Buck-ner got 10 and Frampton 8 and that was. about the story. Friday night's game puts PG against the American Fork Cavemen Cave-men at 8 p.m. in the AF gym. Since the Cavemen lost to BY High last Thursday this scribe will go along with the Vikes for this one. The box scoi-e of the PG-Lehi game follows: Pleasant Grove G T F P Buckner : 3 5 4 10 Fordham 0 3 2 2 Giles 12 0 2 Peterson 14 2 4 Lewis 0 2 0 0 Winters 7 11 9 23 Frampton 4 10 8 Totals 16 28 17 49 Lehi G T F P Felt 3 10 6 Colledge 3 0 0 6 Ingram 6 13 8 20 Hayes 5 8 5 15 Lewis l' 15 13 Haws 3 2 17 Totals 21 29 15 57 Score by quarters: Lehi , 9 27 42 57 Pleasant Grove 5 11 28 49 |