Show feature game set for salina friday while salina was knock knocking knockin in the monroe rams out of any strong possibility of taking first place in the district basketball championship race their victory gaver gave rich ich field a chance to tie for second place or possibly take it without a tie and therefore still have a chance to represent the district in the state tourney As the race now stands three teams salina richfield and monroe all have a chance of going to salt lake city for the tournament bicknell the fourth member of the district is eliminated from further consideration having lost four games without a victory the winner and runners up of this district and the south sevier district will meet following the conclusion of the regular schedules to determine the tournament entry only one team will represent the two districts As was expected the wildcats had little trouble disposing of the bicknell snow Shovel lers last week the cats ran up a score of of 17 to 3 at the end of the first J quarter and were never in danger during the remainder of the game eldred peterson was again one of the big guns for richfield although he be allowed his man to score five points this is the first time this season that his opponent has scored even a foul toss at monroe the wolves again jumped into an early lead that was too great for the rams to overcome leading at the half 15 to 2 the wolves coasted to a 37 to 27 victory the final quarter saw the rams score 19 points to 10 for salina but even this was not sufficient to close the gap coach joe buys five will rill h have av to be at their best this week to maintain its second place tie with monroe the cats go to the salt I 1 city friday in the first game of the season the wolves won from the local boys by a one point margin SAUNA AT MONROE SALINA G T P P hickman rf 6 4 3 15 thompson if 3 2 0 6 batchelor c 1 3 0 2 freece rg 1 3 0 2 bird ig 19 4 3 2 io 10 ig 3 1 0 0 2 totals 16 15 5 37 MONROE G T P F P jones rf 1 3 1 3 swindle if 0 0 0 0 roberts a c 0 4 2 2 hunt rg 3 3 2 8 ig 19 5 3 0 10 kay c 5 3 0 10 totals 11 14 5 27 hall referee bird umpire RICHFIELD ric LD AT BICKNELL RICHFIELD G T P P lambert rf 2 3 1 5 hansen if 2 1 0 4 1 E peterson c 5 2 0 10 barton rg 3 2 1 7 W peterson ig 19 2 0 0 4 totals 14 8 2 30 BICKNELL G T P P rf 3 1 1 7 murphy if 0 0 0 0 G morrell c 2 3 1 5 pace rg 1 2 1 3 R morrell ig 1 1 1 3 totals 77 7 7 4 18 |