Show larg lare e crowd sees wildcat victory with every nook and corner of I 1 the richfield high school gym filled to absolute capacity the wildcats friday night eked out a five point victory over the monroe rams to win second place in the district the victory keeps the cats in the running for the state tournament berth the salina wolves also havin having completed the regular schedule with vath a win over the hapless wayne county five giving them first place in the team standings and the wildcats will be idle this week but will again play on march first the runner up of the south sevier district will play at salina on that date and the winner of the southern group gro up will be host to richfield escalante marysvale Marys vale and circle ville are still in the running and likely two of the three teams will meet salina and richfield due to the small floors in these towns it has been suggested that richfield instead of playing there offer its opponents a guarantee to play at monroe such a plan would not only be better for the players but would serve to make the game a financial success as the tha monroe gym will accommodate a fair sized crowd of spectators no decision can be made on this until the schedule in the southern division is finished floyd lambert started the cats on an their victory march on the first play he took the first tip off from center dribbled once and jumped into the air near the side line for a one handed shot that was labeled two points from the time it left his hand the lead however was short as monroe came back to lead at the end of the first quarter 12 to 8 A spurt near the half time gun again put the richfield boys in front during the second period I 1 they scored 15 points to 8 for the rams the third and fourth periods were close and hard fought throughout the cats main maintained bained a slight edge with superior basket shooting but had monroe had even reasonable luck with tall tail in shots the final results might very easily have been different time after time the ball missed by bv inches lambert and eldred peterson both turned in mighty good games but cannot be classed much ahead of the others seri and jones were the bright lights for monroe with kay the tall center working well lynn was forced out of the game early when he fell hard but will be ready to go again next week in the other game salina had little trouble winning over the wayne county high h gh boys 47 to 24 bicknell did not win a game this year CATS CINCH SECOND PLACE MONROE G T F P jones rf 3 7 3 9 if lf 5 4 1 11 kay c 3 0 0 6 hunt rg 2 1 1 5 roberts ig 0 2 0 0 swindle ig 0 0 0 0 rg 0 0 0 0 totals 13 3 14 5 31 at RICHFIELD G T F P lambert rf 3 1 1 7 barton if 5 2 0 10 E peterson c 5 1 0 10 W peterson rg 4 0 0 8 OI droyd yd ig 0 2 0 0 hansen rf 0 6 1 1 mott rg 0 0 0 0 totals 17 12 2 36 packard referee hall umpire BICKNELL LOSES AGAIN SALINA G T F P cooper rf 3 0 0 6 thompson if 3 0 0 6 batchelor c I 1 1 1 3 rg 0 1 0 0 draper ig lg 1 2 2 4 if 0 1 1 1 peterson bird c 1 0 0 2 jensen rg 2 5 4 8 ig 0 0 0 0 hickman rl rf 7 5 3 17 totals at IS 18 15 11 47 BICKNELL G GT T P FP P rf 1 0 0 2 durfey if 3 1 E morrell 1 7 c 4 6 bastian 5 13 rg 0 3 2 2 pace R morrell ig 0 0 0 0 c e 0 2 taft 0 0 rf 11 0 0 00 0 0 totals 8 12 8 24 chidester abid ter referee bird umpire |