Show Rough Riders Gain Berth In State Tourney Roosevelt Basketball Team Places as Runner-up from Division Five By virtue of two wins and one loss played in the Round Robin of region five last week end at the Roosevelt Rough Riders gained a place in the state tournament to be played in Salt Lake City March Carbon county high school clinched the top spot in the Round Robin by winning Saturday night's game from Moab while Roosevelt took the runner-up birth with a win over Monti-cello The three nights Round Robin play at Moab placing our boys in the runner-up gives the Rough Riders a much better chance of gaining a higher position in the state play than if they had taken the top A summary of the Rough Riders games played at the round robin proves that the best of teams can be on and Their I first game they were pitted against the highly tooted Moab on their own and our boys played one of the nicest games of the winning the game by a score of successful attack was sparked by the sharp shooting of Max who tanked five J field goals and six of ten free throws for a total of 16 The second night they played the Carbon and this was j one of their nights which especially showed up even more because of the fact that they i were playing one of the strongest teams in the entire Carbon won the game Saturday night the Rough Riders easily handed the Monticello crew a sound In this game all of our boys came through with flying colors to prove that they have a good rounded out team of sharp shoot-ers once they get to clicking Davis and Gardner were all clicking nicely with Don Davis carrying away high scoring honors with I ten points to his credit while Bircher was close behind with eight The boys will leave Roosevelt March 17 for Salt Lake City with the good wishes of the j entire Uintah |