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Show Eventhough one team was missing at game time, and later, when the game finally got underway, both teams joined sides to turn on the officiating, the City Recreation Basketball season came to a close on a dead-ringer of a last second shot. j Journament decided i!y Last Jecond Shot i, e Wigham j per Sports I . .. ' -r-v ' -- -.A ! .... I u -: .. i h ; I I I : 4 y ' ! I f. ' ' V I ... .. - V-Jf -' ' ' ' f . ' i ' ' ' f' ' -' ' t. ..... f I i J - ; jfl f' ' I J I , si 5 " ? i - X ... . J ,,f iniffiF i " m 1 1 ! S ;, 'V, . - :l :, ' r . V v III t V - N I 1 1 ' - - I v-- -- i - . i ; i i " ..- , i j ,. - - ' '"' ' - ' '.' . , ' I.J' M : Driving the lane u s ko prtff or if faint of heart as Rawlee Penns found out on the way to onw of his mam baskets. (LEFT). When Mark Mattos sped the lane, Mike Kilgore was there with a hatchet-slap. (CENTER). Perkins seldom gets stopped, (RIGHT). But this time, Ran Fames made the skies unfriendly. Ml "DUNT1FUL Mike Kilgore hit a 15 foot pshot with two seconds left to give Ohlsons a I ling 75-73 victory over O'Brien Glass in the ntiful Recreation basketball tournament. i his game marked the end of the basketball Jgram the city ran throughout the winter jths. total of 40 teams participated in the program 1 iur different leagues. At the new gymnasium at ' intiful High, the college lettermen were wed to participate. Other leagues were at J:ller Park Jr. High School, the old gym at Jintiful, and at the armory at Bountiful Jr. High. - top four teams from each of the leagues were i invited to play in the tournament. inning the open league at Bountiful High was Mac's, a team comprised of ex-Viewmont s Randy Johnson, Monte Widdison, Guy Mor-I Mor-I , Larry Wall and the new football coach Mark Juce. In second place was the Ohlson team ch comprised of ex-Bountiful High School idouts like Rawlee Perkins, Doug Ohlson, 1 e Ohlson, Brad Christiansen and Dave Carl- along with Mike Kilgore who played at South , h and then at Weber State, f inishing in third spot was O'Brien Glass which ured several high school coaches. Ron Johan-, Johan-, (Viewmont) and Paul Jepperson (Skyline) i h played along with Ryan Fames, Cory Hanks, r it Wigham and ex-Weber State player Mark ttos. n fourth spot was CHA a team made up of gyers from the Centerville area including Rich vs and Scott Gardner. IVinning the league, played at the old Bountiful n, was Century 21 a team led by the Slagowski thers. Second place honors went to Fellers ats with players like Rodger Ogswalla, Robert :t and Lynn Parrish. Bingham Engineering was hird place using players like Ken Murri and ""ice Bingham. Fourth place honors went to Ie's a team of ex-Davis High starts Mike and )tt Mounteer, Steve Criddle, Glen Tomer and ers. Taking top spot in the Mueller Park League was Plumbers Supply who featued ex-Viewmont players play-ers Kevin Walker, John Higley, Kevin Hess, Gill Hodges and Blaine Harding along with John Miller Mil-ler and Gordon Youngblood. Hosking Helicopters were a close second using ex-Bountiful stars Steve Hill, Kenny Hosking, Scott Hosking, Randy Denny and Doug Freckle-ton. Freckle-ton. Kidder Construction was in third followed by CU Credit Union led by Larry Jacobsen. Lifestyles by Christi won the Bountiful Armory league using players like Troy Reich, Brent Culli-more, Culli-more, Dan Anderson, Brent Schick and others. Albertsons was second followed by Viewmont Alumns and Eaton Kenway. The four semifinalists in the tournament were from two different leagues. O'Brien Glass defeated defe-ated Mr. Mac's in one game while Ohlsons knocked knock-ed off Plumbers Supply in the other, setting the staee for the finals. In the final game the Ohlson team jumped out to a quick 14-3 lead, and never looked back. O'Brien Glass was able to tie the score on numerous occasions occa-sions but could never take the lead. The score was knotted at 73-73 with just over a minute to play. The Ohlson side decided to stall for the last shot. They worked the clock down with Kilgore. taking the .winning shot. with two. seconds left. ' : ...... . : i .... Ohlsons got balanced scoring with Perkins, Ohlson, Kilgore and Christiansen all scoring in double figures. Ron Johansen paced the O'Brien scoring but had plenty of help from Mattos, Hanks, Jeppersen and Fames. "The tournament was fun and it worked out about the way we figured it would. The league which allowed college lettermen was the dominating dominat-ing league in the event, but then that's the way we thought it would go," noted Maxine Harmon of the city department. |