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Show Granite Farmers Take Over Big Six Race West High Knocked From Undefeated Ranks; South Cubs Sit in Back Seat By GRANT WOODWARD Displaying a two way fight for the Big Six Crown, Granite and Davis have knocked over all opponents except when the two teams met. Granite slipped through a 26-25 hard fought battle last Friday, at the hands of Davis on the Farmer court to lead the Big Six race. East high knocked West off their high horse and from the undefeated un-defeated ranks last Friday, 26-21 in a close contest. Ray Barnes, ace for the Leopards held the upper hand with 14 tallies. South again found tough going at the hands of Jordan at Jordan, 52-30. It's been almost a month since the last Scrime came out. This is the first chance to review the Big Six hoop battles. . Starting with the league leader, Granite. In their opening battle East high gave them a big scare, Dick Baker saved the day with 6 points in the last frame and brought the score to 26-24 final. BIG SIX STANDINGS W. L. Tot. Granite 3 0 1.000 Davis 2 1 .666 West 2 1 .6.66 Jordan 1 2 .333 East 1 2 .333 South 0 3 .000 A week later they had no trouble in humbling the cellar team, South. The Davis-Granite battle a week later found the final score favoring Granite, 26-2 5. Boyce Jacobs, substitute guard led the Farmers to victory with four swishers from mid-court. Davis Campaign The Davis campaign found them blasting Jordan first in the opener open-er and then knocking down the East Leopards a week later. You know about last week at Granite. West high's pride and joy of many years started like a real champ by blasting South in their opener and then a week later beat Jordan on the Jordan floor. It must have been the jinks but Oswald's Os-wald's Leopards upset the Panthers Pan-thers from the West side last Friday. Fri-day. Jordan has a record of one win and two losses, but boast a scoring ace in Jay Hansen. They lost their opener to Davis and West knocked them down again a week later. The Beetdiggers came to life last week when they shocked all scoring scor-ing records in the last half to drub South, 52-30. East high also has the same average av-erage as Jordan in the win and lost column. What can anyone expect ex-pect of a school when their schedule sched-ule started off with a bang. First Granite then Davis and now is the surprise team in the Big Six when they upset West. South in Cellar Last but not least to South fans are Gilbert's lowly Cubs. They boast scoring threats and a fast squad but somehow their schedule should have stayed in the Big Three where they would have had a chance. They've lost three straight games to West, Granite and Jordan respectively. This week's schedule finds the fourth round of league play. West at Granite, South at Davis and Jordan against East in the Deseret Gym. Jordan and East highlight the week's battles. |
