Ogden Trounces cots by 81-63 | By RICK HASSETT George Rees, a flashy play- __ Ogden High’s slick Tigers, led maker who canned 10 points on Bu- some great bursts of speed. With 2:49 remaining in the third honey Friday night as they canto, Rees made a _ beautiful save and tossed in two from the trounced rival Ben Lomond, 81- charity stripe moments later to 63,-in the ‘Region One opener send Ogden in front by 54-38. . -for both teams at Ogden’s gym. TIGERS COASTED Buchanan, a lanky 6-5 center “who shoots with his left hand, From there on in the Orange pumped through 27 points and Stripes coasted, rolling to a 62 -pulled off 17 rebounds to lead to 44 margin at the close of the ‘the torrid Tigers to their fourth third period behind Stan the straight win of the year without Man. | : -a loss. Ben Lomond now stands Rees connected on a 20-footer at 0-1 in league play and 0-2 for with two minutes gone in the the season. : final quarter to give the mighty The Scots and Bengals traded Tigers a 20-point edge over the baskets during the first four Sluggish, error-plagued Scots’ at minutes of the game before Bu- 66-46. Ogden maintained a wide chanan, who got off to a slow lead until the final buzzer. | -start, broke a 7-7 tie with a long Ben Lomond’s Sylvester Scott, fielder from the floor to put the who finished with 21 points for Tigers ahead for good. the night, drew ‘“‘oohs and ahs” Ogden, fanning its swift fast- from the capacity crowd with ‘break with flames of brilliance some high leaps, fancy passes by forwards Bob Oliver and and uncanny shooting ability in Rick Rynders, stretched its the fading minutes of the con- | -margin to 18-11 at the end of test. The Tigers, however, kept the first frame. From the start pace and registered an 81-63 triit was obvious the weak Scottie umph over their cross-town ridefense could not contain the vals. polished ‘‘give and go’”’ offense Four Tigers hit in double fig‘of the Tigers. The classy Ogden ures. Buchanan, of course, was ‘crew simply ran B.L. to death, high point man for the game - /and then forced the Scots to with 27, while Oliver notched 16, Rynders 12, and Rees 10. shoot from far outside. Only one Scot made the double | FINE MOVES. figures, and that was Scott with Despite some fine moves by Massey and Sylvester) | Box score: _ eee - Seott of Ben Lomond, coach Ogden Ben Lomond GF? G <== F=—-P Max Morrill’s Bengals roared to 4 2-2 10 Rees Massey 4 0-0 8 ‘a 26-16 lead midway through 1 2-3 4 Combe Taggart 3 0-0 6 S. Scott 9 3-4 21 the second stanza. Buchanan got 8 0-2 16 Oliver 6 0-2 12 Rynders Cassity 4 1-2 9 a lot of help from junior speed- 12 3-5 27 Buchanan D. Scott 3. 2-2 8 Thomas 3 0-1 6 ster Larry Cole to ignite th 3 3-3 9 Cole as expected -chanan, by were big Stan smoother Ogden attack. The remainder of than | first the 1 1-2 3 11-19 81 half turned into:a personal duel 35Ogden between Buchanan, who popped Ben Lomond them in from the corner, and Sylvester (The Scot) Scott, who scored on twisting jumps up the center. The Tigers led by 40-29 at halftime. — The second half was no different from the first, except the Bengals raced further ahead. Randy King took up some of the slack for the Scots with a few buckets from inside then to make it 48-38, but the potent combination of Rynders, Oliver and Buchanan broke the game open with clean crisp passing that left the Bagpipers flat-footed more than once. 4 -The guy who made the Tigers click, however, was junior guard Lynch King Carter Totals 18 11 2 0 1-1 0-0 5 O 28 7-1063 40 29 62 44 81 63