Tournament Scots Fall to Logan; Two Region Three Teams Lose By Ensign bis Parrish as the Scots lost out to the Region One champions. — Parrish hit 21 points, and could of had more but was cold from the free-throw line as he hit only five of 12 attempts. Parrish got a great Ritchie deal The upsets were few Tuesday as the firing started in from his teammates, also, the 1961 Utah Class A high school basketball tournament. Minkler chipped in with Schiffman tanked 15. In the Northern. bracket, Box Elder, Davis, Bountiful Gary Jim Chatlin’ Was the only and Logan survived the first round, while East, Bingham, to hit in double“figures. He ~~ Cyprus and Olympus came on top in the southern bracket. up 19 points. Five champion and one lof the pre-tournament favorites, 'fell to Cyprus, which finished no better than third in Region Four, in | a 66-63 overtime thriller. . | Box Elder overcame the opening minute jitters to come. back and player picked The Grizzlies went ahead 19-9, in the first quarter, and the Scots were unable to threaten .after that. Ben Lomond did put on a rally late in | There was only one real upset, _and that down south where Provo, | ond period started to give the Bees | the Region of help as Ray 19 and the lead for the first time at 13-12. West went back in front at 20-19 the first half after trailing by 33-18. Logan was in front at halftime, 4024 Verlon Hart, Ben Lomond’s tallest Stuart countered to put Box Elder| player at 6-4, was called with his fourth foul midway through the secin front to stay. ei ond quarter and the foul trouble Late in the first quarter the Bees hurt the Scots as they had no ong trip West of Salt Lake City, 67-62, led by as many as 13 points. -to hold down. Parrish. 4 while Davis had little trouble whip“Many of the big fellow’s point$ DAVIS VS. BEAR RIVER came when his teammates laubed ping Bear River, 77-53, in the other Mike Gardner scored the first the ball up near the basket and _ afternoon. contest. basket, then added 22 more points Parrish jumped up to tip it inv In evening games, Bountiful came for an evening total. of 24 as. he close to being knocked out of the paced the favored Darts to an imchampionship running as it was forced to come from behind to edge pressive victory. *s 1:not only carried Davis a rugged South High five, 56-54, in le. Guarterfinals, but also gave the closest game of the day at Weence for a loss earlier in the| ber High, and Logan, using its the-Bears. : great size to advantage, took the -Gardner picked up most of his measure of Ben Lomond, the only Weber County entry in the tourna- early points from outside, then began driving through the Bear River ment, 77-53. The second round will be staged defense for brilliant layups. Gardner wasn’t the whole show today. The northern bracket will again play at Weber High gym, as Mike Duckworth and Al Palfreyalso had hot streaks with while the southern group will switch man Duckworth bombarding from long to the University of Utah Fieldh range and Palfreyman doing most in Salt Lake City. of his damage underneath. There will be no games Gardner got six of Davis’ first but for the semifinals eight points as he helped build up northern bracket will play @ -an 8-2 advantage. High while the southern braeket r ' The Bears came to life with the turns to Brigham Young University Fieldhouse in Provo. Saturday’s game three minutes old and pressed finals are scheduled for the Salt the Region Two champions as they closed the gap to three points at Lake City court. - Today’s pairings in the two brack- 16-13 at the end of the period. But Duckworth and Gardner gave ets are: NORTHERN 4 p.m., South vs. Ben Lomond (consolation). 5:20 p.m., Logan vs. Bountiful (championship). 7 p.m., West vs. Bear. River (consolation). _ 8:20 p.m., Box Elder (championship). vs . Davis SOUTHERN 4 p.m., Spanish Fork vs. Orem (consolation), 5:20 p.m., East vs. Bingham (championship). 7 p.m., Granger vs. solation). 8:20 p.m., Olympus (championship). Provo vs. (conCyprus The losers of today’s four consolation bracket games will be midway through the second quarter on a layup by George Tasulis, but the Darts eight quick points early in the second quarter and it was all over as the Kaysville five forged ahead at halftime, 38-24, and the Bears never threatened the rest of the way. BOUNTIFUL VS. SOUTH The Bountiful Braves, whose ha re- bounding carried it to second place in Region Two this season, met more than its match in that department Tuesday against the big and rugged South Cubs. South, with the biggest team in the tournament, controlled the | = boards and led most of the way. But Bountiful’s great Lowell Lofgreen put on formance the Braves a great in the one-man per- final minutes as | won a thriller. Frank Uhrhan, Dennis Borup and | dropped from the tournament. Dan Jansen, all 6-3 or taller and | Region Three’s two entries in the each weighing 200 pounds or more, || | northern bracket—West and South| pounded the board hard as they| —both were knocked out championship running. BOX ELDER of the The Box Elder Bees couldn’t come close to the bucket in the first five minutes, but then warmed up to the occasion to defeat the Panthers in one of the most interesting games of the day. The Bees, who worked patterns to perfection while making the West shoot from Region long Three range, quintet spotted the six quick points, then took charge in the second period. Big Veran Smith and Jay Stuart, | Box Elder’s one-two punch most of the season, provided the punch to carry the Bees into the quarterfinals. And Smith teamed with Frank Rees to give Box Elder the better of it on the boards. Jim Dale Hanni, Horton Ray Greenburg hit quick buckets held as much as a 14-point lead. It was a rough game with a great ceal of fouling as officials called| VS. WEST and to give the Panthers an early 6-0 lead. At the same time, the Bees missed. 21 fouls on each club. And each club | lost two players on fouls. The lead changed hands several | times in the first quarter, but then South took charge in the second pe- riod as it built up a 29-18 lead at halftime. Bountiful, unable to solve the tough South zone defense, found the going rough again early in the second half as they let the Cubs go in front, 32-18. The situation became even darker for Bountiful late in the third quarter when they lost Lyndon MacKay, their top scorer and rebounder during the regular season, on fouls. But. Lofgreen scored 20 points in the final 12 minutes and battled the Cubs on the boards as Bountiful took over the lead with six min- utes remaining in the game. The Braves built it up to an eightnine tries from the field and foul point advantage, then had to fight line before Harold Thompson hit a for their lives to maintain the lead jumper with 3:50 left in the first as South’s Mel Splinger hit three, quarter to break the ice. Stuart and Smith then took charge and the Brigham rowed the gap to City quintet nar12-11 at the end of the quarter. Stuart hit from outside as the sec- straight jump shots. F BEN LOMOND VS. LOGAN Ben Lomond matched the outside shooting of the Logan Grizzlies, but were unable to contain big Alan \