THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1961_ Bountiful Upsets Gite ies; Davis Smothers Bees, 61-37 r held the longest teal of the inate By Ensign Ritchie Davis and Bountiful, the teams that finished one-two in Region Two, reached the semi-finals of the Utah Class A high school basketball tournament with victories Wednesday night. In the southern bracket, East and got loose on the fast break for a when it went ahead late in the first period and held the advantage until there was only one — remaining in the half. The Scots biggest lead was seven points. The third quarter was a repeat of the first as neither club was able to crack the game open. — BEAR RIVER-WEST two-vointer to break an 8-8 deadlock Bear River didn’t score a field and put the Braves in front to stay. goal in the overtime period, but By early in the second quarter they hit eight of nine free throws to were ahead by 12 points at 23-11, knock West from the- tournament. The two clubs ‘eft the court at half-, The score was deadlocked at 56) f : time with the Region Two team all after a hectice final three minahead 31-26. utes. Fs But the Grizzlies came back in - The Bears, who couldn't. buy ap the third quarter and narrowed the free throw in the early stages, got | gap to 41-39, but then Callahan hit ho: at the free throw line in ‘he a couple of quick baskets to help overtime as Mx Bessinger, J. D. Bountiful pile up a 49-41 margin at University of Utah in Salt Lake the end of three quarters. Jensen all chipped in with charity f pe City. ‘ With two minutes left in the points. Bountiful, which didn’t impress| game, Minkler hit his third straight | Kear River appeared to have con- Me | too many fans in the opening round, field goal to cut«the.Braves’ lead tro! of the game late in .he first was fired up Wednesday as it up- to three points, but MacKay and kaif and throughout ‘most of the \ oa the great Logan High quintet, Lofgreen wrapped it up from the |t th:rc. period es it lec by as many as -63, e:ght points. free throw. ; And ‘Davis, as expected, threw But West, with Dick Nemelka Logan’s Gary Schiffman, a great upa tight defense to score an easy. ‘scorer all season, had his poorest leading the way, wiped out the lead 61-37 win over Box Elder. game of the campaign as he was and went ahead late in the third In the consolation bracket, both held to only three points. stanza. teams in the northern bracket from DAVIS-BOX ELDER Salt Lake City were eliminated. The Davis Darts displayed a brilBen Lomond came back after its loss Tuesday to whip South, 55-47, liant defense in walking over the and Bear River won an overtime outmanned Box Elder Bees. Davis took charge after the first thriller from West, 64-62. In the southern bracket, East few minutes and there was little High, the champion from Region doubt about the outcome. ‘Mike Gardner, who scored 24 | Three, knocked off defending state champion Bingham, 54-50 to reach points on Tuesday, was held to 13 the semi-finals, and Olympus, a Wednesday, but teamed with Garry - OLYMPUS CYPRUS ‘surpirse team thus far in the clas- Larkin and Al Palfreyman to con- GTFP GTF P| / 4 2210 Boden Heber 4 4210 3 whipped a good Cyprus club, trol the boards. 1213 Mandi. Rushton 5 1010 It was actually Mike Duckworth ae 100 2 MacKay Ellsworth 1 0.0 2 who broke the game open for the 6 31 13 Douglas’ _, Pugh 3.107 13} | _ Friday’ s ‘semifinal pairings are: Sudbury 0 200) Darts as he connected from long 1 1 0 2 Rideout NORTHERN BRACKET. ‘Haws. 021.1 range for three first-quarter field 93.02 20 06 Fisher White Turpind0 000.) | 5 p.m. Logan vs. Box Elder (sec- goals to give the Region Two 0 0 0 O Peterson Mageras 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 O Childs Evans 0000 |ond round losers). eee? a 14-2 bulge at the end of 0000 Wright Jones 0000 |_ 6:30 p.m., Ben Lomond vs. Bear ‘the quarter. 000 0 Baggaley xf Soe ae Olympus, both from Region Three, , qualified for Friday’s semi’s. There will be no tournament games today. Action resumes Friday with the northern bracket again to play in the Weber High School gymnasium, while the southern bracket will return to the Brigjham Young University court in Provo. Wednesday’s southern bracket games were played at the Box Scores of ee Tourney Tilts Wy oe are mE t SITUS MN a cr sa ‘ TTie (consolation). p.m., are Rchanutorstip). | i In that vs. SOUTHERN BRACKET 5 p.m., Bingham vs. Cyprus ae limited Box first: period, the Darts Elder to a single field o Boal, and that by Jay Stuart. aaa ‘Davis ran the count to 24-9, be| fore “the Bees finally caught fire and narrawaod + marain tr 9718 0 1 0 0 Nielson 25 10 6 56 Totals Score hig sen . Olympus?) sieberiana 10, Cyprus) cae Ve piccweace 10 BOX ELDER . 13 211137. : 40 56) 26; 37 26 20. DAVIS