PAGE 8 THE HIGHLANDER WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1963 BASKETBALL WITH A SCOT TOUCH : RICK'S RIGHTABOUT Tsetse Flies and Red Flags? By RICK HASSETT Highlander Sports Editor The spacious new Lakeshore bus sliced northward through the fog at frightening speeds of more than 50 miles per hour. Coaches Dinsdale and Nelson were sitting in the bus’s front left seats while the team and your roving reporter sprawled throughout the remainder of the bus. Continuing northward, I could not help but amuse myself by watching the golden-red sun slowly sinking in the west — % through frosted windows, that is. I wiped the frost off the win* dow, admired the sunset, wiped ‘ the reappearing frost off the window, admired the _ sunset, and so on until we arrived in the teeming metropolis named after a bearded Utah church leader and colonizer of old. We sped through the city as quickly as possible in order that the glaring lights of Main Street would not endanger the players’ eyes. At the junction on the northern edge of Brigham, the bus Boyd Egan blocks a fake by ball-holder Neil Bergeson during turned left onto a half-lane the Scotties’ recent squad battle as Jim Van Leeuwen looks highway and then the fun began! Players began dozing off on with anticipation. into sleep, one after another, 2 like a row of dominoes falling in a chain reaction. A grand jury investigation has since proved that some concerned Bear River ous must to induce ecpiee aches” among the players. Luckily, the tsetse flies disliked bus drivers and sports writers. Instead of inflicting us with welcome sleep, they became living fighter one team in three different colbombers, dropping miniature ored uniforms unusual. The secred flags with the words BEARS ond and third pages of the 8” by 11%” program consisted of on them. Several minutes and dead the team rosters. Under Bear tsetse flies later, the bus pull- River, the program listed the ed into Tremonton; but for that players, their white and red matter, there were very few numbers, their height, their potrees or mountains. We turned. sition, their year, the coaches, right, and upon “entering Gar- the cheerleaders, and a record land, Pop. 1,119,” spotted our of Bear River’s basketball acdestination ahead. Who could complishments that was more miss it, with five-foot high or- detailed than the Wall Street ange neon lights glaring BEAR Journal’s stock market listings. Under Ben Lomond, the proRIVER HIGH? It was slightly surprising to gram listed the players, their numbers, their height, their see that they didn’t have DRINK year and after that — nothing. COCA COLA up in neon, also, There’s nothing like the host but a two-page advertisement impressing the opponent with for Coke in their basketball proplenty of information about itgram took care of that. self. As parachuters step out of a The next few pages of the flying plane, we departed single program sported the monstrous file out into the cold night air Coke ad, a sports picture reand casually looked for the footprinted from their school newsball stadium and found it — paper, seventeen sketches of right behind the auto mechanics referee signals and, of course, barn. the Bear River school song and It didn’t take long for the “Hell to the Varsity.’’. team to get dressed after the The basketball game itself Ben Lomond Junior Varsity had proved exciting. Most of Bear played six bits of action and River’s players were so rough were so far ahead you couldn’t and ready they looked like catch them with a five-year leaders of the Viet Cong or plan. some other extracurricular acBefore the varsity game be- tivity. gan, Pep Club officers bounced The outcome of the game was through the bleachets Eke pogo not. oe weer shattering were a ‘oo Ber’ (ose were better off to keep your ane Sone Ore ey felt | “gia senses over those programs. that at least Bear River will be The covers weren’t bad, unless in a different division of Regyou consider eight players on ion One. BEES WAX SCOTS? WELL, NOT QUITE Ball-hungry game Van Scots include Leeuwen, besieging (left Dan Neil to right) Taggart, Bergeson Boyd Egan, during Mike Steve Taylor, and inter-squad Durrant, Jim Dave Bott. Despite an evenly split 42point output by Ben Lomond’s Spencer Wright and John Culverwell, the Box Elder Bees tossed in a field goal with six seconds left to play to edge the Scots in a 61-59 thriller played here on December 6. In the evenly matched contest, Box Elder jumped off to a slim 14-12 lead at the end of the first quarter. Both teams played on an even basis during the second period with the score at 26-23 for Box Elder at halftime. Dec. a nervously deep sigh. John stepped up to the line again and quickly sank the next shot to deadlock the score at 59-59. With the thirty seconds left on the scoreboard and Box EIder with the ball, the Scots call-: ed time out. The Bees brought the ball in and stalled. There were only 25 seconds left, 20, 15, 10, 6 when Lavell Larsen suddenly took a shot. He made it and Ben Lomond trailed by two, 61-59, with only two seconds left. ee eee Spencer Wright rebounded the ball and quickly turned around, looking for someone The Scots roared back in the third quarter to tie the buzzers down court. But no one was in at 41-41. Ben Lomond, playing ‘the clear and the time ran out, superb ball control, dominated 2 seconds, 1 second, and the the play in the final period and buzzer sounded. Box Elder had moved out in front of the north- defeated the Scots by a mere ern club by as much as six two points, 61-59. points. However, Box Elder Spencer Wright and John slowly but surely whittled down Culverwell shared top honors the Scots’ lead and moved in the point parade, each with ahead, 59-57 with less than a 21. Boyd Egan and Jim Van minute remaining in the game. Leeuwen both scored 6, Steve Jim | League Basketball Schedule Van Leeuwen involving (in blue Culverwell, and reaches down uniforms, (in white for suspended left to right) uniforms) geson, Kirk Black, and Dan Taggart. Mike Boyd ball in tussle Egan, Durrant, John Neil Ber- The Bees fouled John Culverwell, who then went to the free throw line. The crowd grew silent as Culverwell took his first shot. He made it and turned away from the basket with Taylor added made 2. 3 and Kirk Black Score by quarters: Been Lomond .......... 12 23 41 59 Box Elder ................ 14 26 41 61 Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Mar. FIRST ROUND 27—Bonneville at B.L. 3—B.L. at Weber 10—Bye 14—Davis at B.L. 17—B.L. at Ogden 24—Clearfield at B.L. 28—B.L. at Bountiful SECOND ROUND 31—B.L. at Bonneville 7—Weber at B.L. 14—B.L. at Davis 21—Ogden at B.L. 28—B.L. at Clearfield 6—Bountiful at B.L. Scot-Jordan Clash Friday Ben Lomond will close out its 1963 pre-season basketball schedule this Friday against Jordan High. Slated for 2 p. m., the Scots will probably put everything on the line in the hopes of hacking down the defending state champion Beetdiggers. Clearfield Cadets? Beat The following basketball score appeared in a recent listing of high school results in the Salt Lake Tribune: Clearfield 60, Air Force 56. Actually, the Falcons of Clearfield did not defeat the Falcons of Colorado Springs, but instead, the Cavemen of American Fork.