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Show OGDEN DEFEATED BY BEAVER AFTER CLOSE CONTEST Local Team Drops Consolation Game 28 To 25; End In Eighth Place SALT LAKE CITY, March 18- (AP)-The Beaver High school quintet of Beaver captured the consolation title of the state basketball tournament by defeating the fighting little Ogden five here tonight, 28 to 25. The de feat gave Ogden eighth place in the tournament. The game was a nip and tuck battle throughout, but the tide turned to Beaver after C. Pearce, reserve forward, entered the fray. This lad contrib- ! uted nine points to his team's tally. The Tigers displayed a better brand of ball than they uncorked the opening night when they took a lacing from Cyprus High of Magna, fought a game, uphill battle most of the way against the polished Beaver team, but a final rally fell short in the closing seconds of play. The Tigers opened the scoring, but Beaver soon assumed an early lead. Baskets by Greenwell and Ellis, however, gave Ogden a lead of 9 to 6 at the end of the first period. The tall boys from southern Utah came back strong in the second period, Easton leading a fast breaking attack and feeding the ball to Lindsay and Goodwin under the : basket. The score at half time was 15 all. In the third quarter, Beaver scored seven points against Ogden's five. The teams set a terrific pace but erratic basket shooting cost both fives numerous points. With the Beaverites leading 22 to 20 at the! beginning of the final period, the! Tigers attempted a comeback. After battling back and lortli through the biggest part of the final period, Ogden tied the score at 25 all with seconds to play. Goodwin, Beaver forward, broke loose and scored a sensational basket from the middle of the floor, giving his team a two marker advantage. A foul goal was then added to Beaver's total. Boerens and Kennedy of Ogden attempted long distance shots just before the gun, but both failed and the champions of 1932 met defeat. TIGERS CAGE OUTLOOK GOOD FOR NEXT YEAR Junior High Schools Provide Promising Material BY REX GREAVES Despite two defeats in the state basketball tournament at the Salt Lake City Deseret gymnasium, the ambitious young tiger that Dixon Kapple turned loose gave every promise of developing into a full-sized animal by next year. In losing to Beaver in the final game for the consolation champi onship, the tiger roared a note of consolation into the ears of the many followers of the Orange and Black. For when we call this tiger young we hear reference to the fact that eleven of the fifteen players carried on the regular playing squad this past season are juniors who vail be available for another year of competition. Losing only four of this year's jquad by graduation, Coach Kapple will face next year a situation somewhat different than he did this when only four veterans, none regulars, were on hand. ELLIS, BOERENS, HALL The loss to be suffered due to the graduation element is of no small consequence, however, because it includes Captain Bud Ellis and Lee Boerens, first string forwards, Darrell Hall, big bengal guard, and Wendell Fowler, a capable reserve, center. These vacancies must be sufficiently filled before the Orange Streaks can start going places next season, and it is up to Mr. Kapple to fill them while we sit patiently by and await developments. GREENWELL AND KENNEDY The head Tiger trainer can start his building process on a foundation strengthened materially by the return of the other two regulars, Clyde Greenwell, all-division guard and Maurry Kennedy, all-division center. The work of these two youngsters throughout the league and state tournament play has been remarkably consistent, especially in view of the fact that both were forwards during their junior high school careers. Greenwell and Kennedy also received honorable mention on the all-state selection. FOUR FORWARDS RETURN Four small, speedy forwards gained seasoning during the past campaign which should have prepared them for heavier service in another year. Grant Jensen, Jack Patterson, Cliff Thorne and Glenn Whittaker form this hustling quartet. Boerens had to display unusual ability to keep Jensen out of a starting berth which at the outset seemed the personal property of the former South Washington flash. Jensen possesses an uncanny act ofi sensing the play and an exceptionally accurate eye at long range. Patterson, paired with Jensen, is undoubtedly one of the cleverest ball handlers in Tiger history.. His relief work in the state tourney was particularly gratifying. In the event that these two should fail to solve the Ellis-Boerens loss, Thorne and Whittaker may. The latter two are faster still, good rustlers, and fairly consistent scorers. WOODLAND AT GUARD Dispensing with the offensive angle and looking for an upand- coming youth to take over Hall's back guard post, we immediately nominate Merv Woodland. Merv needs no introduction as he started a number of this year"s contests1 at this position and also saw relief duty at center. The former all- around Central athlete has size and speed coupled with ambidexterity. In addition to Woodland, other fine defensive men will be in the race in the personages of Jack Cole, Gus Becker, and Willie DeHeer; not to mention John Kinard, football captain-elect, whose bid for a berth on the first five was dimmed by a severe knee injury. Kinard was also good enough at center to relieve Kennedy in a couple of the tournament games. FROM JUNIOR HIGHS Then there is the annual list of youthful possibilities that the four- Ogden Junior High schools furnish each fall. Pete Conroy, coach of the South Washington champions, is graduating a forward by the name of Heino Kap who scored 91 points of his team's 205 total. Coach A. J. Knapp at Mound Fort has developed a deceptive left- handed forward, Eugene Johnson; a six foot four center, Tom Childs; and a guard, Jack Hales. Childs controlled the tip-off in the Junior league, but his scoring maneuvers were over-shadowed by those of his rival pivot men, Ernie Saunders of Lewis and Phil Revell, Central. Now there if, something for Kennedy to worry about-that is if the cool headed Kennedy were the worrying kind, which he is not. However, one of these boys with the longer reach may force Maurry into one of the open forward positions.! SAUNDERS GOOD Saunders, who would probably show better at forward, is believed by many to be Cliff Doxeys' best contribution since the day he sent Dale Anderson, Joe Fowler, and Herm Lehman to O.H.S. for regular roles in the 1932 state championship drama. Don Barney, who prepared Bill Kinner and Johnny Weir for the other leads in this all-star cast, is,1 offering, in addition to Revell, an-! other six-footer, Ferrel Larkin, a guard. And so it appears very easy for Mr. Kapple to go ahead and bring another state title to the corner of Monroe avenue and Twenty-fifth street. Overlooking, of course, such trivials as injuries, ineligibility, withdrawals, suspension, over-confidence, under-confidence, school spirit, opposition, and other problems which I make the coaching profession such an enjoyable one. From the standpoint of opposition alone it might be in keeping to add that Mark Ballif at Weber High is fast forming a pennant winning habit, and Ballif will have Dieu, Powell, and a few others with him again next winte::. And the annually improving Box Elder and Bear River entries will afford their share of opposition i.i any man's, gymnasium. But in spite of everything, we look to see the Orange Streaks high up in the running in 1934, KAPPLE GREAVES |
