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\f D Ur1flf Y \ff)lJ lf Il February 4 1 1949 TOURNEY TATTLER Denton, Montana Say, weren it those some games lnst night though? 'iiinlfred and Grass Range really played a hard game. First time we 1 ve seen the Raiders at work in this tournament too. Winifred pulled away to a first quarter lead and were out in front 12-8 at the quarter•s end. Both teams were having a little trou~le getting the ball in there under the basket but Winifred rs tall 3111 Limpus helped a lot. The red and white boys held their lead during the second quarter. Winifred scored seven points to Grass Range 1 s four to lead 19-12 at half time. Tne Raiders continued to lead in the third quarter, scoring seven points to the five counted for Grass Range and leading at the end 26-17. Winifred picked up a total number of eight points in the final quarter. Grass Range trailed with four points. After holding a full game lead the Raiders emerged triumphant by a 34-21 score. This shoots Winifred up into the championship bracket for Saturday : night 1 s game and matches , . Grass Range with V!innett ton:tght. Scoring for the red and white Raider •s squad were: Limpus, 11; :aergum, 4; Fuller, 10; Nelson, 7; Sawyer, 2. Grass Range scoring men were: Trapp, · 5; Mckeen, 9; Seaholm, 4; Noble, l; Richards, 2. That second game left plenty of people with weak knees and hoarse voices. Guess maybe we could term it the most exciting of the games thus far in the tournament. Tho9e Trojans from st. · Leq•s really gave the Trojans from Denton a run for their money. Denton opened up fast in the first quarter to tally thirteen points. The st. teors . boys totaled eight points to give Denton an early game lead. Both teams fought a , close . second quarter with Denton ., , . ; . ,.· gaining ten points and St. Leo's, eleven. Denton still led at •f .~• · half-time by a narrow 23-19 margin. The teams came back for the third - quarter tangle. Denton again scored ten points and St, Leors boys tallied seven for Denton to still lead 33-26 at th~ opening of the final quarter. The Denton boys rallied in the early fourth quarter and it looked as though the game were cinched, The st. teors Trojans put up a strong battle and pulled up to within shooting distance of the Denton score. Both teams were excited and . the ball changed hands from one to arother, The st, teors team really poured through the hoop in the late fourth quarter and sco:ried fifteen points, Denton followed with nine. The Denton boys came out on top by that one point that is needed to top the boys from st. teo•s, 42-41. This sends the Denton Trojans up to the ~hampionship game Saturday night and matches st. Leo•s with the troy Pirates · tonight. st., teots scorers included: Darcy, 2; Spragg, 18; Simkins, 11; Piplnick, 2; Kock, 6l Chapman, 2, The Denton soQl'e list read: K. Bar'ber, 3 . ; Spraggins, 9; Carlstrom, is, Melott, 2.; Donaldson, 12; Carpenter, 1. .. Tonight 1 s go.mes match . the Rams from Winnett agai:i-ist the Rangers from Grt!lSs Range. The second game pits the teams of St. teo 1 s and Rey. The Rangers have played every night so far and we bet ~hey are mighty tired kids. St~ Leo~s ho.s downed Roy in two Previous games but remember Winnett had taken Denton twice too. Tha•losers are eliminated from further tournament play and the '11nners will play for third and fourth Saturday night. Good J.uck to all four of you teams and may the best team win. In the other sub-district tournament at Hobson, Hobson dropped Moccasin 52-35 and Stanford ran wild over Buffalo 56-16. : , In th~ second night•s play, Moore eased out Stanford 49-47 and Eobson de- feated Geyser, 66-50, Moore and Hobson will tangle for championship Saturday night, Sta:::1ford meets Buffalo and Geyser meets Moc~asin tonight.
