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High tops, trophies and good times: Brigham City man recalls church basketball March Madness

John Hadfield and his wife Kathryn have one of the three trophies won by the Brigham City LDS Fourth Ward when the men's basketball team won the All-Church Tournament.

Jack Hadfield and the Brigham City LDS Fourth Ward won the All-Church basketball tournament championship in 1948, 1950 and 1953. The 88-year-old still has a 3-foot tall trophy, although he's no longer able to lift it.

For college basketball fans, part of March has become all about NCAA Tournament brackets, intense games with upsets and last-second shots, and Luther Vandross singing "One Shining Moment."

Brigham City resident Jack W.