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Show Cedar City Defeats Beavers for State Tourney Berth The Beaver Beavers won't appear ap-pear in the state tournament this year, but they took the Red-men Red-men from Cedar City down to i the wire in a ding-dong battle i for points before bowing out of the picture. Final tally was 49-43, 49-43, but the Beavers led all the way, and the last four minutes of the exciting game saw the lead bounce back and forth several sev-eral times. With a minute and a I half to go there was only a 1-point 1-point spread. Rollins was high-score man with 18 counters, but it was Yardley that accounted for most of the bankboard work. In the final few minutes the Beavers, who had played all the way with no substitutions, tired badly and mishandled the ball, missing passes and passing badly themselves. them-selves. Against Hurricane on Friday night, Yardley hit for 23 points and Rollins was runner-up with 16, to lead their team mates to a 66-63 win over Hurricane. They trailed at the quarter, 15-23, 15-23, and at the half, 32-38, then moved out to a 52-48 lead at the end of the third period, and staved off a determined Hurricane Hurri-cane drive in the final. BEAVER G T F P Dean 3 0 0 6 Gray 0 1. 0 0 Rollins 5 14 6 16 Yardley 9 6 5 23 Easton 4 4 19 Myers 4 7 4 12 TOTALS 25 32 16 6b HURRICANE G T F P Stahile 14 4 6 Hinton 4 4 4 12 Wilkenson 2 2 0 4 Barber 4 2 2 10 Judd 6 4 1 13 Wilson S 7 .". 11 Winder 3 3 17 TOTALS 23 26 17 63 Scoia by quarters: Beaver 15 32 52 C6 Hurricane ... 23 28 48 63 BEAVER G T F P Dean 2 2 15 Rollins 8 4 2 18 Yardley 4 2 0 8 Easton 0 4 4 4 Myers 19 6 8 TOTALS 15 21 13 43 CEDAR G T F P Farnsworth 4 2 2 10 Heywood 10 0 2 Dover : 4 .4 3 11 Isom 3 6 5 11 Sargent 3 10 6 Gardner 10 0 2 Bower 2 4 3 7 I TOTALS 18 17 13 49 Score by quarters: Beaver 9 23 35 43 Cedar 12 20 32 49 |