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Show BRYCE VALLEY PIUTE THIS WEEK: Tiger-SedEiBen Classic Brings Qmd - -1-4 I f ; r i ( j f A 1 SIX FOOT NINE INCHES and possibly the best big man in basketball in the state, Coby Leavitt takes a rebound in the first half of the Milford-Cedar game Saturday. Guarded here by 6'3" Tom Jones and part of the game by 6'5" Jim Raines, who went out on fouls, Leavitt was held to 26 points and 20 rebounds, way below his usual as the Redmen, ranked first in 2 -A, managed a six point win over top ranked 1 -A Milford. The scoreboard showed six points difference between be-tween top-rated 2-A Cedar City and top-rated 1-A Milford Mil-ford in the highly publicized game last Saturday. But the record hometown Milford crowd of approximately approxi-mately 1700 went home satisfied sat-isfied that they had witnessed two of the top teams in the state in a duel that gave neither nei-ther team an edge should they meet again. It was a friendly crowd that neither cried or boasted, because they were satisfied that both teams had played an excellent game of defense, showed spurts of brilliance on offense and the final score of 61-55 was inconsequential. inconsequen-tial. Alan Mayer, with 16 points, had his best game of the season hitting from all over the floor while picking up seven rebounds. Kevin Barnes had 14 points, both Garland Tait and Jimmy Raines had 8 points, and Raines ' shared the rebounding re-bounding chores with Rus-sel Rus-sel Smith. They had nine boards each. Russel had seven sev-en points and Tom Jones 2. Tom did an excellent job of confining 6'9" Coby Leavitt after Raines fouled out with five and a half minutes left in the game. Leavitt had 26 points and 20 rebounds in the practice game that rated attention all over the state. Mike Hair had 14 points for the only other Redman in double figures. fig-ures. Robert Shirts gave Leavitt an assist on the boards with 14 and 8 points. Each team was called for 14 fouls with Cedar hitting 11 and Milford 9. The Redmen with 6'9" Leavitt also controlled con-trolled the boards with 45-.31,: 45-.31,: but as they fired in the. fourth quarter, and had nine turnovers in quick succession, succes-sion, it looked as if the Tigers Ti-gers would pull it out - but they were able to convert only one of the turnovers into scores as they drew a cold hand when the chips were down. From the field the Redmen were more accurate, but didn't did-n't get off near as many shots. They hit 25 of 52 for 48, while the Tigers had 23 of 72 for 32. The Tigers normal average of 40-50 from the field would easily have made them the victors. Quarter Scores Milford 10 25 39 55 Cedar 10 26 42 61 At Panguitch, the Tigers . were never threatened, taking tak-ing a 23-8 lead at the quarter quart-er and 45 -17 at the half. They led 66 -26 at the end of the third and 85-46 at the final buzzer. Thirteen Tigers got In the scoring columns as every (Continued on Page 4) in double figures. Roger ' Barnes came off the bench for 8, Alan Mayer 6, Mitch Bealer . 6, Mark Nelson 5, Smith, Jones and Yardley 4 each, Kerr and Edwards each 2. Milford hit 11 of 18 from the foul line and 37 of 81 from the floor for 46. Panguitch had 14 of 30 from the line and 16 of 46 from the field for 45. Pollock led the Bobcat Bob-cat scorers with 12, Jeff Owens 11, and Gary Church . 9. Raines had 11 rebounds for Milford. In other league action, Beaver downed Escalante, HERE'S MORE ABOUT BASKETBALL member of' the squad saw action. Garland Tait led the scoring with 17, Raines had 16, and Barnes 10, for those 72-56, and Gunnison 56-49. Kanab downed Bryce Valley 96-62, Valley over Parowan 80-65, and Enterprise upset Piute 69-50. Friday, tough Bryce Valley Val-ley comes to Milford and Saturday Sat-urday the Tigers go to Piute. |