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Show Local Five Climbs Into First Place In High School League TEAM STANDINGS Won Lost Pet. Cedar 5 2 .715 Kanab 6 3 .667 Dixie 6 3 .667 Hurricane 5 3 .625 Parowan 5 4 556 Enterprise 3 6 .333 Ordervllle 0 J .000 The Cedar high school basketball team won a thrilling one-point victory vic-tory from Parowan high school Friday Fri-day night, and this, together with an upset victory by Enterprise over Kanab, and a comparatively easy win by Kanab over the Dixie high team, put Cedar into first place. While Cedar went Into the lead in the Dixie division race, Dixie and Kanab went into a tie for second, and Hurricane climbed Into third place and became a very definite threat for league honors. The Cedar team pulled the Parowan Paro-wan game out of the fire with a IttSk-uiuiutc mil jr. f aiuwui icu throughout the game but never by more than a few points. At the end of the first period the Cedar five was trailing by 3 points at 0 to 6. In the second period they closed it to 2 points, 19 to 17, but fell back in the third period and was Cedar had climbed to within one trailing by four points several times. At the close of the third quarter point, the period ending 27 to 26. Holding onto this advantage, Parowan Paro-wan looked likely winners, when with less than two, minutes to go Kent Dover dropped in a long shot and Mooch Lowman added two foul shots to give Cedar a three-point lead, which stood Coach Slater's squad in good stead because Parowan added another goal just as the gun ended the game to give Cedar a 36 to 35 victory. , Enterprise did Cedar a real favor when It staged the biggest upset of the season in defeating Kanab by a 31 to 30 score. The game was played at Enterprise. This momentarily momen-tarily put Dixie into the lead since the Fliers had defeated Ordervills 42 to 14. This lead was short lived, however, because Kanab, smarting from its Enterprise setback, outclassed out-classed Dixie to win by a 40 to 30 score in a game in which the Fliers never threatened. Hurricane continued con-tinued its climb into prominence by humbling Ordervllle 51 to 17. The big game of this week will be between Cedar and Hurricane, when the two teams clash in the Cedar City gym Friday night. The winner of this game will be favored to win district honors and a berth in the state tournament, although JSiirh hnnnra umilH rinf Ka MnnViArl by any means. Another Important game will be between Parowan and Dixie at St. George. In the other games of the week Ordervllle will play at Kanab and Hurricane will play at Enterprise, Cedar has five games to play before be-fore the season ends, the Hurricane game this week, a game with Dixie at St. George, another game with Parowan to be played at Cedar, a home game with Ordervllle and a game at Enterprise. Dixie must George and Kanab at Kanab. The Kanab team has only three games left, one with Ordervllle and one with Dixie at Kanab and one with Hurricane at Hurricane. The score of the Cedar-Parowan game: CEDAR (36) O T F P Lunt, rf 3 7 2 8 Dover, If 3 4 3 9 Rosenberg, c 4 0 0 8 Lowman, rg 4 2 2 10 Janson, lg 0 111 Totals 14 14 8 36 PAROWAN (35) O T F P Mlckelsen, rf 3 2 1 7 Hatch, If 5 1 0 10 Dalton. c 4 2 0 8 Benson, rg 0 10 0 D. Dalton, lg 0 10 0 Gurr, lg 0 10 0 Totals ... 15 12 5 35 Score by quarters: Cedar 6 17 26 36 Parowan 9 19 27 33 |