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Show Cedar High Redmen Win Basketball Consolation Championship of Stale Coach George Cooper's Cedar High School Redmen won the Utah State Basketball Consolation Championship Cham-pionship last week end to add another an-other trophy to the school collection, collec-tion, and to mark the first time in many years that the Cedar school has reached a prominent position in the state high school basketball picture. Although the would be experts of Northern Utah picked the Cedar team to lose each game It plr.yed, Cooper's game and determined deter-mined Redmen won three out of four games to win the Consolation Championship and finish In 5th place In the 16 team tournament. They dropped their opening game, losing to Park City by a score of 39 to 20, but came back to wallop Duchesne by a score of 63 to 28, md to win from Manti 33 to 30, and take the measure of a valiant Delta team, 32 to 30 In a game that went into two extra periods before the championship was decided. de-cided. Before meeting Cedar City Delta Del-ta had lost to Grantsville, the ultimate ulti-mate State Champions, and won from Blanding 32 to 31 and from Pleasant Grove 47 to 42. Only four teams finished ahead of the Redmen. Grantsville wining win-ing the championship, with American Ameri-can Fork second, Bingham third ind Snow fourth. Spanish Fork was sixth, Park City seventh and Delta eighth. American Fork. Bingham, Snow 'nd Cedar each lost only one game, ut finished in the order mention-d mention-d because of the nights on which '.hey lost. Probably never in the history of the state tournament has a team thit won the Consolation Championship Cham-pionship and rilade as good a showing show-ing as did the Redmen has a team teen given as little credit by the sportswriters, and tournament of-lcials of-lcials generally as was the Cedar City quintet. Except for the first night, when the Redmen suffered badly from "tournament Jitters" the local squad played steady, heads-up ball, with each player doing his Job well. The team set the scoring record of the tournament for one game with Its 63 points against Duchesne, Amer-can Amer-can Fork coming second with its i4 to 25 victory over Dixie. Darwin Woodbury, scoring star if the team throughout the sea-on, sea-on, continued his good work, to run up a total of 60 points In four ?anics, the fourth highest of all tournament players, and was unanimously unan-imously selected as forward on the cecond all tournament team, an honor he richly deserved. Each of the three players who finished ahead of Woodbury, Durrant of American Fork, D. Fullmer of Delta, Del-ta, and Don Sandberg of Grantsville were placed on the first team. Tarwin made his remarkable record In spite of the fact that he was in-Hired in-Hired early in the third game and was unable to return to the line-up, md was somewhat handicapped in he final game by the effects of the Injury. He hurt his back In a bad spill under the basket, and had it rot been for this injury he undoubtedly un-doubtedly would have placed higher and may have won first team honors. hon-ors. He scored 12 points against Park City, 26 agolnst Duchesne, 11 against Mantl and 11 against Delta for total of 60 points. Durrant scored 89 points, Fullmer c8, and Sandberg 64. Durrant set n new tournament scoring record, surpassing the record of 78 points 'ft by Morris Roberts of Cedar City In 1922. Morris was playing for Lehl when he set the record. No other Cedar pl'yer was given recognition of any kind, but they 'til did excellent work and contributed contri-buted much to the success of the earn. Arlan Bauer played exceptionally excep-tionally well on defense, and was certainly entitled to a place on the third team. Oene Justet was close behind him end should have hern given honorable mention for his work As was reported In the last Issue of the Record the Redmen were defeated 39 to 20 by Park City In the opening game. The Cedar trnm was badly off stride, and at the -nme time hit a team that was I definitely "hot" for the evening. Tho Miners did not equal their ; shoot In performance In any other crme. and ultimately finished bo-. bo-. hind the Redmen. fln'shlne In I (Continued on P Four) Cedar High Redmen Win State Basketball Consolation Championship at Salt Lake, City (Continued from Pace One) seventh place. Cedar he'd a 3 ts 0 lead early in the game but drop-ptd drop-ptd behind 6 to 4 at the end of the quarter and never threatened thereafter. Loss of the ball on fumbles and bad passes as the result re-sult of nervousness contributed most to the Redmen's downfall. The Redmen cc.me back the second se-cond night to play flawless ball against a fighting Duchesne team j '.o set a tournament scoring record and win 63 to 28. Duchesne scored first but Woodbury, Urle and Corry i connected for field goals to push I the Redmen ahead 6 to 2, and from J then to the end of the game the , Cedar players continued to bombard the hoop, Woodbury leading the I parade with 10 field goals and six t out of nine foul shots for a total of 20 points. The Redmen climbed into a 19 to 8 lead by the end of the first period, and increased their advantage advan-tage to 38 to 14 by half time. Early in the third quarter the j Redmen increased their lead to 44 j to 16 and Coach Cooper began I sending In his subs. Cripps and j Milne replaced Urle and Bauer, and j the period ended with Cedar leading j 54 to 22. Brown and Betenson re- j placed Corry and Justet at the opening op-ening of the final frame, and a moment later South wick replaced replac-ed Woodbury, and the second stringers out-scored the northern team 9 to 6 In the final quarter. The score: CEDAR (63) Q T F P Urle, rf 3 0 0 6 I Woodbury, If 10 9 6 20 , Corry, c 7 0 0 14 i Bauer, rg 2 2 15 j Justet. lg 12 0 2 ! Cripps, f 0 0 0 0 Milne, f 2 2 2 3 Brown, c 0 0 0 0 Betenson, g 0 2 1 1 Southwlck, ,f 14 13 Totals 26 21 11 63 DUCHESNH (28) O T F I' Odekirk, rf 3 10 6 I Thomas. If 0 0 0 0 Caldwell, c 1 11 4 6 Grant, rg 2 9 4 8 Nelson, lg 1 2.1? Moffitt. f 0 0 0 0 Thomas, f 2 115 Ooode, c 0 0 0 0 Bavles, g 0 0 0 0 Birch, g 0 0 0 0 Totals 9 24 10 23 j. '.' !,' .C In the third game the Redmen's opponents again scored first, Stott getting a foul pitch for Mantl, but Corry put Cedar in the lead with two foul shots only to have Stott t'e It up with another foul. Woodbury Wood-bury connected for a field goal, but Stott got his third foul point and Wintch put Mantl into a 5-4 lead with a field goal. Woodbury and Urle added field goals and Justet Jot a foul shot before the quarter ended to give Cedar o 9 to 5 lead. Woodbury opened the second luarter with a field goal but Hill kept Mantl in the race with a field mal after he and Davis had missed harlty tosses. Woodbury added three foul shots In a row before Wintch added a field goal and foul hot and Cedar lead 14 to 10. Justet idded a free throw and Woodbury 'anked anofiTfr shot to put Cedar nit in front 17 to 10 before Mad- sen and Hill added charity t.sres to Manti's score. Woodbury took a bad sp'll under un-der the basket and was carried from the flour with an in urcd back. Cripps took his place and Wintch connected for one pA:u when Cripps fouled him, and the half ended with Cedar leading 17 to 13. As the third period opened Mantl Man-tl tied the score on two quick baskets bas-kets by Madsen and Wintch, but i Bauer connected to put Cedar back into the lead 19 to 17. Wintch added add-ed a free throw to make it 19-18 and Milne replaced Cripps, and gave Cedar a two point lead with a foul shot. However, Manti went into the lead 20-23 on baskets by I Jill and Stott and a foul shot by 11:11. Bauer made it 22-23, but Hill again connected to give Manti a lead of 22-25. However, Bauer sank another one and the period ended 24 to 25 in favor of Manti. At the opening of the final canto Milne put Cedar into a 28 to 25 lead with two baskets. Wintch made It 28-27, but Corry got a free I throw and a field goal to increase ' the Redmen lead to 31 to 27. Squires 1 put Manti back into the game with 1 a goal but Madsen missed a chance to tie the score when he missed two free throws. Justet and Bauer both left the game on fouls ftnd Stott made the score 31-30 with a foul shot, but Milne tanked another an-other shot end Cedar won 33 to 30. i The score: CEDAR (33) G T F P Urie, rf 12 0 2 Woodbury, If 4 4 3 11 Corry, c 13 3 5 Bauer, rg 3 2 0 6 Justet, lg 0 3 2 2 Cripps, f 0 0 0 0 Milne, f 3 2 17 Brown, c 0 0 0 0 Betenson, g 0 0 0 0 Totals 12 16 9 33 MANTI (30) O T P P Madsen, rf 2 3 2 6 Wintch, If 3 7 3 9 Squires, c 110 2 Hills, rg 3 4 2 8 Stottt, lg 16 3 5 Davis, g 0 10 0 Stevens, c 0 0 0 0 Totals 10 22 10 30 ! ft The Cedar-Delta game for the Consolation Championship proved 'o be one of the real thrillers of the entire tournament, the Redmen nosing out the Rabbits In a two extra period battle. Gene Justet opened the scoring with a Held goal, but Glen Fullmer put the Rabbits into a 3-2 lead with a foul pitch and' a field goal. Then Sandy Corry sank one and Woodbury Wood-bury converted a foul pitch to put the Redmen ahead 5 to '3. Cony fouled D. Ray Fullmer and he made one of two tries, and Woodbury put Cedar 2 points ahead with a foul. Corry again fouled D. Fullmer and again he converted to make the wore 6 to 5. Woodbury connected connect-ed from the field, to give Cedar an 8-5 advantage only to have Corry wd Fullmer do their act over again to close the gap. Justet' fouled Moody and he missed his shot, but Urle fouled D. Fullmer and he again converted to bring his team to within one point, 8 to 7, before Br.uer sank a shot to give Cedar a 10 to 7 lead at the end of the quarter. quar-ter. As the second quarter opened Cedar took a 4 point lead on a foul point by Bauer, but D. Fullmer Full-mer r.dded a foul point and W. Chrlstensen scored from the floor to again narrow the gap, before Corry scored to keep Cedar In the lead by three' points. At this point Delta went into a 15 to 13 lead on two quick baskets and a foul pitch by D. Fullmer. The foul was committed com-mitted by Corry, he left the game. Tom Brown replaced him and immediately im-mediately tied the score with a field goal. Before the half ended Bauer nd Woodbury added foul points ior Cedar, and D. Fullmer made one for Delta, to lrr.ve the Red-men Red-men In the lead 17 to 16. As the second half opened Bauer and W. Chrlstensen made foul shots to change the score to 18 to 17 for Cedar, and Miles Urie left the game on fouls. Alex Milne replaced re-placed Urle, and missed a foul shot, but added a field goal and then converted a free throw, to put the Redmen into a 21 to 17 lead. Justet and Milne converted charity tosses and W. Chrlstensen got one for Delta as the quarter ended with Cedar leading 23 to 18. As the final period opened Cedar's Ce-dar's lead was Increased to 25-18 by a basket by Woodbury, but Glen Fullmer and W. Chrlstensen scored j from the floor and D. Fullmer concerted con-certed to bring Delta back into the game, 25 to 23. Bauer made a foul shot as D. Fullmer committed his fifth foul and left the game, but Moody sank a shot to make the score 26 to 25. Bauer then miss-two miss-two foul tries, and Cripps missed one as Chrlstensen left the game, tnd Glen Fullmer tied the score with a charity toss. Woodbury put Cedar back in the lead as Moody committed his fifth foul, but B. Chrbtensen put Delta in the lead 28-27 with a long shot. Woodbury tied the score with a foul shot, and Bauer sank a long one to give I Cedar a 30-28 lead with seconds left, but B. qhristensen again hit the hoop and the game ended in a 30-30 deadlock. A five minute extra period was played and the nearest either side came to scoring was a foul try by Killpack of Delta, which rolled out Instead of into the basket. It was then announced that they would play for the first two points. As play started Bauer was fouled by B. Chrlsten?en, but took the ball out of bounds instead of shooting. shoot-ing. He passed to Justet who dribbled drib-bled half the length of the floor and tipped it in to clinch the victory vic-tory and the Consolation Championship. Tho score: CEDAR (32) G T F P Urie, rf 0 0 0 0 Woodbury, If 3 7 5 11 Corry, c 2 0 0 4 Bauer, rg x 18 4 6 Justet, lg 2 2 15 Brown, c 10 0 2 Cripps, f 0 0 0 0 Milne, f 13 2 4 Totals .'. 10 20 12 32 DELTA (30) O T F P G. Fullmer, rf 2 3 2 6 Knight, If 0 2 0 0 D. Fullmer, c 2 10 8 12 Moody, rg 13 0 2 Stuckl, lg 0 0 0 0 W. Chrlstensen, f 2 3 2 6 Barney, f 0 0 0 0 Kilpaclt. c 0 10 0 B. Chrlstensen, g 2 0 0 4 Cahoon, g 0 0 0 0 Totals 9 22 12 30 Clark W. Bow'.cr. pan Post Commander Com-mander of the local Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, has been officially appointed as veterans veter-ans representative on the Iron County Post-War Planning Committee Com-mittee Tor labor and employment, acting in conjunction with Claude Biwards local USES representative. |