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Show Cedar Redmen Miss Touiney Berth By Three Points The Cedar High School Redmen basketball players ended a long,' tough struggle for a berth In the, state high school tournament just three points short of their goal. Friday night the Redmen tangled with the Richfield high school cag-ers cag-ers at Monroe in their last chance to gain a tournament berth, and after, four quarters, and an extra ex-tra period of playing they were behind be-hind by three points, in spite of the I fact that they had played one of i their best games of the season. , ' All the Redmen turned In good perfoimances, Bobby Young, play-ling play-ling an especially brilliant game, Finking baskets from all angles and hawking the ball sensationally, but Richfkld's ability to score baskets "over" the Cedar defense with shots I from the center of the floor, togeth er with twice as many charity .tosses as were awarded to the Red-I Red-I men,, gave the Sevier team the victory. vic-tory. For the fourth time this year the Redmen scored more field goals than their opponents but lost the game. The Redmen tallied fifteen field goals, eight of them by Youn?, while Richfield got only thirteen, but the Redmen got only eight foul pitches and converted only three of them, while Richfield got sixteen tries and made good on ten of them, Richfield Jumped into a four point lead as the game started when Rickenback tnd Hansen scored two quick baskets. Bob Young tied it up with two goals but Morrison connected with a long one to put his team back in the lea1- Paul Roberts tied it up with a goal, and Young added another, and Dick Winterrose added a pfclnt when Rickenback fouled him, and Cedar lead, 9 to 6, then Smith fouled Rickenback and Hansen, and they both converted, leaving them onlv one point behind, but Winterrose tipped one In to 8lye the Redmen an 11 to 8 advantage at the end of the quarter. To open the second quarter Gail Woodbury mirsed a foul try, but Young added two field goals and Woodbury one, while Hansen missed miss-ed a foul shot for Richfield and It looked like Cedar was going places with a 17 to 8 lead. However, Richfield scored four foul shots, three by Pearson and one by Rick-back, Rick-back, while Woodbury missed a try I for Cedar. With four fouls on Gnll Woodbury Coach Bailey sent Darwin Dar-win Wbodbury In to relieve his brother, and he missed a foul try. With the half nearing Its end Morrison Mor-rison broke away for two clean baskets closing the gap to one point, 17-16 as the half ended. At the opening of the second half Young got two more field goals, and Roberts got one foul out of two tries and Cedar again had a 'good lead, 22 to 16, but Tholman got a long shot, and Morrison stole the ball to dribble in for a nice shot to make It 22-20, Gall Woodbury got a point from the foul line tout Rickenback dropped In two sensational shots from the cen- Uer of the floor and Richfield was 'In the lead 24 to 23 as the third period ended. I Roberts put Cedar back in the 'lead with a field goal as the final period opened, but at this point 'Gail Woodbury went out on fouls and Pearson tied the score with the 'free shot awarded him. Darwin Woodbury went In for Gail. Roberts missed a foul shot, but D, Woodbury Wood-bury put Cedar In the lead with a corner shot. The lead wu short lived because Morrisson got an-basket an-basket to tie the score and Rickenback Rick-enback got his only setup of the game, and Richfield was ahead 29 to 27 with seconds left to play, but D. Woodbury came through with a nice shot to tie the score Just before the game ended. In the extra period Rickenback put his team into the lead with another sensational long shot, but Young tied it up immediately. Then Tholman, who was fouled by Young in a mix-up under the basket, made two foul shots and Rickenback Ricken-back got one when he was fouled by D. Woodbury, then Morrison broke away for a set-up, making the score 36 to 31, with second left to play. Roberts added a goal to bring the score to 33 to 36. but the game was lost, and Richfield had earned the trip to the tournament. tour-nament. The score: CEDAR (33) O T P P Young, rf 8 0 0 16 O. Woodbury, If ... 13 13 Smith, c 0 0 0 0 Winterrose, rg 11.13 Roberts, lg 3 3 17 D. Woodbury, If 2 10 4 Totals 15 8 3 33 RICHFIELD (36) O T P P Morrison, rf 8 0 0 12 Rickenback. If 5 4 3 13 Hansen, c .. 15 13 Pearson, rg 0 5 4 4 Tholman, lg 12 2 4 Robinson, lg 0 0 0 0 rcjw Totals 13 16 10 SS |