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Show Cedar Drops Kanab to Stay Tied for League Lead; Final Game to Be Played Here Friday TEAM STANDINGS Team Won Lost Pet. Cedar 7 2 .778 Dixie 7 2 .778 Kanab 5 4 .555 Valley 5 4 .555 Hurricane 3 6 .333 Enterprise 0 9 .000 Thursday and Friday nights' games in the Dixie division basketball bas-ketball race tied up four of the six teams with Cedar and Dixie in first place, and Kanab and Valley all tied up in second place. The Redmen from Cedar City downed a hard fighting Kanab team here Friday night, 45-33, while Dixie remained in the running run-ning by downing Hurricane, 43-36 Thursday night at Hurricane. In the other league game, Valley easily took Enterprise Friday night, 52-31. In the Red men -Cow boy game, Kanab lost in the field goal department, de-partment, sinking only seven baskets, while the Cedar team was dropping in 20. Kanab was unable to make a basket in either eith-er the second or third quarter. By the early part of the fourth period, the Redmen had only one of their starting five on the floor, with Dale Perkins and Delias Imlay going out on fouls in the third quarter, while Bud Bauer and Nick Lunt left the game on fouls early in the fourth period. per-iod. Bauer was high point man of the evening, dropping in seven field goals for 14 tallies. Ramon Bunting took top honors for Kanab Ka-nab scoring 13 points with five field goals and three fouls. This Friday will mark the close of the regular league season with two important games. The Red-men Red-men will meet Hurricane here in Cedar City, while Enterprise will travel to St. George for a game with Dixie. Valley will meet Kanab Ka-nab on the Valley court. Should Cedar and Dixie both win their games this week, as they are favored to do, a playoff game will be held on a neutral floor. Winner of this playoff will gain a berth in the state tournament. tourna-ment. The loser, along with the third place team, the winner of the Valley-Kanab game, will meet in a tournament here on March 10 and 11 with the second and third place teams from the Millard district dis-trict to determine the third entry in the state tournament from Re. gion Six. A (Via ! 1 1 f 5 -v r9 wr rv i 1 i i iic: LtiitiuDiuji ut icuidi league play in the Millard division, di-vision, Beaver, Delta and Millard are tied for first place with eight wins and two losses. This week, Delta trimmed Beaver 53-36 at Delta, while Millard was trouncing trounc-ing Parowan 60-38. These three teams will now have to hold a play-off to determine the first, second and third positions in the league race. KANAB (33) CEDAR (45) OTFF CTFP 0 4 3 3 Johnson. f Bauer. f 7 0 0 14 3 3 13 BuntiiiR.f Terkint.f 2 2 0 4 0 9 4 4 Cutler.c Imlay.c 18 3 5 0 7 3 3 Lewli.g Lunt.g 3 0 0 ti 0 4 3 3 Jnrkfion.R SouthwIck.R 2 4 1 5 0 0 0 0 Chatterley.f Bidden. f 2 2 0 4 OOOO Judd.c Rrown.R 0 0 0 n 2 6 3 7 Croiby.R Gardner. 3 3 1 7 Berry, f 0 0 0 0 7 33 19 33 Totals 20 16 5 4" Score ly quartern: Cedar City 13 17 39 4."i Kanah 11 17 21 33 |