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Show Cedar Redmen Lose to Dixie Flyers 37 to 38 In First League Game TEAM STANDING Won Lost Pet Parowan 3 o 1.000 Valley 1 o 1.000 Dixie l o 1.000 Cedar 1 1 .500 Hurricane . 1 1 .500 Enterprise 1 3 350 Kanab 0 3 .000 The Cedar high school basketball team lost a tough game to Dixie Friday night in the first game In ttie Dixie District race for both teams. The Redmen went down to a one point defeat, 37 to 38 In a rough and tumble battle on the Dixie Dix-ie floor. Coach Quill Allen's team came back strong the next night however, to wallop Kanab by a score of 47 to 28. Coach Claude Adams' Parowan Rams took a commanding lead In the league race during the week, walloping Kanab 56 to 24 Friday night, taking the measure of Hur ricane, supposedly their toughes competition by a score of 33 to 28 In a game played at Hurricane Saturday Sat-urday night. Wednesday night the Rams trimmed Enterprise by a 36 to 14 score. Before losing to Parowan Hurricane Hur-ricane had'a tough time winning from Enterprise, pulling the game out of the fire in the final period 34 to 32. Enterprise took the measure meas-ure of Kanab before the holidays and lost to Valley. , Cedar will be idle this week with only three games scheduled In the District, Dixie playing at Valley on Friday and at Kanab Saturday while Enterprise plays at Hurricane Friday. , . , ,. , . The game - between Cedar and Dixie was extremely close throughout, through-out, with the St. George team winning win-ning the game on a foul pitch made after .the playing time elapsed. Dixie bad. a one point advantage 8 to 7, at the end of the first quarter, quar-ter, but Cedar held an 18 to 16 lead at half , time. Dixie moved Into the lead 31 to 29 In the third period, but Cedar tied the score at 37 all Just before' the game ended, but a foul called against a Cedar player as the gun sounded gave Dixie a free throw and the ball game. The Redmen had little difficulty against Kanab, Jumping Into an early lead and dominating the play throughout. Score of the Cedar-Dixie game: Cedar (37) Q T F P Adams, rf 3 9 6 li Hunter, If 12 0 2 Wlnterrose, c 3 3 17 Sorry, rg 3 2 0 6 Hlrschi, lg 13 13 rueller. c .. 0 2 11 Blackburn. If 0 4 11 Totals 13 28 11 37 Dixie (38) O T F P Hafen, rf 2 3 2 8 Schmutz, If 13 13 Mathls, c 0 7 0 0 Blake, rg ..... 3 3 0 6 Smith, lg 6 3 2 14 Nelson, f 3 6 3 9 Reber, g 0 0 0 0 Totals 15 25 8 38 With Gall Wlnterrose leading the scoring with 8 field goals and a foul pitch for 17 points, the Redmen took a 14 to 1 lead in the first quarter quar-ter of the Kanab game, and held a big margin through the other three quarters. Sadie Hunter found the hoop for five field goals to add to the Redmen score. Jackson, who rang up 13 points, was the only Kanab player able to locate the hoop with consistency. |