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Show Redmen Lose to American Fork Aiter Imoressive Victory Over Roosevelt I The Cedar high school Red-1 men made an excellent start in the state high school basketball I tournament esterday, taking the: measure of the Roosevelt Rough I Riders in impressive style. How. ever, by luck of the draw they j ran into the tournament favorite, j the American Fork Cavemen, to-1 day and went down to defeat 39 to 32, although playing exceptionally excep-tionally good ball. The Cavemen, representing a school that many claim should be in the A classification, were last year's state champions and have not lost a game since December, De-cember, 1949. The American Fork team includes a number of men from the state championship squad of last year, and although the Redmen went down to defeat de-feat they must be credited with an excellent performance. The Redmen were having tough luck on their shooting throughout the game today both from the field and from the foul line, and this together with the fact that the Cavemen controlled the bankboards, made it an uphill up-hill battle for Coach Garrett's crew. The Redmen seemed to get as many shots as the Cavemen, and although they were rushed, a little better luck could have turned defeat into victory. Cedar surprised the American Fork crew with three quick baskets bas-kets as the game opened, by Lunt, Southwick- and Sargent, in that order, to take a G to 0 lead. Perkins added a shot but it was not allowed and he was penalized penal-ized for charging. Pierce with a field goal and a foul and Burgess Bur-gess with a two-pointer closed the gap to 6-5, but Sargent added add-ed another shot to give Cedar an 8-5 advantage at the end of the first quarter. Fraughton, with a free throw and Pierce with a field goal tied the score as the second period per-iod opened, but Bauer connected to put Cedar back in the lead, 10-9. Savage then got a free throw and added two quick baskets bas-kets to put the Cavemen in the lead, 1310, and they were never ne-ver headed again. During the remainder re-mainder of the period Lunt, Mid-dleton Mid-dleton and Clark each added foul points for Cedar, while Fraughton and Pierce scored from the field to give American Fork a 1713 advantage as they left the floor for the half-time rest period. American Fork sewed up the game In the third period, hitting consistently as the Redmen had their poorest shooting luck of the game. Pierce connected for six points, Burgess four and Savage for three, to push the American 1 Fork score up to 30 points, while Lunt, Middleton and Perkins leach got a field goal to move I the Redmen score up to 19 points. I Burgess opened the final per- iod with a field goal, but Sargent , connected twice to close the gap jto 32 to 23. Monson added a 1 foul pitch and Burgess got a field goal to push the score to 37 to 23. The Redmen rallied again and Lunt Bauer and Southwick each scored two-pointers and Bauer a I free throw to make the score 30 jto 37. As the time ran out Monson Mon-son and Perkins each connected to add two points to each of the teams' total score. The score: Cedar City 32 American Fork 39 cifp i; t f r J '.' (i 4 fVrkins FYauihtin 2 'J 0 A 2 1 II 4 Sullthuirk BlllVfss 4 .'( 1 1 t 1 7 Lunt Sawici' 4 4 '.' in 4 :t II S Sam-ril Kilrhen 0 O 0 II Oil 1 CUrk Picive ti 4 1 M 2 1 ." Baui r Mnnson 1 2 1 ;) 111 a Miildli'ton Smith (I (I II (I WK'infi- II O (I (I 14 11 4 :! TOTALS 17 l.i 5 .f.l Srnre liv quurttis: Ci-iliir City 8 It lrt ;c Amiiiian Kork 3 17 ;tu In the game against Roosevelt the Redmen started out rather shakily. They were off on their shooting, while the Rough Riders Rid-ers could not miss. As a result the Cedar team fell behind at the start and were not able to overtake their high flying opponent op-ponent until near the end of the second quarter. Roosevelt opened the scoring with a field goal soon after the opening whistle, and added a foul pitch, but Gordon Sargent kept the Redmen on even terms with a charity toss and a field goal. Roosevelt went ahead 5-3 but Perkins immediately tied it up. At this point the Rough Riders Ri-ders went ahead on two quick baskets while Perkins was adding add-ing a single foul shot for Cedar. Trailing by three points the Red-men Red-men missed a chance to take the lead when they missed four consecutive con-secutive foul shots, two by Sargent Sar-gent and two by Clark, But Sargent Sar-gent closed the gap to 9-8 with a field goal. Roosevelt continued to drive and jumped into a 14 to 8 lead, but just before the quarter quar-ter ended Perkins drove through for a basket to make it 1410 at the end of the period. As the second canto opened Bauer connected for two points, but after Roosevelt had made a foul shot and Perkins had added one for Cedar, Snyder scored from the field to make it 17 to 13 for Roosevelt. Perkins rang up another an-other basket and a charity toss, but Kent Nickel made a charity chari-ty toss to hold a two point lead for Roosevelt. LaMar Clark made a fou shot for Cedar and then Nick Lunt pushed Cedar into the lead for the first time, 21-18 with a field goal and two foul shots. Snyder closed the gap to 2119 then Sargent connected from the field, Perkins added a foul shot, and Lunt added a two pointer, while Peterson got two charity tosses for Roosevelt and Cedar led 26-22 at rest time. As the third period opened Perkins and K. Nickell exchanged exchang-ed foul shots, but Snyder added three points to made the score 27-26. Perkins got three more points to make it 30-26. and after af-ter Roosevelt had made two points from the free throw line. Perkins added four more points and Bauer two to push the Red-men Red-men into a 36-28 lead. Before the period ended Clark scored a field goal for Cedar, But Roosevelt Roose-velt added five points, to close the gap to 38-33. As the final period opened Southwick got two field goals and Perkins one, while Peterson was adding one for Roosevelt and the Redmen led 44 to 35. Perkins Per-kins and Lunt each connected for field goals in the next few minutes, min-utes, but Roosevelt closed the gap to 48 to 41 with three quick baskets. As the playing time drew to a close Southwick made a foul shot and Gary Middleton Mid-dleton scored from the field to push the Cedar score to 51 while the best Roosevelt could do was a field goal by Peterson, and Cedar won 51 to 43. The score: CEDAR CITY 51 HOOSEVEIT 4J r, tfp fiTF 9 6 6 24 Perkins Hanson 10 0 2 2 115 Southwick K. Ntrkell 2 9 7 11 .13 1 7 SarRfnt Killlan 12 0 2 2 0 0 4 Bauer Peterson 5 3 3 13 2 2 2 6 Lunt Snyder 4 5 3 11 13 1 3 Clark Benson 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 Middleton Moore 0 10 0 S. Nickell 2 0 0 4 20 15 11 51 TOTALS 15 20 13 4J Score by ciuarters: Cedar City 10 26 38 51 Roosevelt 14 22 33 4.) 2 114 Southwick K. Nickell 2 9 7 11 9 G 5 24 Perkins Hanson 10 0 2 |