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Show Ten Top Teams to Compete Here In Southern Utah Softball Tourney Ten top softball teams of Southern Utah and Nevada will gather in Cedar City next week end for the annual southern Utah Softball Tournament, to be staged at the Lions field on Thursday, Friday and Saturday August 24, 25 and 26. With ten teams participating four games will be played on the opening night, two teams drawing byes. Three games will be played on the second night and two in the finals Saturday. A single loss elimination tournament tour-nament will be conducted, and after the first two rounds of play only three teams will remain in the meet. Of these one will draw a bye, the other. two will play the first game and the winner will meet the bye team for the championship. Play will start at 7 p. m. on Thursday, and each game will be limited to one hour of play. All remaining games will go the full seven innings with play to start at 7:30 each evening. Teams that will participate will be one team from Caliente, Nev., and two lrom Pioche Nev., with one each from Enterprise, St. George and Zion National park. The four top teams in the Cedar City league will make up the ten team roster. The Cedar City teams will be selected on a basis of the season record, and not on a first and second kail basis. Four special awards will be made again this year, a trophy going to the championship team, and one to the team displaying the best sportsmanship throughout through-out the tournament. A wrist watch vill be presented to the outstanding player in the tournament, tour-nament, and an appropriate award to the outstanding pitcher of the meet. Admission prices will be 50c for adults and 15c for children. Additional bleachers will be erected to handle what is expected ex-pected to be a record crowd, since interest in the tournament seems to be at a high pitch. The Bradshaw Chevrolet. Utah Construction, Desert Mound and Bradshaw Firestone teams, are in the running for the other two positions in the tourney. The Chevrolet team has finished its schedule with ten wins and six losses. Utah Construction has eight wins and six losses, with games with Bradshaw Firestone and Southern Utah Tower left to play. Desert Mound has an 8-5 record with games against the Iron County Record, Bradshaw Firestone and Peoples Market left to play. Bradshaw Firestone has six wins and seven losses, with a game to be played with the Junior Chamber besides its games with Desert Mound and Utah Construction. TEAM STANDING Team won lost to play Record 12 1 3 Iron Mines 13 2 1 Bradshaw Chev. 10 6 0 Desert Mound 8 5 3 Utah Con 8 6 2 Brad Firestone.... 6 7 3 Peoples Market .. 3 12 1 Power Co 2 13 1 Junior Chamber 2 12 2 |