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Show IRedmen Second In Region Play Cedar City Redmen Notch Another Victory in Reaion Six Hoop Play Dixie 8 0 1.000 Cedar 5 3 .625 j Enterprise 4 4 .500! Kanab .... 4 4 .500 J Hurricane 3 5 .3751 Valley 0 8 .000 Dixie High School basketball team, one of the few'remaining undefeated prep clubs in the State Class B ranks, assured itself it-self a berth in the state tournament tourna-ment this year as a result of play in the Dixie Division on Friday night. Dixie traveled to Hurricane to post its eighth straight victory and although' they must face two of the upper division clubs before the end of regulation play they have cinched a state tourney tour-ney berth. Their two remaining remain-ing games are against Kanab this Friday night at Kanab, and a final game against Enterprise, at the St. George gymnasium. Redmen Move Up Cedar City Redmen virtually assured themselves a place in the Region Six round robin, by moving ahead of Enterprise in a thriller Friday night. The win put Coach Ray Englestead's Red-men Red-men into second place with two games yet remaining. Friday night, Feb. 25, the Redmen will meet Hurricane at the C S U Memorial Fieldhouse and. will wind up the season with a game at Orderville against the Valley Buffaloes. Both games against these teams proved easy victor- ies for the Redmen in the first half and the Redmen are expected ex-pected to finish the season play with a seven win and three loss record. Actually Valley High School is the only team that is completely com-pletely out of the race for the top three spots. Enterprise and Kanab with four wins and four losses each are only one game behind the second place Red-men. Red-men. Hurricane, although having lost five games, could come into the fight if they should score victories in their final two games. A loss this week for Hurricane, however, would put them out of I the Picture. Expected Split Enterprise is expected to win Friday evening against Valley but according to past performance perfor-mance will probably go down to defeat before the Dixie Flyers Fly-ers at St. George the following week. Kanab downed Valley last Friday Fri-day by a score of 66 to 51 to stay in the running. The Cowboys Cow-boys must yet face Dixie Friday Fri-day night at Kanab, followed , by a contest with Hurricane. ' Cedar's Redmen hope will be kept alive now mostly on the chance that the Dixie Flyers continue to win their division games. They have already cinch-1 cinch-1 ed the title so the Redmen have nothing to lose, and everything : to gain by having the Flyers .win their remaining games. Redmen Get Revenge On Enterprise For Previous Defeat The Cedar City Redmen moved into a second place standing in the Dixie Division, Region Six, basketball race this week when they traveled to Enterprise to post a 57 to 42 win. It was the second meeting of the two clubs and the Redmen revenged their defeat by the Wolves in the first half of play on the C S U fieldhouse floor. The Redmen didn't have an easy job, however. At the end of the first eight minutes of play the Cedar five had a slim 12 to 10 lead and at halftime the Wolves had added 14 while holding the Redmen to nine to jump into a 24 to 21 lead. The Redmen. led by Gale Fife, exploded In the third quarter, racking up 19 points and moving mov-ing into an early lead, a lead they never lost. They had a nine point margin at the three quarter mark, 40 to 31 and got another 17 in the final quarter to post the 57 to 42 victory. Fife led all scorers for the evening eve-ning with 14 on six field goals and two for three from the foul line. Ronald Mclntyre hit for 12 points. He hit five field goals but made only two in seven tries from the foul line. Both teams shot 33 foul shots but the Wolves bettered the Red-' Red-' men by three from the charity marker. Enterprise hit 20 com-: com-: pared to 17 for the Redmen. Three Wolves hit into the double digit figures. E. Holt hit for 11 as did another Holt, while one of the Hunt boys scored 10. Box score of the game is as follows: CEDAR 57 ENTERPRISE 42 r, t k i ; r f r ti .1 2 11 Fife K licit 4 4 :i 11 (I VI 7 7 Frame Phelps O (i 3 II S7I VJ Mclnlvn- (-,. Unit 4 11 .'I 11 3 11 7 IViklns C. Hunt 2 7 ti Id 1 O 0 2 Hrvmmit N. Hunt O 4 3 2 K " ! Mi'trniT Hiimmnnd 1 1 O 2 : 1 0 I! Miiyo i k Hiirlmker O !" 2 2 20 3:i17r.7 TOTALS 1 3.1 21) 4'J Seine liy quarters: Cellar 12 21 40 !S7 F.nterprise Ill 21 31 42 |
