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Show 1 Cedar City Softball League Race Moves Toward Close, U. C. Leading TEAM STANDINGS Utah Const 7 0 1.000 Columbia 5 1 .831 Record 2 4 .3.11 Bradshaw 2 5 .1280 Parowan 0 6 .000 Utah Construction, by virtue of Its win over Columbia Iron Mines in the second half race of the Cedar City Softball league, is standing on top of the pile one game in lead of the first half champions. Columbia. Standings as they read this week Include games against Parowan, Par-owan, which has actually dropped drop-ped from the league in this second sec-ond half race. However, each team has won by way of forfeiture forfei-ture and have been listed as such in the standings. I In probably the toughest ball game of the past week Utah Construction came from behind in the final Inning of play to maintain its supremacy over Bradshaw Chevrolet. A home run by pitcher Mel Reeves broke up the ball game in that fatal final inning to give the miners the victory. Gaylen Rerry was on the mound for the Bradshaw nine. Final score was 6 to 5. Parowan Forgeits Utah Construction and Columbia Colum-bia were each given credit for wins over Parowan Monday and Wednesday evening, respectively, respective-ly, when Parowan failed to show up. Bradshaw posted a w in over Iron County Record last Friday evening by taking an early lead. They scored four runs in the second sec-ond inning and five In the third inning for a total of nine of their 10 runs. The Record ended up with eight for a final score of 10 to 8. Bradshavv's win was credited credit-ed to Kay Boulter and Kenneth Benson was on the mound for the Record. He was relieved for two outs in the fourth inning but returned re-turned to hold the garage boys to one run in the final four innings of play. The league schedule should be completed by Monday, Aug. lf and the southern Utah Softball tournament will begin on the IS. Bradshaw has completed its schedule, except with Parowan. and Columbia must meet Iron County Record and Utah Construction. Con-struction. The Columbia Utah Construction game should spell the difference in the second half standing. A win for V C would give it first and a win for Columbia Colum-bia would throw the race into a two-way tie. Columbia, however, is guaranteed at least a playoff play-off for league honors as that team team won the first half title. |