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Show Cedar City Little League All-Stars Defeat Billings, Check Out to Provo I The Cedar City Little League i !AK-slar team made an impress-J he start in the section tonina-' tonina-' iik nt in Helper Monday, winning its opening game, but had a lough afternoon both offensively and defensively in the second-round second-round battle, going down to a one sided defeat. In the op ning game the Cedar I squad turned back a powerful juill balanced team from Hillings, Hill-ings, Mont., by a score of 7 to (j, to go into the championship round. Yesterday, however, after two postponements because of rain the local squad fell before! a heavy hitting Provo team IS to 2. As a result the local team will meet Price this afternoon1 in a battle for third and fifth places, while Provo meets Sunny- j side for Mie sectional champion-1 ship. Sunnyside took the measure of Price 15 to 10 in the other semi final game yesterday. Billings won the consolation title which gives it fourth place After losing to Cedar the Montana Mon-tana team trimmed Helper 1 to 0. Helper had been defeated by' Provo in the opening round. The( Billings team won the consolation consola-tion title hv trimming Blackfoot, Idaho. 9 to'l. In the first round game Cedar made lo hits as compared to seven se-ven for its oponent. Cedar scored two runs in the opening inning o'. a single by Larry Smith followed fol-lowed by a home run by Roger Iligbee, and then jumped into a six to three lead with a four run splurge on three hits, an error and a walk. Kenneth Benson added ad-ded another tally in the fifth w ith a home run. Iligbee, besides hitting the home run, connected ! for two doubles. Kenneth Benson pitched the first five innings for the Cedar team and did a very good job. doing into the final inning with Cedar leading 7 to 5, the first two batters got on base as the result of errors, and Steve Ca-hoon Ca-hoon took over the pitching duties. du-ties. After forcing the first batter bat-ter he faced to roll out, another error allowed a run to score and narrowed the margin to one print. However, Cahoon got the next hitter on strikes and forced the third man to pop up to save the game. The line score: Cedar 2 0 4 0 1 07 Hillings 2 0 1 0 2 1 (5 After the Cedar-Provo game had been rained out Tuesday afternoon, and again Wednesday morning, the two teams finally clashed late Wednesday afternoon after-noon with disastrous results for the Cedar squad. The line score was as follows: I'rcvo 2 4 4 0 8 0 IS Cedar 1 0 0 0 0 12 A combination of heavy hitting hit-ting by the Provo players and shaky fielding by the Cedar youngsters added to the one-sided trimming. Cedar had only four hits and committed seven errors, while Provo found the range for 10 hits, a number of walks and committed only three errors. Pen-rod, Pen-rod, the Provo catcher, led the Provo attack with two home runs, hit with two runners on base. Jeff Marchant started on the mcund, pitching for 2Vi innings. aftei which Larry Anderson took over, and lasted until late in the fifth inning. Doug Haycock finished out the game on the mound. The Provo pitcher registered regis-tered only one strikeout, while each of the three Cedar pitchers matched this. The rain storms forced the teams to remain in Helper for an extra day, with two games to be played this afternoon. The Cedar squad had expected to return re-turn home Wednesday night. |