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Show Week End Basketball Play Schedule Will Determine Region Six Positions Friday and Saturday evenings, Mar. 11 and 12 a Region Six High School basketball tournament will be held with six teams, three from the Dixie and three from the Millard division, participating. participat-ing. Most important of the two-night two-night event at the Millard High gymnasium in Fillmore, will be the placing of a third team in the state tournament. Division winners, win-ners, Parowan and Dixie high schools, although they have already al-ready won the right to enter the state tournament, will meet in the final game of the tourney to vie for regional honors. utner rarucipants The other four participating teams Include Cedar City and Enterprise, second and third, respectively re-spectively from the Dixie Division, Divis-ion, and Delta and Millard, who tied for second In the Millard Division. Di-vision. In the opening round of the tournament Cedar and Delta will clash. Time for that fracas has been set at 7:30 p. m. At 9 p. m. Enterprise and Millard will meet. Saturday night, winners from the previous night will meet to decide third place in the Region Six and the right to enter the state tournament. The final game of the series will pit Dixie and Parowan for the Region Six championship. Both teams, however, how-ever, have alreay guaranteed themselves a spot in the state tournament. Followers of the Cedar City Redmen will make the 115 mile jaunt to Fillmore to spur Coach Ray Englestead and his team on to victory. Fans Favor Redmen Many fans feel that the Red-men Red-men have an inside chance to place third and move onto the state tourney. In pre-season play the Redmen downed the Delta Rabbits, their first opponents, at Delta. Although the teams may be of equal strength at this stage of the season, the pre-season defeat de-feat gives the local boys a psychological psy-chological advantage from the outset. The Redmen have shown a marked improvement in the calibre of play in the last three contests in the league schedule. sched-ule. Defeated by Enterprise in the first half of play nt Cedar City, the Redmen turned the.ta-bles the.ta-bles on the Wolves at Enterprise Enter-prise and showed a marked Improvement Im-provement in scoring against; Hurricane and Valley in the final fi-nal two games. Millard, an apparently improved im-proved ball club at the end of league play, will have the advantage ad-vantage of the home floor and local lo-cal support that goes along with that advantage. As a result the Eagles will be pxpected to take Enterprise Friday evening. Cedar and Delta will be a toss-up with Cedar slightly favored. It is expected that Cedar and Millard will likely meet in the Saturday evening game to determine deter-mine third place and the third tourney berth. |