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Show BEST IN FOUR STATES Cedar fill Stars Show Winning Form in Sectional Tourney Play The best in four states. That's the status of the Cedar City Little League All-stars as they returned from the Sectional Sec-tional Tournament at Salt Lake City Sunday afternoon and were so graciously welcomed by a responding community commu-nity effort. Now the boys are in California representing the states of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana at the Western Division Di-vision tournament which will be attended by similar representation repre-sentation from the West, Canada and Alaska. Four teams battled it out in Salt Lake City for the right to wear the sectional crown. The Cedar City tem i . was well deserving too, ior u downed an entry from Billings, Montana, in the opening round 5 to 2 and breezed through the Idaho representative from Poca-tello Poca-tello in the championship game 10 to 0. Great Team Victory The championship was a great team victory; not only was the pitching of three youngsters, Leigh Rosenberg, Steve Cahoon, and Lory Misel, outstanding, but the hitting and fielding of the boys in every position was commendable com-mendable and brought many an ah, from the majority of northern north-ern spectators. In the opening game against Billings the Little League stars of Cedar City pushed across two runs in the first inning with two hits. Steve Cahoon, leadoff man singled. Jeff Marchant, fourth batter, then put oneover the fence with two out. The homer accounted account-ed for two runs. Billings retaliated retaliat-ed with one run on one hit in the bottom half. Two More Runs Neither team scored in the second sec-ond and in the top of the third Cedar pounded out two more hits, a homer by Cahoon and a single by Rosenberg to score two more runs. In the bottom of the third Rosenberg, starting pitcher, got into a little troubje. The bases were loaded and only one man out when Cahoon, a lefty, came on and struck out the next man. A run however, scored on an overthrow over-throw to third, and Cahoon struck the next man out allowing only one run. Cedar came back in the top of the sixth with their fifth and final run on three hits. One by Donnie Roberts, Roger Lewis and Dennis Slack. In the bottom of the sixth the Cedar crew got into another hole but some fast action by Slack on third snuffed out a potential Billings rajly. With two men on base, first and second, and no outs Slack picked up a hard grounder, touched third and whipped the ball to Roberts at second for a double play. That left one man on base, and two out. The next batter flied out to the shortstop. Misel Delivers In the championship game Misel Mi-sel on the mound allowed but a single hit. With eighteen putouts, in a regular six inning game he faced only 18 men and the one runner who reached first never advanced beyond that base. As a matter of fact he was forced into a douWe play from Roberts on second to Cahoon on the very next play. Misel left 11 Idaho men standing stand-ing at the plate by strikeouts. Defensively the boys played perfect ball. No errors were charged char-ged against the boys and in the six inning stint they compiled a total of 12 hits. Two of those hits were round trips, one right after the other. Roberts knocked his homer in the fourth with one man on and Leigh Rosenberg's followed follow-ed Roberts'. In the fourth Inning the boys' pounded out a total of seven hits and scored six runs to take a comfortable .lead after holding onto a 1 to 0 lead in the first three frames. Cedar scored three more in the fifth. |