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Show Columbia Holds Slim Lead in Cedar Softball Race TEAM STANDINGS Columbia 15 2 .883 Iron Mountain .... 14 3 .829 Desert Mound .... 12 5 .706 Utah Const 10 7 .588 El Rey Cafe 4 14 .222 Bradshaw 4 14 .222 Parowan 2 16 .111 With only one game remaining in the Cedar City softball league for Columbia Iron Mines after a week of tough competition, competi-tion, they are leading the race by one game. All four of the mines teams have one remaining game, Columbia must play Iron Mountain and Desert Mound faces Utah Construction. Columbia during the past week pulled two games out of the fire by coming from behind against Utah Construction in the last half of the seventh inning and also staging a seventh inning run spree against Desert Mound to win the games 11 to 10 and 4 to 3, respectively. Iron Mountain remained in the race this week by winning its one encounter, against El Rey Cafe, by one point 5 to 4, in a close contest. The only other league game during the week pitted Bradshaw against Parowan, Paro-wan, and Bradshaw gained a fifth place tie by virtue of a win over Parowan. Because of the fifth place tie in the league standings a game between be-tween El Rey Cafe and bradshaw was necessary and was played Monday evening to determine the fifth entry from Cedar City in the tournament being held this week end. El Rey won the playoff play-off game in an extra inning affair, af-fair, gaining entry into the tournament. tour-nament. Coming from behind the El Rey club tied the score at !) all in the seventh inning and was able to muster one more run in the eighth to win the tournament berth. El Rey, Bradshaw and Parowan have completed their league schedule and the two remaining games will be played, probably next Tuesday evening. If Columbia Colum-bia wins its game with Iron Mountain it will win undisputed first place in the Cedar City league, but if it should lose to Iron Mountain it would throw the two teams into a tie for first and second place and a play-off game would be necessary to determine de-termine a league championship team. |