Iron County Record | 1955-01-20 | Page 9 | Dixie Division Basketball Race Holds Attention

Dixie Division Basketball Race Holds Attention Team W L Pet. Dixie 2 0 1.000 Enterprise 2 0 1.000 Cedar 1 1 .500 Hurricane 1 1 .500 Orderville 0 2 .000 Kanab 0 2 .000 j With the race for basketball laurels in the Dixie Division of Region Six only two weeks old each team is making Its bid and each game Is receiving much attention. at-tention. This week the Cedar City High School Redmen entertain the Enterprise En-terprise Wolves on the floor of the college of Southern Utah fieldhouse. Coach Ray Engle-stead's Engle-stead's Redmen are the favorites favor-ites for this contest; however, Enterprise's En-terprise's win over Hurricane last week end puts extra emphasis on caution for the Redmen. Probably the most important game of the week will be the contest at Hurricane with the Tigers entertaining the Dixie Flyers. Fly-ers. This game Is not only Important Im-portant for Hurricane but for Cedar Ce-dar as well. A lnnk at thp standings In the league to date indicates that a win for Cedar and a win for Hurricane, Hur-ricane, would put those four teams In a four-way tie for first place. On the other hand a loss for Hurricane would boost the stand- ing of the Flyers and drop the Tigers temporarily out of the picture. The outcome of this week's games will give a clearer picture of the league race, most fans will agree.