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Show Plumbers Move Into Second Place in Cedar City Basketball Play by Downing Guardsmen Nat. Guard 6 1 .857 Columbia 5 2 .714 Dennett's 5 2 .174 Milt's 3 4 .428 Webster's 2 5 .286 Parowan 2 5 .286 Jaycees 1 5 .167 Dennett's, a slow starting, but at the present time, impressive team In the Cedar City Basket-ball Basket-ball league, jumped into a tie for second place and handed the National Guard Its first defeat of the current season. In a game played Tuesday evening at the College of Southern South-ern Utah fleldhouse, Dennett's trailed through most of the game but put on a fourth quarter spurt to jump into the lead and waltz away with a 10 point victory 38 to 28. The Guardsmen held a 12 to 9 first quarter lead and the halftime score stood at 17-all. 17-all. In the third quarter the Guardsmen apain pushed into the lead, 25 to 24. but a 14 point spurt led by Corry and Walters cinched the victory for the plumbers. Fail at Free Throw Line In this highly Important game, the Guardsmen, who have been behind from the field in a number num-ber of games, but have come through from the free throw line, Tuesday lost on foul pitches. Sargent of the guard hit two eut of four tries and live other team mates failed to score in six tries. Dennett's hit 12 In 23 tries. Webster's, although in the second sec-ond division of the league, has given most of the top teams a run for the victories. Thursday night they were defeated by a slim two points, 2 to 26, by Columbia. Co-lumbia. Again it was a case of , foul pitching. Webster's scored , 10 field goals compared to 11 for Columbia. Both teams attempted 10 foul pitches but Columbia hit for eight while Webster's hit only on-ly 40 per cent, or four. Milt's moved up In the league standings by downing Parowan Tuesday evening, 31 to 21. Jack Stevens of Parowan led the scoring scor-ing with 12 points but only one other team mate hit above one point. That was Benson with six. Kenneth Bladen led . Milt's scor-ing scor-ing attack with 11 points. Parowan Paro-wan Thursday had forfeited to Dennett's when they were unable to field five men. |