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Show Cedar Redmen Place 8th in State , The Cedar City High School basketball team, last team to gain a berth in the 1955 Class B tournament and rated by those who pretended to know to be one of the "also rans" In this year's classic, surprised everyone, including in-cluding their staunehest supporters support-ers with a very commendable performance. The Redmen, coached by Ray Englestead, and definitely among the underdogs of the tournament, tourna-ment, finished in eighth place in the state meet, falling before the ultimate state champions in the opening round after a tremendous tremen-dous performance, and then remaining re-maining in competition for the consolation title in the final round of play. Nip and Tuck The local team battled a brilliant bril-liant Cyprus High quint on even ! terms through practically the en-! en-! tire game, dropping behind in the l final seconds to lose by a score (of 5G to 49. The Redmen provided provid-ed the only real competition to .the champions until the cham-pionship cham-pionship battle between Cyprus land Murray. After winning convincingly by a 62-50 margin over North Summit Sum-mit in the second round battle. ,the Redmen continued their excellent ex-cellent performance 1o trounce a powerful Spanish Fork aggregation aggrega-tion bv a 10 point, 47 to 37, margin. mar-gin. The Dons from Spanish Fork battled the Redmen on almost even terms throughout the first half, but could not keep up the pace in the second half and fell behind. With a substantial lead built up by his team Coach En-glested En-glested gave his reserves a chance to see action In the state tournament and they continued to battle on even terms for the remainder of ihe game. The Redmen managed to get a three point, 13 to 10 lead at the end of the first quarter and increased his to 27 to 21 at half time. Pulling away from their opponents op-ponents in the second half the Redmen held a 33 to 21 advantage advant-age at the end of the third quarter. quar-ter. In the final game, the consolation consola-tion championship game, the hard playing of the three previ-l ous games began to take its toll and the Redme;i could not keep up the pace set by their opponents oppon-ents from Gunnison High School. Coach Englestead's team started start-ed strongly against the Gunnison team, jumping into a lead early in the game and holding their opponents scoreless from the field. However, Gunnison stayed very much in the game by connecting con-necting for seven points from the charity line to trail by only three points at the end of the quarter, 10 to 7. Redmen Demoralized Early in the second period the Bulldogs, led by the Hill brothers, bro-thers, Bruce and Bob, started a brilliant offense, which seemed to demoralize the exhaused Red-men, Red-men, and by the half time had jumped into a 2G to 15 lead. The Gunnison team seemed extreme ly fresh after having had an easy time the night before because of the ball-control or stalling tactics tac-tics of their opponents, the Paro-wan Paro-wan Rams. This coupled with the fact that Jerry Frame picked up four quick fouls in the early part of the game, cost the Redmen any chance of winning the consolation con-solation title. The third period was played on even terms with the quarter ending end-ing with Gunnison leading by a 39 to 29 score. With Englested electing to give every squad member a chance to see considerable consid-erable action in the game and the Hill brothers, particularly Bruce "getting hot," the victors increased their margin to win by a 53 to 35 score. All of the Cedar players turned turn-ed in commendable performances when called up, with Jerry Frame gaining a berth on . the all-state second team. The performance per-formance of tho Cedar team which carried the Redmen into the consolation battle was a team effort for which their supporters sup-porters should b3 proud. However, How-ever, the strain of six tough games in one week, two In the Region Six play-off to ,get into the tournament and four in the state meet was too much for them to overcome. |