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Show Cedar Tops Kanab, Leads Dixie Race; Tigers Take Wolves in Final Drive TEAM STANDINGS Team Won Lost Pet. Cedar 5 2' .715 Enterprise 4 3 .571 Hurricane 4 3 .571 Valley 3 4 .427 Dixie 3 4 .427 Kanab 2 5 .285 An assist from the Hurricane Tigers and a convincing victory over the Kanab Cowboys by the Cedar City Redmen, put Coach Ray Englestead's Cedar City team into the lead in the Dixie division basketball race. Going into week end play Enterprise and Cedar City were in a first place tie, with Hurricane in third j place. After the games were over Cedar was .en-hod on top with 1 Enterprise and Hurricane tied for second. j Coach Don Homer's Hurricane team traveled to Enterprise Friday Fri-day night to stage a mild upset by beating the Wolves 49 to 4fi, in a hard-fought battle. Saturday Satur-day night the Redmen easily and soundly trounced the Cowboys. 50 to 39 in the B A C fieldhouse. Steve Rozelle led Hurricane to victory In the Enterprise game with a 25 -point scoring splurge, in spite of the fact that Hall of Enterprise stayed close to him and tallied 24 points. The game was very close throughout, with Enterprise holding a 10 to 9 lead at the end of the first quarter, and falling behind 25 to 21 at half time. Hurricane jumped into an eight point lead, 42 to 34 in the third quarter and then managed man-aged to stop a determined Enterprise Enter-prise rally, to win by three points. In the Cedar-Kanab game, the Redmen settled down to serious business of improving their standing and completely domin-ated domin-ated play throughout the first half, and coasted to victory in the second half with Coach En-glestead En-glestead using his second stringers string-ers freely. The Redmen kept the Cowboys completely bottled up during the first half, allowing the visitors only one field goal in the entire half, taking a 9 to 2 lead in the first period, and Increasing this to 25 to 9 by halftime. During these two periods the Redmer looked better than they have at any time during the season, working the ball in beautifully , for set-up shots and playing a very commendable defensive game. Don Ray Melling led jtlie Redmen scoring with 16 points, while Billy Naegle rang (up 10 counters. However, it was strictly a team victory, with pass-! pass-! ing and ball handling giving the Redmen their big edge. About the only thing that kept the visitors in the game was the foul shooting of Nolan Willis, rangy Cowboy, who in the eyes of most of the fans, seemed to be playing under a different set of rules than the other nine men on the floor, especially as referee ref-eree Lavell Chamberlain called them. Willis was given a total of 20 free tries at the basket and converted 15 of them, a very commendable shooting average. av-erage. He tipped in four field goals, two against Coach Englestead's Engle-stead's sophomores, to lead all scorers with 23 points for the game. The box score: KANAB 39 . CEDAR 50 GTFF GTFP 4 20 15 23 Willis MellinK 6 8 4 16 1 'J 1 3 McAllister Ashdnwn 0 2 1 1 2 4 2 6 Burguyne Cooley 2 0 0 4 15 1) 2 HayciK-k Stephenson 3 0 0 6 '-' 3 15 Heaton Holmes, 2 115 0 0 0 0 llainblin Naegle 5 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 Swapp Webster 2 3 2 6 H. Haycock 10 0 2 Mclntyre 0 0 0 0 rMslirey 0 0 0 0 Lunk 0 0 0 0 Nelson 0 0 0 0 Frame 0 0 0 0 10 31 19 39 TOTALS 2111 8 50 Score by quarters : Kanab 2 9 21 39 Cedar City 12 25 37 50 |