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Show Cedar Redmen Defeated By Dixie Quints TEAM STANDINGS Team Won Lost Pet. Dixie 1 0 1.000 Hurricane 1 0 1.000 Enterprise 1 0 1.000 Cedar 0 1 .000 Valley 0 1 .000 Kanab 0 1 .000 The Cedar City High School basketball team, still suffering from "tenseness" that has been so evident in its past few games, got off to a bad start in the Dixie Division championship race Thursday night, losing to a good Dixie Hih School team, by a score of 45 to 38. The Redmen, who had lost two games to the Parowan High School Rams, mostly because they could not find the range either from the field or the foul line, and especially from the foul line, continued to "tighten up" at the foul line, and although hitting from the field a little better bet-ter than they did against Parowan, Paro-wan, let tenseness ruin their 'passing at several points in the ' game. Coach Ray Englestead's charges worked their hearts out I in an effort to win the game, but Iwhat they really needed was to relax. The Flycis played good ball, but the Redmen did as much to beat themselves as did the Flyers. Foul Line Jitters Cedar scored 15 field goals to 16 for the visitors, but could ring up only eight foul shots in 23 tries. With the exception of Stan Esplin, wno connected for nine out of 10 tries from the foul line, the visiting team was not (Continued on Page Eleven) REDMEN (Continued from Page Ten) too impressive from the free throw line, but Esplin's efforts gave the team a 13 out of 20 record. Mel Miles was the leading scorer scor-er for the Dixie team with 15 points, but Jerry Frame topped this with 16 points. However, Frame had to depend on field goals for practically all of his points, hitting for seven goals, but turning 10 tries from the foul line into only two points. Frame Starts Scoring Frame put the Redmen into the score column first, but Mel Miles soon tied it up, only to have Frame connect again to put Cedar Ce-dar back into the lead. Jim Ott with a foul and Ken Jolley with a field goal and Esplin with two foul shots put Dixie ahead 7 to 4. Jay Perkins with a two pointer and Gale Fife with a foul shot tied the score and Richard Hey-wood Hey-wood put Cedar ahead 9 to 7, only to have Esplin get two more points from the free throw line to tie the score again. Ronald Mclntyre made one to move Cedar Ce-dar into the lead, but Esplin got two more, his fifth and sixth consecutive con-secutive shots, to give Dixie a 11 to 10 advantage at the end of the quarter. Lose Lead for Good As the second quarter opened Ott put Dixie into a three point Tear). IS to 1ft and thp Redmen never caught up again, although they came within one point at 13-14 rnd 15-16, and within three points,' 35-38, neir the end of the game. Dixie held a 25 to 19 half-time half-time margin, and was ahead 34 to 27 at the end of the third period. per-iod. In other games in the opening round Hurricane took an easy 58 to 37 victory over Valley and Enterprise En-terprise pulled out a 42 to 38 victory over Kanab in a game that was extremely close all the way. The Cedar team has a chance to get into the win column this week when they meet the undermanned under-manned Cowboys at Kanab Friday Fri-day night. The Redmen took an easy 57 to 20 victory from Pan-gultch Pan-gultch in a practice game Saturday Satur-day night. Dixie and Hurricane should continue their winning ways this week with games against Valley and Enterprise, respectively. Box score of the Cedar-Dixie game: DIXIE 4S CEDAR II GTFP GTFP 1 0 0 2 D Mllen Fife 3 3 1 7 7 3 1 IS M Mild Hrywood 2 3 1 ! 5 2 1 13 Ott Fram 7 10 2 le 0 10 9 9 Esplin Perklni 1 4 3 : 1 3 2 4 Jollpy . Mclntyre 2 2 1 f 0 2 0 OB. Stuck! Haycock 0 0 0 C 1 0 0 2 Graff Blanier 0 1 O C Heffner 0 0 0 C 16 20 13 45 TOTALS 15 23 8 36 Score by quarters: Dixie 11 25 34 4? Cedar 10 19 27 31 the difference in the scoring was at the foul line. Ricks and CSU each scored 31 fieldgoals for a total of 62 points for each team. Ricks hit 19 of their 25 foul shots while CSU made 13 out of 23 attempts. Although the Vickings led throughout the contest the major difference at the final outcome was the free throws. Friday evening the Boise Broncos Bron-cos took an early lead while the local Broncos were slow starting. After four minutes of play, however, how-ever, Douglas Stoker tanked two jump shots from the post position posi-tion to ignite the Broncos spark and paced them to a 11-11 tie. From this point on the CSU crew took command of the game and were never equalled by the invading Idahoians. Comfortable Margin The halftime score gave CSU a nine point margin and shortly after the half the CSU quintet increased the margin of difference dif-ference to 12 points. Boise put on a rally In the middle of the second half, however, moving to ! within four points of the Broncos. Coach Petty then reverted to his j starting five to stop the drive of i the Boise team and scored the final 72 to 64 victory, i Saturday nlt?ht the Ricks Vikings Vik-ings scored the first two points on a long shot by Jim Hill and j the Broncos never more than equalled the Vikings through the 40 minutes of play. After three minutes had elapsed and Hill had hit three long fieldgoals In four attempts and Max Nield. another hot shot for the Vikings, had added two fieldgoals, the Vikinprs had moved Into a 17 to 7 lead. Things went pretty much the Vikings' wav throughout the first half and thev moved to a 12 point. 47-35 advantage at half-time. half-time. Keith Cooley, the onlv scoring threat of the Broncos In the first half, put on a scoring scor-ing rally In the waning moments and posted a total of 17 points to keep the Broncos In the running. |
