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Show Redmen Take Victory j From Gunnison j In Exciting Battle The Cedar City Redmen em- j ployed a lull court press in tne lounft period again&i tiuce hu. j and company Hum Gunnison 01. Friday evening to eKe out a o to M) point victory in tiieir final pre-league appearance. In an exciting ,;ame, witnessed witnes-sed by a mere nuiiuiul of townspeople, towns-people, the Keumen came u-witn u-witn their most impressive game of the season. Coacn bruce lh.Cj-er lh.Cj-er gave tne starting call to Keeu Heywood, Jon Isom, Kay Lnd-, sley, royd Dover and Lric Gard-j ner. Trailing by three, 41 to 38, go-1 ing into the final quarter ui. Kedmen employed a full oourt press that was most etfective against the Gunnison Bulldogs. Lndsiey opened the scoring in the final eight minutes hitting two free throws and Heywood put the Redmen Into a one-point lead, with a bucket with less than a minute of the quanei played. Gregerson retaliated with a field goal to put the Bulldogs Bull-dogs in the lead and Dover sank a beautiful left hand hoop shot to put the Redmen back In front 44 to 45. A running hook by Coates of Gunnison gave his team the lead again and Ray Bauer came In for a short Jump shot to put the Redmen to the advantage, an advantage they maintained. With a full court press In operation op-eration Gardner was instrumental instrumen-tal with two stolen balls, to put the Redmen Into a five point lead. Gardner stole the first pass and fed to Heywood for an easy layup and with Gunnison attempting at-tempting to move into forecourt Gardner stole another pass and moved to a 3 for 1 situation with Dover scoring on a Jump shot. Leading by five, 50 to 45, the Redmen began a stall and on two wild passes fouled in attempting jto recover the ball. Both fouls were against Hill and he sank three in four attempts to move within two points of the Red-men, Red-men, 43 to 50. Isom hit a foul Endsley scored from the field and Heywood connected with two free throws to move into a 51 to 43 lead. Hill then scored twice on free throws and Card ner matched that for the final score of the game. During the game the score was tied on five occasions and the lead changed nine times twice in the first period, twice In the l,J Imr.c ' ' 't ..... In the fourth period. Hill, who tanked 10 field goals and seven fours for 27 point, was most effective in the first half of play. Leading all scorers he kept Gunnison in the game In the first period with 11 of his team's 14 points. In the second sec-ond period he hit from the field four times for eight and a total of 19 at Half time. Endsley in the second half wrts assigned the chore of stoppinT the big boy and he allowed Ifi'l only three points in the third period and five In the final period. per-iod. cmaa cmr $ gunnison w tttp t; t r p 110 S K Christiansen Santmt 10 0.? 15 5 OiUda Irm 2 5 :i 7 TOO f) Caldwell rwrr 5 0 0 V '0 ! T 27 Mill Bailor 3 3 11 6 5 10 6 Berk Tndy 3 3 i 1 0 0 2 rirkrtt Hywnort 8 a 1 110 0 Thompann Farniwnrth 1 i) 0 2 0 0 4 (irracrw n Gardner 1 J 2 1 3 0 0 OS. Chrlatla'iie .0 17 10 50 TOTALS 22 20 1.1 fT Sr.ire by quart en: lunnl.on 14 M 41 50 .'eilar C.'y 14 Stt ?H &T |
