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Show Las Vegas Basketball Team Dominates Play In Iron County Tournament Over Week End Although not a tournament in the true sense, Western High School of Las Vegas, Nev., would have to be declared the champions champ-ions of the Iron County tournament tourna-ment held Friday and Saturday in Parowan and Cedar City. Two opposing teams who played play-ed on alternate evenings against hosts Parowan and Cedar High Schools, make up the annual event. This year first night winners were pitted in the second round of play and it was Western High all the way. Western defeated Parowan in the opening round of play at Parowan by a score of 72 to 35 while Cedar City took the measure mea-sure of the other visiting team, Lincoln, High of Panaca, Nev. by a score of 60 to 43. That set up Western arid Cedar in the featured game at Cedar City Saturday evening, and the visiting crew dominated the action ac-tion walking away to a convincing convinc-ing 63 to 38 margin leading all the way. For local fans the Western High School; which is only in its second year of existence, has already al-ready a Nevada State AAA state championship to its credit and is expected to repeat that performance per-formance this season. They have a student enrollment of over 2200. They possess loads of talent with height, size, good shooting, speed and experience. Against the Redmen in the final game, Western got off a total of 65 shots connecting on 27 for a shooting percentage of 41.5. For the Redmen they managed only 42 shots, hitting 13 for 30.9. That compares for the Redmen with a 45.8 shooting percentage from the field the previous night against the Lynx of Lincoln when they hit 22 of 48 shots . ' In the rebour.ding department it was Western again dominating the action, particularly on the I defensive boards. Western got 2." defensive rebounds compared tc 10 for the Redmen. Offensivelj the Redmen had a slight edge with 18 compared to 14 for West em. Neil Roberts was the lead ing reboundor with 11, including five offensive and six defensive rebounds. In scoring Lund, of Western took honors with 21 points In eluding 9 fieldoals and 3 for 2 from the line. Neil Roberts ol the Redmen, had 15 counters including in-cluding seven fieldgoals. Against Lincoln the Redmen led in every department. They outshot the Lynx from the field and led the rebounding with 12 offensive rebounds to 10 for Lincoln Lin-coln and 19 defensive compared to 14 for the Lynx. Roberts pulled pull-ed off 13 followed by Lee Hunter with 8. The Rams and Lynx Saturday evening played a hair raising overtime game that the Nevadi-ans Nevadi-ans finally won in the extra three minutes by a score of 38 to 35. The Lynx lead a good deal of the way only to be caught In the final minutes but then pulled pull-ed away In the overtime In what could be considered the consolation consola-tion game of the tournament. CCDAI M LINCOLN 41 GTfP CTFP 110 2 Wafaon Ctiavn 5 T 4 14 Jll S Hlnrk Blad 13 1 S 10 11 8 28 N. KohfrU Ray 110 2 19 5 7 W. RittxH-u Fnglianl 2 8 4 H 14 19 Hum it kellry STtlli 1 0 0 2 J-nn MaatHi 0 10 0 1 1 O 4 Hrtd 15 1 3 Chambrrlatn 'Zi 32 16 60 TOTALS 14 26 13 4.1 Sriw by quartrra: Ciar City 12 2S 40 60 Lincoln 7 21 32 CEDAR WESTERN t) OTFH GTFP i 1 1 1 Walunn Lund 9 3 S 21 oil) 0 Black Hunker 4 11 9 7 111 2 16 N. Rolxrta Mollne 16 4 11 4 2 2 W. Ht-lt Brown 10 0 1 4 12 )lu'. . Krruzt-r 1 0 1(1 ' 1 1 A Jonrv Cordon 4 2 1 9 D 1 (I n Pi-Id Whit ort 100 1 1 i 2 4 I hamlMTlaln I'- ion 2 : 2 l:l 27 12 .IS TOTALS J. ... J Hit Smri- by quarter : Cs!ar City .1 1 32 MH Willirn . . 11 .'S2 -IN 6.1 |
