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Show Cedar Redmen to Tangle With Rams Friday to Open Baseball Season ! There will be no warm-ups for the Cedar City High School baseball base-ball teams as they move into regular re-gular league play this week. Coach Richard Hobbs and his Redmen, hampered by weather for the past three weeks, will open the season Friday afternoon at 3 p. m. on the Cedar City diamond dia-mond when they entertain the Parowan Rams in the first league game of the season for both clubs. All six of the teams participating partici-pating in baseball this spring are virtually in the same situation. situa-tion. Each will play a five-game i league schedule, as in the past, so every game takes on extreme Importance. Others in the running will be Hurricane, Dixie, Enterprise and Kanab. The Redmen got their first chance to get outdoors to begin hitting and fielding drills this past week. They have been able to workout on a limited scale in the high school gymnasium on throwing, but the hitting is expected ex-pected to be slow and well behind be-hind the pitching during the first couple of week's action. In this respect the clubs to the south have a decided advantage. Although they have limited inter-school action, they have, nevertheless, ne-vertheless, been outdoors taking their cuts at the ball and may be tough in this department. Coach Hobbs expects to carry about 15 men on the 1964 squad and possibly five of them will see mound duty throughout the season. Expected to get the starting start-ing call for Friday afternoon's opener will be Fred Esplin, a Junior, who saw considerable action ac-tion on the mound while a sophomore. sopho-more. Another junior, Mike Carr, will also see action on the hill. Both are right handers. Robert Skougaard, a senior who was out of action owing to Injuries In-juries last season is making a comeback this season and is likely like-ly to see considerable action. They will be backed up by a pair of sophomores including at this time David Jensen and Curtis Anderson. Coach Hobbs has had approximately approxi-mately 25 to 30 boys trying out for the squad and was expected Wednesday to make his first major ma-jor cut and will trim the squad down again prior to the Friday opener. |