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Show Cedar City Redmen Lose to Enterprise In Overtime Game In the first basketball league encounter of the season the Cedar Ce-dar Redmen fell to the Enterprise Wolves In a thrilling over-time game, that saw the Redmen lose a four-point lead in the final minute of play and the Wolves F,o on to score a victory 47 to 45. The game was played at the Enterprise High School gymnasium gymna-sium Friday evening. From the opening gun thw two squads battled it out for the victory vic-tory and it was not until overtime over-time that the Wolves of Enter-. Enter-. prise took the victory after a regulation tie at 45 all. With Just 50 seconds left in the regulation game the Red-men Red-men were holding a four point marerin. but the agre.-is've Wolves, on a full court press, obtained ob-tained possession and tied it up to force the game into overtime. Redmen scored first on a foul try, only to have Enterprise tie It with a foul pitch, and that was the pattern of the game for the remaining 32 minutes of play. . The Redmon, coached by Bruce Decker, held a slim margain at the end of the first period of play, 11 to 9, but it was knotted at 21 all at halftime. A slim one poim ma.gir., 31 33 was held by the Redm n at the three-quarter three-quarter mark. Largest lead in the game came near the end ot the fourth period of play with the Redmen holding a five point margin, only to have that eaten uy by the determined deter-mined Wolves. The win for Enterprise put them in first place in the Dixie Division of Region Ten. It was their second league victory. Both teams shot a fairly even percentage from the field, but the Wolves, with more opportunities, oppor-tunities, hit 19 from the field compared to 17 for the Redmen. Shooting percentage from the field for the Wolves was 31 percent per-cent Redmen hit slightly higher t 32 percent Redmen were stronger at the foul line, but it was not enough to make up the difference in the final outcome R. Jones of Enterprise took high score honors for the game v rh 24 eleven of those coming in the final period of play. Jun-ifr Jun-ifr Steve Cahoon was high for the Redmen with 20 points. CEDAI 45 EHTEBFRISE 47 GTFP CTPP 0 0 0 O Andermon Da r low 12 0 2 7 6 6 20 Cahoon M. Jonee 3 3 1 7 0 0 0 0 Cuthf Mar)i 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 Flnnlgan Martlneau 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 Chamberlain S. Holt S 5 3 9 1 4 2 4 Haycock R. Jonea 10 8 4 24 3 0 0 6 Mlarl R Holt 2 3 1 5 4 7 3 11 Marrhant Fowler 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Riwentwrg Rnblnaon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 O Roberta Planted 0 0 0 0 17 161145 TOTALS 19 22 9 47 Scuta Ly quart era: Cedar City ... 11 21 34 43 45 EnterpriM 0 31 S3 35 47 |