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Show Split Tourney With Guest Teams Iron County basketball tourna-1 ment of the Cedar and Parowanj high schools turned into a rath-j er pleasant affair for Coach Burce Decker and Coach John Wood as both schools split the two game series. In the opening round of play at Parowan Friday evening the Kedmen and Rams were defeated defeat-ed by the northern rivals. In the first game the Redmen suffered a 52 to 42 loss at the hands "f Eent Sorenson's North Sevier Wolves. Parowan in the nightcap night-cap was downed 49 to 40 by the Scots of Ben Lomond coached by Monte Bailey. Saturday evening the four teams moved to the College, ol Southern Utah fieldhdUse where the tables were turned. The Rams tool; an early lead against North Sevier and won out In a low scoring contest 31 to 31. The Redmen put on an aggressive ag-gressive display against potent Ben Lomond, scoring first and maintaining a lead throughout the game for an impressive 64 to 49 win. Against North Sevier the Cedar Ce-dar City Redmen were unable to contain David Sorenson, who hit well in the first half of play anJ even better in the second half to tank a total of 24 points. Sorenson was hooking from In under the basket In the first half of play against the zone defense of the Redmen. That forced them into a man-for-man defense but Sorenson was still too much lor the Redmen. He hit six field goals In seven attempts In the second half. The Redmen were with the Wolves for the first period of play trailing by only two at the rest period, 14 to 12. In the second sec-ond period, however, the Wolves moved out Into a commanding lead and then controlled the game from that point on. At halftime North Sevier held a 30 to 19 'lead. The Redmen scored only seven points in that period. Boyd Dover and Eric Gardner shared the scoring honors for the Redmen In the game each with 15 points. Dover also led the squad In the rebound department depart-ment with a total of 13 of his team's 26 total Just half of them. Neil Petty was next in line, taking in six rebounds for the Redmen. Against the Ben Lomond Soots Saturday evening the Redmen put on a display of what is commonly com-monly referred to as "the will to win." It could also be classed as a team victory with the five returning re-turning members of the squad seeing most of the action in the game. A highlight of the play was the fine performance turned in by Travis Nelson. Nelson, standing stand-ing five feet 10 Inches, that practically prac-tically on tip-toe, was put Into the center SDot for the Redmrn. with Dover, the Redmen's tali man. working from the outside against the Scot's zone defence. Nelson led the Redmen In the rebound department with a total of 12. He was followed closely by Dover with 11 and Gardner with four. Steve Yergensen, who play-ed play-ed less than a quarter, came up with four rebounds for the Red-, men. High scorer for the evening wasj Brent Peterson, six foot five Inch man for Ben Lomond. Peterson displayed his talents well In the game, scoring a total of 21 points and leading a" f-i the rebounding rebound-ing department. A fine athlete, Peterson high jumps six feet three Inches, and was a number of times far ubove all opposlt'on and the basket as well. I In the third period of play ft was Peterson who kept the Scots In the game. He exchanged baskets bas-kets with the Cedar squad through most of the quarter, accounting ac-counting for 10 points In that period. Leo Larson started the scoring, driving right under 6-4',i Chat- lin and he added two more on a long shot to put the Redmrn Into a 4 to 0 lead. Dover and Gardner added field goals while' the Scots scored only one for an early 7 to 2 lead. Nelson stepped to the fouL line four times In the quartc and Petty added a field goal with , Larson and Dover potting field goals for a 17 to 13 lead at the end of the first period. At the end of the second period the Redmen were In lead 33 to 2C. In the third period the fast at-tack at-tack of the Redmen faltered on three successive occasions with them losing the ball on bad passes. It was the only time in the game that they showed any signs of weakening. However, they moved out for the final vie tory. An account of the Parowan games can be found on the Parowan Paro-wan page of this issue. |