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Show Redmen Dump Kanab Cowboys 57 to 37 In Opening League Contest with "Best" Game The Cedar High School Red-men Red-men opened their defense of the D.xie Division basketball championship champ-ionship Friday evening with an impressive 57 to 37 win over the Kanab Ctrvtova For coacii Bruce Decker's Red-men Red-men it was by far their best game of the season as they Jumped into an early lead and dominated the came throughout Utilizing a full court press from the very start the Redmen capalized on a number of mistakes mis-takes by the Cowboys to Jump into the lead and they pressed the play to move into a 10 point advantage in the first quarter of play, 19 to 9. The Redmen also showed some improvment in moving the ball. Deciding that the best way to move the ball was to shoot it and that they did, effectively. Throughout preseason play the scoring for the Redmen has been dominated by Nell Roberts, Cedar Ce-dar City's all-stater. Roberts ended end-ed up with 13 points for high honors, but three other Redmen hit Just one point behind with 12 each. Wes Roberts tanked 12, Lee Hunter hit for 12 and Dan Jones hit six fieldgoals to lead in that department for 12 points. 1 Although it was the lowest scoring output for Neil Roberts, in the eyes of many fans it was one of his best games. As expected the Cov.boys were willing to give up some shots to concentrate on Roberts. Neil moved off the high post to the baseline and corners and as he received the ball he in turn fed back under the basket to set up many easy shots for his tern-mates. tern-mates. It was his best game of ball handling and although his -personal scoring was down, it was a much wiser game that he played play-ed to lead the Redmen to the victory. vic-tory. The Redmen had a decided height advantage over the Cowboys Cow-boys and they utilized that height to dominate the rebounding rebound-ing and also force the Cowboys outside for any good shots. The full court press of the Red-men Red-men was also effective against the Cowboys and again one of the instrumental factor was N. Roberts who seemed to cover the back court all by himself. Dan Jones and Hans Chamberlain on the guard line also double teamed team-ed well to force bad passes and set up steals early In the game to give the Redmen that early lead. |
