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Show I Region Ten Dominates Class B Basketball Tournament Cedar. Parowan. Dixie. Milford Advance in Championship Bracket Four basketball entries to the' State Class B. tournament from Region 10 dominated play in the opening round, gaining four of the eight berths in the championship cham-pionship division after a single day of play. flames are being played in th George Albert Smitli Fieldhou;-e on the campus of the Brigham Young University in Provo. Four entries include the Cedar City Rednien, Parowan Rams, Dixie Flyers and Milford Tigers. Cedar City Rednien piled up, the highest score of the opening day of play in defeating Lehi.i 57 to 35. In addition it was the widest margin of victory In the opening round of play 22 points. The Dixie Flyers were next in scoring, 52 and also won by the next largest margin by defeating North Sevier of Salina 52 to 39. Parowan Rams edged out a fighting Marysvale team from across the mountain by a score of 51 to 50, third highest team score in the opening round, and the Milford Tigers fought off San Juan to capture a 41 to 40 victory. vic-tory. See account of Parowan-Marysvale Parowan-Marysvale game on page 3. Leht took an early lead over the Redmen in their opening contest and maintained the loid during the first six m'nutes of play. Boyd Dover, high seo.-T for the Redmen, gave them their first lead with a bucket to move to an 8 to 7 margin. With the Help of Weston Kitchen the Red-men Red-men moved out to a 13 to 30 first quarter lead. The zone defense of the Red-men Red-men tightened up In the second period forcing the Pioneers to shoot from outside. They held the Lehl club to only six points In the quarter and with the fast break beginning to work for the Rodmen they moved to a 21 to 16 halftime lead. The second half was the Red-men Red-men all the wav with Kitchen and Dover controlling the boards nnd Erie Gardner beginning to hit from outside. Kitchen added 7 points in the third period as d'd Dover nnd the squad corn-piled corn-piled 19 points to move to a 41 to 2S lead at the end of the third period. In the third period Coach Bruce Decker began to substitute frt-e-ly and the entire squad saw action ac-tion In the fourth period of play as the Redmen waltzed to ihe 57 to 35 victory. High scorer for the game was Dover with IS points, Gardner added 14, Kitchen 11, Petty 5, Travis Nelson 3 and Leo Larson, Phil Yergensen and Sheldon Bowler each got two points. |