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Show Region Six Play-offs Give Parowan Honors; Place Millard in Third Spot Region Six playoffs were held at the College of Southern Utah fieldhouse in Cedar City Saturday Satur-day evening with the Millard Division teams walking off with the lion's share of the top standings. stand-ings. The Parowan Rams and the Cedar City Redmen, respective winners of the Millard and Dixie Divisions, played off for first and second place .'n the regional picture and the Rams took top honors with a 53 to 46 win. Playing for third and fourth places were the. Millard Eagles and the Beaver Beavers, both of the Millard Division. The Eagles won the contest 71 to 51 placing third in the Region picture and also winning a berth in the State Class B High School Tournament now In progress at Provo. Friday evening in the first round of play of the regional tournament held In St. George, MUlard defeated Hurricane by a score of 75 to 54 and Beaver beat out the Dixie Flyers by the slim margin of 44 to 42. In the battle for third place honors, actually the feature of the tournament, the Millard Eagles Eag-les started slow dropping behind in the early minutes of the contest. con-test. However, with Oplin hitting exceptionally well with both iett and right hooks and working the bankboards unusually well, the Eagles soon gained a lead in the first quarter and never relinquished re-linquished the advantage. Beaver, although a fine hustling hust-ling team with lots of determination, deter-mination, was no match for the rangy Millard Eagles. By half-time half-time the Eagles had moved into I a comfortable 42 to 28 point lead, i They coasted through the sec-ond sec-ond half and vound up a siz-' siz-' able margin, 71 ic 51 victory. The game for the Region Six t championship between the Rams 'and the Redmen, although the i outcome had no bearing in the whistle. For the first quarter and five minutes of the second quarter the game see-sawed back and forth with the lead changing hands on a number of occasions. ABOWAJf M CEOAS 4 OTFP GTFF 3 8 T 13 Stubba Hefner 3 5 11 6 2 0 12 Adama McCall 4 2 19 1 3 2 4 Simklna Webster 0 4 2 2 4 8 6 14 Whitney Pram 1 S S 8 5 1 0 10 MitrheU Bauer 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rollls Griener 4 4 3 11 0 0 0 0 Burt Murdork 12 2 4 0 0 0 0 Ha Herman slack 2 0 0 4 19 22 15 54 TOTALS 15 23 M 56 Quarter scores: Cedar 15 23 37 48 Parowan 1 32 42 63 I With only 3:25 seconds show-lng show-lng on the clock and the Red-men Red-men holding a 23 to 22 advantage advan-tage the Rami exploded and moved into a lead which they maintained through the second half. Donald Stubbs tied it up and moved the Rams into a 24 to 23 lead at that point sinking two foul pitches. From that point until the half the Redmen failed to score and the Rams moved to a 32 to 23 lead on two field-goals field-goals by Stuart Adams, and one each by Stubbs and Kent Whitney. Whit-ney. The Redmen near the end of the third quarter, after falling behind by 11 points 42 to 31, put on one drive but failed to catch the Rams. Michael Frame hit two foul pitches to move to 33. |