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Show Cedar Redmen Open Basketball Season With Twin Loss at Hands of Nevada High Teams Cedar High School Redmen basketball squad took It on the chtn on two counts as they open, ed the 1958-59 season on the road, meeting Basic High of Henderson, Hen-derson, Nev., Friday evening and Las Vegas High at Las Vegas Saturday night. Basic handed Coach Bruce Decker's Redmen their first defeat, de-feat, 67 to 43. and Las Vegas continued to pour on the steam , In defeating the Cedar City crew by a score of 62 to 43. The trip was not entirely In vain, however, as the squad took In the "Fred Waring and His rennsylvanlan's" fhow whiU- at the resort capital. Three members of the Redmen 6quad accounted for most of the scoring In the two-game series, scoring In the double figures on each evening. Leading was Wcs-ton Wcs-ton Kitchen, center for Couch Bruce Decker, who has moved In to fill the shoes of Boyd "White Cliffs" Dover, who graduated last year and who Is playing on the University of Utah freshman squad this season. Kitchen tanked 15 points against Basic and totaled 18 against Las Vegas. In addition he led 'the team In rebounds, picking off a total of 17 against Basic and more than respectable 29 against Las Vegas. Sheldon Bowler, playing at the forward post, was another Redman Red-man who turned In a creditable performance in the two-game scries. scr-ies. He hit four field goals In as many attempts against Basic and ririd two for two from the foul ' line for 10 points. Against Las Vegas and the man to man de- ' fense, he upped his total to 11 counters with seven field goals, hitting 61 per cent of his shots. Eric Card;i?r, only returning regular from last year's squad, scored 13 In the opening game at Henderson and added 12 In the game at Las Vegas for a 25 point output In the two games. Bowler also was Instrumental on the boards as next In line to Kitchen for total rebounds taken. He took nine against Basic and 18 against Las Vegas. Coach Decker ran Into two completely different defenses in the two games. Against Basic his comparably green squad ran into in-to a zone type full court press' that upset the Redmen In the early part of the game and gave. Coach Bob Lunt's crew an early lead that they never relinquished. relinquish-ed. Basic bounded out to a 21 to 7 first quarter lead, largely on Stolon pasf! um the full court press. Second quarter was plnyod on near even terms with the Red-1 men scoring 10 points and Basicj adding 11 for a halftime score of 32 to 17. Against Las Vegas Saturday evening the Redmen met a tight man to man defense and found t It more to their liking. Coach Decker's squad stayed with the I Las Vegas crew through the ear-jly ear-jly part of the game, trailing by I only two at the end of the first I quarter, 13 to 11. The host club, however, gradually grad-ually drew away from the Red- I "I ft . ''" ' II SHELODN BOWLER ' Cedar High Forward men to a nine point spread at the Intermission and 17 point lead at the end of the third quarter. quar-ter. Midway in the third period 1'ie Redmen were within nine points but Vegas again pulled away to a commanding lead midway of the fourth period. In the two game series the Redmen hit a low 50 per cent of their fouls, which played an Important Im-portant part in the low scoring for the Cedar City squad. Basic on the other hand hit 13 of 18 attempts for 72 per cent and Vegas Ve-gas hit a respectable 70 per cent with 12 In 17 attempts. Box Score of the games follow- CEDAI 41 BASIC OTFP OTFP 4 13 T IS Kltchm Pronk 6 6 3 15 0 10 0 Hsynx-lc I!lKKn 6 5 5 17 4 2 2 10 Howler I'atton 3 10 6 6 3 1 13 Gardner Homyak 4 3 3 111 0 0 0 O Randall Wad 2 0 0 4' 10 0 2 8 Ycritensen Vlnrrnt 12 1 3 0 0 0 O KlaniKan Maddux 1 O O 2' 0 2 1 1 Mlsel William. 10 0 2 1 0 0 2 M.,i. hunt M Donli'l oil II BIO OH Vwcenien i.Mt 1 0 0 2 tOU O ChamlKTlain Trotnbu 2 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 Higln-e ltt 22 11 43 TOTALS 27 18 13 67 Snr by quartern Cedar T 17 28 43 Basic 21 32 Ul 67 I CEDAR 4S LAS VEGAS (1 OTKP GTPP .0 0 0 0 lliiymck Oliver 0 3 2 2 7 0 0 11 Howler Doniman 7 2 2 16 Oil IS ViTK-r.-n Nral 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 KlanixfMI Thomas 6 II O 12 1 0 1H Kin-hen Ureene 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 O Misol Ctrmcnts 0 2 0 0 4 2 12 (.anturr Grwn 6 2 2 14 duo o Marc lant Curtis 1224 I 0 0 0 O Kandall Jarkaun a 2 1J 0 0 0 0 thainl.rrls.ln Chambers 0 10 0 BOO OH YtTKCiiaen Thompson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 O HlKUt- 21 6 3 43 TOTALS 23 17 13 62 Score by quarter! : Cedar 11 22 31 4S Lai Vegas - 14 31 4t 62 |
