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Show Region 10 Playofh Scheduled For Friday Evening The College of Southern Utah fieldhouse will be the scene Fri-'day. Fri-'day. Feb. 28 of the Region 10 basketball playoff with the two ton teams from each of the divisions di-visions to participate. Division I winners, Dixie of the Dixie Division Di-vision and Parowan of the Millard Mil-lard Division, will clash for the Region 10 championship, a title which the Rams of Parowan will be defending. They won the title ti-tle last year with a 78 to 52 win over the Dixie Flyers. In the other game of the evening eve-ning the two second place teams in the divisions, Cedar of the Dixie bracket and Milford of the Millard bracket, will meet. No tournament berth is at stake as it has been In vear's past. The tournament will decide only the Region 10 championship champion-ship and will be used for seeding seed-ing purposes in the State Class B tournament which will open in Provo at BYU fieldhouse on Wednesday, March 5 and contin-use contin-use through March 8. All four participating teams will be entered in the state tournament. tour-nament. This is the first year that four teams have been taken tak-en from the Region. The past fw ypr nnly thrpp teams ren-resented ren-resented the area. I Parowan and Dixie have not met in a basketball contest this year, but in a comparison of scores against mutual opponents the Flyers of Dixie have an edge over the Rams. Taking Cedar City as that opponent the Fly ers have twice in league play handed the Redmen quite convincing con-vincing losses. While In pre-sea-son play the Redmen dropped Parowan easily In a contest In Cedar City and edged the Rams out by a single point in a disputed dis-puted contest at Parowan Just prior to the opening of the league season. occasion this season and the Tigers Ti-gers of Milford dumped the Redmen to the tune of 57 to ,'lfi in a game played at Milofrd. That was the opening game of the season for both clubs. The grtiiit-s wiil get under way at 7:30 p. m. and should be two outstanding contests. Winners of! the Dixie and Parowan contest will be seeded first and seron 1 from the region with Millard and Cedar to be named third andj fourth depending on the out- come. |