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Show CEDAR SIXTH WARD M-MEN Take Third in All-Church Tourney The Cedar Sixth Ward M-Men team returned from th 1957 All-Church basketball tournament Sunday after notching up third place in the 32-team event and placing one man, Bob Davis, on the all-tournament team. It was a most gratifying achievement for the Sixth Warders, winners of the Cedar Stake and Division II championships cham-pionships who entered the all-church tournament as an underdog from the beginning. Thursday evening the Cedar crew won an impressive victory over Plain City of northern Utah by a score of 58 to 49. to advance ad-vance to the semi-finals. Only loss suffered by the Sixth was at the hand of Grayson Ward of Blanding in the semifinals. semi-finals. Final score of that game was 54 to 48. To garner third place In the tournament, which draws from the largest league In the world, Sixth Ward came from behind against a strong team from Pro-vo Pro-vo Ninth to win in an overtime game, 58 to 53. Cadcrr City rm. Plain City During the first quarter of this game Cedar trailed but they tied the score on three occasions in the early part at 2. 4 and 5-all before Bert Cook hit two fast fleldgoals to push Plain City out in front Quarter ended at 19 to 12. Jerry Bertelson was scoring well in this game, tanking throe field goals for half of Cedar's points in this frame. Davis and Bertelson started the ball rolling again the third period. per-iod. Davis hit, followed by two from the field by Bertelson, to move to within one point, 18 to 19, before Jenkins of Plain City corm-cted for two foul pitches to again move into a three point lead. It was then that Davis and Don Marshall connected to give Cedar Sixth Its first lead, 22 to 21. It was the last Cedar score in the quarter, however. And Plain City again moved out to a 28 to 22 lead by halftime with Cottle doing most of the damage. In the third period Cedar out-scored out-scored Plain City six to three on field goals, but foul pitches kept Plain City in the lead. At one time during the third period Plain City moved to a nine point lead. largest of the game at 39 to 30 before Bertelson, Marshall and Kent Myers hit to narrow the gap at the end of the quarter to three points, 43 to 40. The fourth period was fast and exciting. Bertelson hit first followed fol-lowed by a long shot by Tom Do-brusky Do-brusky to put Cedar again into the lead, 44 to 43. The score was again tied at 44- 45 and 46-all before Marshall's layup around Bert Coop put Cedar in lead 48 to 46, a lead they never relinquished. relin-quished. Bertelson added another anoth-er basket and Marshall again scored while Plain City hit one of two foul shots for a 52 to 47 lead with only three minutes lit the quarter. Cedar vs. Grayson Against Grayson the Cedar crew fell behind In the first quarter quar-ter of play, 13 to 8 and was never nev-er again able to regain the lost ground. A taller Grayson team controlled the bankboard and although al-though Cedar hit a better per cent from the field, 36 compared to 34 for Grayson, they did not get the extra shots that made the difference. Cedar moved to within one point of the southeastern Utah I I BOB DAVIS Iteam at halftime. 26 to 25, led by Bob Davis, who tanked 24 points for Cedar during the evening. eve-ning. On the fine shooting of Richard Rich-ard Perkins of Grayson, they again moved away from Cedar in the third period for a three point margin of 40 to 37. It was at the foul line that Cedar Ce-dar again was hurt in this battle which they lost finally by a score of 54 to 48. Perkins, who scored 28 points, hit a phenomenal phenom-enal 100 from the foul line, making eight points in as many tries. Grayson hit a team total of 11 In 16 tries while Cedar got only eight charity tosses In 21 attempts. Cedar s, Ptoto Ninth In the final night's action Cedar Ce-dar and Provo played on a nip and tuck basis throughout the regulation game only to end it In a 53-all deadlock. Although Provo held the lead through most of the contest, the advantage was never by a large margin. At the end of eight minutes of ply Provo held a 19 to 16 lead, which was narrowed to a single point at halftime, 29 to 28. Provo again took a lead in the third period only to have the hustling Cedar Sixth narrow the margin to one point, 41 to 40, at the three quarter mark. Davis, who garnered all-church honors, was instrumental in the final period, dunking a lay-up in the final two seconds of play to tie the game at 53-all at the end of regulation play. With only five seconds left on the clock Cegar got possession in the back court. A desperation pass was deflected de-flected by Provo Ninth and it I bounced out of the hands of a teammate only to have Davis pick up the ball and go in for a layup to tie the game. In the overtime the tight de-I de-I fensive play of Cedar held Provo scoreless. Davis hit a free throw r. rA . riT.... v.-. ... ... - --- "j - ... throws by Dobrusky and a field goal by Dobrusky in the last five seconds for the final voctoiy. i , |