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Show Redmen Avenge Early Season Loss fit Hands of Dixie with Decisive Win i I The Dixie FJyers, noted for their superb ball handling, i were "out ball handled" Friday night at the College oi Southern Utah Fieldhouse as Coach Bruce Decker's Red-j Red-j men of Cedar High posted a 72 to 54 win over their south-1 ern rivals to throw the division into a two-way tie for first between the two teams. It was the first division loss or the Flyers and it matched the two team records at eight wins and one loss. : The single loss for the Redmen was at the hands of the Flyers in the opening round of play. The two squads matched baskets bas-kets through the first six minutes min-utes of play in the first quarter moving to a 9 to 9 tie with the score being tied on three other occasions during the opening minutes. The Redmen finally broke loose for a three point margin at the end of the first quartefr, 13 to 9, and Dixie never threatened threat-ened again. Working at a team, the Red-men Red-men contiued to move out In front with Jon Isom and Reed Heywood hitting quick baskets as the second quarter opened to move to a 17 to 9 lead. Dixie I came back with Dwane Gubler hitting two fouls and Karl Blake scoring from the field. Heywood ended that with a stolen ball, and went in all alone and Ends, ley tipped one in to keep the gap between the two teams t nine points. With Boyd Dover, Heywood, Ray Bauer and Isom all Kitting again the Redmen moved to a 12 point lead by halftime, 33 to 21. 1 The Redmen from the opening! gun proved to be the aggressors' of the game and a two-three zone defense managed to stop thei hard driving Flyers. On the defense de-fense Dover was under the bucket buc-ket with Isom and Endsley then Bauer all working on the back line with Heywood and Farns-worth Farns-worth out front. Dixie attempted an all-court nress to stop the fast attack of the Redmen but Heywood and Farnsworth proved to be too much for the Flyers. As the second half opened Dixie staged somewhat of a comeback but again the Red-men's Red-men's fast moving attack proved prov-ed too much. Riding on a comfortable com-fortable lead the Redmen settled down to some smooth baP handling hand-ling while Dixie went into some sort of panic attemDting to regain the lost ground. As a result re-sult of the extra efforts of th Flyers, the Redmen, time after time, broke loose for easy shot' under the basket. In the thirl noriod, Heywood, w ho topped al' j scorers for the evening with a j commendable 26 points, had his-best his-best scoring spree, with 10 points i Arlyn Hafon put on a shor' scoring splurge for the visitors in the final period but because Dix-it Dix-it was trailing by 20 points it had no bearing on the outcome, onlv the final noint spread. Big George Andrews of Dixie worked well on the bankboards, but three of the Cedar City cr?w fame in for some extra work In this department. They were Dover. Dov-er. Bauer and Endsley. ' The most outstanding feat"r of the evening was the fine team-work team-work of the Redmen. As for individual indi-vidual honors Heywood must he credited with a truly outstanding outstand-ing performance. |