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Show Final Second Win Scored By Cedar Over Moapa The Cedar High School really squeaked one through Saturday evening when they came from behind to nip Moapa Valley of Overton, Nev., by one point, 62-61, 62-61, with a bucket in the final one-half second of play. Ironically it was the only lead the Redmen held in the contest after the first four minutes of play. They trailed, as a matter of fact, by 14 points at one time only to put on a good press in the final quarter to come up with the victory. The Redmen looked good in the opening minutes moving out to a 7 to 2 lead but the well drilled crew from Moapa came charging i back to tie it at 9 all and moved to a 17 point output by the visitors visit-ors and 11 points for the Redmen. i It was early In the third period that Moapa took the commanding command-ing 14 point lead when they hit the first five shots they took from the field. 1 Midway in the third period the Cedar crew came to life with ; Scott Nelson moving well under I the bucket for some good scoring j I and some good hustle on the out- j side led by Brad Isom. I The fourth period saw the Red-1 men take advantage of manyj floor mistakes by Moapa as they i put on a fair press against the visitors. j The final minute and one-half; of play was a real barn-burner, as the Redmen came charging I back to make up the deficit and pick up the victory. The winning basket was put in by Nelson on a fine pass from forward Bruce Holmes just as the buzzer sounded. sound-ed. The bucket gave the Redmen a one-point advantage and al-; though Nelson was fouled on the shot his shot was taken after the gun and missed with the victory vic-tory already settled. The Redmen were out of the contest in the first half of play. They were having difficulty with ball control and with shooting. They connected on only eight of 30 attempts from the field for a low 26.7 shooting percentage. Moapa Mo-apa on the other hand split the strings at a 36.8 clip in the first half. In the second half the Redmen found the range led by Nelson to turn In a more commendable game from a shooting standpoint. They managed to bring their game shootir.g average close to 36 percent, while Moapa maintained main-tained somewhat the same average aver-age from the field. On the board Fred Esplln turned turn-ed in one of his finest games of the pre-league season leading all rebounders for the evening. Es-plin Es-plin had seven of the first nine rebounds for the Redmen and ended up the first half pulling off a total of 11. He added nearly near-ly that many in the second half to be far and away the best re-bounder re-bounder of the evening. Scott Nelson Nel-son came up with 11 rebounds for the evening and Mac Clark, who saw limited action for the Red- men was the third leading re-bounder re-bounder for Coach Richard Hobbs, with five. CEDAR CITY (1 MOAFA tl GTKP GTFP 4 8 5 IS Holmes Hume 4 0 0 H 2 115 liom Dnvli 5 8 7 17 5 4 1 11 Knplln Smyth 1113 8 16 10 'J6 Nelwm Lyon 2 6 6 In 3 2 1 7 Clark Atkliuon 5 4 3 11 0 V 0 0 Jen.rn Brhmrr 15 4 6 0 0 0 0 Blark Bcnn 2 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 Meyers 0 0 0 0 Carr 22 31 18 62 TOTALS 20 26 21 61 Score by quarters: Moapa 17 17 16 1161 Cedar 14 11 17 2063 |