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Show IRedinraeini Win (Region Crown The Cedar City Redmen base, ball nine downed the defending State Class B champions of Hur-1 ricane this week to win the coveted cov-eted Region 10 title and the right to enter the state quarterfinal rounds. Today, Thursday, the Redmen are at Price to play Notre Dame High School with the winner to host the semi-final round of the state meet. Monday the Redmen entertained entertain-ed the Hurricane Tigers on the local field and defeated them 7 to 2 to throw the two teams into a tie for the region title. !n the opening game of the season Hurricane Hur-ricane handed the Redmen their only loss. Tuesday the two squads met at Hurricane In a playoff and the Redmen emerged victorious by a score of 9 to 3. Two pitchers shared honors with Gary Anderson posting tht first victory and Ray Endsley notching the second victory and the Region title. Winner of today's quarter final game in Price will host next week the semi-final round of play. If Coach Bruce Decker's Redmen capture this game local fans will have In store another (baseball game, and if the Red-men Red-men can continue their winning ways in the semi-finals they will host, in Cedar City, the state .championship Class B game. In both games against Hurri- Icane the Redmen took advantage of a slow starting Hurricane crew, pushing in four and five runs in the flist inning, respect- I Ively. Monday Travis Nelson belted out a double with the bases I loaded to push in two runs and I the Redmen added two more be- I fore the Inning ended. I Tuesday it was Neil Petty who blasted out a grand slam home run at Hurricane to account for the first four runs for the Red-men Red-men In the first frame. ' The wins left the Redmen with a four win, one loss record with both Anderson and Ends-ley Ends-ley accounting for two wins. The opening season loss was charged against Anderson. In the final game against the Tigers Endsley allowed moly three hits and left 13 Tlgr standing at the plate. In bistwt games he now has a strikews. record of 27. The Redavn collected col-lected 13 hits. |