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Show Redmen Trim Rams With Big Rally In Fifth Inning Cedar High School Redmen picked up their second league victory of the baseball season Friday Fri-day afternoon but not before the Parowan Hams gave them a scare in the early innings of play. Final score was 14 to 3, but the Redmen had to break a 3 to 3 deadlock in the bottom of the fifth inning to go for the victory. The Rams, as a matter of fact, scored first in the contest when John Guffey homered in the top of the first inning. Mike Petty matched that in the bottom of the frame with a homer to tie the score at 1-all. In the top of the fourth frame it was the Hams whe threatened to break the game wide open as they tagged starter Wynn Isom hard. Some poor base running resulted re-sulted in another runner being thrown out at the plate. It was the second out and stopped a good rally by the visitors. Despite the closeness of the ; game the Redmen made a rout of ' it in the fifth frame when they! pushed in 11 runs, nine of them j coming after two men were out. Getting men on bases the Red-men Red-men had takn over the lead, but by a slim margin when an overthrow over-throw at first on what would have been a third out, sparked the Redmen to a hitting spree that the Rams couldn't stop. Scott Potter, the starter was pulled in favor of Steve Kincaid, but before the inning was over Potter had to come back to the mound to finally get the third out. The game was called at the end of the fifth in accordance with rules established by the National High School Association. Wynn Isom was the starter for the Redmen, but he gave way to David Jensen in the third inning. Jenson was credited with the mound victory. In the fateful fifth inning the Redmen came up with 13 hits to finally make a rout of the contest, con-test, that threatened to go the other way just the previous inning, in-ning, j |