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Show Redmen Fall Before Dixie Flyers' Press To Lose Final League Game in Region Eight A full-court press employed by the Dixie Flyers turned the tables on the Cedar High School Redmen Friday evening at St. George to give the Flyers a 58 to 55 victory in the final league game of the season. The Redmen, in spite of the loss, wound up with the Dixie division championship, and the win for Dixie left them in a tic tnnrnA nlnrrt hnnnrs and in seven of them coming from the foul line. CEDAR CITY 5S DIXIE SS n t f v ; T V V i :i :t r lioimrs ojcr i 2 1 .'t ft 2 0 Id Nhirln I). Mc.Nrihur 1 1 u 2 5 !" 2 12 Ni'lKiin W. Mc Al'lhlir 1 2 1 :i 1 II () 2 Ji'iisxii Milne 4 1.) 7 i: ." il ." 1.) Mi'vm J. Millie ;') 2 0 111 0 II I) I) MrArlhur Snow 2 (i ft 1) l ;i 1 11 Jti'iU Turnliiuuyh b . 4 lli 22 2.1 11 ': TOTA1JS 21) 31 IS 5M Score hy quarters: Cellar Cily M ' r,;' D.xio 10 IS M M 1U1 0- V Wl V-4 J V. ' " ' a position to seek a state Class B tournament berth in the Region Re-gion Eight playoffs. (See separate separ-ate story). In a game dominated by the board play of the Redmen in the first half, the complexion of the game changed with the opening of the second half f play when Coach Don Lay sent ris squad into a full-court press. A rugged press, it paid off for the host Flyers, as they made up an 11 point deficit in the third period then took over the lead and gain the victory in the final quarter of play, led by hard driving Keith Turnbeaugh and by aggressive Gary Milne. After a slow start in the first quarter of play the Redmen fin-ally fin-ally moved out to a 14 to 10 lead. They hit well over the zone and Scott Nelson, Russell Shirts and Bruce Holmes dominated the board play for the Redmen. Neither team scored in the first three minutes of play in the second sec-ond period but finally the Red-men Red-men broke away from an 18 to 14 lead to score 11 points while holding the Flyers scoreless to build up a substantial lead that held at 11 at the intermission. It was the third period that the complete complexion of the game changed, owing to the full-court full-court press. The Flyers were really pressing and the Redmen committed a number of back court errors which the Flyers took advantage of. The press was even more effective from the foul line. From the press they committed seven personals during dur-ing the period and the Redmen were able to convert oniy one hitting one for seven from the free throw line several of the attempts were one and one situations sit-uations that would have maintained main-tained the lead had they been able to hit. The Redmen, as a result were held to seven points and the Flyers added 18 to match their entire first half out- put to tie the score at db-au at the three quarter mark. In the final period the Flyers continued the press to move in front by three with just over four minutes remaining. Finally the Redmen broke through for a couple cou-ple of easy buckets and bounced back to tie it up at 48-all with just three and one-half minutes remaining. The Flyers again picked up an easy bucket off the press and jumped back into a lead, a lead they never gave up again. Turnbeaugh paced the scoring for the Flyers with 16 points on some excellent drives. He was followed by Gary Milne with 15, |