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Show Dixie Defeats Cedar In Bantam Basketball Playoffs A big, rugged and good shooting shoot-ing Dixie Drug team from St. George won the district Bantam basketball playoff in Cedar City Saturday by defeating the Iron County Record Eagles, '16 to 21. The visitors from St. George moved out to a commanding lead early in the contest and were never threatened. The Dixie Drug crew controlled the rebounding in the game and canght the Cedar crew cold on rheir shooting. Leading scorer for the Eagles was Steve Anderson with 12. Dixie Drug will now advance to a three team area tournament to be played Saturday, Mar. 12 at Fillmore and the winner of the Fillmore tourney will move to the Bantam Basketball state finals sponsored in Salt Lake City by the Utah National Guard. Saturday morning in Cedar City Ci-ty the Beal Farm Rams of Cedar dropped a preliminary game to another St. George crew by a five point margin. The two teams re-" presented the runner-ups in their respective leagues. |