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Show Cedar Hi Tackles Nevada Povers To Open 1967-68 Basketball Wars i likely starters for Coach Ilobhjj ' in this week's action with the J other forward spot up for .", grabs by either Kim Matheson or Randy Clove. Matheson, a member of last year's squad ,., shows much more confidence ;his season, Coach llobbs slat -rd and Clove saw action last , , leason as a member of the junior varsity crew. In regular league play, slat- '. ' ed to open on December 21) " with a trip to Kanab, Coach Hobbs expects his toughest '! competition to repeat as chain-ions chain-ions from the Dixie Flyers. The Flyers, he Indicated have .1 their front line back in tact " and a pair of impressive boys up from last year's undefeated " JV team to handle the guard "j spots. At home the Redmen will have Moapa on Dec. 9; Millard, Mil-lard, Doc. 15; and South Sevier Se-vier on Dec. 22 before opening , the league1 season. ; The Cedar High School Red-men, Red-men, already ranked in the polls of the Class FS ranks this year, will open the 19(7-(K season biting off two of the toughest opponents in the Nevada Ne-vada High School ranks. Friday evening the Redmen will meet Boulder High School at Boulder City, Nov. and Saturday Sat-urday will take on a long time opponent Moapa High School. Both of these Nevada teams' won their respective state titles ti-tles last year and both are back wllli vcrtually the same personnel. A victory in either game for the Redmen would certainlj be a feather in their cap. For the Redmen, however, Coach Richard Hobbs believes that this year's team, with better experience than usual, is also further along than any team he has coached since be-ing be-ing at Cedar High School. "They have an aggresive attitude; at-titude; and are shooting extremely ex-tremely well at this stage ot the game," he said. As a matter of fact Hobbs is already worried that the team may be moving along too fast with the threat of hitting a peak and slumping during the course of league play which begins late in December. Decem-ber. Fans of the Redmen will get their first look at the 1967-G8 squad on December 8 when they entertain Panguitch in Cedar City. Mike Pratt, at center, Wayne Esplin at forward and Wade Roberts and Dale Hatch are ly nine points per outing. With a year of experience, both . should be tougher this season. The Thunderbirds previewed preview-ed the season Saturday by whomping a rag-tag alumn team, 91-45 in an abbreviated 30-minute workout. The squad demonstrated good depth and balance. Forward Gil Mullen and guard Skip Mead (ineligible until after fall quarter) picked pick-ed up 13 points each, while reserve forward Lou Christen -sen pumped in 12. Each player play-er had a maximum of 15 minutes min-utes playing time in the game. Particularly pleasing to Coach Boyd Adams was the talent on the guard line, an uncertain position for the.T-Birds. the.T-Birds. Mead, Kirt Robinson, Bruce Bradley and Paul Beck all showed promise.' Probable CSU . starters for the Friday and Saturday contests con-tests will be Moore (6-7) and Brent Turek (6-4) at forward spots, Carey (6-10) at the post and Bradley (6-1) and Robinson (5-10) as the guards. |