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Show mm -National Little Leaguers Take m.hfei-in Richfield Tournament V- Cedar City National Little League All-Stars wound up in third place in the area tournament held this past week in Richfield. The second round loss to the eventual tournament winner, win-ner, Monroe, eliminated the team from further tournament competition. Cedar City National Leaguers Lea-guers opened the Richfield tournament with a tight 1 to 0 win over host Richfield to advance to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, Cedar and Monroe clashed with Monroe breaking up a 1 to 1 deadlock dead-lock with a two run homer in the final inning of play to win 3 to 1. ed first in the third inning, taking advantage of an error, sacrifice, and a single to drive in the tally. Nolan Roberts Ro-berts belted a home run for Cedar in the fifth to tie it up. Monroe picked up the victory vic-tory in the bottom of the sixth inning of play. Carr of Monroe Mon-roe was hit with a pitched ball after two men were away and Kay Roberts of Monroe came up behind him to belt one over the fence, moving the score to 3 to 1 and the victory. Kevin Cox was on the mound for Cedar National and he gave up just three hits in the contest, while Cedar was 1 mitf'd to just one hit, the round tripper by Roberts. In the final night's action, Cedar National went on to defeat Beaver 12 to 3 for third place in the seven-team tournament, tour-nament, and Monroe defeated St. George by a margin of 7 to 3 to pick up the tournament tourna-ment championship and the right to advance to the next level of tournament competition. competi-tion. In the opener against Richfield, Rich-field, Nolan Roberts picked up the mound victory and doubled doub-led in the sixth inning of play to drive home the only score of the game. Richfield was held to just three hits in the In Saturday's final action (lie Cedar National walked away from Beaver in the second sec-ond inning of play when they pushed over six runs on six hits to take an 8 to 3 lead. Beaver pushed in three run.' In the first inning to lead T to 2, but it was the last score for Beaver, and the Cedar Na tional picked up runs in every inning of play. Nolan Robert' was on the mound for Cedar, giving up five hits. His team mates, however, belted 16 hitc in the game, including home runs hv Roberts and Douu Watson and a triple by Mike Rice. Watson also doubled as did Danny Humphrey. contest and Roberts wound up with a total of 10 strikeouts. Scoreless through five innings, inn-ings, the Cedar team pushed in one run in the sixth for the victory. Kevin Cox and Doug Watson had walked to open the sixth frame and Roberts Ro-berts belted his double to drive in Cox with two men already out in the Inning. A strikeout left two men on base, but the single run held up for ; a victory. Cedar National collected col-lected three hits in the contest. con-test. Against Monroe in the semifinals semi-finals of the tournament, the two teams were all tied up after 5 innings of play with a score of 1-all. Monroe scor- |