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Show I e . i. - One close out Cedar City Pony Leaguers miss Tourney Title by slim margin After advancing through two levels of tournament play the Cedar City Pony League All-Stars came within an out on a very close play at home plate of winning the third level title and advancing into in-to the top echelon of championship champ-ionship play. However, that one out left the team in a tie with Bountiful at the end of regulation play in the championship champ-ionship game, and after two extra innings Cedar allowed one more run, which cost the team the title and eliminated the All-stars from further competition. By winning two out of three games from Cedar City, Bountiful Boun-tiful won the title and moved to a higher level, while Cedar, Provo antf Boise, Idaho packed their bags and began looking forward to "next year". The tournament last week at Bountiful found Provo, the base. Later Mike Rice got to third on a triple and was then thrown out by the narrowest or margins when he tried to ! score on a passed ball, the point that would have given Cedar City the title. Bountiful pushed in a run in the sixth inning, to tie the score, and the two teams bat-led bat-led until the bottom of the ninth inning before Bountiful squeezed in the winning run to end the tournament. Roberts Ro-berts had relieved Christen-sen Christen-sen on the mound until his eligiblity ran out and Ronnie Adams finished up the pitching pitch-ing for the Cedar City team. Every player on the squad saw action in the tournament and each turned in fine performances. per-formances. The play on the team was outstanding except for the fateful two innings against Bountiful when everything every-thing went wrong. team that won first in the previous tournament at Vernal, Ver-nal, dropping the opening game to Boise by a score of 12 to 2. Cedar opened its drive in convincing manner by taking the measure of Bountiful 9 to 3, with Nolan Roberts on the mound, and tlie whole team hitting and fielding well. Cedar completely complete-ly dominated the game and was never in any danger. The following day Cedar came from behind to take the measure of Boise, 10 to 9. in an extra inning, in one of the most exciting games of the tournament. Boise jumped into in-to the lead, but Cedar fought back to tie the score then go into a one point lead in the final inning. However, Boise pushed over a run in the bottom bot-tom of the inning to finish regulation play at 9 to 9. In the extra inning Cedar pushed push-ed in one run and cut the Boise team down in the bottom bot-tom half with the tieing run dying on third base. Mike Rice, Kevin Cox, and Cornell Christensen divided mound duties for Cedar. In the game for first round losers, played between Provo and Bountiful, the Bountiful team jumped onto the Provo contingent for a one-sided 15 to 1 victory and the right to challenge Cedar City for the title. In the only poor showing that the Cedar team made in the tournament, the Cedar City squad allowed eight runs in the first two innings, and the cause really looked hopeless hope-less with Bountiful leading 8 to 0 so early in the game. With Roberts, who was having extreme difficulty with his control, and the whole team going to pieces for those two innings, committing numerous numer-ous errors, and looking weak at bat, Cedar certainly didn't look like the same team that had been doing so well in the tournament play in earlier contests. At this point the team settled set-tled down and with Cox and Christensen sharing mound duties, Cedar outscored Bountiful Boun-tiful 6 to 3 for the remainder of the game, but the early lead of the northern team could not be overcome, and Cedar lost by a score of 11 to (5. Then cam.e the classic championship game. With Christensen on the mound for the first three innings, Bountiful Boun-tiful was held scoreless while Cedar City pushed in one run, Kris Kupfer scoring after coming com-ing up with a single to get on |