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Show Cedar Redmen win opener at Class A Tournament nro a team that pushed the Redmen to th.o final gun with a questionable basket to determine de-termine the victory on the home court during the early season this year. j Of the top eight men, in j time on the court, only Leavitt is a junior, the rest are seniors sen-iors so it appears that if the Redmen are going to make a move for top honors in the stat.e this might have to be the year. Cedar High School Redmen, winners of the Region Eight basketball tournament two weeks ago, look first shot at the state Class A championship champion-ship Wednesday afternoon when they met Payson in the first round battle of the 16-team 16-team event. Cedar Redmen. behind a 23 point output by Robin Haight, downed Payson 68-53 in their opening game at the classic. Redmen led most of the way but trailed by 33 to 31 at halftime. A spurt following the intermission put Cedar out in front to stay. The Redmen, who finished third in regular season play, wound up as the top seeded team from the region in the classic when they won the Region Eight tournament by defeating Hurricane, Millard and Dixie, in that order. Dixie and Mllard also won their way into the Class A state finals and the 3 teams will represent the A division of Region Eight in the four-day four-day event being played at the George Albert Smith Field-house Field-house on the Brigham Young University campus in Provo. Judge Memorial, North Summit, Uintah and Manti high schools pick up the favorite fav-orite roles in the tournament but the Redmen could be one of the big surprises. The Redmen feature good experience, good heighth and in the Region Eight tournament tourna-ment a real team effort that could carry them a long ways in the Class A state finals. Four days of grueling basketball bask-etball has a way of taking its toll, however, and if the Red-men Red-men appear weak in any category, cat-egory, it would be on the inexperience in-experience of the bench. Coach Richard Ilobbs will he relying on Robin Haight at center, Eric Marchant at forward, for-ward, Tom Cardon at guard with the other two positions to be determined on the basis of play in the tournament. Randy Davis, Bernie Leavitt, Brent Blackner and Steve Kunz will undoubtedly fill in and see the most action. Beyond Be-yond these eight men the Redmen have seen very little action. Rex Osborne will un- fe'W; .. '''i: , Lj J , ' A:" .. VJ" i i' 'j .!, . . TV'" ... i,u . '.T;r; - v . , i'-... ,v,,, - c JL X' ;.!! : i' v ; yA : A?lA: , Ar "r-A- ' a:s y A'ApA &ft iAMSmA AA:A7AAAAmHS: ' WMMAAAA mmmA0f iSWifiippfc Mi fA&rn -w j ill I READY FOR STATE. Tom Cardon, atop shoulders of Robin Haight, takes dow nets after winning Region Reg-ion Eight tourney. The Redmen went on to State and won their opener Wednesday against Payson 68-53. doubtedly see action at the center spot, but Osborne has seen only limited action this season. In the championship game against Dixie, after two previous pre-vious days of tournament play only six Redmen saw action ac-tion and the lack of rest almost al-most proved costly for tlie Redmen against the fresher Dixie crew who had set out the first two nights of play by virtue of their winning the league championship. The Redmen are pitted in a bracket with tournament favorites fav-orites Judge Memorial. However, How-ever, if both teams keep Winning, Win-ning, they would not meet until Friday evening. A victory vic-tory Wednesday pits the Red-men Red-men today against San Juan, provided they got over Emery in the opening round. They |