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Show j Redmen seek Rabbit hide in casaba dash "We hope to avoid the rash of mistakes that cost us the game against Delta earlier this year." Coach John Nielsen, in preparation pre-paration for the biggest basketball bask-etball game of the season for the Cedar High School Red-men Red-men so stated this week as he prepared his team to meet the Delta Ra'bbits at Delta Friday Fri-day night in the key game of the Region Eight AA championship champ-ionship race. Currently the Redmen hold a slim one-half game lead in the league race but the battle Friday against the Rabbits looms as the game to decide the championship. Both teams 'have a single loss on their league records. The Redmen lost in the first round of play to the Rabbits in Cedar City in an exciting 72-68 overtime battle. "But it was the mistakes that beat Us in that game," Nielsen emphasized. The team has studied films extensively this week of that game and are now working on a game plan to correct those mistakes. The Redmen are also busy figuring out a way to stop the talented center for Delfa, Adams, Ad-ams, who tanked 33 points in that game including a bucket in the final seconds of play to throw the game into an overtime. over-time. Currently the league standings stand-ings read as follows: Cedar 5 1 Delta 4 1 Dixie 3 2 Hurricane 1 ,f Millard 1 5 In other league action this week Dixie will be at Millard and Hurricane draws the bye. Coach Nielsen is expected to go with Charlie Walker at center, Rodney Cosslett and Ronnie Adams at forwards and Rcto Jensen and Doug Watson at the guard pots. The Redmen bench, however, is strong and this strength, along with tough defense have been the strengths that have put the Redmen on top of this league at this point in the season nlav. |
