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Show Cedar, Dixie Tangle Friday Night Throw away the record book, ' get rid of the statistics of past games and toss a coin in the air before you pick a winner in the Cedar-Dixier high school basketball game Friday evening. even-ing. The game, one of the strong-? strong-? est rivalries in the state, is 1 slated on the hardcourts at St. George with tipoff at 8 p. m. V Now the Flyers of Dixie High School have the much better record in previous games this '. season. They have the exper-; exper-; iehce and apparently the size to make them one of the top ten ranked B clubs in the state, the Redmen have not ; shown great team strength so far this season, but. And it is that but that puts a change ' in the picture this is a Ce-' Ce-' dar-Dixie clash and anything J can happen. , The Flyers got their wings i clipped in the opening league - contest when they mix with ' the Tigers at Hurricane. It was ?an overtime game but the . Tigers, not expected to be within 15 points of the highly tauted Flyers, came up with the victory and held the Flyers scoreless in the overtime for aa 51 to 44 victory. The Redmen currently in league lea-gue play are one and one with a victory over Enterprise and a loss to the Kanab Cowboys Cow-boys on their home court. The Redmen could be tough for this one, however, and Coach Richard Hobbs and his Redmen will be out to prove their point. Defense may again be a key and that dfense could still make the Redmen one of the for the Redmen in this battle tough teams of the Dixie Division Di-vision this season. Coach Hobbs is expected to go with improving Robyn Haight at the center spot with Wayne Esplin and Eric Mar-chant Mar-chant at forwards. Mike Lea-vitt Lea-vitt will undoubtedly be one of the starting guards and the other guard position will pro bably be either Brent Black-ner Black-ner or Tom Cardon. Everything points to a Dixie win, but hold onto your hat? The game is not until Friday night, so don't sell the Red-men Red-men short. flJ iistm hptirk f ifIf i 0mm "i IIP ROBYN HEIGHT Good rebounder and defensive star for Cedar High School Redmen. |