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Show j Kanab Cowboys Take Measure Of Redmen in Game on Local Court ing in the final canto- Mike Leavitt also hit in the double figures with 10 points. The 11 point margin of victory vic-tory was all scored from the free throw line as both teams scored 21 fieldgoals in the contest. con-test. The Cowboys tanked 18 of 28 attempts from the line while the Redmen hit only 7 of 16 attempts, loss than 50 percent. The foul ratio went in favor fa-vor of the Cowboys who with more experience had a smoother control of the ball throughout the entire game. Crosby led all scoring in the game with 25, nine from the free throw lane and Danny Frost connected for 11 for the visitors. CEDAR 49 Esplin U 7 2 24 March ant 321 7 Leavitt t 3 2 10 Cardon 1 0 0 2 Haight 1 3 1 3 B. Blackner 0 0 0 0 Osborne 1113 TOTALS 21 16 7 49 KANAB 60 Cony 3 5 4 10 Frost 5 9 4 14 Crosby 8 12 9 25 Hamblin 4 2 19 Johnson 10 0 2 TOTALS 21 28 18 60 Score by quarters: Cedar 10 12 8 1949 Kanab 12 10 18 2060 The Kanab Cowboys, peg-1 ged as the team to beat in j the Dixie Division basketball wars this season proved their strength to the Cedar High School Redmen Friday evening even-ing in the Cedar Gymnasium with a 60 to 49 victory. The Cowboys led by sharp shooting Crosby on the guard line, put on a tremendous second sec-ond half effort to pull away from a halftime deadlock to win the important league victory. vic-tory. The Cowboys jumped off to a 12 to 10 first quarter lead, only to have the Redmen bounce back with an identical Cowboy lead. Wayne Esplin of the Red-men Red-men pushed in 24 points in the contest, hitting well in the first half of play rbut cool-margin cool-margin in the second quarter to knot the score at 22 all. The third quarter, a nem-' nem-' esis for the Redmen throughout through-out the season was again their downfall and they could not muster their scoring strength to stay with the visitors visi-tors from Kanab. The Cowboys poured in 18 points for a 10 point lead at the three quarter mark, then held on to that margin throughout the fourth and final quarter of play. The Redmen lost their eye completely for the basket and although they moved to within j four points in the final canto, the outside shooting of Cros-' by pulled the Cowboys bacK out to a more substantial victory vic-tory and the Redmen failed to convert on a number of opportunities op-portunities in the waning minutes min-utes under the pressure of the |