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Show Redmen beat Delta Rabbits to move up in j basketball wars; meet Hurricane next i LEAGUE STANDINGS Millnra 3 1 .750 Cedar 2 1 .G(i7 Delta I 2 .333 Hurricane 1 2 .333 Dixie 1 2 .333 Last Week's Games Cedar City 72. Delta 70 Millard 55, Dixie 41 This Week's Games Hurricane at Cedar ' Dalta at Dixie Millard, I'.yo Attitude is the name of the game. That's the feeling of Coach Dick Hobbs as he prepares his Redmen to do battle with the Hurricane Tigers Friday evening in the CHS gymnasium. gymnasi-um. Garnet ime is set for 7:00 p.m. moved up one hour to avoid conflict with the SUSC-Adams' SUSC-Adams' State game slated for 9 p.m. that same evening. The Redmcn go into the game hot off an important road victory over Delta Friday evening by a score of 72-70. That victory put thee Red-men Red-men right in the thick of things in the Region Eight Class A race for honors. Bernie Leavitt and Bill Ban- Physically the Rodmon could I be at better strength, however, J with Jim Burns ready to sets action after a shoulder Injury ! that limited his action against Delta. Rodney Caslctt should also be improved from an ! ankle injury. Practice sessions ; Tuesday however saw both Banaszynski and Leavitt suf-1 for turned ankles and if they J become serious the Redmen could be in trouble. J Following is the box score ' for the Cedar-Delta battle: J CEDAR 72 J Leavitt 11 5 4 26 J Banaszynski 7 13 9 23 ' ChamlTerlaln 14 2 4 Rice 2 0 0 4 Cosslett 110 4 Retenson 0 0 0 0 Burns 0 0 0 0 . Roberts 2 13 9 13 Totals 24 36 24 72 DELTA 70 Nielson 14 4 6 Curtis 5 11 5 15 . R. Bishop 5 7 4 14 Louder 110 2 Porter 2 10 4 Jensen 2 9 6 10! Wright 5 0 0 10- Adams 2 9 5 9 Totals 23 41 24 70 ' Score by quarters: 1 Delta 18 32 52 70 , Cedar City 21 39 52 72 , aszynski led the Redmen in the victory in scoring and rebounding re-bounding dispite the fact that they both set out most of the third quarter of play and Lea. vitt exited via the foul route with over three minutes remaining. re-maining. The Redmen led in the game as much as 10 points and had a 39-32 halftime edge. It was the third period, however, that Leavitt and Banaszynski had to go to the bench and the Rabbits took advantage of their absence to knot the score at 52-all at the end of the third period. The final quarter of play was nip and tuck all the way with the Redmen picking up the important win. Nolan Roberts came off the bench to tank 13 points in the contest to become the third leading scorer in the battle for the Cedar High hoopsters. That win, however, could be a bad omen for the Redmen this week as they meet a Hurricane Hur-ricane team that has gone flat in its recent contests. "We could be taking the Tigers too lightly," Hobbs commented and that could be disasterous, he points out..h-. |