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Show Redmen defeat Dixie Flyers; force series into Playoff Game It was narrowed to three on two foul pitches by Cannon at the 2 minute mark but that was the last scoring for the visiting Flyers. Morris hit a pair of fouls to move the score to 52-48; Osborne hit one of two for a 53-48 lead and Graf rounded out the scoring with a fieldgoal and a pair of fouls for the final Redman victory. vic-tory. Box score follows: CEDAR 57 and he pushed in both to tie the score and force the overtime. To say the least it was wild and woolly at that stage of the game. But in the overtime the aggressive defense of the Red-men Red-men paid off and with the fine shooting of Mike Graf the Redmen dominated the three minute overtime period and won going away. Like the fourth quarter the Redmen got on the boards early. Graf hit from the field to put the Redmen out in front by two and with 2.10 on the clock Graf hit again from the field and was fouled. He converted the foul to give the Redmen a five point lead. points on a two fieldgoals and a foul to narrow the margin to just two points and Robert Morris closed the gap completely two and a half minutes into the quarter with one from the field to knot the score at 38-all. From that point it was an exchange of buckets with Dixie taking a two point lead only to have the Redmen tie it. It was tied at 38-40'42- and with 1:15 on the clock Smith hit from the field to tie it again at 44-all. That prompted a timeout with the Flyers in control. On some scrappy defense Morris forced a turnover giving the Redmen possession. With the score still knotted at 44-all Morris was fouled. He missed the foul, but Brent Osborne, who came off the bench late in the fourth period came up with the rebound and put the ball back up through the hoop to give the Redmen their first lead of the period at 46-44 with 15 seconds remaining. At the three second mark Shawn Jennings of the Flyers was fouled in the act of shooting Smith 4 5-5 13 Judd 2 3-4 7 Morris 2 4-6 8 Graf 8 4-5 20 Wells 2 2-3 6 Osborne i 1-2 3 TOTALS 19 19-25 57 DIXIE 48 Read 2 0-0 4 Jennings 3 4-4 10 Seegmiller l 2-2 4 Aired 1 3-4 5 Ence 1 2-2 4 Cannon 3 4-6 10 Reber 5 1-1 11 TOTALS 16 16-19 48 Score by Quarters: Dixie 6 17 15 8 2-48 Cedar.... 11 16 4 15 11-57 It was a classic -- the battle between the Cedar High School and the Dixie Flyers -- Friday night with the Redmen evening up the home and home series with a 57-48 victory in overtime. The victory gave the two teams a split over the regular season and forced, for the second consecutive con-secutive year, a third confrontation con-frontation -- a rubber match - to determine the Region XI championship. Winner of the third game will win an automatic berth in the State 3A tournament with the loser forced to playoff with the seventh place team from Region Six to win entry into the state classic. It's a good way to end the Region XI -- a newly formed region to accomodate the move of Cedar and Dixie into the 3A rank -- as a realighment for the 1977-78 season will put the two southern Utah schools into another Region with additional competition next year. So the big game is on. Both schools won on their home courts forcing the playoff for the final Region XI basketball championship. cham-pionship. But it was a battle -- one that could have gone either way - It was a battle of changing momentum with the Redmen taking the early initiative the Flyers coming on strong in the third period and the Redmen coming back to win the battle going away in the overtime period. Coach Dick Hobb's Redmen controlled the first half of play from the opening tip. It was taken by surprise starter Kirk Smith who took it for a lay-up, was fouled and converted the extra point for a three point play and a three point lead. On buckets by Scott Reber and Jimmy Cannon the Flyers held a brief 4-3, but aside from that the Redmen dominated the first half leading 11-6 at the quarter mark and by four at halftime with a low scoring 27-23 advantage. Coach Don Lay gave up the tight zone defense of the first half and had his Flyers in a pressing mnp tran tn nnpn thp sprnnH half f 1 of play and it paid off. The Redmen failed to convert a fieldgoal in the third period and hit only four of seven from the charity line. Dixie made up the four point disadvantage with 2:50 left in the period on a five foot jumper by Cannon to knot the score at 31-all and Gary Allred put the Flyers out in front by two with a fieldgoal with 2:14 on the clock. Reber converted a three point play and Cannon hit from the field to give the charging Flyers a seven point advantage at the end of the third period 38-31. The Fourth period was moved back to the Redmen with Charles Judd ripping off five straight |
