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Show Redmen lose to Spanish Fork - Dixie DRIVES FOR TWO. Gary Jack of the Cedar High Redmen drives to the bucket for two points in battle against Flyers Friday night. Jack scored well in the fourth quarter, but Redmen were outclassed in the match, 81-51. - Photo by Dean Dover It's back to the planning boards and back to the home courts for Cedar High School Redmen this week as they attempt to move out of -the cellar in Region Six. Coach John Nielsen and his Redmen will host Payson at the Cedar High School gymnasium Friday evening. Tipoff time is 7:30 p.m. for the varsity contest. The Redmen are stinging from two losses this past veek - the first a 65-63 defeat i at the hands of the Spanish Fork Dons on the Redmen's court and Friday night a 81-51 81-51 loss to co-league leader Dixie at St. George. The Redmen take into Friday's game a league record of 2 and 9 and that will be pitted against the Payson Lions with a record of 4 and 7 in league play. The Lions will be coming off a 63-58 victory over Spanish Fork Friday night. Mattinson was the top scorer for Payson witlf 16. Also in double figures was Rowley with 12. "Payson is in the thick of the battle to gain a state tournament berth and they have been playing strong recently," Coach Neilsen stated. "We will have to be more consistant than we were in both of our games last week if we expect to pick up a win Friday," he emphasized. em-phasized. Against Spanish Fork Against the Dons the Redmen let a two point lead in the final minutes of play slip through their fingers after playing catchup ball through the entire game. The Redmen had their worst quarter of the entire season to open the contest scoring only one point. It was as if the hoop had a lid on it. "We had shots but they just wouldn't fall," commended com-mended Coach Neilsen. Meanwhile the Dons had scored 14 points and it was catch up ball for the Red-men. Red-men. Still trailing as much as nine points in the fourth period the Redmen staged a comeback that nearly, but not quite, paid off. Craig Jensen, who hit for 19 points in the contest, stole the ball and drove for a bucket to give the Redmen their first lead in the game at 61-59. Craig Jensen, who hit for 19 points in the contest, stole the ball and drove for . a bucket to give the Redmen their first lead in the game at 61-59 with 1:44 remaining in the game. From that point on it was hectic for both clubs. Curt Evans of the Dons tied the game with a fieldgoal but not for long as Brent Crandall hit on a jumper from the side to put the Redmen back in front again at 63-61. With 42 seconds on the clock Kent Clark was fouled and after a timeout hit both ends of the one and one to knot the score again. The Redmen took possession and ran the clock to 20 seconds. Looking for the final shot the Redmen lost possession at eight seconds and the ball was knocked out of bounds by Jensen with just three seconds and it looked like an overtime game. That was not to be, however, as Dale Robinson shot at the buzzer. The ball dropped through the net and it was all over with the Dons out in front by two. At Dixie While all this was going on Wednesday night Dixie was basking at home with a bye in league action. As a matter Leading scorer for the Redmen was Gary Jack with 16, most of those coming in the final period of play. He was the only Redman in double figures. CEDAR 51 Jack 6 4-7 16 Slack 2 2-2 6 Lunt 0 0-0 0 Crandall 1 4-4 6 Hartling 0 0-0 0 Jensen 3 1-2 7 Wood 0 0-0 0 Sawyer 2 2-2 6 Imlay 2 2-2 6 Henderson 2 0-0 4 TOTALS.... 18 15-19 51 DIXIE81 Graves.. 0 1-2 1 Lindsey 4 1-2 9 Cannon 0 1-2 1 McArthur 8 2-2 18 Staheli 4 0-2 8 Esplin 0 0-0 0 Fullmer 10 6-7 26 Seegmiller ... .4 0-0 8 Kuhlman 0 0-0 0 O'Neill 3 2-2 8 Bentley 1 0-0 2 TOTALS.... 34 13-19 81 Score by Quarters: Cedar 7 21 33 51 Dixie 18 39 62 81 of fact Dixie had a bye on the Wednesday prior to meeting the Redmen in both encounters en-counters this year. Whether the Wednesday game took its toll is a mute point, but the Flyers who are ranked third in the state in the3A classification and tied for league honors in Region Six with only one loss, completely dominated the game. Particularly impressive was Tim Fullmer who garnered 26 points. Probably even more impressive than his point output was his ability to work the boards, both offensively and defensively and his ability to be at both ends of the court without showing signs of physical fatigue. The Flyers held an 18-7 advantage at the end of the first period and controlled the temp of the game throughout. In additon to" Fullmore McArthur hit for 18 points. CEDAR 63 Jack 3 2-2 8 Slack ..1 0-0 2 Lunt 1 0-0 2 Crandall 4 0-0 8 Hartling 4 4-6 12 Jensen 6 7-11 19 Sawyers 4 4-4 12 Imlav 0 0-0 0 TOTALS.... 23 17-24 63 SPANISH FORK 65 Julien 3 0-0 6 Clarke 0 3-3 3 Edwards 2 2-2 6 Robinson 5 4-4 14 Evans 7 4-4 18 Christensen ...9 0-0 18 Pritchett 0 0-0 0 TOTALS.... 26 13-14 65 Score by Quarters ' Spanish ...14 34 51 65 Cedar 1 22 43 63 |