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Show Cedar High Redmen go after mythical State Championship school in cooperation with the college won titles back in 1916 and 191K. For Kanab they have won the state football championship for this year but they to, captured their first ever stale title in basketball this year. Davis is the only one of the four who currently are shown in the record books. Davis' last state title came back in 191(1 and they also captured the title in 1942 and in 1921). Saturday night the tournament championship will be determined. deter-mined. That night first round losers will meet at p.m. and the first night winners will clash for the mythical title at 8 p.m. Most fans will acknowledge that the Redmen, 2A winners, and destined to move into the 3A ranks next year, will be competitive com-petitive in the tournament of champions. Coach Dick Ilobbs will take his Redmen into the tournament with an unblemished record against Utah clubs. In addition to winning the 2A title the Redmen also earlier in the season defeated Skyline's High School, a 4A club that was in the state finals only to be beat out by West. Kanab, with an upset victory in the 1A tournament, may have their momentum going for them. All in all it is a tournament that has been thought of for many years only to become a reality this year. Cedar High Schools State 2A basketball crown, first one in modern history for the Redmen, will be on the line Friday and Saturday night at the Special Events Center at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The Redmen, along with 4A, 3A, and 1A state championship titles, will gather together for the tournament of champions being staged this year for the first time-by time-by the Utah High School Activities Ac-tivities Association. The event is being billed as the mythical state championship and was proposed and approved by the UHSAA as a special bicentennial bicen-tennial event of the organization. The tournament will open Friday night at 6:15 p.m. with surprise 1A state champions, the Kanab Cowboys, taking on the 3A state champions from Davis High School. That will be followed at 8 p.m. by a battle pitting the Cedar High School Redmen, 2A champions against West High School who captured this past week the 4A title. For three of the participants their state titles are the first in their schools history. For West, the oldest high school in the state, they have never won a basketball crown since records were kept back to 1908. For Cedar High School it is their first, although BAC, a Cedar City high |