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Show ADVANCE TO STATE FINALS. Cox Cabinet, Cedar City Bantam champions champ-ions who advanced to state finals this past week, include, front row, 1 to r: Troy Torsel, Robert Imlay, Jegg Vest, Kendall Smith and Jensen, manager. Back row, 1 to r: Craig Jensen, Mike Graff, Brent Osborne, Kent Osborne, Lyman Sevy and coach Arliss Jensen. Cedar Bantam team take 2nd place in State tournament Cox Cabinet, winner of the Cedar City Bantam basketball league this year was defeated by Bountiful for the Beehive Division state championship in Salt Lake City Saturday morning. The Cedar City team won , the right to . enter th state classic by defeating a series of teams after winning the Cedar City league championship. champion-ship. They first defeated two teams from St. George at St. George. Next on the trip to the state finals was a trip to Fillmore which advanced Cox Cabinet to the state quarterfinals. quarter-finals. That contest was held at Richfield last Wednesday evening and the Cedar City team defeated Springville 44-26 in that contest t0 advance ad-vance to the semi finals. The semi-final game was played at Salt Lake City and in that toattle the Cedar City team won 35 to 28, in a come from behind victory. At half-time half-time Cox Cabinet was trailing 16 to 8 and they came on strong in the second half to pick up tde victory and advance ad-vance to Saturday's finals. In the finals Bountiful handed the Cedar City crew their first loss of the season 49-29, ending a 16 game winning win-ning streak. The score was not an indication of the closeness close-ness of the game. Although Bountiful, with superior heighth, lead throughout most of the contest con-test the Cedar City crew staged stag-ed a third period rally that gave them a brief lead at 22-19. At the intermission they were trailing 17 to 14. Attempting At-tempting to get back in the game Cedar City found them- selves in foul trouble and the taller Bountiful took over control of the game and mov-ed mov-ed out to a one-sided victory. Cox Cabinet was coached by Arliss Jensen. Following is the Cedar City scoring in the three final Raines in the state playoffs. Cedar 44, Springville 26 Brent Osborne 7 Mike Graff 10 Kent Osborne 15 Craig Jensen 8 Kendall Smith 0 Jeff Vest 2 Lyman Sevy , 2 Robert Imlay ..... 0 Troy Trosel 0 Cedar 35, Richfield 28 Brent Osborne 13 Craig Jensen 10 Mike Graff 6 Kent Osborne 5 Kendall Smith 1 Lyman Sevy 0 Jeff Vest 0 Robert Imlay 0 Troy Trosei 0 Cedar 29, Bountiful 49 Kent Cv&ornfi 11 Craig Jensen 8 Mike Gdaff 6 Brent Osborne 4 Kendall Smith 2 Lyman Sevy 2 Jeff Vest 0 Robert Imlay 0 Troy Trosel 0 |