Show Sports thoughts What does docs stand for Cor Many people might not know the answer stands for Cor the Intermountain College Athletic Conference which Involves junior colleges in the Intermountain intermountain in In- intermountain area Present members are College of oC Eastern Utah Ricks College Snow College Dixie College Provo Trade Tech and Rangely Community College Some former Cormer members have been Weber State College before beCore they became a year 4 school Mesa College of oC Grand Junction and College of oC Southern Idaho has had some great basketball players but one outstanding basketball star Isnow is isnow isnow now playing for the Portland Trail Blazers His name is Lionel Hollins Most Moot people when they hear the name Lionel Hollins say He He played for Arizona State the team which won the Western Athletic Conference in 1975 They seem to forget or dont don't know the team he began with Lionel Hollins played his first two college eg years of basketball for Dixie College a junior college in St. St George Utah After two fine Cine years 73 1972 at Dixie College he transferred to Arizona State University HOLLINS IS playing regularly for forthe the Portland Trail Blazers In a 99 95 losing effort on November 15 to the Cleveland Cavaliers Hollins scored 20 points In a winning lOG to effort over the New Orlean Jazz on November 11 ii Hollins totaled 13 points Lionel Hollins was a super player for Dixie College I attended attended attended at at- tended the College of Eastern Utah at Price from 73 1972 and had the chance to watch Hollins perform twice at the National Guard Armory Gym which is the home of the College of Eastern Utah Golden Eagles MY IY FIR FIRST T year at CEU 72 1971 Dixie College came to town with star players Lionel Hollins and Scott Cannon CEU upset Dixie College by winning in Price Star players for CEU were were Sid Hansen Jimmy Horton and Kohn Smith r g However ron evl on the road trip to tob b Dixie xie- xie College the Golden Eagles lost in overtime 88 to 83 The College ollege of Eastern Utah team had been behind by 16 points to the Dixie College team in the game played at St. St George but then lost out in the overtime The player who received the cent center r. r of the attention by the CEU fans Cans was Scott Cannon the big muscular center for Dixie Cannon had led Dixie High School to the Class A Basketball Championship in 1970 and was well welI known to fans Cans in the southern Utah area as well welI as the whole state Many people did not notice the fine play of Lionel Hollins HOWEVER TilE THE next year 73 1972 was a completely different story Scott Cannon had graduated from Dixie College and thus Lionel Hollins became the center of attention In 1973 the first game of the season for Cor the College ege of Eastern Utah was against Dixie College in Price This gave the fans from Price a chance to seethe see seethe seethe the great Lionel Hollins in action Most of the fans figured that hat Hollins was going to machine gun the basketball hoop with countless scores and murder the Golden Eagle team HOWEVER INSTEAD the CEU team was easily handling the Dixie team and the great Lionel Hollins was being bottled up in the CEU defense The Golden Eagles had a good halftime lead and led by ten points with about ten minutes to togo togo togo go in the game Hollins had not done much as seen by the eyes of oC the CEU fans The Golden Eagle fans were starting starling to believe that they should sue the newspapers pers that stated that Hollins was a superstar basketball player for false advertising Then with Dixie down by ten points with about ten minutes to togo togo togo go in the game the Lionel Hollins Rollins bomb exploded and scored cored the final Dixie points to nip the College of oC Eastern Utah Golden Eagles at the buzzer CEU held about a three point lead leac with three minutes to go Inthe in inthe inthe the game but the runaway Money Lionel Iolli Hollins' Hollins Express could tot not to be stopped an and aM the Dixie College t team m ended up the winners of the game SNOW COLLEGE visited the college of Eastern Utah the next night and the Golden Eagles greeted them with 64 percent shooting the first half The CEU team played heads up ball balI the second half to upset Snow CEU CEO traveled to Dixie and Snow College Ephraim Utah and end lost both games Lionel Hollins Hol and other players of Dixie defeated the College of Eastern Utah Snow College defeated CEU with such performers performers per per- formers as Jim Erickson Mark Peterson Joe Manning and John Bale le LIONEL HOLLINS played his rus final two years of college ball 75 1974 for Arizona State His Ills final year at Arizona State he averaged 20 points per game at atthe atthe atthe the guard position and helped lead Arizona State Stale to the Western AtI Athletic Conference Championship in 1975 1 Hollins a product of oC the and the WAC is now bouncing the basketball for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association The University of Utah's Luther Ticky Burden was drafted by York of 01 the but chose instead to sign with the Virginia a Squirts of the ABA |