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Show 'DIXIE COLLEGE INS SECOND N JOURNEY .! Ricks captured the Inter-Mountain Junior College Basketball .championship by taking the ligame from Dixie on Saturday 1 night. This made their third f straight win of the tournament and cinched the title. Dixie i-waa second and B. A. C. third. This is one of the times when the favored team came through B8 expected. However, while they are entitled to their posi-'tion posi-'tion as champions, Dixie and B. A. C. are right in the same class. In fact B. A. C. gave them the .scare of their lives when they came from behind after trailing J 6 to 20 points in the first quarter quar-ter to lead them 45 to 40 in the last few minutes of play. If tthey hadn't had such a big lead lior if B. A. C. hadn't lost three 1 of their best . players in the last H part of the game, they would have ''lost that game. Even then B. 1 A. C. had a chance to tie the -jcore when one of their men had two free throws, one of which he made and the tying one he missed. Even so that is basketball bas-ketball and those are the breaks of the game. Without doubt the most exciting excit-ing game of the tournament was ;rthe play off between B. A. C. and a Dixie after B. A. C. has lost the first game to Ricks and Dixie "had won theirs from Westminister Westmin-ister and then B. A. C. had taken th first, rime between Dixie and B. A. C. This game was played on Saturday morning and was a thriller from start to finish. Both teams played by far their , best ball of the tournament and ' were as evenly matched as it was possible for two teams to be. In this game Dixie had the lead most of the game but at no time did they have it cinched. Then in the last few minute of 'I n'ay B. A. C. staged a rallT 5 that at one time put them one point ahead and that oris point looked like it would be the hall game. However, the boys worked a quick one under the basket and Schmntz dropped it through. That put Dixie ahead by one j point. With the calling of a foul on Dixie. B. A. C. found themselves in the same predicament predica-ment as they were at the last ninut? in the Ricks game. Tf they made it they would be tied and with the game ending right after this try for the point, it would have meant an ovr-' ovr-' time period. After their win in the morninrr the big question to D'.xie fan-j was, "could Dixie play such a hard fought g"me as they had just come through and still be in good enough condition to win from Ricks? The game that night would make three hard ones in two days and two in the one day. All were agreed that if they could do this they would truly be a champion of champions. This situation was not a new one for Dixie, they had had the same situation to contend with last year at Cedar. In the first few minutes of play it looked like Dixie was going go-ing to pull the impossible but with Ricks going 31 points while Dixie was making 7 it showed clearly what the hard game of the morning had taken from the boys. Dixie made a rally right after the half when it looked like they might give Ricks a good run for their money, but they were unable to keep up the pace and consequently were unable to catch the flying Ricks team. Officials and coaches chose two all-star, teams at the close of the tourney. Places on the taam3 were given by points. The first team: Jacobs, Ricks, i and Neagle, Dixie forwards; Wat-son. Wat-son. Ricks, center; Gardner, B. 1 A- C, and Pectol, Dixie, guards, i Gardner was chosen the outstan-' outstan-' ding man of the tournament. The second team: Floyd Whicker, B. A. C, and Snea-daker, Snea-daker, Ricks,, forwards; Benson, B. A. C, center; Scorsby, Ricks, and Eyre, B. A. C, guards. The following; plt'yers received honorable hon-orable mention:' Church, Dixie Wycherly, Westminister; Leavitt, Westminster, and Williams, Ricks. Officials of the league, coaches, and spectators all agree that this was one of the most successful success-ful meets ever held. Dixie, Ricks and B. A. C. were all of practically equal strength and this helped to create the wonderful won-derful enthusiasm and interest that the fans took in the games. Westminster was not in the class of these three teams but at the same time was going good enough to make an interesting game. After the meet coaches and officials agreed that is was not fair to a team to have to play two games in the same day as Dixie had to do. If this situation situa-tion should occur next year the tournament will be extended another day and in that way give the teams an equal chance at the title. |