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Show j 2 I) The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday. March H. 19x2 "IK 'Open NJCAA Play Tiu-Mla- rTlV Tribune Ski Classic Calls Top lntermountain Skiers I v No Name Rebs Find Niche . With a broken jaw three broken ribs, a dislocated ankle, a cracked vertibra, a punctured lung and a By Tom Wharton . Tnbne Sixirts Writer GEORGE When Dixie College travel-- , to Huteliinson. Kansas, this week to play in the National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association Championships. most of its players w ill leel indicated Despite the fact that its top seven players were all 'taters from major Wasatch front schools, few ol Dixies top stars were recruited by major colleges So guys like Orem's Chris McMullin. Olympus' 'Ron Enee, Binghams Tom Roberts and Wes Hymas. Brighton's Brent Wade, Sky Views Eddie Benson and Ogden's Olies Dockery joined coach Neal Rolierts Relx1 program wanting to prove they could play in college won the Tile fact that the Reliels are 28-'lntermountain Collegiate Athletic Conference with a lierfect 10-- 0 season, are going to the national tournament and are being recruited by several major colleges has vindicated these players' confidence m themselves This year, no one has more to prove than Benson . After a good freshman season, the burner Sky View looked fantastic in the first two days ol practice. But, on Oct 3. something happened that would make this season a test of courage lor the little gu.ird. Wliile driving home lioni a loothull game. Benson's ear was broadsided by another vehicle which was going dose to 50 miles per hour. He was !HI pinned inside his automobile for dose to minutes broken elvis. the question was more whether Eddie ST. -- ' ! would live, let alone play Alter sHndmg three days in c ritual condition and scveial more in the hospital. Benson decided against icd shilling and came hack to practice Despite great pain, he has only nussed two games and has started m every game the last third of the season His 22 ixnnt effort in the Rebels playoff 'game with Snow for the legion championship may have allowed Dixie to continue its season I was thinking alxiut mi shirting," says Benson, ' But I hud boon looking forward to playing all summer and I knew the guys I was playing with would have a good season " Still, the pain must have awful. "You just have to put it out ot your nund. But I spent a lot ol time after practice laying down without moving. Ev en now, I really have to stretc h out or I'm sore. Benson says that most of his teammates came here to prove they could play college basketball. "The whole team was like that. Look at Chris McMullin He was an all -- tater for throe years and nolMidy wanted him Now, he's getting olfers all over. "I wanted to play college ball, and this was my only chance " Roberts, who played at BYU and coached at seasons ago, is a strong advocate for the junior college system. He says a marginal major college d top-flig- J-- J-- Neil Roberts Dixie Rebel Rouser lx-e- Iayson and Skyline before taking the Dixie job four Olympic Team in 1958 and l'HiO. was a winner in the first classic. A winner in more recent years. Christm Cooper, is now the American woman on the U S Ski Team. And. Ogden's Scott Hoffman, who is now competing with the U.S Ski Team in Europa Cup competition, won every class he entered in the Classic. Some other rai ing figures lroin the area who have won Tribune Classic tropics include lormer Olympians Margo Walters. Karen Korfanta and Pete Patterson. In the 1982 running oi the Classic. Tribune trophies will he awarded to first, second and third place winners in both Ixiys' and girls' sections ol 2 and class events. Boys and girls in l and classes will battle it out for Capsule Classic trophies which are almost as large as the young competitors. class skiers are lmys and girls 14 to 13 years ot class is for boys and girls 12 to 13 years of age, age. 4 class is for boys and girls 10 to 11 years of class racers are boys and girls fl years of age age. class racers are Ixiys and girls 8 years of age and, and under. Boys and girls will race separately w ith each class will he seeded separately except that the s and is expected seeded together. While the number of to be small, there w ill be awards for them also unless they boat their older competitors. In that event, they will take the Capsule Classic trophy. U S Special to The Tribune SOLITUDE Young Utah ski racers are hitting the slopes in earnest in preparation for the annual running of the race that has played a hand in the skiers in the careers of many of the lntermountain Region. That race is The Salt Lake Tribune Ski Classic, the springtime racing spectacular scheduled for Saturduy. April 3. down a twisting course on Solitude's Grumble Run The race will be an invitational giant slalom that is expected to attract more than 200 of the best class skiers from and possibly some Utah ski dulls. This year's race will lx the 32nd running of The Tribune Classic that was first staged April 5, 10.72, at Ogden's Snowbasin. Marv Melville, a mcmlxT ol the J-- J-- J-- 5 J-- 3 J-- J-- J-- 5 J-- 2 pi aspect oltcn spends two or three years sitting on the' Ix'iic h ll ho gHs to a major school while the play its who attend a junior college often start every game "When a major college recruits a junior college "Its not looking for a player to player." says Rolx-rts- , sit on the bench. Its looking to fill a specific need." Roberts has sent 14 players to major colleges in the last four years. Utahs Craig Hammer, Weber's Steve Condie, San Franciscos Eric Slaymaker, UNLV's Danny Tarkanian and Kenny Lyles and New Mexico's Tim Fullmer are all Dixie graduates. Rain Idles J-- 3 J-- J-- 5 A"s Action J-- b PHOENIX. Anz. (AP) The Oakland As were rained out for a second straight day Saturday, losing a scheduled exhibition game against the Seattle Mariners. is J-- J-- 5 U-- If ... TO THE SOUND TRACK COMING 4 DAYS ONLY MARCH 18, 19, 20 AND 21. . . . 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