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Show WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, SUN THE WEDI Rebel basketball off to a strong start By Jayson FlathiiKSTone luluim Sun Reporter' jaysinW The Dixie College Rebels started their season on a strong point in The St. George Lodging Association Classic. The tournament was held in the Bums Arena on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Dixie played a very tough Santa Monica team on Thursday, 83-In the first half, winning the Rebels came out and played tough defense to keep build a halltime lead. In the second half, the Rebels came out on fire, due to die adjustments made by Coach Jason Kidder The Rebels kept scoring and turned up the defense to go up by points with nine left soil in the game. minutes The Rebels just toyed with Santa Monica in the half. Dixie and lots pulled ofl some of dunks. Vance Lawhorn scored a 28 points. "Vance had game-hig1 7 19! 38-3- 6 half-tim- e I allcy-oop- s h a super night, and were hoping he can keep it going the whole season," said Kidder. Mo Baker followed Lawhoms lead by scoring 16 points and Marcus Banks added 1. We are a very young team team and we are going to make mistakes, but I thought that effort wise we played very well. Our defense was off a little bit tonight, and Santa Monica played better than I expected them to, said 1 Kidder. Our toughest opponent was Santa Monica. We thought that they would give us our least amount of competition, and it turned out that they gave us the most competition, said Lawhorn. Dixie kept up their intense play the next night when they heat Hiwassee College, from Tennessee, in a very convincing fashion. The Rebels' swarming defense was enough to overcome Hiwassees fierce rebounding eflort. On Saturday, Dixie played Bowl, from page Scottsdale Community College, Dixie came defeating them out storming the court with sure dominance over Scottsdale who had no transition game at all. The Runnin Rebels took advantage of Scottsdale's weaknesses and had led by 22 points at one time. the With Dixie on top run in Rebels went on a quick a span. By halftime, the Rebels had increased their Blake Hansen had lead to 12 of Dixies 46 points on four consecutive three pointers. Thats what I do. Its my role on the the team, said Hansen. Lawhorn turned in another great performance with 24 points e total to to bring his Upon hearing Butler County coach Joe Shubest describe his teams strengths, Dixie coach Greg Croshaw somewhat jokingly said, Im trying to figure out how to get out of the bowl (and playing Butler). Dixie (11- 0) was the 80-6- 18-1- jt 0 champion of p the Western States Football League, while Butler (10-1- ) won the Jayhawk Conference Championship on Sunday. Butler won the title by defeatGarden City, avenging their ing only loss of the season. Butler 4 downed GCCC on a gamefield goal. We got a winning wacky playoff system where you play a team twice, said Shubest. I think our kids were a little bit more motivated to win this one. Dixie completed its undefeated regular season by defeating Arizona Western on Saturday, 49- - 46-2- three-gam- 37-3- 73 points. I feel great! The guards have been doing a great job getting me the ball. It's always fun to get the crowd excited with here and dunks or an alley-oothere, said Lawhorn. If we chose an MVP for the tournament, Vance Lawhorn would he the one, said Kidder. p on p. 12). The two coaches still know relatively little about each others 21 (see story 1 programs. Croshaw said he anticipates that the two coaches will swap videos and information later this week. Although Croshaw will have s to do some recruiting. He will ' also be at Cougar 7 Stadium to watch his son T.D. Croshaw play quarterback for the University of Utah against Brigham Young University. Both programs were very happy to be playing in the Rotary Bowl. Im very proud of our coaching staff to get us to this position, said Butler County athletic director Curtis Hamake. Were excited about (the football teams) victories and look forward to the Rotary Bowl, said Dixie College President Robert Huddleston, who also added that he is very proud of the teams achievements on and off the field. 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