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Show Dixie Rebels notch 64th straight home victory CEU Rebels beat remain 57-4- 5, atop SWAC standings by Jade Bytheway Dixie Sun Staff Writer Last Friday night, many thought the Rebels would cruise to an easy win over College of Eastern Utah, but those who attended the game saw that in the second half not too many things looked easy for the Dixie Rebels. The Rebels, however, did give the fans another opportunity to spray paint another win on their home winning streak to 64 as they held off the Golden Eagles 57-4- Dixie State had an excellent first half, as the Rebels went into the locker room with a hafltime lead. At that time they also had a points advantage in the paint. The Rebels outside shots were on target as well, shooting nearly 56 percent from the field. The Rebels were led by point guard Chris Huber with 14 points, knocking down his It was in the early second half when the Golden Eagles got flying and started to take control of the game. Anthony Grant and Derrick Turner of Dixie State Rebels now travel to Idaho Northern for College Community 37-2- 3 20-1- 0 CEU hit some key shots down the stretch to put the game into a tighter level. Finally, with some heads up plays and good defense at the end, the Rebels were able to squeeze past the Golden Eagles and keep their standing in first place of the SWAC conference. first Lady Rebels get eleventh victory against CEU by Megan Truman Dixie Sun Lifestyle Editor Jaimey Tanner got her sweet on victory Valentines night, but the game was less than pretty. Tanner hit her 85th trey DSC. The Rebels broke off to an early lead of 12-- 3 and kept the Golden Eagles of CEU in single digits for most of the first half. Both teams struggled to do very much offensively. t attempts. Thursdays game and then will take on Salt Lake on Community College Saturday. The Rebels next home game will be next week against Snow College, which will be the last game of the regular season and could decide who is the conference champion. The team at the end of the season will host the SWAC tournament in two weeks. first-plac- e Tanner ties Diamond for ail-tiearly in the first half, which ties her with Marie Diamond for the most treys in their careers at three-poin- Mike Hall and Terren Harbut both contributed with 13 points, with Terren hitting 6 of 7 shots. me 3's However, the Rebels managed to play defense, and that brought them ahead. We worked on defense all week, said freshman Sam Moyle. I thought we did pretty good on defense. Once we get our defense and offense together, we should do really good The Rebels ended the first half with a significant lead of However, the Golden Eagles hadnt given up yet. 32-1- As the second half com- menced, the Golden Eagles outscored the Rebels with eleven straight points. The pep talk in the locker room must have been good for the Golden Eagles because they kept the Rebels from scoring and came within one bucket of tying the game. Coach wasnt very happy with us, Moyle said. He told us to basically put our heads up and play ball. Although the game was I Jaimey Tanner drives the ball up the floor. d dm3 33 H M dm3 3d3 i VfoVdT AD I 5 --TiVi never quite clean, the Rebels managed to pull out a win. The Rebels s beat the Golden Eagles 72- 58. The Rebels will face NIC tomorrow evening in c Idaho and will end the week at SLCC on Saturday. inbisi'ijr VJapUno): 'A -- Tvi'j 0 J dm3 O ;V : CO - : CO t 3 a 3 .W .TJ . tvf-- f.JB j - ! . ;V ; .; Jo - f. .J. . j |