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Show Farmers Leave For Jaycee Basketball Meet Coach Ty Tydings and 12 BranOi A. C. basketball players left today E for Ogden where they will particl- pate in the Intermountain Junior College tournament, with Mesa, Weber and Dixie Junior College teams. Although it had been previously announced that the Farmers would play Mesa hi the opening game Friday Fri-day night, Coach Tydings had no official information as to the pairings pair-ings for the tournament when he left Cedar City, However, the Fanners A'ill play either Mesa or Weber, with Dixie meeting one of these teams. Saturday night the first night winners win-ners will play in the feature game, after the two first nlht losers tangle. The B.A.C. tournament squad includes, in-cludes, Scott Larson, Duard Mil-ett, Mil-ett, Wayne Robbins, Con Hatcn, ind Kent Dover, forwards; Sandy Jorgenson and Reed Rosenberg, at center; Elliott Cameron, Deb Warner, War-ner, Ray Englcstead, Bryant Lei-jh ind Mel Lyman, guards. Although Mesa won the Conference Confer-ence championship with three lass -s, Weber finished second with 4 defeats de-feats and B.A.C. tied for tltfrd with j a 7 won, 5 loss, standing, the sea-ons sea-ons record indicates that anything any-thing might happen in the tournament. tourna-ment. However, whatever happe:is will have no bearing on the conference con-ference championship, since there will be nothing at stake in the tournament. Mesa defeated each of the three other tournament teams In games played at Grand Junction durlivj the regular season, but lost to each of them in games played away from home. Weber lost to Mesa 62 to 54 in one game and won the other 46 to 42. B.A.C. trimmed the Mavericks Mav-ericks 65 to 47 in Cedar City, but lost, 68 to 51, at Grand Junction. Dixie trimmed the same team, 46 to 34 at St. George and lost at Grand Junction, 60-44. Weber and Dixie divided th;lr two games, Dixie winning at St. George, 43 to 40, but losing at Ogden, 52 to 50, while B.A.C. last both its games to Weber, losing by one point in the game at Cedar, 46 to 45, and losing by a score of 60 to 46 at Ogden. The Flyers trimmed the Farmers 31 to 28 at St. Oeorge, but Tyding's squad got revenge by winning win-ning at Cedar, 55 to 35, and also by winning two practice games against Dixie, one played at St. George and one on the home floor, Weber has a slight edge in games won from the tournament teams, and also has the advantage of playing play-ing on its own floor during the tournament and as a consequence will be slight favorites to walk off with whatever honors this postseason post-season meet has to offer. |
