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Show luco Tourney Pairings Show Badger 'Breezeway as B AC Meets Teachers George Blankley, basketball . coach at Boise Junior college and regional vice president of the National Na-tional Junior College conference, has announced the pairings for the Region Four basketball tournament tour-nament at Ephralm next week end. Two last minute changes became necessary when the first place teams from Montana and Wyoming withdrew from the tournament. Northern Montana college at Havre, Mnt., and Northwest Central college at Powell, Wyo. withdrew from the tournament and when this happened a second sec-ond team from Arizona and the Carbon college team from Price were invited into the meet. Changes in the pairings resulted re-sulted in the Carbon Eagles being be-ing pitted against the host team, the Snow Badgers, in the feature game of the first round of play. Snow finished in second place in the southern division of the ICAC and Carbon finished in a tie for last place with Dixie college. col-lege. In the upper bracket with Snow and Carbon is Dixie and Boise colleges, and these teams will meet in the second game of the first round, playing at 4 p. m. Carbon and Snow will play at 8 p. m. Coach Blankley told an Iron County Record reporter Tuesday that he had received word that Dixie probably would withdraw from the tournament, which would mean that Boise would draw a bye in the opening round and play the winner of the Snow-Carbon Snow-Carbon game in the second round of play, and the winner of that game will meet the finalist from the lower bracket for the region title and a berth in the national Junior College tournament. tourna-ment. The Branch Agricultural college col-lege Broncos, Weber Wildcats and teams from Proenix junior college and Eastern Arizona Teachers college from Thatcher, Ariz., have been placed in the lower bracket. The Broncos, southern division champions have been paired with Eastern I Arizona, first place team from Arizona, and Phoenix will meet Weber. Weber and Phoenix will open the meet at 2:30 p. m., while BAC and Eastern Arizona Ari-zona are scheduled to play at 7:30. Thus BAC, division champion cham-pion draws the first place team from Arizona, while the second place Snow college team meets the last place Carbon Eagles In the opening round. This, together togeth-er with the fact that Snow will be playing on its home floor, puts Coach Jim Williams' Badgers Bad-gers in an ideal spot to walk off with the title. Of course, the Boise team developed fast during the last stages of the season and the Badgers may find the Idaho team tough to get by. The team that survives the first two rounds of the lower bracket will have to be at top form, and will be a badly battered bat-tered squad by the time the championship game rolls around. |