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Show Broncos Take on Vikings in Three Game Series for ICflC Championship Hinckley representing the Millard Mil-lard district. If Cedar Is in the' play off the games will be held in the Parowan gym. but if Cedar Ce-dar wins the district title and does not go into the play off the games may be moved to the BAC fieldhouse. The Enterprise team by losing to Cedar last night, lost almost their last hope of getting their i first chance to go into a state! tournament. However, the Wolves! have one slight chance left. Ifi Dixie loses to Hurricane, Enter-1 prise, Dixie and Valley will be tied for third, that is if Valley beats Kanab Friday night, and: the third place team goes into i the region playoffs The Cedar Redmen dropped their game to Valley at Order- j ville Friday night by a score of j 47 to 43, and along with the lass of the game lost the services of j Don Ray Melling, outstanding j ball handler of the team. Melling sprained his ankle in that game, i and was unable to play in the Enterprise game last night, except ex-cept for a brief period at the end oi the game. However, the Red-men Red-men came through with a 60 to 4S victory. Melling should be ready for action in the next game his team plays. In the Valley game the Red-men Red-men dropped behind in the first few minutes of the game and were unable to get into the lead at any time, although they ral-jlied ral-jlied strongly In the third period. per-iod. They trailed 16 to 13 at the end of the first quarter, and 24 to 20 at halftime. In the third period they closed the gap to 35 to 33 but dropped back again in the final quarter. They were out-scored out-scored from the field, 19 to 16 field goals. Dixie got into the championship champion-ship race by taking the measure of Enterprise 58 to 55, in a game played at Enterprise Friday night. Dixie led until the final minutes of the game, when Enterprise En-terprise tied it up at 53-53, but were outscored In the three minute min-ute extra period. The Cedar-Enterprise game last night was an extremely close battle throughout the first three quarters, but the Redmen dominated the game in the final period to win by the convincing 12-poInt margin, 60 to 48. Both teams played excellent ball throughout and displayed somei unusually fine shooting. Sheldon Clove and Dan Randall kept the Wolves in the game with some beautiful sharp-shooting from away out on the floor. Ray Stephenson ha'd a big night, rolling in 13 field goals and adding two foul shots for a 2S point total, his best of the season by far. He connected with some thrilling long shots, but much of his scoring came as the result of quick break-aways to go in for lay-up shots. Keith Cooley turned in perhaps the best game of anyone on the' floor. He swept both boards sen-i satlonally with some of the fin- The Intercollegiate Athletic Conference basketball championship champion-ship will be at stake this week end when the Branch Agricultural Agricultur-al college Broncos meet the Ricks college Vikings from Rexburg, Idaho in a two ouf of three game series In the BAC memorial mem-orial fieldhouse. The two teams will clash tonight, to-night, Thursday, at 8 p. m. in the first game of the series, with the second game to be played Friday night at the same time. If the teams split in the first two games and a third encounter encoun-ter becomes necessary to decide the championship, the game will be played Saturday night. The Vikings won the I C A C title last year, and have run up an impressive record this year In their quest of a second consecutive conse-cutive conference championship. However, the visitors do not possess pos-sess quite as good a record as the Broncos. The Vikings finished fin-ished their season schedule on Feb. 20 and 21, playing perhaps their best ball of the season to turn back a powerful Westminster Westmins-ter college team in two games. In comparison with this the Broncos slumped in the final two weeks of the season after clinching clinch-ing the title. Coach Petty's squad split a two-game series with the cellar dwelling Carbon Eagles, and then dropped the final game of the season to Dixie last week end. They are expected to be back into their stride again frr the series this week end and will give the visitors plenty of trouble. trou-ble. The series looks like a toss-:up, toss-:up, but the Broncos should be slight favorites because of the fact that all season the Idaho team has been plenty tough at home, but has not shown nearly so well in games away from home. Regardless of the outcome of the series this week end the Broncos will enter the Region Four Junior college tournament at Ephralm next week end, at which a representative from Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Arizona to the National Junior Jun-ior College tournament in Kan-sis Kan-sis with be selected. The BAC team represented the region at the national meeting last year, making a very commendable showing, and will be striving for another shot at the national title. Ricks is not eligible to compete com-pete in the region tournament. est rebounding we have seen in a long time. He was also a tower of strength on defense. Throughout the game the Red-men Red-men kept pulling ahead of the visitors only to have the Wolves j rally and close the gap. Cedar Jumped into a 14 to 7 lead mid-1 way of the first quarter, but had only a 16 to 13 lead at the end of the period. The Redmen went into 1913 and 21-15 leads in the second period, but Enterprise kept sniping at the basket until they tied the score at 26-all and then went into a momentary 27-26 27-26 lead, but just before the buzzer buz-zer sounded Stephenson put Cedar Ce-dar back into a 29 to 27 lead. As the second half opened the visitors tied the score again, but Cedar jumped into a five point lead, although the Wolves came back to end tse quarter trailing by only one point, 41-40. In the final period, however the Enterprise Enter-prise players tired and as a result re-sult seemed to lose their eye for the basket and the Redmen pulled away to win handily. Box score of the Cedar-Valley game: CEDAR 43 VALLEY 47 G T F P li I F P 4 3 0 8 M. Uinu R 4 3 2 10 0 0 0 0 Nhi'kIp Palmer 5 0 0 10 1 0 0 2 Wchster Rublnwin 0 10 0 2 2 1 f Stepheruon Lamb : 8 5 1" 3 6 3 9 O-olcy Pugh 3 0 0 6 3 8 3 Holmei Glov,-r 2 7 2 6 3 5 4 10 Aslukmn Workman 0 0 0 0 Esplln 0 0 0 0 Maxwell 0 0 0 0 16 24 11 4.1 TOTALS IS 18 a 47 S-ire hy quarters: Cedar 13 00 3 43 Valley 16 24 3o 47 Box score of the Cedar-Enterprise game: rMTEHUHISE 41 CEDAR 60 r, t v p t; t f P 3 2 2 8 Clove Slephenvin 13 3 2 2 1 r Ti 4 I I Randall AsMnwn 4 3 3 3 9 4 10 Hall ll..lme 3 2 2 8 Oil 1 HcTkstrntn l , 1 10 7 !) 17 5 13 Harl'x'kfT Welmter 2 10 4 1 2 0 2 it. Hunt Mi'lim 0 2 1 1 Na-'le 111 ,'t Lunt 2 0 0 4 1G 36 16 48 TOTALS W 23 16 60 Score by quarters: l-nl.-r;.rie 14 27 40 48 Odur City 16 29 41 60 |