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Show INCIDENT MARS GAME By Kien Rollo A packed Memorial Fieldhouse crowd Saturday evening, eve-ning, on hand to witness the basketball game between the College of Southern Utah Broncos and the Dixie Rebels of St. George, got more than their money's worth in a game that was a good battle from start to finish. After being defeated on their home court by the Broncos, Bron-cos, the Rebels retaliated with a convincing 76 to 64 win on the Bronco horn court Saturday evening. The Rebels were in command throughdut most of the game with the Broncos on two occasions putting on drives that caught the visitors, but could never quite surpass them. It was a sweet victory for Coach Ray Englestead and his Rebel crew who are now tied for second place honors just one game behind the conference leaders, Weber. No complaints about the team or the school but rather rath-er against one individual who produced the only sour spot in what might otherwise have been a perfect evening as far as Dixie is concerned and the Broncos had no particular par-ticular excuses for the game they were simply outplayed. The incident occurred near the end of the first half of play when Eric Gardner stole a pass and broke loose for what looked like an easy layup and two points for the Broncos. At that point George Andrus of the Rebels was the only defender even close to Gardner. Andrus came in to cut off the drive ?.nd committed cr.e of the most vicious fouls that we have seen in a long time. There was no apparent attempt to stop the ball or the drive. Andrus simply threw, what in football terms would be a body block, on Gardner and rode him down to the floor with Andrus coming down on top of him. It was, as indicated, a vicious foul, and from all indications indi-cations intentional as well. One of the officials, owing to the flagrancy of the foul, ordered Andrus out of the game, but that decision was reversed because a foul had been committed earlier on the opposite end of the floor which actually took the ball out of play. Andrus was therefore allowed back into the game. Andrus was kept on the bench during the entire second sec-ond half of play and for this we commend Coach Ray Englestead. En-glestead. His action in benching Andrus eliminated what possibly could have been a really serious situation had he been allowed to return to the floor. Certainly pointing out such an obviou3 violation has no intent to reflect on the remainder of the Rebel squad the members of which conducted themselves in a sportsmanlike sports-manlike manner throughout the contest. |