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Show j Junior College Regional Basketball Tourney SlatedItIondayffTuesday ' Region Four of the national Junior college circuit, Including In-cluding the northwestern portion of the United States will hold a regional basketball playoff In Cedar City Monday and Tuesday, March 12 and 13. The winner of the Region Four basketball tournament will win the right to represent repre-sent the area in a 16 team national Junior college tournament tourna-ment to be staged in Hutchinson, Kan., on March 19. On hand to defend the region title will be Boise Junior Jun-ior College of Boise, Idaho. Last year Boise won the reg ional event which was staged at Ogden and continued to the national na-tional playoffs at Hutchinson where the team made a good showing by placing fifth. . As representative of the Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Collegiate Athletic Conference as the top eligible team, they have been slated to meet Dixie Junior College, a late entry In . the tournament. In the opening game Monday night at 7:30. College of Southern Utah Bron cos, host to the tournament, will meet Oregon Tech of Klamath Falls, Ore., in the second game Monday night All games will be in the Mem orlal Fleldhouse. Oregon Tech, an outsider as far as local fans are concerned, will be the dark horse of the tournament tourna-ment as all three of the. other entries are from the I C a Con ference. Oregon Tech finished (Con tinned on Page root) JUGO TOURNEY (Continued fr6m Front Page) third in its league in Oregon. However, the Orgonians were participating in a league with four-year schools, somewhat similar sim-ilar to the I C A C status this year. They, nevertheless, have been impressive as a Junior college col-lege team and from the enthusiasm enthus-iasm showy by the coach and squad members, they at least feel that they have a chance in the regional tournament and the school is backing them all the way. Although Region Four incorporates incorpor-ates the states of Utah, Wyoming, Montana. Idaho, Oregon Washington Wash-ington and northern California, three of the four entires in the tournament are from the I C A Conference which is considered one of the strongest In the entire area. Good Comparison As a result the three teams from the I C A C can be analyzed fairly well. In I C A C play this season, on a home and home court basis, Boise, defending title ti-tle holder, has split the two game series with the C S U Broncos. At Boise the C S U crew was trimmed by a convincing 68 to 44 score. However, on Boise's road trip into southern Utah, the defeat de-feat was avenged by the local Broncos with a 53 to 40 victory to even the score. Dixie on the other hand, Jost on both courts to the Broncos of Boise. At Boise the score read 75 to 53. At St. George Boise barely won with a 54 to 46 score. The C S U Broncos, who have played exceptionally well on the local court all season, losing only on-ly to the Ricks Vikings in I C A C competition, therefore, stands a good chance In comparison with Boise and Dixie. Oregon Tech presents probably the biggest obstacle to overcome for the Broncos. Both teams, how-ever, how-ever, are in the same spot neither nei-ther knows much about the other. oth-er. From the standpoint of height the C S U Broncos and Oregon Tech are nearly equal. It could be anybody's ball game. Admission charges will be $1.50 per night for adults, general admission. ad-mission. East section will be re-1 serve I and tickets will be set at $1.50 also, although they must be purchased in advance. They wiUi be on sale at Bulloch's Drug. General admission tickets can be picked up at the door on the night of the game. |