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Show Broncos Dump Dixie To Tie For Second College of Southern Utah Bronco Bron-co basketball squad, turning an outstanding team effort in their final oUting of the season, down-j ed the Dixie Rebels Saturday! evening at the CSU memorial ficldhouse 83 to 76 to move into a tie for i.-ond place honors in ' the strong Intermountaln Collegiate Colleg-iate Athletic Cor.fsrence. : .Strength of the conference was indicated this past week when Weber, conference champions, i named the number one Junior College basketball team In the nation. In the football season, just completed, the Boise Broncos, Bron-cos, also of the ICAC, were named nam-ed the nation's number one team. Matching Records CSU and Dixie, arch rivals, ended up In a deadlock for sec-! ond place as a result of Saturday's Satur-day's victory with near identical records for the season. Both squads lost home and home battles to Weber College, both lost to Snow at Ephraim and they split their home and home series, each winning on the home court. It was an outstanding showing for both squads for thej season, and a credit to junior college basketball in southern Utah. Coach Boyd Adams' Broncos' jumped off to a 7 to 0 lead over I Dixie, and that set the pattern of the game, as the Broncos never relinquished that lead, in one of the season's best played games. Paul Rasmussen hit first for the Broncos with a 15 foot jump shot and Dick Glaub, who turned In one of the outstanding performances perform-ances of the evening, hit two field goals, followed by a foul shot by Joe Castillo to give the Broncos their initial lead. Lead in the first half of play-varied play-varied from a high of 11 points, 40 to 29, to a three point spread which is the closest the Rebels came In the 20 minute period. Halftime score was 40 to 31. Good Rebounding Tom Bailey of the Broncos turned In an outstanding job of defensive rebounding during the I first half of play and the entire defense of the Broncos kept the visitors on the outside most of the evening. Alan Worthen, leading lead-ing scorer of the Rebels, was stymied for the first 20 minutes, hitting for only two points. Ken Wilkes of the visitors did some nice driving in the final minutes of the first half to keep his crew in the game. The Rebels put on a drive in the opening minutes of the second sec-ond half to narrow the gap somewhat, some-what, but the Broncos again moved out into a substantial lead and held it throughout the rest of the game. Donald Burton turned in his best game of the season, on the home court, with some fine shooting and rebounding, and, Archibald and Rasmussen, finished fin-ished out the season with some outstanding work. Five Broncos hit in the double figure, Including Archibald and i Rasmussen, who tied for high ! honors with 16 points each. Glaub his for 13, Burton for 12 and Castillo for 11. Worthen proved himself In the second half with 13 points for a total output for the evening of 15 points, followed by Tim " I Leonard and Arlyn Hafen, each I with 13. Only disconcerting factor In I the game, was an unsportsman-'like unsportsman-'like act In the final minutes of play that sent Worthen to the I bench. An obvious, intentional foul by Worthen against Burton j while he was one the floor brought fans to their feet in protest pro-test of the action, and It was the only truly black spot on the , game, which featured some ex cellent ball handling and shooting. shoot-ing. For the Broncos It was the final fin-al game in a CSU jersey for six players. Finishing out their Junior Jun-ior college careers were Rasmussen, Rasmus-sen, Frank Cooper, Archibald, Stuart Adams, Castillo and Bailey. Bai-ley. DIX1S Tt CSU 13 Gir p OTrr 7 4 2 16 Worthen Archibald SBI1I S 3 S 9 Rlnke Burton 9 5 1 11 5 0 0 10 Miller Bailey 3 S 3 3 117 WilkM Judd 3 0 0 3 10 7 11 Leonard Baamuwen t 54 16 3 4 4 8 Wilton Glaub 6 3 1 13 5 4 3 13 A. Hafen Caitlllo 3 5 9 11 0 3 0 0 Allen Cooper 12 0 2 1 0 0 3 B. Hafen McKlbben 0 3 3 2 Scot at halftime: Dixie 31. CSU 40 |