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Show T-Birds Will Join Dixie Tourney Play I The College of Southern Utah1 basketball team will wind up a full week of basketball In California Cali-fornia this week end and return re-turn to Utah next week only to enter a second tournament, the first annual Dixie College Invi- j tational Tournament at St. George beginning Wednesday, Deo. 20. I Coach Cleo Petty and hisThun-derbirds hisThun-derbirds will complete activity in the Chaffey Invitational tournament tour-nament this week end concluding a full week of play In southern California, which began with a! battle against San P.ernardino on Monday evening, and followed with a game with Compton Tuesday Tues-day evening and the first round of the Chaffey tournament Wednesday Wed-nesday evening. Next week the Dixie Invitational Invita-tional will feature an eight team! tournament with a consolation bracket. Four member teams of the Intermountain Collegiate Athletic Ath-letic Conference will participate in the event, according to Coach Hay F.nglestead of the Dixie Rebels. Reb-els. Host Dixie College, the CSU Thunderbirds, Kicks College of Kexburg. Idaho and Snow College Col-lege of Ephraim are the I'AC participants. Non-conference outfits out-fits include Eastern Arizona Junior Jun-ior College of Thatcher, An..; Palo Verde, Riverside and Mt. San Antonio, all of southern California. Cali-fornia. Upper bracket of the tourna-ment tourna-ment pits CSU against Palo Verde and Ricks against Eastern Arizona Ari-zona in the opening round of I piay- Lower bracket pits Riverside against Snow and Mt. San An-I An-I tonia against Dixie. In the first round of play 'Wed-nesday 'Wed-nesday evening Ricks and EAJC will open the tournament at I p. m. followed bv Snow and River-si River-si at 5: !.". The evening session will K-e the Thunderbirds going against Palo Verde at 7:30 p. m. with Dixie to host Mt. Sae in the first day's finale at 9:13. |
