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Show T-Birds, Rebels Tangle In Game of Week The college of Southern Utah Thunderbirds will travel to St. George Saturday evening where they will clash with the highly tauted Rebels of Dixie College in one of the top Intermountain Collegiate Athletic Conference rivalries. ri-valries. Tipoff time has been set for 8 p. m. and the large Dixie field-house field-house is expected to be filled for the contest which among other things will determine possession of tne coveted ax, symbol of athletic supermacy between the two schools. Coach Boyd Adams and his Thunderbirds will be fighting extra ex-tra hard in this contest First because of the rivalry between the two schools, and secondly to stay in contention in the 1CAC title race. The Rebdls wU be favored In the contest on the basis of previous pre-vious games, but as in the past, previous games have little to do with the outcome when the two schools meet. Last week the Rebels scored an impressive liw to 87 victory over the Ricks College Col-lege Vikings at Rexburg. The game was played Saturday night. The evening before the Vikings had defeated tne CSU ciew 87 to 84. In the Dixie Invitational tournament tour-nament during the holidays the Rebels also defeated two clubs which in turn defeated the CSU. Coach Doug Allred, in his first year with the Rebels, will be counting heavily on Rusty Davidson David-son and Delano Lyons who have been the big scorers all season. Added to that will be Corry Jones and Gordon Bascom along with Dean Perkins. Against the Vikings, Vi-kings, Lyons zeroed in 23 from his guard slot, and Davidson and Jones each garnered 22. Perkins Per-kins and Bascom each scored 13 in the Rebel attack. Coach Adams will be attempting attemp-ting to realign his T-Birds to :-neet the Rebel threat Ray Greenberg, on the guard line, started slow this season, but is now coming into his own and although the T-Birds lost. his 29 point output against the Vikings was the best effort for any member this season. Close behind was "LaMar Pugh at center cen-ter with 23. Pugh is still having trouble getting through a game and his loss halfway through the contest at Rexburg, was an in-trumontal in-trumontal factor in the Viking victory. Pugh worked exceptionally exception-ally well in the post and when he left, the pressure was shifted to the outside shooting of Green-berg Green-berg to hamper the CSU cause. Mel Wadsworth continues to function well at the forward spot but Marian Roper, normally a main stay, is having trouble finding the range after the holiday. holi-day. Coach Adams hopes to find Roper back to form and with an additional assist by Paul West on the guard line, the T-Birds could make it rough. Some shifts are being made in the Thunderblrd attack and one of them is moving Bob Chambers Cham-bers on to the forward line from guard. Don Johnson, one of the top defensive men may also be pulled into considerably more action to meet the outside shooting shoot-ing threat of the Rebels. |