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Show Boise Broncos Emerge From ICAC Play With Added Laurels The Boise Broncos after sharing the Intermountain Collegiate j Athletic -Conference football championship for the first time in many years this season, bounced back to take an undis- puted first place in the I C A Cj basketball race. Boise finished high on the to-1 tern pole with an Impressive 12 win and two loss record, fol- lowed closely by the College of Southern Utah Broncos with a 11 win and three loss record. Boise lost two contests on Its Initial road trip. The first was to the C S U Broncos by a score of 59 to 43 and the second, In the second appearance of the season against the Dixie Rebels. The northern Broncos then proceeded to win their next 12 contests to pick up the championship. The CSU Broncos were riding on the crest with a perfect record before making the trip to N N C and Boise, where they dropped their first two games to throw the league Into a three-way tie for honors between the two clubs. CSU returned from that trip to meet the Dixie Rebels on the local floor and the loss suffered that night knocked the Broncos out of the lead, a lead they never nev-er regained. Going into the final round of playplay Friday and Saturday the Broncos of Coach Cleo Petty held hopes for at least a tie for the championship. With CSU winning over Carbon Friday 48 to 45 and drubbing Snow Saturday Satur-day night it remained the task of the Ricks College Vikings, defending ICAC champions, to stop the winning streak of r.oi- Hoi.se pulWi that game out of the fire in a hard foujht contest con-test at Rcxburg, Idaho. 78 to 70 to pull through with the championship. cham-pionship. Tieing for third nlaee in the conference were N N C of Nam-pa, Nam-pa, Idaho, and the Rebels of Dixie Dix-ie to comprise the first division clubs at the finale of the season. sea-son. N N C in dronpinir a Saturday evening to Ricks 85 to 81, while Dixie chalked up victories victor-ies over- Snow and Carbon, left both clubs with nine wins and five losses for the season. One of the most unusual aspects as-pects of this year's conference j play is that of Snow College, ;who finished on the bottom with undisputf-d cellar honors. This is a position Snow College is not jused to holding down and the I record shows thorn with a single win. that over Carbon, In early season play. ' Boise and C S U. as top junior jun-ior college clubs in Idaho and Utah, respectively, as a result of conference play, will enter region i tournaments conducted by the National Junior College Athletic Association. |