Show Team Ends Home Schedule With ash Mesa So Idaho and Frosh The Snow College basketball team will play the final home games of the season Friday Saturday and Monday Although defeated twice in Idaho last week the Badgers are still in contention for the championship but will need to win over Mesa Friday night to keep their title hopes alive Snow has defeated Mesa twice in earlier games this year but may run into difficulty Friday night since Mesa edged Dixie 87 80 last week and appears to tobe tobe tobe be coming along after a slow start The Mavericks have a well- well balanced offense with Bob Berthod Berthod Berthod Ber- Ber thod heading the attack Likely starters for Snow Fri Fri- day night are Paul Beck and Tim Lewis guards John Ericksen Erick- Erick sen center and Ron Bailey and either Dave Olsen or Ken Weid- Weid auer forwards Olsen a teammate of Ericksen on Manti High Schools School's championship championship championship cham cham- team last year started in the Boise and Ricks games last week and may get the call callagain callagain callagain again Friday night The Badgers will play Southern Southern Southern South South- ern Idaho junior college of Twin Falls Saturday night and the Utah State University freshman Monday night Southern Idaho earlier defeated Snow 78 66 In Twin Falls and will bring a veteran veteran veteran vet vet- eran squad with seven sophomores sophomores sophomores mores in the line up to Saturdays Saturday's Saturdays Saturday's Saturdays Saturday's Satur Satur- days day's game In last weeks week's action Snow ahead in the race with a 3 1 record fell to Ricks 99 92 Friday night and to Boise 98 70 Saturday night to drop down to second place in the campaign The Badgers were ahead 42 37 at the half in the Ricks game but hit a cold streak got Into foul trouble and faded in the stretch Tim Lewis with 21 and John Ericksen with 18 were the leading scorers In Boise Saturday night the Broncos hit 55 per cent of their shots from the field compared to Snows Snow's 40 per cent to lead all the way John Ericksen got 26 points to improve his standing in the scoring race |