Show Snow Begin League Play Friday Traditional rivals Snow and Dixie will get the basketball campaign underway Friday night at 8 in Snow gym It will be the second meeting of the season for the two clubs On their way to winning the championship of the Snow invitational during the holidays the Badger defeated Dixie 83 66 In a game that was close until the closing minutes Four Badgers scored in double figures forward Mike Scheuer Craig Swenson and Richard Kemp center Jeff Taylor and guard Dean Nelson Letter Lettermen men Taylor and Scheuer are Friday night starters along with Kemp or Swenson in the other forward spot opposite Scheuer Kay Miles who is the on the squad will be the one guard and probably Nelson the other Dixie coach Doug Allred got his best scoring effort in the invitational out of center John Christian forward Roger Gron- Gron and guards Harry Gentry and Max Knoble Like the Badgers Dixie is in a rebuilding rebuilding rebuilding rebuild rebuild- ing year with a shortage of lettermen The has expanded this year with the admission of Southern Idaho College and the readmission of College of Eastern Utah and on the basis of the season pre-season records one of these clubs is favored for forthe forthe forthe the championship Following the Dixie game Friday night the Badgers will host Rangely in a non-league non game January 6 The following two games will also be on the home floor Ricks at Snow January 10 and Southern Idaho at Snow January 11 A trio of unusually games loom for six Region VII basketball teams this Friday North Sanpete is at Sevier at Richfield and Bryce Valley ventures down to Pan- Pan gultch This scheduling seemingly seemingly seemingly seem seem- matches the two top challengers for each division crown There Is an excellent chance that all six will eventually meet In this years year's Round Robin set for Richfield Febuary 27 28 and March 1 The state Class B Tournament follows two weeks later at Provo David Bailey and his brother Brent provide the Hawks of Sanpete with an outside inside-outside punch seldom seen in high school basketball A whirling dervish on the court David has found out that a moving player is hard to defense He HeIs Heis Heis Is here there and everywhere everywhere everywhere every every- where darting through the narrowest narrowest narrowest nar nar- cracks in the defense The 61 blonde made all the state All-state teams last season Brent a junior is a hard driver who can pull up suddenly for the jump shot or go all the way for the cripple He I directed the North Sanpete I footballers as quarterback Several boys were hampered by season off-season injuries but are now rounding back to playing form Included are 64 center David Johnson and 60 guard David Wilkey Sheppard a 60 left handed foward is the other starter During pre league pre play North Sanpete has 6 5 on record but are gaining power that the now experienced t players are returning to the line Last Saturday Dixie's Flyers out nosed-out the 58 In the waning minutes of ot game Dixie's boys hit seven of ten foul pitches to close out the contest With 44 seconds to go gothe gothe gothe the basked in the sunlight sunlight sun sun- light of a point one-point lead but the light was clamped off as the Flyers timed double the ball and knocked it fre free The fouled the shooter as the Flyers cast off and Dixie lagged in both from the line The game was close from start to finish Neither team could manage more than a four or five point lead Lamar Barton Doug Neely and Kay Nelson Ii limited mi ted the guard combination of ot Atkins and l to 6 and 5 points far below normal but forwards Blake and Bowler and center Cannon were all in double digits Nielson Nielson Nielson Niel Niel- Lamar Barton Craig son Steve and Kevin Cox all found the range f for r balanced scoring Kim Clarke played for the first time since sustaining an ankle injury three games ago The downed a powerful Union High School team Monday night by bythe bythe the score of 67 Details of ot next week this game will appear i ID |