Show Snow Head For Mesa Tourney Snow College basketball will take the long long jaunt to Mesa Arizona this week for competition with a Texas team and six Arizona teams in the three day Mesa Invitational Basketball Tournament In fact Badger fans wont won't see the Snow In action on their own own floor again until December 18 when Snow hosts Rangely Junior College and Dece December 19 when the Southern Utah College junior varsity team comes to Ephraim At Mesa Thursday night at the Badgers will meet Mesa Community College tourney tourney tourney tour tour- ney sponsor in the featured game of the opening round Other teams in the meet are the University of Texas at El ElPaso ElPaso Paso freshmen and the Cochise Phoenix Arizona Western Eastern Arizona and Central Arizona junior college squads This tournament will provide provide provide pro pro- vide our team with the kind of competition we need Snow coach Gary Bliss said We hope to represent our conference conference conference confer confer- ence well in Arizona Bliss BUss has named the travel travel- ling squad D David a v I d Olsen Richard Kemp and James Nelson forwards Dave Borup and Eldon Olsen centers Kay Miles Dale Richards and Vic Demman guards All but Eldon Olsen have a a. year of college experience some of it in other schools last year which is a considerable considerable considerable consider consider- able asset Were beginning to look like a well-disciplined well squad he said The Badgers will take a preseason preseason preseason pre pre- season record of two wins and two losses to Arizona The losses were by one point to the Weber State freshmen and by four points to the Brigham Young University frosh But even in losing to the theY theY theY Y the Badgers performed performed performed per per- formed well Bliss feels We lost It on the foul line he says We got four tour more field goals than the opposition had hada Jd a well-balanced well scoring effort played good defense and were tough on the boards I think the fans will enjoy watching this team when we get back from Arizona |