Show Snow College cabers heads heady for California Snow College which treated its fans to three victories over the Thanksgiving holidays will have Its basketball team In California this week for games with Palo Verde Junior College and Imperial Valley Junior Col Col- lege The Badgers will play PaloVerde PaloVerde Palo PaloVerde Verde at Blythe Thursday night and then meet Imperial Valley Friday and Saturday in games at Imperial Local fans wont won't get to seethe seethe see seethe the Badgers In action again on their home floor until Utah December 15 when the State University freshmen come cometo to Snow Gym Last weeks week's action began Thursday night with the Badgers defeating Elko Community College College College Col Col- of ot second year lege In Its basketball by 48 The action picked up considerably Friday when the Southern Utah State College junior varsity and Mesa Arizona Community College joined In for a four- four team tournament Snows Snow's opponent In the opening opening openIng open open- and the final ing round was score had the Badgers winning by 99 The game was closer than the score of the way indicates much At the half the Badgers Badgers Bad Bad- gers were ahead just six points With a height advantage the Badgers were able to control the and play forthe for forthe forthe the in close-in shots Steve WH- WH and Craig NIelson the former Manti Mantl High aces led the scoring effort with 26 and 19 points respectively kept In the ball game because of the spectacular outside outside outside out out- side shooting of Don Hill Bill former form form- er Gunnison High star Dennis Jones and Chad McCall Jones collected 18 points Hill and McCall 16 each In Fridays Friday's other game Mesa coasted to an easy 57 win over Elko to set up Saturday nights night's contest with Snow In the feature attraction The Badgers won 73 86 In a a. rugged aggressive game that tested the physical capacities of both teams John Bale Snows Snow's 5 10 freshman guard from Provo Provo Pro Pro- vo High School topped the scoring scoring scoring ing with 17 points NIelson got 14 and 10 In a game that had Coach Gary Bliss getting getting getting get get- ting everybody Into the action In Saturdays Saturday's preliminary game between Elko and Don lUll Hill produced 26 points the best Individual scoring effort effort ef effort ef- ef fort of the two nights of basketball basket basket- basketball ball In leading to a to 72 victory over the Cowboys |