Show Badgers Ice Second Place ace acen In n Snow College took a firm grip on second place In the basketball campaign last week with a pair of victories over league rivals and this week will be in Idaho for games with Ricks and the Idaho State University UnIversity University Uni UnI- junior varsity Despite an attack of flu which kept a couple of Snows Snow's maInstays mainstays mainstays main maIn- stays out of action the Badgers managed an easy 86 59 victory over Mesa Friday night but then had to come from a time half-time point four-point deficit to clip College College College Col Col- lege of Eastern Utah 92 to 86 Saturday night Snow basketball fans said after the Saturday night game game that it was one of the most thrilling performances they had witnessed In Snow gym In quite a few years ears It sets up the last league game of the season on Feb 16 when traditional rival Dixie winner by one point over the Badgers in St SL George comes to Snow gym for a show-down show encounter Playing without mainstays Scott Parrish and Joe Manning down with the flu Saturday night the Badgers were behind 48 44 at the half and in foul trouble They caught up at 65 with 10 minutes left in the game took over the lead moments later at 67 65 and then managed managed managed man man- aged to stay ahead the rest of the way although it was a thriller down to the final buzzer The big scorer for the BadI Badgers Bad Bad- I gers guns was BernIe with I 28 points Jim ed with 16 John Bale 15 anc an Mark Peterson 10 |