Show Three Games i In III Five Days Weber State College sandwiches sandwiches sand sand- a home game between two road contests this weekend and would settle with two wins out of the three providing providing pro pro- viding both are the Big Sky Conference battles with Boise State College and the Lumberjacks Lumberjacks Lumberjacks Lumber Lumber- jacks of oC Northern Arizona University Uni Uni- BOISE States State's Broncos host the Wildcats tonight Thursday Jan 28 in a battle for at least a share of the lead inthe inthe in inthe the Coach Phil Johnsons Johnson's then return to the confines of Wildcat gymnasium to take the of Northern Arizona to task Rounding out the hint assault against the Cats willbe will willbe willbe be the Feb 1 non-league non in invasion invasion in in- of Amarillo Texas forthe for forthe forthe the rebound match with West Texas State Stale University BOISE State jumped into the early lead in the Big Sky race with a 4 4 0 record They posted all four wins on their home maples but were pitted against the second place Idaho State last Saturday in ISU's famed ISU carried a 4 1 mark into the battle and hoped to come out of the contest in first place Weber currently is 1 3 1 in the Big Sky AGAINST the Broncos the Wildcats will face the leagues second leading scorer in 62 6 senior forward Ron Austin The talented Bronco has popped the nets for an average of 24 points In season play sophomore center 7 6 Greg Bunn has had hada a fine 18 point scoring average to give the Broncos a good two one match THE Broncos are leading the Big Sky in rebounding and have the leading board board- man in conference statistics Steve Wallace a junior college college col col- col lege transfer from Ricks leads the pack with a average The 6 forward from Salt Lake City will have a real battle on his hands when he goes up against the Wildcats Willie Sojourner and Bob Davis THE TIlE lone home game in the triad will match the Wildcats against the Lumberjacks The visitors carried a 3 12 record against the strong Arizona State University team in Tempe last week then travel to Ogden Ogden Og Og- den before home tilts with Idaho State and Boise State next week Weber State will be strongly favored based on the earlier 90 90 69 69 win at Flagstaff Northern Arizona cant can't be taken lightly however COACH Johnson will have to cOl contend tend with a balanced N NAU AU scoring attack led by one of the leagues finest guards Walt Mannon who has an average He is followed by 6 1 forward fOr Ron Steinberg with a log 5 11 guard Mark Champagne with points and Floyd Mathew at 95 points The 67 7 Mathew is the leader for NAU with an average of 71 per gam game e. e Like the Cats the Buffaloes of West Texas State have been seeing heavy action in the last ten days THE five have an impressive impressive im im- im 9 1 record but play four more games before tangling with the Cats They have three players in double figures figures' led led by 6 3 guard Ray Golson with witha a 21 point average and 65 6 forward Ralph Houston at 13 points They will seek to avenge the 73 73 63 3 loss in the season opener for both teams at Ogden |