Show Thursday M March 3 I Bruins Set Upset Tone in in I Amazing First Round Larry D. D Curtis Managing Editor f r THE TIIE Scenic West Athletic Conference tournament tournament touma- touma ment possibly became easier for the Bruins as the first fUSt night of games progressed on Thursday March 4 By nightfall the th the unlikely had happened The first fUSt second and third seeds all had been defeated leaving the tournament title wide open The Dixie Rebels won the right Tight to host the tournament by winning the conference regular season This supposedly gave them an advantage advantage advantage ad ad- ad- ad vantage in the race to go to the national tournament North Idaho College also had an excellent season finishing only one game behind the Rebels College of Southern Idaho had won the Region 18 titles for eight straight years and held the third seed of the tournament In 1987 they won the national national national na na- na- na title their second se ond in fn school history By the end of the the first night all three top-seeded top teams had been eliminated by the sixth seeded Bruins The first game of the day went as expected with fourth seed Ricks College defeating S Snow ow College 65 60 I f J JIn In the second game dominated a rf surprised Golden Eagles team beating by i 14 1486 86 r rI I Next Utah Valley State College beat second seeded NIC NC 86 Instead of playing a team they hadn't beaten this season in NIC the Bruins were t t scheduled to face face a team that hadn't beaten them The nightcap which brought out a large St. St George Utah crowd saw CEU pull off the biggest big gest Best upset of the tourney CEUs CEU's first lead 76 i 75 came with left in the game The upsets gave the Bruins an easier road to i ithe P Ji the league championship than they had expected ed j t Chuck Overton played well offensively missing missing miss- miss 1 ing only one of his 11 shots and s scoring oring 28 8 g F points Marcel Johnson broke out of what he in point 25 termed a slump mini and turned a I rebound 10 performance role wh when n n tr Marc Lawson played playe a a pivotal p down with a i starting point guard Shane Shan Belnap sat four fouls In his own words Lawson was t and preserved shaky at first but finished strong the Bruin lead t but the f F Silas Mills ills had a poor offensive nig night Bruins didn't need his points they lead by 10 w r B n most of the game I iii |