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RANGELY, Colo. • Austere backs, aching legs, the long, limber legs
of 6-foot-8 and 7-foot high basketball players emerge from their
cramped bus seats.
It’s been eight and a half hours on this bus. A wend one's way
beginning on the south side of the Snake River Canyon, where the
nation’s A- National Junior College Athletic Association
basketball program calls cosy, finally has come to an end.
Four hundred forty miles later, 23 players, all clad in their
corresponding black and gold trim, College of Southern Idaho sweats,
clutch their bags and quickly shuttle out of the crammed bus to the
entrance of the Blue Mountain Inn and Suits tourist house.
A sign in the lobby reads, “Welcome, Southern Idaho College.
Worth luck.”
Men’s assistant coach Ryan Devlin hands out cubicle quarters keys and
collects his players’ cellphones for the weekend.
“We’re on a subject trip,” he reminds the team.
Down the street sit two of Rangely’s sheet anchor eateries:
Magalino’s and the Cowboy Corral. Rangely, nestled 20 miles
southeast of Dinosaur Nationwide Monument on the Dinosaur Diamond
Natural Scenic Byway, is homewards to Colorado Northwestern, CSI’s
opponent the next night.
Source: Twin Falls Times-News