OREM — Friday night was not the beginning of a rivalry. But when Utah Valley took an 87-72 win over Western Athletic Conference newcomer Dixie State in the UCCU Center, it was the inaugural game of the Old Hammer series that celebrates two schools that spent 49 years as junior college rivals and have now made the jump to Division I. So while the "Old Hammer" isn't particularly old — and is, in fact, so new that the trophy is still being finished — the rivalry series is anything but. The series goes back to junior college's Region 18, to the formation of the Scenic West Athletic Conference, and to two schools who battled for decades as two of the top two-year programs in the state of Utah.