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Show Sports Shorts Swimming The University of Utah swimming team will conclude their dual meet schedule with two contests this weekend. The Redfins will meet Arizona State University tonight at 8 at South High, and Arizona tomorrow tomor-row afternoon at the Ute Swim School at 2. Jim Rasmussen, who broke Mike Garibaldi's school record in the 1000-yard freestyle, and Don Gray, who set a new Canadian Open record rec-ord last week, will be counted on heavily. The swimmers will then have an open weekend in preparation for the WAC championships held at Tempe, March 7 and 8. on March 9 here in Einar Nielson Fieldhouse. This is a regional playoff play-off game to see which team will go to the NCAA Midwest regionals at Wichita State University, Wichita, Wichi-ta, Kansas. On tap the same night will be the ' winner of the Big Sky Conference against New Mexico State to determine deter-mine who will go to the NCAA Western regional playoffs at Albuquerque. Al-buquerque. The winner of the Western West-ern Athletic Conference will automatically auto-matically qualify for the Western regionals. This will give local fans an opportunity oppor-tunity to see the great Elvin "Big E" Hayes in action, along with the cnly team to beat UCLA in the last two years. Utah -BYU The unmerciful slaughter of the BYU basketball team by the Utah Redskins will be televised on' Channel Chan-nel 2 Saturday afternoon at 2:15. The Chronicle sports staff has erased the Cougar home court advantage. ad-vantage. We have stolen Earnest Wilkinson's pre-game speech and replaced it with the February Playboy Play-boy editorial pages .- most intact the squad which placed third in the conference last year. Richard Impson, defending conference confer-ence champion in all-around and long horse, and Joel Pearson, league champ in the still rings, are back. ASU is also strong in t h e floor exercise, side horse, and trampoline. tram-poline. It should be quite a contrast between be-tween Impson and Utah's Mike Kimball in the all-around. Kimball will also give Pearson a battle in the still rings. Mike Dennison and Pete Brandt of Utah will be hard to beat in the trampoline, as will Brent Hale in the side horse and, Rick Wunderli in the floor exercise. exer-cise. Skiing The ski team will be in McCall, Idaho, Saturday and Sunday to participate par-ticipate in the University of Idaho Invitational. Other schools in t h e meet are Montana, Montana State, Idaho, Washington, and Idaho State. The skiers will be led by Danny Craig, who placed first in the downhill down-hill and jumping in the recent BYU Invitational, Robin Newcomb, who placed first in the slalom at that meet, and Randy Balice, who placed second in the cross-country at BYU. Danny Craig was also awarded the ski meister trophy, which goes to ' the top skier, at the Invitational. Houston Here The University of Houston basketball basket-ball team, number one in the nation, na-tion, will meet Loyola of Chicago Wrestling The wrestlers were in Tucson yesterday yes-terday for a dual meet with the University of Arizona, and they are competing in the Sun Devil Invitational Invi-tational at Tempe today and tomorrow. tomor-row. The Utes will go with Balvino Iriziarry at 123, Bob Bills at 130, Glen Kawa at 137, Ron Lemmon at 145, either Mark Nelson or Dave Shepherd at 152, Gary Jensen at 160, Scott Tennis at 167, Steve Roshek at 177, and Frank Holtry at heavyweight. Gymnastics The Ute gymnasts host Arizona State University tomorrow afternoon in the fieldhouse at 1:30. The Sun Devils have returned al- |