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Show POINTS FOR REDMEN. Mark Morrison Mor-rison wrestling at 105 pounds for the Cedar High Redmen gains points on opponent from Hurricane. Morrison won match but Redmen lost by 29-23. Today the Redmen will participate in a four-team tournament at Hurricane with matches at 4 and 7 p. m. Thunderbirds face (tough MM teams in Cedar wage). Dennis Kowalskl (6-8 and experienced) averages over 16 points per game, and Willie Hamilton ( a 6-6 jumper) averages av-erages 12 points per game. Western New Mexico has a 4 0 RMAC record, going into a Friday game at Westminster, and a 12-4 overall mark. Last year SUSC split with the Mustangs, Mus-tangs, winning, 84-79, in double overtime at Cedar City and losing los-ing 75-72, in single overtime at Silver City. With all this on his mind, Stan Jack can probably be forgiven for-given for forgetting the gram-mer. gram-mer. On top of the worry over the abilities of the opposing teams, Jack is a bit concerned over his own team's performances on the home court. "We really haven't had a strong game at home yet this year. I don't know why; we have had some outstanding "We got no picnic this week." The words came directly from Southern Utah State College Col-lege basketball coach Stan Jack. Once everyone understands under-stands the situation, however, they can probably overlook the obvious slip in Jack's usually impeccable grammer. The trigger for Jack's candid comment was information that Western. Ntw Mexico's little Joe Mondragon (pronounced mawn-drah-gone rhymes with stone) would start Saturday a-gainst a-gainst the Thunderbirds. While Mondragon alone isn't enough to upset Jack sufficiently sufficient-ly to make him forget his grammar, he does provide the straw that pushes the T-Bird coach into a cold sweat. Jack and his Thunderblrd ca-gers ca-gers host Adams State College, a team coming on strong, Friday Fri-day and Western New Mexico, the team Jack figur's is the club to beat in the Rocky Mountain Moun-tain Athleetic Conference Saturday. Sat-urday. Games each night will start at 7:30 p.m. Saturday will feature fea-ture a preliminary game at 5:15 p. m. with the SUSC Junior Varsity hosting Utah Technical College from Salt Lake City. Here's what Jack has to wor ry about, In addition to Mondragon, Mon-dragon, one of the quickest guards in the area: An Adams State team that starts five quick men with excellent overall height (Nelson (Nel-son Burroll, 6-7; Fred Sawaya, 6-7; John VanTassel, 6-5; Phil Belmore, 6-5; and Wade Morten-sen, Morten-sen, 5-8). An Adams State team week. This Is even more disconcerting dis-concerting after reading the pre-season outlook published by Adams State: "Coach Lorn Lutz expects the Indians to get off to a slow start due to the many new faces, but as things b gin to gel, he feels this could be one of the best Adams State teams in history." Adams State is a team with excellent scoring potential; poten-tial; Burrell, for example, holds the national junior college single sin-gle game scoring record 80 points. The Indians also are adept at the full court press. Western N. M., llke Adams State, is blessed with good overall ov-erall height and super quickness. quick-ness. The Mustangs rely heavily heav-ily on 6-6 junior Ernie Signars (last year's super soph), an excellent ex-cellent rebounder (nearly 15 per game) and scorer (15.1 av- performances on the road," Jack said. The regular starters will probably open each game for the T-Birds, but Robin Halght at center and Dunn Lee at forward for-ward could see early action because of recent sterling performances. per-formances. "That's one of the brighter spots lately," said Jack, "our bench has been doing some fine things for us." He went on to mention Amos James, Quin-ton Quin-ton Davis and Tom Long as each contributing heavily in recent outings. Statistically, SUSC still shows a strong three-pronged scoring attack, with the other two starters start-ers leading in the rebound department. de-partment. Steve Laing (18.5), Kohn Smith (18.0) and Gary Crosby (15.5) have been carrying the scoring load, while Alan Wit-tenbraker Wit-tenbraker (9.5 rebounds per game) and Rick Jackson (8.3) are doing most of the board work. |