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Show T-bird Golfers enter Region Tourney Gallacher (freshman, Cortez, Colorado), Dean Cooper (sophomore, Reno, Nevada), Dalton Driggers (sophomore, Salt Lake City), and Rhett Long (sophomore, Richfield). Winning team of the district portion of the tournament will qualify for entry in the NAIA national torunament to be held at Saginaw, Michigan. The first 36 holes of the meet will be played Friday, and the final 18 will be Saturday. The low four scores for each separate 18-hole 18-hole portion of the tournament tour-nament will count toward the team total for each team. "I think we have one of the best golf teams in the last few years," Kingsford says of his squad. "One thing that may hurt us is our lack of competition in the last couple of weeks. Maybe when we get into the pressures of the meet, our lack of competition might hurt our scores. Other than that, I'd say we're ready for things." Even though Southern Utah State College Golf Coach Tom Kingsford figures he has the school's best team in years, the Thunderbirds won't be favored in this week's NAIA District Seven Tournament. The district meet will be run simultaneously with the championships of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. Con-ference. Competition will be over 54 holes at the Colonial Park Country Club at Clovis, New Mexico. Eastern New Mexico University will host the tournament. "It looks like Eastern New Mexico will be the favorite, with Southern Colorado having a good chance to pull an upset," Kingsford indicates. in-dicates. "Southern Colorado will be the favorite in the RMAC portion of the meet." ENM is not a conference school. Seeded number one on the Thunderbird squad is Kevin Averett (sophomore, Cedar City). Seeded in order behind Averett are Kevin |