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Show Softballers ready for home siege tough Northern Arizona University (6-3) in its most recent games. The four games against RMAC opponents have no bearing on the eventual conference winner. That will be determined in a May 1-2 tournament at Las Vegas, N. M. Winner of the RMAC Tournament will host the NAIA District Seven playoff games May 8. That playoff series will pit the RMAC winner against an independent selection in a best two of three series, according to Troy Bledsoe, District Seven chairman and Fort Lewis College athletic director. "Of course, those play oi is are a long way down the road, but we want to polish up our game and win as many games as we can to prepare," Osborne indicated. in-dicated. Four women are doing most of the Thunderbird hitting. Lori Mott, last season's batting champion, leads the squad with a .4890 average. She is followed by Patti Page (.440), Dene Long (.366), and Bonnie Cahill (.353). Cahill, who is on a real hitting spree in recent games, leads the team in runs batted in with twelve. Mott has driven eight runs home. Mott is a junior from Vernal; Page, a sophomore from South Jordan; Long, a sophomore from Las Vegas; and Cahill, a senior from Fallbrook, Calif. . Pitachers Shauna Mecham (senior, Monroe) and Lori McCurdy (junior, Moab) will share most of the mound duty. Mecham has a 7-1 record; McCurdy Mc-Curdy is 3-2. The Thunderbirds clicked off six consecutive con-secutive victories to start the season. Their overall record is now 10-3. Against some tough four-year four-year competition, SUSC ' has won six and lost only two. Eight Games four of them against Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference teams in six days are scheduled beginning tomorrow for the Southern Utah State College women's Softball team. All eight contests will be played on the SUSC field locate i just west of 800 West on the Thunderbird Thun-derbird campus. The flurry of activity starts Friday at 1 : 30 p.m. with a doubleheader against Western State College. Saturday, also at 1:30 p.m., the 'Bird women will test Adams State in two games. Non-conference games will be played Tuesday at 1 p.m. against University of Nevada-Las Vegas and Wednesday at 2 p.m. against Dixie College. "We've been playing reasonably well recently," recen-tly," Bruce Osborne, SUSC coach, said after his team returned from a Monday doubleheader sweep over RMAC rival Mesa College in contests at Grand Juncction, Colo. "Our pitching and defense looks like tits back where we'd like it. and our hitting is starting to come.'' In addition to the Mesa sweep, SUSC split with New Mexico Highlands on the road (losing 7-3 and winning 13-0), split with Dixie on the road (winning 6-5 in 14 innings and losing 10-9 in a shortened game.), and lost a single game to |