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Show ... Juniors, novices make mark Southern Utah State College debaters made their mark at the junior and novice nationals with a record that included a fifth place ranking in speaker points for a freshman student entered in junior division competition. com-petition. "SUSC went into two tournaments, the junior nationals in Kansas City and the novice nationals in Chicago; last week with three teams," said a pleased M. L. Smith, SUSC forensic coach. "We finished the contests with our two junior teams tied nationally for fifth place, and the novice team with a 5-3 record." Kevin Astle, a SUSC freshman and Hillcrest High School graduate, was ranked fifth in junior division speaker points, He and his partner, Chris Lathrop, a junior from Orem, lost in the out rounds to a team from Kansas State which was defeated by tournament champions from Odessa College, Texas. ' SUSC's second junior team, Jackie Clegg, a . freshman from Orem,) and Denise Brooks, a sophomore graduate of Bingham High, was billed earlier as "SUSC's surprise team." They did very well, Smith said, tied for fifth place after losing to a team from Texas Tech University. "SUSC had a distinction distinc-tion of being the only school to have two teams break into the out rounds. Considering that there were 48 teams entered in the contest and we have two of the too 16 and the fifth place speaker, we're very pleased indeed," , Smith said. "In the final rounds SUSC lost the flip, that is we had to support the negative position which is a disadvantage. If we'd been able to take the affirmative, we could have done better," Smith said. "All in all, we're very pleased." SUSC's novice team-freshmen team-freshmen Kenny Harvey and Jerome Romero-defeated Romero-defeated teams from Dartmouth and Eastern Illinois University before losing a critical round to a team from the University of Kansas. The Bingham High School graduates finished competition at the Northwestern North-western University tournament with a 5-3 record, the hest ever earned by a SUSC team at the prestigious meet. "Romero and Harvey had the record but not the speaker points to break ' into ' the ' out ' founds," ' Smith explained. "We are at a disadvantage in the national tournament because we're not well known in the east. Only six of the 64 teams entered en-tered in the contest were from the western United States, and we're not familiar with the arguments or the teams from other parts of the country." This, Smith said, will change as SUSC gains in reputation. '"We anticipate an-ticipate doing better each year and with the returning students most of them freshmen and sophomores we're steadily building a stronger and more experienced ex-perienced squad.''., i;n I. ") .!. V ri.i-i-i'f't y SUSC students compete in national CEDA competition this weekend in Reno and will represent Southern Utah State Next week at the national individual events tournament being held at Towson State University, Md. |