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Show Tournament set for team CEDAR CITY - Host Southern Utah State College will tangle with Occidental College, while Fresno Pacific goes against Claremont-Mudd jCjpllege in first .: round games of the Color Country Classic basketball tournament. The December 29-30 tournament will open at 7 p.m. when Fresno Pacific and Claremont meet. The second game will begin at 9 p.m. All games will be played in War Memorial Fieldhouse on the SUSC campus. First night losers will clash at 7 p.m. December 30; winners will play for the tournament championship at 9 p.m. SUSC is the defending champion after nipping Cal State San Luis Obispo in last year's finals, 70-69. "We don't know much " about the teams in this year's Classic, but the word is, that Fresno Pacific has an awfully good team this year," Tom McCracken, SUSC head coach, indicates. All of the teams in this year's Classic are from California. Claremont is from Claremont, Fresno Pacific is from Fresno, and Occidental is from Los Angeles. This year's tournament will be the 10th annual and the 13th in the Classic's history. SUSC has won the championship six times in the previous 12 games. |