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Show Tigers, Beavers Eye NCAA I i ' 1 - - s 'f ,1 I ffif - : ' ' ' : ' " - -t ; ; i i I Utah Quint L. A. Bound Utah enters the Far West Regionals with the worst record rec-ord of any of the four teams and without the services of ace forward George Fisher. But Jack Gardner's Utes are still given a good chance at making the trip to College Park next week. Redskin center Jerry Chambers Cham-bers is going to need help from three sophomores who will start alone with senior sen-ior fireball Richard Tate. Lyndon Lyn-don MacKay will be called on heavily as a 6-6 forward as will 6-2 guard Mervin Jackson. Jack-son. But all eyes will be on 6-7 Jeff Ockel, who moved into the starters role Ute forward Tate is averaging averag-ing 13, MacKay 10, Jackson 10.7 and Ockel about eight. Reserve help will come from Leonard Black and Gene "Mad Dog" Lake, another soph. Utah , Pacific Starts Four Sophs Winners. of the West Coast Athletic Conference, University of Pacific moved into its berth in the NCAA Far West Regionals Region-als against Utah Friday. THE TWO conference champions cham-pions will battle it out on the new floor at UCLA in the opening game at 7 p.m. PST. Head Coach Dick Edwards will start four juniors and senior against Utah, the same combination that allowed his Tigers to rack up a 22-4 record. rec-ord. KEITH SWAGERTY is the team's and the WCAC's leading lead-ing scorer and rebounder at 6-7, 235. His high was against Pepperdine and he grabbed 28 rebounds in one game against Fresno State. The junior postman post-man is averaging 22.1 points and 18.4 takedowns. Bob Krulish was all-WCAC last year and is averaging 17.9 in 1966. His high is 31 against S.F. State. He is another rugged front line man at 6-6, 200 pounds and a junior. Junior guard David Fox is another fine one and will join Keith Swagerty . . . Nation's No. 2 Bounder will take only ten men to L.A. as Ron Cunningham is ineligible inelig-ible for tourney play. Bob Krulish .". . Quick Cougar guard 6-6 forward Don Odale and 6-3, 200 pound guard Bruce Parsons Par-sons on the starting five. |