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Show JUtah Spring Sports Outlook Bright who has especially looked sharp in early practice. Utah will be playing against teams who have played quite a few games, but Coach Summerhays expects ex-pects them to hold their own. Golf - The golfers will begin competition competi-tion against Arizona State in Tempe March 18th and 19th, and Arizona WAC is the first or second strongest strong-est golfing conference in the nation. na-tion. Last year four WAC schools placed among the top eight at the NCAA meet. BYU has beat national champion Houston twice in their last three meetings. The local boys on the team are really great. They have worked hard and sacrificed hard all winter without much compensation, com-pensation, and they should be able to hold their own. It will be awfully hard to beat BYU, Arizona State, v New Mexico or Arizona." Lacrosse The lacrosse team will open the 1968 season when they travel to San Francisco during spring break for three games. The games will be with three of the toughest lacrosse teams on the West Coast; San Francisco Lacrosse Club, University Univer-sity of California at Berkeley and Stanford University. The games will be played March 21, 22 and 23 and should give the inexperienced members mem-bers of the team a good initiation into the game of lacrosse. West Coast lacrosse has little of the finesse that characterizes lacrosse la-crosse in the East but makes up for it with plenty of hard hitting. The University of Utah lacrosse team is no exception and hard hitting is their strong suit. Probable starters for the games will be: Paul Grogger, goalie; Geoff Ge-off Himolya, Steve Page and Mike Roshek, defense; Chuck Kinney, Steve Roshek and Mike Jacobsen, midfield; and Mike Winston, Kevin Brooks and Chuck Closterman, attack. at-tack. Other players that are expected expect-ed to see plenty of action include: Don Danysh, Jim McPheeters, Greg Leong and Paul Densley. Track Spring is here and to prove it M the University of Utah track team 'vL preparing to open the season with meets in Arizona druing spring break. The 50 members of the track team have been working out tat indoors all through the winter and : are itching to get into competition. 6'! Although the Ute thinclads fin-ei fin-ei ished fourth in the conference, be-; be-; j,in(i New Mexico, BYU and Arizona, Ari-zona, this season Coach Pete Carl- ston'is looking for Utah to make " a strong run at the top three. I Ron Zefferer is back to defend 'KCi'his half mile crown, and he will be 'S S supported by several veterans and y 6'a host of newcomers. Scott Bring-k Bring-k hurst, who gained AU-American tfil honors in cross-country, will lead i Utah's distance contingent along jjj with Sal Mendoza, Utah's top miler, j, Harold Roberts, Frank Wo j tech and Bob Wood. Last year Bring-l Bring-l hurst took fourth in the two-mile . and Mendoza took fith in the mile at Albuquerque. ltf Strong In Weights " Utah should be strong in the weights too. Al Weed, who placed second in the javelin last year will be back. Hurling the discus will I be Armin Blaufuss and Curtis Dud-nick, Dud-nick, and Dwight Staten, who has already broken the school record II this spring, will be the top shot I putter. Bob Batie, Utah's top point getter " last year, Richard Dickson and 1 Bob Rodenhizer, the top 220 man, 1 will lead Utah's sprint contingent, " while Scott Peterson, Larry Stott e and Ron Taylor loom as the top 440 men. In the hurdles, Marshall Brown, High Voorhees and Jim Hawkins l-Uook good. Both Voorhees and f xr-. . v - I Vr !V f - - I jC v. r , ... . I : 'f l VT l r. its-,- l "w 2v ' '. , s ' Hawkins placed in tlrj conference meet last year, with Voorhees taking tak-ing fifth in the 120 yard high hurdles and Hawkins fifth in the 440 yard intermediate hurdles. Good Prospects Other good prospects fcr this year are Walt Simon in the triple jump, Steve Player in the high jump and Dick Worley in the pole vault. The season begins March 18 when the Utes travel to Flagstaff for tho Northern Arizona Indoor. On March .19 they will compete in a triangular meet in Tempe with Oregon Ore-gon State and Arizona State. Then on March 23 they wind up their Arizona trip with a triangular meet with BYU and Arizona State. These meets will provide the team with good conditioning and a taste of competition with the top two WAC powers. Tennis The University of Utah Tennis team begins its 1963 schedule March 21 against the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. During the same road trip Utah will face Arizona State and the University of Arizona, last year's WAC tennis champions. Utah will not be considered serious ser-ious contenders for WAC championship champion-ship honors. The team is young, with only Rick Bennion and Mike Waldram back from last year's squad. Utah lost Mike Osborne and Mike Martines through graduation gradu-ation and Harold Sears, the runner-up in the number four WAC singles last year, will not" be able to compete because of school schedule. sched-ule. Coach Harry James has some fine talent in Dale Fritz, Laury Hammel, and junior college transfer trans-fer Paul Hoffman. According to Coach James, "The WAC is one of the top two tennis leagues in the United States. Arizona Ari-zona and BYU will be ranked among the top five tennis teams in the nation." Because of the quality of the competition and the youth and inexperience of the Utah rquad, it appears to be a building year for the Utes. Baseball Of baseball, Coach Pres Summer-hays Summer-hays said, "Our pitching is much stronger than last year, our catching catch-ing is as good or better, the infield will be better, and the outfield will be fast and improved. Our number one problem will be hitting; the top hitters from last year's team are lost." "BYU has picked Wyoming to win our division of the WAC, and Wyoming has picked BYU to win, but we will be definite contenders." The baseball team will open its season March 15 against the University Uni-versity of Southern California in Los Angeles. They will then play the San Diego Marines, California Western University, the University of San Diego, and then compete in the San Diego Marine Tournament. Teams in that tournament are California, Cali-fornia, Santa Clara, California Western, San Diego State, Utah State, California State, and San Diego Marines. The Utes will then finish out their spring break with a game with California State. Starters Coach Summerhays will probably start George Theodore at first base, John Hunter at second base, Jack Gehrke at shortstop, Tom Kil-gore Kil-gore at third base, Scott M a y n e at catcher, Frank King in the outfield, out-field, and Dave Edmonds in the outfield. All of these seven players are from Salt Lake City. Jim White-ley White-ley from Glendale, California, will be the third outfielder. Dick Hardy, a sophomore from Salt Lake could be the ace pitcher. The lefthander had a 5-1 record and 2.73 ERA last year. Other top pitchers are senior righthander John Nordquist from Salt Lake (1.90ERA last season), sophomore righthander righthand-er John Landures, junior lefthander Alan Axtel, sophomore righthander Danny Prock, and Brent Walker, SCOTT MAINE . . . starting' catcher State in Tucson March 21st and 22nd. These will be dual meets where seven-man teams compete. Golf coach and University Golf Pro Vinnie McGuire will take Reid Goodliffe of Brigham City, Dave Jenkins of Salt Lake, Mike Wagstaff of Salt Lake, Jon Fister of Ogden, and Dick Palmer of Salt Lake to the meets as his first five golfers. The other two positions will be filled by Greg Sharp, George Jackson, Jack-son, Scott Maxfield, Martin Becker or Jim Hooks. Coach McGuire, "Basically, the " 4 V X 1 s BOB BATIE ( ... top sprinter |