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Show Got eoacn if golf meets in Colorado, starting with Falcon Invitational at Colorado the Friday will close the fall golf season for the Springs, Southern State Thunderbird team. At least 20 teams, including host Air Force Academy, are expected in the field at Colorado Springs. Essentially, this is a tournament that annually includes the whos who of golf in the West plus some top nonwestern teams, said Golf Coach Tom Kingsford. Falcon Invitational, Following the which wall be played Friday through Sunday, the Birds will move over to Evergreen, Colo., Monday for the first 18 holes of a tournament being hosted by Colorado School of Mines. Tuesday, the final 18 of the Mines tournament will be played at the Bear Creek Course in Lakewood, Colo. We are an awfully young team; our veteran player is a sophomore, said Kingsford. Back-to-bac- k 36-ho- - le c team P jtLh fQ 0 fTH. The competition at the Falcon Invitational will be very fast, but it will give our players a chance to compete with some of the best and grow with the experience. The Monday-Tuesda- y meet will be played on two beautiful courses and will include teams from the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Golf Association. Well be against good golfers there too. Through the first two meets of the fall season, freshmen Jared Barnes and Colby Cowan and sophomore Jason Mitchell lead the SUSC scoring. All three are from Cedar City. Barnes averages 76.4 strokes per 18 holes played. Mitchell and Cowan average 77.4 strokes. We have had three weeks away from competition, and we arent sure what that will do to our young team. There was some improvement between the first two meets; we want that to continue in these next two tournaments, Kingsford said. SOUTHERN UTAH STAJ TXEGE, CEDAR CITY Golf Coach Tom Kingsford rarely gets a chance to read Golf Digest. Instead he keeps busy coaching his young linksters in the ways of collegiate stroking. THE THUNDERBIRD THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1989 PAGE 10 irds look to break SC defense Saturday The most critical game of the season to date will be staring the Southern Utah State football team square in the face Saturday afternoon when the Thunderbirds host Santa Clara University in Western Football Conference contest. Game time for the SUSC homecoming game is 1 p.m. at Thunderbird Stadium. This is a crucial time in our season, said Jack Bishop, SUSC head coach. We need a win to realistically keep our WFC title hopes alive. We also need a win to keep from having to dig out of a big hole and finish near the top in the league. A loss is unthinkable for us at this point. The Birds will take a overall record into this weekends In WFC Birds are now Santa Clara has a action, the game. 2 overall record; in conference play, the Broncos are 1 after a 27-1- 7 n loss to two-tim- e Portland State. defending Physically, SUSC will go into the game in relatively good shape. Two defensive backs, Robert Butler and Vince Collet, played strong games last week at Sacramento State after being labeled as only probable players. Both will be at full strength this week. Damon Olsen, a senior inside linebacker and key defensive player, has an outside chance of seeing action this week. I still maintain that we are a good team, that a 1 record can win the conference, and that we are capable of winning the WFC race, Bishop said. I didnt say it would be easy, but the conference is very balanced this year, and we can be right there with the rest of them. Santa Clara has yet to lose to SUSC in three games since SUSC joined the WFC. Games between the two teams, however, have always been close. Bishop figures that this years Santa Clara team may be the best the northern California college has generated in the last four years. They play sound football. They are very physical. Offensively, they are a lot like Sacramento State, said Bishop. He thinks that last weeks performance, a 9 loss to Sacramento State, was the least inspiring of the year by the Thunderbirds. That game followed a week away from action and what Bishop considers his teams best offensive performance this year in a heartbreaking 37-3- 4 loss at Idaho State. our continuity, and we need Offensively, we need to to establish control at the line of scrimmage. At Sac State we seemed to be out of synch all night, and that destroyed our effectiveness. When needing the key play we came up wanting, the veteran SUSC coach noted. Defensively we are technically and strategically where we want a 1- -3 0-- 1. 3-- 0-- WFC-champio- 4-- Cpt. Rue Palmer instructs Staff Sgt. Petemell on how to shoot the rifles used by SUSCs rifle team. Riflers shoot their way to second The SUSC rifle squad took its stance against six other teams last weekend in Reno, Nev., at the University of Nevada-Ren- o Invitational. The Birds finished second behind a team that is slowly becoming a nemesis University of San Francisco. Rifle Coach MSgt. Thomas Templin said his young team was beaten by the more established California team. Were just newly organized, and were a young team, he said. But we havent done any backsliding. Were coming up and up (each meet), he said. High finishers for the Thunderbirds were 31-1- (CONTINUED ON PAGE 11) |