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Show 4 r r. Gerald Roundy Heath Spencer Roundy And Spencer Will Play Basketball In Australia, New Zealand ESCALANTEBOULDER Two young men from this area will travel to New Zealand and Australia as part of two basketball teams being be-ing organized to compete throughout through-out the two countries. Gerald Roundy, 18, who graduated gradu-ated from Escalante High School in May, and Heath Spencer, 17, who returns to Escalante High School as a senior in the fall, will spend nearly three weeks playing basketball basket-ball and sightseeing in the two countries. The young men will travel with Ron Steinke, former head basketball basket-ball coach at West High, Miles Community College, and Olympus High School. Since retiring from Olympus High, Steinke has occasionally occa-sionally been asked by the New Zealand and Australian Basketball Federations to bring basketball teams to tour and play. Special invitations have been extended because of the outstanding behavior and top quality of the teams that have gone out from Utah in the past. "We did have two teams go last year," said Steinke in his letters to both boys, "and both teams played in the first ever 'Great Australian Shootout,' which was held in Melbourne." Mel-bourne." The tournament included the top 15 teams throughout the world. Steinke said this year's teams will not participate in the tournament because he feels it limited their ability to travel and see more of Australia than just Melbourne. Roundy and Spencer will have two days of practice in Salt Lake City with other team members at Westminster College before flying to on July 10 for flying to Los Angeles An-geles where they will leave for the (See Roundy And Spencer on Page 7 A) RoundySpencer From Page 1 Fiji Islands and then Wellington, New Zealand. They will play in Wellington and then take a boat across the island to South Island. Traveling by train, they will start playing basketball in Blenheim, Christ Church and play all the way down to Duncdin, spending about nine days in all in New Zealand. Then they will fly to Melbourne or up into Brisbane, where it is expected ex-pected to be warmer. The playing squads will consist of only 10 players on each team, a returning high school team on which Spencer will play and a senior-graduated team on which Roundy will play. The trip is sanctioned by all three countries, including the American Amer-ican Basketball Federation. There are no NCAA restrictions regarding the trip. New Zealand and Australian Aus-tralian federations will line up the games played and billeting. The youth will slay in private homes throughout their travels. The cost of the trip is being borne by the families of each youth and several fund-raising events have been planned to help, i |