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Show Bronco Athletes Shift Interest To Outdoor Sports With the end of Winter quarter quar-ter and the opening of Spring quarter at the College of Southern South-ern Utah this week a turn to outdoor sports has also been taken, ta-ken, according to Cleo Petty, athletic ath-letic director. Competition this spring at the college will be concentrated in track and field and baseball with the outlook fairly 'rosy", but with baseball in Just a little better situation, Petty said. An official call for participants in the spring events was issued this week with both sports to begin offical drills on Monday. Coach Tetty will handle the baseball and Coach Bruce Osborne Os-borne will take over the chores of track and field. Petty indicated that a number num-ber of last year's men would be on hand for the sports this year with prospects for additional addit-ional talent encouraging. In the track and field events coach Osborne Indicates that the strength of the team will depend de-pend on the attitute of the boys who answer the call. Track, he pointed out, is one event that demands de-mands an excessive amount of training, and probably the most individual competlve sport on the year's agenda. Track is a team sport only In the light of a cumulative cum-ulative total, he pointed out. Points are garnered by Individual participation. CSU's baseball team came second sec-ond in Intermountain Collegiate Athletic Conference play losing only to Boise Broncos of Boise, Ida. in a playoff last year. The track team last year fared the same. They dropped out of a seven year reign as track and field champions last year placing second behind Rick's Vikings. Only, two meets have been definitely de-finitely scheduled so far this year. They are the BYU Invitational Invita-tional and the ICAC meet to be held at Weber College this year. Other meets are under arrangement, arrange-ment, Osborne stated. |