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Show T- Birds Travel j To California For Casaba Wars i The College ot Southern L'tah, after a pair of games at home, go on the road this week as they Havel to sunny California to meet a pair ot opponents in the San Diego area. i-riday night Coach Boyd Adams and nis T Birds will be going against The Naval Training Train-ing Center, and Saturday they wul take on tough California Western University. lioing into the California series the Thunderbirds will take a one win and two loss record. They lost their opener to Westminster College at bait LaKe City bet ore splitting a pair this past week with Azusa i'acific on tne home court. Hod Oliver has taken over the scoring leadership on the squad with a 2.5 point average in the two games against Azusa with Mel Wadsworth leading the rebounding. re-bounding. The two veteran forwards for-wards are expected to carry a good share of the load in outings this week in San Diego. Al Dee Konopnicki, transfer center has been getiing tile starting start-ing call lor the post position, but 'licsiiman Louis Christensen of ui'igham City lias showed some unusual strength in a reserve ca- I pacity. j On the guard line the Thunder-birds Thunder-birds appear to have their greatest great-est depin with oniy John Johnson John-son a sure starter. 1'aul West has been getting the call up to this point but Joe Castillo and trans- ' ler Kobert Cuff have also seen a J lot of action. The Thunderbirds hope to be-) gin to jell in th series and if they do they could be a top notch team. To date their biggest trouble trou-ble has been ball handling with too many turn overs tnrough miscues in assignments and patterns. pat-terns. Following the California journey jour-ney the T-birds will return home for a brief one-game battle against Grand Canyon College of Pnoenix, Ariz, on Monday I |