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Show Thunderbird Baseball Team Opens Season With Games This Week, Weather Permitting College of Southern UtahThun-derbirds UtahThun-derbirds baseball squad is spending spend-ing its time indoors this week, but hopes to make it outdoors by Thursday when It opeu the 1963 season against the Weber College Wildcats of Ogden. Four games are on tap for the T-Birds this week end If the weather man will cooperate, Coach Geo Petty stated. Cedar City fans will be the first to see the Thunderblrds in action as the defending Intermountaln Inter-mountaln Collegiate Athletic Conference champions begin the quest for a repeat of that title. Thursday the squad will take on Weber in a double-header to be played at th Cedar City Municipal Mu-nicipal Park. Game time Is set for 1 p. m. Should weather not permit the game in Cedar City, it is the hope of the squad that it can be moved to St. George to be played at the same time. Friday the Thunderblrds will take off for Las Vegas, Nev., and will participate in another double dou-ble - header against Nevada Southern. Games Friday are also slated to begin at 1 p. m. The Thunderbirds should be one of .the strongest in the history his-tory of the school, Coach Petty stated. The squad has good pitching, pit-ching, with five men ready for mound action; good hitting this is probably the strong point of the squad this year; and fielding should be among the top as well, although a couple of positions have been slow in coming. Enthusiasm for baseball was evidenced early In January when a host of hopefuls turned out during a period of good weather for practice sessions. The squad has been working out since that time when ever weather would permit. Although they have not been on the field for the past week, owing to bad weather, the team has had more practice this year than in any previous year, although it has been drawn out over quite a long period of time. Last year, however, the team never appeared on a diamond before their first games in Las Vegas. |