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Show CSD Invitational Basketball Touament Opens Friday The annual College 6f South-em South-em Utah basketball tournament will be staged Friday and Saturday Satur-day evenings, Dec. 1 and 2 at the CSU fieldhouse with two games on the docket for each evening of play. CSU Thunderblrds will host the two-night affair and three Southern South-ern California Junior College clubs will be on hand to try their luck at winning the championship cham-pionship trophy. Coach Cleo Petty announced the pairing, indicating the San Bernardino club will meet Glen-dale Glen-dale College at 7:30 p. m. in the opener Friday evening followed by. the Compton College Tartars against the Thunderblrds in the 9 p. m. game. Saturday evening, Friday's losers los-ers will meet at 7:30 p. m. followed fol-lowed by the championship game at 9 p. m. pitting Friday winners against each other. ' As a special feature of the annual tournament the Compton College marching band and the famous Compton College Comet-tes, Comet-tes, popular precision marching group, will be in attendance and will perform both evenings, Coach Petty indicated. Glendale, it is understood, will send into the tournament one of their smallest clubs In recent years and made up principally of freshmen. Only four sophomores sopho-mores are listed on the roster and only one is a returning let-terman. let-terman. He is Gary Tapper, six feet four and one-half inch center. cen-ter. The club is coached by Abe Androff. Little advance information has been received on Compton and San Bernardino, but the San Bernardino club should be given the favorite's spot in the tournament tourna-ment on the basis of last year's performance and number of let-termen let-termen returning. Coach Cleo Petty has had only one opportunity to see his T-birds T-birds in action that against an Alumni team this past week end. He is still looking for his best combination. Tentative starting calls for the Thunderblrds will include LaMar Pugh at center, Don Chamber lain and Marian Roper at forwards for-wards and Glen Gray and Larry Dehlin at the guard spots. Considerable Con-siderable action is also expected from Ron VanWagenen, CSU's only returning letterman and Gayle McKeachnle, at forward and center, respectively. Coach Petty also pointed out that the tournament is the first game included on this year's season ticket 13 home games for $10 General admission seats each evening will be $1.50 and 75 cents for children. Season tickets are on sale. |