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Show T-Birds Play Three Basketball Games On Home Court This Week Before Chaffey Trio Basketballs will be flying at the College of Southern Utah fieldhouse this week as the : 1 in mm NEIL ROBERTS Leads Redmen's Hopes Thunderblrds take on a three game series prior to leaving for the annual tour into Southern California and participating In the Chaffey Invitational Tournament Tour-nament The T-Birds met Magic Valley of Idaho, a four-year institution, Wednesday evening and will tackle Rangley, Colo. Thursday and Friday evenings. Results of the CSU-Magic Valley Val-ley contest were not available at time of printing. Against Rangely the T-Birds will be hosting a new team from a newly formed Junior College. A roster of the traveling squad, however, indicates that Coach Adams' T-Birds will have a decided deci-ded heighth advr.:ge in the contests. Tallest man on the squad is center Kelvin Brath at six feet four inches. From there the Rangely crew drops to Bill Brent-on Brent-on at 6' 1" and three of the men stand at six feet even. All are freshmen on this first year of participation for the school and with one exception all are from Colorado. The lone exception Is Wes Punches of Vernal, Ver-nal, Utah. Smallest men on the CSU crew are guards Don Johnson and Hank Halverson, who both stand six feet tall and they range up to 6' 6" for both LaMar Pugh and Lynn Jensen. Mel Wads-worth Wads-worth stands 6'4" along with Ted Garrett and Dick Forbush. Coach Adams is expected to call on Pugh as his starting center cen-ter with leading T-Bird scorer Marian Roper at one forward spot and Mel Wadsworth, the leading rebounder, at the other. On the guard line will probably i be Ray Greenberg and Paul West, but they are being pushed hard by Bob Chambers and Hank Hal-. Hal-. verson. I A 12-man traveling squad will leave for California Tuesday of next week, scheduled to, open play In the Chaffey Tournament at Ontario, Calif, on Wednesday, j Dec. 12. |