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Show Thunderbirds Face Another Week Of Road Competition With four road losses during the past week the College of Southern Utah Thunderbirds checked in briefly early this week if only to take time to register for winter quarter classes, and will take off again this week for an-, an-, other rugged road trip. Friday the Thunderbirds will tangle with Grand Canyon Col- lege at Phoenix, Ariz., and Saturday Satur-day will move on to Western New Mexico University at Silver City, I N. M. to tangle with the Mus- tangs. The Thunderbirds hold a vie-' vie-' tory over Grand Canyon College, : having defeated the scrappy An- telopes in an overtime period at ! the CSU memorial fieldhouse. Grand Canyon, on the other I hand, faired better than the T-! T-! Birds in the Top of The Nation tournament at Alamosa, Colo., over the week end when they won two of three games while the T-Birds were losing all three. On that neutral court the T- I Birds were defeated by Minot State and Grand Canyon handed the Minot crew a defeat in the tournament. Hoping to pull their force back together the T-Birds are regrouping regroup-ing this week in an effort to improve im-prove their status on this road trip. in meeting Western New Mex-' Mex-' ico the T-Birds will be tangling with a powerhouse in District 7 of the NAIA. The Mustangs finished fin-ished second in the district last season and the team has eight returning lettermen to contend witli this season. It will be another rugged road trip for Coach Boyd Adams and his T-Birds. Both games this week end will be broadcast over radio KSUB. On Tuesday of next week the Thunderbirds will return to their home court to meet Westminster College of Salt Lake City. It will be the T-Birds' first game' at hime since December 19 when they defeated Grand Canyon College and the battle should prove to be an interesting one. Westminster performed in Cedar City during the Canyon Country Classic tournament losing their iir.'it game of the season to Nevada Neva-da Southern University then picking pick-ing up consolation honors in the tourney with a win over Southern California. They feature a fast break and excellent board strength. |