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Show Three T-Birds Finish Out College Careers in Play This Week End It will all be wrapped up for the Thunderbird basket-i basket-i ball team this week and Coach I Boyd Adams and his crew will bo shooting for a double win Friday and Saturday to go out of the season in winning style. The T-Birds will meet New Mexico Highlands Friday night and the nationally ranked rank-ed Nevada Southern Rebels Saturday night to wind up the j set son. j Both games will bo on the homo court and action is slat- . ed to start at 8 p. m. on both . evenings. The task of going out of the J season on a victory is more difficult than it might appear, i The NSU Rebels are ranked; nationally and have defeated j 1 I the Thunderbirds in previous I action. Coach Adams, however, feels that the T-Birds are ready and they are playing their best ball of the season. CSU got off to a good start in December, slumped in January Jan-uary to take away a winning season, but have been coming back strong in their last few games. Against Highlands the T-Birds T-Birds are expected to have a better than even chance to pick up a victory, but Saturday, Satur-day, despite the home court advantage, will be a definite underdog. Several members of the team will be seeing action for the last time in CSU uniforms. uni-forms. On the senior list of the T-Bird squad are Paul West, team captain, Murray; Tom Means, Bakersfield, Calif.; Ro- bert Cuff, Murray. West and Cuff have been starters throughout the season sea-son and Means has been used extensively by Coach Adams, ! particularly in recent games. Doug Peterson, another senior, who started the season with j the T-Birds, will not see action. ac-tion. He has been sidelined earlier with back surgery. I Saturday the CSU-NSU game will be preceded by the school's Junior Varsities, who are slated to meet at 6 p. m. CSU JV's hold a victory over the Rebels earlier this season in Las Vegas. |