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Show T-iirels liieof Parsons Friday "UNLV nas given us fits all" year, but well try again Saturday Sat-urday to get a win over them," , , Petty said. "Craig Lloyd is scheduled to start one of the two games. The other T-Bircl starter has not yet been named." nam-ed." SUSC lost four of its five games in California last week "but we were playing some of the nation's best, and we still , very definitely feel we have a strong team," Coach Petty said- The lone victory was the de- cision over the U. of San Diego -In addition to the 5-2 loss, the 'Birds also dropped a 7-4 decision de-cision to the USIU nine. ' ' ' The T-Birds also dropped 10- "" 8 and 14-1 decisions to the V nation's number two ranked college division team, U. of -California at Irvine. The showdown comes Friday Fri-day at 1 p.m. on the Southern Utah State College baseball diamond. Westminster College will be in town to attempt to block the Thunderbirds' chances for some post-season action in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Con-ference championship playoffs. play-offs. SUSC is still being considered consid-ered for the National Association Associa-tion of Intercollegiate Athletics Athlet-ics (NAIA) District Seven playoffs, May 11-13 at Phoenix. Phoe-nix. Almost certain to be in the District Seven tournament are Grand Canyon and Adams State. A third berth will probably pro-bably go to New Mexico or SUSC. "One more team will be selected, but it will not be from our geographic area," Petty said, Westminster scores indicate that the Parsons have some outstanding performers, but lack depth across the entire team. "We aren't about to look past them," Petty said. "We've got to get past them; all the speculation in the world about how good our team is won't do us any good if we don't win." Probable starting pitchers against the Parsons will be Roger Fairless and Wayne Butler, a pair of righthanded sophomores. Fairless lost a 5-2 5-2 decision to United States International University in his last outing. Butler pitched six innings against San Diego University last week in his most recent start. The Thunderbirds Thund-erbirds eventually won that game, 5-4. After the two Friday Westminster West-minster games, SUSC comes right back Saturday with an 11 a.m. home doubleheader a-gainst a-gainst rival University of Ne-i Ne-i vada, Las Vegas. |