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Show Redmen - T-birds warm up in inter-squad, alumni games Friday night will be a , night of basketball for sports fans of the area as they will have an opportunity to see both Southern Utah State College and Cedar High School teams in action. The evening will get underway un-derway with an intrasquad game for Coach Stan Jack and his Thunderbirds of SUSC. That will begin at 6 : 30 p.m. That will be followed by ; a Cedar High-Alumni basketball contest at 8:30 p.m. Both will be played at the Cedar High School gymnasium. For SUSC and the T-Birds it will be the final warmup of the season as they will jump into Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference action Monday evening as they take on Western States on ; their home court. Gametime is set at 7:30 p.m. at SUSC Memorial Fieldhouse. For Coach John Neilsen and his Redmen it will also be a final opportunity before moving into the tough Region Six league schedule next week. The Redmen will host the Dixie Flyers on Friday, Dec. 2. Sophomore action will begin at 3:30. The Junior Varsity will play at 5:30 and the varsity games are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. For the Redmen this year there are some uncertainties at this time. Coach Neilsen indicated that the Redmen have some definite strengths and some definite weaknesses. On the positive side the Redmen have good experience ex-perience back in the senior members of their squad. "We also have quickness, but that quickness will be an uncertain factor until we know what the opposition has," he said. The head mentor also listed altitude as a factor. "The boys want to work hard, are working hard and seem to want discipline," he said. "This is as hard a working group of oung men that I have ever worked with," he commented. com-mented. Weaknesses at this point all stem around the size of the club. "We are small-to put it mildly. We do not have the size nor the aggression on the boards," Neilsen stated. Additionally the Redmen are "suspect" on sheer shooting and rebounding could be a problem, again because of the lack of size. "There are some giants in this league and the only thing we can do at this point is simply outnumber them on the boards," Coach Neilsen said., In the Alumni contest, former players are being restricted to the last two years. In action will be the Osborne twins, Brent and Kent, Robert Morris, Joe Wells and Charles Judd. From the 1976 squad there will be Brad Blackner, Lindy Davis, Kim Neilsen, and possibly Lee Holmes and Scott Burns. What about Region Six, Coach Neilsen was asked. "We really don't know." Bingham, the defending champions are in 4A this year and Pleasant Grove who played for the title, lost their starting six," Neilsen said. Few clubs have much in the returning letterman class. Dixie, for instance has only one, Chuck Ence, back this season, but they had a strong JV squad. .It is expected that American Fork will be one of the teams to beat along with Provo, Springville and Timpview. "The opening week of action should give us some barometer. Dixie will be at Cedar, Provo at Pleasant Grove, American Fork at Payson and the possible big game of the opening week will be Springville at Timpview," Timp-view," Coach Neilsen, speculated. |
