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Show Ladv T-bi rds enter Santa Fe Tourney m Despite a. mostly lackluster performance over the weekend, Southern Utah State's women's volleyball team will be one of the four favorites in the Southern Invitational Friday and Saturday. The Thunderbirds, along with Eastern New Mexico University, Air Force Academy, and the University of Southern Colorado, will be favored in the seven-team round robin meet. The tournament will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico; the College of Santa Fe will host the meet. "We will have to play better and with more consistency con-sistency than we did last week, if we are to win at Santa Fe," Joy Peterson, SUSC coach, said. "Except for our game against Idaho State last week, we didn't play very well." The T-Birds did win three of five matches last week to run their season record to 18-(i. 18-(i. They also bumped off ISU for the second time this season to virtually wrap up the number one seed from the western conference of the Intermountain Conference. Con-ference. That should give them favored bracketing in the regional tournament November 18-19 at Durango, Colorado. Idaho State is the only conference opponent the T-Birds T-Birds met last week. SUSC came away with a 7-15, 15-7, 16-14, 15-7 victory over the Bengals. Earlier the 'Birds topped ISU at Pocatello. SUSC also whipped College of Eastern Utah 1 15 7, 15-9, 17-151 and Dixie College (15-5, H 17, 15-5, 15-5) 15-5) last week. Losses came at the hands of Brigliain Young University's jayvees (11-15 and 5-15) and the University of Utah jayvees tU-Ki. 15-13. 16-18). At Santa Fe, each team will play each other team once; the team with the best record will then be declared the Southern Invitational champion. All matches will be determined on a best two of three games basis. SUSC has defeated Southern Colorado once (in the Northern Invitational) and Air Force Academy once (in Western Invitational), In-vitational), but has not met Eastern New Mexico this year. "Those three-and us- will definitely be the teams to watch," Peterson said. SUSC's schedule at Santa Fe: Friday: 1:30 p.m. -SUSC vs. College of Santa Fe 6 p.m.-- SUSC vs. Eastern New Mexico 7:30 p.m. -- SUSC vs. University of Southern Colorado Saturday: 10:30 a.m. -- SUSC vs. Air Force Academy 12 noon --'SUSC vs. New Mexico Highlands University :M p.m. -- SUSC vs. Western New Mexico University. |