California Western University - Loma Del Mar Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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NNUAL HCLIDAY TCURNAMENT Holiday Tournament Queen Jackie Lokey shows trophies to be presented to service and college division winners. Lem Lemons follows a steal from Cal Poly with a leaping layup. Cal Western's Golden Gym was the site of the third annual Holiday Basket- ball Tournament which featured four colleges and four service teams. Co-sponsored by Cal Western and the Marine Corp Recruit Depot, the eight team tourney was the only major col- legiate sports event in San Diego during the Christmas holidays. College teams' were Westminster College of Salt Lake City, Whittier College, Cal Poly lSan Luis Obispol and Cal Western. Service clubs were MCRD, Phib Pac, Hamilton AFB, and Vandenburg AFB, ln collegiate action Cal Poly side- tracked Whittier 77-59, and Cal Western fought off a late rally by Westminster to score a 65-62 victory. The opening day also saw Phib Pac's Fred Minus shatter the Tournament scor- ing record with 44 points. ln the second day Phib Pac defeated Hamilton AFB 83-72, for the service title. Vandenburg crushed MCRD 81-71, for third place. After a fast moving first half Cal Poly pulled away from the Westerners and won college division honors 67-49. Whittier picked up third place by down- ing Westminster 85-60. ln the Holiday Tournament finale, tall and talented Cal Poly turned back the Phib Pac Quintet 67-58, to win the Tourney championship. Host Cal Western won third place honors with an 81-73 triumph over Hamilton AFB. Hefner paced the West- erners with 22 points. Whittier won the Consolation championship 80-66 over Vandenburg AFB. All-Tournament college team was Horwath and Wilmot of Cal Poly, Lem- ons of Cal Western, Freese of Whittier, and Bliss of Westminster College. Service selections were McKnight and Minus of Phib Pac, Mealy of MCRD, and Fields and Jefferson of Vandenburg. 195

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GOLDEN GYM SITE O CGI Poly gumd goes in for layup during frrst round game with Whittier. Q- E if ,553 Q 1' Veteran Center John Carlyle shoots overhead for two points in Center Don Champ Early receives team third place Tournament trophy from Queen Westerner game with Tournament wlnner, Cal Poly. .Jackie Lokey.

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