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All tournament team members , top to bottom, left to right, Lee Tolliver, S::~.m Robinson , Darrell Albers, Bob
Jones, Doug Boyd, Stan Nixon. Bob Baker, Malcolm Taylor, Emerson Carr, and Bill Jones. Selection of the team
came following me clOse ot" the tour,nament.
srnont Grlffins . won the game, 91-60.
Judd, forward for the a shot in the game
Grossrnont
Steve Schneider
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Unidentified Imperial Valley Arab is cornered by San Diego Mesa's An-
Palomar's Gary Farr. tries to steal the ball from Grossmont forward, John Ugrin.
drew Wright, (45) and Johnnie Otis, ( 25), The Arabs won the contest 78-68.
Mira Costa's Richard Langen, passes to team-mate Jim Kelly,
Even though Palomar College's basketball team was eliminated from their own tournament after their second game, Coach Joe Brennan and the gang down in t~~ .gymnasium - carne through as cha~pJ~s--q-ot . te~p-l; Wis , :!Jut becaus of the fme job they did in the organization of one of the best junior college tournaments in California. Spectators of the tournament saw the stars of tomorrow. Names like Malcolm Taylor , Sam Robinson, George Trapp and others will be heard from both in University as well as professional basketball in years to come. Although the tournament is not yet a week old, Brennan is already thinking about next year's. He hopes to improve next year's tournament by adding out of state squads to the list of competitors. The tournament had all the ear-marks of great college basketball. It had great talent, partisan crowds, disputed decisions, and close games; all which go into the making of exciting basketball. Never before has Palomar had as much publicity as it did during this tournament. There was coverage in the Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union, San Diego Evening Tribune, Escondido Times Advocate, Santa Maria Times , A Riverside newspaper, Oceanside Blade Tribune. Vista Press, and reporters from nearly all of the colleges represented. In addition, there were three radio stations
game with Southweatern's AThe Mira Costa Spartans won
broadcasting from the dome gymnasmm. All in al1 the Palomar tournament rec ieved more coverage than any previous sports event in the North County. One of the great roundball players I P:rp~eut ~was 6' 8.'' forward-center Sam • 11ooinson, from Pasadena City College. Robinson tallied 95 points in the Lancers' four games and was name d to the all-tournament team. When you meet Robinson. you a utomatically get a strong inferiority complex because of his height. (That is, if your only 5'8" or less) I did anyway. As I stood beneath him asking if I could have an interview, I felt like a little child asking his parents for something. His height cannot be imagined until you s tand next to him and compare his height to yours. Robinson is in his sophomore year and plans on playing for UCLA next year. During his high school basket ball career, he was named twice by UPI to the high school all-american team. First when he was a junior he wasranked on the third team , and then in his senior year he mad the first team all-american. His scoring in the tournament, which was one of the highest scoring by an individual, was hampered by the fact that he could not see too well out of one eye due to an operation earlier this year. Considering this one wonders what he could do with normal vision.
Malcolm Taylor, of Allan Hancock College, recieves the Most Valuable Player trophy from Palomar College's tournament queen, Berleen Edmonds.
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