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FIRST STATE BANKOF SHALLOWATERMEMBER FOICSee JUCO STAR Pag^c 3 ★ ★ ★RALPH PALOMARm _Juco Basketballer Signs With Tech«\ji Texas Tech basketball coach [two seasons,SGerald Myers dipped into the? The El Pasoan’s scoring junior college ranks for the firstjaverage last year was 19.4 Jtime Friday, signing a 6-7jpoints, and he averaged 11 re-^ postman from College of bounds per game. He was nam-i?Southern Idaho. jed to the all-regional team andj Myers announced Friday the!was leading scorer in the .jsigning of Ralph Palomar to a regional tournament, His high J national letter-of-intent Thcigame of the year, 38 pointsj ^ signing is the seventh of theiagainst Snow College of Idaho, .basketball season but the first j tied the school scoring record. p | from junior college^ Palomar j palomar only visited twoa™ parents home injsckoo!s, Tech and University of ;L1 Paso Thursday, thus picking j JiTech over 20 major universities.! t; “Ralph will really help us on *;the offensive post,” said Myers. j“He’s a good offensive player, j He can get up and down the e; court well for a big man (220)! pounds) and he is a solid re-e bounder.ej Palomar, who attended high [school at Ysdeta, will be playing1 international basketball before ^getting down to the Southwest t Conference level next winter. He :t?has received an invitation to joinithe Mexican team in this sum-!3;mer’s Pan American games.]2 i Palomar said Friday that he will I leave for Mexico City the latter)! part of this month and stay with ithe team until August, j The Tech recruit was bom in j Juarez, making him eligible for |the Mexican team.i Palomar was the leading /[scorer on the Southern Idaho team which finished with a 37-3 record and advanced to the national junior college tournament finals, The loss in the finals (to Ellsworth, Iowa) was the only one to a junior college, the other two defeats coming to BYU and Weber State freshmen.Palomar is Tech’s second recruit from Southern Idaho in three years. Steve M i 11 e r I transferred from there and let-titered for the Raiders the pastRALPH PALOMAR
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Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Lubbock, Texas, US

Sat, May 15, 1971

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