Show McGill Tops Record As Utes Beat I BELLY MCGILL tanks two of his 53 points scored in Saturday's The Redskins posted a victory By DAVE SMITH Chronicle Spoils Editor The Redskins caught fire Saturday night to scorch the Montana Silvertips with a while Billy McGill burned the strings off the loop by slapping the smoking sphere through for a record 53 BILLY'S PERFORMANCE put him as the lone holder of the Skyline scoring His 51 point game earlier this year gave him a tie with Joe former Wyoming scoring The Saturday began as though it would be a repeat of the game at Missoula last when Montana met defeat in the last seconds of action after leading Utah all the way through the Utah pulled a victory out of that while McGill scored a 26 The crew from Missoula held a short lead for just over two Then it was good-by ball game as McGill pulled the Utes over the only tie of the evening with three counters in a row Within 10 minutes he bad 23 The basket that tied the score also pulled Billy over the magic 2000 point As the game his career total had been boosted to The half-time activities began with Utah ahead all the McGill had 31 points of Utah's His total was only three points under Montana's total of 34 at the game's Bo Crain canned 18 points to be the only other Redskin to break into the double-figure scoring The eight other players who saw action helped run the score to within three points of the The Montanans were paced by Bob with a 17 point Steve who was credited with holding McGill to 26 points in the season's first was second leading scorer with 11 MONTANA'S CENTER had a bad night on the Ute He was forced to play a good share of the game with the threat of fouling out over his He shot 13 times and hit only four from the for 21 per Lowry grabbed only five a number well below the figure that put him at in the nation last UTAH PICKED UP 65 re bounds to Montana's 38 for the evening while hitting 49 percent to the Silvertips' The Utes hit 23 of 28 at the charity strip to tally 85 McGill pulled down 17 rebounds while hitting 21 of 41 from the field and 11 of 13 from the free-throw |