Show Off on the right foot Fresno’s next and a little looser on defense” Tueller said “We were not taking our time and we gave them too many scoring opportunities "It’s a tough thing for kids to have a lead at halftime time and come out and play Shaun McKinnon sports writer By STOCKTON old fashioned Calif - nt What looked like a good blow-ou- t at halftime nearly turned into a fiery for Utah State Saturday night But the Aggies put out the blaze in time and 1 defeated the University of the Pacific before an A G Spanos crowd of 2197 The Aggies now 4 overall and 0 in the PCAA head south to Fresno State for a Monday (7:30 pm MST) outing with the struggling Bulldogs Fresno dropped to San Jose State back-at-yo- PAOHC COAST ATHUHC ASSOCIATION hard” blow-u- p u 78-7- 1-- 6-- 69"67 Utah State built a lead late in the first half then watched the Tigers claw back to within two with nearly 10 minutes still to play The Ags hit six of nine free throws in the final four minutes however and slowed an aggressive UOP attack to win their Pacific Coast Athletic Association opener their first on the road since joining the league “All in all it’s a pretty strong coach Rod Tueller said “We momentum in the second half but that’s going to happen on the road” The backbreaker for UOP Saturday may have been a three-poibucket by USU’s Reid Newey nt nt with 2:27 to play The Tigers trailed after freshman guard Jon Barry (son of basketball great Rick) banked in a follow-u- p shot Newer put the Ags up 9 and USU got the bail back when Pacific forward Willie Tatum drew an offensive foul The Tigers whose only lead in the ballgame was 4 came no closer than four points m the last two minutes and were forced to foul down 71-6- 9 74-6- 6-- the stretch “Our clutch foul shooting helped us” Tueller said “I also thought we nursed the ball well in the end” The telling numbers may be on the boards though Utah State dominated Pacific the Tigers 3 USU center Greg Houskeeper led all players with eight Utah State appeared to have the same won at the half leading by 14 points Pacific came out with a quicker lineup though and ran the ball with an aggressive attack and the Aggies' lead dwindled “We probably got a little anxiious offensively 40-2- break-oriente- d Kevin Nixon kept the Aggies alive in the 19 second half scoring 13 of nis game-hig- h Gilbert the intermission after Forward points Pete meanwhile started hot putting down 13 of 15 points in the first 20 minutes his season-hig- h Dan Conway added 11 points and Reid Newey and Houskeeper chipped m 10 apiece Tiger guard Domingo Rosario spent the first few minutes of the game on the bench as the Tigers experimented with a taller lineup but Dominican came in and sparked the the Pacific rally finishing the game with 19 points Barry and Christian Gray each added 13 Utah State breezed through most of the first half shooting 57 percent from the floor and was ahead 8 at intermission The Tigers played when close early and staged a 10 over drilled with a just Barry minutes in the half bringing UOP to within four 2 Houskeeper responded with a pair of quick buckets the second a slick follow shot to open up an eight-poimargin Tiger coacn Tom O'Neill drew a technical foul with 8:01 remaining and Jeff Anderson con 42-2- mini-comeba- three-point- ck er 16-1- nt verted both free throws Houskeeper added a lay-u- p when the Ags got possession and gave USU a 24-1- 4 lead Pacific went dry late in the half failing to score a field goal for nearly four minutes before James Cleaves rolled in a shot By then though Utah State had inflicted heavy damage holding on to a advantage Pete who finished the half leading both teams with 13 points gave his team a lead — 5 — with just over two minutes to play nailing a short jumper then converting on a nt 17-poi-nt 42-2- three-poi- play The Tigers hit three of four free throw attempts in the final 1:51 holding Utah State scoreless nt Pacific carried at least some of that into the second half hitting 58 percent of their field goals after a lackluster 31 percent the first half In less than six minutes the Tigers were within five 0 Anderson hit a with 11:33 to play and gave USU some breathing room but Pacific kept driving hard Rosario nailed a jumper with just under nine minutes to play and brought UOP to within two The Tigers stayed that close the next five minutes giving USU no more than four points until Newey hithis momentum 55-5- three-point- er 60-5-8 three-point- er The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday January 3 1988 Lobos ambush Arizona The Heels remember By United Press International Hunter Greene knocked away Sean Elliott’s shot with five seconds left Saturday night to preserve a New Mexico lead and give the Lobos a 9 victory over and previously unbeaten Arizona Greene swatted the ball away from Elliott as the Arizona forward launched a Craig McMillan recovered the loose ball and threw up an try that missed at the buzzer New Mexico 12--3 and 10-at University Arena nicknamed “The Pit” twice missed the front end of opportunities in the last 21 seconds After the first miss by Rob Robbins Arizona got a quick break but a try by McMillan with 12 seconds left missed Arizona 12-- 1 then fouled Rob Loeffel with was short on his nine seconds to go The first free throw giving Arizona the final chance Elliott scored 27 points to lead Arizona Jimmy Rogers a reserve guard had 15 for New Mexico Darrell McGee added 13 New Mexico led all the way Arizona had its worst shooting game of the season making 38 percent from the floor and only 5 of 21 from 61-5- top-rank- ed 0 one-and-o- ne range Heels 80 Bruins 73 The last time North Carolina came to Pauley Pavilion it was upset and stripped of its No 1 ranking Saturday the Tar Heels were determined not to fall again JR Reid hit 9 of 11 shots from the floor en v' s Hi Wjit fs's ' route to 25 points and Ranzino Smith contributed 18 points to power No 3 North Carolina to an ' Kentucky's Ed Davender hits the floor goggles askew as Georgia's Eric Burdette waits to pounce The Wildcats came down with the win 84-7- 7 Globetrotting ’Dogs hurt at home by ’Cats Combined news services Rex Chapman scored a points Saturday night to lead No 2 Kentucky to an 7 victory over Georgia 3 haftime lead but Georgia held a Kentucky took the lead for good at 1 with 15:21 left in the game on a basket by Chapman The Wildcats led by as many as 11 points at with 5:49 remaining but Georgia closed within 7 in the final minute Ed Davender hit two free throws to seal the victory 0 overall and 0 in the Kentucky Conference Southeastern got 22 points from Davender Winston Bennett finished with 19 10 rebounds points and a game-hig- h 5 was paced by Willie and Georgia Anderson with 19 points Toney Mack added 18 points and Alec Kessler had 16 points and a team-hig- h nine rebounds There are away games and then there are far away games Georgia's basketball team returned last Sunday from the longest trip in school history During the holidays the Bulldogs were gone for nearly two weeks traveling to Tokyo for three games (one an exhibition) m the Pnenix NCAA Ball and then stopping in Hawaii for three games in the Chaminade Christmas Classic The first day in Tokyo Dec 17 was shaky after 16 hours of flight time An earthquake that lasted about 15 seconds shook the city “Apparently they have earthquakes quite said Georgia assistant sports often there information director Norm Reilly “We didn’t talk much about it It was a bigger deal back home Later that night once people back in Georgia heard about it they started calling our hotel Our phones started ringing off the nook Everybody thought we were buried in a pile of ATLANTA season-hig- h NCAA notes — 84-7- 52-5- 70-5- 9 80-7- 9-- 8-- rubble” 2-- 0--1 The Bulldogs were buried once on the court By United Press International Alex English one of 13 players to reach double figures scored 34 points Saturday night to pace the Denver Nuggets to a 2 victory over the Detroit Pistons Isiah Thomas scored a season-hig- h 40 points for the Pistons The home loss was the second straight for Detroit after 10 straight victories Denver and Detroit played the highest scoring game in NBA history Dec 13 1983 when the e 4 Pistons scored a victory The highest-scorin- g regulation game in NBA 5 history was Denver's victory over San 151-14- triple-overtim- 163-15- 45-4- 4 In Hawaii Georgia lost to Virginia It was the team’s worst loss in coacn Hugh Durham’s 10 seasons at the school 87-5- Reilly said the Bulldogs' hectic schedule — six games in eight days — left little time for sightseeing or sunbathing And Reilly said Hawaii is crowded with touring basketball teams When Georgia limited Oklahoma to 93 points on Christmas Day in Hawaii it broke the Sooners streak at four games with at least 100 The NCAA record of 12 was set by — surprise — Nevada-La- s Vegas during the 1976-7- 7 season Oklahoma has a shot at two other scoring records The Sooners have scored 100 points or more seven times the record for one season is 23 by UNLV In their first team games the Sooners are averaging 1146 per game the record is 1105 by UNLV NOTES the senior floor leader for Arizona has the perspective of calamity and tragedy Kerr sat out last season after suffering a severe knee injury during the World Championships in the summer of 1986 The ligament damage was so severe one doctor told Kerr his career was over During Kerr's freshman year his father Malcolm the president of American University in Beirut was assassinated Arizona coach Lute Olson says Kerr is the best point guard in the country “Steve Kerr is the heart of any team he plays on” Olson said Steve top-rank- ed Kerr 3 89-8- 1986 BYU 109 Central Conn 76 Jeff Chatman scored 26 points and pulled down a game high 11 rebounds Saturday night in leading the Brigham Young University Cougars 6 win over to a decisive State Connecticut Central isiting with a The victory ended BYU’s record The Cougars open conference perfect play at home Jan 7 against Hawaii Chatman scored 20 of his points during the first half with the Cougars leading 7 Brian Taylor scored 16 for the game while Mike Smith added 14 and Andy Toolson had 11 BYU who shot 66 percent in the first half settled for 564 overall for the game The Cougars dominated the boards 2 against the shorter Central Connecticut team which is just in its second year of Division ball Utah 71 SFS 54 Junior Boo Singletary scored 17 points and a 9 rebounds m leading the Univeristy game-hig- h win over the of Utah Utes to a 4 visiting San Francisco State Gators Utah took an early 15-- 4 lead and had built it up to 1 with 3:43 left in the half The Utes kept all the Gators with the exception of Erik Fisher who had 6 baskets from scoring in the double digits Mitch Smith helped the Ute effort with 16 points and Gale Gondrezick added 15 109-7- ce pre-seas- on 9-- 0 60-3- 42-3- 1-- A 71-5- pre-seas- 32-1- There they go again but in ’83 it was better 186-18- 26 triumph over UCLA “We knew after the Bruins beat us last year they’d be all pumped up to beat us again” said Jeff Lebo who had 11 assists for the Tar Heels North Carolina lost 4 to the Bruins on Dec 1 80-7- AntonioJanil 1984 7 on 2 free throws Detroit pulled within by Bill Laimbeer with 1:48 left but Denver sank 8 of 9 free throws in the final 1 : 30 Kings 107 Jazz 105 Guard Reggie Theus made a straightaway jump shot at the buzzer and scored a 36 points Saturday night to lift the season-hig- h 5 Sacramento Kings to a victory over the Utah Jazz The win ended a three-gam- e losing streak for Sacramento which also received 18 points and 12 rebounds from forward Otis Thorpe Point guard John Stockton who tallied 21 points and 19 assists for Utah made the first of two free throws with 10 seconds left to tie the 5 with 10 seconds left game Following a Sacramento time out Theus took the control on the left flank and looked to pass but found no one open He then dribbled toward the key and shot as time expired Karl Malone who was benched for 12 minutes during the second half because of foul trouble paced Utah with 26 points 22 in the first half Thurl Bailey contributed 16 points for the Jazz e who ended a losing streak and fell to 139-13- 17-fo- ot 107-10- 105-10- two-gam- 14-1- 5 Malone the eighth leading scorer in the league picked up bis fourth foul less than five minutes into the third quarter and the Kings immediately prospered Kleine's free throw gave Sacramento 12 consecutive points during a 2:30 span and increased the Kings’ lead to with 5:53 left in the quarter Malone's inside play and the Kings’ poor shooting vaulted the Jazz back into the game in the second quarter Sacramento made only one of its first eight shots in the quarter as Utah outscored Sacramento 2 in the first 2:49 of the period to narrow its deficit to Sacramento rallied for six straight points but Utah slowly chipped away Malone began the rally with consecutive slam dunks and Kleine was then called for offensive goaltending Malone who scored eight points in the final 1:30 of the half hit a from the left side at the buzzer to give Utah a halftime lead The teams exchanged baskets for the first eight minutes of the opening quarter but the Kings began to pull away LaSalle Thompson came off the bench and scored two consecutive baskets giving Sacra0 mento the first lead of the game with 1:30 left in the opening quarter The Jazz meanwhile despite Malone’s 10 points in the quarter went flat The Kings icored the final 11 points of the quarter to take a advantage into the second period Theus had 11 points in the quarter for Sacramento Bulls 116 Nets 93 25 points Michael Jordan scored a game-hig- h and Dave Corzine and John Paxson scored six points apiece during a decisive run in the second quarter Saturday night enabling the Chicago e Bulls to snap a losing streak with a 3 victory over the New Jersey Nets with 4:45 left before Corzine's halftime capped the second-quartspurt lead The Bulls who and gave Ctucago a led 2 at halftime hit 16 of 26 shots from the floor in the second period Replaced by Mike Brown and Rory Sparrow in the starting lineup Corzine responded with a 21 points and Paxson had 13 season-hig- h 21 Mike Gminski scored a team-hig- h points for New Jersey which lost its 10th straignt on the 77-6- 9-- 37-3- 1 er 59-5- four-poi- 33-2- 7 24-2- nt 2 five-gam- 116-9- er er The Kings shot only 33 percent in the fourth ana bad possession with quarter but led 14 seconds left Malone however stole the ball from Smith and fed Stockton before he was fouled by Theus Theus also tallied nine assists and a season-hig- h seven rebounds for the Kings Joe Kleine contributed 13 points and 12 rebounds for 105-10- 4 Sacramento 48-3-2 57-4- road 14-- 0 4 |