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Show The Thunderbird I 1 ? r s i Lady Birds top ASC BY D The Adams State women cagers came to town Saturday to avenge a previous loss to the Lady 'Birds on their home court But the SUSC team rebounded from two straight setbacks and downed the Lady Indians 94-7- 9 with their highest point output of the year Lady 'Bird Coach Boyd Adams was pleased with his squad s efforts "It's so tough to come back and play a good game after a long road trip," he said 'Tonight we played with a lot of intensity. Played good defense and rebounded well when we had to And we shot real well tonight," Adams went through plenty of shooting drills with the team this past week. It obviously paid off as they shot a whopping 49 percent from the field The Lady Indians played hard and shot real well themselves. But SUSC blew it open with just under five minutes to play as Denise Muir canned a lean-i- n jumper on one of Kim Free's 12 assists to make it Muir finished with 26 But the queen of the the on night. points court was Angela Levi, who had 20 In a losing cause, Stephanie Mondragon made her presence known scoring 21 points, but so did her coach Jack Cotten as he picked up two technical 0 fouls Adams State trailed only at halftime. 42-4- Tonight the Lady Birds will take on Fort Lewis in the biggest game of the year Fort Lewis has a one game lead in the loss column, and an SUSC victory tonight in the Centrum would put the Lady 'Birds in a first place tie with the Lady Raiders. They will be 0 against d them in competition with a in win And that's the first determining the conference championship. According to Adams "Fort Lewis has a lot of height and are very physical." It will be a battle, don't miss it!" 2-- head-to-hea- SUSC over Adams State in the Centrum had four players Saturday. The in double figures in the conference win. Birds down Indians 90-8BY STAN KONTOGIANNIS Maz Trakh scored eight of his team high 21 points in overtime to lead the Thunderbirds over Adams State 90-8- 5 Saturday. Trakh led four SUSC players in double figures. Trakh hit a jump shot with two seconds remaining in the game to After an ahead 77-7- 5 put the State Adams timeout, Steve Lueke was called for his fifth foul during the dead ball. Curt Barber went to the line and canned the two charity tosses to tie the game at 77. Joe O'Neal's court length shot missed and the game went into overtime. With 1 16 left in the extra period, the scored three successive points to Trakh hit six put them up by five, 86-8and the free throws overtime in straight went nine for nine from the charity stripe for the night The game was physical SUSC being called for 30 team fouls and Adams State .t.lWg called for 28 Coach Bob 25-fo- ot 1. 94-7- 9 points of her own to go along with 11 rebounds, topped off with four blocked shots Rene Ramsey scored 13 points and also pulled down 11 boards. Adams said that Darla Hunt played well all around. "And (Kelly) McFalls came off the bench, and performed well," he said. WE BURNS 82-6- 4. Maz Trakh fires over an Adams State player. Trakh scored eight of his 21 points in the overtime period to lead Page 9 Monday February 10, 1986 5 Schermerhorn said, 'We didn't play the defense with our feet, but with our hands that's why we had so many fouls." The game difference came from the free throw line where SUSC hit 28 of 41 while the Indians hit 23 of 35. Russell Otis added 20 points SUSC, while Joe O'Neal tallied 18 along with 13 rebounds and Gordon Anderson chipped in 13 points in the win. Schermerhorn said the Adams State game was Anderson's finest. T odd Reed scored 23 of his game high 30 points in the first half to lead Adams State to a 9 lead. Rick Gunther tallied 20 points, David Ray chipped 12, and Pat Crawford added 10 for the Indians. Gunther also pulled down 12 44-3- rebounds. T onight the T -- Birds are looking to avenge an earlier loss to Ft. Lewis SUSC fell to the Raiders in Durango. "We want to go on the road with a 4 in the RMAC We are ready to play them," Schermerhorn said The 'Birds are now 4 in the conference and 12-- 9 overall 7-- 6-- k AoS rfjt ri .nijAiit tter the ball against Angela Levi go Adams State. Levi scoredO points. i snagged 11 rebounds and blocked four shots. |