| Show COUGARS R STAY S A YH IN LEAD E D BY y BEATING BEATIN TI Ei v X U BOBCAT V CAT sAL A LA G Ck V JA S Wins Wills Handily SI After Breaking Offense Off ense Ii p. p Play Home Quintet Quin tet et O on Even Terms for 16 I Minutes to Start it W v L L. Pet Pct Ps O OP P. P LU a 6 3 36 3 o h 31 6 e 4 eco tCO Stale State S 5 7 45 th i 2 6 Mondays Monday's roDd Result B. B Y Y- 0 U. 08 48 8 Montana State SLate 26 Schedule B 8 Y V P. P TI u. i. i Montana state at Bowman n. n tf Friday S Saturday Schedule I CUb 8 Utah Ales S at Lake By Bob Goodell PROVO Feb 16 B. 16 B. B Y U. U strength strength- used med ed its grip on first place in the thc western division hoop race on d ay n night t J h t hen en M Montana o n t a n a II late was subdued W I to 26 liar Ifor For 16 minutes i i ithe the first half haU i ich bach ch d Sch Schubert u b r t t I c Aches Ache's charges t. t ut t up a real bat- bat 1 l r e. e Then Captain wood R Rom Romney o m n e C Y id d Lou Johnson i k k id d a spectacular basket t drive f tat at r raised a 1 sed the 4 to 15 24 for aunt f c V 8 t Y U. U at half- half 1 f y 3 c clime lime Urne me I In the thc sec sec- i R md end od h half lf the Cou- Cou W jus ars t turned urn e d the Johnson Eray rray into a a rout and Montana State was seas forced into a hopeless elc s c chase a of their heir flying toes SUDS Subs for tor broth both oth teams and the Y reserves once more demonstrated their efficiency JY y showing a powerful scoring punch Captain Elwood Romney played his role of leader in the Y He was particularly brilliant brilliantS n S the first half when he hc chalked up 10 0 D points in spite of concentrated aimed to prevent his deadly hots at the hoop Nelson turned in ln a lid Id performance at center He tied omney for hi point high point h-point honors with 3 and played his best floor game ame f the year He also controlled the poff at all times JOnSSON PLAYS WELL ELL The Cougar guards giards were most cf- cf Lou Johnson playing l particularly arly ballEd ball Ed Breeden turned in an ng ig g game Iame for the Bobcats He was I Ian man an with 10 and did tron L on defensive work as well Cap- Cap ain un n Ray Buzzetti played a pretty loor game ame but could not locate theon the theon on ring The ine Bobcats' Bobcats inability to score core con- con at close range lost any hance the they might have had to tip ver vet the he Cougars Threatening the first half and show- show fig Ilg g excellent ability at following their hots the Cats missed a high per per- of ot tosses Had they been ble to amass s a fair number of or ring- ring rs while their offensive was click click- ig g the Cougars might have found lead d difficult to overcome AGAIN FA FAVORED The Cats are arc primed for a supreme tonight but fans who saw the pening penin game can see little hope fore for c e Bozeman crew Ray Hay Boothe started the Bobcats off oct ith a foul Coul toss soon after the game Nelson contributed a bad backard had back ard flip that swished the strings 1 i spectacular style and his foul toss ad rid Johnsons Johnson's setup shot increased ic le Y DY lead as another free throw Boothe was the sum total of the scoring during that time hen Breeden and Wendt located the Sop to put the Cats in the lead once ore and after a hard fight for points In ill shots b by Breeden and Wendt ave ive the visitors a 15 12 margin marsin Durig Dur- Dur ig this time lime the Cougars found cx- cx eme erne difficulty in penetrating theat the at ats' ats tight defense while the Cats ere advancing the ball smoothly id d following in their shots in elf cc- cc ve Vt style SINKS Sn TWO Romney then went on a scoring and bagged seven points in rapI rap- rap I succession Lou Johnson dashed the floor to score two setup I JOts and Romney caged another ml Ut to make the count 24 15 at the alt all Breeden r gave Montana's supporters no rne hope when he caged a pretty hand nc-hand hand to loss as the second half but Nelson led ted a Cougar ba bas bas- cl et drive that soon sewed up the ball line line- I Keith Ario Arlo who had been watch- watch 11 8 g Romney went out on personals I r numerous substitutions on both aras ms followed with the Y mar mar- 13 ll 2 mounting consistently Buke Robison Rob- Rob Iron ison on and Ferd Evans starred on of- of Cl c for the Cougar reserves who remarkably ably aggressive ba ball |
