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Show Cowboys Take Game In Final Minutes UTAH NARROWED the score to one in the closing minutes, but three turnovers in the last two minutes allowed Wyoming to build up its eventual five point spread. Robinson led the floor and ended his third season as conference con-ference scoring champ. Averaging Averag-ing 28 points per game, he bettered bet-tered that mark Saturday, with 33. Richardson had 31 and Clark hit 21. Lash's final game saw the squatty forward take 23 points with Kroeger finishing his crimson crim-son career with 19. Rich Tate also hit 19 and juniors Chambers and Fisher each tallied 17 to round out a balanced starting five. JOE DAY hit two, Leonard Black five and George Rausch did not score. Keith Allred sat on the bench for his final game. In the wild preliminary con test which saw seven former Ute stars plus two current red shirts, the Intra-mural all-stars handed the Utah frosh its second sec-ond loss of the year with a 99-98 99-98 reading. JOHN ALLEN of the Stars hit 34 with Kent Stepan giving the coming season a lot of hope with 16 and T-Bone Farrell also hit 16. Gene Lake's 23 points led the Papooses with Gene Rodgers close in at 22. Alex Churchich hit 17 and Brent Smith had 13. By REECE STEIN Chronicle Sports Writer Utah's two first string seniors climaxed their careers with high point honors, but Granny Lash and Skip Kroeger weren't enough to overcome a run-and-shoot bunch from Laramie. THE 1965 WAC season ended on a losing note for the Utes 107-102. It gave the Utes sole domination domina-tion of the cellar and it is the poorest conference finish for coach Jack Gardner. The WAC mark stands at 3-7 and the year ended 17-9. UTAH JUMPED off to an early lead which the Skins managed man-aged to hold for most of the first quarter. But Randy Richardson Rich-ardson and Leon Clark soon erased the Ute margin and carried car-ried Wyoming to a 57-54 half-time half-time lead. Utah's George Fisher was the big Skin in the first half as Jerry Chambers got into foul trouble and left early in the game with three. GRANNY LASH hit the first three Utah goals to put the Utes back into the game as the second sec-ond half got underway, but all-America all-America honorable mention guard Flynn Robinson caught fire and seemed to be unstop-able. unstop-able. He carried Wyoming to eight and nine point leads only to see Chambers, Kroeger and Lash along with Rich Tate erase the margin. |
