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Show Saturday In Provo Redskin cagers bow to Cougari as Newlin, Gardner not enougl against balanced BYU scoria By Geoff Towns Staff Writer Brigham Young University held on to a slim lead Saturday to hand the Redskins their third Western Athletic Conference (WAC) loss before 10,665 fans in George Albert Smith Fieldhouse in Provo. The victory put the Cougars conference mark at 3-2 and boosted their season record to 12-9. The Utes are now 9-11 for the year. one as the result of . , , " foul on the Redskins. " Gardner Leads Scorer, High scorer in the game, Ken Gardner who hit"' for the Utes. Newlin, who 1 ftrst t.mem eight gaJ net high-scoring honors Redskins, tallied 9a ' 0,11 remaining in the first half. But the Utes cooled off and led by only one at halftime, 40-39. After 15 minutes of the final period, the Utes and Cats had battled to a 63-63 deadlock. Scott Warner sank a free throw to give the Cougars a one-point lead, and Kari Liimo followed with a 20 foot jumper to build the lead to three. Newlin Closes Gap No Big Rallies Neither team was able to spark a rally that resulted in a large lead. The Redskins managed to build the biggest lead of the afternoon of eight points with 3:41 Mike Newlin hit a jump shot to bring the Redskins to within one, but Warner saw an opportunity for a lay-up and used it to extend BYU's lead to three once again with 2:57 remaining. After a Cougar time-out, Doug Howard was fouled by Ute Joe English, and his two free shots gave BYU a five-point advantage with only 2:13 left in the game. Ken Gardner got two of the points back for the Redskins on foul shots with 1:53 remaining, but that was all the scoring the Utes could manage. With four seconds on the clock, Ute Jim Mahler intentionally fouled Howard, who hit three free throws, including For the Cougars, Hot, scored 23, Marty Lyth oe h ? and Paul Ruffner fiLj,; game with 14. It was the 112th matin. two teams and the Cougars 1 he Redskins will have a char for revenge on their homer Feb. 22, but for now they wl concentrating on the UniverA Arizona, whom the Utes willi on Thursday in Einar ft'. Fieldhouse. j 1 I Kittens Down Ule Frosk J t In freshman action follor c the varsity contest, BYU's Kit defeated the Papooses llH The loss put the Ute frost il; t for the season. The Kittens: tl now 9-5. Thursday the Pap- 7 will meet Ricks College pi Si the varsity tilt. - |
