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Show 1978 The Daily Utah Chronicle, Tuesday, December 5. Page Ten Record drops to 2--2 Ibommbodl Oregon Slate rode consistent shooting and a tough rone defense to earn an easy 74-5- 6 victory over Utah Monday night in Corvalis. The first half began as a carbon copy of the Utah game with Southern California Saturday night. Oregon State jumped off to an early 3 lead and stretched it to 38-1- 8 with three minutes left in the half. Utah scored the last couple of baskets and closed the gap to 38-2- 1 at half time. rone defense during Oregon State employed a tough the first half that symied the Utah offense. The Utes were cold from the outside, allowing Oregon State to bottle up the middle and stop the Utah inside game. Fine outside shooting by Oregon State's guards Mark Radford and Ray Blume killed the Utes during the first half. Radford collected 1 1 first half points and Blume chipped in manage two free throws during the first halt. Utah came out fired up at the start of the second half as Vranes muscled in a three-poiplay to narrow the gap to 14, but Blume and Radford continued their long-rang- e marksmanship and Julius Allen and Steve Johnson went to work inside to give Oregon State their biggest lead 0 with 12 minutes remaining in the game. The Utes were able to cut the margin to 17 points and the scoring remained even for the remainder of the game. Utah did do an excellent job in stopping Oregon State's fine center Johnson. Johnson could only contribute 7 points and he fouled out with four minutes remaining. The Utes could not contain Radford and Blume from the outside and Allen inside as they led the Oregon State scoring brigade. Radford hit a career high 24 points. He constantly harassed the Utah guards and came up with steals and caused numerous turnovers. Blume contributed 17 points on fine outside shooting and his quickness gave the Utes troubles all evening. Allen added 1 1 points and excellent inside play. Greg Dean had a disppointinggame as he played out of control and his team leadership, that played such a big role in nt 55-3- 8-- -2 10. The Utah guards continued their poor scoring output during the first half as they were able to contribute only 77 points. The Utes were led by Tom Chambers, who had points, and Coby Leavitt added 4. Danny Vranes, the Utes leading scorer averaging 18 by 0 SO " points per game, could only the two previous victories, was not evident. He did not score and had numerous turnovers. Utah was led by Vranes who scored 12 second-hal- f points to wind up with 14 for the evening. Chambers added 11 and Scott Martin and Leavitt each added 6 for the punchless Utah attack. Utah Coach Jerry Pimm was again disappointed with the Utes' play. He commented that "good outside shooting is the way to chase a team out of a zone defense." The past two games the Utes have not hit from the outside, allowing opponents to play a zone defense all evening long and stymie die normally potent Utah inside game. total turnovers, 17 of them in Pimm cited 'Twenty-nin- e the first half as the major problem. We made a lot of mistakes throwing the ball around the perimeter and trying to get the ball inside." Utah hit only 6 out of 21 first-hal- f shots for a horrendous 28.6 percent. The Utes did warm uu in the second half and ended with an overall shooting percentage of 40.0 percent. The Utes will have the rest of the week to practice on zone defenses as they prepare for Saturday night's contest against Denver University and next Monday's battle with Weber State. U runner on top in NCAA meet by JEFF CREER Chronicle staff As the brightly colored multitude of mark in last runners approach the two-mil- e week's NCAA . y ChampionMick ace runner distance ships, University Morris hears his coach yell out from the sidelines that he's in 100th place. For many runners, 100th place after a third of the race would be disastrous. Not so for Morris. He keeps his head and passes 59 runners to hold 41st place at the three-mil- e mark Cross-Countr- about halfway on the 10,000-mete- r course. Then he knocks off 12 more during the fifth mile and again hears his coach shout out his situation: 27 place. The last mile of downhill terrain is to his advantage as he picks off 16 more to finish in 11th place. Morris' placing 1 1th out of 250 of the top runners in the world makes him an for the second straight year. "The whole race went just as I had planned like clockwork," Morris said. "I an Utah's two time an Mick Morris been close to me where beating me really bad in races. So when Coach Wood asked me if I wanted to come over and run here in Utah, I decided to give it a shot," Morris added. jogged over the course the night before the race and calculated where I should be at certain times. I couldn't have expected to place any higher." According to Morris, the key to doing well in big races, with armies of runners, is to concentrate and stay calm. "When I found myself in 100th after two miles, at first I began to panic. But I quickly remembered I had a strategy in mind. Too many runners panic and lose their concentration and before they know it, they're in trouble," Morris commented.4 The quite sophomore, from Ponty Pool, Morris said that training here in Utah has many advantages for his running career. "I like the atmospheie here for, training and racing. The fact that I train here at altitude as compared to has helped me a lot in competition." "I have three goals for next year. One is to place in the top three at the NCAA Track Championships in June. Two is I want to go home next year and place high in the British Championships, and three is I'd like to win the Welsh 5000 meter title to prove to Wales I can run well in that event," Morris sea-lev- Wales, welcomes his running success since enrolling at the University. Prior to his decision to attend an American university, Morris said he had been running very poorly, although he had done extremely well in previous years. "When I came over here from Wales, I had been going through a very bad year in my running. People who never should have el commented. Morris added, "I hope to make the British Olympic Team. I think that's in the mind of every dedicated distance runner. I think to make even the finals of my event in Moscow would be great." V i i. in -- iL -- vajujv IkGSPGNCGRriND WILLIGrfRWTGriD KDMGRU Of U FOOTBALL STriRSHriVIGMTOPGNGDUP -;- - pitaS! vrtii ,... 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