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Show Friday, January 24. 1992 The Daily Utah Chronicle - Page Ten Wilson scores 21 off bench to lead Utah over Air Force Special to the Chronicle COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Byron Wilson came off the bench to score 21 points, including six free throws down the stretch, to lead Utah to a 68-5- 1 win over Air Force Thursday. The Ute victory was deja vu of last Thursday's matchup between the two teams in the Huntsman Center where Utah beat the Falcons by the identical score. The triumph lifts Utah to 3 in the WAC and 12-- 5 overall while Air Force falls to 5 in conference play overall. and Dale French and George Irvin had 11 points a piece to lead the Falcons, 2-- 0-- 5-- who shot just 36 percent from the floor for the game. After Jimmy Soto substituted for Tyrone Tate early in the first half and the Utes were up 4 hit a and never trailed again. Soto scored 18 points, including from the line, as Utah's bench accounted for 47 of the team's 68 points. Thomas Wyatt started in place of Wilson but did not score. Wilson, who has been mired in a dismal slump, broke out with a strong performance. He was from from the field, from the free and range, throw line. He added seven rebounds and two assists and no turnovers in 7-- all-arou- -6 -3 ll-of-- 12 Utah took a commanding lead midway through the first half after a pair of Paul Afeaki inside center hoops but then the elbow intentional for whistled an was foul his third personal foul and sat for the rest of the half. However, the Utes, who at times used lineups that had not one player over managed to take a 4 intermission bulge when Jimmy Soto 22-1- 1 38-2- hit an off-balan- ce before the buzzer. a driving basket and a free throw and Utah made free throws the last But Soto answered with 24 minutes of play. jumper seconds In the second half, the Falcons mounted a strong rally and trailed by just five points at 6 when Irvin with 4:49 left swished a 51-4- 14-of-- 18 three minutes to put the game out of reach. On the night, the Utes made free throws while the nation's No. 1 free throw percentage team, the Falcons, connected on just tries from the line. Utah made just four field goals in the second halt 33-of-- 13-of-- The Utes also dominated the rebounding battle 2 with Wilson and M'Kay McGrath both totalling seven boards. The win was Utah's first away from the Huntsman Center since the Utes blew out Wichita State 58-3- 6 way 41-2- back on Dec. 21. Utah is now 3 overall and 2 in the WAC on the 4-- 1-- road. Utah travels to take on Wyoming in the WAC, 10-- 6 overall) Saturday at 3 pjn. The game will be 7. televised live on Wyoming beat Brigham Young (3-- 2 in WAC, 12-- 3 overall) Thursday Laramie to create a logjam in the (2-- 2 KUED-Cnann- el 72-6- 7 middle of the WAC standings. Meanwhile, UTEP (5-- 0 WAC, 15-- 1 overall) remained undefeated by beating San Diego State0-- 4 WAC, overall) and New Mexico, who was 0 in conference play going into Thursday, played at Hawaii in a late 2-- 14 4-- game. Sports Creighton tops defenseless Lady Utes 79-7- 0 Intramural Update Hot-shooti- ng IReetoCt By Clifton Schmidt Chronicle Assistant Sports Editor By Justin Peterson the battle of the streaks Thursday night in the Huntsman Center when the University of Utah women's basketball team met Creighton. It was Chronicle Sports Writer If you've looked over some of the events the intramural department has to offer and just don't think there's one suited to you, then you might be looking at the wrong singular event. Of the new events being offered this year, the Reebok Campus Challenge is one of the most exciting. Why? Because it constitutes so much that you just can't get bored with it. I'll explain. The Reebok Campus" Challenge is, in a word, a Decathlon. That's right, the "Challenge" consists of ten separate and diverse events which include: Unfortunately, all of Utah's must now start over as the Lady over Jays escaped with a 79-7- 0 the Utes in a Western Athletic Conference matchup. Creighton center Kris Kugel scored a career-hig- h 25 points on from the floor shooting to help do in the Utes. The Lady Jays showed why they are one of the best shooting in the country by connecting on 61.5 percent of ll-for-- their shots from the floor including (68 percent) 17-of-- in the first half. So now, gone is Utah's five game winning streak and homecourt winning streak. Continuing on is Creighton's winning streak which is now at 12 games, including a school 10-ga- run dash 3. Softball throw 4. Football 5. Disc (fristee) toss bike sprint 6. Five-mil- e 7. 1500-metstationary row 8. Basketball shoot-o9. Volleyball serve down 10. Vertical and horizontal jump record fifth straight on the road. With the. loss, the Utes see their record drop to 11-- 4 on the season and 2-- 1 in the WAC. The Lady Jays stay atop the .and are 12-conference at 2-- 0 2 said Utah head coach Elaine say 'Well, we played 32 good minutes.' You nave to play 40 good minutes and we didn't do second foul with 14:35 left in the first half and did not come back til the second stanza. That hurt the Utes as Kane had been averaging 23 points against the Lady Jays. Quickly Creighton came back to tie the score at 14 and them move ahead 28-2- 0 as Utah could not stop the Lady Jays inside game. Alcorn single-handedl- y kept Utah in the game as she scored 20 of her game-hig- h 25 points in the first half, including a long-rang- e three point jumper at the buzzer to move Utah to within 40-3- 7 at halftime. "We got our butt kicked in the block,' said Elliott. "We tried to make the adjustment inside with Tanya and it just didn't get done." To make matters worse, Utah came out cold in the second half and Creighton built its lead to 55-4- 7 with 9:51 left to play. 60-ya- e rd ut Elliott after the game. "You can't But Kane picked up her One-mil- er overall. "This is too good of a team," that." Utah did do what it wanted to against the best team they have played this season and that was to give themselves a chance at the end of the game to win. In fact, the Utes started off well as the big three of Mikki Kane, Karen Alcorn and Tanya Zachary helped give Utah an early 14-- 6 lead. 1. 2. The scoring system involves rewarding points for participation as well as excellence in each of the respective events. The participant with the J 3 I CHRONICLE PHOTOJudd R. Hilknon NOWHERE TO GO: Utah's Mikki Kane looks around in desperation for someone to pass the ball to in the Utes 79-7- 0 loss to Creighton in the Huntsman Center Thursday night. The Utes came back to within three at 57-5but then came the 4, most aggravating time of the game as Kane and Zachary got hot but couldn't stop Creighton at the other end. The lead moved from three to five and back to three for the next 5:24. It stopped there when Kane missed the front end of a and Shannon a bank shot with 1:34 hit Struby one-and-o- to play for a 75-6- lead. 8 "I'm not sure how we were that close," said Elliott. "We'd come down and make the score and don't make the stop. We get back to three and don't stop them. We make the big basket and let them get back to five again and that was the frustrating part was we never made a defensive stop to get over the hump down the stretch." 0 and had a Utah made it 75-7- chance to move closer but Andrea Herold missed the first shot of a with 32 seconds to play that sealed the one-and-o- ne Utes fate. With the Utes leaving the game with hanging heads, Creighton head coach Bruce Rasmussen couldn't have been happier about his team that is just a few votes away from being ranked in the AP Top 25. "We're real pleased with the win. Utah is just an outstanding team," said Rasmussen. "When we play them again, if we would beat them I would consider it an upset. ..We've played what we thought was a pretty good schedule and Utah is the best team we have played." The rematch won't be until Feb. 22 at Creighton and you can bet the Utes are looking forward to it. highest point total (for males and females) will win a pair of Reebok Cross Training Pumps and will be eligible for his or her score to be entered in the National Decathlon Contest. the Reebok, company sponsoring this competition for the first time at the U., is donating numerous prizes for some of the top finishers. So in addition to the Cross Trainers, there will be prizes such as sweatshirts and for the fraternity with the ts, highest number of points, a Fraternity Cup will be awarded. addition to all this, on Thursday, Jan, 30, Reebok will be going around the In campus looking for students sporting some bit of Reebok on their paraphernalia Once found they persons. will give them a Reebok prize. So mark your calendars today and wear your Reebok T shirts on Jan. 30. The competition begins on Friday, Jan. 31 at 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 1 at 9 a.m. GiaflleimgQ Event locations include the Field House, HPER and North Fields. In a less cardiovascular vein (pun intended), we have the event "Horse." For those of you who focused solely on the jungle gyms as a kid during school recess, and don't know the intricacies of this event, I'll spell it out (another pun). Horse is an individual activity where you participate against other individuals by shots with a making basketball. If you do indeed make the shot, .the are you participants are then against competing obliged to make the same shot. ' Failure to do so results in your garnishment of the first letter of the word horse, and iiso on, until you acquire all five letters, thus losing. Superstar Meet: This event is three-folit consists B-B- all d, of the following contests: 1) competition. 2 Hot Shot contest 3) Free Throw contest Contestants must enter all three events in order to compete for the Superstar One-on-O- ne title. This competition should attract anyone interested in basketball, more specifically in interested anyone individual basketball competition. If you think you have the shooting touch, the free throw percentage and the skills to capture this crown, find out more at the intramural office in Room one-on-o- ne 214, HPER E. Triviaf Pursuit; Those of you not from the same cut of cloth as the aforementioned, but like to pursue challenges of the mind over those of the body, intramurals do not discriminate and offer something for you the Trivial Pursuit tournament! Jeopardy fans take note. This tournament will be played on Saturday, Feb. 1. The format will be single elimination with the length decided by the number of entries. Unlike other competitions of this sort, like College Bowl, this event will strictly feature individual competition, or a bout if you will. The entry fee is a meager $2, so instead of one-on-o- ne sleeping in on Saturday morning, get up and challenge your mind in a way no college paper or test has ever done. |
