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Show Utes regain WAC life with Special to the Chronicle LARAMIE, Wyo. - Utah's Jimmy throws to leave Utah with one last delivering the pass to Barry Howard as the Runnin' Utes defeated Wyoming 80-7- 9 Saturday. Everybody in the building knew the ball was going to Soto and when the guard drove the lane, the Wyoming defense collapsed on him. Soto dished left to Howard and he powered to the basket to even Utah at Soto led an improbable overtime comeback, scoring 7 points and game-winni- ng Wyoming's Mo Alexander and Reggie Slater scored the first six points of overtime and the Cowboys had control of the overtime period, with 2:19 remaining. Then Soto and Howard went to 74-6- 8, work, employing a highly effective game. Soto hit a off a Howard screen and subsequently made two driving shots that cut the Cowboys' lead to Again, Wyoming seemed to close the door on the Utes when Travis Butler escaped the Utah press and got an open slam dunk to put Wyoming up by four with 25 seconds left But Byron Wilson answered with a and Butler missed two free two-ma-n 77-7- 5. play to win 3-- it in the 3 OT win regulation. Brett Studdard cut Utah's lead to one at Byron Wilson 51-5- WAC (13-- 5 overall). Wyoming is now 3 in conference play and 10-- 7 overall. The win was Utah's fourth in a row over the Cowboys and third straight at Arena Auditorium. 2-- Utah led most of the way, but Wyoming and the boisterous crowd of 11,137 was never out of it Phil Dixon scored almost all of his 17 points in the first half and the beginning of the second, as the Utes kept a point cushion until Butler heated up and made eight straight of the Cowboy's points to make the score With just under ten minutes left in five-to-eig- ht 47-4- 3. at Wyoming 0. retaliated with a play he canned a jumper, was fouled after the shot and then made a At this point, emotions in an already hot game got hotter. The scorer's table put the shot up on the board as a and Utah coach Rick Majerus lost his head. five-poi- nt Shouting at the scorers and pounding his fist on the table, he demanded to know why his team was cheated a point. And when Wyoming coach Benny Dees tried to intervene, Majerus demended he keep out of it and had to be restrained by his own players when Dees had some choice words for him. Majerus was charged with a technical and the crowd was charged with emotion. Slowly the Cowboys nibbled at the Utes' lead and with 16 seconds left, Alexander swished a to make it 6 for the Utes. 67-6- Soto, who was razzed by the crowd throughout the second half and overtime with loud cheers every time he touched the ball, was immediately fouled. He calmly sank the first free throw and then missed the second. Breax moved down the key and threw up a leaner that rattled off the rim. but Alexander followed with a layup to send the game into overtime and Soto's heroic plays. Though they triumphed in the end, the Utes were plagued with foul trouble and poor free throw shooting. Paul Afeaki and M'Kay McGrath bom fouled out and Antoine Davison and Howard played with four. The Utes from the line were a paltry and McGrath was down the t-l 14-of-- stretch. But all that was forgotten when the Utes piled on Howard at midcourt after the final buzzer and celebrated like they had just won the national championship. Utes 80, Wyoming 79 (OT) Utah (3-- 3 WAC, Dixon Afeaki SO 13-- 5 17. McGrath 0 1. 0--1 7 0 8. Wyatt 0--0 0. Tate 5 8. Howard 5 0--1 4. Davison 2 5 20. Rydalch 5 6. Soto 5 0 4. Cain 0 0. Wilson 14-2-5 12. Totals 29-680. Wyoming (2-- 3 WAC, 10-- 79 3 Slater 17. Breaux 2 3 11. Rewers 6. Butler 7 4 13. Alexander 16, Sanders 0 2 4 0. Studdard 7 8. Brown 2 5. Traylor 0--1 00 2, Ratliff 24-3- 5 0 7 0. Phillips 0-- 2 0. Totals 79. 2-- 7 1 2-- 4 0-- 4-- 0-- 4-- 2-- 3 2-- 2-- 4-- 0-- 0 0-- 2-- 0-- 4 7) 7-- 5-- 4-- 2-- 2 2-- 0-- 2-- 0-- 1 2-- 5-- 6 0-- Halftime Regulation Fouled Rewers. (Dixon Rydalch (Butler 2-- 4-- 4 0-- 0 1-- 4-- 23-5- Utah 36. Wyoming 32. Utah 68. Wyoming 68. out McGrath. Afeaki. goals Utah Soto Wilson 2 3-- 6. 0-- 3-- Tate 2-- 5. Wyoming ). 2 Breaux Alexander Studdard Traylor Phillips Rebounds Utah 38 (Wilson 7). Wyoming 38 (Slater 8). Assists Utah 17 (Soto 4). Wyoming 14 (Alexander 7). Total fouls Utah 27, Wyoming 24. Technical Fouls Utah coach Majerus, Wyoming coach Dees. A 11,137. 3-- 6. 2-- 2-- 2-- 0-- ). Chronicle SpoktIHepokt Monday, January 27, 1992 The Daily Utah Chronicle IVirisV Utes .win After blowing out rivals BYU, Utah State and Southern Utah University last in-sta- te week, the Lady Ute Gymnastics team was set for some stiff competition Saturday night against No. Penn, St What happened was another lopsided Ute victory and another win for Missy all-arou- nd , Marlowe. The Utes tallied a season-be195.05, which is also the third highest total in team history; and their best mark ever on the road Penn. St finished with a score of 190.65, good enough to win a lot of meets, but not good enough to beat the Utes, who appear to be st in mid-seaso- n two meets. form after only Not surprisingly, the Utes . were led again by Ihree-tim-e Marlowe. Marlowe scored a 9.75 on vault, a 9.85 on floor and 9.9s on both bars and beam, giving her a total of 39,4 to take overall honors. Utes Suzanne Metz and Kristen Kenoyer took second and third All-Americ- an place overall with scores of 39.0 and 38.75, respectively. Once again, though, Utah was ignited by some of their younger, less experienced gymnasts. In her competitive vault first-ev- er Page Nine Utah Miners halts Lady big as a Ute, junior Tracy Richard started the team off on the right foot by hitting a 9.a. Coach Greg Marsden later gave Richard creoit for sparking the By 65-6- 0 Clifton Schmidt Chronicle Assistant Sports Editor . Utes, Tracy starting us off with a 9.8. That really had a lot to do with our high scores fjn valult, Marsden said "We vaulted very well." Indeed they did, scoring their best event total of the night with a 4945. Metz scored a team-hig- h 9.9, while freshman Kelli Wolsey followed closelyith a 9.85 The Utes next opponent is Oregon St. The Beavers have handed the Utes their only regular-seaso- n losses over the last two years, and the Utes appear ready for the challenge, Oregon St took fourth at the NCAA's in Tuscaloosca last year and currently have the third ; highest total score this year. "We all know what the challenge is. We have to improve' on composition and difficulty," Marsden said. "The girls have been looking forward to (Oregon St. for a while. This will be a one." The meet is set to start at 7:30 good p.m. (PST) in Corvallis, Oregon. Matt Ott In front of the largest crowd of the season, the University of Utah women's basketball team returned to its. winning ways by defeating UTEP 65-6Saturday night. The 1,482 fans were treated to a closer than expected contest, but a balanced scoring attack from the Utes, led by guard Karen Alcorn's 17 points, helped thwart the 4" "a 0, mm Lady Miners d upset-minde- ' n' With the victory, the Utes improved their season record to 12-and in the Western Athletic Conference. They also remained perfect against UTEP, improving their series advantage 4 3-- 1 to 14-The Lady Miners dropped to 3 in the conference and 9 overall. 0. 0-- V 7-- Most of the crowd on hand would not have expected the close game that was played, especially when UTEP's best player, and the WAC's leading scorer, point guard Holly Russ was scratched from the starting lineup. Word from the UTEP bench was that Russ injured an ankle and had returned to El Paso. That meant gone were her senior leadership and 21 points per i'7;. game. Lady tankers end drought Truly impressive was that Brad Mortimer Chronicle Sports Writer An exciting thing happened Saturday at the University of Utah's Ute Natatorium, something which has not happened to the women's swimming team since the 1989-9- 0 swimming season. They won a meet. For the first time in over two years of swimming for the Lady Ute swimming team, and in their last home meet of the season, the women of swim really strutted their stuff and came away with a dominant win over New Mexico State, 143-8- 9. At the beginning of the meet, both coaches were pretty much assured that the contest would come down to one last deciding event, the 400 medley relay. However, the Lady Utes decided .to do away with any sort of uncertainty by stunning a good with team NMSU strongperformances throughout the day. despite some sickness and some swimmers swapping events, the Lady Ute swimmers rallied as if it were the last race of their careers. Although everyone swam an exceptional meet, there were three individuals who really came through when times were of the essence. Sydney Spangler, a freshman from Brighton High in Salt Lake City, turned in one of her stellar performances by capturing both the 100 breastroke and the 200 intermediate. Mollie McDonald, a sophomore also from Brighton, was all but unstoppable in distance events. McDonald literally swam away with the 1650 freestyle and the 500 freestyle, en route to a afternoon rest. and Last, certainly not least, senior Eva Hjelm really gave it her all for the last home swimming meet of her Utah career. Hjelm, the only Swede on the Lady Ute squad, decided to go out in a blaze or glory as she raced to capture the see "swim" on page ten well-deserv- ed That didn't seem to matter to the Lady Miners who came out in n a tight (or is it woman-to-womadefense that gave Utah problems. In the first two and a half minutes of the game the Utes had thrown the ball away twice, had a charging foul called on them and, more is as becoming Mikki forward commonplace, Kane had picked up her second personal foul. The same thing happened to Kane in the Utes loss to Creighton on Thursday. But contrary to that game where she sat out the rest of the first half, head coach Elaine Elliott left her in, which proved to be a good move. Kane scored nine points and the rest of the remained foul-fre- e first half but her team still trailed 25-1- 8 with two minutes left to 7, man-to-ma- n) play. However, the Utes got four points from forward Susana Tauteoli and five from Alcorn, including a spinning, falling, heave-at-the-bask- et from just inside the buzzer shot three-poi- nt line that gave Utah a 27-2- 5 halftime advantage. Utah decided to go inside more during the second half where it had a good height advantage. In fact, the Utes made only one shot CHIONtQI WOTOJudd t f Utah's Donna Veater makes a pass to a teammate during the Utes 65-6- 0 victory over UTEP on Saturday at the Huntsman Center. Veater had six assists and no turnovers in 23 minutes of action against the Lady Miners. from outside the key during the second half, but it was a big one during a big run. The Utes had quickly fallen behind to open the second period with just 10 and trailed minutes left in the game before 45-4- 0 they went on that big run. A free throw by Tauteoli, sandwiched between two buckets by center Tanya Zachary, tied the score at 45. Alcorn then got a steal and fed the ball to freshman Andrea Herold who swished home a three-pointto give the Utes a 48-4- 5 lead. It was a lead they would hang on to, but not without some worry. Kane fouled out with five minutes left to play and Utah was missing a large number of free throws (11 of 24 in the second half) to keen the game close. UTEP moved back to within three at 59-5- 6 with 36 seconds left to er play on three free throws by Jennifer Day. But Alcorn, Zachary and Teresa Totorica each hit a, pair of free throws in that time to seal the victory for the Utes. Zachary ended the game with 15 points and eight rebounds while Tauteoli 11 had 14 points and a game-hig- h boards. While Utah's big three had nights, Elliott was Eretty good with the play of point guard Donna Veater. The . freshman played a season-hig- h 23 minutes, dishing off six assists while having no turnovers. Utah will next play Southern Utah University on Tuesday in the Huntsman Center before hosting BYU in a big conference showdown on Friday. Saturday, the Cougars shocked Creighton 78-7- 3 in the Provo, to stay atop the WAC at 4-- 0. |
