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Show Thursday, January 7, 1992 The Daily Utah Chronicle - Page Ten Sports Lady Uftes struggle outlast pesky Metro State With Susana Tauteoli (10 points, 9 boards) already on the bench after n joined her fouling out, with 2:52 to play. With their top two scorers on the bench, the Lady Utes responded with clutch performances. Andrea Herold (9 points) hit two free throws, before Kim Hill (team-hig- h 11 points) took over. Tied at 52 with 1:26 to play, the Hill scored after grabbing a rebound, then drilled a tough jumper with 39 ticks left won it for Utah. During Hill's heroics, Metro State had two possessions and failed to score on both. "That was a great effort," Smith said. "We played to win...but we had no business being in the game the way we shot the ball the first half. But our kids played with guts and heart" enough shots to take a 7 lead, and the assumption was that it was only a matter of time before the Lady Utes 28-1- BYTYBRONICEL Chronicle Assistant Sports Editor would beep, first half of the Huntsman at Wednesday's game Utah's Center, Lady Utes and Through the Metropolitan State College of Denver displayed a form of basketball that likely caused Dr. James P. Naismith to roll in his grave. But after the two schools had redefined the word ugly, the second half unwound into a well-execute- d, fc&u? V T hard-fough- f wan 1 down-to-the-wi- t, re thriller. the time the clock had struck the Lady Utes had overcome a serious case of the blahs and gladly 2 settled for a victory over the II d Division a that win Roadrunners, improved tJT By 0:00, i 56-5- upset-minde- Utah's record to 7-- ill-fat- ed 14-of-- airballs, botched layups and near shots abounded. backboard-breakin- g jf x' ( '' Barton (who Even Mikki-Kan- e arrived late to pregame warmups thanks to car troubles) was with point (a free throw) at halftime. i ' instructions and berating officials, all the while boosting his team's morale, the Roadrunners gave Utah all it could handle. Despite the strong effort of Utah freshman Angie Bandy (a career-hig- h 9 points) early in the second half, Metro State wouldn't go away. The Roadrunners warmed up from three-poirange and quickly sliced into Utah's lead. With 4:12 to play, Michelle Thomas' trey gave Metro a 4 lead, and then things got worse for the Lady Utes. nt 45-4- LADY UTES 56, ROADRUNNERS 52 Metro State Dalton Schamp Roberts Sandoval State Wednesday night. Hill's clutch scoring down the stretch was the difference as the victory improved the Lady Utes record to 4 on the year. 7-- By 1-- 3-- 4 3-- 2-- 2-- Hart Thomas Dittmer Totals Ast PF TP 3 5 1 2 5 3 2 6 9 11 11 2 2 9 2 15 14 2 7-- 4 Reb 3-- 4-- 7 0-- 2 2-- 2 2 2 0 1 0-- 1 3-- 6 0-- 0 1-- 0-- 0 1-- 5 14-5- 15 0,1 5 5 18-2- 4 6 0 2 0 0 16 52 47 12 Reb Ast PF TP 2 FG FT Kane-Barto- 3-- 9 1-- 2 4 1-- 4 0-- 0 9 2 4 n Hill 7 2-- 4-- 4 9 6 0 3-- 2 1 3 9 4 11 4 0 v' 2 0 0 0 0 2 6 0-- 3 0-- 1 0-- 0 Smith-Shakli- 0-- 3 0-- 0 2-- 8 4-- 4 2-- 5 0-- 0 Griffin Bandy Totals 15 10 4-- 2-- Herold. . 3 5 Nielsen Seamons k 1 0 UTAH 0 4-- 7 21-6- 1-- 4 12-2- 6 ')- 1 3 8 7 )! - - p 2-- Smith-Shakli- (Kane-Barto- 10 1 9 4 9 24 56 1 ' 1 52 1 Halftime score Utah 28, Metro State 17. Shooting Percentage Field goals: Utah .318, Metro Free throws: Utah .692, Metro State .571 Three-poiHerold shots Utah (Hill k Steals Utah 10 (Hill 2, Herold 2, 2); n Blocked shots Utah 8 3); Metro State Technical fouls Metro State coach Darryl Smith. Officials Cal Jones (R), Kelly Critchfield Attendance 821. expecting a cakewalk win, despite the fact Metro State came in 10-- 1 on the season and returned all five starters from last year's 24-- 3 team. Kim Hill gets whacked by a Roadrunner during Utah's close win over Metro FT FG Price came into Wednesday's matchup CHRONICLE PHOTOScolt Sine out Smith Darryl . should have been better than that" , "Mentally it was tough to get into it," Elliott continued. "I would have preferred to practice instead of play this game." Elliott hinted that the Lady Utes I V shouting well-dress- ed Totorica Tauteoli And everyone thought the roads . "We didn't have it emotionally,". Elliott said. "We had no focus. We were bad. -- ' 1 the Roadrunners. But Metro State never quit. With enthusiastic head coach 4. "It's good to have this game done," Utah head coach Elaine Elliott said. "We got the win, now let's go on." Somehow, Utah managed a victory despite shooting a chilly .318 percent from the field. Fortunately for the Lady Utes, the Roadrunners' own shots were as as the average Wily E. Coyote contraption. Together the two teams were a horrendous (at one point Metro was in the first half, as ' beep past Kane-Barto- 16 State .259. Metro State (Thomas Metro State 7 (Dalton 4). 3 (Three players with 1). 6-- . halftime, Utah had hit just Basketball Bids For Bagels at Brackman Bros. Bids be back, but bring bagels You thought it was over, didn't you? Well, it's not. The free food is back. And do you know why? Because we care about you and your family's health. We nave fired up the Basketball Bids dummy and we're instead of burgers, we now have bagels. ready to roll-b- ut Fresh, wholesome and delicious bagels from the finest bagel bakery west of New York City, Brackman Brothers. They'll supply the doughy little doughnuts, all you have to do is predict more winners from the list of games on the left (other left, Einstein) than any of the other contestants who have properly entered their picks in the little red box (I know what you're thinking, and it's very nasty) located in our Chronicle offices in Room 240 of the Union Building. They must be in no later than 5 p.m. on Friday. The winner of our very last pizza from The Pie this year was the lovely and talented Matt Madsen. The Madster correctly picked the winners in 14 of 18 of this year's college bowl games. If he does not claim his pizza by 7:30 a.m. today, it will be happily eaten by our hungry sports staff. Just kidding Matt, we'll give you til eight. Now for the bad news. Rookie sportswriter Ed "Knock on" Woodland took top honors for the football season, bringing home a 130-6- 8 record while sporting a 10-- 8 record for the bowl games last week. Sports Editor Clifton "Honey, my is shrinking" Schmidt took honors for bowl 14-week by going helping to improve his overall record to I have a beat?" Bronicel was o mean 127-7"You Ty with a 9 record last week, good enough to 'Ty" him for at 4, so-s- 1. 9-- This WEEK'S GAMES ; UtahQBYU Air Force N. Mexico SDSUQCSU Fresno St. UTEP Hawaii Seton Hall Wyoming Providence Tenn. Kentucky Duke Ga. Tech DePaul Memphis St. Iowa Ohio St. Kansas Oklahoma Schmidt o-- o Utah N. Mex. CSU UTEP Wyoming Prov. Bronicel o--o Blazers Knicks second place with Schmidtface overall. The gullible but for for went Ott "Let's money, honey" play honest Matt broke and got it by going 2 for the final week, downing his overall record to an anemic 118-8Name celebrity picker every week, Instead of a different leather we decided to instead bring you one Bob season: for Gehrke. the g celebrity jockstrap-wearinPhone Gehrke o-- o Utah N. Mex. CSU CSU UTEP UTEP N. Mex. CSU UTEP Wyoming Hawaii Wyoming Wyoming S.Hall S.Hall S.Hall S.Hall N. Mex. CSU UTEP Your Pick o-- o Utah Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky Duke Duke Duke Duke Duke DePaul DePaul DePaul Memphis DePaul Iowa Ohio St. Iowa Ohio St. Ohio St. Kansas Oklahoma Oklahoma Kansas Kansas Villanova Spurs Magic o-- o Woodland Utah N. Mex. Utah UConn Villanova Boston College G'town Boston C. G'town Jazz Jazz Jazz Mavericks Jazz Rockets Jazz Rockets Warriors Warriors Pistons Pistons UConn Ott Spurs Magic Spurs Knicks Villanova UConn UConn G'town Jazz G'town Jazz Jazz G'town Rockets Pistons Pistons Spurs Knicks Blazers Knicks Jazz Jazz Warriors Blazers Knicks 6-1- 0. ho-hu- m star-studde- d, Tie breaker (Utah TOTAL POINTS IN GAME at byu) o-- o |