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Show Chronicle Satrts Special 0Btfai.Marck14.19S4 Aztecs, surprising Rams advance The semifinal games, which were played at the Delta Center on Friday afternoon, saw No. 6 seed Colorado State upset No. 2 seed BYU. No. 1 seed San Diego State defeated rival and No. 5 seeded Fresno State. 67-5- well short BYU finishes their season at of their accomplishments last year, when they went 13-- 1 in the WAC regular season and were WAC Tournament champs. 16-1- 7. in-sta- te 73-5- 1994 out," Dimond said. On the offensive end. Dimond played well, but not well enough to earn a draw with James. She scored 16 points on shooting and pulled down but five rebounds. CSU was also successful in shutting down Nikki Eyre, who scored 30 in the first round game against UTEP, but would score only 13 on shooting. As a team. BYU would shoot only 31 percent for the game. San Diego State 73, Fresno State 53 Balance was the key once again for the Lady Aztecs as four players scored in double figures and easily defeated FSU. Leading the way for SDSU was Rachelle Johnson with 18 points. She also had 12 honors in both rebounds to earn game-hig- h departments. Following Johnson in the scoring column were Falisha Wright with 16 points. Michelle Suman with 11 and Sorii Epps with 10. SDSU led by 17 at the end of the first half and were never threatened in the second half, with the lead never dipping below 15. "We ran into a snowball effect." FSU coach Linda Wunder said. "They seemed to capitalize on every mistake we made." FSU could not handle SDSU on the boards as they were outrebounded by a whopping 44-2- 7 margin. Leading the way for FSU in scoring was Suzanne Zahasky with 16 points and Kari Jorgensen with 12. Thev finish their season at 13-1- m Men's WAC Women's WAC Hawaii 61, New Mexico 58 Russell Larson led four BYU players in double figures as the Cougars blew away the Bulldogs in the second half on 84 percent shooting. Fresno 5 after the first stanza thanks actually lead from to guard Carl Ray Harris's three-pointfour feet behind the line with just 4.2 seconds left. Harris scored 23 points in the first half on 9 from three-poiof 11 shooting, including range. Harris cooled off in the second half, finishing with 31 points, as the Cougars guards denied him the ball and allowed him to take only four shots. "I don't think anyone can stop Harris," said BYU coach Roger Reid. "But we slowed him down." BYU's whole team was unstoppable in the second half as they made 16 out of 19 shots. The three Cougar players that each missed a shot in from the second half were a combined In the biggest upset in the men's tournament so far. the Rainbows held the Lobos to season-low- s in points, field-goa- l percentage and throe-poi- Sorii Epps, F, San Diego State Teresa James, C, Colorado State Misty Smith, F, Colorado State Falisha Wright, C, San Diego State M jfl W 1? IE (? fp nt percentage while guard Trevor Ruffin hit for 23 points including a game-decidin- three-pointe- g r with just over a minute to play. "Trevor makes more bad shots than good a shot he hasn't liked," Hawaii head coach Riley Wallace said shots, but he's never seen after the game. "I just took it upon myself," said Ruffin. "I made a turnover earlier and I wanted to make up for it. It was a great win for us." The Lobos, who won the WAC regular-seaso- n title, shot just 31.7 percent for the game on shooting. From behind the three-poijust 19.4 percent. line, the Lobos were Mexico New guard Greg Brown, the WAC coaches' Player of the Year, was held to just eight points. Caravali with Salt. Y f Ism" Team ent Suzanne Zahasky, G, Fresno State Murguia, C, San Diego State Brigham Young 87, Fresno State 72 nt All-Tournam- MVP-Chris- tina Shane Knight was the field. Larson was and Mark Durrant was Larson finished with 21 points to lead the Cougars, who also got help from Knight (19 points) and guard Randy Reid (19 points). er Team ent vor 4. In men's semi-finaction Friday evening, the Hawaii Rainbows surprised the regular-seaso- n conference champion New Mexico Lobos late in the game, while BYU continued its hot shooting to ride into the championship game. 37-3- All-Tournam- Greg Brown, G, New Mexico Carl Ray Harris, G, Fresno State Russell Larson, F, BYU Ken Roberts, F, BYU MVP-TreRuffin, G, Hawaii 'Bows upset Lobos, face Cougs al VEST 2. 3. Colorado State 67, Brigham Young 57 The Lady Rams pulled off yet another upset of a higher-seede- d team, defeating No. 2 seed BYU with a punishing inside game. The front line combination of Teresa James. Misty Smith and Brenda Brunner combined for 36 rebounds and 47 points. James continued her outstanding play against BYU. Earlier this year, she scored 40 points against them in a double overtime loss. She would finish this game with 24 points and 12 rebounds and outplayed BYU's star post player, Debbie Dimond. "Defensively, James was really hard to block US LI IIUIUIIL Visit Brackmans Introducing the Brackman Bros.'Happy Cappy Hour". between 3 pm and close and" get a free cream cheese bagel just for trying our new cappuccino, latte', or mocha. It's made from Caravali, Seattle's finest full city roast. And it's now a Brackman Bros, exclusive. BDAGKMAII BOOS: BAGEL BAKERY tssst 19-of-- nt f SSL." f On u - 5 |