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Show Friday, March M orris' Skiers 1st After Two Days at NCAA 3 in the MVV'C, while them to CSU upped its record to With BYU's 0 win over Wyoming Thursday in Provo, the Utes and Cougars are tied for first. Utah hosts 22-- Chronicle Sports Editor 16-1- 2, It's was almost like a vu for the U men's basketball Alter two d.iys at tin- NCAA ( !Ii,ii!ipiinships in Ilanuver. N il., the V ski team has proven to be - uiitoiK liable. The Utes started Thursday in semnd, but by the end of the day I 'tah hail claimed the top spot with a eoKiloi able lead over second place New Mexico. The Utes lead the pack with a two-datotal ol 57 points, followed by the 60.5-poi- y l.obos' 290.5, Vermont (28.), Colorado (263.5), and last year's champ Denver (236.5). deja team against Colorado State. The last time Colorado State won in the Huntsman Center in 1994, it won with virtually the same shot from the same spot that spelled the Utes' doom Thursday night in the Huntsman Center. NEXT: Utah vs Wyoming Sat., though there are two days to go, coach Kevin Sweeney was ecstatic. "What a great day," Sweeney said. 'This was superb effort. I'm proud of this team for the way they arc coming together. "This was an extremely tough Jay with a lot of pressure on both the men and women. I give them a tremendous amount of credit for "mishing strong." The men's team had one of its best performances, placing all athletes within the top six in the giant slalom. Freshman Benjamin Thorn-lil- l won his first-eve- r race with an time of 1:59.78. Teammate imazing Icrncj Bukovec placed fourth with a ime of 2:00.31. and junior Pierre Msson ended the day with two ucat runs, managing to cross at i xt h. though he was only 0.12 sec- nds away from sliding into the top 'ive. "Hen coming through and winning was very special," Sweeney .aid. "He is full of talent and today le just let it rip. He has found his liche on the team and he has been great asset for us." The women's squad shredded the .lopes as well, scoring two top hree finishes. No. ranked I.ina 'ohansson was only of a ccond shy of taking home the GS itle. The junior had an overall time f 2:07.41 to take second. d Teammate Rowena Bright with a time of 2:08.69 to uitch third. Senior I'etra Svct, racing as the first female skier from :he west out of the gate, handled 1 p.m., Huntsman Center In 1994, 't was Jeff Shelley's shot with 4.3 seconds that gave CSU a win. This time around, it was Michael Morris, who provided two daggers in the final 49 seconds the last of which coming off the right wing with 1.6 seconds left in the game to give Colorado State a 71-7- 5-- 0 come-from-behi- nd 66-6- 5 wm- - CHRIS BELLAMY Chronicle Sports Writer For just the second time this conference season, the U women's basketball team (21-MWC) walked off the court with a loss Thursday night, dropin Albuping a tough ballgame the New to Mexico querque, N.M., 5 l.obos (18-MWC) in front of a crowd of 12,333, tno largest the Utes have played in front of all season. 5, 11-- 2 51-- 8, 7, see men's 8-- hoops, page 8 Having won by three in overtime in the two teams' earlier meeting this year, the Utes were expecting a competitive showing from the Lobos, who are battling with BYU and UNLV for second place in the Mountain West. What the Utes didn't expect was a perforshooting, mance from their offense. The Utah defense held its own, as it has all year long. It held the Lobo offense to 37.5 percent from the floor 8 Hanover, N.H. '''" ,i j I I f) -- y The Utes blew a j six-poi- nt Al vv lead in the game's final two minutes. and didn't allow a single UNM starter to reach double digits in scoring. UNM connected on just 2 field goal attempts in the first half, and the Utes seemed to have the game in hand, leading by as many as 10. Utah still seemed to be in control when the second half opened, increas- - ( V. 11 New Mexico 51 Utah 48 UTAH FG-- Player Smith Marshall 3-- Little 3-- Thorburn Reb A Pts 0-- 1 5 2 15 0-- 0 8 0 6 6 17 FT-- A A 2 6 2 8 Stireman 3-- 6 0-- 1 5 7 6 Wobbe 0-- 0 0-- 0 0 0 0 NEXT: Wood 0-- 0 0-- 0 1 0 0 Green 0-- 0 0-- 0 0 1 0 Utah at Air Force Sitterud 2-- 4 2 0 6 13 48 Sat., 1 4 0-- 0 5 Team p.m., Colo. Springs, Colo. 3 Totals But the team hit a ing its lead to 34-2wall and let the Lobos climb back. 2. They scored nine straight points that ignited a 3 run, jumping out in front Utah went scoreless for nearly six minutes as the New Mexico fans got behind their Lobos, who took the lead for good. "The crowd helps everything," coach Elaine Elliott said. "When you have a dry spell, you have to defend well, and we didn't. That was our worst six minutes of the game defensively." Utah tried to mount a comeback, closing the gap to within three with p under a minute. But a Lana Sitterud three was off, leaving the Utes with their second conference loss. seed for next Already the No. week's MWC tourney, the Utes didn't have too much on the line. But before they head to Las Vegas, they would like to get back on the winning track in Saturday's season finale at Air Force. cbellamychronicle. utah. edu 4 20-5- 2-- s: Three-Pointer- Thorburn 35 7 (Smith Marshall Sitterud Turnovers: 19 (Smith 8 2-- 6, 3-- 0-- Stireman 6, Stireman 5, Wood 2, Sitterud 2, Team 2, Marshall, Thorburn). ). 23-- 45-3- 7. A ' ...., X 1 NEW .MEXICO Reb A Pts 4 8 0 9 0-- 0 4 3 2 4-- 4 7 2 9 Moore 3 3 5 5 Garcia 0-- 0 3 2 2 Player FG-- Grear 3-- 6 A Arndt Adams 7 Letz Scaglione Forest FT-- A 2 0-- 0 3 14 8 0-- 0 2 2 13 2-- 7 0-- 0 2 1 5 0-- 0 0 12 McLeod Team 4 Totals 8 36 1 17 51 last-gas- 1 1 - f m ttoonechronicle.ut Jh.edu hf' at hobos' Pit 3 e 20-k- NCAA Champs. 37-at TBA tt- - av- -. .jm. mm' .n 3) 19-1- 2, tes Lose by finish. "I wanted to come out and finish strong," Svet said. "The guys did a ijrcat job opening up and we tried to put up scores close to theirs. I was a little disappointed with my score, but we are in first place and that's all I can ask for." Today, the action shifts back to nordic racing, with the men's classical and the women's at Utah w .'!.' 8-- The loss was Utah's second in its last three games and first home loss in 15 contests this season. It dropped 17 (21-- fin-she- SKIING wn h.iwhii 8, 8-- 5) one-tent- h .he pressure, skiing to a u. 8. e Wyoming Saturday (20-10-and BYU hosts CSU. Rams' coach Dale Layer said there were three options on the play, which CSU started with 18 seconds left in the game and down by two. "Ronnie Clark had the option to go into center Matt Nelson, sweep and drive, but they defended that well so he kicked it out. Mike Morris came out with confidence and hit the big shot," Layer said. "There wasn't much time left, so I had to shoot it," Morris said. But the turning point of the game could've been right before half. Though Utah led by seven at they went 8:31 without a field goal late in the first half, missing 10 straight shots and committing four turnovers. Utah cut CSU's lead to four after Tim Frost, who finished with a game-hig- h 23 points on shooting, hit a layup. Just before the half, Richard third-plac- 1 nth-plac- P 10-- 6, 69-5- TRENT TOONE Chronic!'1 Sports Writer ! Gives CSU Upset Win RORY BRUNNER Champs 0 0 3 2 7 Utah lost a second-hal- f LACROSSE vs Utah Arizona 37 at 3:30 p.m. Baliff Field CHRONICLE SPORTS EDITOR lead as New Mexico went on a 23-- 3 GYMNASTICS vs Utah Washington 37 at 7 (4-4- ) (11-- 5) p.m. Huntsman Center RORY BRUNNER run. MEN'S HOOPS vs Utah (22-6- Wyoming 38 at ) (20-8- ) 1 Three-Pointer- (Scaglione Garcia Adams Moore Grear Turnovers: 21 (Adams 6, Arndt 5, Moore 3, Grear 2, Garcia 2, Letz 2, Forest). Forest 3-- 6, 0-- ). HALFTIME: Utah 24, New Mexico 17 ATTENDANCE: 12,333 WOMEN'S HOOPS at Utah Air Force 38 (21-5- (7-1- ) 9) at p.m. Colo. Springs, Colo. p.m. Huntsman Center RBRUNNERCHRONICLE.UTAH.EDU 8 581 - 6397 1 |