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Show BYU Offensive Rebounding Helps Cougars to Win By JOE WATTS Herald Sports Editor Brigham Young University broke open a tight, ball game with Utah State University through the second half, jumped to a lead, arid best the Aggies 0 Saturday night before the largest crowd of the year in the hard-foug- mid-wa- 88-8- Marriott Activities Center, 22.743. Utah State matched the Cougars basket-for-bask- through the first half, but went into a zone defense early in the second half, and it seemed to be The Ags acutally cut it to five wi'th 50 seconds points at remaining and were very much in the game. Freshman Darryl Owens missed a foul shot on a potential three-poiplay or the Ags would have cut it to just four points. twisting, driving layup and was fouled for a three-poiplay, lead at giving BYU an 6 with 12 05 remaining The Ags went into the zone defense when the score was 6 for BYU, and this BYU lesd still didn't flush the Belmont Anderson, one of BYU's many stars for the night, hit two foul shots with 37 seconds remaining to ice the game for the Cougars. It was a tight game in the first half with the Aggies holding the biggest leads. USU's Robert Lauriski hit his first five shots to catapult the Ags ahead early, and BYU had to call a time-ou- t at the mark with the Ags ahead by five, Lauriski had ten points by then and the Ags were Soiling Ags out of the zone, In addition, Lauriski was on the bench in foul trouble, which was also a factor in th Ags falling behind. BY'U .riaintained the 13 pemt lead up to the three minute mark at which point the Cougars led The Ags rallied 85-8- 0 67-5- n V4i 85-7- f if ( w h j y, I ' ' . w v .Vmh V iV 7 Over Vikings Brodie Sparks 66-6- 4 last-gas- p t f a vV j ; ym,:. V . .a I: '"ik'.rA Iff , fV-'- 1 i SOPHOMORE RICH HAWS of USU drives in an attempt to score, but gets heavy pressure from BYU's Doug Richards. The Cougars jumped to a big lead in the second half and held on to an triumph over the Ags. 88-8- 0 Pholmby PalChriilian t ji,;"jiimr mmmSZSt r ;vo3t - s.-- '' Carsnn-Newma- Ambrozich Sarkalahti Cosic Anderson R 1 3 17 40 34 2 40 J3 3 29 40 Richards Bunker Clawson Totals 40 USU (80) M 8 16 17 18 i 19 0 2 53 16 1 3 38 0 20 33 1 K. Thompson 25 Moore Rock Love 36 14 6 0 8 6 3 11 1 04 1 6 0- -0 32 84 USU JVs (8S) Thomas G F P 8 4 18 Agnew 0 4 Laing Rupp Rock Stokes Owens 10 3 23 Weston 0 Nyman Totals 1 0 2 38 8 89 Halfttmf Score; BYU 18 54 19 0 46, USU 41 T 0 0 14 B,432 3 ?! 3 6 2 1 a , ; TEMPE, Ariz. (UPI) Utah 40 s" na State opened up its running na 37 touled out: u,ah' Jonesgame in the second half to fou,s: So" Carolina 17' romp past Northern Arizona 104- - ut,a,'7 72 Saturday. Mike Contreras headed five Sun Devils scoring in double fig- ures with 22 points. Ken Gray had 16 and Ron Kennedy 15. 1 Gary Jackson and James Brown W came off the bench to score 14 I and 13 respectively. -zINDIANAPOLIS (UPI) High scorer for Northern Ari- The Indiana a cut Pacers short with Flemons Charles was ona Saturday 20. Lester Madison 16 and Art Memphis comeback ni6ht 125"120' to maintain their Champaign 14. ASU now is 2 and UNA is mastery over the Tarns who have not beaten the Pacers in 3.3 c'I?o" Dnreirc fAffn V7UIII rUfcClJ IOC Of) A$n III aJ"I rieasam v?rove Led by Giovacchini's straight American Basket- - ball Association games. Memphis tied the game five times in the last period, the last strong could 110t move ahead of ABA Western Division leaders, shooting, Judge Memorial George McGinnis led Indiana 6--2. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Missouri ended Tennessee's dominance of the Classic Saturday Volunteer win over the a with night Vols, and the Tigers' John Brown was voted most valuable player of the event. Brown led Missouri with 23 out points as the Tigers jumped halftime lead and to a coasted much of the second half on foul shots as the Vols tried to close the gap. Three other Tigers were in double figures, Gary Link with 13, Felix Jerman with 11 and Mike Jeffries with 10. nked Mike Edwards led the Tennessee Attack with 19 points. John Snow had 12 and Rooney Woods 10. 67-5- 7 -3 32 ?sr Raps Lumberjacks Kls rizo- TlJiime: (UPD-Tenth-ra- 8 Totals ASU F Missouri Captures Volunteer Classic 0 2 G 0 0 6 5 04 li (73) J,ah Sorensen athJas 3 3 15 4 4 14 5 16 0 u -1 Allen 6 6 6 0 ne F Taylor Williams Peterson Romberg Vt alkenhorst Joyce Manning Dunleavy 2 20 80 0- - Mehr 14 6 R. Thompson BYU JVi (84) T 01 7 0 5 35 0- - 0 1 0 Erickson -3 1 2 Owens 1 0 Pavltsh 33 Totals Halftime score BYU 44. USU 42 Turnovers: BY U 20, USU 10 Personal fouls BY I) 15. USU 19 Attendance: 22 .743 F 7 - 20 -2 0- - G ball Lake, AO RAP 6 7 F 40 (77) English PtinpniY Downs 88 Haws Boatwright Lauriski So. Carolina 83-7- 0 0 0 FC 5 Pr Grove Vikings the contest, however, was Lee Pleasant Grove held a four- - Davis of the Tarns with 33 point lead at the end of the first points, quarter but were down three points by the end of the third period. Despite the fact they had four players in double figures, they were unable to make up the difference. Don PHOENIX, Ariz. (UPI) moved Pleasant Grove fg 8 pt 16P Liesemer, who torecently scored Hamann irom left wing center, 17 two 6 Aiired goals and an assist Satur- ! ! Jl dav night as the Phoenix Road- 19 7 Adamson 6 runners dumped the Salt Lake 2 Eyre siioell" 2 5 Golden Eagles, 77 30 Totals victory narrowed Salt Judge Memorial ke'S ,ea6Ue lead t0 3 Sin8le FG PT P 25 point over the Roadrunners. Giovacchini li John Goftort, Jim Boyd and 20 9 O'Brien 18 7 Mancini Andy Hinse joined Liesemer on 1 2 "arte the score sheet as the Road- .1 Fffe" runners jumped off to a 0 first (Ml 12 83 period lead. 37 Totals ". P A 9.had two-poi- nt 5-- 1 F "L1 overcame a halftime with 30 points and Mel Daniels deficit and beat the Pleasant tallied 27. High point man in Bib said. FG Ea1dieJ Utes ahfad 40"37 at mtermis- nosts close slon and kePl through the second half, but foul shooting and a sloppy offense turned the trick for So" Carolina, nmng and reserve Dunlea- vy. led the Gamecocks with 16 points each Joyce added 15 and freshman Alex English had 12. Whiting Sojourner JUU96 CCigeS on The Cougars are now the season while the Ags It was the fourth dropped to straight win for the Cougars over the Ags. 23 f"d 14 Collegiate M Game-Trailin- 11-- - Still BYU (88) 66 points field but the g cocks outscored Utah 7 from chanty lane as both teams had 13 attempts, guards Luther Burden Wl P01" high or the game, -A- two-yar- d to," 7 with Providence five minutes rema.ning, Santa Clara forged to the front with 41 seconds remaining and stayed ahead on four foul shots, two each by Winkler and Stewart, to pull out the win. 2 at the The Friars led half on the shooting of Marvin Barnes who finished the game with 29 points and 24 rebounds, But Providence ran into foul ate in the game, trouble Fran Costello and Nehru King left the contest on fouls. Santa Clara's team effort car- ried them past high scoring by Barnes and Ernie DiGregorio's 26 points and 23 by Kevin Stacom. Besides Stewart and Winkler, Jerry Bellotti added 13, Remel Diggs had 11 and Fred Lavaroni 10. Lavaroni topped the Broncos on the boards with 14 rebounds. teams had from earlier this season. Jones Nielsen Forty-Niner- Hoop Scores '"l?Bo"1 49-4- d gap points En route, he completed a EAST pass to John Isenbar-ger- , Fordham 73 CCNY 57 a to Gene 71 62 Columbia Connecticut Northeastern 64 Buffalo 55 Washington and an eight yarder Penn St. 65 Boston Coll. 63 to Vic Washington to set the Bridgewater Coll. 84 Lynchburg 82 49ers up at the Minnesota 24. Maryland Esn Shore 101 St. Mary's Md. After missing on one pass, 84 Brodie hit Gene Washington foi Virginia 90 William & Mary 80 South Florida 62 Wheaton 61 the score. Manhattan 57 Rhode Island 47 The Vikings, who finished Yale 92 Trinity Conn. 66 then kept their season at SOUTH Memphis St. 80 Navy 51 possession for more than five WEST minutes, finally surrendering Montana 58 Wyoming 49 the ball with 1:30 left at the Montana 72 Wash. St. 49 San Francisco 34. Wash. 102 Wichita St. 68 Cal Poly 74 Whittier 62 Then, in a dramatic drive, Hawaii 68 Nevada LV 56 Brodie took the 49ers 56 yards Westminster 99 West Mont 80 for the winning score. Ariz. St. 8b San Diego 59 He completed a nine yard San Diego St. 86 Port St. 53 USF 87 Army 70 pass to Larry Schreiber, an Santa Clara 80 Utah 76 eight yarder to Vic Washington Oregon 73 Colo. St. 68 and then the 49ers, guilty of six Denver 105 Color ado Western St 83 turnovers previously, got a big MIDWEST Evansville 78 Kent Wesleyan 66 break when Viking linebacker Augustana S.D. 82 W. 111. 65 Jeff Siemon was guilty of pass Iowa St. 88 Drake 84 interference to set up San Michigan 74 Detroit 65 Kansas St. 71 Washington 64 Francisco at the Minnesota 26. Marquette 70 Xavier Ohio 52 Two passes failed and then Georgia 66 LSU 62 Schreiber went six yards on a Florida 78 Ceorgia Tech 69 draw play and Brodie threw 18 Citac'el 55 East Carolina 54 Mississippi Coll. 89 Harding 75 yards to Vic Washington to put Tougaloo 79 Miss Valley St 72 the ball on the two with the 94 Tenn. St. 91 clock running with less than a South Florida 62 Wheaton 61 Ohio St 86 Butler 55 minute left. Indiana Central 90 Indiana St. Two Brodie passes failed and 62 then the San Francisco quarter- Evansville St. 76 Western Michigan 73 Michigan back hit Witcher all alone in Minnesota 87 I.ayola 111. 81 the end zone for the winning Indiana S9 Ohio U. 68 jayl)awk Classic score. Texas Tech 53 Army 52 Con. Bruce Gosfett booted field Four Gassic goals of 14 and 37 yards in the BigN Carolina St. 68 N. Carolina 61 Champ the to for account first half Duke 80 Wake Foicst 67 Con other San Francisco points Marshall Invitation Florida St. 85 Baylor 67 Con while the Vikings scored on an Volunteer Classic 18- yard pass from Frank Syracuse 84 Holy Cross 76 Tarkenton to Ed Marinaro and Uuh Classic a S Carolina 77 Utah 73 Cons pass from Tarkenton 77-7- 3 91-9- 0 17-- - - 82-7- 49ers to Title - 13. ge SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) South Carolina won a battle of the guards Saturday night to and take the edpe Utah consolation crown in the Utah Classic, Providence played Sar. la Clara for the championship in the second game of the fifth annual pre season tournament. Casey Manning combined for 47 points with backcourt mates Mike Dunleavy and Kevin Joyce stay even with the host Utes from the field and South Caroli-on- d "a won e game at the foul 77-7- 3 y 17- Utah-Pa- Ufes lose Again 97-9- 2 44-4- 2 d Provo. 17. 1972 - 38-3- 7 Looking For Coach December SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Santa Clara, led by the offen- sive punch of center Mike Stew- art and reserve forward Bruce Winkler, upset 14th ranked to win the Providence championship game in the Utah Classic Saturday night. South Carolina won a battle of the guards with host Utah, in the first game to take the consolation title. Stewart led all scorers with 33 points and Winkler added 24 as Santa Clara won its sec- upset of the year over a nationally ranked team. The Broncos downed Brigham Young 37-3- 3 20-1- 7 - San fa Clara Tops Providence to A Win Ute Classic l, "" 21-1- 77-8- Sur,tldV- I 50-4- somewhat, but couldn't get close enough to apply serious Cougars. Gradually BYU pulled pressure. USU started Jim Moore at away from the Ags while they were in their zone and with eight center instead of Lafayette minutes remaining the Cougars Love, and it caused BYU some lead of had a defensive problems. Moore Utah State came out of the pulled out of the pivot, pulling BY'U jumped to a four-poizone in the final five minutes Cosic away from the basket and and narrowed the margin as lead of as a result of three Jim Boatwright played the post BYU shifted into a zone defense straight foul pitches by for the Ags. to try to protect its lead. Anderson, one of which was a The Cougars really won the It just wasn't a night for zone technical against an Ag for no' gime on the offensive boards, defenses. raising his hUasLenough. when Moni Sarkalahti was The Ags came right back to USU assistant coach Bill Bibb especially effective. The lead, but Cosic Cougars won the battle of the explained after the game, "We grab a went to the zone mainly because scored on a three-poiplay and boards by 20,53-33- , and the we had three men in foul eventual!" the Cougars took a scored 12 rebound Cougars lead in at halftime. trouble." baskets. It was the mid-waGlenn Potter, BYU's head point in Kresimir Cosic scored 29 coach, explained his reason for the second half when BYU took points and had 16 rebounds. going to the zone. "We were command of the game. Doug Sarkalahti had 17 rebounds, high ahead by 11 points at the time, Richards hit two foul shots to on the floor, and 17 points on and we figured we womd make put BYU ahead by eight at seven of ten field goal attempts. them hit from outside. They and then Belmont Anderson Lauriski and his forward came up with a sensational partner Jim Boatwright were did." top point getters for the Ags with 20 points each. Lauriski hit 20-- 1 nine of 15 field goal attempts while Boatwright pumped in 15 foot jumpers all night and finished with 10 of 18 from the field. The BYU guards were hustling all night and turned in excellent games. Anderson got 19 points on six of 11 field shots, while Richards had 18 points on eight of 16 field goal attempts. Potter had praise for his team SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- to John Gilliam and a the Aggies. "The Aggies are and BroVeteran quarterback John field goal by Fred Cox. fine team, far superior to a very Minnesota came back in the die, out of action for nearly nine games, rallied San Fran- last half minute and moved last year. Their sophomore Rich Haws did a good job cisco for a pair of fourth inside the San Francisco 40 guard under heavy pressure," he said. to touchdowns with five seconds to go. But quarter Saturday "Our offensive rebounding give the 49ers a victory instead of taking a has really improved. We've got over the Minnesota Vikings and effort at a winning touchdown, to their third consecutive NFC the Vikings decided to go for a both forwards going the board one of at least and sometimes West title. field goal attempt by Fred Cox the guards. We got a lot of tips that missed. With the 49ers trailing because of it," he pointed out. Even if Cox had tied the Brodie completed a "We were patient against touchdown nass to Gene Wash- game, the tie would still have their zone and took good shots, s the title. given the which certainly helped us in the ington with 6:13 left and then hit Dick Witcher with a second half," he added. throw with 25 seconds left Bib, the Aggie assistant, USU for the winning score. agreed. "Rebounding was the The victory gave the 49ers an big difference. You can't get record in the final regular outrebounded by 20 and expect season game and deprived the to win. It was the first time Atlanta Falcons and the Los we've been out rebounded this Angeles Rams from any chance year. Their guards were good on to win the division title in their The the boards." LOGAN, Utah (UPI) Bibb added, "We felt like we windup games Sunday. Utah State University football a good game. The kids played remained out ankle with an open coaching job Brodie, a good effort. The gave injury since Oct. 15, took over Saturday. was the only excepwith less than two minutes University officials said they rebounding the offense and ran tion. They were for the remaining in the third quarter taing applications and completed ten of 13 passes post, vacated by Chuck Mills defense well." He especially had praise for who became football coach at for 165 yards. However, the BYU's Cosic. "He's one of the Wake Forest showed University. quarterback Mills' top assistant, Jesse finest big men I've ever seen in signs of inactivity, when he was to stop Cone, had been considered for college basketball, and I've twice intercepted around. I've seen some drives. the USU post, but Cone told been San Francisco budding ones. He can do On the second interception, university officials late Friday mighty good than any big man the Vikings were unable to that he decided to withdraw his more things I've seen," he said. move the ball and Mike name from consideration. Could Cosic play in the pros? Eischeid punted the ball out of think he could play in the pros "I bounds at the San Francisco for any team in either ieague. one. His defense might be a question, Then Brodie started the 49ers but he has the quickness and on a six play drive to to do it when he wants agility to four at close the the turning point for the isSG200Zr $74jl 0 MONI SARKALAHTI, the top rebounder on the floor with 17, gets some opposition from USU's Lafayette love (44) during one rebound attempt. Sarkalahti got a foul shot on the play, and wound up with 17 points for the night. The Tigers used a tight defense to whip the Vols in both and in shooting dominance of the backboards at both ends of the court. The Vols' center, Len Kosmalski, was hampered by a foot injury that slowed him considerably, riding the bench a good portion of the second half. Syracuse whipped Holy Cross in the consolation game. man-to-ma- n 84-7- 6 |