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Show Friday, February A full Sports 21 . THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 1986 - Page 5 report and commentary on winners, losers and coming events nknowns Share Lose the Magic As Cougars Lead at Soggy 66-5- 6 Ends Streak, Wyoming LA Op en Tourney By MARION DUNN LOS ANGELES (UPlt Trixler, a struggling PGA Dennis qualily-in- tournament graduate who has earned just $959 this year, posted a 66 Thursday to share the lead with Jay Delsing at the $450,000 Los Angeles Open. Trixler, 41st in the qualifying tournament last fall and playing in the Los Angeles Open because of a weak field, had six birdies and a Herald Sports Editor lead tjelore hogeying his last hole Two strokes behind the leaders were Mae OGrady and Hob Gilder. At were Lennie Clements. Doug Tewell. veteran .Jolinnv Miller, Danny Hriggs. Larry Mie. Andy Pillard and dim Dent one-strok- e Lanny W'adkins. who had record-hre-ikin- 264 last year's event, shot a 66-5- Arena-Auditoriu- Hashed "Brandy's Bandits." How About Them Pokes.'' And on the lloor Wyoming's talented sophomore sharpshooter Fennis Dembo Hashed the No.l sign with both hands sending the students into frenzied chanting of We're No.l." It had been Wyoming's night almost without exception. Before the game Cowboy coach Jim Rrandcnborg had "guaranteed" his Waddles would win the game and a record sellout crowd would be m the AA stands. The Cowboys won the game but a to win 71 a Stroke Back BYU In Pan American MONTERREY. Mexico TTD -Roy Mackenzie of Texas A&M and Viciano Villarreal of Campeste University in Monterey shared the first-rounlead Thursday in a international college golf tournament, but Missouri took the team lead by a stroke over RYU. d play will continued today in the Pan American International Intercollegiate Golf Tournament. The annual tournament, hosted by Pan American Universi Second-roun- d ty, tealures 15 college teams truiii the l .S. and lour troni Mexico. Fourteen ol 75 gollers broke par the opening round, led by Mackenzie and Villarreal at 67. liM' individuals came in at 71 iFduardo in Horrent. Rruce lirockbank Sieve Schneiter i, 73 Hi Franklin i . 72 t nt and 75 iJnnalhon Raker BYU Basketball i. the team competition. Misled at 2ii6, lollowed by RYF at 287. Campeste ol Monterrey at 289. Texas U M at 200 and Oral Roberts and McNeese Slate at J01. In souri the crowd was only the third largest in Wyoming history. ( apacity is 15.024. One out of two isn't bad." Bra ndenberg said alterward. and the win is the one we w anted." With the victory Wyoming pulled into a tie for lirst place with RYU. The two schools are while UTEP and Utah, both winners Thursday on the road, are both Saturday RYU goes to Salt Lake City to play Utah in a 7:30 p. in. game that will be televised live on Channel 2 and Wyoming hosts Colorado Stale in a 3 p.m. game. The Cougars can do no worse than lie tor the WAC championship il they wan their remaining two home games against CSU on Feb. 27 and Wyoming on March 1. II they beat Utah Saturday night and then sweep the linal pair at home they will win the championship outright. Coach Ladell Andersen noted this alter the loss Thursday and I feel good about where said. we're at. We wanted to be a contender and we are a contender may be the the best contend12.-07- Prep Cagers in Waning Moments of '66 Season By TOM CHRISTENSEN Saturday lor the No. 3 and No. spots and the semitmal winners will square tor the top seeding Region Eight doesn't have a region tournament and regular season play continues tonight. The lop game is a rematch between Spring-villand Provo '8-- i. In the lirst meeting Provo's Alan Framp-toone stole a ball on a throe-ant)T win last break to key a 1 Herald Staff Writer The Region Two Tournament much opens Monday with a set-ulike last year's WAC tourney. First and second place teams are seeded into the semifinals while third and fourth are seeded into the quarters. Monday, No. 8 Alta plays at No. 5 Bingham and No. 6 American Fork hosts No. 7 West Jordan. Tuesday, the winner of the A.F.-WeJordan game plays at No. 3 Mountain View and the Bingham-Alt- a winner plays at No. 4 llilicrest. The victors move into the semifinals to be played at No. Brighton and No. 2 Orem. Tuesday's losers will play Friday for Region Two's fifth spot in the state tourney. The semifinals will be Friday night. Semifinal losers will play 1 10-- e n ) at Timpview Carbon (3-Don't expect any slip ups again! the Dinos from the who are driving towards a region title. at PL Grove (8-Sp. Fork The Vikings are a step taster la..:; (9-1- the young Doits. ) i at Uintah Pay son 1'ayson needs this one to keep alive its playoff hopes. Rut the ies are tough at home. tl-9- I Cougars Race Past Cowgirls By DOROTHY KNOELL Herald Staff Writer Coming off a big victory over UCLA in Los Angeles, the RYF women cagers struggled past a fired-ubunch of Wyoming in HCAC action Cowgirls. Thursday at the Marriott Center. The Cougars overall. in HCAC have won nine straight and host Colorado State at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Marriott Center. "They Wyoming made u work lor everything,'' said RYF coach Courtney Leishman. BYU lost Cathv Nixon to tw o p 99-8- 14-- i i i er. They could be but Thursday night they were only the second best team in Laramie. The Cougars had their winning streak broken and never really looked sharp in the louls in the lust three minutes oi the game and Tresa Spaulding to two personals three minutes later. with 13'35 The Cougars trailed lell before Tamse Mclnlire scored RYF s next nine points to give the lead. Cougars a RYF led at the hah. 20-1- process 28-2- 2 They shot only 41 percent lrom the Held hitting 23 ol 56 while Wyoming hit 52 percent lrom the field on 23 ol 44. The Cougars led at and when the were in front 47-3- 9 Wyoming cut that to List two. with 16 16 leit in second hall, then RYF went to work Elev-en points from Spauldii a banker by Mclntire and two ti v throws rem Nixon the t ing.ii's on a nil over the m xt live mmutes i,,r a 6i, 53 RYF lead e 49. 21-1- 9 Pokes pulled even and then moved ahead to stay. The lead changed hands seven tunes in the half. W ith 15:32 to play in the game. and the CouWyoming led. ball. had the Hobby Capener gars lired a shot, the ball dipped into the basket then spun out clearing the rim. Jell Coalman leaped and I 15-- i 35-3- Graf in Lipton Finals Lloyd, Fla. d'Pli -Chris Evert Lloyd battled back from set point during a first-se- t to del eat Kathy Rinaldi Thursday in the $1.8 million Lipton International Players Championships BOCA RATON. 6 - As the LARAMIE. Wyo. was ticking oil the mat seconds in Wyoming's impressive victory over RYF in the Pokes' here Thursday night, the scoreboard clock ear-olWest Siclii Gral. a Gel mat) baseline!'. Iruslr.itcd Ik lo na Nukova's ;iggressie net game With arsenal ol passing shots m a 6 2 6 triumph in the other seiml inal 10-- tipped the ball back into the winch would have cut the Hilt ollicial Moose scoie to , Stalling blew his whistle calling basket l r f ,v : " m. . ? j 5KV Wyoming center v 4 S i fir , ' ' Eric Leckner stuffs the ball while BYU's Brent Stephenson looks ollensive goal tending and erasing the two points. Alter that the Cougars fell way back and their next real move on the Pokes came with lour min- utes to play and Wyoming up by seven. RYF had the ball and was passing it around when it was stripped lrom center Tom (inciting and converted into an easy '. basket by the Pokes Andersen thought (inciting was touled on the play and said this out loud so ollicial Tom Fincken hit him with a technical loul, Les Ridden convened one ol two tries and Wyoming led. But it was the sensational shooting ol temlio and then some laniastic long distance bombs by Ridden and Jon Son, mors that did the Cougars in 50-4- I Dembo scored a game high ol points, nine coming in rapid lire order bite in the first hall as he hit 9 ol 16 from the Held and went 8 tor 9 lrom the line We knew they had great outside shooting, but we just didn t stop it." Andersen said. "They have the best shooting percentage in the W AC. We knew they could hit liom the perimeter. We ju-didn't gel it covered " The Cougars have no time to lick their wounds The returned and startto Provo this ed preparing lor Saturday's game with the Ftes. The Cougars have some regrouping to do. They were for the third sti.ngti; 26 alk-moo- game, and badly. The Luke pulled down lo more. 36 to 26. on this as Andersen comim-nte- on hopelessly. J down the tunnel afterward. "We were again We've got to correct that." he said almost to hu.isei! Capener stored 13 points before louhng out ('batman ii.nl 12 and they were the only Couga.'s in double mures. he walked I Wyoming had Holder, with 13, ':! and Erie Leck- Summers with ner W li'i id RYF. Wyomtng. Flab and FTEP are stii! m the ur.nn g as i the W.a ky WAC rolls toward regular season tmisli it-- : But the Cougars could all bat sew up the title with win at would Utah s.ih'piav night m ha v V ; it! at h.ij.j but as We d rah.ei he An. let set: .,:d in Ihe M.iinoi! tviv.'-tli.ir. in l.al'a::)ie Cavemen, Tigers Collect Closing Season Victories Editor's Note: Stories contributed by Tom Christensen, Brian Lanz Phil Hill and - the Cavemen's order Region Two victory over Bingham Wednesday night. In the first lour minutes of the fourth quarter both teams were plaving ragged ball as the lead 4: 19 changed hands five times. With left in the contest. Bean who was playing with four fouls, scored six straight points to rally the Cavemen lead delicit to a from a with 3:31 Ivtt in the game. "We needed to get on a roll." said Bean after the game. 'Those points really helped us get control id the chaos 55-5- game." in 74-6- 00-5- The Miners could get no closer than three points as the Cavemen iced the game with eight consecutive free throws in the linal minute. "We showed good poise." said A.F. coach Art Allied. "Bingham of the plays so frantic on both ends afraid are your team court you might lose control." Frantic is a good description ol the second half. American Fork lead and threatened lo budt an put the game away in the third 44-3- a about Ills the technicals changed the momentum of the game to Hindian; as the Miners went on a 110 spiat the knot the sl ore at Bean also picked up three fouls in a three minute stretch ol the thud quarter as American Fork took a lead into tin lointh tenuous quarter. American Fork 6 w ill host W eM on m a lir.-Jordan lest o the Region 'IV. o '.aa; But 44-4- 48-4- 7 1! i2-1- a ' squad s iniensi- - These are the kind of games you about. Hellislon said. "We were able to get control of Ihe game oal Iv and then managed to hi iv Slav on top Men u k Williams, who lied Doug 15 l.atseti with a game-higpoints lor Drem. got things going early by hitting a pair of baseline jumpers train Ihe corner to set the tempo of the game tor the Tigers. iiei ,i pan' oi tree throws by Jim Williams went back to work oi ii;: g another pair of long distance h.Mps 1" s' ike the Tigers to a 10-6 Monday night Tigers 71. Il.iw ull Orem used it- - hoiae ni-- ' gu!ai seaadvantage in its una! son game again' Via as Hie gers established llieM ohl idt gen e early to cruise to a 74 51 thiamin:. g of the AJta Hawks Thursday night The win solulilied the Tigers position atop Hie Region Two stand :i, ings, improv ing their mai k lo while Alta continues lo search loi its initial ictorv w illi a record id 0 ks 51 . 14. Tiger head coach Mi k liolaston said alter the game thai wind' en m.lh Alta s season rccoul ha- lie , be to ol, Irightoncd ing Huskies iv vv American AMERICAN FORK Fork's Clint Bean linally brought to quarter. Five ol those points were a direct result ol a double technical foul on Bingham coach George Sl.i lta was not without some outside laiue themselves, as its guard line was able to combine lor their lirst two points to keep the Hawks close in tiie early going, with rela-livel- i holding iii-i- a lead was about the only real chance that Alta had lo slay in the game, as Orem began to oxtelul its lead toward Ihe end ol the period until il built a 23 12 advantage al the conclusion ol the Inst quarter. The leal dillerenee in Ihe game was Orem converting on 24 ol 38 iiee throw attempts, while Alia could only manage a sub par 7 ol IK liom the charily stripe. hat 51, Bruins Mountain View had the shots that could have went m but didn t to lali lor The same shots hapx-neus." llilicrest coach Jim Jimas night 45 The last thing the Mountain iew Bruins needed prior to nexl week s Region Two playoffs was a below par showing at home to end the reguha season. Needed or noi. that's what Ihe Brums hail Thursday night and the visiting llilicrest Huskies took lull overtime win advantage with a Mountain View. "Tins was not a good one lo lose going into the region tournament.' said Mountain View coach Joel I'm obviously proud that Gardner in league play, our kids went but tonight we just plnvod lal Alter opening up a pair ol six point leads in the li st quarter, the Bruins did an about lace as crest bounced back to tie things al two minutes into the second ;it 10-- said Hillcrest jumped out to a tour point lean early in the second hall, but the Bruins regained the lead. 29 on Mark Pollard's ollensive board with 2:30 lell in the third quarter. In Ihe fourth stanza, llilicrest t battled back lrom a deficit to tie the game for the ninth tune on Doug Adams' lrom baseline leit with 2 20 lel! in icgula lion. llilicrest bad it chance to s.dt the game away in regulation alter a Mountain View turnover, but dams . missed the t runt end of a one leaving the Bruins' Todd ni v to send the game into ove: with Ins three-poincontinuation plav with 20 seconds lell ,iitd-ono- quarter. Just belore lialttinie. Mountain lead. But View had opened a In the extra stanza. Adams llilicrest tied things with an 72 canned a pair ol bombs as the burst in Ihe final two minutes Huskies opened up a lead To get back into the game, Wasps 63, Cougars 47 used a steady hand lrom the HI 'HER The Wasatch Wasps Held, hitting nine ol 17 in the Inst used a solid delensiv e pel lorinance half. The Huskies didn't really de- to ciiiise past the Union Cougars tract from that paltern lor the i est in Thursday night Region Nine of the game. aclmn "We really hit the big shots to "We played really gixnl delense," Hill-cres- 0:t-4- said n.i-.- hi each B... i'.ilT Our lor. ed :.. :n to shoot i .:.' 2 poorly Three Wasatch '.;r:ns were in double fiuLit'es lor the Wasps Gary Holmes and Kain C! nsteitsen had 17 pom's acli Wad Ferrer added 10 Wasa'i ii will lace Park City Saturday ait ei noon in the Region Nine round-robito be played at South Sumim! High School in Kaiiias. Waterford ri.!: s.N i, to-- tian Int. Christian id; Crusader- ter!, v 68, l' ;- i: The sioii-- a ' - 39 Wa68-3- 9 over intere eii: tun Chrisnigh The w in ups I'Mi' sd , Wall lord s region rord to 10 0 and 12 o ov erail. Attet a close lirst pel i..d, Water-lor- d moved out to a 17 point lead on haskf's by John Warner and John W yiiL.u den The hall lound the Prove team up. Wateitord came out strong in the third quarter with Warren Winkle hitting on six shots troin outside and some strong defensive play, whii h held ICS scoreless for five minutes. The Crusaders took a 5026 lead going into the lmal quarter. i , Wateitord 11 now tournament quality lor the 1A enters the Region attempt to shite tournament. in an |
