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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, March Weber Wins S ctS Sojourner Paces Wildcat Attack By Ray Herbat Tribune Sports Writer LAS CRUCES. - N.M. Cats Drop Game To N.M. Aggies es with 44 seconds to play to lead. Jim give Weber a Gardns Mas- Seattles :, to play, the Cougars fell apart and trailed by 13 points most of the last 10 minutes. 11:45 strong rebounder, muscled in a basket with 33 seconds left to mak" Willie took Sojourner charge in the second half and the big guy, alorg with a cast of seven other Wildcats, led Weber State into the NCAA Western Regionals with a victory over a quick Seattle team here sive Narrow I,cad the nation, qualified for a sre-- j otid shot at UCLA by nverpow- ering Brigham Young University, 74 to 62, here Saturday night. Home Court ftow Mexico State took a pad j1P dressing room at halftime in a game that saw the momentum swing back and forth. T,p Aggips owned the first eight minutes and during that The powerful Aggies, playing bui up 15 8 load. on their home ,x1lirJ Tlien Howard and Parsons put throughout the soi'ontl half In snni(, irat on Aggie guards, handing the '' rsloru AtnUMir fnrrrrj a couple of mistakes and a Conference the Cougars got their fast break solid whipping. going. For the next four min- And the Aggies, smashing the llos RYU rpanv (t on Cougars on both the oflensive and wjlh Liirncii Howard and and defensive boards, relied to riuffnei' carrying the scoring tiicir 24th victory against three nad the Cougars vaulted to a defeats. 20 17 lead. Jimmy Collins, Sam Lacey, Jeff Smith, John Burgess and The Cougars outscored New Tito Reyes led the Aggies to , Mexico State, victory. during that time. End At Fade The clubs jockeyed back and The Cougars, who held tough forth and the score was Tied at in the first half, faded in the 20, 26 and 27 with Lacey and second period before the deadly Reyes doing the hea.y damage. passing and shooting of the After Hardy Murphy til is omy home club. bucket of tiie half to give the BYU twice closed within two Aggies a lead, the Cougars but after had to play catch-uand ball the points, holding the Aggies to 4844 with rest of the period. Twice they got to within one point ; t 31 10 and but NMS got two baskets from Collins to jump fo a 37 32 lead before Liirno scored just before 75.73 But Weber State, with Rich Nielsen, Justus Thigpen, Gary Strong, Larry Bergh and Sojourner in the lineup, managed to pass the ball around and kill off those final precious seconds. Seattle, strangely, didnt try to foul. 75-7- 3 Saturday night. Second Period giant sophoSojourner, the arms like tree more with Early Hero was held to five branches, was the hero for Bergh points in the first half, but Weber State. Theearly Wildcat big exploded for 17 points in the from Walla Walla, second period to carry the Wild- captain Wash., drilled in 16 early points cats. to keep the Webe- offense alive Soujourner hit two foul pitch- - and well. Thigpen and Harlan also were early offensive powers, but down the stretch it was the Machine with those awesome arms and hands who cut down the Chieftains. Gus Chatmon outplayed standing defensive ball and was tough on the boards for the 46-4- 4 Wildcats. Weber started the second half LOS ANGELES (AP) Ernie as if it were going to blow the Powell of Southern California Chiefs right out of a beautiful Center. The hit an jump shot with halfseven seconds to play Saturday Wildcats stretched a night and the Trojans stopped time margin to nine points on and occasions, at UCLA's unbeaten streak at 41 games with a victory over the nationally - top - ranked Bothers Weber Bruins. Seattle went into a press and The Trojans used stalling tacthat bothered the Wildcats tics throughout the game, tak- some. Twice Weber failed to get ing only 11 shots in the first the ball inbounds and on two half? and held the ball for the other occasions the Cats didnt line. last:. minute and 20 seconds be- get it past the Two foul pitches by Lou West fore Powells winning basket. Southern California used the and the scoring of Gardner, Tom Little and Sam Pierce kept samp slow style of play Friday the Chiefs in the game in the night to force UCLA into two final four minutes. overtimes before bowing, The victory must be a sweet The Bruins loss was only one for Phil Johnson and his 90 their second in the last bosy. This was the rubber games. UCiJV closed out its reg- match between the two schools 25-a record, and Weber ular season with got revenge for a Conference. 100-613-in the Pacific-shellacking suffered at at half- Seattle. The Bruins led, time,! but Southern Cal got two Last Defeat ; quick baskets from Mack Calvin This was the last time Weber and Powell for a 6 edge. The State tasted defeat. The Wildlead changed hands five times cats win skein stretched to 14 before guard Don Crengames and the overall mark for shaw hit a jump shot to give the this year is 26-9 lead with 5 Trojans a So this brings the young and minutes left. ambitious Wildcats to their first Bill Sweek of the Bruins regional NCAA basketball tourscored on a layup with 3:48 to nament. 8 ,,' 12-2- Count - 29-2- Redskins Nij Tennis Foe 63-5- bo-tea- ':! !. ' ' IT 'is - tv - , n i. 5-- '' foul problems. However, BYU never did get into the one. and-onsituation in the half. Associated Press Wirephoto Stan Watts did not go to his bench until three minutes reIng first half of Saturday battle. Gary Strong mained in the half and then he (21) watches. Weber won to gain NCAA Regionals. inserted Bob Davis for Lythgoe. The Aggies, a huge club, were tough on the boards In the first pe. d and they shot 48 percent from the field to 39 percent for BYU. BYU hit five of five from the foul line while NMS hit seven of ten. Reyes, with 10 points; Lacey, F. D. Robbins, Utah, ttef Paul Grken, with nine, and Collins, with Dave Harmon, Utah, def. Mac Den Bleckinger, Utah, eight, Claslin, topped NMS. Howard. Rick Evans, def. Chris $hapir, John Liiino and Ruffner led the balDolan steps down from coach- Stanford, def. Harold Sears, The Bees lost to Logan Friday Wright, Stanford, def. Dale Fritz, anced Cougar scoring, although at the University of Utah, ing to take the assistant princi- Laury Hammel, Utah, def. Robin Fry none was in double defeated Highland Saturday for pal post at Provo. figures. def. third-placdef. the WrightNew Mexico Statt spot. Kearns John Wood, in his Shaoin,Bieckinger Jfarmon Brigham Young Evans-Frdef. G F P O F P Highland had a political boost first state 9 (M) 10 Collins Parson 4 M 9 tourney appearance 4 Murphy Howard 5 during the tourney. Ken Nelson, 5 Burgess Liirno 7 18 6 13 Smith a fine Ram forward, is a son of as head coach, guided the CouLythgoe 2 4 6 16 Lacey to a fourth-plac- e Ruffner 4 finish. 11 gars Frank 6 18 representative Reyes Davis 0 0 Kearns lost only one game in Miller 0 0 Nelson. Earner 3 8 the quarterfinals to Ecuntiful. Dresser 0 0 Dolan Condie concluded his VainioOO-0 This the brings up puzzling coaching career at Provo High 29 74 25 42 Halftime score: New Mexico State 37, finish Sat- question as to why the Utah with a seventh-plac- e BYU 33. School Activities Assn, Fouled out Rtzffnfrr, Lacey urday. Dolan will leave with one High Art. 12,100 of the great tourney fails to honor the courageous records. He brought teams to efforts of the third and fourth-plac- e Special to The Tribune finishers in the state state in all but one of his 14 TUCSON Arizona edged meet. years in Provo. University of Utahs gymnasts 144.925 to 114.05 in a dual match Saturday. It was the Utes eighth loss against two vic- .t- - Gus Chatmon of Webers Wildcats grabs deflected pass intended for Seattles Tom little (13) dur- - 2 Sidelight at A Tourney 27-2- Rival Coaches Wear Different Masks By Dick Rosetta and Steve Rudman Tribune Sports Writers third-ranke- 42-4- 1 43-4- 39-3- 5 Prep - Bountiful coach PROVO Bennie Mangus and Logan coach Rod Tueller were doing the same thing in their respective dressing rooms following the Braves Class A triumph Saturday. They were eating oranges and talking about the game. The was difference their only moods. Mangus seemed just pleasantly pleased rather than wildly excited, while Tueller was, of course, bitterly eating, just peeling. He told his players they were still No. 1 The Tribune had Logan rated No. 1 all season but that was a case of cold shooting that lost the game. It was just poor shooting, thats all, Tueller .explained. Nothing seemed to drop in all night. It was a great season In spite of this game. We made a great effort but we lost when it counted. Box Elder, third-plac- e winner, was awarded the sportsmanship Assn. trophy by the - l, 1 state 3- Arizona Tops Utes in Gym 3, Nine Straight 22; Curtis 1, Pavlish 9, Olympus 4; Sundberq 0, V2, 3; Woffinden 2, 15; Erickson I, 0; Emery 6. 25, 14. Totals 5; Mangum 6, 3. BOX ELDER 69, HIGHLAND 65 57 69 41 21 Bo Elder u 39 S3 65 Highland Glenn 9; Sorenson 2, Box Elder 17; Yeates 5. 04). 3. 6 8, 12; Allred 8. 4), 4; 17; Monns 2. 10; Tolmen 7, 69. Totals 27, 5, Smith 10; George 3, Highland 2; Nelson 3, 16; Cottam 1, Bran2, 4; 04). Fowler 4; 10; Snow 1, 4; Tlppatt I ca 4, 12; Howard 2. , 65. 4; Totals 22, Seattle pulled away to a lead, but then the Wildcats went on their best streak of the half. From the 9 :30 mark to the 7 :29 mark, Weber State scored nine straight points to take a margin. Harlan, Thigpen and Bergh scored the points. Weber built up a lead of with two minutes to go, but the Chiefs bit into that down the 19-1- 5 24-1- 37-3- 0 t" BOUNTIFUL 62, LOGAN IS 62 44 28 15 Bountiful 55 11 38 22 Logan 0. Davies 3, Murrl Bountiful I; -- 3, 10; 10; Tibbs 4. It Spring 5, 18. 5 I. 7, 15; Campbell Green 5. 62. 25. Totals 26; Baugh 4, Lauriskl 10, Logan 2; Lalng 2, 6; 01, 8; Groll 1, 1. Watts 2; Fames 1, 041, 3; Taylor 1. 01, 7; Fuhlrmen 1, 04), 2; Nyman 1, 55. 22, 33, 5. Totals stretch. Seattle was getting excellent position on its offensive board, and Gardner was particularly College Scores Outside Damage NCAA But when the Chiefs concen- trated on Willie, Thigpen. Bergh and Harlan were allowed a bit more freedom and the Cats did a lot of outside damage. Weber shot 50 percent In the first half, 52 percent for the game; Seattle hit 39 percent for the game. RhuIH Far Wnt PI nit Round Wwbw Mate 7$, Seattlo 7 3 N. Mgxlco State 74, BYU 61 East Pint Round Davidson 75, Villanova 61 Si. Johns T2. Princeton 63 Duoueine 74, St. Josefh't SI Mideast Pint Round Miami (Ohio) 63, Notra Dame 60 Marquette 87. Murray State 62 Midwest Pint Round Colorado State 52, Dayton SO Texts ABM 81. Trinity 66 Other Scores 4, Tennessee 6 Kentucky Nebraska 70, Oklahoma 64 Ithnois 78. Northwestern 68 Ohio State 05, Michigan 84 Purdue 120. Indiana 76 M sconsln 8l, Iowa 74 Oregon State 66, Oregon $7 Pacific U 94. San Franosco 7? C.ne:nnatl 94, $t. Louis 63 Florida 73, Alabama 60 Louisiana State 90, Georgia 80 Norh Carolina 85, Duke 74 Pinal) Iowa State 51, Okie State 49 Minnesota 78. Mich. State 65 Army 59. Rochester 46 Kansas SMe 64, Kansas 57 Auburn 80, Mississippi 70 VanKorbl't l?0. Miss. State 81 Southern alifomla 44, UCLA 44 effective in slapping in rebound shots. The Chiefs sagged on Sojourner and Willie was able to get off only five shots in the first half. 0 5 6 7 e Boston College Names Coach tories. Utah's Mike Kimball captured 0 Pehrson 9, 44, 22; Ollverson 27, 3. Totals Vinson 1, 2 3 honors. The summary: Floor exercise Bob Weir, Utah, 8.85; side horse Scott McGirr, Arizona, 8.65; still rings Doug Swartz, Arizona, 9 0S; horse long jack King, Utah, 8.775; Parallel bars Corey Fox, Arizona, 90; Mike KimbelS, Utah, 9.2; allhigh bar around, Kimball, Utah, Arizona T44 925, Utah 144.0$. 7 4; 7; Robbins-Frit- Gerkin-Clasli- n e - 64. e ; : - The undefeated Utes won four singles matches, but only one doubles match In the victory. Friday the Utes whipped the Stanford varisty, The match was not an official match for Utah because the Stanford team Is a frosh squad. Freshmen are not allowed to participate In varsity sports this year in the Pacific Eight Conference. The results: 7-- 26-2- d play, tying the game again, but They will play Crenshaw hit a free throw for a Santa Clara, winner of the West USC lead. Coast Athletic Comerence title, UCLA forward Curtis Rowe and a team that has lost just with once. Santa Clara and Weber, tipped in a missed shot 1:46 remaining and the Bruins both physically big teams up Ron front, will square off Thursday Then, seven-foo- t led in two night in Los Angeles. Taylor of the Trojans put free throws with 1:27 left for a Finest Game 4443 lead. Bergh, playing his finest ball of the season, lifted Weber State halftime advantage. to a Box Scores shot And it was Berghs KEARNS I), PROVO 72 .at the buzzer that gave the 83 42 68 16 Kearn 72: Wildcats 57 17 28 a bit more breathing Provo 4; Butterfield, Kearns Breeze, room, and When yOU look at the 10. rarK, 24; 1 Ctiidester. 00, 2; o; Peterson, i, fmal score this certainly was a 7 2, ; Pearce, o, 11; 26; Thomas, 3, Ross, 8, 83. big basket. 26, 0; Totals Rigoy, 0, Provo Condia, 1. 04), 2; Davis, 0, As usual, the Wildcats started 2; 23; Miller, 1, 0; Drury, 9, 12; 5. 4; Porter, 1, but began building moAtkinson, slowly 20; 5; Morrill, 9, Taylor, 1, 72. mentum 27, midway through the 4; Totals Smith, 0, first half. Seattle held early SKY VIEW 64, OLYMPUS 63 before and 13-leads of 10-14 1 8ky View 63 50 21 40 Olympus Harlan Webers quick guards, 11; Ber Thompson 5, Sky View 2; Hansen 1, and Thigpen, hit a hot spell. 1, 7. 11: Peterson Blow In Stomach The Aggies big center, took a blow in the stomLacey, The Tribune to Special ach about 12 minutes in Uni the half and he had to deep PALO ALTO, CALIF. leave the versity of Utahs touring tennis mm. Liter 1P 59 gjant had to battle to the wire came ill on the bench. to whip a tough Stanford UnNew Mpxico States Smith and BYUs Lythgoe had iversity freshman team, early 8 41-3- halftime. - 61-5- 1 p 33-3- 67-5- 1 43-4- 41-3- 9 39-3- 5 to 37-3- - Trojans Stop UCLA by 46-4- 4 IS 13 9, 1969 - tually, all we ready tried to do was play our normal game We concentrated most of our we wanted efforts on defense and be to crowd the boards quick enough to cope with Logans speed. And I think we did all right. Despite the fact Loans Rob ert Lauriski threw in 26 points, Mangus felt his club did a good job defensing him. We had no special plan to stop Lauriski, but we did want to make him shoot over our taller players, Green and Camp bell. That way we felt we could do the best job against him. Playing their normal defen sive game enabled the Braves to cut off Logans four other Kent scoring-wise- . starters Baugh was the next highest scorer behind Lauriski with eight points. Green, Bountifuls star for ward, was In a jubilant mood, too. Yank Gal Snares Swimming Tilt NEWTON, MASS. (AP) -CJ. Chuck Daly, an assistant basketball coach at Duke University, was named head coach at Boston College Saturday, succeeding the retir- ing Bob Cousy. Bill Flynn, the Boston College athletic director who made the said the school announcement, is determined to back Daly 100 percent in an effort to keep the B.C. basketball program at the high level Bob Cousy brought It to. Daly, 38, has been an assistant coach at Duke the past six years. He previously spent eight years coaching high school bas- harles BREMEN, GERMANY (AP) Sharon W'ichmann of Fort Wayne, Ind., avenged an Olympic defeat in the breaststroke and three other ketball in Pennsylvania. Americans scored victories in the Bremen InternaYanks tional Swimming Meet. Miss Wichmann FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. won the breaststroke event in 1 minute, (AP) Rained out Saturday, 14.8 the Manager Ralph Houk said he seconds, defeating Olympic gold medalist, Djurdja hoped to field the regular New Miss (York Yankees team in an Bjedou of Yugoslavia. finished third, as Sharon biiion game against the Baiti-di- d at Mexico City last year. more Orioles Sunday in Miami. Sue Pedersen of Sacramento,! Calif., wun her second race of LlNEWjVAlUE.CAR the competition by taking the backstroke in 1:09.8 0F'THiYAR while Jane Henne of Redwood City, Calif., scored in the 100 meter freestyle in 59.6 seconds. Sundaj street bll82x phils y Rained Out exhi-Bjedo- v Like th Trophy I dont want to take anything Bountiful's Braves whoop it up in Logan and winning the state Class A away from Logan. They are a the dressing room after trouncing High School basketball championship. fine club and Lauriski is a great player. I do feel that the two best teams .in the tourney met 22 with points, Sojourner in the finals and Im glad we Bergh with 16 points, Harlan came out on top. The New The new Jet official has been NEW YORK (AP) with 15 and Thigpen with 14 led NEED ATTENTION THIS SPRING! Most of the Braves were eatWeber scoring. Little had 19 and named Homer Ecing-ton- , coaching football since 1939, York Jets like and Mangus. DRAIN HOSE HITCHES Gardner 17 to top the Chiefs. ing oranges, a high school football when he started as head coach simply staring at the huge APPLIANCES WATER PUMPS at Fairfield High in Hamilton, WEBER e TOILETS BUTANE EQUIPMENT trophy on a bench, coach, director of player per- Ohio. During the next four seaWL?! OFT Thigpen 7 HO 191 LOtl ROOF VENIi WINDOWS 7 dressing room was Logans Saturday, Universihis team sons, played 5 15 Ha'Um 6 ALL 0THII ACCESSORIES TOR TRAILERS A CAMPERS pm', 1 is lent as the plavers filed in after 3 Chatmon 11-Edington) Kt 8UPceeds George ty High of Miami, whose coach E 16 Bergh 8 (ANRAMERICARDS A MASTER CHARGE WELCOME HER! 5 J'.j i'the loss. 7 22 Solourngr Sr who left a few weokswas Weeb Ewbank, the Jet i and!Sauer 4 Nielsen 0 vibrant usually 6,l 0 Strong SOUTH STATE TRAILER SUPPLY to become general manager jeoach and general manager. uKng? seemed to have Tout 75 29 1182 leeds street stretch of of Boston also .Sunday the all his firmness. 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