Show Student 1 Spectrum but after a road trip over the has holidays the Aggies' record going into last dropped to night’s game with Cal the five-gam- e State-Bakersfie- The road trip saw lose to Washington and physically an emotionally Murray sports editor Prior to the holiday break the record USU Aggies had built a in Wednesday Jan end road excursion with Agg ies by Stan Life the Aggies Indiana and Utah while defeating Texas Tech to take third place in the Indiana Classic Ironically the Aggies seemed to play their best and worst of the year during the tour Despite losing to Indiana and two of the nation's top UCLA the Aggies basketball powers were never really out of either game until the final minutes Their second-hal- f effort against Texas Tech was a credit to the players after UCLA d draining loss to the Indiana Hoosiers The Aggies seemed flat and responsive however un- their in losses to Washington and Utah Huskies 7 USU The Aggies started the extended road trip by traveling to Washington University and were defeated by the Huskies with Mike Santos the up and coming Aggie center scoring 20 76-6- points and garnering 11 Indiana Classic After the loss to Washington the Aggies traveled to Bloomington Indiana They were paired against the Defending National Champion Indiana Hoosiers in the first game of the tournament Playing inspire ball the Aggies stayed within three to five points of the Hoosiers before succumbin the final minutes ing Outstanding performances were turned in once again by Santos 19 points and 13 rebounds Texas Tech who lost their game to Miami of Ohio The Aggies trailed the Red Raiders until late in the second half when the Aggie offense found the timing and shooting finesse shown the previous night and played some outstanding defense to win going away first-roun- d 78-6- 8 Mike Santos once again led the Aggie scoring attack with 27 points and 13 caroms Bruins Rally After celebrating Christmas in Logan the Aggies continued their road excursion by traveling to Los Angeles to face the eighth-ranke- d UCLA Bruins in famed Pauley Pavilion After giving the Bruins all they could handle in the first half and lead at halfholding a time the Aggies saw the UCLA defense and offense combine to one-poi- 79-7- 1 and Oscar Williams with 17 points The next night the Aggies were placed against the Red Raiders of for the Aggies 49-2- 8 Forward Darryl Owens led the Aggie scoring with 23 points while Mike Santos continued to play impressive ball with 19 points and 14 rebounds against the rugged Utes 88-6- The Aggies unfortunately had one remaining game on the holiday road schedule and it happened to be the University of Utah in Salt Lake City 102 Aggies 1977 Page 15 record 1- -4 in the second outscore USU half USU came out second best Utes 5 The game was the first time in the four years Dutch Belnap has been head coach the a team has 78 Playing before the fourth largest crowd in the Utah Special Events Center 15160 fans the Utes struggled with the Aggies halfbefore taking an eight-poitime advantage The second half was all Utah’s as the Utes built an impressive lead to as much as 25 points scorching the nets at a 77 per cent shooting clip Utah scored 36 of its 102 points from the foul line as the Aggies were whistled for 30 personal fouls The Utes were 36 of 43 from the foul line compared to 10 of 16 scored more than 100 points against USU in regulation time "What Utah gave us was a good butt kicking” nap said He said the team played poorly and didn’t take advantage of the fast break not making Utah play defense The Aggies’ next game will be tomorrow night against Cal in the Spectrum at 7:30 with the JV game at 5:15 State-Northrid- Aggie women lose to Utes The USU Women’s basketball team continues to improve each game but experience is still the dominate factor in sports as the Aggie women found out in their loss to the University of Utah Saturday night Coach Marilyn Weiss said the Aggies are a young team and the more experience they get the 61-5- 1 better they play The improvement was obvious as the Aggies stayed within strik- TRIPLEX THEATRES-CAC- HE 1400 N MAIN ST 61-5- 1 guard Pam Shirley with 16 points "We looked good as long as we could run but Utah has a deliberate team that runs a patient offense and that throws us off” Weiss said ing distance until the final minutes of the game The deliberate offense of Utah was led by Mo Eck-rot- h and Linda Grant with 18 an 17 points respectively while the Aggies were led by hot shooting mnnn Bel- The Aggie women play Cal Saturday night in Logan State-Fullerto- n VALLEY MALL — RH 752-776- 2 CROSS COUNTRY SKI PACKAGES 15 OFF January 5-- 12 MOUNTAIN MAN SPORTS 10:00 AM TO 7:00 PM Hours 1151 No Main Logan 753-460- 6 ATTENTION SKIERS NOW IN ITS REDWOOO m m mm pm-Frida- 2nd HILARIOUS WEEK! 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