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Show uwaupiuhji. w January 4, 1971 DESERET NEWS, Monday, , Stars Hit Road Denver! By DAN PATTI50N Deseret News Sports Writer Memo tu Utah LOGAN Stars fans: Dont look a gift horse in the mouth even if it is from Texas. The Stars left today for e Denver to open a road trip Tuesday with the Rockets and Wednesday at Indiana, but they were tnnk-fu- l to get back on the winning he track Saturday against last place Texas Chaps, befere 3,754 at two-gam- ns 134-10- Utah States new beautiful Assembly Center. Utah has won only two of their last I.ve gams and the Texas victory yas a bigger win than most observers would thmk. With the victory, remained 2y2 the Stars (25-1games in front of the second-plac- e Indiana Pacers (23-'.,- ). The Stars have now won four straight games from Texas. But at the same time, Indiana has been having trouble with the Chaps and their series. In have split the last two years, Texas has held the edge over the Pacers and 4 2. in their series, The Pacers have been m the eastern division and have faced Texas only six times lat two seasons. You know," it sure has been frustrating for us in said these last 10 games, Stars coach Bill Shaman. We have wmn bv nip margins in the garrms weve won and have been losing all the close games The Stars were told to run Saturday night or else . . . Sharman had a $500 fine waiting for them. Utah, actually, didnt start off ripping up the floor either until the second quarter. At the end of the first quarter, it in favor of the was Stars with Zelmo (Big Z) Beaty and Wayne Hightower 2-- 2 second Sharman quarter, went to his bench for the forward and he responded with 13 points in the period. Utah held the advanat the intermistage, sion. It was Willies best percentage night at the hoop. He swished 11 of 15 with one from the chanty stripe for 23 points. Wise also aided 3ig Z jn the leoounding department with 13 boards. Big Z had 18 takedowns with 27 points. Texas centers, Manny Leaks and Gene Mooie, were no match for Beaty. Big Z also hit for the percentage with from the field and for the charity 6-- 61-4- attack San Diego's Len Ronson (15) and Al (5) put squeeze on Eagles' Bob Ellett (head down) and Jerry Mazur during struggle for puck (arrow). logle 'Home Team' Wins n The By BRENT CHECKETTS Deseret News Sports Writer I thought I had my home team wuth me tonight, Salt Lake Golden Eagle general Gus Bodnar chuckled Sunday over the long distance line from Seattle. And the Eagle boss had good reason for those words. His Salt Lakers had just skated to a victory over the Seattle Totems at the Seattle Coliseum. The win Center broke a string of 11 consecutive road defeats and pulled the Eagles a little closer to the wild scramble that is going on for second place in the Western Hockey League. Only eight standings points row separate the WHLs second place team, San Diego, from the still cellar dwelling Golden Eagles. And as Bodnar says, any kind of run at it now and u'e could be m second place. Bodnar singled out aggressive play as the key to his squads two weekend victories. The Eagles defeated San Diego, Saturday at the 8,137 Salt Palace before screaming fans prior to going to Seattle and beating the Totems. We came out bitting tonight, just as we did last night, Bcdnar continued Sunday. That seems to make all the difference in our play. The two wins marked a tremendous turnabout from last Friday, when thp Eagles were blitzed 9 0 at Denver. After that game, Bodnar and Salt Dan Lake president-owne- r Meyer gave Eagle skaters the word that if there wasn't some immediate shaping up, there would surely be some shipping out. One would now think the word got across. Saturdays won upped Salt Lake's home unbeaten streak to 10. In the first period, both the Gulls and Eagles camp up with singletons. Billy McNeill bounded a shot off Larry McNabbs skate and past Eagle goali Rocky Farr at 13.52, while Dennis Kassian evpned it up for the home team with assists from Brian McDonald and Barry Watson manager-coac- Willie ORee had the singleton for the Gulls. Then came a third period in lightning-quic- h 5-- 3 k which the Eagles hung on for dear bfe. The momentum completely reversed from the sandwich ession, as San Diego maintained pressure at the Salt Lake end for almost the entire 20 minutes. The Gulls outshot and only a Salt Lake, 22-headed by defense tough McNabb and Jean Guy Lagace, and excellent goal tending by Farr preserved the win. Caron Alain ) scored for the Gulls on a break at 3.29, but that w'as the only shot that got past the tenacious Farr. Sunday, the Eagles offensive explosion came in the initial period. Salt Lake was on the score-boarwithin 20 seconds, as Jake Rathwell blinked the light with assists from his Rookie Line mates Murray Kuntz and Robertson. About two minutes later Watson connected from Kassian and the lead with only Eagles had a (Boom-Boom- d 2-- 0 minutes 4-- e at , 16:19 SaU In the spcond period, Lake exploded for three goals ex- pired. Lagace himself pow'ered and the puck past Totem goalie George Surmay at after which Seattle 13:42, coach Larry Popein pulled Surmay in favor of veteran Don Head. But that didnt make a great deal of difference, as Ellett got his first goal of the night at the 16:04 mark. Salt Lake preserved the tage due to a penalty to Francois Lacombe and the fact that Popein pulled goalie Head in favor of an extra frontliner. Still the Eagles held on. The Salt Lakers bussed from Seattle to Portland today to prepare for a Wednesday game against the Buckaroos. Then, Friday and Saturday, its back home to the Salt Palace to host Seattle and Phoenix respectively. Eagles 5, Totems 3 1 Salt Lake, RaMwell (Kuntz, Robertson), 4 20, 2. Salt Lake, Watson (Kassian), 2 31 3 Salt Lake, Lagace, (McNabb, Kuntz), 13 42 4 Salt 16 04 Lake, Ellett (Mazur, Lagace), Deadmarsh (SL), 8 09, Ward Penalties (S, 11 19, Cuddie 5(SL), 17 36 Mortenson Second period Seattle, None, (Hanna, Kmbs), 13 07 Penalties Kmbbs 6 Seattle, Tmrd period (Jones, Mortenson), 2 41 7 Sait Lake, Ellett (Mazur, Deadmarsh), 12 33. 8 Seattle, Legge), Perry (Veneruzzo 16 23 Kassian (SL), maior, Penalties Robertson 30, (SL), mscondurt 13 13 14, Boehm (S), Lacombe 14, (SL), 16 23. Scortng 5 Salt Lake Seattle Saves Salt Lake 5 84-- 21 Seattle Goalies Salt Lake, Charron, Seattle, Surmay, Head First period Engles 4, Gulls 3 First period Scoring 1 San Diego, McNeill, unassisted, 13 52, 2 Salt Lake, 16 19 Kassian Watson), (McDonald, Penalties, Robertson (SL) 9 20, Cardiff 10 10 20, Salt 20, (SL) (SD), Lagace Lake bench, 12 55, Cardiff (SD), 17 15; McDonald tSL), 17 15 3 Salt Second Period Scoring Lake, El'ett (Mazur, Deadmarsh), 8 08, 4 Salt Lake Rcbrtson (Kuntz, Rath well) 8 44, 5 San Diego, O'Ree (Car diff), 14 56, 6 Salt Lake, Robertson (LeCombe Rathwell), 18 58. Penalties, Rathwell (SL), 3 46 7 San Soor ng Third Period Dieqo, Caron (unassisted), 3 29 Penal MacMiMan (SD), 7 25, Ellett ties (SL), 7 25, Lagace (SL) 8 20. Sronng 1 1 San Diego 1 3 Salt Lake Saves San Diego 34, Salt Lake 45 Sen Diego, Simmons, Sait Lake Farr 8 137. Attendance 13 04 4 0 WHL Standings lead the rpst of the first period and more than 13 minutes of the second before the Totems got on the scoreboard at 13.07 in the person of Dick Mortenson. Seattle applied good pressure the rest of the period, but Eagle goalie Rick Charron and his mates held the Totems off. Billy Kmbbs cut the Totem deficit to 4 2 at 2:41 of the final period, and it looked like Seattle might make a stab at it. But at 12:33 Ellett connected from Jerry Mazur and Butch Deadmarsh to put Salt Lake back in command. The Totems didnt give up. Brian Parry connected at 16:23 and then Seattle exerted pressure the rest of the way. But Salt Lake was equal to it! In the final two minutes, the advan- Totems had a two-ma- n 29-2- chipping in the buckets Enter Willie Wise. In the Gulls 5, Spurs 4 15 24 ar on goal by: f San Die while holding San Diego to one and thereby took a 42 Bob Ellett lead Captain pcored one goal and Joe Robertson added two more, while A 7 2,017. able three-pointe- of r 1714 IS the year PLASMA And he entered the game at 7 10 in the last quarter and still pulled down seven be mis. Congdon, Jackson and Dick Nenelka also had FRACTIONS, INC. Opm 8 a.m. to 3 p m. Tuesday thru Saturday 609 SOUTH STATE Phone 363-769- 12-1- 6 three-for-thre- e stripe. The vStars held a big margin fitwt&Msst on the boards, 80 64. Hightower pulled down 10 and Red Robbins had nine to go with Wise and Beatvs efforts Merv (The Magician) Jack-so- n also came to play. He along wuth Jeff Congdon ignited the Stars fast breaking Utah Slant Front end alignment 2. Front wheels balanced 3. Brakes adjusted I. (134) s (Disc brakes excluded) s I Includes 3 team rebounds. Three pomt plays Ueh, Congdon, Jackson, Nemeika, McDonald Texas Comos 2, Boone, Hamilton 2 Twopont field goal pet : Utah, 49 5. Texas, 34 4 Three-poin- t 'ield goal pet Utah, 28 6. Texas 31 3 Foul tries pet : Utah, 84 2. Texas. 4. Repack front wheel needed) bearings (Grease seals extra, if x 75 7 Score by quarters 29 Utah 23 Texas Attendance 3,754 32 25 36 22 si ALL 4 ONLY S 37-- 134 34-- 109 Parts extra, if needed. 1 cars and light trucks. By GEORGE FERGUSON Sports Managing Editor Its adios December frolics and hello serious league business for Utah and Brigham Young basketball squads this week. BYU and Utah begin Western Athletic (8-4- 1 (5-5- ) Con- ference wars. The Cougars are in Albuquerque against New Mexico (9 2) Friday and battle Texas El Paso ) Saturday. Utah swings into El Paso Friday and Albuquerque Saturday. Utah State basking in the sunshine of an Tournament title, is out of action until Saturday when Denver invades Logan. Tipoff for that game is 8 p m. A Wyoming Colorado State swing by Arizona and Arizona State begins WAC wmrs Thursday. Arizona ) is at Colorado State ) Thursday and at Wyoming (3 6) Satur) State Arizona day. invades Laramie Thursday ard Ft. Collins Saturday. The 5 record of Utah, preseason favoritfe to win the WAC, is not overly discouraging to coach Jack Gardner. The Utes have faced several (5-3- (9-2- (6-5- (7-2- 5-- faced several nationally prominent teams. Arizona State is the WACs biggest surprise. Included among the Sun Devils seven victories is the Motor City holiday title. Colorado State and New Mexico have been mild surprises. Ttrgfon KJ Lube N & n Actually, the schools W'hich were picked to take first and last (Utah and Wyoming) are the WAC squads with the worst records. Arizona, favored to take second, has the next worst mark. Coach Bob King of Hew Mexico was satisfied with the Lobos until they lost to New Mexico State Saturday. I am pleased with the way we developed early in the season, King said. 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Penalties Bond 7 12, McCord 13 27 7, Denver, Third Period Bond (Mavety) j 12 8 $n Diego, O Ree (MacMillan, McNeill) 10 13 9 Denver, Hughes (Mavety) 11 50. Penalties Earn Blood Plcsmo Donor Needed. B o Blood Plnmo Dorwr A Be Paid For You- - Donation. (The Rocket) McDonald was to score his first 24 77 WAC Hoop Chase Begins; Utah, BYU Open On Road d Remit 4 'en Dte.o 3 tt Lake Storey Phoenix 4 Portland 7 Monday s Sohedult No oames scheduled Men Only Price for most American teams and nationally-rankeGardner figures their progress going into league action is satisfactory. BYU is one of the WACs Shot flip,)ed in points. Congdon, while scoring only eight points, turned in a top quarterbacking effort and had eight assists. It was a game wheie Snar-ma- n was able to go to his bench early and everyone got into the scoring act. Even Rod 1 LeS-u- n Jackson 7 B A s . s |