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Show 1 0 B DESERET NEWS, MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1974 Utes host BYU after loss to UTEP Eagles rally for tie; home for six games tc he By Brent Checketts a long Deseret News sports writer a breakaway effort. Currently possessing their longest unbeaten streak of the season, the Salt Lake Golden Eagles ".re looking forward to the next three weeks with the Eagles Trailing only seemed to have the momentum at that point, but the Gulls temporarily snapped it when Mike Bloom deflected in a Gary Pozzo slap shot at 18:58 to up the San Diego lead to fa eagerness. tl The Sal! Lakers, who tame from behind to gain a 4 tie Saturday at San Diego, havent been beaten in their b hi to w w Si di ill ci YV bi a p b c it It fl The Eagles weren't to be denied in the final period, as rookie Larry Patey scored his 20th goa! at 8:51 and Coalter netted his 22nd at 17:37 to knot the score 4-- last four starts. Furthermore, they play their next six games at home and don't see road action again until Jan. 27. overtime period was dominated by excellent The Currently in fifth place in Western Hockey League standings, the Eagles are only e five points behind the San Diego Gulls. The San Diegans beat Seattle Sunday at San Diego. If the Eagles can win all six of the upcoming home games, which are scheduled Thursday and Saturday for the next three weeks, theyll be at or near the top of the pack. The tie in San Diego was a oig point for us, Eagles genA1 Rollins eral manager-coagsaid upon return Sunday. It allowed us to maintain our momentum entering our long home stand. goaltending. a k t: Both teams had five shots extra 10 minutes, ana nearly all of them were breaks or open nets, Rollins Herron came 50 feet said. out of the net to stop one break on a spectaular play. t.:x Denis Herron . . . strong effort first-plac- in the however, Rollins went to Herron and the lithe little F Most encouraging aspect of all to Hollins in the tie game was likely the fact that the Eagles came from behind fo get it . With the season now only one game away from being half over, the Eagles have come from behind to win or lie in only four games. said defenseman Rollins who was Vince Collins, origninully scheduled to play only three games with Salt Lake on an emergency basis, will be on hand again Thursday against Seattle and Saturday against Portland. Collins will then be returned to the Spokane Jets of the Western Internationa! Hockey League. Barry Cummins, who has been with the parent California Golden Seals of the National Hockey League the past two months, is expected to return to Salt Lake next week. rench-Canadia- n proved equal to the challenge despite his injury. The Gulls jumped ahead 30 in tu first period, in which case a visiting team at San Diego can usually kiss away any chance of a win or tie . h n drought on 4-- 6--4 aj goal-scorin- g Tyvo of the first period markers were power plays. Bob Hurlburt opened the scoring for the Gulls on a power play at 5:48 and Kerry Bond hit on another power play It was a wide-opegame, and both teams had some excellent chances they missed. I thought Denis Herron did an outstanding job for us in goal after taking over for Phil Headley to start the second period. Herron wasn't originally scheduled to see any action in the game due to a deep collarbone bruise suffered Friday at the Salt Palace in a win over Phoenix. n marker at Veteran 10:10. ORee, still at Willie lightning quick, made it 16:25. Gary Coalter, the goal scorer, two markers for file 1:17 of the sandwich to get the Eagles started. They continued the surge at leading first of night at session 5-- 3 When Headley had his problems in the opening period, 9:26, when Ron Huston broke Denver next up tonight Stars 1(0 string at six! By Dan took a pass from Ron Boone to score a basket with :37 left and came back with two foul tosses at :(!4 to ice it, scored 29 points, had four assists, five abounds, two blocked shots and two steals. Patton Deseret News sports writer The Utah Stars have taken the look of a heavyweight champion lately theyre knocking down all challen- gers! had seven, including two for two from the two point range and a three pointer. I thought we would salt it away after the first half. but we Mullaney added, made enough errors to let them back in it (11). The Cougars defense forced the Stars to use The Carolina Cougars were the sixth straight victim Saturday night at the Salt Palace. But the Stars needed to pull out all the strategy in the knockout adminstering before 5,861 punch, fans. one-on-o- Joe Caldwell. Mack Calvin. Ted McClain and Jones got hot as the Stars saw their lead dwindle and fell behind. at 6:04 the third period. The Cougars out scored Utah, , over that stretch. Then Beaty took a pass from Boone, who had seven assists, and scored, was fouled and added the charity toss. Ron scored five points to give the Stars a lead, at 4:29. Carolina came back to lead at the period's end, basketball, which played right into the hands of Willie Wise, We Jones Boone. and couldnt run our ordinary offense against them, because of their defense, said Stars coach Joe Mullaney. They over played everything up front and tried to deny us the ball. Some teams I dont like to go But against this team we have to do it. 100-9- The Stars have now won 14 of their last 17 games, and are 164 at the Salt Palace. Utah ) maintiJnr1 its lead in the ABA's Western Division over the ), who Indiana Pacers have also been hot lately. The Beehive State club might just need the look of a heavyweight champion tonight when it hosts the Denver Rockets at 7:30 p.m. in the first of three games this week at the Salt Palace. Alex brutes Hannums physical turned in their boxing gloves Saturday night for running shoes to dispose of San Diego, The Rockets hit 56 percent from the field as Ralph Simpson swished 36 points and Warren Jabali had a career high of 19 asrists. (25-15- two-gam- e Last year when 1 been in college coaching 11 years and until this road trip had been assessed only one technical. Ive gotten two in the last two nights and that pretty well expresses my feelings about officiating in the WAC, Foster said 78-6- 98-9- 1 postganie Saturday. We have some good cials iii the conference, But the Utes are back home again this Saturday, hosting the Cougars at 7:30 p.m. in the wigwam. Utah is undefeated this season in their friendly confine and will be slight favorites against the Cats from F. ovo. offi- but Bear River cagers seeking opponent Bear River High School's basketball team is desirous of filling an open date oc Friday, reports head coach Durrell They beat us, what else can you say? quizzed dejected Ute Coarh Bill Foster We postgame at El Paso. didnt play but 12 or 15 min- Utah led briefly in the opening minutes but after taking a lead the Miners were never headed. UTEP led at intermission. Utah ran into foul trouble 14-1- 2 37-2-6 early. Big Mike Sojourner drew his fourth personal with 1:35 left in tiie opening half and went to sweaterville at 9:55 of the second half. He was joined there by Tyrone Medley, Chas Menatti and Charlie Whiting. 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We took too many long, poor pershots because we centage were scrambling the entire game, he explained. Saturday's game was won at the foul line. Despite the spread in the final score, the Miners tallied only one more goal than the Utes, 23-2- But UTEP tanked 34 of 41 from the charity lane, led by John Saffle who connected on 11 straight in the second half. Utah managed 19 of 28 free tosses. The Utes were still in the game until the final eight minutes. Then the Miners blew the lid. In just 1:50 UTEP tallied two three-poin- t plays and hit three foul shots to spurt into an lead. With still 4:30 left on the clock tne Miners had increased their lead to 15 points and it was all over for Utah. It was a rough, loosely played contest which officials WHOLESALE TO YOU Caldwell put Carolina with :47 remainahead, ing. The Stars called time and then went to Jones, who responded with his four points in the last 47 seconds. 97-9- tonight." 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Foster asked as if looking for an answer as to why his Utes faltered against the Miners. 3 80-7- one-on-o- The Stars needed a super effort from James Jon.es to topple Carolina. Jones, who "Ive deUtah opened with s zone defense same the fense, for that was so successful I BYU the night before. until Utes worked well for the Then it was they fell behind. to a switch necessary to to extending and pressing man the full court press. 24-6- scouted playing against the Stars. Jones went all night using the same It worked against them then and it did again 146-12- by New Mexico University and University of Texas-E- l Paso last weekend, will be able to get back in stride against BYUs Cougars Saturday night. or The Utes were beaten by they beat themselves in El Paso SaturUTEP, enafter day dropping a counter to the Lobos on the plateau the night before we have some very poor ones, too. El Paso and Albuquerque are tough places to officiate because of the small gynis and crowds close to the floor but that's no reason to let a game get out of hand. 68-6- Carolina (23-18- let get out of hand. Five four Utes and one players were benched for Miner personals and Foster took a technical for protesting too rigorously just before the dose of the first half. R. Blodge t Deseret News sports writer EL PASO, Tex. Utah's runnin Utes, slowed to a walk By Gary IN ROY, LAYTON 299-629- 5 266-580- 9 322-104- 3 484-472- 2 262-462- 6 292-- 1 487-983- & 439 1 OGBcN VOLUME BUYING MAKES THE DIFFERENCE 0 |