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Show Wyoming Win Knots WACTitle Race Lobos Defeat Utes ‘Duke Upsets 2nd-Rated Pokes Outscore Cougars N orth Carolina 87-81 79-69 In Season C loser Sa 102-80: Limits 2 WACTie To 2 Teams= N tHAM By JOE WATTS Herald Sports Editor have home | {UCLA he hot Prefer NIT BYU's Big Guns _ 1 and Cow-)vided the NIT issues aninviALBUQUERQUE N.M.—The| jointed the C of the teams to New Mexico Lobos broke the boys on the conference's top|tation tothatonetournament play in half |rung. Several sites have been menoratef shit i ee There are now two possibiliti-| Wyoming: A tioned if the playoff is held, y of Utah’s hopes of being eS or BYU and flip but Logan seems to be the best involved in a three-waytie for playoff betwcenihe two ora portant win for the Devils r. It was the one teain go-|bet. Other sites being mentioned Atlantic Coast Conference g: the Western Athletic Conference |of the coin with Fort of the regular season for both IB, to the NCAA tournament/|include Albuquerque and championship. The Lobos sung-| ed to a 102-80 victory in the|and theotherto the NIT, pro-|Collins, season’s closer for both teams.| It was a close game ee But Lobos. about midway/ through the second half, the home club began to move and won going away. teams. All eight ACC teams meet D f e first 30 minutes, with New vetesmimicswoSe St Peters halftime it was 4943 for the) besng oeThur; Defeats in the toen go and Devenzi 0 bacx se i ae 6th annu: inCe the scramble for the conf never rs pearelinquished T. USU Aggies 95-77 || In a surprise N.J. (UPI) —|Webster and Rich! Rinaldi for a oeach Vic Bubas The loss by Utah left BYU JERSEYCITY, Y CI in and Wyoming as co-occupants|St. Peter's College got an out-'95-77 victory Saturday night denberg rd Rick of the top spot in the Western |standing defensive performance over Utah State. Athletic Conference. If the from junior Tom Schwester and Schwester, a 66 junior, held height j : won, they would have |sharp _shooting from Elnardo Utes had ck script they Duke staried Van-| r Marvin Roberts, the nation’s| Vandenberg for the Tar Heels. gooit led th is time alk of a possi. to go put the gameout o} move, en the two g fe Tar Heels with points. Shas hed fred I rebounds, added 18 points for through the Blue Devils. ¢ in defeat the NCAA {against New Mexico State and Webster scored 29 points for jthe Peacocks while Rinaldi add|ed 22. Ed Epps paced the losers with 20, PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH SUNDAY, MARCH2, 1969 Aaron and Shaw er’s was able te contain the 6-8) Roberts while forcing the Ag-! gies into 25 turnovers. After trailing 61-42 at halftime, Utah State cut the deficit| to 79-67 before the fast-breaking tournament, clung to one-stroke| Homero Blancas was three Men ane ne rye day Dbott Who posted a 7-under-par| SPOKANE (UPI) — Thirteen ight. | with Aaron and Shaw, and with over Portland Saturday night. | | seniors champion Tommy Bolt.| Veteran Bill Collins, only a| ‘The win gave the Zags an1iSikes, a Jacksonville, Fla,,|StFoke off the lead at the start 13 record this season. For the attomey, shot a 73 Saturday|Saturday's play, soared to an| Pilots it was their 23 Joss of the pack. ar Golf, Ill., see-sawed back and|the only shot all day that he| as a +4 ares forth for the lead, both going 11| didn’t like. ieee oe ee) under severaltimes. “T feel that I really played es, | j for their fina] scores. Tree Village, Fla., where he has ‘€ game. 2 | Nicklaus, winding up a stroke|been commuting daily during] The Pilois led by shifty soph. Stan Talley rattled off seven Grande, Ariz., romped couple of tipin baskets which time margin. In the first half, Stan Watts experimented with a number of line - up combinations which in substitutes Scott Warner, Jim Miller and Bob Davis, who starred in the upset win over New Mexico Thursaay, The second half started out | Stanford But both hogeyed No. 16 and well,” said the former Ohioan| The Zags widest lead was 23, then parred the last two holes| who now lives at nearby Lost/Polmts, 60-97, with 15:39 left in) Doral] the Doral. “I couldn't have/more Hot Start Both teams started hot, but the Cougars couldn’t keep the pace, BYU had a 7-6 lead when ; TrojansTip the exuberant young man from|said his tee shot on No. 16 was hi diy, ii eae E beGb pace! previous Harry Hall, who got way with offensive charging all night, rolied up 14 points during the first half. in Albuquerque and Cougar ‘past two seasons was in the fans had visions of a similar Olympics, when he finished upset in the making. In the third in the 3,000-meter Steeple- first five minutes of the second chase, half BYU cut the margin to just seven points at 5245 and stayed within striking range for the next 10 minutes, but the Cougars couldn’t get the break necessary to close the gap, ‘oor at Li Foulshooting was the big calprit for the Cats, as they hit scored 15 pointsto |Portland’s four late in the first Aaron, who has often been| Nicklaus, who has won 27\Half to open a 4428 margin, the mission. before the meet his intention to somewhat like the BYU upset retire. His only defeat in the second but never first in nine tournaments and more than| Coach Hank Sa went 10). 9 years of pro play, and Shaw, |$900,000 in less than eight years,! re Bulldogs oe in the sec-| below 6458, in the second half, but foul line with less than 50 per Canadian Olympian, and scorched home while a crowd of 7,031 cheered him on. Finlaytrailed him by 70 yards in 13:214. Behind them were Art DuLong of Holy Cross and Tracey Smith of the California Striders. Young lapped all but |those three. | Tt was Young’ in row 0 ar in ason, and he had announced eight strokes off the pace, was! and England’suTony Jack-|Gonzaga players figured in the while Bolt, who'll be 51 later|®0Ver-par 80 to wind up at|season third|@Ve"-par 216—well back in the| Gonzaga ound up with just 44 per lead at the halfway point, shook Mexico, but the Pokes got a tied at 207 with Dan Sikes’ who|/%:, the ‘ow foreigner inthe scoring as the Zags ended their shared Hie aetond etal bead ‘ield after three rounds, with a)season with a 100-79 victory this month, shot his consecutive 69. the first half from the from an early seventh position a trap zone press that had in a field of 11, took over the proved so effective against New Aaron aod Shawboth shot 1-ithreesome with Aaron and] 100-79 Contest ae a oeeM a Shaw young Floridian Jerry tas the cold foul shooting which in- jcent, just 13 for 28, cluded five straight misses, | Ineffective Zone Casa Gonzaga Whips| oatShem be Fine 4 Tec | Pater wo ad a 73 Saturday Portland in Undepate snot While playing in the same a to Narrow Margin for the entire game. BYU shot The Cougars got behind 15 7 per cent in both halves, but turned in an absolutely points in half and they rrowed it o> withia six points, jmiserable afternoon the Wyoming | Peacocks started playing ball play tougher than the first two \cuntrol. St. Peier’s went into a \freeze with 10:33 remaining in UPI Sports Writer days. I had a hunch I might be the game and scored 12 of its MIAMI (UPI)—Tommy Aaron enroute to a good day when I last 14 points from the free and Tom Shaw, neither of saved a par with a good putt at eer lin. whom has ever won a PGA|No.2, after the By RUSS GREEN straight to take a 13-7 lead. PHILADELPHIA (UPI) BYU cut it to 22-19 when the George Young, the Arizona Pokes punched in nine straight schoolteacher, running his final ints to take a 31-19 lead at race before retirement, broke the 10-minute mark. the indoor world record for the The Cougars then pulled out three mile Saturday night with of their zone defense and tried a 18:09.8 clocking victory in the it man-to-man, but the Pokes 8lst National AAU Champion- moved to their biggest lead of ships. the half—15 points at 39-24, Young, who teaches science at’ By DAVID MOFFIT leads Saturday at the end of the/strokes off the pace third round of the $150,000 Doral | shooting a 70-209, climax storydi¢ in’t materialize AAU Races ‘See New Mark Set | The Peacocks, now 19-6 and seeking an NIT bid, scored the| first eight points of the game =I four each by Webster ‘andl Rinaldi to take a 24-9 lead. | Using a man-to-man defense throughout the game, St, Pet- Open, But charging Jack) One more stroke back at 210 Nicklaus gained seven strokes were golfing millionaire Arnold| dominated while trailing by just six and] In thefirst half the BYUzone seven points prevented the Cou- defense was totally ineffective gars from getting any closer. ainst the hot shooting of the Wyoming missed five straight okes, especially that of Stan charity tosses during the same Dodds period, but they could afford it, Dodds was hitting from outside with near-perfect accuracy, He hit five of seven field goal shots and had 18 points at inter- sixth-leading scorer with a 28.1) average, to 16 points. Roberts |hit only teur of 15 shots from the floor. | | he compl:tely erque, when boards in the |; t half. He finthey came from 12 points be- ished with 11 po hind to upset the Lobos, but Wyoming shot 51 pei { fe oT p: in g row for a 75-86 Jead they See at te ares day Rage coed same, but a foul t BYU, Doug How STANFORD, Calif. (UPI)— Senior Ernie Powell scored seven points in a row late in the second half to lead Southern California to a 75-66 victory only six of 14 foul shots ‘after intermission. Carl Ashley, the soft-shooting Wyomingpivot-man,hadn't hurt the Cougars until the going got tough midway through the secover Stanford Saturday afterond half, With BYUtrailing by noon. a meresix points, Ashley went Powell's scoring burst broke to work and scored six straight open a close game as Stanford for Wyoming. stayed with USC most of the The Wyoming fans proved to way. With the score 60-57 in be 100 percenters—100 per cent chipped record, had nine birdies, inclua-|played the wind better. I hooked |@¥4Y at the lead but could nev-) ing three in a row on twojand faded when I had to.” |éf Set closer than 13 points. occasions, and one bogey while| Sikes, who always plays well| Talley, scoring on a variety) fashioning his blazing 64 over/here in his home state,|0f inside moves, was the 7,028-yard Doral Country)insisted that he was in a|game's leader with 29 points. Club course despite a stiff|favorable position to grab the|/ree teammates also hit dou- breeze. $30,000 first prize in Sunday’s|le figures — Hobert Herber “Tt was the best round T’ve/final round. had 12 points, and Terry had this year,” said Nicklaus} “Historically, the third-round|P®llierse and Hank MeCurdy whohas never won on the tour|leader doesn’t win here,” Sikes|"#d 11 each, favor of USC, we Trojans against the officials, A clearherein his adopted state despite| said. “Being behind makes you) Thirteen men scored for Gon- | DOUG HOWARD(25) leaps high in a rebourd attempt, while teammate Scott Warner (54) Scored eight consecutive points. cut majority of the fans, not his brilliant showing elsewhere. play better, That's why Nick-/2#8&led byBill Quigg with 19 backs up the play for BYU. Wyoming's Harry Hall (22) got the ball, however, as Wyom- Powell got half of them and just a sprinkling few, booed Don Crenshaw and Mac Calvin “T'm especially pleased be- laus did so well out there|Points, Howard Burfurd with 13 cause the wind made the course today.” and Joe MeNair 10, ing defeated BYU 79-69 to tie the two atop (he WAC heap Saturday afternoon, (Herald. Troy Mott Gains Top | Collegiate Hoop Scores Wyoming 79 Brigham Young 69 Virginia Tech 74 Houston 68 Auburn 71 Tennessee 60 Baylor 66 Arkansas 54 Marquette 79 Creighton 76 | Army 51 Navy 35 | Wake: Forest Pro Bowler Tourney Prize Box Score: BYU Liimo Lythgoe Ruffner Howard Parsons Warner Miller Davis BUFFALO, N.Y. (UPI)—Dick! Ritger of Hartford, Wis.,| defeateq Steve Wallace of = Houston 190-174 Saturday to capture the $15,000 Greater) Buffalo Professional Bowler’s) Association Open It wasthefirst victory of the Troy Mott of Provo has been ap} airman of the 1969 baseball commission of the Utah Department of the Amer. Jican Legion, it was reported | cae at Virginia post- Saturday | He succeeds William (Bill) | Vanderbilt 101 Kentucky 99 Allen of Salt Lake City | Wichita St. 71 Memphis St. 61 Other members of the com| Michigan $4 Wisconsin 79 mission include George Baglow |Fordham 71 New York Univ. 63 of Roy and Jerry Van Roosen | Colorado 75 Kansas 67 Nortre Dame 71 St. John's NY daal of Mott 67 ot Boston Coll 80 Holy Cross 74 1 of the Provo Ameri Dartmouth 63 Brown 50 ind has Rutgel 7 |District 4 baseball chairman, | He also has served on the SAND FLIES and so does the ball 2s Tom Sha w blasts out of trap during Saturday’s action Utah State Baseball Committee in the Doral Open at Miami. Shaw and Tom my Aaron are co-leaders after three rounds of lilinois 77 Indian 64 Florida 96 Georgia 78 ‘for the past four years. ' Play in the $150,000 tournament, (Rerald-UP 1 Tempnow) against the home team. The Wyoming crowd was by far the most rly mannered crowd pie bythis writerall sea- ei Ritger Captures ‘Legion Baseball Post So. California 75 Stanford 66 | New Mexico St. 74 Air Force 63} loudly every decision that went each contributed a field goal. year for the 30-year-old pro. | poned. TOTALS Gk 816 25 ll 37 36 6458 1-19 i-i 210 12 7 w 15 00 OL OL 28-75 The $6,000 first place check WYOMING G raised Ritger’s earnings for the V kL year to $12,790. Dodds Before the last match, Wal-| Ashley jace had opened the afternoon) by beating Ernie Schlegel of| New York City, 201-185, then) eliminated Bill Hardwick of) He, fF TROY MOTT 217-1 Wilson Hall Smith Popovich 13-28 54 69 F R P 23 9 4 811 10 22 46 15 chi? ‘1 18 3 (9 «16 9 at 6 5 2.3 1 2 1 0 12 45° Ol Ol 10 16 6 tt 9 0 0 6 2 Al) TOTALS 90-68 19-29 56 79 §.| Halftime Score — Wyoming 46, top. BYU 35 eld Goal Percentages—WyomRitger and blew his chance when he missed easy ing 4, BYU 37 spares in the first and eighth Foul shooting Percentages — Wyoming 65, BYU 46 frames; seeded | |