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Show Cougars Barely BYU Tips Hawks In 73-72 Tilt By JOE WATTS THE HERALD Page ry Herald Sports Editor Brigham Young University inaugurated the Marriott Activities Center by winning the BYUClassic with thrilling 7372 victory over St. Jeseph's in the championship game Saturday night, after topping Wildcats Down Pacific for 3rd tucky had University of points, Beard, one of two sophomore “If Kansas had won it would guards starting for K-State, have taken a lot of the luster finished -vith 10 of 14 attempts away from our game Monday from thefield and 27 points. The night,” said Hartman. “But if other sophomore, playmaker Kentucky beats KU and then we Lon Kruger added 10. Rugged beat Kentucky ... wow!” Ernie Kusnyer added 18. The Wildcats are favored to All-American candidate John unseat Kansas as Big Eight Gianelli had 22 points to lead champions and early recognition seems well deserved after Pacific. Jim McCargo added 19. comingwithin six points of BYU The victory leaves Kansas and then stopping tough Pacific. State at 1-1 for the young season K-Statetrailed onlyonce in its and Pacific is 1-2 after an consolation game with Pacific opening win over Cal Stateandthat was at 7-6. From there Hayward. the Wildcats jumped ahead 27-17 K-State is at home tomorrow andled at halftime, 46-34, against Kentucky while Pacific An early surge in the second travels to Missouri and Drake half cut the margin to 50-46 with next weekend. 16:13 remaining before the Both Hartman and Pacific's Wildcats took control again at Dick Edwards were very wentin front, 58-48. Ten to twelve points was the complimentary about the Marriott Center and the caliber of teams in the BYU Classic. MAC Opener St. Joseph’s Mike Bantom outlasted Pacific’s John Gianelli in the personal foul column and the Hawks wentonto gain a 64-58 triumph over Pacific in the inaugural game played in the Marriott Activities Center. The two centers were each in. foul trouble with four persona! fouls, and had each spent considerable time on the bench. With about ten minutes remaining and the score tied at 44-44 Coach Jack McKinney of St. Joseph’s inserted Bantom KANSAS STATE: (80) FG Kusnyer Zender Hall Kruger Beard illiams FT RP 5-11 8-11 6 18 37 33°39 69 01 7 12 38 48 5 10 10-147-8 0 27 04 02 20 Mitchell 24 00 Totals 29-57 22-33 PACIFIC: (75) FG FT McCargo 714 5-6 Dulaney 48 33 Gianelli 8-15 610 Errecart 412 44 Joshua 412 11 Snyder 02 00 Douglass 13 0-0 Totals 28-66 19-24 Bantom finished as high man Going down the finish the Hawks fe’! into a z-ne defense and Pacific simply couldn't hit enough outside shots to change the course of the contest. ST. JOSEPH'S FGM-A tM AR iA McFarland 4.16 4 Sabo! in ane 2 Bantom O’Brien McCollum Furey Kelly Prybella Totals PACIFIC Dulaney 17 613 13 66 34 01 25-61 14-19 01 02 9 46 00 00 00.00 33 64 eensA FIMAR P Irfact, BYU's biggest lead of The Cougars had to overcome 11 points with 6:04 remaining soon dwindled to just five points two minutes to win the cham- with 2:25 remaining and the 34 pionship game KRESIMIR COSIC LEAPS for a jumpshotin first half action last night. The colorful center scored 30 points against championshipin the first BYUClassic. Photos on this page Christian. and ma Page10 by Herald Staff Photographer Pat LateRally Propels Utes Past Utah State, 93-74 39 80 RP 8 19 5 11 112 4 12 69 2 0 0 2 43 75 Dzllas Belts Jets, 52-10 SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — Utah’s Redskins came to life late in the second half to break open a see-saw’ battle and down the Utah State Aggies, 93 - 74, here Saturday night. With 6:57 remaining in the game, guard T. I. Medley put Utah ahead, 69-67, on a jumper from the top of the key, and saw the score knotted 15 times, in Utah’s third straight win of the year. USUled, 39-36, at the half on the hot shooting of forward Ron Hatch — high man on thefloor for the night with 29 points—but Utah finally found the shooting range to scalp the Aggies. Utah shot a fine 53 per cent from the field, led by flashy guard Eddie Trail with 8 points. Trail hit 10 of 16 from the field and added eight from the charity stripe to top the Ute scorers. Three other Utes scored in the double figures behind Trail. Scot Jones tossed in 16, Jay Vaughn added 15 and John Bearman had 10. Utah’s zone defense bottled be the center of the key, foreinj ig the Aggies to shoot from the outside, and cut off the scoring of USU stars Robert Lauriski and Lafayette Love. Laurski managed only 10 points, hitting four of 15 from the field. Love had 11. Guard Glen Hanson added 12 as four Aggies hit double figures. National Football Conference East. Roger Staubach, the NFC's top passer, completed 10 of 15 passes for 168 yards, including a pair of 27-yard scoring tosses to Hill and an 18yarder to Duane Thomas, before he retired in favor of Craig Morton with four minutes left in the third quarter. Namath, whogot his first taste of action last Sunday by throwing for 258 yards and three touchdowns in a losing cause against San Francisco, never got unwound against the tremendous Dallas defense. Heretired with three minutes left in thefirst quarter with the score 28-0 and after having completed only one of five attempts and suffering an interception. He came back in the final period after Bob Davis reinjured an ankle but still was ineffective. Jabbar Nets 41 To Pace Bucks (UPI) — 227 «10 KareemJabbar climbed out of McCargo 7 ” 45 ne his sick bed Saturday afternoon Gianelli 34 45 6 10 Douglass 25 00 24 andled the Milwaukee Bucks to Joshua 36 00 26 an eyelashthin 108-105 win over Errecart 210 24 5 6 the Chicago Bulls in a National Just 01 02 10 Snyder 0322) 52 Basketball Association game joble 00 00 600 here. Chiggeri eee Totals 12-57 14-20 58 Jabbar, who was in bed with Halttime score pacific 30. st the flu and missed the Bucks’ Joseph’ gameagainst Cincinnati Friday Field Seal Pct. St. Joseph's 41, night, was a doubtful starter Pacific 39 Foul Shooting Pct st before the game, But he came Joseph's 84, Pacific 39 out and was more than ready to Poul Shotting Pet. St. Joseph's 84, Pacitic 70 Fouled out —Gianelll, Pacific. lay as he scored 41 points to lead the Bucks to the win. ST. JOSEPH STAR Mike Bantom (44) has a shot partially blocked by BYU's Kresimir Box: Utah State (74) . ...G..F.,..T Hatch 12 55 29 Lauriski 423 10 5 1-2 11 pave Wakefield 200 4 1224 Te‘ebbs Hansen 6 Ol 12 Boatwright 101 2 Tompson 102 32 10-14 74 Tol tals Utah (93) GF T arman 3 46 10 jorman 2 115 7:12 16 al ughn The Aggies are now1-1 on the Ty; ail 10 813 28 season while Utah is undefeated Medley 335 9 after three games. Jones 7 24 16 Whiting 122 4 Cockett 2 00 4 Gardner 0 00 0 Cowan 1 00 2 Sorensen 000 0 Totals 36 2 1-33 93 Halftime: Utah State 39 Utah games and breezed to a 93 record that put them a gamein front of Washington in the MILWAUKEE many players riding the bench, but they didn’t. Lead Dwindles very cold foul shooting in the last 20 01 2 12 23024 thefirst night of the tournament of 22,374. then the Redskins outscored USU 24 points to seven as Utah’s sagging zone defense turned up the ball time after time in the wanning minutes. The lead changed hands 35 IRVING, Tex. (UPI)—Rookie times through thefirst 33 minback into the lineup, and Ike Thomas ran the opening utes of the game, which also kickoff back 101 yards, Calvin Pacific's coach Dick Edwards countered with his All American Hill caught two touchdown passes and ran for another and candidate Gianelli. Bantom tried a hook shot and Duane Thomas scored a pair was fouled by Gianelli. The shot Saturdayas the Dallas Cowboys was good, as was the foul shot, frolicked to a 52-10 victory over and the Hawks found themselves the NewYork Jets. holding a 47-44 lead and Gianelli Ignited by Thomas’ second on the bench. consecutive game-o pening Soonthe Hawks were ahead by touchdown runback, the Cowseven at 53-46 and were able to boys exploded to a 28-pointfirst controlthe outcomeof *he game quarter, smothered Joe Nawith excellent ball control math’s first starting assigntactics going down the wire. ment in 20 regular season on the floor with 20 points. Jim O'Brien and Bob Sabol each had 12 points for the Hawks, while reserve Kevin Furey played a key role as a substitute. Jim McCargo scored 18 for the Pacific Tigers, but he was the only consistent scorer for Pacific. The Hawks took a 440 lead, but soontrailed the Tigers by eight at 20-12. At intermission Pacific held a low scoring 30-25 lead. The Hawksclawed awayat the lead while the school's mascot continually flapped its wings, and finally the Hawks tied the score at 4444. Then came the three point play by Bantom and the resulting foul against Gianelli which put St. Joseph's in clear commandof the game. personal foul route and another with only 278 less fans on hand for thefinal night, an attendance BYU However, the Tigers were after forced to foul as the Wildcats from ste "led. That sent Danny Beard Ken- to theline for four free throws to defeated the put the gameoutof reach with a Kansas by 10 minuteleft. Hawks Edge Pacific in crowd ever to The largest minutes the Tigers cut the lead from 72-62 to 73-69. for third place in the Clasaic. Hartman was smiling word was received Lawreace, Kansas, that was, without any question, the witness a basketball game on a one with an injury. The Wildcats college cempus, 22-652, watched could have folded with that differencein the ball gameuntil the final five minutes when Pacific started pressing. In two night and not just becaus team's 80-75 victory over P: on a magnificent8 of 11 attempts and 14 of 16 at the foul line. He also hauled down 18 rebounds, made a bundle of assists, and differencein the ball game. Ka‘ sas State put up a strong battle, even going down the wire KansasState, 78-72,in the first whenit was hampered with the loss of three players via the night of the tournament. Spot in Classic Kansas § Hartman was very h was brilliant, scoring 30 points Cosic as Bernie Fryer (32), Brian Ambrozich walt to get the rebound. game was still in doubt. Two outstanding centers, However, the Cougars had their Kresimir Cosic of BYU and Mike eyes on the clock ind the score Bantomof St. Joseph's, put cn a and held off to win by a comspectacular battle against each fortable six points. other, but in the end, BYU's Phil The Cougars were very Tollestrup came out of the sluggish a: thestart of the game woodwork to hit three con- After the score was tied at 6-6 the secutive key hole jump shots Cougars went nearly four right down to the wirete pull the minutes without scoring while Cougars out of the depths of the Wildcats hit seven straight defeat, points to take a 13-7 lead. The Cougars still just about Stan Watts called a time out lost that lead, however, as they for the Cougars in an effort to get hit only three of nine foul shots in better offensive motion, and the last two minutes, soc. hesentin substitutes Doug Bantom was the high point Richards aid Kalevi Sarkalahti. man of the night with 32 points, Sarkalahti’s presence was one more than BYU's Cosic who particularly valuable to the had 31. Cougars at the time, as BYU hada six-pointlead at 5z- passed the ball inside to Cosic, 46 when they hit a spell of sloppy something that wasn’t getting ball handling and sawtheir lead done until he wentin. Once Cosic slip away as the Hawks coun- got the ball things began haptered with three straight baskets pening for the Cougars and soon to tie it at 52-52. they had the score tied at 18-18, The Cougars hit a foul shot to Trail at Half take a 5352 lead which was followed by twe bad passes, two Thebiggest lead the Cougars personal fouls, a fumbled pass, managed in thefirst half was a and another bad pass butstill the 23-20 edge with 7:18 remaining, Cougars trailed only 54-53 after butfrom there until intermission the two teams parried with that sloppy spell. A three-on-one fast break put KansasState corfithg up vith a the Cougars ahead 5534 and 39-38 halftime lead. Cosic led a scoring spurt early from there on in the two teams, mainly Cosic and Bantom, in the second half which pushed traded baskets the rest of the the Cougars out to a ten point lead at 61-51. Cosic made two way. Cosic hit an underhand scoop straight buckets, hauled down shotto tie the score at 58-58 and three straight rebounds, and then hit a hook shottotie it at 60- thrilled the crowd with a behind 60. He also converted a beautiful the back dribble on the fast assist pass to Doug Richards to break and then capped it off with an assist pass for a bucket by tie it at 62-62. Eachtimeit was Bantom who Bernie Fryerto give BYU a 52-45 lead. All players soon joined the countered for the Hawks. Phil Tollestrup, who hadn’t scoring spurt as the Cougars really made his presence known took command of the game with until that time, hit a key-hole theten point lead with just eight jumperto tie the score, 64-64 but minutesto play. Bantom scored twostraight for the Hawks to pull to a four point de! harrassed effectively by Danny Beard who eventually fouled out as a reward for his over aggressiveness. Still it was ‘ective, as Fryerhit only four effecti of 16 field goal attempts. Poorat Line BYU could well have won the gameat KansasState’sfoul line as the Wildcats hit only 12 of 26 charity tosses for a miserakie 46 percent. Kansas State got 27 more field Fouled out: None goal shots and made seven more Total fouls: Utah State 24 shots,but lost the game on their Utah 13 less than 50-50 foul shooting. A—13,857. The Cougars weren’t playing to full effectiveness. Jay Bunker hadthe flu and played only eight minutes. Tollestrup and Fryer each had colds, but played anyway. BYU Min FGM-A ETM-A RP DaveBailey was the starting Toliestrup 23 guard along with Fryer, and Cosic 40 : n “ 6 i x while he didn’t score, he did a Bunker 8 0-1) 1-1 Baley 8 02 00 00 plenty good job defensively. po, ug Richards, his substitute, Fryer 40 416 79 1 Ambrozich3? 4.10 $8 11.13 also was an aggressive defenRichards 32 48 23 2 10 sive player, and scored three Sarkainti 12 1-1 00 3 Totals 23-55 32-43 57 78 quick points on entering the gameto give the Cougars a boost KANSAS STATE Min. FGM-A FTM-A R P whenthey needed it. Kusnyer 25 4.11 36 4 11 The newcomer to the Cougar Zender 5-2-9 250 BOS fans, transfer Brian Ambrozich, Hall 7 $15 02 1210 turnedin an excellent game. He Beard 30 16 11 03 Kruger 210 47 38 leaped high in the air to haul Mitchell 12 48 1.2 1 9 down 11 rebounds and played all William 814 13 6 V butthefirst three minutes of the Thomas 24 00 1 4 McVe 23 00 0 4 game. He scored 13 points, and Chipman 01 00 10 was a very steady performer, Whi 2 0.1 0.0 0° coming up with the ball a Tot 30-82 82 12-26 5272 Hatme score: KansasState 39, The Hawks had held 105 and number of times in situations BY J 38 Field goal percentage; BYU42, 20-15 leads and the score was that demanded some toughness. tied at 25, 27 and29, but again the Kansas State 3 Kansas State’s big gun was Foul shooting percentage: 74. Hawks took a 35-31 lead before substitute Larry Williams who KansasState 46 Kusnyer, Beard, the Cougarshit eight straight to only played 25 minutes before Fouled out take a 39-35 lead. Mitchell, KS. fouling out, but hit 8 of 14 field Total fouls Kansas State 29, BYU wentin at intermission goal attempts and was high BYU 19 with a 4341 ad...tage and at Wildcat on the floor with 17. that time Cosic had scored 18 BYU All of the teams were Min FGM-A ereaR e and Bantom had scored 19. presented with watches and Tollestrap 33 Early in the second half BYU BYU was presented with the 4 gotits six point lead which was first place trophy for the BYU the biggest lead of the gamefor Classic, Coach Stan Watts either team. And then the bad presented special watches to ten ball handling spell enabled the men who played an important Totals Hawks to get back in the game part in getting the Marriott and it becamea real battleto the Activities Center ready for this ST. JOSEPH’S Min roe AFTM Pend. first tournament. 0.0 Brian Ambrozich hauled down They were President Dallin 18rebounds to carry a big weight Oaks, pasi president Ernest for the Cougars in tat depart- Wilkinson, physical plant ment. Ambrozich and Richards gj, ector Sam Brewster, conKelly 200 00 started for the first for the tractor Kent Talboe, vicefury 2 1 09 Cougars along with veterans president Ben Lewis, architect Totals 31-74 10-13 Cosic and Fryer. Bob Fowler, building supervisor Halttime score: BYU 43, St 2 Tollestrup, Belmont Anderson made his Carlos Jensen, Dr. DaCosta first appearance and hit three Clark and Dean Milton Hartfor four from thefield and wound vigsen. up with eight points, J. Willard Marriott was also to n In Friday's game Cosic was receive a watch but was not Total fouls: BYU 12, St. Joseph's the big gun for the Cougars. He present. lead at 68-64. Tollestrup then hit two more jumpshots to tie the score 68-68 and Cosic hit a cornerset shot to put BYU ahead 70-68 with 3:21 remaining, a lead they never relinquished. The two teams exchanged missed shots until Brian Ambrozich hit one of two foul shots with two minutes to go to put BYU ahead 71-68. Bernie Fryer then missed a foul shot and Cosic missed two foul shots, one a personal foul and one 4 technical foul shot. With 35 seconds remaining Fryerhit two foul shots for the Cougars to give BYU what looked like a comfortable 73-68 lead. However, Cosic missed a foul shot and Jim McCollum hit a foul-line jumper to cutit to 7370, With 13 seconds remaining, Fryer missed another foul shot and Kevin Furey hit a jump shot and the Hawks wereable to call time out with one second left trailing bythe final score, 73-72. The Hawks stole the deep inbounds pass but the shot was short and possibly late. The Hawks cameoutin a zone press and kept the Cougars off balance much ofthe first haif. The score was tied at two and four but BYU neverdid get in the lead until they scored eight straightpoints and grabbed a 37= lead with 2:50 left in the first |