Show The Utah Statesman Wednesday December 2 19bi Lady Ags gain split await Washington New York Yankee star Reggie Jackson will tell you you need is monetary incentive to get him to produce US? women’s basketball team used another type of incentive tod in their 95-6- 8 romp over the College of Southern Idaho Eagles last night in the Spectrum One of the Aggie shortcomings in recent yean has been fa Lady Aggies’ inability to defend their opponents With the Eagles a run and gun team in town USU coach Cindy Perkins used her power of persuasion to improve that itt “I told them they would run a lap for every point CS1 scored over 65” she said “They did earn three laps but they improved their defense” “Yeah they did” added CSI coach Lloyd Hardesty “Their guards cut down ours at the midcourt line and e couldn’t get our fast break going” The Aggies used their defensive efforts to get their own running game going Although shooting 43 percent from tie k field at halftime they converted nine opportunities into easy layups and went into the dressing room leading J V n L fast-brea- 51-4- 0 In the second half the Aggie defense got even tougher ud their taller frontline found creases in the Eagle defense to pul the game out of reach early CSI went through streaks of fcur and six minutes without scoring a point “Our game is running and when they stop your guards oe the break they stop your fast break and your offense” aid Hardesty “We couldn’t score inside either” $ While the Aggie defense tightened the offense partkuMy the forwards started finding the range “When we played them in Twin Falls their big people didn’t score like they tonight When they started hitting from outside it was Katie bar the door” Patty Epps controlled both boards with a game high 16 and led all scorers with 22 points lead and gave Eastern The Lady Aggies blew a State the game Monday night Washington USU had problems before they ever began with a technical foul drawn against them because of a score book The two teams played the game evenly in the first half uadi dill nt 96-8-3 mix-u- p EWS was hit with a technical foul on the bench and the Ap 0 blew to at the halfway point Second half action displayed skills in fouling out of the game Utah State’s Corina Poto went out on an offenavefcul and that enabled Eastern Washington to take the lead for dx first time Aggies Sharon Epps and Annette Hunt also Wed out with four minutes in the game and joined Poto on the bench the Mary Danielson who helps in every department ofihinaadAis out for two weeks because of a bruised ggie game the way the Aggies looked they could have used Danielson badly Lori Becker and Sharon Epps were the leading scores far 20 the Aggies with 18 points each and Maria Loos lead with leading the also was Loos points for Eastern Washington in the game with 17 boards Danielson will be out of action for tomorrow night s gw with Washington and the next two weeks as well The Huskies will only be playing their second regular season pi of 1981-8- 2 the first being tonight at the University of Utah 41-3- s USU Lady Aggie Lori Becker (22 in white) goes up for a short jump shot against Eastern Washington Monday night The Lady Aggies dropped that decision but rebounded Tuesday to whip the College of Eastern Idaho Becker scored 12 points last night Perko selected Aggies' most valuable gridder Mike Perko dominated the Utah State University football awards banquet last night much the same way he had dominated offensive linemen for much of last season Perko was named the Aggies’ Most Valuable Player for the 1981 season and was also named the PCAA’s Defensive Player of the Year according to USU Coach Bruce Snyder Perko was also named to the Associated Press’ honorable mention team “We’ve been very fortunate to be associated with some truly great defensive linemen” said Tueller “Rulon Jones was a rare athlete Mike Perko is out of that elite mold” In addition Perko has recently been named to the District 7 team qualifying him to have his name place on the national Academic ballot Perko maintains a 34 grade point average in psychology Snyder said five other Aggies were named first team They are offensive Joe Crum mside hnebacker David Bluford whoguard was also named AP honorable mention yesterday Comerback Larry Hogue punter Guy McClure and Perko’s tacklemate junior Shawn Miller McClure also was named to the AP’s honorable mention squad A The cond such first-tea- m designation to Bluford was the sehonor he has received in two Am years Hogue was a second team last year and Crum and Miller (both junion) named for the first time hsd BJ Snyder alto announced that five Ags second-teaall PCAA They are offensive Marcus Black center Steve Jacion outside linebacker Pat McKenna strong safety Tbo Bates and return specialist Fred Fernandes the league in punt returns Bates also won the Aggies’ Hustle A back Dan Stewart was named the Most Irap”0 Player and McClure won the scholastk-atnlA m et award The Special Teams Award was won by Cm! Wattley for the second straight year |