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Show Cougars Ambush Miners, 80-5- 6 By Steve Wilson Salt i'akc eribuiu Sports Section H Friday Morning, January Page 9 12, 1979 By John Mooney Tribune Sports Editor Greg Deane and Tom Chambers collabarated to give the WACs defending basketball champion New Mexico Lobos a lesson Thursday night in the Special Events Center Deane, the motivator in Utah's bid for the title that eluded the Utes last year, poured in a career high of 35 points, and played a fine game at both ends of the court in marring the opening of the WAC season for New Mexico Chambers, with 24 points, was the "Mr Inside to Dean's "Mr Outside as Utah boosted its record to 12-- 5 for the in the WAC. season, and New Mexico, with a long way to go to equal last years championship team, dropped to 6 and Utah plays UTEP, a loser to BYU Thursday, in Salt lake City Saturday their Assistant Sports Editor PROVO After viewing what he termed one of the hardest wins well ever get, BYU coach Frank Arnold pointed out what everybody else A knew. "Our zone defense was absolutely tremendous, he exclaimed I complement Harry (Anderson) and Roger Reid), our assistant coaches, for devising it. The zone, a with a middle composed of two forwards and a center, was indeed the ugly barrier that kept Texas-E- l Paso away from the basket anti carried BYU to an 6 victory over the Miners Thursday night at the Marriott Center. Innovative Zones Arnold is fond of putting together innovative zones, not telling anybody about them, and then springing the defenses on the public and the opponent. UTEP, however, didnt back off, although when the Miners had the lead in the first half, they could have pulled BYU out of the "We weren't afraid of it. said Don d whiteHaskins, the eyebrowed coach at UTEP. It didnt take us out of our tempo. All zones look good if you don't make your shots Which is exactly what the Miners didnt do. Finding the inside impossibly dogged, and their guards impossibly cold on outside shooting, the Miners put in only 21 of 75 field goals, a high schoolish 28 percent Blame Rests With Guards The blame logically rests with the UTEP guards, who downed only four of 80-5- red-face- 31 field goal UTEP did attempt make things interesting before the end, but it would have been a perilously close game if the five Miner guards who shot mostly from the perimeter had The game crumbled for UTEP, and became a smashing success for BYU, in the last six minutes and 27 seconds. During that time, the Cougars the Miners, 22 to 4, to send a lead into the final 24. When Arnold called it a win, his addition was off. But it was an off night in no other respect for BYU, which earned its first Western Athletic Conference ictory and pushed its overall record to Whats more. BYU is at the Marriott Center, not the now place to be if your visiting BYU made such an impact with its late rush of points, and still better defense, that it was hardly noticed what leading scorer Danny Ainge had been doing, or not doing. Ainge did not attempt his first field goal of the second half until 1:42 remaim'd to play. However, it was the start of five points in 25 seconds for Ainge, and he still finished with 16 points. Will He Get Punchy? "A lot of people with high numbers, like Danny, are going to get punchy when they don't shoot very often, observed Arnold "But not him Hes so team oriented it doesn't bother him. It shouldnt have bothered anyone. BYUs balance was remarkable again, as freshman Devin Durrant headed the list with 18 points followed by Ainges 16, Scott Runia's 14, and Alan Taylor's 101-9- 0 out-scor- six-poi- nt . 11-- 0 9-- 0 8-- in the WAC and 0-- 1 0-- 1 night Much to the delight of 12,185 fans. Utah never trailed after Deane's basket lead at the gave the Utes a mark Utah ied by 16 points twice in the first half, and by the same margin several times in the second half, but Larry Belin, with 29 points for the game, and Phil Abney with 22, kept the Lobos coming back But nine was as close as Coach Norm Ellenbcrgers crew could get Although he didn't figure too much in the game statistics, Utahs Earl Williams turned in an outstanding floor game, feeding his teammates with six assists, getting 14 points himself, and harassing the Lobos all over the court. Danny Vranes had six for 13 from the field, for 12 points, although Coach 7-- three-minut- T ribooe 12. UTEP fell to in all games Utah Opens WAC, Roars by Lobos Utah center Tom Chambers goes for rebound as New Mex- - 5 I j Sfatf Photo bv Paul Fraught on ioos Phil Abney watches in vain. Utes won game, 101-9- 0. e Jerry Pimm said his sophomore star was ill Scott Martin contributed 12 assists for Utah It was only fair that Deanes final basket put the Utes over the 100 point mark for the third time this year. Coach Pimm said after the game. "When they press that hard and that long, they are going to make some mistakes "1 was was pleased that we sustained our game for 40 minutes, and didnt have many letdowns. "Taking gx)d shots once you get a 10 or 12 point lead is not as easy as it might seem, without losing concentration, Pimm said Greg and Eart were really keyed up looking toward this WAC game. They were ready to play, Pimm added. Deane said, "Its me and Earls We want the WAC championship championship bad, and 1 think we can get it." Deane had a fantastic night shooting, with 16 of 25 from the field, and three for four from the free throw line Williams had six for eight from the field in playing one of the better games in his career at Utah. The 6 senior guard also came up with seven steals, which was two more than the entire Lobo team had When Utah comes with an outside attack to go with its good inside game, said theyre real tough to beat, Ellenberger. "We scored 90 points, shot 50 percent from the field and 80 percent from the line. We dont have any problems. Our only problems are that we cant come up with a consistent effort, and find people who understand how the game it won " 6-- Eagles Test Dallas Tonight By Dick Rosetta Tribune Sports Writer The Salt Lake Golden Eagles, leading the Central Hockey League by seven points, return to the Salt Palace Friday and Saturday nights for stretch with the their only home action in a Dallas Black Hawks the opposition for each 7:30 p.m. faceoff. Fans will need a program to identify the product, however. Since the Eagles last played at home Jan. 2, four new faces have joined the Jack 20-da- y club. Evans-coache- d who have gone unbeaten since Dec. 23 (three wins and a tie with two games postponed by bad weather). Richardson has been on a tremendous streak. In his last nine games, the veteran goalie has posted a record with s 2.48 mark He will be going for his fourth straight victory and his 15th win overall. Gordie McTavish. the lanky center iceman who came out of the Montreal Canadien organization, has been hot offensively with 7 goals in his last 12 games and center Mike Zuke is on a personal, e scoring streak Rick Bourbonnais has also broken out of his slump w ith three goals in the last five games. The Hawks, given a boost by the goaltending of recent acquisition Gary Bromley, will be trying for their second Palace win in a row. Way back on Nov. 15, the Hawks dumped the Eagles, However, Dallas has been unable to beat Salt Lake in the Hawks home rink. Dallas has received uplifting performances from captain Rob Tudor, Steve Hazlett and Robbie Flockhart. And the Hawks, the most physical Brad team in the league, have heavily-penalize- d Gassoff to keep the Eagles honest. goals-again- Diego six-gam- Defenseman Steve Durbano was with the club road trip which ended in for the three-gam- e Kansas City Wednesday night, but after that 2 loss, the parent St. Louis Blues assigned defense-meBob Hess and Bruee Affleck and center Brian Ogilvie to Salt Lake City. Hess, Affleck and Ogilvie were all here earlier in the year and will add a veteran flavor to an already-poteattack But as they came down to g Salt Lake, the Blues called up right winger Tony Currie and defenseman Neil Labatte. Goalie Terry Richardson will be Evans netmin-de- r Friday against the resurgent Black Hawks n nt 4--2. v W Wmt Western can fly you nonstop to where California begins College Grid Playoff Faces Hurdles starting January 15th high-scorin- the object is to select championship caliber. Sports Mirror b John Mooney Irilxin SRrlh fcditor teams of national Secondly, the aim in the past has been to match the two best available teams. But with a chance to advance to the national championship playoff semifinals, wont the aim be to schedule an opponent which may not be as tough as a higher-rateteam in the poll As example of this was Arizona State of a few years ago, before the Fiesta Bowl, when the Sun Devils were undefeated and uninvited because no coach wanted to risk a beating at the hands of a comparatively unknown" team. Lastly, and this is the killer, the academic people, and a lot of the football coaches, feel the season is long enough and prolonging it two more weeks would be overlooking the best interests of the d The NCAA Extra Events Committee stirred up some early action at the annual convention by announcing unanimous committee' approval of plans to crown a bona fide national champion through playoffs. Dave Straek, chairman of the committee, said the plan was approved with enthusiasm and Frank Broyles, athletic director of Arkansas, admitted, We want to know if we can get it off the ground. Lets try. like Joe Patemo of Penn State said. playoffs, and I think its a great idea." But Bob Devaney, athletic dire'etor of Ne braska, added, I dont think the playoff idea has a chance of passing. You see, the playoff first must gain the approval of the NCAA Council and a steering committee before it could be voted on the next meeting of the convention, in January of 1980. That would mean the first playoff if it were approved would start with the bowl games at the end of the 1980 football season. Proponents say how easy it would have been just to take the four winners of the Orange, Sugar, Rose and Cotton and play two more weeks to crown a champion That would have been somewhat fair this year, although No. Penn State would not have been playing for the championship after losing to Alabama. But in the past, bowl teams have been selected by the bowl sponsors with a keen eye on the team's ability to sell tickets. Thats why year after year, the bowls have a definite Southeastern Conference flavor, because Alabama, Georgia, LSU and Arkansas or Tennessee will draw thousands of their fans to the game. In the past, the idea has been to create match-up- s which will have a national championship flavor, and Penn State and Notre Dame have admitted either will play anywhere the money is right and theres an opportunity to play for a championship or higher rating in the polls But can see a problem or two. even if the proposition should carry the national convention, which it wont In the first place, the bowl support may be lacking if some of these teams from smaller population are. is or drawing power are selected. The Southeast and Southwest Conferences wont qualify more than half the bowl opponents if student-athlete- s. 1 1 1 (.leaningn the Convention Cuff Reports from the NCAA convention say Jim Fassell, who coached at Utah and Weber State, will be named quarterback coach at Stanford and that Tom Lovat, former Ute coach, will remain on the new coaching staff at Stanford Andy Everest, freshman coach at Utah under Jack Curtice, has taken over as athletic direc-to- r at North Texas .Jack Curtice sends regards and says hes State. playing golf every day in Santa Barbara. .Spike Henderson, former Utah golfer, is going back for f another try at qualifying for the pro golf tour, but mean--1 while hes living in Salt Lake Jim Fassell City after working at Palm Springs for the last four years. Spikes dad is Jerry, the former Forest Dale and Mountain Dell Milton (Dubby) Holt is retiring from pro. Idaho State after serving 32 years as coach and athletic director. 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