Show 1 ead§ Ag§ PCAA Names Hanev icv toirnmi:m' At the LA Forum Seeds in Parenthesis broken All 2 v State from the tournament three times since 1980 'the Spartans were m position to do it again leading bv a with 227 left m the point 72-7game But Aggie shooters hit 7 of 9 free throws in the final 2 13 The Aggies also held Spartan guard Kickv Berry to two points in the last three minutes and harrassed their opponents into committing two critical turnovers m the last M3 "It feels good to get past the first game" said USU Coach Hod Tuellor “What's amazing is that a team that shoots 31 percent USU ill a first) half can stay in the game and win We re a team built around shooters but defense and forcing the ball inside was the key" Conway was a hurricane on the inside The junior from Idaho Falls went to the free throw line 16 times converting 14 of them and grabbed 12 rebounds six offensive and six defensive Conway grabbed a key offensive rebound off a Greg Housekeeper shot with 333 to play and the Aggies down by three points He dribbled once on the baseline and reversed it over Ins head Twenty seconds later the Aggies regained the lead “Our game plan was to go inside tonight so that's why I have more points than usual" said Conway who was USD's only offensive weapon in the first half “The coaches really prepaied us well f r this game Thev Times MSI Wednesday's Games Fu teion S'afe 73 Fresno stale 5° Son jo'e S'o'e 76 Poe c 60 Thursday's Games DC Irvine 74 long Beac S'a“ 67 iron S'o'e 80 San Jose S'a'e 72 lie Aeries with 23 points by forward Danny Conway and 22 bv guard Held Newey endined 41 San Jose fouls — some resembling hammer-lock- s — to defeat the Spartans 80-7Thursday n i a h t at the Forum T he cues USU a berth in Friday's semifinals against Cal Santa Barbara San Jose State had ousted Utah 1 UC Soma Bo'Dara 56 New Mecc S'a'e 52 Fulton 56 UNIV61 Fnday's Semifinals 8pm 10 3 1 UMV vs UC Irvine channy '3 — Utah St vs Santa Barba' a chan 13 — pn — cni Saturday's Game ChO'nCO'i'h'C told us San Jose was a team of they really dtdn t block jumpers and out well We took advantage of that on the offensive boards" San Jose's jumpers were more of a benefit than a liability however Spartan leapers came up with 17 offensive boards much to the frustration of Tueller and his team Uonwav Newev and Jon Judkins split the unenviable chore of guardBerry who averages ing the 24 points a game The trio held Berry to 18 points on shooting “He's Berry a great player and they set a lot of screens for him that you have to try to fight through” said s Newey who hit 4 of 6 Newey had six of Utah State's last 13 points ' “He Berry got hot in the second had a breakdown on dehalf when fense But you cant shut someone like him down" said Newey The Aggies shot 41 free throws to the Spartans’ 13 a fact not lost on a disgusted San Jose Coach Bill Berry I thought we did a good job: we had six more Held goals than they did" said Berry “Our kids played three-pointer- land their kids plavcd hard Wevt outfield goaled evervone this season but we just don t get to the free throw tine as uiten as our opponent' It was an excellent came other than the fact that it was a tree-throshooting contest at one end" said Berry The Spartans committed 32 personal fouls to the Aggies' 17 At came s end two Spartans had fouled out and four more had four fouls “San Jose State is a touch aggressive team so there are going to lie a lot of fouls" said Conway The Aggies regained the lead one minute after halftime and held it until the 6 06 mark Utah State led by as oh 9 49 many as sev on points 57 50 to play But the Aggies hit a couple of scoreless spells — one ironically when Kicky Berry was on the bench for fuur minutes with four fouls — and gained little ground W'hen Berry returned with 9 07 left he went to work right away scoring six quick points and dishing off a assists Then couple of Berry drove the length of the floor and scored his final points on a swooping scoop shot to give the Sparwith 2 37 tans their last lead left But he missed his last two shots and four of his last five In the final 2 15 guard Kevin Nixon hit 3 of 5 free throws Jeff Anderson made two and Newey made two “We got a spurt going late in the second half and we just took it to the basket" said Tueller "They SJS did a good job cutting off our outside shots so we had our best success from inside It was a gutty effort but we really didn't play that well We just gut foul shooting and some key rebounds down tlie stretch and we showed a little bit of poise when it counted T ueller said The Aggies improved to 19-- oversilky-smoot- h 72-7- ‘ - INGLLUUOI) Cm f hunes — Hanev :i tunned the Feme Co'l-- t thietlC A'MICh:t it’ll s 1ICW cttnimi'sii'tii r I hur'day Haney 3u is urn n ly the mil missioner of the Missoni i b!ey Conference lie replaces hew fryer who U ft the post in December to become the commissioner of the Professional Kodeo Cowboys A Association biggest Haney said the PCAA concerns are national recognition and bolstering attendance at the league's football games Haney was a basketball coach at the University of Oiegon from 1972 to 1983 lie was the Ducks head coach from 1973 to 1983 He w oiked forthe Dallas Cow hoy sand the University of Kansas and was assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Collegiate Athletic Conference from 1983 to 1985 15 Utah State trailed by tlnee points 38 at halftime ad The Aggies took an eartv on a vantage then went ahead 4 1 11-- 17-1- 1 plnv by Anderson The Spartans quickly caught up however on by Berry and Steve lead with seven Haney taking a minutes left in the half San Jose stretched that to as manv w ith a minute remaining as six in the period Conway had 16 by intermission 12 of them from the free throw line He aKo had seven rebounds in the period Berry led the Spaitans with 10 first half points ‘All week long wove heard and tourna read about all the ment losses wove had’ said Nixon We had something to prove tonight We came out confident three-poin- t three-pointer- s 23-2- 1 41-3- 3 first-gam- Ruimin’ Rebels Struggle Past Fullerton By John Gutman Tribune Sports Writer INGLEWOOD Calif — Nevada-La- s Vegas survived a scare Thursday night against streaking Cal sloppily edging the Titans crowd of before a 9387 m the Forum To no one s surpi Use the Rebels are in Fridays semifinals playing the 8 p m MST game vs UC Irvine What was surprising was the difficulty UNLV had with Fullerton virteam — Richard tually a two-maMorton and Henry Turner — that literally plays only six men CSF's Morton led all scorers with 23 points 18 m the first half UN'LV's Jarvis Basnight led the Rebels with State-Ful-lerto- n 61-5- 6 Kebel-partisa- n n 15 with Fullerton took the lead two minutes left in the first half redeficit on the viving from a three-pom- t shooting of senior guard Richard Morton The Titans took advantage of multiple Vegas turnovers lead 37-3to climb to a five-poiwith 13 29 left But when CSF s Henry Turner was called for a charge midway through 33-3- 0 2 the half Titan Coach George McQuarn exploded drawing a technical foul UN'LV's Clint Rossum hit the two free throws Jarvis Basnight com- play when the pleted a three-poin- t Rebels got the ball back and then UNLV stole the inbounds pass which Karl James turned into a three-poin- t field goal That eight-poin- t swing follow ing the technical gave the Rebels a t with 9:44 left lead 48-4- 3 five-poin- The Rebs never again trailed UCSB s B'ian Snow the league s ptoe' o' me veot Doy'e sco'ed 13 points and reserve eerier M-a'so added 13 to ieod te Goucnos Perth h ii erto johnny Roberson 'ed the Aggies 'ii ID oc ece 8a"’o Barbara will sauce on again st uto- - Sta'e m s 10 p m M5I con'esi Utah Sta'e has defeated the Gauchos twice this season Put USU was giw en a au'ck exit from last season s PCAA tournament courtesy ot me Gouchos I didnt think New Mexico S'a'e couto sjs'o n ''s tremendous emotion and mtens'y tUroug"ojt me ' game on a n°ut'Qi court sad Pimm whose team is ' When me now 22-Agges come back in me secSnow s hands ond hart we gat the bon into and he came through tor us os he has dene on seoson-- ' o great team game" said Aggie Coach “We have tor 37 minutes Nert me 'as' three mmu'es We ve now lost 12 games by 've pom's or less ' Us been a cho'ocfensi'c o' out season this year to lose close games We ve tost 12 and won six close ones that s not a good percentage No coach en " toys that and no teom enjoys that McCarthy said happers Santa Barbara 56 New Mexico St 52 Ju'ry Pimm s Go uclios wimslood a tfecoeous deleave spurt tiom New Mexico Bto's lo and a advance to Fnday s PCAA semrtmo's each McCChy ‘then wciil to he ihime Mont — or 17 ot muior Col Vdo lOin'hnig 1 m Cal Irvine 74 long Beach St 69 Irvine cento' to toad me Am Wayne Fnge's'ad scored 31 an eaters lnto me sem ' -- a s wm a vc'ory po's nva1 long Beach S'a'e tewo'd c me tose's Ana-- ov' Po"v sen'ed 26 pa ruiiv Murth 1 1 IY I9v'i 1 1 IOBMAN 1 ToiiiWMiM 9 to-1- M‘U-ti- lanv chi r State Uoc'h a w mm inm I n Times MST All Rut the hot two have been night cnn cmled males The 1987 88 I hur'day night for lanmt ami the Wildcats with a 58 57 loss to Idaho Mate m the Big Sky Cimfeienee post 'cauis C "n’’ Thursday aDGames V s nr" S'o'e 58 Wto' ’ "’jr 3 fom-vea- 7 O JV S' 'c- - - 3' r 7 2 n S' Menlo is 'J 5' l Fridoys Games tor S'r e S' B v uin-- — i 62 Saturday s Gome O i “i ‘'"c r — m the game Washington was the only double figure scorer for the Wildcats who Bold finished their season at ami fellow guard Timmy Gildis who combined for 54 pomts in an upset 06 93 overtime win Wednesday over managed only three points between them against Idaho Mate A lav up bv torn ard Ru-Washington who led the Wildcats with 22 4 lead at the points gave Weber a mark and the game was close from there on Weber State finished its season at foi the first time since earl night Kndnei Harris scored 17 points and Jim Rhode had 12 ill leading the to their fourth victory over the Ben-gal- Wednesday s Gomes -a''I' -- Ft : ' season tournament lie! her Farmer w ii! it im n to ful i con till the final vear of a tract will be determined in the coming weeks ty outgoing Wihhit Mhletii Director Gary Crompton I inborn a winnot for 17 ot my 19 ' said a horse Fanner coaching vein following the Weber Stall- loss But mv last two seasons haven I been Mai be it s time to ao on and do otliei things in life Idaho State the tmirnev s fourth seeded team will meet top seed Boise State in a semifinal contest ludav s Wildcats this season 13 Harris’ two free throws with left put the Bengals ahead for good at after Weber had rallied in the second half to take a brief lead With 23 seconds to play Michael Green lut a tough driving shot in the lane to give Idaho State a 56 33 edge shot bv desperation three-poin- t Anthony McGowan of the Wildcats at the buzer was good and cut the final margin to just one point Free throws weie the difference Thev in the game” sml Farmer made theirs and we didn t make ours ” Idaho State controlled the first half with and took its biggest lead at eight minutes to play and held a halftime edge Weber got the first four points of the second half and then both teams vv ent cold as defenses took ov er Each team managed only six points during the first eight minutes of the second half before Weber State rolled off nine points in a row and went ahead 41-3- 1 54-5- 9 21 Montana State 60 Montana 54: Seniors Scott Peiper and Chris Uonwav provided the crucial pomts as the Bobcats held off the Grizzlies in the Big Sky Conference Tournament quarterfinals The third seeded Bobcats take on No Idaho in one semifinal Friday night after top seed Boise Slate faces No 4 Idaho State Despite hitting only 8 of 24 field goal attempts Tom Doniako — the Big Sky's leading scorer — finished with 23 points He was the only double figure shooter for the Bobcats 24-1- 32-2- UCI senior torwaid Frank Woods scored SPven ot s tost iBponis bringing his team bark me ham a tou' DO’nf Cel'Crt in toe final two mmu'es Woods grabbed a missed UCI Pee throw scced me was lou'ed and converted me lout loss to q w tt 1 39 'o ploy tin tea'ers me tood lot good The vic'CV was I'vi'toS It's! n PCAA tournome"' p'ey snee 1964 Enge'S'ad hod 24 pomts beto'e hait'me bul long Beach Slate denied him me ban lor most me me second ha'l the luck Breeden Fteldhouse Montana State UmvefS'ty At r t - 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