Show icsqag s' w in “T1 mgaga— Ui 4& - ' ’h v t I jP The Salt Lite Tribune Sunday December Weber State Finds Way To Lose Again 13 1987 Smith Finds Range As Utes Down Tigers By Dick Rosetta Tribune Sports Writer Utah’s Mitch Smith became a student of the Ivy League Saturday night and graduated cum laude from the Utes’ battle with Princeton at the Huntsman Center The Smith who admitted to getting a rare opportunity “at playing guys my own siae" put a check on his rambunctious early play and settled into a steady performance in leading the Utes past the Tigers $ before 10017 fans at the Huntsman Center Smith’s baseline jumper with 32 seconds left broke a 5 tie allowing the Utes now 1 to escape the clutches of the Tigers who were unable to score through the last 59-S- ot 55-5- 5-- three minutes The Tigers had executed their game plan to “I don't know as we could have perfection done it any better" confessed veteran Tiger Coach Pete Carril — and had driven the Utes bananas with easy backcut layups As tough as they were inside one of the best three-poishooting clubs in America struck from the outside with senior Tiger guard Dave Orlandini drilling a home run with 312 left to Shove Princeton on top Utah’s Tommy Connor and Smith then took — nt 55-5- 3 over Connor with only two or three seconds left on the shot clock funneled in a jump shot from the left angle with 2:25 15-fo- ot left to tie it “I had no choice I actually felt the clock had run out” Connor said With 1:13 left Smith jumped out to jar the ball loose from Tiger reserve center Anders Vestergaard starter Kim Mueller had fouled out with 3:38 to play and with 31 seconds left and again with the shot clock under five seconds Smith cashed in his baseline jumper The shot felt good all the way” Smith explained T slowed down and took my time Early in the game I was jumping all over and not squaring and facing the defender Coach By Lex Hemphill ’ "" Tribune Sports Writer to chance had — 4 Weber State PROVO beat someone its own size here Saturday night And not surprisingly they turned it ' over 20 The Wildcats who have been averaging turnovers per game committed 24 against Idaho State and the last one in the final seconds sealed their doom in a 1 loss to the CouBengals in the consolation game of the before Center Marriott the at Classic gar ' 5213 fans to lost which had decisively Weber State three of the best Western Athletic Conference teams (New Mexico Utah and BYU) lost to a fellow Big Sky Conference member in this one and fell to 4 for the season Idaho State which shot only 11 free throws in the game to Weber’s 33 persevered to even its recordaf 3 Lynn) Archibald and Coach assistant Trent Johnson bad taken me out in the first half to lecture me on that” Princeton called time out with 23 seconds left and entrusted the potential game-tyin- g assignment to leading scorer Bob Scrabis “We thought we had something when he Scrabis drove to the basket but it closed up” said Carril Utah’s senior guard Gale Gondrezick closed it up Scrabis’ shot never had a chance and Connor was among the maze of players who went for the rebound Connor’s only rebound of the night resulted in a mad scramble and a foul on Vestergaard in the lane “I want to be on the free throw line at the end” Connor said “They free throws should go down” They did — two of them The charities were the knockout punch that sent pesky Princeton to its second loss against three wins Carril was hardly disconsolate “I told my team this Utah was the best team we’ve played so far by a significant amount They defended like crazy — intense all the way I think we succeeded in what we wanted to do” The Tigers shot 524 percent for the game Utah took away the Tigers’ outside shooting game but sacrificed in allowing 17 buckets from five feet on in “They really had only three or four wide-ope- n layups” said Archibald “Our problem was we didn’t have enough pressure on the basketball outside We could have done much better” But Archibald noted that good defensive pressure by his club wiped out an early Princeton lead and enabled Utah to go up by 7 at halftime 72-7- 3-- t 19-1- 1 29-2- “We put pressure on particular players We changed over and put Jimmy Madison on John Thompson there when we were down I think it took about four minutes for us to catch up” — TnSun Stall Photo by Todd CrosUnd Utah's Gale Gondrezick beats Princeton's John Thompson on a drive in Utes’ 53-5- 5 win over the Tigers Saturday night Gondrezick had nine points Leckner’s 24 Sparks Wyoming Victory Over UAB Tribune Wire Services Wyoming Coach Bennie Dees discovered team can play without his seventh-ranke- d leading scorer Fennis Dembo but Dees’ pleasure was no consolation to Coach Gene Bartow UAB blew a lead early and Wyoming’s Eric Leckner scored 18 of his 24 points in the second half as the Cowboys beat the Blazers 9 Saturday night in Birmingham Ala Dembo averaging more than 24 points a game sat down early in the first half with three fouls He finished with only seven points all in the second half “We completely lost Dembo but the bench came on and played well without him’’ said Dees “I thought we showed a lot of character to play without him when the heat was on and play successfully” Bartow had this description of Wyoming “They’re strong they’re tough they’re hanging onto us” he said After grabbing a 16-- lead at 13:45 in the first half UAB began missing free throws making only nine of 20 in the rest of the period Wyoming fought back with a surge that included eight consecutive points and Reggie baseline shot and a three-pointFox made for a tie at 35 at halftime The Cowboys started the second half with a 1 scoring run that included two field goals by Leckner who made 10 of 11 from the field Turk Boyd scored six points within a minute to make it 9 on MiThe Blazers 3 got within chael Charles’ three-pointwith 7:50 left Wyoming made five of seven free throws in the last 1:30 Fox finished with 16 points and Boyd nine Charles scored 18 points Larry Rembert 16 and Reginald Turner 14 for the Blazers physical” “We started out playing well but they just took us out of everything They just physically New Mexico St 58 UTEP 57: At Las Cruces NM Willie Joseph made the second of two foul shots with 13 seconds remaining to give New Mexico State a victory over Texas-E- 1 Paso Alabama-Birming-ha- nt 74-6- 4-- muscled us out of everything We couldn't even get in our offenses the way they were 3 13-fo- er 7-- 58-4- 4-- 58-5- 5 er The Wildcats’ last chance came when they forced an ISU turnover with nine seconds left and the Bengals up by one Jeff Schofield had the ball at the top of the key and tried to dump a pass inside to Rico Washington But George Davis tipped the ball away and Chase Brown grabbed it and hugged it as the buzzer sounded “Scho Schofield had a choice” said Weber Coach Larry Farmer “He either had to hit Rico or get the ball back out for the jumper1 thought Rico made a good move but the tjTl was just tipped away” Washington led all scorers in the game with 21 points but he had 18 of them in the first from the half After halftime he shot floor and didn't score a field goal in the final 13 minutes senim For Idaho State Brown a had the best game of his brief Bengal career He led ISU with 20 points and he had 10 dt I them in the final 10 minutes baskets of consecutive It was a string three by Brown that boosted the Bengals to a seenv ingly safe 6 lead with 6:27 left in the gam& At that point Farmer called a timeout and “i told the players we have six minutes left ant that’s a lot of time We can claw back into thifc game but we have to do it at the defensive The Aggies prevented UTEP Coach Don Haskins from getting his 500th career victory Joseph’s foul shot put New Mexico State 5 ahead With five seconds left UTEP’s Chris Blocker made two free throws after an intentional foul The Miners retained possession but the ball was knocked out of bounds on the inbounds play with two seconds left New Mexico State’s Jeff Williams intercepted UTEP’s second try to preserve the victory The Aggies improved their record to 5 while UTEP went to 2 58-5- 4-- 6-- 54: At Cham-g- n San Jose St 65 111 20 points to scored Ricky Berry d San Jose State to a win over Illinois-Chicag- o and third place in the Illini Classic basketball tournament Tourney host Illinois downed Auburn 107-1in overtime in the title game Saturday night Berry scored all but three pf his points in the second half to pace the win Guard Steve Haney added 17 points for the Spartans San Jose improved its record to 2 while the Flames fell to 4 3-- 2-- Anderson Leads USU Past Texas Boise State 70 San Diego 54: At Boise Idaho forwards Wilson Foster and Arnell Jones combined for 39 points including 24 in the first half to power Boise State to an early lead and a victory over San Diego Jones who led the Broncos with 20 points scored 11 in the first half and Foster scored 13 of his 19 points in the opening period to lead the Broncos to a 6 halftitne lead 66-5- end” 69-6- 44-2- N Arizona 84 Grand Canyon 81: At Flagstaff Ariz Shawn Herman scored 20 points including two free throws with 15 seconds remaining as Northern Arizona beat Grand Canyon College for its first victory of the basketball season CSU 65 N Texas St 56: At Fort Collins 22 Pat Durham scored a game-hig- h points to lead Colorado State to a victory over a stubborn North Texas State and extend the Rams’ winning streak to three David Turcotte scored 18 points for the Rams 13 of them in the second half Ronnie Morgan led North Texas scoring with 18 points CSU improved to 1 while North Texas fell to 5 Colo come-from-behi- 5-- 2-- j They did The Wildcats went on a 13-- 3 run over the next five minutes to get even as ISu Coach Jim Boutin admitted of his team “W4 became a little too tentative” Calvin Glenn who was given a starting as signment In place of Tim Tyler and responds with 17 points scored the last six points o Weber’s run The last two came on a pair o free throws with 1:59 to play to lift Webei into a 9 tie j The Bengals continued to play tentatively on the next possession but with five second? left on the clock Troy Miles drilled a three-poimake it basket from the top of the key to with 1:12 left It was the fourth three-pointof the game for the little point guard who finished with 16 points J Weber got two of those points back on layup by Timmy Gibbs with 47 ticks left ISU then tried to freeze the game out but Jim Rhode threw the ball away with nine second left and gave Weber one last chance — whic the Wildcats charitably threw right back Idaho State played a smarter and braver game as its team was constantly plagued by fouls With 10 minutes left Davis Brown and Rhode all had four personal fouls and the Bengals couldn’t afford to lose any of them They stayed in the game to the end nt 72-6- 9 er Jazz Shoot Down ‘Old’ Warriors Continued From D-- l volved I got the ball a lot more and if I get an open shot I’m going to take it” Coach Frank Layden agreed that ball movement was a key for the Jazz who got assists from nine of 11 players including a team-hig- h seven from Rickey Green "We were very unselfish” Layden said “The guys seemed to emphasize passing tonight and when you move the ball you’re going to get very good shots" The Jazz who totaled 30 assists in the 619 pergame blazed away at a season-hig- h cent clip against the Warriors Malone (7 of 12) Darrell Griffith (7 of 9) Green (5 of 7) and Thurl Bailey (6 of 11) all joined Turpin in the hot-shcategory For the Warriors it was a different story Golden State hit 446 percent for the game but they made only 6 of 22 shots from the field in the second quarter when the Jazz 4 and took a the Warriors halftime lead “Our frustration showed tonight” said Warriors Coach George Karl “Our shots didn't go down and then everything else broke down Plus they seemed to make everything Rainbow after rainbow after rainbow” The Jazz broke the game open in the second quarter by holding the Warriors scoreless for stretches of 5:37 and 3:29 At one point the Jazz outscored the Warriors 29-- and a 6 lead mushroomed to Special to The Tribune AUSTIN Texas — This is Utah State reserve guard Jeff Anderson’s favorite time of year The senior from Deweyville Utah scored shooting Saturday night to lead the Aggies to an 80-7- 5 victory over host University of Texas for the championship of the Longhorn Classic Anderson who scored 15 points in the Ags’ win over Murray State Friday opening-roun- d night was named the tournament’s most valuable player It was Anderson's second consecutive MVP award in a holiday tournament He took home the MVP award in last year’s Met Life Classic in San Francisco when he came off the bench to score 47 points in two games “He definitely deserved the award” said Utah State Coach Rod Tueller of Anderson's performance in the Longhorn Classic "Tonight he was probably the best player on the floor both offensively and defensively He came in hot He was in the game 15 seconds in the first half and already he had five and a field goal” points a three-pointand 7 of Anderson hit 4 of 5 11 free throws in the game Utah State junior center Greg Housekeeper had 15 points and seven rebounds Housekeeper scored seven straight USU points in the last five minutes to help put the Ags ahead for good Following Housekeeper's run Utah State was tied with the Longhorns 1 with six minutes to play center fed guard Reid Newey to put The the Ags up by two After that they never 29 points on out-scor- 30-1- 60-3- 8 3 30-2- 54-2- 9 “I think the guys were really in the groov in the second quarter” said Green who ha now contributed 24 points 15 assists and 11 3 shooting in the last two games "The ran the floor well and we shot well I think w broke their back in the second quarter Whe you get down by 20 on the road it’s hard t of-1- come back" The Warriors didn’t They couldn’t The went from the 5:40 mark of the second quarte to the 1:35 mark of the fourth quarter — span of more than 26 minutes — without put ting consecutive points on the board It's tough to get a run going that way Other significant efforts by the Ja2z wer turned in by Griffith who finished with 1 points in just 12 minutes Bailey who endec up with 12 points and seven rebounds Joh Stockton who had 13 points and five assists Mark Eaton who had a season-hig- h 12 point and 12 rebounds and Kelly Tripucka wh nin played 19 minutes and had a season-hig- h points For Eaton it was his second straight dou scoring effort after getting ther just once in the Jazz's first 17 games “It’s about time” he said “I got a littl more involved in the offense tonight 1 n shots It's nice to put a couple games together Maybe I'll get back on ble-figu- half-dece- track” The new-loo- k Warriors are now hopin they will get on track too er three-pointe- Warriors Acquire Rockets’ Sampson 71-7- 0 trailed Texas guard Travis Mays who was named team with Anderson and USU’s Kevin Nixon led the Longhorns Saturday with 28 points “Anderson also did a good job guarding Mays in the second half when Nixon was in foul trouble” said Tueller Mays had 18 points to the by halftime “Housekeeper’s run and our good second-hal- f shooting gave us the edge” Tueller said The lead changed hands 13 times in the game eight times in the second half before the Aggies took control Utah State made 60 percent of its shots for the game The Aggies trailed by two points at half6 time They were that close thanks to 38-3- — Ataooatad Prass Pnoto Utah State’s Jeff Anderson center fights Texas’ Thomas Gipson and Alvin 5 Ileggs right for rebound Saturday night USU defeated Longhorns 80-7- Anderson’s hot shooting The sixth man had 17 points at intermission on shooting infrom three point range cluding The win is another on a growing list of holiday tournament victories for the Aggies under Tueller In the coach's nine-yetenure Utah State has won six December tournies In five of them the Ags have defeated the host team for the championship ar The victory gives the Aggies a 2 record for the season They'll have the week off before their rematch with BYU in Provo next 3-- Saturday Pan American 60 Murray St 57: in the Longhorn Classic consolation game senior guard Kevin Johnson scored 20 points to lead the Pan American Broncos to a win over Murray State d Continued From D-- l and if that means taking a step back to get started fine” Clearly Sampson was the key for the Warriors who gave up their No 1 scorer in Floyd and their No 3 scorer in Carroll “JB is a great talent” Karl said “But his liabalities are that he doesn't give you the rebounding and defense you want all the time And Sleepy is the best guard I've ever coached 1 told him that But he was the big piece in all this for Houston Now they’ve got the premier guard they’ve been looking for" And what about the Warriors? "We think Ralph Sampson is one of the top five centers in the game" Karl said "And this is going to be Ralph Sampson's team We are going to build around Ralph I'll tell you After getting beat by 35 this is the best news I’ve heard all day" Karl said the deal has been brewing for a couple days ever since Sampson was scoreless in 20 minutes against the Jazz Thursday night in Houston “I guess Ralph had a bad game and Coac Bill Fitch said 'That’s it’ " Karl explained How is he going to use Sampson half of th Rockets’ Twin Towers? “Ralph is a great athlete" Karl said “H can play the high post He has that ability Bu we’re going to put Ralph down on the block and get him 18 to 20 shots a game And I can’ wait to coach a I’ve never hac one before” Karl said the deal was made because “w just didn't see a future with this basketbal team" and he admits the Warriors’ backcour isn't strong "With Chris in rehab amd Sleepy gone w know it's weak” Karl said "But I sure fee good about it” Regarding Mullin the Warriors' No 2 scor er Karl said: "It’s unfortunate But I’m happy for Chris He needed some help and he’s goin to get it This will help his career We’re goin to support him all the way" shot-block- |