Show f'rXr'M Jv tiome LBSiis lirstiomapMMMwiMi :r¥VSUs:reiiMiieiiafr are deadlocked With five losses Mexico State eachUtah Stat( 14-- overall) holdtngti 6 The Pacific Coast 'Athletic' Association's tb eightinsllonelinwlthanfl edge regular season “Battle Royale” tenters inf-- ' Bulldogs and Agglefc Twp amesbackin til Logan the next eight days as Utah estate losseo!umnareUn£ Beach Stat5-7wi- i a closes its conference home season with consecutive wlnsaadS'13 overs lll ind Fullerton first oflthree consecutive- games' In gthe ' ' the’ way the lower echelon teams lave? !10270eat Spectrum-- " Climbing into the arena firsts at 7:30 pm M been beating up on the tipper division Long! Beach State upset NMSat jLa Cruces and ! Thursday will be Long Beach State followed by New Mexico State Saturday at l:30pmWi'WntaBarlmraAwoiSatf pyesno3Jast and finally San Jose State Feb 23 at J:30jiSaturday Uiere appearsto bemore Jockey- t for position ? pm Having already disposed of its conferehcdN &iterlagthe£ stittenl (only five ga me remain) Utah State! record have all but wrapped up the regiriari could t have held rtheitipper hand? od the season championship its second in as manyS!PPotlAvktOryatIrVinet'achievInrl VegSS one’ weedj years as a member of the PCAA In doing fcxjpMd" split after losing the Rebels have left eight of the remaining 'nine teams clawing and beating up on eac other for seeding purposes in htPCA n tournament March Forum at Inglewood Calif:’ ' sent the Ags to a second-straigjtosiltwdjfult The way it stands now behind the Rebel fifties behind ? theAnteateraand0nai 10-- 3 a victor over the AggieS f thextwa - r - aheadMKM - opponentsNevd-LiVegisanditsll3-0f®fe- as post-seaso- 94-6- ! - 'i llv- Bui fl ht mi r look ahedi tl)astith casting a big shadow their 'pathW® ?LongiBeach5 Statotfrdsvtfcer5 contended wHh “ Mid TuelleraThey ha Ve the big man Ilvan (yerbercktltathemiddleand he’s playing very wellof utelillihl iliVAnd you tlso havesr good: a : guard a lyou® find on most teamiinJoedy Gardderllll lik'VeTbegektJa'ig-lIllsbphOmoi'ecfro- m imm AntwerpBelgiumis a graft 310 pounds In the sss f UC-Irvi- ne befonunah State can k instead of dwelling Atis ’ " the season while team’s Gardner leading 'scorer with a ' 'V of the average second is the Thursday's meeting State owning a rather surprlsing OcarUuh 0 ewn bandslWe’re not: asking inyone b victory at Long Beach where television technicians media members and the re- anything for a f J£The easiest wayto do things IS to just winr jfespective teams numbered almost as many 871 In fans attendance he1 said “Wrhave fWthe pournext five games our next three games at homemust pra rtlSfeUSU) sophomore Greg Grant the team’s Fresno and at Pacific Soyou might saywe xleading scorer and re bounder with averages the Fresnel'-oII and f respectively scored a career high $ Irvine must tlhave play pdvantage 1! Slat Fresno Nevada-La- s Vegas and Fullerton:ifg7 points while Vince Washingtonr added ‘iK’ have to play better against them than iiijjand Chris MeMullin 18 A atari contrast was just seven points from f they did against us or that’s three potential' ' lossesv was beatable by sixoiseveit lrvine Syerberckt?r pi teams inour conference the eight wgcouldn’ ’That was our coming out party “ said is the : - jnights ' prior to the big win' USU? d an overtime decision to its PCAA Aggies’ counterparts Including the win at Beach Utah State reeled off a school ' 1 fix' consecutive league wins before being dersUed at UNLV and Irvine last week Gardner was responsible i for the latest over Beach triumph Santa Barbara with an bank shot at : the busier Gardner tallied 18 points in that outing hut Verberckt was the key player r one-point- er 18-fo- ot The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday February 15 1984 Figure skaters brightening American outlook Fog sabotages women’s downhill Sumners and Hamilton holding leads By Mike Tully - SARAJEVO Yugoslavia (UPI) Though fog sabotaged the women's downhill at Jahorina today Rosalyn Sumners brightened the outlook for an American double gold in the figure skating at the Winter Olympics Sumners an outstanding free skater leads Elena Vodorezova of the Soviet jUnion through two of three compulsory figures Fellow American Elaine Zayak was in poor position in 13th place one spot behind the third American entry Tiffany Chin Scott Hamilton of the United States also is sitting on a virtually certain gold through the short program with the free skating scheduled for Thursday The women’s race which already had undergone extensive rearrangement because of the poor weather was halted after six forerunners and four competitiors had gone down the hill with Michela Figini of Switzerland in the lead The downhill was originally scheduled to be restarted but fog at the top of the course limited visibility In the meantime the Canadian team lodged a protest saying the preparation of parts of the course was poor The race has been rescheduled for 5 am EST on Thursday In the fifth training run for the men's downhill BUI Johnson of Portland Ore recorded the top time of 1:49:11 ahead of Austria's Helmut Hoeflehner The men’s race is scheduled for 8 am EST Thursday UPI Switzerland's Max Julen Tuesday flashes through a gate on way to giant slalom gold medal Set OLYMPICS on page 7 r ? Durrant beats in double overtime PROVO Utah '(UPI) — Brigham Young coach Ladell Andersen says Devin Durrant is the man he wants to take g shot in the closing seconds And against the Hawaii Durrant proved Andersen’s faith in him 33 points Tuesday night and Durrant scored a game-hig- h basket with three seconds left in the hit the Western Athletic Confersecond overtime in BYU's ence victory over Hawaii “In a tight game you want to go to Durrant I wanted him to take that last shot I sure did He’s the leading scorer in the nation” Andersen said With 11 seconds left Durrant worked his way into the key forced his way through three Hawaii players and banked in a flat shot for the game winner “That's what All Americans do That's what they're' supposed to da That’s what he does best He shoots under pressure He makes it That’s who you go to That’s where you want to sit in an overtime’’ Andersen added Durrant got 18 of his points in the second half in in powering BYU back from down by as many as 10 the first half The senior forward got both BYU baskets in the second extra period The win upped BYU’s WAC record to 2 and left the second-plac- e Cougars just game behind Texas-E- l Paso in the league standings Chris Nikchevich added 14 points for BYU now 7 overall Jack Miller led Hawaii with 29 points and 11 rebounds Crosetti Speight had 13 points and Ray Arthur 12 for the overall in the WAC and Rainbow Warriors now after losing their seventh consecutive game Durrant said he doesn’t think about scoring “The main pressure is to win games Scoring is nice but it's not foremost in my mind” However he admitted “Our offense is designed to get me the ball” at halftime and led by as BYU closed the deficit to second half in the six as points many game-winnin- game-winni- Sports report UH ng 87-8-5 45-3- 5 Matmen need two Utah State wrestlers wind up their season in the Spectrum this week and expect to pull off a coup of sorts Beginning the season 5 and apparently heading towards the first losing campaign stewin Coach Bob Carlson's ardship the Aggies have reversed course winning the lastfive meets Victories this evening against Montana State and Friday against Oregon will guarantee a 10--8 record and a winning season The Aggies take on MSU today at 4:30 pm and greet Oregon at 7:30 pm Friday “Yes I did think this would be the program’s first losing season since 1969“ said Carlson “My assistant coaches and I talked about it a lot and we talked to the wrestlers too We told them if we had a losing season' it would be the first in is years and they were going to be a part of it unless we started winning some mat0-- 15-ye- ar ches” Buck-a-gam- e 8-- 8th-rank- ed one-ha- lf 14-- 2-- 8-- 15 49-4- 3 With an eye on an attendance record the Utah State basketball team will give students a break during the final three home games The ticket office will relax its defenses against students at high school age and under allowing them entry for just $1 a game ’ pm against Long Beach State and Saturday at 1:30 pm against New Mexico State The Aggies close at home the following Thursday Feb 23 against San Jose State 1 ke points 48-3- La Veil Edwards the head football coach at Brigham Young University will be the guest lecturer at the Academic Enrichment Series Feb 21 2:30 pm in the Larsen tallied ll points to go with Salisbury's 14 and Jenny Nyman’s 10 Mountain Crest’s Sheila Sorenson led the scoring with IS points while her teammate MarKae Perrett added 11 Sky View which finds it tough to win at home tries again Thursday against Bear ' River 7:30 Logan welcomes leagueleading Ogden to the Recreation Center at HPER Auditorium His presentation will be “Homecoming for an 01 Aggie” The presentation will be preceded by a reception hosted by the Department of Health Physical Education and Recreation beginning at 2 pm in the HPER Conference Room thesamehour Gjrls basketball The story is not new a team succeeded where individual stars had failed but the players were The Sky View Bobcats decided to get everyone not named Becky Salisbury and Tonya Griffin involved against Mountain Crest Tuesday and came off the Mustangs’ home court with an important win 4 At Bear River meanwhile an emotional! Bear team closing out its season at hbme took apkrt Logan The loss left the Grizzlies at 6 and in last place behind Mountain Crest and Sky View which carry 5 regional records- Undefeated Ogden leads the league followed by Ben Lomond and Bear River tied with 4 counts Bear River shot with eerie accuracy from outside controlling the game from the outset Logan’s SharLyn Hodson hit for 53-4- 65-5- 2 2-- 4-- 10 If Logan with only seven players looked flat Mountain Crest appeared hollow The Mustangs Jan 17 had laid it on the host 4 Bobcats but Tuesday appeared to be a shell of that triumphant team The Bobcats on the other hand showed zip and confidence especially Kerry Larsen who had been benched the previous game Homecoming 3-- The Aggies are averaging 8744 per game in the 10270 seat Spectrum near enough to the 1970-7- season record of 8812 blits on the box to warrant a office The team winds down its 14th season in the Spectrum Thursday at' 7:30 20 and Angie Whittaker for Wichita taps ASU r WICHITA Kan (UPI) — Ron Chismar an assistant football coach at Arizona State will become the new head coach at Wichita State starting Wednesday a university spokesman said Rob Matwlck sports information director at Wichita State said Chismar 40 will be named head coach during Wednesday afternoon news conference at the university Chismar has been an assistant coach at Arizona State for the last four years and was the university’s offensive coordinator during the' 1883 season Matwick said Tuesday Before Arizona State Chismar was the offensive line coach at Michigan State after leaving an assistant coaching position at Bowling Green State in Ohio |