Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Frday March 5 1999 — Page 11 in dent myself at the end of turnovers in the game games" 3 Pacific finished despite a Down 4 following Pay3 1 points by Jason career-higton’s shot the Aggies called a Williams Scon Thomason scored timeout w ith just under 13 sec- Continued from 8 20 points for the Tigers making Page onds on the dock and ran an isoall six of his tries lation play for Davis on the right lost three straight times in the New Mexico State extended a side Despite a double team from first round since winning the Big as hJfume lead to the Gauchos the power forward West tournament championship the made four Aggies in 1995 Devon Ford's 18 Big West 75-7- 14-1- h 56-3- 6 w j-- — still got off a good shot that had a chance of falling It slipped of the front of the rim however and for a brief moment it looked like Johnson had the rebound but he had Bun-to- n as well as the ball “Donnie kind of got the board but it was kind of both guys grabbing it" Monill said “1 thought we were going to get it whipped away and have a chance to get a putback and we didn't really get Nmuung in me second half and were from beyond the arc Utah State conversely shot under 41 percent in the opening half and over 45 percent in the second "It’s kind of a story of two halves” Morrill noted “They pretty much kicked our rear end the first half and in the second half I thought we returned the favor “We gave ourselves a chance Our guys really battled hard" Freshman guard Tony Brown with 18 equaled his career-hig- h points and senior guard Tyrone Allick finished with a career-be13 points Davis totaled 14 points and eight rebounds Johnson had eight points and 14 rebounds and it" forward Troy Rolle added 10 65-fo- ot bench and let loose with a w ild but remarkably accurate attempt But after hopping around the rim the ball ended up slipping off the front the cylinder as the buzzer sounded “I wish it would have went in" Monill said with a sigh In addition to his g bucket Payton finished with 15 points Bell totaled a dozen points and seven assists while Bunton hit shots as the Gauchos won for the 15 th time in 19 games after starting the season Eti LuceroHeraM Journal Utah State guard Rashad Elliott right tries to steal the ball away from UC Santa Barbara's Derrick Allen Thursday at the Big West Tournament in Reno Nev cho guard Larry Bell blindsided Rolle for a steal and a layup that left UCSB up 73-7- 2 with 1:31 to go “We turned it over at inopportune times and that’s really haunt- That unlikely basket helped ed our basketball team this year" cut UCSB's game-hig- h Morrill said advantage down to just 1 1 at With under 30 seconds intermission and was credited with providing the Aggies a big remaining Elliott slipped into lift headed into the locker the lane and managed to drop in a short jumper to regain the room “That shot that ended the half lead for Utah State But followwas a big one for them" ing a timeout Payton ended up Williams said “They earned that with the ball near the top of the momentum into the second half key and calmly buried the and really took it at us" biggest basket of his short nt After falling behind 48-3- 5 early the second half Davis successfully completed a play that sparked an 11-- 0 Utah State in run Gaucho turnovers aided the points game-winnin- career “It's all about confidence" said Payton the younger brother of NBA star Gary Payton “In close situations games in I feel very comfortable that I can either make the shot or get it to a 0-- 8 teammate in a position for them “Maybe we need to start the to make the shot season 0-- 8 every year and gel all “I have been doing this since the bad luck out early" Williams high school and feel very confi joked one-and-o- ne Idaho third-seede- d 1 1 6-- 1 1 1 which has gone 0-- 2 in tournament games since leasing the Big Sky Conference to join the Big West three years ago Gordon Scon had 16 points Kevin Byrne had 13 and Avery Curry if for the Vandals who also lost to Long Beach State 75-6- 8 in a regular season meeting in January Up by two at the break Long Beach State led 62-5- 3 after Lloyd drove in for a layup was fouled and made the free throw with 7:41 remaining The three-poiplay was the After the ball broke free of Bunion and Johnson Elliott finally corralled it along the baseline in front of the Aggie first of st points Although he was just from the field Rolle did drop in his toughest shot of the night Just before halftime the junior somehow got a bomb to go down led nt 12 straight points by Lloyd over the next four minutes to help fend off Idaho which 8 closed to after Ford made two free throws and a layup But the 49ers scored the next six points capped by Lloyd's flying dunk w ith 1:10 remaining and 71-6- the nine-poi- advantage was nt enough to hold up for the v ictory e and end their overall losing streak at the Law lor Events Center New Mexico SL 89 Pacific 78 Billy Keys scored 26 points and New Mexico State built a second-hal- f lead then held five-gam- 20-poi- nt off Pacific 89-7- in the first 8 round Eric Channing added 16 points for New Mexico State (21-9- ) which committed only four goals three by Channing in the opening 2:48 of the second half A 10-- 3 run during which Williams scored five points brought Pacific within 67-6- 0 with 6:15 remaining in the game But the Tigers could draw no closer and the Aggies made 14 of 16 free throws in the final 2:13 — including six of six by Keys — to secure the win Keys scored 16 points in the first half as New Mexico Slate at which never trailed led 44-2- 9 the break Keys who also fin- ished with seven assists had eight points in the opening 6:37 for the Aggies who committed only two turnovers in the fust 20 minutes Keys' goal with 3:47 left in the first half gave New Mexico State its biggest lead of the half 37-1- 9 Williams had 15 points in the first half for Pacific but the 0 Tigers were outrebounded in the fust half and got 10 fewer shots than the Aggies who shot 576 percent from the field in the first half and 534 percent for the game Pacific lost despite shooting 549 percent in the game The w in was the 702nd of New Mexico State coach Lou Henson's career but his first ever in a conference tournament Henson coached for 21 years at Illinois when the Big Ten did not have a conference tournament 17-1- roductswith vour RadioShaclTAnswersPlus Meet the star of stars 10oo off a Get Aggies’ cause during the spurt as did Allick who pushed the ball up the court at every opportunity Brown Down by one and two points over the next seven minutes Utah State finally caught Santa Barbara at 60-6- 0 on another trey from J Brown: A' couple of free thrtMi and a steal and layup by Johnson suddenly put the Aggies up by four On the Gauchos’ next possession Elliott came up with an errant pass and fired it across the court to Allick who flew in for a slam dunk that left Utah State up 66-6- 0 and the Big Blue contingent on its feet The Aggies’ momentum 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