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Show T'.sdoy, December 30, 1969 DESERET NEWS, Bruins, ma City Sports Writer J Niaacsra-Thrill- ers Niagara meets host Oklahoin the finals of the All College. Jut one of 12 major tournaments to be decided tonight. By STC CAMKN ITI g When it comes to having a flair for t'ro dtamatic. Sidney Wicks of I'CIA ha nothing on which trailed Tennessee, Calvin Muiphy of Niagara. most of the second half, took W icks sav ed tCLA's a 6S 67 lead on Bobby Croft's perfect recoi d Monday night w hen he layup with 38 seconds rcma.n-m- g hit on a lump shot from the before Niagara came comer with onlv three secdovn court and set up Muronds left to play as the phy's jumper whuh gate the a game defending national champions in the edged Princeton. high 26 points. Croft had 24 championship game of the for Tennessee. Oklahoma City Bruin Classic at Angeles. qualified for the finals by State, ..owever. Wicks didn't cut it trimming Memphis as cloro as Murpny, who only 72 5S. two hours earlier had connected on a jump shot from the base line with only two seconds remaining to give upset triu nph Niagara a over 11th ranked Tennessee m Monday s ResuIN Classic the semifinals of the V R ce 7. St Franc 81 93 loaho Sa Arizona Tourney at Oklahoma 98 Nagva 69 Tennessee O. aficrni Civ 72 Mn pnn State 38 City. Sugar Bowl Classic So Carolina 85. New Mexco 62 UCLA, ranked second in the W V rJ nia 80 Notre latest UP1 ratings, held a Big Eght Tourney 72 Oklahoma State 56 Kansas halftime over lead Nebraska 74 ioa $ae 6 Oklahoma 72, Kjc.as State 67 Pnnoeton despite a poor .333 M so Coioraoc j Semer Bowl Classic shooting average. However, Mississippi 8). Va paraiso 77 (overthe Tigers managed to open time) Sc A abarrva 84 Navy 74 up a advantage in the Far West Classic second half and took a So Ca'iforma 8 Temple 53 86 WChgan $ae 77 Illinois lav on John lead Hummer's up Afashingcn f'' Oregon S ae 65 Oregon 66 Washmaion St 57 with 15 seconds left. FCLA Classic Ls Veits Santa C ari Hcu'tcn 63 then called time out and set Poftsetla Classic w up Wicks shot hich gave the Northwestern 91, Citadel 4 Texas A4 V 4 Furman 66 Bruins their second one point Brunt Classic victory of the spason and tion)Indiana 87, George Tech 65 (consolaupped their record to UCLA 76. Pnnceton 75 76-7- rated Kentucky, Top team only ranking mxolxed m tournament the rot play, 67-5- its eighth str. lght decision with an over Miami of Ohio. Dan Issel led the Wildcats with 33 v'c-tor- y po-i- fd ing Green, by downing Harvard. 92 74. while the Falcons topped Southern Illinois, Texas 80-5- 8 and Seton Hall upset Miami of Florida. 76 69, in the semifinals of the Hurricane Classic; s l x t r anhed Washington meets defending champion Oiegon in the finals of the Far West Classic as the dumped Oregon State. 85 65, and the Ducks deficit overcame an m the final 12 minutes to top Washington State, Ohio point- -. Third ranked South Carolina U'cd John Roche's 31 points to and whip New Mexico, Notre Dame 12'h ranked gamed an 84 SO decision over We- -t Virginia in the Sugar fourth- Bowl Tournament: ranked North Carolina qualified for the finals of the Carolina Classic, along with Bowl 85-6- stunned fifth-ranke- d Innersity, 73-6- h-- Huskies 66-5- College Basketball Results 69-6- 8 40-3- 9 59-5- 2 75-7- 4 West' Gary Erickson shows the sty-- j which has made him a top performer for the last three years. He shows the approach in frame one and displays the jumpshot in frame two. 7-- Bv DAN PATT1SON Drroret News Sports Writer When West's Gary Erickson grimaced following the Panthers' last football game. Region Two cage coaches sighed with relief. Erick-o- n had suffered a knee injury and the coaches felt they would not have to worry about defensing him this year. Coaches get out the charts! The Panther eager is not only back, but has im- proved his scoring touch. Since his sophomore year, forward has the been causing havoc with the 6-- d coaches. opponents Garys 19 5 average as a sophomore placed him third in the region and the Panthers into the state tourney. Last year, West played with only one senior while Erickson tried to take up the slack with a scoring average. He cut the nets for over four times and netted 45 against Skyline! His average placed him third in Class A. nt I am sure he could score a lot more points, but we've got a more balanced attack this year, said West coach Ron Steinke. This year, we don't jut concentrate on Gary for our scoring. They can't just shut him out in order to beat us. They've get to stop the other kids, too! Teams have always double-teame- d him in the past, because we had to go to him a lot. Whether the Panthers are not going to him as often or not, Erickson has upped his average to per outing while hauling down 12.5 boards at the wing. Clayton Christensen ) is pulling down 16.2 rebounds and Dan Dressen ) has an average of 14.0 take downs a contest. This gives the Panthers good board pow er. Erickson does not have a favorite spot to shoot from. It's like Steinke puts it, He can shoot both inside and outside with exceptional control. Whi!p he's not the greatest defensive player, he is improving all the time. Gary played end in football and teamed with Ray Dicker- (6-7- (6-6- ketball. By HACK MILLER Brigham Young University has hired the famous Vernon Law, perennial pitcher for the In all Vernon's ways hes been a pillar of repute for spoits. He's the kind of guy that any institution would like to have as one of its front men. In effect, he will be an assistant to Dean Milton et al., in many ways. He will assist with recruiting, Vern Law didn't seek the BYU job. But he took it when it was offered. He had a posiin the tion w ith the Pirates managerial side of the show. But all is not what Law would have liked it to be in old 5-- 5 6-- Erickson and Co. will present problems for Region Two foes this year. It is not enough to worry about Gary, but the others add insult to injury! Deseret News Eports Editor Pittsburgh Pirates. He's going to be a front man of some sorts in sports. Har-vigse- n, make personal appearances. He will be a special envoy, staff representative, etc. In this case the Pumas picked themselves a prize plum. Vernon Law is one of the most respected men in all of sports, famous for his 16 years of exploits with the Pirates, for his winning in 1960 baseballs most honored the Cy Young honor. award Pirateville. He possibly figured that be had reached fhe end of his rope and that the climb to the top in the coaching and managing side of baseball was about oxer for him. Vern looked for a new chal- lenge; BYU offered it. He starts work in the next few days, will possibly build his Scoring Has Bruins In Second Place YORK NEW UCLA's (LTI) incredible scoring machine continues to grind its way toward the top of the major college basketball rankings. The Bruins, rampaging axeraging a sizzling 107 points per game this season, drew within four points of first place Kentucky today in weekly balloting by the 35-ember United Press International Board of Coach- rth es. UCLA, with all five starters averaging in double figures, receixed 16 first place xotes and 317 points, just four shy of the 321 amassed by top ranking Kentucky, which has 19 first place nominations. South Carolina and North Carolina continued to rank third and fourth and unbeaten Ohio University rose to fifth in the balloting for games played through Saturday. Washington took sixth, by St. Bonaventure, New Mexico State, Houston Brigham Young's Phi! Tollestrup (40) is fouled by Georgia's Cort Nagle (33) as he attempt, to regain control of ball during last minutes of double overtime play in second round of Quaker City Tournament. IN GEORGIA BATTLE and Jacksonville. Tennessee took the No. 11 ranking, followed by Notre Cougars: Torrid Comeback Deseret News Speial - A douPHILADELPHIA win against overtime Georgia carried Brigham Young into final day of the City Tournament Quaker v here the Cougars face Wake Vorest for fifth place. Tipoff ;oday was 3:30 pm. mountain time. at intermission Down on 19 per cent shooting from the field, BYU came back to tie tlie score at end of regulation on 77 per cent field shooting in the second half. Big Paul Ruffner, who collected a total of 37 points and is second leading scorer in the tourney, tallied six points to lead BYU to a tie at end of the first overtime. Then Ruffner scored six more in the second overtime to pace the Cougars to their ble 25-3- 78-7- 8 eventual tory. comeback 89-8- 2 vic- Bob all American man, Denhard, post drove the Cougars crazy early In the game. His males were flitting Lienhard with the lob Georgia's 1 i. pass and he tallied 18 of the first 27 pom's off easy layins. and Then Epltng made a key drive w ith eight seconds left to send the game into overtime. sharp outside shooter Jerry Epling, they scored the first 27 points for Georgia and the The cause was Cougar aiued when Lienhard fouled out with 2:30 left. At that time Between Lienhard Bulldogs led BYU, 27-1- defense. Coach Stan Watts moved him between Lin!iapd and the basket and vsed Steve Kelly and Scott Warner to front the plienom. That from the easy cut rollins. and his subsequent hookers were missing. 1 Even so. BYU was ahead the first 20 seconds and never led again until the last 20 sec7 with onds. Georgia led 2:30 left. 64-5- Doug Howard, who scored one bucket the first half and wound up with 24 points, hit two jumpers and Ruffner four straight foul dropped to lead BYU to a 68 68 pitches tie with 55 seconds left. Howard put BYU ahead, with 20 seconds to go. BYU led overtime 78-7- 6 in the first when Georgia's Herb White made a key drive with nine seconds left. In the second with BYU leading Pennsyl Kansas, Davidson and Marquette. Purdue and Southern California tied for cent from the field in beating . I .a Salle Connecticut, and Columbia battle for the Quaker City title. LaSalle boat Cornell, 68 56, and Columbia downed Villanova, 76-- 18th and Colorado was 20tli. UCLA, which won the national title last season, continues to be unbeatable exen BYU will arrive home Thursday. Watts has scheduled a Friday workout in Utah's arena prior to a Saturday (8 p.m.) tiff against the Redskins. The Too Twenty, with votes in parentheses, season total points Points awarded p'aces on basis of 64-5- Up to that point, Ruffner had been fronting Lienhard on 70-6- With LienGeorgia led. hard out of the contest, Ruffner scored rampant. Dame, Wyoming, 103-77- Brigham Young (89) AP Hoop Poll 83-8- 41 Quaker City Classic Brigham Yorg yo George 82 (2 Overt nte. Wake Fc'et 103 Connecticut 77 LaSalle 68 Cornell 56 Colombia Vihannva 64 Carolina Clastic No Care a 9 Harvard 74 no s 57 Bcwiinq Green 67 So Charlotte Invitational Syracuse 94 Prrv orree ft Davidson 90 Ho y Crcs 76 Gator Bcwi 51 For da Stae tt Florida 48 Virginia Tech 45 Gold Coast Classic Boston 83 F lor da Scuhern 68 Me son e? VMI 6l Hurricane Classic Texas 73 ome 65 Soton Hall e M ami $9 Kodak Classic Georgetown 66 Penn State 71 74 Stanford llr Rneh-tr- r Classic Stmarme Pacific 15. Iowa 76 t over- time) 8 77 Buffalo 70 Mxirhed 8 E Washington 49 Humboldt 8 Lew s and Clark 72 Sacramento St 66 Wii.amette 60 75 Indiana S 74 G and Canyon 91, Colorado School of Mires 83 No Montana 88. Emd 84 without Lew the Alcindor, own home in Provo and move his family in from their farm place at Meridian when the current school term is over. When this writer contacted Vern at his home near Boise he said he was excited about the move. He's looking for the chance to be on the BYU campus. There will be some parting who pains for the children have been raised on the spacious countryside p. e overlooking the picturesque Boise R'ver. Yet they have spent their baseball times on the Pittsburgh trail and so the moxe von't be that new to the crow, Vernon explained. It is possible that BYU might gain more than just an ath'etic representative. The young Laws (first five of them are athletic-typ- e the sixth is the young men baby girl) have athletic potential of some note. They will be in the middle of athletic affairs. And with their father as one of the chief BYU solicitors. they will likely caper for the Cats. In the paM Brigham Young athletic woiked recruiters have in California. mo'-tl- Laws connections in the Eastern circles xxill xviden the BYU scope considerably. One BYU booster, when he heard the nexxs, offered the Noxv when we get suggestion. Harmon Killebrexv and Billy Camper on the staff xvell have a pretty good front line in ath- letics. Or Merlin Olsen and Virgil Carter! Here Are Team Standings In Basketball And Hockey NBA Standings Eastern Division NHL Standings East Division three-tim- e who has 'graduated to the pros. The Bruins ha-scored 100 or more points in three of then past four games and had 99 points in the other. UCLA, which set a school scoring record of 127 points against Miami the previous week, trouncbroke it with a ing of Louisiana State last week and folloxxed that with a rout of Georgia Tech. needed brilliant Kentucky scoring performances from Dan Issel and Mike Pratt to edge Notre Dame, Five coaches from each of the seven geographical areas of the nation comprise the UPI board. Each week they select the top 10 teams in the nation with e 133-8- 121-9- 4 0 102-10- awarded points 10 9 on a basis on votes from first through 10th. Mondays Results Indiana 94, New Orleans 89 Salt Lake at Phoenix Denver at Seattle UPI Hoop Poll NEW YORK (UPI) The United Press Interrational tep 20 muor col eqe bakeiba iams with first pace vo es parenheses, (fourth week). CAL FIVE DEFEATS UTES Continued from Page B-- 4 haxe to smile and admit that things went his way. Four times the Bears tended the goal and were allowed to lixe with it. The California capers palmed the ball often which offence xxould haxe been called in some leagues, the coastal circuits included. California mauled their men in defensive mox-emore than some officials allow. In this game California has no issue xwth the whistling. Tht game was a good test for Utah which needs stout competition at this stage of its play Und"'onday's pressure the Utes made too many errors simple arnovers. From here out Utah's competition is going to be keener than it has been. 1 1. 2 Kentucky (15) 3 South Carolina UCLA (10 4. North Carolina 5 Ohio University 6 Tenneccee 7 Nr Mexico State 8 Housc-- t TUNEUP Inch labor for plugs, pent: corn) . rotor, tdi tarb. and Lining Parts eitra Most Am. Cars. White victory. In addition to shooting of Ruffner and Howard, the Georgia coaching staff had high praise for Kelly's defensive effort. Wake Forest shot 62 per 64 Josephs s overtime, jumped against Ruffner and got his own tip. Instead of giving the ball to BYU out of bounds, another jump was called. But Kelly got the crucial bp from Ruffner and was fouled. He converted two. Then Phil Tollestrup made two key steals to help BYU to its Bcnavenhre 9. Purcu W Penn 8j St Others ttorm 86. Uah 83 Akron ce E Montana 71 W Colorado SI 93 Buena Vista 81 Knox 72. Colorado Co ege 65 Michigan 105 Butler 65 Texas Christ an 80 Ohio State Dayton 99 Portiard 48 Louisvil e 105 SMU 79 Kentucky 80 Miami Ohio 58 Maryland 94. Delaware 54 North Texas 126 Arkansas Tech 76 Hotxtra 65 Vitenb'fQ c E Tennessee 97, No Illinois 92 Poancke 109 No Caro1 na 6l Roberts 117, MacMurrav 74 Mephen Austin 6 Missouri 5 So Dakota 65. No Dakota St 63 Illinois Chicago 45, Wayne St 60 American 72 Lafavette 62 Central Michigan 90 Howard 62 Louisiana College 95. W. Virg ma St Ca Law Is Big Plum For BYU son for a top passing combination. Now, Dickerson quarterbacks the Panthers in basThe Panthers were in Region Two play last year and support a 1 record this Steinke far in looks to both leadership and scholarsiiip from his players. Christenen is the student body president and has a 4.0 academic average. Dickerson is the senior class president and also, has a 4 0 average. Erickson is in the student council ard is a solid Holiday Festival Cincinnati 91 NYU 67 cst n C'teo 9i Vanhattan ALIGNMENT Set Toe in. Toe out Set Camber 1 Caster Adjust Steering Safety Check an I luncia Cn Gwi (13) OIL CHANGE MUFFLERS 89-8- 2 I 257 alignment. 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