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Show T-birds - Azusa Split Series The College of Southern Utah hit a hot and cold streak this past week end and came up with a win and loss against Azusa-Pacific Azusa-Pacific of Azusa, Calif. The Thunderbirds knocked off the Cougars of California in the opener Kriday night by a score of 105 to 87. Saturday night in a rematch re-match between the two clubs at the CSU Memorial fieldhouse the tables were reversed by a near identical score with Azusa coming com-ing up on the long end, 107 to 87 a difference of just two points. The handwriting was on the wall Saturday night at halftime when Azusa led by a margin of 17 to 40. The previous night the Thunderbirds had a halftime lead of 4 to 40. In the opening game Kriday the two clubs fought on near even terms through most of the first half of play with the score tied CSU 105 AZUSA-rACIFIC t7 OTKP OTKP 114 4 'J6 Oliver Jonrs. C 7 8 24 " .i 4 14 Wadsworth Fnriiy 1 .1 3 " S 6 4 1 Kimopnlrkl Mlrhrall 6 8 3 IT) ti 7 ft 17 JohmMin Cmplell (I o H 2 8 6 10 West Jenkins 7 IK 0 0 0 0 Knplln Callnnkv 2 3 1 ft 9 4 4 4 Cuff Newell 10 0 2 I) 0 n Chiimlieri Wntkin 3 t) I) 1 0 0 2 McGinn Boswell 0 2 2 2 .1 o o 111 ChriKtenu-n Callicoat U 4 2 2 1 0 0 2 Castillo 1 0 0 2 Peterson 1 0 0 2 Means 1 0 0 2 Young : 34 27 105 TOTALS 32 34 XI 87 Halftime: CSU 46. Azu.s Pacific 40. CSU 17 AZUSA-fACiriC 107 GTFP GTFP 8 12 11 27 Oliver Jones. C. 10 10 7 27 3 2 2 8 Wadsworth Forgy 11 4 3 25 5 2 2 12 Konnpnlrkl Mlrhrall 5 3 2 12 0 0 0 0 Johnson Jenkins 6 12 9 21 2 10 4 Writ Campbell 10 0 2 1)3 2 Peterson Calln.ky 5 S 15 t 5 3 14 Caitlllo Newell 0 0 0 0 14 3 5 Cuff Watklna 0 3 1 1 3 2 2 8 Chrttnen Boswell 0 0 0 0 2 10 4 Chamber Calilcuat 2 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 Youni 0 0 0 0 Means 0 0 0 0 McCilnn 12 13 Evans 31 34 2ft 87 TOTALS 40 40 27 107 Sew at half: CSU 40, Azuta-Parlflc 47 at 16, 18 and 20. Auzusa broke the tie to take a lead of 24 to 23, but a bucket by Rod Oliver put the T-Birds back In front at the quarter mark at 25 to 24. The score was again tied at 26 and again at 30. Azus came back into the lead at 34 to 30 only to have the T-Birds score 10 points while holding the Cougars to regain the lead at 40 to 36, a lead they never relinquished. The halftime score was 46-40. As the second half opened Mel Wadsworth hit from outside and Al Dee Konopnicki scored from underneath to move the margin to 10 which they managed to maitain until tthe final minutes when they broke away for a substantial sub-stantial victory. Oliver led the scoring attack with a 26 po:nt output and all of the starters scored in double figures. Wadsworth, who was also the top rebounder, had 14, Konopnicki Ko-nopnicki had 16, John Johnson hit for 17 and Paul West connect- 1 ed for 10. Reserve center Louis Christensen came up with 12 Loinst and some fine rebounding. Jones of the Cougars had 21 points, 19 coming in the first half and the effective bottling of Jones in the second half was an instrumental factor in the vie- I tory. I Saturday's game was another story, as the Cougars scored two quick buckets and never relinquished relinq-uished the lead throughout the 40 minutes of play. Jones was again the big gun with 27 points j which was matched only by Rod j Oliver of the T-Birds with an 1 idenical amount. Krom there the j difference became marginal as I only Konopnicki with 12 and Joe Castillo with 14, hit in double figures for the T-Birds. The Cougars proved to be the aggressors in this game and once in the lead controlled the action throughout. I The Thunderbirds spread their 'wings a"d charged the Cougars 'on one occasion to come within one point at 28 to 29 only to have them again move out to a halftime margin of seven. Individually the Thunderbirds had some strong points, but failure fail-ure to operate as a unit in spots proved to be costly, creating numerous floor mistakes which the Cougars took advanage of. The Cougars hit in the 60 per-cents per-cents from the field, but a part of the reason for the high percentage per-centage was their ability to work the ball in for the easy shots in close. |