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Show T-Birds Impressive In 3-Game Sweep Are the Thunderblrds really that good? That is the question in the minds of sport fans of the area following a display of basketball that caw the T-Birds break the 100 mark in one contest and hit for 98 and 99 in two other games on the home court. Coach Boyd Adams cleared the bench Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights as he met Magic Valley of Albion, Idaho in a single sin-gle contest and then tackled the Rangley College of Colorado in two games. Rangely, a new school in its first - year of competition, was completely outclassed by the T-Birds T-Birds and didn't give much indication indi-cation as to the potential strength I of the CSU crew. On the opening night against Rangely the Thun-Iderbirds Thun-Iderbirds moved out to a 51 to 15 1 halftime lead then went on for a 99 to 34 win. I Friday evening it was a repeat performance as CSU moved out 'early then hit a 52 to 20 half-time half-time margin. It was in this game that they broke the 100 mark, moving to a 106 to 50 point victory vic-tory over the outclassed visitors from Colorado. Hank Halverson, a guard, broke the 100 mark with one minute and 37 second in the game with a Jump shot from about 15 feet out. DeLoy Young moved it to 102 on a steal and Halverson added two from the foul line and George Tasulis put in at 106 with a drive-in lay-up. In both contests it was big Lynn Jensen of Milford who copped cop-ped high scoring honors as he hit for 22 on the first night and 23 the second. All members of the CSU squad got into the scoring scor-ing column the first evening and although the entire squad saw action the second evening not all hit the scoring column. The game that raises the question ques-tion as to the comparative strength of the T-Birds was the 98 to 62 win Wednesday over Magic Valley. This was also somewhat of a runaway contest as the T-Birds moved out to an early lead then again went to the bench to give everyone a chance In another one-sided contest. The T-Birds held a decisive 45 to 26 lead at halftime and could do nothing but add to it in the second sec-ond half as they moved to the easy victory. Magic Valley on ? awing through the state played against four Irrtermountain Collegiate Athletic Conference teams. Prior to coming to Cedar City the Magic Ma-gic Valley crew had a one-point loss to Ricks College at Rexburg, and after leaving Cedar City, traveled tra-veled to Ephraim where they met Snow then on to Price for a pair of games against the Carbon Eagles. Magic Valley lost all of the contests, but it was the margin of victory that gives the impression impres-sion that the CSU Thunderblrds may be a real power house. Snow defeated Magic Valley 59 to 54. but were outscored by the Idahoans by three from the field. Carbon Friday night defeated the Magic Valley crew by a single point then came back Saturday night to beat them, but by only on-ly two points. A small team, the MV squad was completely dominated by CSU as they controlled the boards and forced the visitors to miss even good shots inside with pressure by the taller men. Box scores of the three CSU games were as follows: |
