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Show Broncos Initiate Hoop Season With Big Win College of Southern Utah basketball bas-ketball squad posted a 76 to 52 victory over the Mesa Mavericks of Grand Junction, Colo., Tuesday night in a typical season opener at the CSU fieldhouse. Typically, the Broncos, playing their first competitive game of the season, showed some unusually unus-ually bright spots, but on occasions, occa-sions, seemed lost as did their opponents of Mesa College. Offensive punch of the Broncos Bron-cos and their play patterns were Impressive on occasions but the defensive work of Coach Cleo Petty's charges somewhat smaller in stature than local fans have seen for a number of years at CSU showed considerable room for Improvement The game see-sawed back and forth In the early minutes of the game with CSU bounding off to a lead on Neil Petty's driving lay-up lay-up for the first score of the game. Moving to a 5 to 3 lead, Mesa bounded back to tie the score and move out to a 9 to 5 lead on three Jump shots, two by Jack Campbell. Elliot Jordan hit for .h.f Broncos followed by a lay-up lay-up by Donald Burton to tie the score at 9-all only to have Mesa again move out in front to hold & 23 to 16 lead at the first quarter quar-ter mark. In the waning minutes of the first half cf play little Jim Anderson, An-derson, left-handed transfer from Brigham Young University, and a former Provo High player, connected con-nected from well outside to move the Broncos back Into the lead a lead they never relinquished, with the score standing at 27 to 20 and Mesa holding the edge the Broncos scored 20 points while allowing Mesa only four to hold a 40 to 31 halftime advantage. advan-tage. Early In the second half the Broncos increased the spread to 14 points 50 to 34 and Coach Petty cleared the bench with -all members of his 13-man sqiiad seeing action during the evening. Coach Petty called on twO'Mof his returning lettermen for starting start-ing positions and filled the other three positions with sophomore transiors. Lettermen Were Donr-' aid Burton and Dick daub. The transfer students getting the starting call were Elliot Jordan and Dean Conant from BYU and Nell Petty from USU. Anderson walked off with high score honors for the Broncos with his outside shooting near the end of the first half of play, and he was followed by letterman Thayne Judd, who filled In at center and after a slow start wound up with 11 points. Late In the second half of play Dennis BeUlsto7vof:Mllford came through with some well timed baskets to help keep the Broncos out4n front CSU 7 MESA SI out rm p o.t T.? I 2 I 9 Burton Winder 1 3 5 2 S 2 2 14 Andrraon ' Campbell 8 1 0 10 0 0 0 0 Gardner -j. Brenneman 110 2 111S Glaub , O Whlttler 10 0 2 0 0 0 0 Rtkoutli Sample 3 4 S 9 S 4 8 . 9 Petty Aimui 0 2 1 1 1 5 ! 7 Severance Cooper 0 4 1 1 111S Jordan - Segura 2 11 5 4 0 0 8 BeUlnton : Moon 0 0 0 0 in 1 Mrklbben ' March 0 0 0 0 2 1 0- 4 Hardy Newton 0 2 1 1 HI 18 76. TOTALS 2120 10 52 cor at halftime: CSU 40. Vrta 31. |