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Show T-Birds Split Openers with Ricks, Wefaerl College of Southern Utah Thunderblrds Thun-derblrds opened play In the In-termountain In-termountain Collegiate Athletic Conference over the week end with a pair of games on their home court. The Thunderblrds won the opener op-ener over a tough Ricks College crew, 74 to 62, but were defeated defeat-ed Saturday evening by defending defend-ing ICAC champion Weber College, Col-lege, 75 to 65. The one win, one loss record on the initial home court stand puts Coach Cleo Petty and his quintet In a position of having to come from behind in the conference con-ference race early In the season. In the opener against Ricks the two clubs fought a see-saw battle for the entire first half of play. Nolan Stott of Ricks made it tough for the T-Birds on the boards even though the CSU crew moved to an early lead. Ricks Jumped out six to two only to have the T-Birds tie in with a shot by LaMar Pugh under un-der the basket and Glen Gray hitting from the sidelines. Another An-other bucket by Ron Van Wagen-en Wagen-en gave the CSU crew it first lead at 8 to 6. Midway in the period the Thunderblrds moved out to a 11 point advantage at 23 to 12 only to have Ricks come back to within with-in one point with three minutes remaining in the period with a core of 26 to 25. Leading the at-' at-' tack for Ricks was a hustling Orchard and Rod Elliot who hit well on a Jump shot. Gray, Van Wagenen, Joe Robertson and Dehlin all hit before the end of the half and the T-Birds led 31 to 31. As the second period opened up the CSU started moving the ball well rv.id worked the fast break for a couple of easy layups by Dehlin and Gray. Van Waggenen, In addition to his scoring punch, was also strong on in? rtpfT.slve boards as the CSU moved out .again to a substantial lead and held on to tiut lead to notch the victory by 12 points at the final gun. CSU ts. WEBER Saturday evening it was a different dif-ferent story with the Thunderblrds Thunder-blrds trailing through most of the evening and never quite able to break into a substantial lead' over the Wildcats. Weber won the game with con-1 trol of the bankboards and with an advantage at the foul line. The difference in field goals was only one with Weber hitting 23 and the T-Birds tanking 27. The ratio at the charity stripe, however, how-ever, was much wider with Weber We-ber hitting 19 of 26 and the CSU connecting with only 11 of 17 attempts. Bruce Wilson, formerly of Juab High School, and standing six feet eight Inches, led the Wildcats Wild-cats In the first half of play with 17 points. He gave way during the second half to Jerry Trice and Ron Thomas, a pair of jumping Jacks who hail from Indianapolis. Indianapol-is. For the Thunderblrds It was Dehlin who headed the scoring column again with 19 points followed fol-lowed by Pugh with 13 and Van Wagenen and Gray with 12 each. Although Weber led most of the time the game was much closer than the 10-point spread would Indicate. With Just one and one-half minutes of action remaining it was a slim three-point three-point margin at 67 to 64. Weber began a semi-stall and used the foul line to make the final point spread. It was a see-saw battle throughout through-out the first half of play with the lead changing on six different differ-ent occasions and it was tied on four occasions. It was tied at 2, 4, 6 and 18. With Van Wagenen and Dehlin again leading the scoring In the first half of play the Thunder-birds Thunder-birds at one point h?Ul a six-point six-point advantage with the score 26 to 20 only to have it wiped out and Weber move ahead with Just one and a half minutes remaining re-maining in the period with a tip li by Wilson. A followup rebound and an outside shot by Garrett put the visitors on lead 34 to 29 and Dehlin hit two from the field to narrow the gap to one with Just 13 seconds remaining. Two foul shots by Smith of Weber with three seconds on the clock gave them a 36 to 33 halftlme advantage. Coach Petty made some chang- es in his personnel In the second sec-ond half of play with an attempt at-tempt to get additional bank-board bank-board strength. He moved Norman Nor-man Francom, 6-7 incher from Payson, into the lineup, along with Pugh to help on the boards. It seemed to be paying off too, as the Thunderblrds five minutes Into the period moved out into a 43 to 43 lead. Thomas of Weber We-ber hit from the field to tie it at 45 all then Trice hit on a two and one and added an additional foul pitch to move out 49 to 45. The Thunderblrds, however, were still In the game and bounced back with Gray. Mar-Ian Mar-Ian Roper, Pugh, Dehlin all scoring scor-ing to again lead at 54 to 53. Trice hit for Weber and Dehlin hit a pair of foul shots and a jumper to put the T-blrds out by three at 53 to 55. Trice and Thomas then combined to knot the score at 60. It was tied again at 62 before Weber put on a scoring scor-ing spree to move to a 67 to 62 advantage. I The Wildcats then began a soft freeze in the final two minutes min-utes of play and the Thunder-birds Thunder-birds were unable to get back Into the game. CSU $ WEBEI TS n r r p gtfp 8 .1 S 19 rvhlln Carter 2 3 3 6 OOU 0 Cab-xn Trtre 8 3 4 2" too OP Chamberlain O'Dell 2104 .1 3 2 12 Van Wagenen Smith 0 2 3 2 1 0 0 7 R'.prr Thnma 3 7 5 11 3 S 2 12 Cray Conner. 1002 0 0 O O RohvrUnn Wllaon S 5 3 19 1 0 0 2 Rlega Garrett 3 3 3 9 2 11 3 Francom Exmeyer 10 0 ' M 1 1.1 Pugh 27 17 11 6S TTrTAtJ 28 28 19 75 Score at halftlme: Weber 38. CSU 33. CSU 74 IICKS (I OTPP G T F P 8 M 7 19 rvhlln On-hard 5 4 3 13 8 4 1 13 VanWafcnen Parkhx 0 3 1 1 14 4 8 Roper r-0 10 0 3 1111 Cmy Q.,mtlnaw 5 9 3 12 0 2 2 2 Rohertaon Hllot 5 4 18 1 3 3 3 RIem Wlritilaon 10 0 2 111 3 VtiKrachnle Andmnn 1213 12 1 3 Franrom Stott 3 7 3 13 3 3 2 12 Pugh 26 28 22 74 TOTAL". 23 30 16 62 Score at halttfme: CSU 34. Rlrka 31. |