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Show T-Birds Lose Pair on Home Court That the CSU basketball I basketball team was back in familiar scenery did not help as they lost their sixth and seventh se-venth consecutive encounters to Carbon and Snow College, respectively, re-spectively, Friday and Saturday evenings. After six straight games on the road, of which the Thunderbirds Thunder-birds lost five, they were unable to come up with wins on the home court. Friday evening the Carbon Eagles, Ea-gles, who hold down third place in the Intermountain Collegiate Athletic Conference, defeated the Thunderbirds 85 to 81. Saturday evening the Snow College Badgers Bad-gers downed the CSU crew by a score of 67 to 63. In both contests the Thunderbirds Thunder-birds were in the running until the final minutes of play with the visiting teams taking leads up to 10 points only to have the gap narrowed by the Thunderbirds Thunder-birds in the final minutes with time -running out. Against the Eagles Friday the Thunderbirds putscored the visitors visi-tors from the floor by one field-goal field-goal but lost out at the charity stripe. Fouling was an important impor-tant part of both games as the CSU starting center, LaMarPugh, failed to finish either of the games. He left via the foul route against Carbon late in the second half and committed his fifth foul against the Snow Badgers Bad-gers with, just over 10 minutes of the game gone by. Powell, of Carbon, was the big scorer of the ve.k end pushing through 38 points Friday evening. even-ing. Although Pugh fouled out. he managed 25 counters to keep the Thunderbirds in the running In that contest. Larry Dehlin came In for 19 points and Marlin Roper was in the double figures for CSU with 15. Blast r of Carbon had 18. With just two minutes left in the contest the Thunderbirds held a one-point edge over the Eagles, but some fine shooting by Powell coupled with a pair of steals put the Eagles out In front and they coasted out to the final four point margin, 85 to 81. There never was a wide spread throughout the game. Against Snow Saturday, Neil Riggs, a freshman, turned In probably his outstanding game of the season as he hit for 13 points and helped fill the gap left when Pugh left early In the game. The Thunderbirds moved out to an 11 point lead early In the game and held on to between a six and nine point margin throughout most of the first half. At the intermission the Thunderbirds Thun-derbirds were leading by a score of 37 to 31. As the second period opened, the Badgers began a steady gain on the CSU crew and near the midway point they tied the game at 45 all and took a 46 to 45 lead. It was the first time the Badgers had led in the game. Snow moved out by three rwtlnta nnlv tn tiv Prrw Kit from the foul line and Grey tank one from outside to give the lead back to CSU at 51 to 50. The score was tied again at 53-all 55all and 57-all. At that point, Rushkin, top Joint getter of the 'evening for Snow with 19, and Huckford began a steady trip to the foul line, and the Badgers moved out to a 63 to 57 lead. Dehlin and Ron VanWagenen each hit from the field with less than a minute to go to narrow the gap to two, at 63 to 61, but two foul pitches by Hackford and a bucket by Myers put the game on ice for Snow. It was Snow's second conference confer-ence win of the season and it left the Thunderbirds with a conference record of three wins and six losses. CARSON is CSU II oTFf a t r p; JIJ V Ht-mtermun VWitrnrn 4 2 2 10 l'9 3H Howell Hopvr 5 1 1 - 1 3 Smith Fuiih 12 3 1 2 7 8 4 IS Hlax-r Dehlin 8 6 3 19 1 - 2 2 11 fare Cray 3 10 3 10 6 HoKKftt 1 RlKKi 10 0 2 RolH-rl.in 10 0 2 34 24 IT 83 TOTALS 3S 21 11 81 j Hal film score: Car In in 45. CSU :K SNOW 17 CSU (I a t r p r, t r p ' . 2 12 Myirt RI(Tr 2 It? 9 13 D5 S Harkford K.'kt 1 8 7 M 2 1 17 Hilton I'UKh 2 0 0 4 9 2 1 1! Rimhum DrMin 8 S 2 IS 1 0 0 2 S''h,Hniver Crav I 2 1 IS 1 3 II 8 MiW-ht-ll VnnWaiit-m-n 3 10 1 2 2 4 Burknt-r Mr' .irlmic O O 0 II 'all. ion 0 0 0 0 D. Chun lerlaln 0 0 0 0 YiTRenten O O 0 0 28W11B7 TOTALS 23 2U 17 63 Ilairtlme wire: CSU 37. Snow .M. I |