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Show Thunderbird Basketball Team Drops Two Games on Week End Trio to California The College of Southern Utah Thunderbirds were in sunny California Cali-fornia last week end, but it was a gloomy week end for the squad as they droped two games in the area. Friday night the TBlrds tangled tan-gled with a service club from the San Diego Naval Base and wound up on the short end of a 79 to 70 score. Saturday they stayed in Sun Diego to meet tough California Western and the hosts promptly handed them a second defeat by a near identical iden-tical score of 79 to 71. Against the Naval base the T-Birds ran into a team that do nothing wrong. The servicemen service-men took off to an early lead and maintained the margin throughout the contest. The Navy crew were uncanny with their shooting and they caught the Thunderbirds in a game where nothing they could tnrow up would go in. The T-Birds T-Birds hit less than 50 percent from the foul lane with only 12 of 25 attempts as an indication of the nature of the game. From the field the T-Birds hit only 36 percent of their shots connecting on 29 of 80 attempts. i Geirge Gray, a 5-10 guard for the Naval base was top scorer of the evening with 19 points followed by center Guy Simpson with 18. The Navy crew turned out to be a hot shooting outfit that took advantage ot the T-Birds T-Birds cold streak. Rod Oliver was leading scorer in the contest for the T-Birds with 14 point with 7 of 11 from the field and he failed to convert con-vert on two foul try attempts. Mel Wadsworth was close behind be-hind with 12 points and Al Dee Konopnicki had 11 points. Saturday Calfornia Western ran right away from the Thunderbirds Thun-derbirds in the early part of the game as they built up 38 to 23 iialitime lead. The 23 points in a half the poorest scoring output th far this season for the T-Birds. Western stayed out in front through the third period of play moving to a 23 point j margin at 66 to 43, but in the I fourth quarter the Thunderbirds gave the hosts a real scare. With the score reading 71 to 48 the T-Birds scored 19 points while holding California Western scoreless score-less to move within striking distance dis-tance at 71 to 67. In the final minutes Western again found range and managed manag-ed hold onto the lead for the final fi-nal victory. Mel Wadsworth turned in a top performance for CSU in the losing effort. In addition to continuing con-tinuing to be the leading re-bounder re-bounder for Coach Boyd Adams he added 15 ponts to the scoring output. One of the principal factors in the 19 point splurge In the final 10 mnutes of play was guard Paul West who added 10 in that period and wound up with high honors with 20 points. Oliver was also In the double figures with 11 points. r t p" 70 "AVAl ,ASE n GTPP II 2 12 S'T" . Gray 9 3 1 13 5 o ? i? W,d,w"r;h Lilly 7 2 O 14 5 I i Konopnicki Slmpoon 8 5 2 IK 3 5 2 8 J.ihnoon MrCunlro 3 3 17 ? S?"!"0 Warner 5 1 1 11 ? ? ? I k Hmer 0 0 0 0 I hf.mbr Moor 3 5 4 10 O.SSSiS Pe.er.on 0 0 0 0 III 3 Peterson .nJ0 TOTALS 3S 19 10 79 HaJftime .core: Naval Bate 42, CSU 36. CSU 71 CAUP. WESTERN TS GTPP GTPP n S 2 S Konopnicki Crowell 3 2 17 n n n n i.011,"1 Cunningham 3 6 S 11 H 2 2 S, S?" 110 Michael. 0 2 0 0 11 3 Peteraon Zeiisher 2 2 1 H I c" wuuuSS III i j;i ' Chamber. .... Amber. 2 0 0 4 27 22 17 71 M wvr.. Grey 0 2 O 0 il a 17 71 TOTALS 31 29 17 79 Halftime .core: Cal.-We.tern 38, CSU 23 |
