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Show Overtime Victory Scored By T-BirdBasketeers College of Southern Utah basket bas-ket bail team has developed a habit of making their games extremely ex-tremely close this season and Monday acting against Grand Canyon Collage of Phoenix, Ariz, was no exception as the T-Birds came out on the long end of an overtime battle 96 to 92. It was the fifth victory of the season for Coach Boyd Adams and his T-Birds against four losses. los-ses. In a nip and tuck battle throughout the T-Birds managed to pull out in front by seven points with just over three minutes min-utes remaining, then they hung on for dear life to wind up reg- . ulation play with a tied score of 86-all. In the overtime, the T-Birds picked up 10 points to win 96 to 92 but not before the sparse crowd in attendance had gotten more than their money's worth. Grand Canyon displayed some excellent shooting and hustling in the early minutes of the game, ! but the T-Birds with domination of the boards kept in the battle and were able to hold their own throughout. It was one of the better played games for the T-Birds this season with turn overs held to a minimum. mini-mum. At the end of 10 minutes of play, CSU was trailing by two, 21 to 19, and at halftime it was still Grand Canyon by a slim one-point margin 38 to 37. . Midway in the second half the T-Birds had taken the lead by . three points and moved it to as much as seven late in the contest. I The T-Birds' big men, John Carey and Fred Esplin, carried the brunt of the attack with some excellent rebounding and leading lead-ing the scoring as well. Carey i pumped in 25 points and Esplin added 20 points, a new career high for him while at CSU. Esplin was particularly impressive im-pressive on the boards with 20 rebounds to his credit in the contest. Bob Cuff addod 17 points and Bruce Bradley, a reserve guard, added 14 points including eight for eight from the foul line. The visitors from Grand Canyon Can-yon were led by Duane Gagnon with 22 points, Bill Sullivan with 20, and Wayne Bateman with 18. |