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Show I Oliver and CSU Thunderbirds Shatter i ! Records in Victory Over Westmont 'the Thunderbirds .scored a fab-I fab-I u lous 71 points in H(J minutes of i tlio second half witii Oliver accounting ac-counting for 32 of those points. When it became obvious that Oliver could break the record his teammates went to bat for him and fed him every chance they could. Particularly helpful was center Al Dee Konopnicki. i Four others of the Thunder-j Thunder-j birds were in the double figures I Including Mel Wadsworth, who also finished out his career at CSU, with 18 points, Paul West with 16 and Konopnicki and John Johnson with 12 each. Joe Castillo added nine as well as contributing to Oliver's scoring scor-ing effort What a way to end a season. ' The Thunderbirds might have I ended up with a losing season but the T-Birds went out in a blaze of glory with a 132 to 111 record setting win over Westmont West-mont College of southern California. Cali-fornia. Four records were set in the game with Rod Oliver, a senior forward from Midvale picking off two of the records and setting the pace for the other two. Oliver set a new single game scoring record for the T-Birds with a 49 point output. His 49 points topped the record set by John Johnson with 40 points which eclipsed an old record of 38 points held by Coach Boyd Adams. Oliver, Johnson, Wadsworth and Castillo were all In action for the final time. The game turned out to be a run away but the first half was a close battle. CSU moved out to a 9 to 0 lead only to be tied at 14 all. Again out by 10 the visitors from California narrowed the gap to only five points a 58 to 53 at halftime. ' Early in the second half CSU bolted into a 20 point lead and maintained that lead through the final gun in a wild scoring affair. WESTMONT 111 CSU 132 F T F P c I P F 16 15 11 43 Estes Oliver 23 5 3 41 1 2 2 4 Kochel Wadsworth 8 3 2 If-119 If-119 6 28 Shelton Konopnicki 4 7 4 11 5 4 2 12 Barnson Johnson 3 7 6 1: 2 7 6 10 Stankey Castilllo 3 3 3 1 2 0 0 4 Guldle Cuff 1 2 2 5 1 0 10 Trmpson West 7 2 2 16 Chnmbers 12 2 4 . Chrlstensen 10 0 2 Peterson 2 3 2 6 41 39 27 111 TOTALS 53 34 26 132 Score at halftlne: CSU 58, Westmonth 53 CSU 82 NSU 108 GTFP GTFP 9 4 2 20 Wadsworth Goodwin 8 8 6 18 4 3 3 11 Oliver Pay ton 2 0 0 4 5 2 2 12 Konopnicki Stepp 15 7 5 35 5 3 2 12 Johnson Wlochowski 6 4 4 16 1 0 0 2 Cuff Camplone 6 2 2 14 2 0 0 4 West Dawson 4 0 0 8 3 2 1 7 Peterson Twlllard 4 5 5 13 5 1 0 10 Castillo 1 2 2 4 Chrlstensen 35 17 12 82 TOTALS 43 24 22 108 In scoring 49 points Oliver set a record for the number of field-goals field-goals by an individual in a single sin-gle game. Oliver hit 23 fieldgoals in his efforts on attempts lor a 70 percent scoring from the field. Oliver during the entire season sea-son hit 47 percent from the field. For Oliver the effort capped two years of playing with the Thunderbirds after transfering to CSU from Snow College where he was selected to the All ICAC team. The Thunderbirds in scoring ' . . 132 points set another scoring record for a team in a single game and the combined total of 243 was another record for combined com-bined scoring at the CSU Memorial Mem-orial fieldhouse. Estes of Westmont scored 43 ,; points in a losing effort for the California club. The fantastic scoring pace of the game left fans gasping. Figure Fig-ure it out. The teams played 40 minutes of action and with a total to-tal of 243 points the teams scored better than six points each minute min-ute of play. That's a basket every 20 seconds. In the second half of play that ! figure was actually higher as ' |