Iron County Record | 1967-01-26 | Page 4 | Mustangs Outlast T-Birds 87 to 82

Mustangs Outlast T-Birds 87 to 82 A veteran Mustang crew from Silver City, N. M., outlasted a battling Thunderbird basketball crew from College of Southern Utah Tuesday evening 87 to 82 at the Momorial fieldhouse. The T-Birds lead for a good share of the contest but a shooting shoot-ing spree of seven straight points by Hacck of the visitors and Dunn brought the Mustangs from five points behind to a three point lead midway in the final half and CSU could never quite guard Robert Cuff took the T. Birds to an early lead, a lead they held until the final few seconds sec-onds of play when the visitors took over at 43 to 32 at halftime. In the second half the Thun-derbirds, Thun-derbirds, again with Carey on the front end of the scoring attack, moved back out in front until Hacck put on his one man show,, the T-Birds stayed in front. regain their stride. For John Carey of the T B':i it was his finest night, despite the loss, as he led all scorers with a 34 point output which included in-cluded 15 fieldgoals. He was also al-so outstanding on rebounding as he led the T-Bird attack through- j out. j Early In the contest he and) CSU 82 WNMU 87 lj T F P GTFP 3 3 3 9 West Wright 2 5 3 7 2 10 4 Means Sohmitt 5 2 2 12 0 0 0 0 Bradley Gearse 10 0 2 1 2 2 4 Esplin Haeck 7 1 1 15 6 3 1 13 Cuff Dunn 8 4 3 19 2 0 0 4 Peterson Buckhanan 6 0 0 12 1 2 0 2 Moore J. Blanchard 10 0 2 3 8 6 12 Christensen Watkins 6 0 0 12 15 6 4 34 Carey S. Blanchard 2 2 2 6 33 25 16 82 Totals Totals 38 14 11 87 Score at hallftlme: WNMU 43, CSU 32.