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Show j Thunderbirds Finish Bth in Tough Invitational Tourney in California j A cold shooting College of Southern Utah basketball team found their troubles in the California State at Irving Invitational Tournament staged stag-ed at Irving, Calif., this past week. Coach Boyd Adams and his T-Birds picked up one win, in the second round of play, and dropped a pair in the tournament, tourna-ment, which was won by California Cal-ifornia State at Long Beach. They dropped host Irving in the championship game. For the Thunderbirds, the holiday layoff apparently took its toll as the Cedar City squad shot an extremely low percent from both the field and the free throw line in j both of their losses. I In the opening round, the ; T-Birds fell at the hands of I California Slate at Los An-I An-I ge'e.s by a score of 93 to 83. I They bounced back to defeat California State at Redlands 69 to 60, then dropped the consolation batatle to California Calif-ornia State at Fullerton by five points, 68 to 63- Dave Pinamonti of the Thunderbirds was one of the top scorers in the tournament and rebounders as well, as he picked up 60 points for a 20 point per game average. He collected a total of 30 rebounds re-bounds in the three-game event. It was, however, a matter of not being "tuned" for the contests, according to Coach Boyd Adams. In their losing battle against LA State, the T-Birds hit only 37 percent of their shots from the field and only 50 percent from the foul line. "We took some bad shots in that gam.e," Coach Cal State 93 Knight 10 14 C 26 Walker 4 11 9 Oldenkamp 6 2 1 1,'j Terpstra 4 9 8 16 Henry 6 0 0 12 Harstad 5 1 i n Gaines 0 2 0 o Moran 2 3 2 fi liars on 0 0 0 n TOTALS 37 35 19 93 CSU 83 rinamonti 7 7 4 S Mullen 5 2 0 10 Banks 0 1 0 0 Mead 9 8 4 22 Bradley 10 0 2 Turek 5 1 0 10 Christensen 4 2 2 10 Beck 10 0 2 Robinson 0 2 1 l Eaholtz 12 2 4 Lewis 2 10 4 TOTALS 35 26 13 S3 Score at halftime: CSU 37, Cal State 40. CSU 69 Pinamonti G 6 3 15 Tumk 12 0 2 Christensen 5 4 2 12 Mead 9 4 1 19 Bradley 4 2 2 10 Mullen 3 2 1 7 Beck 12 2 4 Eaholtz 0 0 0 0 Banks 0 0 0 0 TOTALS 29 22 11 09 Redlands 60 Ticknor 2 0 0 4 Burns 9 5 5 23 Johnson 6 6 5 17 Williams 12 2 4 Pope 3 4 4 10 Rolph 0 111 Martinez 0 10 0 Dietz 0 11 1 TOTALS 21 20 18 60 Scor.9 at halftime: CSU 32, T.edlands 31. Fullerton 68 Harris 5 2 1 11 Hughes 2 2 2 6 Dennis 4 3 3 11 Thompson 2 3 1 5, Howe 3 4 3 9 Long 4 2 2 10 Lynch 3 5 2 8 Rubenthir 2 4 4 8 TOTALS 25 25 18 68 CSU 63 Pinamonti 10 9 7 27 Mead 2 9 6 10 Eaholtz 4 2 1 9 Robinson 2 11 5 Christensen 2 0 0 4 Mullen 13 2 4 Turek 0 2 2 2 Banks 10 0 2 Bradley 0 0 0 0 Beck 0 0 0 0 TOTALS 22 26 19 63 Score at halftime: CSU 27, Fullerton 35. Adams stated, "but not that many." On the other hand, LA State popped the net at a j 60 percent clip from the field but were not much better from 1 the foul line with only 51 percent- CSU got the shots in the game, shoving up a total of 91 attempts but connecting on only 35. LA State got off only 62 shots but their high percentage per-centage of shooting left them with 37 connections and the victory. In the rebounding department, LA State had the better of the contest with a total of 58 compared to 55 I for the T-Birds. Gil Mullen I led the rebounding with 13 takedowns, followed by Pinamonti Pina-monti with 10. Little Skip Mead on the CSU .guard line was the loading I scorer for the T-Birds with 22, with 18 points by Pinamonti. j Friday afternoon in the sec-' sec-' ond round of play, the Thunderbirds Thun-derbirds found their scoring eye to dominate the gar;o a-gainst a-gainst Redlands and a 69 to 60 victory. The T-Eirds hi! 62 percent of their field goal attempts with 29 in 47 attempts. at-tempts. Mead again led the scoring with 19, followed by Pinamonti with 15 and Lou Christensen with 12. R.edlands hit only 37 percent from the field but a torid 90 percent I from the foul lane. CSU hit only 50 percent from the foul lane. In Saturday's finale, the T-Birds T-Birds were back in the hole again with their inability to sink buckets from the field. They dropped off to a 36 percent per-cent shooting average from the field which wasn't good enough against the Fullerton crew. In the second half of play, they bounced back to come within one point, but could not over take the California Cal-ifornia crew. Pinamonti led the scoring in this contest with 27 points, followed by Mead with 10- Pinamonti also led the CSU rebounding with 9 followed by Mullen with 7. O, MLE, what XTC I always al-ways feel when UIC. I used to rave of LN'S eyes, for LC I gave countless sighs for KT, too, and LNR I was a keen competitor. Now each one's a nonNTT for UXL them all, UC. |
