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Show T-Birds beaten by top-ranked Highlands squad The Southern Utah State i Thunderbirds took it on the chin Saturday in Thunderbird stadium &a the visitors from New Mexico Highlands University, Uni-versity, socked it to the T-Birds T-Birds 59 to 0. ' . New Mexico came Into the game the number one ranked small college team in the nation na-tion and did nothing to tarn-Jsh tarn-Jsh their image as they simply j outplayed the T-Birds and left a fair sized crowd stunned with their performance. The Thunderbirds were never nev-er really in the game and jt was only a matter of how far . they were going to lose. The T-Bjrds hurt their own cause when they gave the ball to Highlands deep in their own territory the first two times they had the ball. The. first , time Highlands picked off a Buck Paopao pass and ran it back, to the 23 yard line and scored only seconds later and I the second time the Cowboys of Highlands picked up a Glen Richardson, fumble on the 29 and converted a field goal to bring the score to 10-0. : " Late in the first quarter the i T-Birds put on one of their Jjest offensive shows of the : game as th'ey took the ball ; on their own four yard line and on a series of running ; land passing plays with : George Stephanos as the star, j brought the ball up to the 35 yard Jine of Highlands. The rest of the game fpl- ; lowed pretty much the same pattern as the Cowboys did ; almost anything they wanted and the Thunderbirds tried valiantly to stop the visitors i and put together a consistent : drive. Quarterback Paopao spent most of the afternoon trying . to stay away from the on-: on-: slaught of Highland defepd-i defepd-i ers but almost pulled off the play of the game whep he threw a long bomb to Tex Anthony ih the end zone that just barely slipped out of Anthony's An-thony's hands. Highlands has yet to have been scored upon against Rocky Mountain Athletic Ath-letic Conference foes. This week the Thunderbirds !meet their final foe of the sea -i .son in the SUSC homecoming game. Western New Mexico, a I team that rests in the cellar i of the mountain division of I the RMAC comes to Cedar i JCity and the T-Birds will try . to even their season record up with 4 wins and 4 losses. |