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Show SUSC hit snag against Indians; squad tops Western State in other game SUSC 87 Hamblin 7 4 2 16 Rhodus 8 7 7 23 Scott 5 1 0 10 Gilmore 6 14 10 22 Paur 2 0 0 4 Griffin .. 2 10 4 Sincock 3 0 0 6 Bauman 10 0 2 TOTAL 34 26 19 87 ADAMS STATE 96 Mortensen 6 9 8 20 Smith 7 6 4 18 Posegate 10 7 6 26 Doe 3 7 4 10 Crowther 5 3 3 13 Belmore 0 111 Boran 2 0 0 4 TOTALS 34 37 28 96 Score at Halftime: SUSC 42; Adams State 54. . Fieldgoal shooting percentage: percent-age: SUSC 34-89, 38.2; Adams State, 34-77, 44.1. Foul Shooting Percentage: SUSC 73, Adams State 75.6. Rebounds: SUSC 56. Adams The Southern Utah State College basketiball crew suffered suf-fered their second defeat in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Friday night when the invading Adams State Indians In-dians capitalized on mistakes to pick up an important 89-77 victory. Saturday night the T-Birds rallied to outclass Western New Mexico, one of the pre-conference pre-conference favorites by a score of 82-61. Meanwhile the Parsons of Westminster posted another pair of conference victories defeating de-feating the same two teams to jump into the lead in the Rocky Mountain Division of the RMAC. At the end of two weeks of conference play, here's how the Mountain Division Div-ision standings look: Westminster 4 0 Adams State 3 1 Fort Lewis 3 2 Western New Mexico -3 2 SUSC 2 2 Western States 2 3 Regis 2 3 Colorado Mines 0 5 The T-Birds continued to take their knocks in the Adams Ad-ams State battle. Coasting a-long a-long at an even pace with the Indians, Coach Stan Jack's crew found themselves trailing trail-ing 26-24 after a bucket by Doug Rhodus. That's when things went hazy for the T-Birds. T-Birds. In the next four minutes of play they gave up 17 points without scoring and committed commit-ted seven turnover errors. Before Be-fore Ray Scott got another score for SUSC the Indians were in lead 33-24. The T-Birds played catch up ball for the remainder of the game. They did scamper back to within four points at 79-75 but couldn't make the push to bring them even. Several opportunities op-portunities on one and one situations were missed and the Indians pulled away in the final two minutes of play to make a rout of the game. Saturday night saw the T-Birds T-Birds dominate the game with the exception of a brief period per-iod mid-way in the first half, but they shook off the threat by Western N.M. and bounded to a convincing lead and held it through the remainder remaind-er of the game. Coach Jack's crew went into a stall in the final three minutes of play putting a freeze on the scoring scor-ing and successfully holding control of the ball and capturing cap-turing the victory. A high point in the series was the play of Syd Sincock who came off the bench against Adams State to turn in his finest performance of the season. The 6-3 freshman, seemed to gain his confidence against Adams State and should be seeing a lot of action ac-tion this year for the T-Birds. State 48. Personal Fouls: SUSC 26, Adams State 24. SUSC 89 S Hamblin 3 4 3 9 Rhodus 7 4 4 18 Scott 3 3 17 Gilmore 8 12 7 23 Paur 6 2 1 13 Sincock 14 3 5 Anderson 6 3 2 14 Griffin 0 0 0 0 Bauman 0 0 0 0 TOTALS 34 32 21 89 WNM 77 Johnson 4 5 5 11 Signaes 10 0 2 Shock 3 10 8 14 Olney 2 115 McKenzie 6 12 7 19 Kowalski 5 0 0 10 Wagner 2 0 0 4 Moore 4 10 8 Martin 12 2 4 MacDragon 0 0 0 0 TOTALS 28 31 21 77 Score at Halftime: SUSC 56; WNM 43. Filedgoal percentage: SUSC SU-SC 34-65, 52.3; WNM, 28-90, 31.1. Foul Shooting percentage: SUSC 63.6; WNM 67.7. Rebounds: SUSC 44; WNM 57. Personal Fouls: SUSC 23; WNM 22. |