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Show Flu bug hampers SUS T-Birds in second major road trip press at Iteg in the opening minutes, and ran away to a M-m victory. In the vlotory over the Bangers, Ban-gers, Coach Stan Jack's de-fonse de-fonse held all-conference cen. ter Davo Klas.son to 16 points, nnrl kept him off the boards. Last season the T-Birds lo.st both games to the Colorado schools when they played In the Rocky Mountain state. In last weekend's twin losses, los-ses, Southern Utah played mast of both contests without Dave Paur, Chuck Anderson, and Kohn Smith, Smith, the team's leading scorer, was suffering suf-fering from the flu along with Paur. Anderson was favoring an Injured knee suffered In the vlotory over Grand Canyon. Can-yon. Chuck was the second leading scorer, and top board Southern Utah State College found out that you cannot win . on the road when half the learn Is, injured or ailing from the flu. The T-Bird dropped decisions decis-ions of 79 f7 to Adams State find 75-72 to Western New Mexico In overtimes. This weekend Friday and Saturday the Cedar City team will be on the road for a pair of crucial games with Colorado Mines and Regis. Two weeks ago on the local hardwood the T-Birds came away with a pair of 20 point wins. They defeated Mines handily 99-78 with no less than six players scoring in double figures. fig-ures. The next evening Southern South-ern Utah threw a full court was close all the way with each team taking the lead throughout the game. But the T-Birds missed several penalty situations late in the contest that cost them the win. Reserve guard Gary Crosby led the way with 18 points, as he consistently hit from the outside. The T Birds have a 4-2 con-ference con-ference mark, and 9-6 overall. Westminster leads the way with a 5-1 record. SUSC 72 Crosby 816 2-2 18 Hamiblln 6-9 0 0 12 Johnson 4-9 2-2 10 L. Anderson 1-9 3-5 5 Wilding 4-12 0-0 8 C. Anderson 3-5 2-2 8 WIttenbreaker .. 3-7 2-4 8 Smith - 1-1 1-3 3 Totals 30-68 12-18 72 WNM 75 Kowalskl 4-15 3-4 11 Sisnars 7-20 2-6 16 Chapman 1-5 2-4 4 Wagner 2-6 0-0 4 Olopton 612 1-3 13 Lujan 3-8 0-0 6 Mondragon 7-15 5-7 19 Vlelma 1-1 0-0 4 Hamilton 0-1 0 0 0 Totals .......... 31-83 13-24 75 Score at Halftime: SUSC 41; WNM 42; Regulation game, SUSC 68, WNM, 68. man. Thursday's loss to Adams State was closer than It looked as the T-Birds, playing without with-out Anderson, were tied 46-46 at the intermission, and it wasn't until midway through the second half that the In-dians In-dians took charge. The 75-72 loss to Western Adams State 79 Mortensen 4 4 4 il2 Stockmen 2 4 15 Belmore 9 17 11 29 Springer 9 3 2 20 Bokan 3 0 0 6 Totals 29 28 21 79 SUSC 67 Crosby 4 0 0 8 Hamiblin 5 0 0 10 Smith 2 7 7 11 L. Anderson 5 4 4 14 Johnson 12 13 Paur 3 2 2 8 Wittenbraker 3 3 17 Wilding 3 10 6 Totals 26 19 15 67 Score at Halftime: SUSC 46; Adams State 46. |
