Show Denver Beats Scrambles Skyline The University of Utah who at the start of the season were heavy favorites to capture the Skyline basketball crown now find themselves in a precarious position after last week's cage The Utes who have looked great at times couldn't find the basket Saturday night and lost their second conference This time it was to a surprising Denver crew on the Pioneer's Denver whose team is composed of mainly sophomores thus pulled the two biggest upsets of the season so Thursday night they knocked off Utah Cold Against as against Montana in the opening the Utes let the opposition build up a big lead and then couldn't come Coach Jack Gardner used all twelve of his men he took with but to little avail as only one Ute scored in double Pearl Pollard had 12 points for the nights efforts but no other Redskins had more than eight Utah trailed by five points at half-time and couldn't get any closer than this in the second The determined Pioneers kept the Utes from hitting with a zone Utah closed to within five points with 4 minutes left after trailing by six to nine points most of the second Den- ver widened the margin again on some costly Utah errors and won going For Jim Cole who was a surprise starter was the big gunner with 22 He had good support from teammates Jim and all of whom hit in double Utah In Fifth Utah now finds itself looking at the dust of four other title Colorado and Montana each with three one lost records and Brigham Young University with a two one lost record are above the Utah is tied with Denver for fifth The Montana win on the Ute's home floor now looms larger than Utah is the only team among the top six to have lost a game at The road trip against New Mexico and Denver was supposed to be the easiest for the Utah still has to face the four teams on the enemies In other activity around the conference over the week-end BYU established itself as a con-fended again with wins over previously undefeated and With Denver's two wins the league at this time looks like a toss-up among six |