| Show Utes Work for Win Over i UTE grapple for ball during Saturday night's encounter with from Utah Photo by George By ECKHARD HERRIG Chronicle Sports Writer Utah's title bound basketball team worked past Utah in Nielsen Fieldhouse Saturday night Two dribbling and shooting jumping jacks named Don Holman and Max Perry kept Utah State in contention as the Utes grunted and groaned their way to a very hard fought victory over the It was win number eleven in conference play and good enough to kepe Utah in the driver's seat of the Connecting on per cent of their field the Utes provided a good opportunity for some fans to Morton's jump McGill's and lay-ins kept the onlookers of their seats for quite a portion of the i ONLY JIM who had a great night against was cold in scoring as he connected for only one Joe proved that he was definite-next year as he turned in a great ly a contender for a starting spot ED ROWE shined on his defensive play and Jim Thomas had opportunity to bid good-by in his Iy from the field as well and was last He shot for 3 from the charity For the Farmers it was Green and Wilbon under the boards and Max Perry plus Holman on the The little guards were just about Perry handled the ball like it were connected with his Green grabbed 23 rebounds to give Utah State an edge in that IT WAS ALL Utah in the opening minutes of the scored 6 points and McGill 2 to give the Utes an Then Green dumped three quick baskets to give Utah State its only A see-saw battle developed that did not break open until the closing minutes of the first half when Utah landed on the long end of a The second half saw more of the same and then McGill shone like the North Star as he scored 21 Add this to 12 points which he garnered during the first half and you arrive at This isn't bad for anybody who shoots 70 per cent from the CEC BAKER'S squad gave Jack Gardner quite a scare when they came within one point of catching the Morton and combined with to go ahead by ten a lead which was never In the preliminary game Utah's Papooses closed ther with a over Utah State Behind the shooting arms of and the Utes scored 86 points to the Ramblers' |
