Times Record News from Wichita Falls, Texas • 16

BASKETBALL Times Record Newsl 4B Saturday November 23 1991 Bandits battle back stop Texans 103-96 in scoring and also pulled in 12 rebounds The Texans also got 16 from Rob Rose 14 from Jeff Ma-jerle and Trent Jackson and Larry Smith had 11 points and seven assists The Texans were without the services of Kurt Portmann for most of the night as he was in foul trouble and only played 16 minutes Michael Ansley the CBA Player of the Week led Birmingham with 24 points followed by Farmer with 22 and Skeeter Henry and Michael Cutright with 15 each The two teams were tied 24-24 after the first period and a 20-6 run in the second quarter by the Texans helped put them up 51-46 at the half Wichita Falls shot 74 percent from the floor in the third quarter and led by as many as 14 but were only up by 11 heading into the final period of play Texans note The Texans cut their second player in as many days as backup point guard Curtis Duncan was released late Thursday night That leaves the Texans with nine players BIRMINGHAM Ala A 10-2 run to open the final period got the Birmingham Bandits back into the game and they made the most of it as they came back for a 103-96 win over the Wichita Falls Texans in Friday night CBA action The loss is the second straight for the Texans and drops them to 4-3 for the season while the Bandits improve to 4-3 Birmingham won 4Vi standings points to 2Vt for the Texans Wichita Falls returns to action on Tuesday night as they take on the Sioux Falls Skyforce in a 7:05 game in DL Ligon Coliseum The Texans led 82-71 with one quarter to play but the 10-2 run enabled them to cut the lead to 84-81 Birmingham made it a 20-8 run to take a 91-88 lead but the Texans fought back to go up by three 96-93 with just over two minutes left Birmingham took the lead for good with 1 12 left on the pair of free throws and a three-point play by Jim Farmer with 396 seconds left put the Texans away Cedric Jenkins had a season-high 26 points to lead the Texans UT dumps Princeton AUSTIN (AP) Dexter Cam- bridge scored 18 points and Texas showed off its own brand of defense Friday in beating Princeton 57-46 in the second round of the pre-season National Invitation Tournament With the victory Texas (2-0) advanced to the semifinals of the NIT tournament in New York on Wednesday against Georgia Tech an 84-67 winner over Colo- rado State Princeton (1-1) was eliminated from the tournament after an opening round 58-47 victory over Monmouth (NJ) Texas had gained the quarterfinals with a 104-83 victory over Washington Princeton led 32-31 when guard BJ Tyler started the crowd of 15621 screaming with a steal and two assists including behind the back pass for a 35-31 Texas lead The Longhorns switched to a zone defense with just under 10 minutes to play and Princeton failed to adjust as Texas widened its margin It was Texas' lowest point total in four years under Tom Penders but it also was the best defensive effort for their coach Princeton has led the nation in defense the past three years and held Texas far under its home court average of 98 points a game since Penders became coach The previous offensive low for Texas under Penders was 65 points last season and the best 1 defensive effort for a Penders team at Texas was 49 also last season With Tyler running Texas' offense the Longhorns had only six turnovers to 16 for Princeton which was led by 6-8 freshman Rick Hielscher who scored a game-high 19 points Princeton known for its outside shooting made only two of 12 3-point attempts Texas one of four The only other players in double figures were Ben-ford Williams with 12 points and Terrence Rencher with 10 Tyler had nine points and a game-high five assists Texas made 16 of 23 free throws Princeton 4-of-4 and did not shoot one in the second half when Texas outscored the Tigers 30-20 after leading 27-26 at Indians beat Lobos move record to 3-0 BROWXWOOD Texas Midwestern State won its third straight game of the season without a loss Friday night blowing out Sul Ross State University 103-83 in the first game of the Howard Payne Classic The 3-0 Indians will play Howard Payne at 8 pm Saturday Gume Ibarra and Bart Beasley were the offensive stars of the night for the Indians Ibarra scored 26 points The senior forward was 5-of-7 from 3-point range Beasley just a sophomore had 21 points on 10-6f-13 shooting from the floor Arthur Hurst scored 12 for MSU and freshman Kerry Bragg chipped in with 10 points EJ Collins and Corey Shead had nine apiece Junior James Stegall pulled down nine rebounds for the Indians Tommy Brakel led the Lobos with 29 points and Tony Beardon had 23 Chad Bagley also had 17 PhotoHarry Tonemah Rider's Jarmichael Moor crashed down on two Arlington Heights players Allen Kelly help Raiders Carter has 20 points 18 boards in MSU win MSU It was the second straight win for the 2-2 Lady Indians who began the season ranked No 24 in the NAIA preseason poll but lost their first two games of the year MSU will play the Angelo State-St winner for the championship Saturday night Lubbock Christian which led 49-47 at halftime lost for the first' time this season The Lady Chaparrals who are in NAIA District 4 with MSU are 3-1 SAN ANGELO Texas -Sarena Carter had a big night with 20 points and 18 rebounds Friday night to lead Midwestern State's Lady Indians to a 90-76 win over Lubbock Christian in the semifinals of the Angelo State Tournament The MSU junior hit 7 of 12 from the field and 6 of 10 from the free throw line But Trish Young was the leading scorer for the Lady Indians with 27 Lorene Fobbs had 13 points for Georgia Tech 84 Colorado St BJ SMU overcomes Conner SW Texas press 80-54 Kelly scored six points in a 12-2 Rider run to close out the period and the Raiders were on top 20-18 after one period Allen took over early in the second quarter as lead gradually grew The Raiders led 32-23 with 4:48 left in the half and then 41-28 with 1:50 remaining But the Knights closed out the quarter with six straight points making it a 43-35 game at the half "Allen and Kelly are our two best scorers against the press so we put them at the other Lunn said "We feel we can hurt people in the open court with those two what we did A 3-pointer and a three-point play by the Knights midway through the third quarter enabled them to make it a seven-point game with 2:43 remaining 52-45 But the Raiders came back with a 7-3 run to close the quarter and led 59-48 heading into the final period The fourth quarter was all Rider as the Raiders scored the first 10 points of the period and never looked back They outscored the visitors 21-6 to take the 26-point win Cash led the Raiders in rebounding with nine while Curtis Foster had eight rebounds and Kelly had eight rebounds and three assists Jermichael Moore also had three assists seemed flat out Lunn said "A team like Arlington Heights has lots of quickness quick hands We were worried about that They were able to keep our offense out of its rhythm We were out of sync all night and their quickness did Mike Henderson had 13 points to lead the Knights in scoring whip Heights By Scott Russell Staff Sports Writer The Arlington Heights full-court press caused the Rider Raiders plenty of trouble in Friday game at the Raider Fieldhouse When it was working right it helped the Knights go up 6-0 early and enabled them to lead for most of the first quarter But when the Raiders beat it and they did often they had wide-open shots for Chris Allen and Juan Kelly The duo combined for 46 points as they pulled the Raiders back into the game and Rider went on for an easy 80-54 win The win improves the Raiders record to 2-0 for the season while the Knights are 0-2 The Raiders return to action next Friday in the first round of the Fantasy of Lights basketball tournament Kelly led the Raiders in scoring with 24 points while Allen was right behind him with 22 Josh Cash was the only other Raider in double figures with 10 points Rider coach Nat Lunn said the press caused his team more trouble than he expected a different kind of press than a lot of people run" he said "We handle it well to begin with We played Abilene on Tuesday and they pressed us but we handled it pretty well "If we could get through the first wall of their press we had guys wide-open for layups Unfortunately early in the game we always see through After the Knights took the 6-0 lead Kelly and Allen the front men on the press cut the lead to three Arlington Heights used Raider turnovers to build the lead to eight 16-8 with 3:59 left in the quarter SAN MARCOS Texas (AP) Chad Allen keyed a 10-0 second half run with a pair of 3-pointers and Southern Methodist overcame George career-high 35 points squeaking past Southwest Texas State 63-59 Friday night Tim Mason led SMU (1-0) with 17 points Greg Kinzer added 14 points and a game-high 11 rebounds for the Mustangs who trailed 29-27 at halftime Conners led all scorers with 35 points on 14-of-24 shooting from the field He added eight Southwest Texas (0-1) went up by two at the half on 19-footer at the buzzer The Bobcats extended their lead to four points on three occasions But with the Mustangs of the Southwest Conference trailing 47-44 with 10:48 remaining Kinzer tipped in a missed shot to start the 10-0 run and the Bobcats got no closer than four the rest of the way Kinzer scored 11 of his 14 points in the second half The meeting was the first ever between the two schools ATLANTA (AP) Jon Barry scored 29 points and made two 3-pointers during a decisive burst in the second half that led No 23 Georgia Tech past Colorado State 84-67 Friday night in the second round of the preseason National Invitation Tournament The game was tied at 43 when Malcolm Mackey scored from the inside freshman James Forrest followed with a three-point play and Barry sank two 3-pointers for a 51-46 lead with 13:49 remaining Colorado State (1-1) cut the lead to 59-56 midway through the second half on a layup by Doug Larson before fifth 3-pointer of the night began Tech's domination over the final 10 minutes Tech (2-0) gave coach Bobby Cremins two milestone victories in the process his 200th since coming to Tech and his 300th overall in 16-plus seasons Smith helps TCU bury Southeastern Pittsburgh 85 Kentucky 67 Hirschi knocks off ice-cold MacArthur in season opener Smith hit on 12 of 17 field goal attempts Allen Tolley helped TCU's cause with 10 points and 13 rebounds and Mark Moton had 14 points as the Horned Frogs got 12 players into the game It was 37-25 at halftime and TCU outscored Southeastern 53-33 the rest of the way The Lions made just 14 of 53 field goal attempts converting less than 22 percent of its shots Claudell Harris with 12 points-and Demetrius Price with 11 led the Lions SHREVEPORT La (AP) -Reggie Smith scored 34 points and hauled in 15 rebounds in leading Texas Christian over cold-shooting Southeastern Louisiana 90-58 in Friday's opening game of the Century Cellunet Classic It was the season-opening game for each team The victory advanced Texas Christian to Saturday night's championship game against the winner of a game later Friday night between Grambling State and host Centenary No 6 LSU escapes NE Louisiana LEXINGTON Ky (AP) -Senior center Darren Morn-ingstar scored a career-high 27 points and Pitt held No 4 Kentucky to only 27 percent shooting in posting an 85-67 upset Friday night in the second round of the preseason NIT Kentucky which its 22-game home winning streak stopped made only 21 of 77 shots and just seven of 36 from 3-point range Two nights earlier Kentucky hit 16 of 32 3-pointers in a 106-80 victory over West Virginia Morningstar who averaged 68 points last season hit three baskets in a 17-3 run that lifted Pitt (2-0) from an 11-2 deficit to 19-14 lead with 11:59 left in the first half Kentucky (1-1) closed to 21-20 on Jamal Mashburn's layup but Pitt countered with a 18-5 spurt behind Chris McNeal's seven points for a 37-25 advantage at 2:37 Pitt increased its 43-30 halftime lead to 51-33 in the first three minutes on Morningstar's three baskets and Ahmad Share-ef's short jumper John Pelphrey's layup with 3:44 to go pulled Kentucky to 69-59 but Pitt made 12 of 16 free throws down the stretch By Jtffory Milam Assistant Sports Editor Lawton MacArthur took 23 more shots and committed 12 fewer turnovers Friday night than Hirschi in the season opener for both teams at Husky Fieldhouse Chalk one up for the Highlanders right? Wrong! The Huskies behind Torin 20 points and 16 from Michael Jones took advantage of cold shooting to score a 59-47 victory got to be happy with the win said Hirschi head coach Dennis Wuthrich whose team won despite turning the ball over 28 times "The last few years we started out with a win so this was important "We started one senior on the floor and I knew have a lot of turnovers and make a lot of mistakes But it seemed like the kids performed well in the clutch" As happy as he was with the victory Wuthrich was equally as disappointed with his turnovers "Normally you don't expect to win with that many but they shoot well from the floor and that helped our cause A lot of times we were trying to get the ball to the open man and either threw it too high or at their Wallace Tilley led scored 13 points and Tony Calloway 12 to lead the Highlanders who shot 27 percent (18 of 67) from the field Meanwhile the Huskies were a bit warmer at 43 percent (19 of 44) Hirschi also doubled MacArthur at the free-throw line sinking 16 of 26 attempts to 8 of 17 for the visitors Roberts scored 10 points including three 3-pointers Jones had eight and Sean Palmer seven as the Huskies rallied from a 14-10 first-period deficit for a 31-23 lead at intermission Hirschi's advantage ballooned to 10 beginning the third period but by the time the Huskies finished turning the ball over eight times the Highlanders had tied things up at 38-all at 1:31 of the quarter Jones then tipped in a missed shot and converted a fast-break layup to lift Hirschi on top 42-38 by end "We got out of our game which was to be uptempo and let them come back on Wuthrich said "Fortunately we realized in time what was happening and picked the speed of the game back MacArthur pulled to within 46-45 with 6:08 remaining but the Huskies went on a 13-2 run to ice the victory Hirschi hit 6 of 7 free throws down the stretch and Roberts nailed a 3-pointer with 1:14 remaining for a 12-point cushion "The kids were hustling and I was happy with their performance for a first game" Wuthrich said i shots after LSU had taken a 10-6 lead with 15:13 to play in the first half to give Northeast a lead it didn't relinquish until the end of the game But LSU got out of its zone and went to a man-to-man with Verne! Singleton assigned to guard Jacobs Jacobs shot only once in the second half a 3-point effort that missed with under a minute to go The Tigers overcame their eight-point deficit in the final 1:59 as Ceasar hit a 3-pointer then Marshall followed with a 3-pointer and a 12-footer from the right baseline to tie it with 1:01 to go Anthony Smith fouled Ceasar with five seconds to go Ceasar missed the first foul shot but hit the second BATON ROUGE La (AP) -Paul Marshall scored five points in the final 1:22 to tie it and Clarence Ceasar hit a free throw with five seconds left to give sixth-ranked Louisiana State a 77-76 victory over Northeast Louisiana on Friday night LSU trailed 76-68 with 1:59 to go before rallying to win the season opener for both teams Shaquille O'Neal college basketball's Player of the Year last season had 15 points and 15 rebounds and blocked five shots for LSU but also made several bad passes Northeast hit five 3-pointers over seven minutes to build a 35-24 lead with Chad Jacobs making four of the long-range shots Northeast lead 41-30 at halftime Jacobs also hit a pair of 3-point.