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PORTLAND, Ore. lt;AP) -Second-ranked UCLA, chased ail the way, held off hustling Montana 67-64 Thursday night and struggled into the NCAA West Regional basketball finals.ished with 12.The victory moved UCLA, now 25-3, into Saturday’s regional championship game against the winner of the evening’s second game betweenI thougnt it would be a very difficult game,” said UCI.A Coach John Wooden. “To be quite honest, 1 didn’t think it would be that tight. They gaveus trouble everywhere.”Hays “was tremendous. He’s an outstanding basketball player,” Wooden said of the Montana forward.Coach Jud Heathcote of Montana, asked whether he was proud or disappointed, said he was “more disappointed—when you come that close and lose, pride is a nebulous thing.‘‘Eric Hays played with great intensity. It was his best game of the year by far.”MONTANA lt;+4)H*yi 13 6 7 32, R chifdion 1 0 0 2, Smedicy 5 0 0 10, Mc*tn*»t 9 2 6 20, Ot M#r% 0 0 0 0, P#ch 0 000. $t«mMue* 000 0 TOW* 21 I 13UCLA unTown%#nd 1 0 0 2, Trgov»Ch 6 46 16/ *g**»ngton 7 2 2 16, Mlytfl 6 0 0 12, Me Carter 30 2 6 Droil»ng#r 3 2 4 6, Corhli 0 0 00, SpiMantOO 0 0, Jofcnton 3 12 2, Smith 0 0 0 0 Totan 20 t 16Haitiimt UCLA 34. Montana 33Fouled out non#Total foul* Montana 13, UCLA ISERIC HAYSseventh-ranked Arizona State and 16th-rated Nevada-Las Vegas.Montana, the Big Sky Conference champion, was a big underdog, but the Grizzlies challenged UCLA from start to finish, led by the scoring of Eric Hays and Ken McKenzie.The Bruins led by only two points with 1:10 remaining, but put the game away on a free throw by Marques Johnson with 38 seconds left and two more foul shots by Pete Trgovich with 16 seconds to go. that put ULCA on top 67-62.Montana led briefly twice in the first half as Hays, a 6-foot-3 senior hit all nine of his shots from the floor and scored 19A RARE TRIPLECHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) — A rarity recently occurred at the Garden State Park racetrack where an owner, trainer and jockey scored a triple. They won the first, eighth and ninth races.The three wins were registered by James Edward’s Aud-ley Farm, trainer Mark Wall-erstedt and jockey Burl McBride.IndInpoints.UCLA, the Pacific-8 Conference champion, led 34-33 at half time. The Bruins, behind All-America forward DaveDAYTON, Ohio (AP) -diana’s defense operated with a business-like efficiency and Steve Green and Kent BensonMyers, went ahead by nine points with 12 minutes left, but Montana would not fold.Montana, now 21-7, trailed 64-55 with about 44 minutes left. The Grizzlies then scoredcombined for 57 points to propel the top-ranked Hoosiers past Oregon State 81-71 Thursday night and into a showdown against fifth-ranked Kentucky in the NCAA Mideast*5FRO BASKETBALL NBACleveland 67, Chicago 63Kansas City Omaha 101, New OrleansGolden State 97. Portland 95PRO HOCK 1V NHLBuffalo 6, New York Rangers 3 Minnesota 4 Washington i Chicago 6. Detroit 2minute mark, Oberweiser hit a basket from short range that began a surge that sawAnaconda outscore BillingsWest 12-4 over the next four minutes and cut the score to 43-WMAindianapoi s 3, Edmonton 1 Houston 5 Quebec 338. The quarter ended 47-41 in favor of the Bears.Green, who led the Copperheads with 20 points, got hotMONTANA'S Tim Stambaugh (42) plays tough defense as UCLA's Dave Meyers (34) goes up for a shot in an NCAA West Regional semifinal Thursday night in Portland. The Bruins won 67-64, (Unifax)fKentuckywinbasketball finals Saturday.son, the 6-11, 235-pound center, demolished any hope Oregon State might have had of upsetting the Hoosiers. Green finished with 34 points, connecting 14 of 19 shots from the field, and Benson had 23. For most of the evening their combined total was more than Oregon State’s whole teameffort.13,500 in the Dayton Arena at Green’s departure in the first half was matched at the ap-of All-Americanseven straight points to pull within 64-62 before the Bruinsput down the rally.Hays, who wound up 13-16 from the floor, led all scorers with 32 points. McKenzie, a 6-9 senior, added 20. Trgovich and Rich Washington, a former Portland prep star, led UCI.A with 16 points each. Myers fin-Kentucky, admittedly looking ahead to its chance to avenge a 98-74 loss to Indiana in the regular season, had to brush off several CentralGreen missed his first shot of the night but then hit his next seven straight and combined with Benson to reel off 12 points in the first five minutes of theMichigan rallies before winning its Mideast semifinal 90-73.Indiana's victory was its 34th in a row and raised its record for the season to 31-0.Green, Indiana’s 6-foot-7, 220-pound forward, and Ben-game. By halftime Indiana had a 64 per cent average from the field and when Green left the game with just under two minutes remaining in the half, he had 17 points and Benson had 15.pearanceScott May, who played the last 14 minutes of the first half and the final minute of the game. May, playing with a flexible cast on his broken left arm, missed wildly cm the two shots he attempted in the first half.Oregon State, 19-11, made erne brief run at the Hoosiers when Charlie Neal and Paul Miller brought the Beaverswithin two points, 22-20, with 9:35 remaining in the first half. The much-publicized Hoosier defense then showed the reason for its acclaim.Syracuse stunsA standing ovation from the Carolina, 78-76
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Fri, Mar 21, 1975
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