1979_12 The Daily Collegian December 1979

              Monday
December 3,1979
Bulldog cagers press Sacrameto State
By David Coulson
Daily Collegian Staff-Reporter
L fading by only four points against a
vision II team at halftime, Boyd
■ant's Bulldogs called upon a pair of
i inends. Art Williams and defense,
The result was a 79-66 blow out of
crjmento State in the Bulldogs'
st collegiate game of the season,
■day night in Selland Arena. The
»wd of 6.3 12 was the sixth largest in
jlldog basketball history.
After playing a half of basketball
•re il appeared the Bulldogs could
ih over the scrappy Hornets at
rytime but failed to due to poor outside
looting, the Bulldogs found Williams
open m the middle of Sacramento's zone
nse and used a tough man to man
s to run away from the Hornets in
econd half.
ie Hornets trailed only 35-31 at the
mission, but Williams rattled off
points  in  29 seconds to  start  a
Bulldog    charge    that     led    to     15
answered points and a 50-31 lead five
mutes into the second half.
The Bulldogs kept up their defensive
essure and relied on forward Bobby
ivi.' outside shooting touch to cruise
e rest of the way. Davis led Bulldog
orers with 16 points, Williams, Bobby
nderson and Dan Pagliotti added 14
id Rod Higgins tallied 12.
• .cording   to   Bulldog   head   coach
r.int there wasn 't a consorted attempt
get Williams the ball in the second
half  'We knew we should go with what
call same side and throw the ball
le, but we didn't specifically set it
a go to Art,"said Grant.
rant felt that defense was the key to
the Bulldogs    second half dominance.
"I think the thing that changed the game
was that we were able to get them to
turn the ball over from the man to man
press -The    Hornets    committed    20
turnovers,   while   the   Bulldogs   were  .
The Bulldogs were also helped by
the lake-charge play of Bobby
Anderson The intense.guard connected
on all seven of his shots and added two
assists and two steals to his statistics.
I think Bobby played his beat game
tonight."said Grant. "He was smart, he '
snot well and he handled things pretty
good We're going to have to have that
kind of play from our guards if we're
noing'tobeagoodteam"
Grant was also pleased by the balance
Bobby Davis easily puts a shot over
i Sacrernento SUte ^opponent in^ last
veek'sgame. Photoby KipSmitn
of the Bulldog attack. "We have some
people who can score. I don't think it
always has to be Art (as the leading
scorer) like it was last season.*
Even in defeat, Sacramento coach
Jack Heron was happy with the way his
team played. "I thought we did a good
job. Everybody is new and we really
didn't know what to expect.We thought
we were going to get killed on the boards
and we hung right in there with them.
Heron added "Except for that flat
stretch when they brought that man to
man pressure on us at the start of the
second half we could have been closer.
They're a better team than we are and
we're glad to even stay that close to
Heron was surprised by the prolific
scoring of his center, Darnell Anderson.
The Napa Junior College transfer led
all scorers with 23 points, but according
to Heron 'There really isn't anything in
his background to expect that from him."
Washington Jacobs added 15 points
for the Hornets and Butch Treadwell
chipped in 12. Former Fresno City
College standout John Langston had a
game he would probably like to forget,
fouling out and scoring only four points.
The 6-5 forward missed several layups as
well, but grabbed seven rebounds.
Williams led all rebounders with 13,
while Treadwell pulled down eight and
Higgins fought his way for six. Rick
Johnson handed out eight assists for the
Hornets and Higgirrfpassed out four for
the Bulldogs. /
The Bulldofto must now prepare for
one of the toughest stretches of thier
schedule, facing the University of
Minnesota in Minneapolis tonight and
traveling to Milwaukee tc_iorrow to play
Marquette. v
Minnesota had what was considered
by many to be the finest recruiting year
in th-country before the 1978-79 season.
But the Golden Gophers could only
manage a record of 11-16 overall and a
nineth place finish in college
basketball's toughest conference, the
Big 10.
But Minnesota's younger players
have had a year to season themselves ♦
against some of the country's top
competition, have had another good
recruiting year and sport the
All-American talents of Kevin McHale.
McHale,   a   6-11    senior   forward
averaged nearly 18 points per game ana       f\
10 rebounds last season. He also starred
on the American team that took the gold y
medal in last summer's Pan American
games,
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