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Gilmore, Morgan Lead
Dolphin Past Bonnies
By Mike DeCamps
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer
Jacksonville University's
Dolphins, as most everybody had
expected, ran down St.
Bonaventure with the Intimidation
of Artis Gore and some clutch
foul shooting to take the first game
of the NCAA semifinals last night,
91-83. UCLA and New Mexico
State were to meet in the second
contest at the University of
Maryland's Cole Field House.
Practically everyone had written
St. Bonaventure out of the script
when a freak accident in the finals
of the Eastern regionals put the
Bonnies all-American center Bob
Lanier out of action for the College
Park finals, but still the Bonnies
showed poise and gave Jacksonville
a scare. It was only from the free
throw line that Jacksonville was
able to clinch the contest as St.
Bonaventure outscored the
Dolphins from the floor.
Jacksonville looked very little
like the team it was last Saturday
when the Dolphins sprung into the
national spotlight with a 106-100
upset of nationally top-ranked
Kentucky in the finals of the
Mideast regionals.
but the Dolphins all-American
center Artis Gilmore did manage to
retain his shooting touch as he
bagged twenty-nine points, and
generally kept St. Bonaventure's
shorter inside men from getting a
lot of good shots from in close. The
Bonnies did display a good outside
shooting game led by the squad's
Washington D.C. product Matt
Gant, who had eighteen points,
fourteen of them in the first half.
Gant and Greg Gary,
Bonaventure's best two rebounders
outside of Lanier, got into early foul
trouble and both spent ten of the
first twenty minutes on the bench.
Gant led the early break by the
Bonnies that proved to Jacksonville
that Bonaventure wasn't just going
to roll over and play
dead. Bonaventure led 13-3
before Jacksonville's Rex Morgan
led a Dolphin comeback that
knotted the score at 16 all. With
some good rebounding by the
Bonnies shorter 'big men' they
stayed within two points of
Jacksonville until the Dolphins
broke away for a safe 42-34 lead.
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