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Williams Explodes For 34 As State Takes Third Place Honors
Freeman Williams, the nation's leading scorer in the NCAA a year ago, put on a dazzling scoring exhibition Saturday night while leading Portland State to an 82-76 victory over Seattle for third place in the Kentucky Invitational Tournament.
Williams racked up 34 poiints on 14 of 31 from the field and six of eight from the free throw line as the Portland State senior completed his
best two-night swing this season.
Seattle appeared early to be the team heading back West with a 1-1 record in the UKIT as th Chiefs blitzed out to an early 8-2 lead before Williams could get untracked.
During the next five minutes, Portland State rallied back and out-scored Seattle 18-4 and took a 20-14 score with 11:01 left in the first half as Williams canned one of his patented
25-footers.
Seattle took a couple of brief leads late in the first half, thanks to the play of Jawann Oldham and Kevin Suther, whose dunk gave Seattle a 39-38 lead with 1:33 left in the half.
Chris Smith rippled the nets with a 15-footer and Williams made good one free throw and Portland State left the floor, up 41-39.
Seattle cut the margin to the final six
points with a 3-point play and just four seconds left in the game.
"It wasn't a well-played game, but we needed a win," said Portland State coach Ken Edwards. "We need to start a streak."
' 'It was a very tough game to play, continued Edwards. "Any consolatin game
"It was a very tough game to play,'' Edwards continued. "Any consolation game in a tournament is crappy, but we hung in there the last seven or eight minutes, and winning is always better than losing."
Seattle coach Bill O'Connor wasn't happy with his team's play, especially the emotion aspect.
"I felt we played very soft," said O'Connor, "there were too many loose balls we didn't come up with. We just didn't show much intensity. I had hoped we could control the tempo a bit more."
Behind Williams in scoring for Portland State were James Cunningham with 19 points and Chuck Smith with 12 points.
Oldham paced the Seattle attack with 22 points and pulled down a game-high 13 rebounds. Marion Peri-cin scored 15 points and Keith Harrell tallied 13 points.
Seattle had the hot hand from the field, hitting 50.7 percent for the game to Portland State's 41.9 percent, but State took three more shots at the bucket and outrebounded Seattle 43-38.
Terry Adolph, the smallest player in the tourney although he was listed a couple of inches taller than he actually is (he's listed at 5-10), led State's rebounders with 11 followed by Cunningham's 10 and Bob Sisul with 9 rebounds.
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