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Basketball back in action with first scrimmage By
USU athletic media relations
Utah State's basketball team conducted its first scrimmage of the season Saturday morning at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum. Fourteen Aggies participated in the morning practice with several players playing on both squads. "It's real obvious that our veterans are ahead of our newcomers, and that is to be expected," commented USU head coach Stew Morrill. "I'm encouraged by some things, but we have a long ways to go and I hope our guys don't think that we are automatically a good basketball team, because if they do they are going to get a rude awakening and learn lessons the hard way. We had good effort today, but we didn't execute real well. We turned the ball over way too much and our offensive execution was poor." Utah State had five players score in double-figures during four scrimmages, highlighted by senior Dmitri Jorssen, who had 16 points, 11 rebounds and two blocks. Senior point guard Benard Rock had 15 points and four assists, while junior guard Tony Brown also had 15 points and four assists. Two other seniors for USU also had good days as forward Curtis Bobb and guard Dion Bailey added 14 and 10 points respectively. Senior forward Shawn Daniels scored only eight, but did add eight rebounds, six assists, and five blocks. Among the newcomers for Utah State, freshmen point guard Thomas Vincent had seven points and three assists, while sophomore transfer Toraino Johnson added six points and three rebounds. Redshirt freshmen Chad Evans looked impressive as he scored nine points and grabbed six rebounds. Utah State will conduct another scrimmage at 8 p.m. Friday in the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum that will be open the public. USU's first game of the season will be at 3:05 p.m. Nov. 4 against Global Sports.
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