Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Page 7 Friday April 19 1996 Jazz settle in as third-plac- e seed Sports snapshot V r VANCOUVER British Columbia (AP) 11 on what it takes to win NBA games The Grizzlies have almost run out of healthy bodies much like their expansion cousins the Toronto Raptors with again the Grizzlies completed their first home schedule in the NBA with a 94-7- 9 loss to Utah on Thursday night Karl Malone scored 26 points as Utah dropped Vancouver’s home record to a final 10-3- 1 “Size is a problem every night for our team and this was no different” Vancouver coach Brian Winters said Injured center Bryant Reeves “was nursing an injury and there wasn't much I could do with him for minutes” The Jazz took advantage to score most of their points inside but the crowd of 18407 appreciated the Grizzlies effort enough to hang around and salute them after the game “There were some good wins here” Winters said “1 thought the fin support was great The people of Vuwouver got an introduction to NBA basketball even though it was the losing end of it” Utah’s size advantage allowed coach Jerry Sloan to go with a relatively small unit in the third quarter lo put the game away “When we got a little bit smaller we were able to get to the defensive boards AP photo Yeo of South Korea vaulta at i the World Gymnastics Championships in San Juan Puerto Rico Thursday Yeo is in fret place in the vault Sports brlofs Berringer dies in crash RAYMOND Neb (AP) — Brook Beninger the backup quarterback who helped Nebraska win the 1994 national title was killed when the small plane he was piloting crashed in an alfalfa field Plane owner Harry Barr said the other person killed in the two-seat- was brother of er Tobey Lake the Bcninger’s girlfriend Berringer 22 expected to be selected in the NFL draft this weekend held a pilot’s license He wanted to be a commercial airline pilot Thursday's scores and that helped Vancouver’s Greg Anthony right gets pest John Stockton of the Utah Jazz to the basket Utah cruised to a 94-7- 9 win Thursday night NBA Orlando 1 19 Atlanta 104 Mfwaukao 111 Charlotte 103 Cleveland 92 New York 77 Chicago 1 10 Detroit 79 Dales 132 Denver 98 Houston 115 LA Clippere 107 San Antonio 103 LA Lakers 100 Utah 94 Vancouver 79 NHL Playoffs Playoffs Kansas City 0 Milwaukee 3 Feona 2 Boston 10 Baltimore 7 Milwaukee 9 Kansas City 2 SesOle 11 Detroit 3 California 9 Toronto 6 NL PCL Vancouver 6 Salt Lake 4 Edmonton 5 Colorado Springs 4 Phoenix S Mbuquerque 4 Calgary 2 Tucson 1 On television Playoffs Washington at No 2 WWOR — Major League orado at N Y Mets Basebai Col- SdS pjn TBS — Major League Baseball San Diego at Alania Basketball Charlotte at TNT — NBA New York PRME— HL Playoffs Kansas Cy m Ulsh Ipjw WGN — Major League Basebai Write Sox at Oakland Oca-g- o Saturday 10 am ESPN— NFL Dm day No 1 at Now Yo s NBC — Baaing US Olympc Box-Off- 11&m CSS — Exhfchron basketbal US Jirior Select tea m vs treematcnal Juror Select team el Chwtotte N C Bas-katt- IldBeje NBC — Saner Champmtfvp PGA God PGA third round Serore' WGN — Major League Baseba'i Franowoo at Chicago Cubs 1 Sat pm ABC — PBA Bowling The Bud Light Champtonahto to SayvAe New Vo CBS — PGA Goff MCI Classic third round at Hatan Head S C IdDym hoc— NBA BteaCst Wans at Chcago SSSpm— TBS Major League BesebeH Dwgo at Aflame San ESPN — ML Playoffs Colorado el couver game No 3 Van- HBO — Boxing heavyweights Lou (34-0-vs Buster MsTvs Jr vs chamron Vrgi H4i i4 ten WBA kg- Lou dal Vale G2-0-champensf Savrvst ): O eevy-wwg- Today's quota “The nisth hitter is supposed tn pin cn er Grand slam? I'm sot supposed to do that " — I tier Rctdnptfz flam tem defttw and move ruaners pH 7ino f i i i technical fouls Utah swept Vuwouver in four games this season and will finish second in the Midwest Division behind San Antonio Vancouver (13-6- has road games 7) remaining at Denver Friday night and at the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday The Grizzlies can do no more than tie the record for fewest fewest victories by an expansion team Dallas had 13 in 1980-8- 1 and Miami had 13 in 1988-8- 9 Malooe scored seven points in the opening quarter when the Jazz forged a 27-2- 4 lead behind a 64) run late in the quarter With King setting the pace Vuwouver ran off nine straight points for a 37-3- 3 lead before Utah got a late basket and foul shot from Malone to lead 47-4- 4 at the half Sloan said “We :ekt Press season-endin- g knee injury Thursday night in the Blues’ 4 overtime kiss to Toronto which evened the series at one apiece Fuhr was injured when defenseman Chris Pronger 5-- best-of-- 7 Nick Kypreos into him and his leg got twisted in a tangle of bodies as Pronger jumped on Kypreos in the crease While the Blues Mamed Kypreos the Toronto forward said he was innocent “There’s only one guy lo blame and it's the guy who hit me from behind” he said “I'd be pretty upset at Chris Pronger right now if I was Grant Fuhr If (Pronger) doesn’t touch me 1 don't go anywhere near Fuhr ” SL Louis coach Mike Keenan saw it differently “(Kypreos) deliberately tried to make contact with him” Keenan said “and it resulted in a season-endin- g injury to a very key and important player on our team” Tonight's schedule features Washington at Pittsburgh Winnipeg at Detroit and Calgary at Chicago Washington Detroit and Chicago lead 0 Game 2 of the other series Florida vs Boston won’t be played until Monday because of scheduling conflicts at Miami Arena The Panthers won the opener of that series Mats Sundin scored two goals for Toronto including the winner at 4:02 of overtime that beat backup goalie Jon Casey “I didn't get good wood on it” Sundin said “I think (Casey) was expecting a harder shot It hit him and barely made it over the line” The Maple Leafs were cm the power play after the Amici assisted Viktor d goal and Hues were penalized for having too many men on scored the second goal on a the ice “It was my fault” Keenan said power play late in the first lightning 2 flyers 1 OT period The Grizzlies had At Philadelphia Brian Bellows scored the winning four penalties for eight ninFlyers at 9:05 of nies while the Blades had goal against the injury-plaguHcxtali with a ol Ron beat Bellows overtime minutes for 38 goalie llpenahies The learns play agate at the slap shot from just inside the right faceoff circle Ddu Center tonight nigfaL Lightning goalie Daren Puppa who made 23 saves cross-check- ed Grizzlies open playoffs with win SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah goalie Tommy Sak Mocked afi 22 Kansas City shots as the Grizzlies downed the Blades 0 Thursday night in the first game of their International Hockey 2-- best-of-fi- ve League playoff series Grizzlies winger Scott Gor-dkw- k's first-perio- ed 18-fo- AP photo fals over SL Louis Blues goalie Grant Fuhr Fuhr tyvad his knot and was lost tor Toronto’s Dsvn Gangnsr (15) the rest of too playoffs came up with several big stops in the overtime after Tampa Bay’ David Shaw was called for Philadelphia forwards John LcCIair Joel Otto and John Druce were injured during the game and their status for Game 3 is uncertain Caudieas 5 Rangers 3 At New York Vincent Damphousse again scored the key goal — his second of the game — with 3:26 left After the Rangers scored three straight times to tie it on Utf Samudsson’s goal with 7:43 remaining rush by the Canadiens moved ahead on a two-ma- n Damphousse and Mark Recchi who set up Damphousse with a terrific pass from behind the goal line cross-checki- Mark Bureau added an empty-nett- er for Montreal with six seconds left Damphousse scored twice in Game 1 including the winner in overtime Games 3 and 4 will be played in Montreal where the Canadiin their last 21 games against the ens are 17-1Rangers -3 Canucks 5 Avalanche 4 At Denver Vancouver rookie goaltender Corey Hirsch settled down after a shaky start Hindi making his first playoff start in place of Kirk McLean d goals but steadied himself gave up three in the final 30 minutes Gino Odjick who didn’t have a point in 22 previous playoff games scored two goals for the Canucks Hindi finished with 28 saves first-perio- after giving up three goals on five shots in the first 10 minutes Patrick Roy playing in his 116th playoff game had 24 saves for Colorado but was the victim of defensive lapses by his teammates Another season full of records ends at Regionals By "I'm Sawn Harmon sports Another gymnastics scavoa has come ro a ckwe far Utah State at the Midwest Regional Last week the Aggies had their best a 19305 score ever at Regional ail to make it to Nationals Low scores oa the balance beam hurt USU but stiff wouldn't have made a difference Finishing 19sfa in die orcntry (out of 92 teams) is nothing to be ashamed of Looking back the Aggies had a banner season wfch many records being net What is even more cxdnng is to look ahead USU bead coact Ray Corn has signed three (Chrisre Dtaua top-not- really excited about the waiter ch gymnasts Trina Ewart and Kerry iggers) to go along with a strong op that is returning fatnre of this program” said Core Thursday “With the addi- tion of three talented recruits die looks future great If you took at the scores wc have closed the gap I don't feel bad about where this program is at” And be shouldn't The Aggies are only going to get better USU does lose three solid seniors in Chelsea Nilsen Summer Ovesoa and Jessica Neenaa They will be missed for their leadership and contributions on iudrvihul events “They are three great seniors” Cora said - x t lose is three very consis- - TVha( f- - ”pb 7 AP photo Blues Star goaltender Grant Fuhr suffered a thrower Wendy Egbert and sprinter LaDonna Antoine who will be at the Ml Sac Relays in Walnut Calif Last week's four firsts stole the thunder from several fairly spectacular seconds at least in Aggie books In Eugene Ore distance runners Mike Davidson and Colleen Walsh ran the second fastest times in school history Davidson covering the lOjDOO meters in 3ft0999 minutes and Walsh the 3000 meters in 9:5775 She finished 17th Davidson second at the Oregon InvhatiooaL Personal bests were achieved by Toby Conley in the 10000 (30:4503 for fourth place) Don Leslie in the same race (31:0754 eighth pace): Shane Bingham and J'Dcc Wilson in the 1300 meters (finishing fourth and seventh respectively) and Anna Pelt and Lisa Hart in the 5000 meters (sixth and eighth) Winners at BYU were Antoine in the 200 meters Kim Lutz javelin Greg Anderson 400 meters and Justin Dudek hammer draw but it wasn't enough 36 pm (20-1-0- Greg Anthony was ejected after two No team however lost more than the St Louis The Aggies compete this weekend against Boise Stale Gonziga Idaho Slate Utah Washington Sate and Weber State They'll be minus several big guns such as Pftsburgh 6 SL Louis 2 Chicago 7 San Francisco 6 Phladalphia 9 Montreal 8 Florida S Atlanta 3 ESPN ar Philadelphia was upset by Thmpa Bayrand the New York Rangers lost their McfcMUnlgNk at home w Montreal in the opening round oTflie NHL playoffs Having been battered by foe elements and the hosts in last week’s Brigham Young Invitational Utah State track team heads in the opposite direction to Boise and the Bob Gibb Invitational AL Pttsburgh game Minnesota Timbcrwolves but the 80th game provided an example of how first-yeteams lack roster depth Rookie center Bryant Reeves started but played only 14 minutes because of tendinitis of the knee Rookie forward Ashraf Amaya hurt his ankle and guard made some shots in the third quarter than put the game in our favor” Jeff Homacek had 16 points and small forward David Benoit had 13 points and as Its heads By The Associated to two meets IHL SdOui— NHL two league games remaining Vancouver opened its home schedule Nov 3 with an overtime victory over the lose game goaltender Blues track Aggie Lightning upset Flyers team headed Rangers drop another one Tampa Bay 2 Philadelphia 1 OT Montreal 5 NY Rangers 3 Vancouver 5 Colorado 4 Toronto 5 SL Louis 4 OT Utah 2 us” of the season best performance Surviving mightily but falling short Hong-Chu- rebounds for Utah Chris King led the Grizzlies with 21 points and 13 rebounds in perhaps his — The Vancouver Grizzlies gave their fans series of lessons the last of a season-lon- g i - tent performers in five (of 24) surfing spots “I feel we base made up for their loss in recruiting The three new recruits are who add depth But like all freshmen we will have to sec if they can he consistent early on” Core likened the three newcomers lo Amber Jamison freshmen and Kim Richards Then there are the three other freshmeu that just need to work a little to he Krissy Richards bad ankle problems and a weak vault Jessica Porter did three times compete in the and needs a little work on the vault and floor exercise Laurie Cannon missed most of the year with a knee injury but could also be a possible ‘Next year we wCl have the deepest corps we have ever had" we Corn said "The more nd have the deeper this team will be” Not counting the five freshmen who had never competed on the collegiaie level before seven Aggie athletes set 14 Six school event records were broken and seven team records were broken this year USU started slowly but quickly made its presence felt After being ranked 22nd in the preseason the Aggies dimbed to as high as No 9 The record regional score extended L'SU's 190-plstring to 12 straight meets another record The Aggies' RQS (Regional Qualifying Score) of 193406 broke last year's 19315 and the season average of 192377 shattered the old mark of 190 $48 Those are just a few-- of career-high- s us the records Here are some of my own 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