4fi Thursday Sports February 41:199 SPORTS BRIEFS From 3B 20 points in the third quarter with the Bees still leading by 19 with 4:48 remaining A 15-- 2 Silver Wolves’ spurt trimmed the deficit to six points with 2:19 left Fremont twice closed within five points in the game’s final 53 seconds The fourth quarter turned into a shooting contest with Box Elder matching its season-hig- h point total - converting free foul shots Fremont dropped in throws The Bees’ Derrek Tyler tossed in a game-hig- h 18 points Aaron Davis dropped in 15 points and Ryan BrinkerhofF had 11 Fremont behind a 31 point fourth quarter scorers Jensen and Marc had four double-figur- e Hansen had 16 points each Barry Beus scored 13 points and Jake Hannum added 12 - Tom free-thro- Seaver is back with the New York Mets prompting the team to fire Tim Weber 77 Roy 72 At Roy the Warriors put together their first wins of the year in region play with a thrilling victory over the Royals The Weber youth movement was largely responsible for keeping the Warriors postseason hopes alive Juniors Lance Satterthwaite and Colby Fuller scored 18 points each for the Warriors with Joel Van De Graaff also a junior chipping in 12 points Sophomore Ty Sparrow also made his preseffort including a ence felt with an eight-poiwith just over three minutes left huge and the score tied at 66-6-6 “Give our young kids credit” Weber coach Lee Dickemore said “They have a great attitude They kept their composure and didn’t panic As a team we came close to playing 32 minutes for the first time in a long time” And boy did they need to The lead changed hands 19 times and was tied on six different occasions before Sparrow hit the that put the Warriors in front for good Roy stayed within striking distance down the w stretch but Weber iced the game from the line “I was pleased with our approach and aggressiveness They (Weber) just killed us on the offensive boards and that was the key” Roy coach Bart Hadley said Roy’s Justin Russell led all scorers with 23 points and was joined in double figures by Isaac Salazar (18) and Zane Melaney (11) back-to-ba- five-poi- Reliever Wagner signs $1 03-millio- contract n - HOUSTON Billy Wagner received one of the largest raises in baseball history when he avoided arbitration with the Houston Astros by agreeing to a conSI 03 million three-yea- r tract The reliever was seventh in the NL with 30 saves last season Strickland Wizards finally agree on contract - Rod WASHINGTON Strickland agreed to a contract with the Washington Wizards point guard the NBA assists leader last season received a four-ye$40 million deal with $35 million ar guaranteed according to The Washington Post The Wizards have the option of buying out $5 million of the $10 million fourth year if Strickland fails to meet Logan 68 Bonneville 49 At Logan the visiting Lakers seemed to have control of the game - until the fourth quarter Leading 42-4- 0 entering the final frame Bonneville lost its offensive focus and the Grizzlies capitalized by outscoring the Lakers 28-- 7 to close out the game “We defended well all night long but we lacked offensive assertiveness in the third and fourth quarters” Bonneville coach Rod Belnap said Bonneville led by 15 points in the first half and owned a 35-2- 5 lead at the break The game was tied with four minutes to go before Logan finished with a bunch of free throws The host Grizzlies had 20 more attempts Jay Banner led Bonneville with 16 points and Tim Martin added 9 points Jason Stephens paced Logan with 26 points and Kurtis Loveland added 15 points Sky View 78 Mountain Crest 71 (OT) certain incentives Rockets add Roberts to roster Carr out 4--6 weeks - Stanley 290-pou- ot center who spent last season with Minnesota ahead” The Tigers canned two in the first minute of the game but weren’t able to pull away in the first half Ogden took a 30-2- 5 lead at halftime after Russell buried a with two seconds left in the half After the break the Scots staged a run of their own and tied on Shad the game at 30-a- ll bucket with Laughter's 6:24 left in the third period Following Ben Allison’s layup just a few seconds later that gave Ogden the lead again Russell ignited an 18-- 3 run and the Tigers took a commanding 48-3- 3 lead with 1:07 left in the third “I got into a rhythm and it felt like the basket was wide” Russell said Ben Lomond closed within 56-4-6 with 2:01 remaining in the game but did not get any closer Russell led Ogden with 18 points while Allison chipped in free-thro- two days before the season opener at Indiana HOUSTON Roberts the nt nt NBA BASKETBALL The ck signed with the Houston Rockets Roberts averaged 62 points and 49 rebounds last season Houston already had signed Antoine Carr to back up Olaju-wo- n but Carr is recovering from arthroscopic knee surgery and will be out four to six weeks free-thro- w COLLEGE BASKETBALL Lobos starting forward At Hyrum the Sky View Bobcats got what they came for when they visited valley rival suspended ALBUQUERQUE NM -The transient career of New 10-fe- et TIM SCHOON Standard-Exarron- Region 4 boys ’WOLVES basketball BEES: Box vs Elder’s Greg Gunn (left) tries to block a shot attempt by Brian Johnson canned a game-hig- h 25 points for Ben Lo- ed Mountain Crest Sophomore Nate Harris came off the bench 20 points for Sky View game-hig- h Trevor Stokes added 19 points The game was close throughout and the Bobcats had to stage a fourth-quartcomeback In overtime the Bobcats dominated for the win to score a er nt correspondents Tony Reyna Chris Christensen and Steve Mickelson contributed to this report er teammate Ryan Webb for two and a straight advantage the Bear River bench took over “Chris is the most complete player that I have ever coached” Bears’ coach Van Park said “He did a little of everything tonight “Give Morgan credit for coming out and hustling while we were flat on defense However I liked our overall effort as a team and we won even when we were nt tired” Huber finished with 21 points and Webb added 17 The Trojans were led by guard Coby Johnson’s 14 points Aaron Rich chipped in with 11 Tooele 61 Granite 47 At Salt Lake City the Buffaloes broke away from a halftime tie to shoot past the Farmers Willie Woodruff scored 19 points to lead three Tooele players in double figures Nick Hogan and Mark Ekins had 11 points apiece for the Buffaloes For Granite Kenyon Rogers 20 points and scored a game-hig- h Matt Harmon had 11 more for the Farmers North Region Rowland Hall-SMark’s 58 2-- A L St Joseph 56 At Ogden the Jayhawks fell to at the midway point of the league season but they could just as well be 1 The latest tough loss was a two-poidefeat at home to the ' Lions “We had some tough losses but we just have to keep plugging away” St Joseph coach Chris Koford said St Joseph led by six points with six minutes left but RowMark’s grabbed land Hall-S- t several key offensive rebounds down the stretch turning them into Chris Hill led the Lions with 13 points and Rob Wood added 1- -3 12 Sam Crockett led St Joseph with 11 points and 6 rebounds Josh and Jon Olsen added 10 and 9 points respectively Mexico forward Damion Walker has found another exit Walker one of the nation’s top high school players four years ago was suspended indefinitely Wednesday by New Mexico coach Dave Bliss for violating team rules Bliss whose No 17 ranked Lobos (17-5- ) have lost three of their last four and are struggling to stay in contention for an NCAA tournament bid would not elaborate on the reason for the suspension or on what rules Walker violated SKIING: Meissnitzer wins women's at Worlds VAIL Colo - 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(787-326- 7) ? yi accost t y Jj ‘ nt At Garland Chris Huber and his Bear River teammates put on a show Wednesday Huber controlled each quarter by using a different skill forcing several early turnovers that led to points for the Bears who outs-corthe Trojans 14-- 8 in the quarter and never looked back In the second quarter Huber showed off his offensive arsenal and finished with nine points in the quarter and helped his team halftime lead to a In the second half he took control of the point guard position and ran the team with hustle and good decisions After hitting Fremont on Wednesday night Overall 3-- Bear River Morgan 51 Jared Jensen of Standard-Examin- 13 mond League Rivalry games don’t often live up to their hype Such was not the case when Ben Lomond and Ogden met in Wednesday’s Region 7 boys basketball showdown Led by junior Mike Russell the Tigers jumped out to an early lead but weren’t able to pull away from a very determined bunch of Scots until late in the fourth quarter finally securing a 60-4- 8 win “Anytime you can come into Ben Lomond and steal one on their floor it’s a pretty big win” Ogden coach Jim Price said “After the loss to Morgan we needed this win We were tied with them for second place so it was either them ahead or us -- 10-1- Region 7 boys basketball correspondent - OGDEN w 14-of-- perhaps baseball’s McCarver By JUSTIN JOHNSON Standard-Examin- - best television analyst Seaver who has not been to Shea Stadium since 1988 will be in his retired uniform No 41 for 2 days during spring training and will broadcast 50 games this season on WPIX the Mets’ new station He also will have a marketing role and work with minor leaguers during the season McCarver was the team’s color analyst for 16 seasons er Tigers tame Scots in battle for second place Region 4 Mets fire McCarver sign Seaver NEW YORK Standard-Examin- w-4JC v te o On r“ p y cres$ t r— you ! 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