Show r f r r y J I' f It Section v AW'M ryr f ' : r' ' ' Sunday " March 3 4002 The Herald Journal losido Wolves IBl rdxxinds end Bryon Rus- sell tied a career high with 25 points for the Jazz John Stockton who T turns 40 later this month had 21 points and nine assists an inspired perfor-mance that helped Utah rally late in the first half and again in the fourth quarter Utah trailed 5 M5 at halftime but turned up the defensive intensity fueling an 0 burst midway through die third quarter to take a 1 lead on a basket by Malone with 6: 15 left From that point the teams matched each other shot for shot until Minnesota went ahead 4 with 8:38 remaining SALT LAKE CITY (AP) —The Min- nesotaTimbenvolves looked like one bf die deepest teams in die league Just ask Gary ’Rent The Utah Jazz lodced like a squad that couldn’t buy a favorable call Just ask Jerry Sloan Kevin Garnett had 26 points and 11- rebounds and Tient wdded 17 points as Minnesota's reserves produced 56 points to lead the Timberwolves to a 1 victory over Utah on Saturday night“We just kept ramming with bodies" said Tkent playing for the second time since wiiwing nine games with a strained left hamstring “The depth was a key The only negadve is there’s not enough min- utes for everyone ' Karl Malone had 25 points and 12 - f ‘ f Fft T?nt” - 16-1-05 8-- - Spencer Nelson (s worfdnghte d2 way back from injury Jazz bi'Ee 63-6- 92-8- See JAZZ on B3 ' AP photo Utah Jazz forward Karl Malone right strips the ball from Minnesota Timberwolves guard Chauncey Billups center as Jazz guard John Stoddon (12) stows BMupe down during the first quarter Saturday Saturday's scores GOGr1® Big 5 basketball CS Northridge 62 Utah 8tate 54 Wyoming 57 Utah 56 Colorado Safe 79 BYU 75 OT Weber State 88 Idaho Sate 82 OT Rally from early hole falls short title shared NBA Atlanta 84 Cteveiwid 81 Mfomi 109 Dalaa95 Portland 104 Milwaukee 103 OT Houston 104 Phoenix 97 Mbmaaota 116 Utah 105 LA Clppera 109 GoMan State 95 NHL Dallas 2 Colorado 1 4 Pittsburg 2 NY Rangers 6 Philadelphia 5 Columbus 2 Los Angeles 0 Buffalo 3 Tbronto 3 tie Washington 3 Ottawa 2 OT Caioflna 4 Montreal 3 NY Mandate 4 Atlanta 1 Tampa Bay 3 Florida 2 Calgary 5 Nashville 2 themselves Ironically though it was their giving nature against a pressing Cal State Northridge Matadorsteam on Saturday night that prevented die Aggies from claiming the league title UTAH STATE outright A BASKETBALL first half ' that saw Aggies 54 them com- - AUTORACWO t- - Trwiitl9v NASCAR Winston Cup'7' UAWGMrChryslBr BOWLING lOdOajii ESPN — PBA) World Championship GOLF- TGC -A- ustralian LPGA Tour Women’s Australian Open final round (same-da-y tape) pjn NBC— PGA Tbuf Genuity Championship final round ‘ at Mtami 3:30 pjn CNBC— Senior PGA Tour S8C Senior Classic final round MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL lOajn CBS — Boston College at Syracuse ABC —Memphis -- at Cincinnati CBS— Kansas at Missouri 1:30 pjn ABC 2pm CBS— North Carofine ' at Duke IBnoisatMbmespla 4 pjn E8PN2—8outham Conference Tournament championship game Davidson vs Furman at Charleston SXX 1030 ajn NBC — Phtadslphta 4 pen iiXi UiHnooKWBMingiQn - ?' USU at Tbtonlo 'j a -- ' By David Cordero staff writer - ‘''NHL'PJn ESPN2— San Jose at Dallas ’ ESPN — 8tate Farm VfomerfS Tbn-mck)NiGp cnamponsrap muciip ' Scottsdale Arb(samday tape) s 4'inack:4 reuy?'"'’ - £ raooruiBmpionBnpB WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL ft wiu there for the taking An npset was very much a possi-ta-h S tate softball bility for the team ss it entered die bottom of die sixth inning scoreless with Noi 6 WfahingtoiLBiit Husky Aipanda Oleson who got on base v widikone-oi- tt suigle evencame around to score : tually The Aggies were then rebound from a 2001 season that was worse dum any of the other 25 before that it can be seen as a moral vicfoiy something that can steer die team back in a positiye direction At least that’s Bilbao’s take She pants to the positives like Aggie pitdier Kristin HommeL ydm threw six inninp against die Huskies and allowed just one walk— -- tremendous consid-erin- g herprotdemswith con? thTseveittfa vnai J '£ ‘ v fi i 'v Pio-1-0 Conference etmffinal Stanford vs TbumamenL Oregon State A W t r fA ' ri 6-- A State 1 Oregon ve lt -- : ia tbueonFlr': at r l-- l4 ’ getim - ' : V FOXiioCorffetM'!' Toumamedt siMnfftnal nd ? jr-)r-- ESPN2VSECTbumimentchanv £' t pionehip garpeLSU There were some bright 90IS like Jessenia Abrego taking fourth in the with a 3860 and Nicole The roller coaster ride continues Kilpatrickright behind in fifth with a 3850 Com was pleased with the floor for the Utah State gymnastics team and vault routines ft was the other two Falls fion the balance beam and events that needed tone wcdc uneven bars put a damper on With a blizzaxd raging outside reiectaMe performances on die USU seemed to be caught in die midfloor exdrcise and vault Saturday : dle of it to stait the meet The v night at No 19 Mnsouri The Aggies finished fourth Aggies began on beam and suffered three falls from the appa-rettin a four-teameet with a scoring a 4730 disqipointing score bf “We dug ourselves a hole 19170 that wecouldn’t get out of” don’t know what to gymnusti6s Corn said say” USU head boach Ray Then it was off to die floor Corn said “It was a great htendae After Mika Houston stiug- event but riot for Utah State” Ndtl4JSeoytt won die meet wii 1 1-- FOXSN 0P-- " By ’Shown Harrison sports edffor " a gem a MU fy AshlBoek as Wsshington escaped widi t V 'r Y v h ft & igamd” Bilbao said “By far die best she has pitched all year” a 0 victory at the Red Depart Then there isthird baseman Classic in St George Saturday ' ' "We hadpeople in position to Stephanie Vssarhely wbo had twcT hits in both of Saturday’! gameyf? score but couldnTget them in” v USU head coach Debbie Bilbao laid : and 195i75ialowedbythehostst 'r: In dns": You can sayUSU-—194775 Illinois State took third With die second half of the double- "Seemiiigly we had i Selves back” Com said header die Aesies held a 5 lead over' ieuoo ii off to its wont start inA Com went with just five vaulters iriiile and you wouldn’t BYU entering die Coitgar top of the y'ifTheAIgfes had A chance to take' fthiid ffrSSiilg on the ban but two" t pulling Houston to avoid injury Tlie ' aeverthl But junia Brooke Cacfiente V S argumentato dto'contttuyButfthaa hit atwOron homer off USU hurier idayedadifficuftadie(iU? 1 :falls1eft them in die ceUaf'f 0!f Aggiqa didn't stick their vaults but" natmnaUy-ranke- d teams) and will'! i'imimffed we can’t put ii moiety v didn’t fidl either and seemed to be ' uhtU M honk not one kwoidd never triinquiidi rttt no 'ftbackon Course until die bars A Mafrdi29v jiogedieftCbrtt play ' In die die towel on v Heartbreak asaiii you could say tihrovring "Wejust didn’t get die job done’V sepspn'See CHANCES on B5 T and hmfodie'leam v'Tv Yet for program attempting to : S: ' ) Duke vs Virginia f FOXSN — ACClburriament semiff-- i nal2NorthCaroffnevs North Carol-1 ' naSMec:: t’ s Gymnasts continue roller coaster ride drops two heartbreakers ' too pjn 1 See AGS on B5 AP photo Utah State forward Brennan Ray (24) attempts to block a pass from Cal State Northridge’s Lionel Benjamin in the first half Saturday The Matadors beat trie Aggies 62-5- 4 ' FOXSN — Virginia at Maryland NBA 1 11-- ce V 6 pjn ' re Although they are forced to share the tide with UC Irvine die Aggies (13-- 5 Big West 21-- 6 overall) will still go mto next week's conference tournament as die No 1 seed Utah State which turned die ball over 25 times in the game staged a huge comeback m die seodnd halL getting to within one point on Ronnie Ross’ second straight with 5:39 left to play “It was anybody’s game I thought then" Aggies head coach Stew Morrill said “As often happens in comebacks you work so hard to borne back that you're a little gassed And we were a little gassed We couldn’t get some stops we went for some shot fakes we made some bad TGC — European PGA Tour Caris-ber-g Malaysian Open final round (same-da-y tape) flnjn v atthe Matadome 9 am 1 1 turnovers and fall behind by : 20 points midway through ended up costing die Aggies 62-5big time in a 4 kiss to Cal State Northridge before 1513 40a at Las Vsgas After Ross hit his second trey he tried one more that would have given Utah State die lead but it clanged off the rim "After hitting two in a row my confidence was building” said Ross whose 12 points tied Desmond Penigar for the team high UI hit two in a row so I thought I was going to hit the next one but I did kind of rush it" CalState Northridge outscored Utah State 14-- 7 over the final 5:19 to get the win Tony JJirown and Jeremy “I Vague both scored 10 points $r giving die Aggies four players with double-figusconng Toraino Johnson added eight points and eight rebounds Cal State Northridge in its first season as a Kg West member finished league play with an 7 record and in a third-platie However because'of die tiebreaker see-- ! nario the Matadors will got into the conference tournament as either the No4 or 5 seed “I’m really really proud of their effort tonight” Matadors head coach Bobby Bnuwdl said "It was absolutely amazing especially that first half Utah State’s a good team You know they’re going to come back you know they’re going to fighL But I thought what our guys did the last seven minutes the way they guttqd it out and just fought back and - greedy They wanted die Big On television K pened” West championship all for SL Louis 1 Edmonton 1 tie Vancouver 6 Minnesota 3 run' was it That was what hap- NORTHRIDGE Calif — The Utah State Aggierfwere Detroit 1 decisions in die press That By Gregg Hardy staff writer (dejtapavii Vrzm:"'—"Z ia'nt A?-- ' i : fWN-- 1 J' ' — -- i - i W 'V |