m i r -- u Standard-Examin- Sports 2D Fnday December 12000 B3A ROUliDUP COLLEGE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Sonics slap Lakers by 33 points Second-hal- f ant had 17 The Lakers shot a dismal from range The game was more or less over at halftime when the Sonics lead 3 left the court with a after outsconng the Lakers 40-1- 8 in the second quarter The Associated Press - Nate SEATTLE is doing wonders for McMillan the Seattle SuperSomcs The Sonics improved to 0 under their new coach with a 121-8- 8 victory over the defending NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night The e Lakers had a winning streak broken The Somes led by 31 points at halftime and the fans at the Key 2-- 74-4- ¥ Trail Blazers 95 Mavericks 84: At Portland Ore Rasheed Wallace scored 28 points and Steve Smith added five-gam- 19 as the Trail Blazers defeated Dallas Wallace came off the bench for the first time this season after skipping shoo-taroun-d to attend to personal matters The absence was excused coach Mike Dunleaw said Arena were chanting "Nate Nate Nate!” in the final 1:46 Paul Rookie Courtney Alexander scored West- - 20 points six more than his season high to lead the Mavencks who had won two straight Their 10-- 5 start tied for the second-best in franchise histOfcy Even with the loss Dallas has won 19 of its last 26 games dating to April 2 of last season Onls the Philadelphia 76ers have a better record during that span going 18-- 5 Assistant Del Harris Coached the Mass while Don Nelson staved in Dallas to have a biopsy of his enlarged prostate Nelson was "upbeat” after doctors found no abnormalities Hams said and Nelson was expected to rejoin the team for Saturday night's game at Golden State Rockets 109 Nuggets 105 (0T): At Denser Kenny Thomas scored five of 18 points m overtime and his season-hig- h Steve Francis and Cuttino Mobley had 22 pomts each as Houston ended the Nuge home winning streak gets’ Francis also had six assists and seven rebounds The Rockets’ effort offset the season-hig- h phal was fired Monday after the Somes got off to a slow 6 start and was replaced by the popular McMillan who was an assistant coach under Payton West-ph- al after playing 12 seasons for the Sonics Seattle won its first game under McMillan on Tuesday night at Portland "I think Nate McMillan is going to be a great coach” said the Lakers' Horace Grant who placed last season with Seattle "I think what you saw tonight proved that "I think Nate is not going to back down As a player you’ve got to accept his way or it’s going to be the highway” Grant said "The Somes came out and pushed the ball down our throats performance of Denver's Antonio McDvess Bulls 91 Hawks 82: At Atlanta 30 Ron Mercer scored a season-higpoints including 12 in the fourth quarter h and Chicago grabbed its second win of the season by beating the Hawks to snap a nine-gam- e losing streak Elton Brand added 22 points and 13 rebounds for the Bulls and Khalid added 16 points including eight of who Chicago’s last 10 The Bulls still have the worst record in the league also won their first road game of the season after eight losses The Hawks who have the second-worwere led record in the NBA by Jason Terry with 22 points Bucks 108 Celtics 97: At Milwaukee Glenn Robinson matched his with 25 points and Sam Casseason-hig- h 14 sell added 19 points and a season-hig- h assists as the Bucks beat Boston for the tonight” Gary Payton led the Sonics with 27 pomts while Vm Baker who spent most of his time in Westphal's doghouse this season had 20 points and nine rebounds Shaquille O'Neal led the Lakers with 23 points and Kobe Bry NBA basketball sixth time in their last seven meetings Paul Pierce led the Celtics with 34 from the field points shooting line from the free-throand Antoine Walker added 20 points and eight rebounds Warriors 99 Pacers 95: At Oakland Calif Chris Mills hit a jumper with 22 3 seconds left as Golden State after lead m the fourth blowing an quarter held on to beat Indiana 29 Larry Hughes had a season-hig- h points for the Warriors and MiUs added Bob Sura had a 19 also a season-hig- h 18 pomts and tune rebounds season-hig- h for Golden Slate 'I WSU haunt again struggles asked er on Crista Peterson’s free do the that By JUSTIN JOHNSON staff Standard-Examm- OGDEN - For the first 20 minutes of Thursday night’s women’s basketball game between Weber State and Boise State the Wildcats played like a team that was not going to allow itself to lose on its home floor this season WSU held a plus-1- 3 edge in rebounding had nine assists on 15 baskets committed just two turnovers and held an 11 point edge As it has all season the second half proved to be just the opposite as the Wildcats squan-- Around the league Carter will miss one more game: Vince Carter the NBA’s No 3 scorer will miss at least one more game because of an injured tendon in his left knee Carter who is averaging 27 5 pomts per game won’t play in Toronto’s home game against the Los Angeles Clippers tonight The Raptors' star didn’t travel e with the team on their trip to Dallas and Charlotte and Toronto lost both games without him Carter was hurt dunng the first quarter of Sunday’s game against the Chicago Bulls Doctors wiU decide if Carter's healthy e enough to join the team for its road trip which begins in Utah on two-gam- three-gam- Tuesday night Blazers’ Wells suspended Rivers fined: Bonzi Wells of the Portland Trail Blazers was suspended for one game and fined $10000 by the NBA on Thursday for intentionally striking and verbally abusing an official NBA vice president Stu Jackson also fined Orlando coach Doc Rivers $7500 for confronting and verbally abusing an official after the Magic’s 88-8- 6 loss to Utah on Thursday night Wells went after referee Tim Don-agh- y late in the fourth quarter of Portloss to Seattle on Tuesday land's 105-9- 3 night Wells tried to swipe the ball out of Donaghy’s hand and bumped the official Alter getting thrown out Wells twice threw his headband and on his way to the tunnel knocked a row of cups filled with red Gatorade mto the first few rows Wells had to sit out Portland's home game Thursday night against Dallas o In the game Rivers argued vehemently that Tracy McGrady had been fouled on the final play of the game Magic waive Perry: The Orlando Magic waived reserve point guard" Elliot Perry on Thursday Perry who played m only six games since being signed Nov 2 had 10 points five assists and four rebounds in 39 total mmutes dered a lead falling second-hal- f nt 65-6- to the 4 Broncos at the Dee Events Center “The difference in the game was our inability to convert on our offensive opportunities in the second half” Weber State coach Carla Taylor said “Boise switched to a zone in the second half and we didn’t do what we needed to do to attack it “We looked like we were playing not to lose” Taylor said “Our team lacked the di scipline in the second half to execute and we things them to” After being shut out last Satsophourday vs Utah first-ha- lf more center hit shots for 14 points and had seven rebounds at the break She continued her torrid shooting by splashing in the first basket of the second half to give WSU a 40-2- 7 lead A 10-- 0 run by the Broncos but juclosed the gap to 40-3- 7 nior pomt guard Stephanie Stan-ghit a short jump shot and Meghan Geddes added a layup to push the lead back to seven “We weren’t executing what we were supposed to” said Howe “We’ve been having a hard time with the second half all year We made some mental errors in the second half and they cost us” After trading baskets for the -7 er rest of the second half the Wildcats took a 4 lead with 60-5- 4:10 left on a Howe jump shot A fast break layup of the inbounds pass and two baskets off of a pair of Weber State turnovers knotted the game at 62-a- ll with 1:57 remaining and the Broncos took their first lead of the game just a few seconds lat throws Howe knotted the game at 64-6- 4 with her own pair of foul shots with 234 seconds left in the contest Boise State’s Andrea Swindell the provided game-winnin- g i point by converting the second secwith 35 free throws of two ' onds left and a costly turnover following a timeout with 22 left : provided the final margin “We started going away from the plays that were working”' Stanger said “They changed up ' their defense from a zone to a man and back to a zone and we didn’t make the adjustments we needed to make We gave up a lot of big pla s in the second half” Howe finished with 24 points and 13 rebounds to lead Weber State while Stanger had 12 points six rebounds five assists a steal and a blocked shot Boise State was led by Andrea Swindell's 17 points while Tawnya Gray and Peterson each added 13 Next up for Weber State (1-is San Jose State on Saturday at 3) 7 pm TRAIL BLAZERS 95 MAVERICKS 84 At Portland Ore Eastern Conference Atlantic Division goals: Percentages: FG 577 FT 688 Robin467 (Cassell 3 Hunter 4 Allen Thomas 1 Redd 1 Kersey Pope Blocked shots: 5 (Robinson Johnson Caffev Pope Kersey) Turnovers: 15 (Robinson 5 Allen 3 Thomas 2 Caffev 2 Cassell Hunter Kersey) Steals: 10 (Robinson 4 Thomas 2 Mllen Cassell secCaffev Hunter) Technical fouls: Thomas ond llegal defense: None 19 23 28 2- 7- 97 Boston 36 23 21 28-- 108 Milwaukee -04 13 247 (18717) son 0 1) 5 15 Percentages 333 (Nash Eislev 0 FG 3 5 Fmiev 408 FT 944 3 Domt goals 1 Alexander 2 4 Nowitzki Blocked shots 2 (Bradley Nowitzki) Turnovers 19 (Finley 5 Nash 5 Nowitz-k- f 3 Alexander 3 Vaught 2 Bradley) Steals 8 (Nash 3 Finley 2 Alexander 2 Vaught) Technical touts None llegal detense PORTLAND Reto FT FG M-O T A PF Pts Mm M A Augmon Pi open D Davis ROCKETS 109 NUGGETS 105 (OT) At Denver SCRAMBLE ON THE COURT: Amber McCoy of Ogden (left) and Jena Hales of Fremont fight for a loose ball during the first half of Thursday’s game between the Tigers and Silver Wolves at the Falcon Invitational Smith Sfoudamire Anthony Wallace Kemp Perdue Totals Percentages FG 514 FT 762 3 pomt goals 2 Stoudamire 250 (Anihony 23 Wallace 0 2 Pippen 0 2 Smith 0 3) Blocked shots 5 (D 16 Turnovers 2 Wallace Pippen Smith) Davis (Kemp 5 Stoudamire 3 Wallace 2 Pippen 2 Smith 10 D 3 Antho2 Anthony Davis) Steals (Wallace ny 2 Augmon 2 Stoudamire Piooen Smith) Tech-racfouls Coach Dunieavy 11 14 first Smith 00 second Wallace 9 50 fourth (legal defense 19 84 26 23 Dates 95 27 25 27 Portland A-- 19 -06 980 (19 980) Port and 95 Darias 84 Sea”e 121 L A Lakers 88 Goioen State 99 Indiana 95 Today's games (Times MST L A CliDoers at Toronto 5 o m Oarlotte at PfiiadDnia 5 P m Utah at Miami 5 JO pm Minnesota at Boston 530pm New Jersev at Otaoo 5 30 Dm C evetand at Detroit 6 d m New York at Chicago 6Xpm Indiana at Vancouver 8 o m Phoenix at Sacramerto 8 30 pm San Antonio at LA Lakers 8 30 p m Saturday's games Milwaukee at A'lanta 1230 pm O’ ando at New Jersey 5 30 p m Utah a Charlotte 5 30 pm Philadelphia at Cleveland 5 X p m Mmesofa at New York 530 pm Miami at Washington 6 pm Portland at Houston 6 30 pm Seattle at Denver 7 pm Dallas at Goiden State 8 30 pm Sunday's games L A Clippers at Boston 10 30 a m Indiana at Milwaukee pm San An‘omo at Vancouver 130pm Washington at Detroit 5 pm Por and a Phoenix 6pm 7 o m Go den S‘ae at Sea” Daiasat LA Laxe'S 7X?m At Atlanta f from Jenny Wayman one of the Tigers’ two Seniors Emily Drake dropped in seven points k Morgan 54 Roy 35: The Trojans jumped out to a quick 10-- lead m the game’s first two minutes and cruised to their first victory of the young season sophomore guard Veva Whitear sliced through the Royals de16 pomts while fense for a game-hig- h sharpshooting junior guard Jody Wangsgard popped in 14 including three in the third quarter 3 when Morgan run staged a lead a to open up the some of “We finally put pieces together” Morgan coach Kirk Miles said “We can’t get too excited though because it was Roy’s first game and I know how we played m our first game e They suffered some jitters “We slowed down our offense and executed a little bit better than we did in our first two games Our kids played hard one thing about Morgan kids they'll always play hard But we’ve got 0 Cat-qui- 17-- (1-- 466 FT goals Percentages 000 (Benamm 1 Artest 0 Blocked shots 4 (Brand 2 Artest Tariac) Turnovers 17 (Brand 6 Artest 3 Mercer 3 J Crawford 4 2 Benamm El Amm Fizer) Steals 9 Mercer 2 Benamm Artest Tariac) Technical 17 third fouls Fizer 100 second Illegal Defense 4 Segal defense: ATLANTA Reto FT FG FG 0 3 point El Amm 821 3 Ml Lenard Blocked shots: 11 Turnovers: Posev) 091 Van (LaFrentz 2 Exel 3 Posev (LaFrentz 5 McDyess4 Clark d 2 Van 14 (LaFrentz 3 McDvess 3 Fxel Clark McCloud Posev Lenard Pack) d McDvess Steals' 4 (Van Exel Strickland) Technical fouls Van Exel 3 23 first Coach issei 3 23 first Begal defense-Non109 25 25 26 22 Houston 105 28 23 25 22 Denver 0 A- - 13 1 684 (19 099) (WEDNESDAY’S LATE BOX SCORE) GRIZZUES 109 SUNS 106 (2 OT) Seattle At Vancouver British Columbia first-gam- a long ways to go” Senior guard Channdra Gatherum topped Roy’s scoring with nine points and junior Tom Greenhalgh had eight for the Royals who battled back after Morgan's quick start and got within seven points on three occasions and 7 trailed by just eight early in the third quarter before Wangsgard’s barrage sparked a 1(H) spurt The Trojans led entering the final period and extended their margin to 7 before Roy rallied in the clos25-1- 24028722232 12 388 82 26 FG jf9 FT 68 3 pomt goals A Jornson 0 8 Te"-0 shots 4 Mutompo 2 HenMaonev 0 ? derson Wrg-- f Turnovers 17 (Terry 4 Henderson 3 Mtomor 2 A Johnson 2 Matonev 2 Roomson 2 Steals 9 Vaonev3 Terry 2 Wrigrt A Jonnscn Robinson) Techm Henoerscr cal foufv N'- ”e llegal defense None Owe ago 26 19 20 26-- 91 21 19 20 2- 2- 82 Atlanta Percentages 4 FG 412 FT 773 3 point goals R 4 Horry 0 Saw 0 i noer-rh- y George 0 2 Harper 0 3 Brva" 0 4 Fox 3 4 Blocked shcv 8 (0 Neal Harper ? Horry Turnovers 21 (Bam 6 G Nea 3 Sraw Grar’ 2 Fos’er George Vs jRder 3 F" ? vGra'' Stoats 8 Brvar't 3 7tadser Peoer'-fq Percentages 1 A- (bO 20 3u3 12 - 10 R 956 19 o '“son 4 Blocked 42-2- 4 54-2- ing mmutes Clearfield 43 Tooele 25: Jennie Overdiek matched her season-hig- h with another performance for the ) falcons 445) FG 421 FT 655 3 pomt goals: 2 Delk Robinson 2 4 Marion 3 ? Rogers Blocked shots 9 (Robmson 3 3 18 von 6 Room 3 Turnovers Manon k dd 5 Rogers 3 Marion Dek Bkxjnt Santiago) 4 Kidd 2 Deik 2 Marion Steals 11 Bmr-fTechnical foufs illegal Defense 3 40 second R Dmson 26 1st overtime Illegal Defense 3 a7 2n3 overhme Percentages BUCKS 108 CELTICS 97 0 7 14 AtMtwaofcee 500 x km ? 3 (2-- “We were looking to go to whoever was open They left Jennie open so we FG FT Reto From ID outscored their opponents by an average of 26 to 1 7 in the fourth - 8 15 240 46 533 (Pavmn Mason FT 8 Lewis 2 2 1 2 40 7 21 24 Percentages FG5 otl 77 2 0 McCoy Papery Blocked stoats: Turnovers 12 (aSon 3 Baer 2 Parson ? A StoaK U 'Lew-- 4 Pa 2 Dev IS 2 E Wng J 3 Pavgn 2 Bauer We ams Masrm Davit) Techrocal louts Pavon 449fNrd Beg defense 25 M 79 f- o- II Lakers 22 25--121 Seam 5 '' 2 Aaer MrCav oa' 07 '1702) S Ovepn Techrvcal touts Coach P’no 4 36 third Begat fense: MJLWAIACEE FG Hams A -- 17 quarter "We just keep hanging in h there” point guard John Percentages FG 49 FT At 7 3 pood goals 4 4 Aa xer 3 9 E A iams 2 4 It T 500 McCar-- v 12 V'kU Be Blocked shots 5 Aaer 4 Pierce 3 None Turnovers 16 2 Swn S O’n'-vy- n S teats 10 E A Siam 3 5 Parson 01 Dans Baker 121 25 3 pomt goats Barn 12 first-ha- holdmg a 42-1- lf lead 3 “When we opened things up I wanted to go to the bench and get some of the younger players in” Swanwe’re not where son said “Depth-wis- e we want to be We also did way too much reaching instead of moving our feet We have great team speed and when the girls get out and move their feet we can do a lot of things on defense" No other Clearfield player scored more than four pomts The Buffaloes’ Kay Bleazard finh ished with a II points with Tooele going scoreless m the first quarter Sky View 47 Viewmont 37: The Bobcats’ Julie Wood wound up with a 18 points The Vikings’ game-hig- h Candace States scored 13 pomts ¥ Bonneville 82 Olympus 51: At Salt Lake City Megan Richardson 29 points and pulscored a game-hig- h led down rebounds in just three quarters of play to lead the Lakers past action Olympus m “I was anxious to see how we’d look m our first game out" Bonneville coach Mae Miya said “We were Ured of battling each other at practice so it's good to go up against someone else for a change We had a nice team effort and played great defensively m the second and third’quarters” Kim GladweU added 12 points and four assists for the Lakers Renee Boyce also chipped m with eight team-hig- 1 1 non-leag- pomts four assists and five boards ¥ Weber 50 Bear River 48: At Pleasant View the Warriors held off the Bears at home in a close battle Courtney Woemer led all scorers with 22 points for Bear River Ashley Hone tallied 15 pomts for Weber ¥ Ben Lomond 58 West 55: At Salt Lake City Ben Lomond squandered an 11 pomt lead but held on to non-leag- -- defeat West “We struggled a little bit early but the girls played hard and we were able to get the win” Ben Lomond coach Steve Moms said “The kids are coming around and finally gelling as a team” Ben Lomond’s Jenny Hatch 29 scorched the nets with a game-higpomts Tamika Hardy led West with h 21 ¥ St Joseph 43 Waterford 28: At Ogden St Joseph shook off a slow start to down Waterford in Thursday's Region 17 contest “Waterford came out aggressive and we had several turnovers in the first half” St Joseph coach Rick Stoeckel said “fXe didn't play as a team and that's our whole key to success We’re happy to get our first region win but even though we won we weren’t very successful because we didn't play as a team” Amada Chavez led the Jayhawks 15 points Mary with a game-hig- h Dimsdale helped out with 11 rebounds and five blocks Layton Christian 77 Wendover 45: At Ogden Lavton Christian used a total team effort to down Wendover “Everyone played and everyone contributed It was a good team effort” Layton Christian coach Vern Parsons said “We still have some wqrk to do belore region begins” Layton Christian takes on Christian Homage Tuesday Rogs Mcerson VANCOUVER Totals went to her” Clearfield coach Rich Swanson said “They were going with Jennie so you go with what the defense gives you I was surprised that they didn’t double-teaJennie” Overdiek scored the game’s first 10 pomts points tallying 16 “Tooele is a young team with a new coach and they’re still seeing what they have Jennie could have scored 40 and we could have kept Tooele down more than we did” he said Swanson started pulling his starters with 651 remaining and the Falcons one-on-o- From ID 121 LAKERS 88 SUPERSONICS At BULLS 91 HAWKS 82 Preps Percentages: FG 460 FT 548 3 point goals: 316 (Francis 4 Thomas 6 Mobley Bullard Blocked Anderson 1 Williams shots 6 (Mobiev 2 Otaiuwon 2 Anderson Thomas) Turnovers: 11 (Anderson 3 Franas 3 Mobley 2 Thomas 2 Otaiuwon) Steals: 11 (Otaiuwon 4 Anderson 3 MoWev 2 Rogers Thomas) Technical fouls Rogers 8 12 second rancis 7 24 third I defense: None DENVER FG Reb FT Cany R 0nson Pore Aen t Casse FT Reto de- Stock-toug- FG 404 FT 857 goals: 1 2 J00 iAos’n i j jo Bbdv I 4 West 0 1 Long 0 2j Blocked shots: 3 APdtr Rahim 7 Austin Sarrftj Turnovers: 19 Abdur-RaNHarrmgon 4 B'bov 2 Jones 2 Long 2 West 3 Percentages W ton said “We hang when things aren't going well for us and rather than let it snowball and have teams go away from us we’re hanging in there a little bit ‘A play here a play there Y ' and then all of the sudden we have a chance at the end and everybody bears down a little bit defensively and also with our execution offensively to give us a chance” For the Miami Heat it has been just the opposite Tuesday against Milwaukee the Heat choked on a lead going into the fourth quarter to suffer their sixth loss m seven games "It’s ridiculous It's absolutely ridiculous” Heat coach Pat Riley said “A team that's in nt dire straits and needs a win to allow a team to come back it's just ridiculous” The Heat bounced back the next night to beat the Kmcks in New York and they should have confidence heading into tonight's game knowing they man- handled the Jazz at the Delta Center earlier this season The Heat however nearly squandered a huge lead in that game too getting outscored 22-1- 3 in the fourth quarter but holding on for an 87-8- 0 victory V N