THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, Monday, January 22, 1996 Page B2 NOTABLE QUOTE "Whatever he's doing gets him By BOB HUDSON The Daily Herald Assistant Sports Editor 19 rebounds a gamp. He might be the normal one and the rest of us are crazy, fever think of that?" Malik Sealy, Clippers forward, on the Bulls' Dennis Rodman. If you believe the coaches, Friday's Provo at Timpview boys' basketball game is "just another game." "It's definitely a rivalry from the fans' perspective," said Provo coach Craig Drury, whose Bulldogs are 0 in Region Eight, 4 overall. "The whole city talks about it. But, in reality, it's no more important that our game with Pleasant Grove Wednesday or theirs with Spanish Fork." Over the past dozen or so years, the two teams have been ranked among the state's best in their classification. Provo is No. 2 in The Deseret News' 4A poll and No. 1 in The Salt Lake Tribune poll. But Timpview is 3 and "We're surprised that they're 0- - VOLLEYBALL TheUtah Predators came up with their second straight road win and only the third road w in in franchise history Sunday night 15-with aij exciting 6 1 7, victory over the Sacramento Stars. Utah improved to 4-- 2 on the year. Natalie Williams led the Predators with 21 kills and 12 digs, while Tara Cross-Battlthe top hitter in the country, had 41 kills for Sacramen15-1- 3, , 9, 5, 1 5-- 1 5-- 9-- 3-- e, to. HOCKEY Andrey Vasilijev had a goal and two assists as Utah extended its win streak to four Sunday night, beating Houston 1 in the Delta Center. Grigori Panteleyev scored the first goal for the Grizzlies, who also got goals from Jason Herter and Alan May. Sylvain Tugeon scored Houston's only goal midway through the final period. Saturday, the Grizzlies downed Minnesota 0-- 6-- 7. 3," Drury said. "We hope they don't come out of their slump against us." According to Timpview coach Don Chamberlain, "it (the game) has been close for so many years. We hope it w ill be again." Two years ago, the teams hooked up for one of the more memorable contests. Timpview won a thriller in a game played at Utah Valley State five-overti- College. "I can't think of too many blowouts," Chamberlain said. Mekeli Provo is led by Wesley, who is averaging 17 points a game. "Wesley is something to reckon with," Chamberlain said. "And for(Gabe) Rhoades (a is create to ward) problems going for us. We're not very big, so we have had trouble with big inside people." have The 6-- 8 d with Jeff Miller and Dusty Dastrup often scoring in the range. " They do a lot of things well," Drury said. "I think we match up pretty well." On paper, the Bulldogs will be favored by three to five points or more. But, as coaches often remind their players, the games are played on the hardwoods and the favorite doesn't always win. We're playing well individually, but as a team we're not playing as well as I want us to," Drury con- aldson, but are Timpview is 0 while Provo is 1' in region play. Boys' action begins on Tuesday with a key Region Four matchup. Joe Don- guard-oriente- 20-Doi- cluded. Chamberlain can say the same thing. Game time at the Thunderdome is 7 p.m. Friday. On the girls' side of things, Timpview is lanked No. 1 and Provo is No. 2. The two meet at the Thunderdome at 7 p.m. Thursday. 3-- 4-- will No. 2 Mountain View (4-to battle visit No. 5 Brighton (4-for a share of the league lead. In other games Hillcrest will be at No. Orem,' which also has a piece of the league lead, and Alta will be at American Fork. They all start at 7 p.m. Girls' games Tuesday include American Fork at No. Alta, Brighton at No. t. Mountain View and Orem at All begin at 6:30 p.m. On Wednesday, Region Eight's boys will feature Payson at .Springville, Provo at Pleasant Grove and Spanish Fork at Timpview, all at 7 p.m. 1) 1) Hill-cres- girls' schedule Thursday's includes Jordan at American Fork and Alta at Mountain View, both at Pleasant Grove at! Payson and Spanish Fork at Sprineville, both at 7. '6:30, and Other boys' games Friday! include American Fork at Jordan. Mountain View at Alta, Pleasant Grove at Payson, Springville at Srtnm sh Fork. Lehi at Park Cirv and Union at Wasatch. All begin at 7 p.m. Girls games include Lehi at Park City and Union at wasatch. In wrestling action Wednesday,! Union will be at Wasatch, Ameri- - i can Fork at Hillcrest and Jordan at j schedule Orem. Thursday's includes Provo at Granger, Springville at Pleasant Grove and Payson at Spanish Fork. All begin at 7 p.m. The Region Four boys'- - andf-girls swimming and diving meets will be at American Fork Friday l and Saturday. 4-- UAB, Michig an .,!ijti,'J:JiyJ!'i I fj. 7-- 5. pair of unbea I AIL By The Associated Press And then there ws one. No. 1 Massachusetts survived the weekend as the lone remaining undefeated Division I men's team as No. '3 Cincinnati and No. 14 Penn State both lost Sunday. UMass had one of its toughest games of the season Saturday, but to got past Duquesne 93-8- 9 The Minutemen, improve to 16-victories over who had three-poiMaryland and Memphis earlier this WRESTLING The BYU wrestling team suffered its third straight dual meet loss Saturday, but John Kelly, a sophomore from Sandy, recorded his 14th win against Alfredo Varela of the University of Oklahoma. Oklahoma won the meet 29-- 3. 0. FIGURE SKATING nt Last year's world bronze medalist in the ladies event won't be going to the World Figure Skating Championships in March. Nicole Bobek, who won the U.S. title in 1995 and went on to take third at the World Championships, was denied a bye into this year's World Championships by the U.S. Figure Skating Association's International Committee late Saturday night. Bobek. 18, troubled by tendinitis in her ankle, withdrew from the U.S. Championships Saturday just before she was scheduled to skate ner long program, l ne international Committee then had to decide whether to send Bobek, along with national champion Michelle Kwart and runner-u- p Tonia Kwiatkowski, or send the third-plac- e finisher, Tara Uplnski: The Corrn mittee decided to send Lipinski to a spot the U.S. fill the third spot has because of Bobek's bronze-medfinish in 1995. James chairman of the International Committee, said the decision was made based on "the skaters we felt would best representatives for us in March." After injuring her ankle in November, Bobek had skated in a tour pf'Nutcracker on Ice" throughout December and was scheduled to skate in another tour directly after nationals. Disbrow denieiftBobek's schedule had anything to do with the decision. ; season, could become the first since Duke in unanimous No. 1 199 when the Associated Press Top 25 is released later today. They won't have Cincinnati and Penn State sharing the title of remaining undefeateds. The Bearcats lost for the first time in 13 games when Alabama-Birminghaposted its biggest upset ' in a decade with a 70-6- 8 victory. Cedric Dixon scored 25 points and hit five for the m Blazers ' ' ..Try j 0. -- w, SOCCER Mexico won its second straight Gold Cup in Los Angeles Sunday, winning 0 against an under-2- 3 Brazilian team preparing for the Olympics. Luis Garcia and Cuauhtemoc Blanco scored for Mexico, which will represent CONCACAF in the 1997 lntercon- ' tinental Cup in Saudi Arabia. The States beat Guatemala 0 for third place. Eric Wynalda scored his 22nd career goal to break Bruce Murray's U.S. record and Jeff Agoos and Jovan Kirovski also scored. 2-- 3-- SKIING France's Sebastien Amiez w on his first World Cup title Sunday, beating Slovenia's Rene MIekuz by 0.32 seconds in a slalom in Switzerland. Amiez. six points behind Italy's Alberto Tomba in the slalom standings, had a two-ru- n time of I minute. 38.79 seconds. Tomba crashed through a Hag in the first heat. Luxembourg's Marc Girardclli won the combined competition with Saturday's downhill. Switzerland's Bruno Kernen. who won downhills Friday and Saturday, was eliminated in the second heat. Austria's Anita Wachter edged Sweden's Erika Hansson by 0.39 seconds Sunday in a World Cup giant slalom race in Italy to take the lead in the overall standings. Wachter. the World Cup champion time of 2 in 1993. had a two-ru- n minutes, 37.74 seconds for her 12th career victory and first in 1 V months. She has 835 points in the . e ) nunc- .1man -r overallit competition, Germany's. Katjij Scizinger. Italy's , - Isole' Kostner won Saturday's downhill. run erasing the mark of 49 yards set by Clinton Jones of Michigan State 29 years ago. The West quickly discovered goal in mind at the Hula Bowl: Oliver's skills as he scooted around right end from 10 yards impress the NFL scouts. out for a touchdown in the first Although the from New back running quarter. His second score, in the Mexico was put on the East third period, put the. East out of squad, he was impressive as he reach. scored two touchdowns one In between, Neil Voskeritchi-ar- r in on a record of Colorado kicked a jaunt field goal. leading the East to a 0 victog On his score, ry over the West. After the game, Oliver made Oliver said, "I was looking outit clear that he wasn't planning side, but they had it covered. A on wasting the trip just to frolic small crease in the center opened in the sun and surf. and I took it." Mike Gottfried, who coached "I'll tell you straight out: All I wanted to do was come here and the East, said Oliver's MVP play football," he said after award was "When he made that run in being named the East's most valuable player. "It didn't matter, the end, that was the ball game w ho I played for. I just wanted to right there because we were I and show what struggling offensively," said the play everyone ESPN football commentator who could do. It ended up perfect." He wound up with 88 yards bested fellow college football on 10 carries, with his long TD host Lee Corso for the second HONOLULU (AP) k Winslow Oliver had a sense of direction: toward the end zone. And he had only one one-trac- 175-pou- 53-ya- rd 24-ya- rd 17-1- game-winnin- well-deserve- d. , Conference 2 2-- . straight year. Another player who had the same game philosophy as Oliver was Regan Upshaw, a junior defensive lineman from California who has filed for the draft. "I was really serious about coming here and showing what I could do," said Upshaw, who was voted the West's MVP. "A lot of people come here just to have fun, but I sat in my room and tried to be real serious about what I was here for." Upshaw didn't have to convince Gottfried, who, said: "We just couldn't run against him. We just couldn't control him. He was the key reason we couldn't get our running game going until Oliver's run." 3-- 1, of Texas A&M during second half action in the Hula Bowl Sunday. The East won 17-1- New Mexico back claims M VP honors in Hula Bow (13-- 6, USA), who held Cincinnati (12-to its lowest point total of the season. The point guard was the emotional spark for UAB's biggest upset since the Blazers beat Ralph Sampson's Virginia team in the 1982 NCAA tournament. Cincinnati forward Danny Fort-so- n scored 24, but was frustrated all game by UAB's collapsing 3 zone. Penn State, the most surprising of the January undefeateds, lost 67-6- 6 at Michigan. 3-- 1) AP Photo Tony Veland of Nebraska, playing for the East, hangs onto the jersey of the West's Hayward Clay al Dis-bro- ATiii.,,!.,, , . locker room, Corso conceded Oliver's run made the difference, but he added a In the West Marcus Taylor won it for n dunk Michigan with a with nine seconds to go. Penn State came back up court and Dan Earl tried a jumper from the lane. But Maceo Baston blocked it and the ball bounced wide-ope- away as time expired. It marked the third time this season Baston made a decisive block in a Michigan home victory. He also did it in December against Duke and Washington. "He's got a knack for doing that," said Michigan coach Steve w.V&-.Yf- . 11 a.m. Tennis. Australian Open (ESPN) C 1, . 8-- 0, 4, game"! W k their offensive average. ) Mclntyre finished with a career-high 20 points as the Tigers ( 2 Atlantic Coast Conference) jp an end to the Demon Deaccssa' J I 1 3-- winning streak. nine-gam- e ', . Tim Duncan, the conference leader in rebounding and blocks,' had 20 points for Wake Forest (12- -' ' " ; 1 2,4-1- ). 1 No. 23 Auburn 95, LSU 87 At Auburn, Ala., Wes Flanign scored 21 points and the Tigers rai- lied from a deficit to beat I , . foul-proLSU. ; ' . nt i 2 Southeastern Auburn (15-Conference) led by as many as 14 points with 53 percent shooting in led the second half. LSU (9-0 at halftime after Auburn shot just 36 percent in the first 20 minutes. Ronnie Henderson scored 30 points and grabbed 10 rebourids" for LSU, which lost four players w 3-- 3, j , 2-- 3) 7, 52-4- i i ' ' - fouls. V " Utah Valley State College of the standings as Southern Idalt v 16-(4-d Southanfi J knocked off Dixie (4-14-9 to take over the Snow (4-ern Idaho are tied f&f! 1 i fourth place. top spot in the Scenic West Athleti ic Conference Saturday. This weekend's key rnatchu UVSC also posted a 6 win include Utah Valley at Eastefk over Treasure Valley over the Utah and Ricks at North Idaho. " d The weekend. In women's competitioij.. Wolverines are 1 in conference into a share of firf UVSC moved 16-- 2 overall. and play Utah Valley got some help from place with a 8 win over Soutrj? 1 ern Idaho and a win ova College of Eastern Utah, an 9 Treasure Wolverine The Valley. victory over previous league 13-. leader North Idaho, on Saturday. are The Cardinals slipped to second Southern Idaho knocked ofit 4 Eastern previous leader Salt Lake place at 2 and ;l0-Utah also ran past Ricks College leaving the Bruins at 86-- 7 on Friday. The Eagles are in Ricks College, which beat Eastern third place at 2 and 16-8 and drubbed Colorado Ime. Utah Udoka poured in 30 points for Northwestern is third at bl CEU in the win over Ricks. 2. Southern Idaho is fourth a&' ;' There is a logjam in the middle 16-3- ), 3, 3) 3, 3, 5) f 99-7- llth-ranke- HARMON: (Continued from Page Bl) Robinson are two Colorado prep stars who have verbally agreed to sign with BYU Feb. 7. Both played at Boulder High and BYU was the only school to recruit Snowden as a running back. Oklahoma State, Arizona State and Colorado State were looking to play Snowden as a defensive back. Robinson, 6-235 is a linebacker. Snowden gained 1,112 yards on 200 carries (5.6 average) this past year. NBA: (Continued from Page Bl) and Brad Lowhaus added 18 off the bench. Monday 5 30 p m College basketball. Si John's at Seton Hall (ESPN) NHL. Islanders at Avalanche (PSP) 7pm. 7 30 p.m. College basketoall, Oklahoma at Kansas (ESPN) 10 p m College basketball. Lorg Beach Slate at New Mexico Stale (ESPN) 10 p.m. 8cumg (PSP) Glenn Sekunda scored 16 points t ). lead Penn State (14-Elsewhere Sunday, it was No. Connecticut 79, No. 12 Syracu 70; No. 19 Clemson 55, No. Wake Forest 41, and No. Auburn 95, LSU 87: No. 5 Connecticut 79, No. 12 Syracuse 70 At Hartford, Conn., Connec cut won its 15th straight gai Ray Allen led the way tor t Huskies (16-1- ), who ran their B' with 22 of h East record to 27 points in the second half. John Wallace scored 28 poinfc ), for Syracuse (13-whifj has lost four of its last six No. 19 Clemson 55, No. 6 Wake Forest 41 FV'f At Clemson, S.C., Terrell Met' ' tyre had 15 points in the secc Demfc.i half and the Tigers held the Deacons nearly 30 points belTr; J 84-7- "Except for that great run, it was an even game," he said. 4-- 4, women move into Scenic West lead eighth-ranke- caveat. Fisher. "Earl penetrated an Maceo did what he did againsf Washington and Duke. He haf another great block today." Baston scored 13 points and hal all in the secon four blocks 1 for Michigan (14-half UVSC men, "It was the biggest decision of my life," said Snowden, who is 6-200. "And it took a lot of thinking. I liked Oklahoma State and I respect coach Bob Simmons very much. But I don't think I fit in there. After your trips, you get a feel for what you want to be around. I think BYU w ill be the best place for me. I have a really good chance of playing quick there, the coaches are really, respectable, and they've won a lot of games, I like w here it is and it's not too far from home." Boulder High coach Dave Ramsey compared Snowden to his former running backs Elton 0. Davis (Colorado) and Nathan Simmons (Oklahoma State). "Will is as fine an athlete as we've had at Boulder He's got such great character and work ethic. Combine that with his talent and he'll be very successful at BYU." 6-- 64-4- 95-4- 81-7- 6-- 1, 6-- 17-- 58-5- 6-- 1, QUOTABLE: Weiser, Idaho star lineman Hans Olsen (6-255) in a press conference announcing his choice of BYU over Nebraska and how he probably will not go on an LDS mission: "I'm not going on one. I think God put me here to play a little football." 4, SuperSonics 108, Mavericks 101 Gary Payton scored 29 points as Seattle continued its domination of Dallas. Shaw n Kemp had 26 points and 13 rebounds for the Sonics. who have beaten the Mavericks 17 times in the past 19 meetings. Suns 111, Kings 97 Phoenix got Charles Barkley and Kevin Johnson back from injuries and ended a home losing streak. (Continued from Page Bl) Barkley scored 22 points and Johnson had 16 as the Suns won for the first time since Cotton where his approach flew the green. Cojbert began the back nine Fitzsimmons took over as coach five straight pars before hitwith in the week. earlier 15th ting his. drive at the par-Trail Blazers 88, Cavaliers 81 James Robinson, starting in behind a tree. Forced to chip out to the fairway, Colbert hit his third place of injured Rod Strickland, Li shot to the green, 40 feet short of scored II ot his season-higfor a bogey to rally ffiiltffliig. and points in the fourth quarter Jte't 'dropped him back to Portland. Aaron McKie added 21 for the fUnissed four short putts at 9, 4(TOand 14 that I thought I had Blazers, who have won five of their made," he said. last six and eight of their last 10. six-ga- 3. 2. BLAND: 4 h two-putte- d 5j 1 5-- 92-7- 3. 1 1 2-- 18-3- 2. - 5. i played, and it felt good, so I stuc'it',' with it. I putted pretty good antfj all week." probably didn't HOPE 1 t dump (Continued from Page Bl) searching for a putter with mors loft than his own, to counter the bumpy greens he anticipated finding at Indian Ridge. "I got here Saturday and dug around in his garage and found a Ray Cook putter that I used," he said. "It's not even mine. I probably have to give it back tonight. "The first day putted with that putter was last Sunday. When the greens get bumpier you need a little more loft. I practiced about three hours with it (the previous) I Sunday, before the Cowboys Brooks, 34, arrived here witl confidence among his luggage never mind the 76 he shot m th second round at the Norte! Open ii lucson the week before, causin him to miss the cut. "I probably hit it better the sec,; ond round at Tucson when I sho 76 than I did today," he said. "Si of my first seven rounds have beer in the 60s. I knew I was piayinffl well. I knew I should have- beer - starting today." Brooks had rounds of 66, 68, 69 67 and 67 here, a total of 337. Huston took 338 strokes t complete the tournament. er 23-un- de i