Show Section Friday March 1 2002 Pagel The Herald Journal clinch then get pinched Aggies Pacific rallies from Inside down in 10 second half By Gregg Hardy staff writer STOCKTON Calif — Before the second half of Thursday night’s game against the Pacific Tigers the Utah State Aggies knew they had already clinched the No 1 seed at next week's Big West Tournament Leading the Tigers by 10 points with a little over 17 minutes left to play it then looked as Jazz return home after long B2 Olympic road trip though die Aggies were going to win the regular-seasotitle outright But a funny dung happened along the way Utah State went ice cold from the field and the Tigers before 341 1 stormed back to beat the Aggies e win at the Spanoa Center snapping their n Sports briefs 55-5- Aggie golf team to eight-gam- open spring season ‘ Utah State's golf team will open the spring season when the Aggies travel to Las Cruces NM to compete in the 17th annual Herb Wimberiy Classic ’ hosted by New Mexico State Universi- -' ty ori Friday and Saturday The 4A- ning streak in the process Despite the loss Utah State West 21-- 5 overall) ig can still claim sole possession of the regular-seaso- n title with a win Saturday at Cal State Northridge That's because the Long Beach State 49ers did the Aggies a favor by knocking off the UC Irvine Anteaters Thursday UC Irvine a half-gam-e back of Utah State is 13-- 5 arid can still claim a share of the title if Utah Stale loses to Cal State Northridge "I think we'll realize it a little more tomorrow But right now it hurts to get beat" said Aggie head coach Stew Morrill about clinching a share of the title "It's hard to reflect on it too much right now I told the kids sometime later tonight or tomorrow we'll find a way to feel good about it "Championships are hard to win" Pacific which beat Utah State for the first time in its last seven tries had three players score 11 (13-4B- points — Eli Nolan Maurice McLemore and Demetrius Jackson — in the win Utah State's Tony Brown led all players with 16 from the field Jeremy points but shot just Vague contributed 1 1 points and six rebounds for the Aggies Desmond Fenigar Utah State's leading scorer ended up with 10 points but like Brown 3 Penigar struggled from the floor going played just 23 minutes due to early foul trouble Utah State began the second half with an 2 spurt capped by a Vague dp-i- n to take a 37-2- 7 lead with 17:14 to play Then all of a sudden the Aggies couldn't find the basket Frustrated with Pacific's defense they missed their next nine shots and went scoreless for 8:14 The Tigers who were not exactly singeing the twine up to that point capitalized as McLemore 8-- box-and-o- ne See CLINCH on B3 Boys State Basketball Championships - t tournament will take the on place University Golf Course with 36 boles being played on Friday and the final 18 holes taking place Saturday 10-tea- m LHS ousted in quarters Besides USU teams in the field include UTEP Southern Utah San Diego Eastern Washington Westerii Ndw Mexico fcw Mexico JV Arizona J£ Wichita Stale and NMSU The five Aggies competing in the Classic are Nate Blotter Mike Eric-so- n Danny Kettle Kevin Mullen and Woody Spainhower Blotter and Ericson led the team in the fall with averages of 7542 By David Cordero staff writer OGDEN — Afterwards Logan coach Kelly Bennett's reaction was one of disbelief That's all we had" he said "Wow I didn't think it was that and 7383 respectively Blotter's best finish was a tie for eighth at the Boise State Invitational Ericson played in just two fall tournaments bid shot the lowest round by an Aggie in the fall with a 69 at the Countrywide Home Intercollegiate ' ' : boys basketball ' Lemieux done for year PITTSBURGH (AP)- - Pittsburgh " Penguins star Mario Lemieux is expected to miss die rest of die season because of die painful hip iqjiuy that has bothered hun since training camp Lemieux was advised Thursday by team physicians to undergo a period Bennett was referring ’to the four field goals hid team made in the second ' half That's right Four And it's the biggest reason why the Grizzlies lost to Tim- Thursday evening at pview the Dee Events Center on the campus of Weber State As a result the Thunderbirds will play Lone Peak toiday in the semifi- nals of the 4A Boys State Basketball Championships " "We had our looks but we just weren't hitting" Grizz forward Jacob Nelson said "We weren't getting the rolls" The understatement of the season: Six is a conservative estimate on the amount of layups Logan missed in the second half For die game it shot 34 percent from the field but after the just 174 percent intermission' "It seemed like somebody up there was just throwing therp out" Grizz guard Terrell White said It wasn't that way for die first 14 minutes or so The Grizzlies jumped out to a 18-- 6 8 with lead and even led abouttwo minutes remaining in the first half However Region 6 champion Timpview went on a 2 spurt to close the gap to 6 at the of rest and rehabilitation for the 6' problem which bothered Lemieux even as he helped Team' Canada win die Olympic gold medal Sunday ! Thundery's scores Big 5 basketball - Pacific 55 Utah Stats 51 Wyoming 76 Brigham Young 60 Utah 72 Colorado State 62 NBA Cleveland 114 San Antonio 107 OT Mami 100 New York 86 Utah 114 Memphis 70 Phoenix 107 Indiana 100 OT NHL Carolina 6 Boston 2 Ottawa 3 NY Rangers 0 Pittsburgh 4 Columbus 3 OT San Jose 5 Washington 2 Calga(y3SLLouis2 Nashville 3 Edmonton 2 Colorado 2 Phoenix 1 OT ' Dates 4 Vancouver 3 OT 29-1- On television 8-- 31-2- AUTO RACING Spjn ’ ' quaNying for break lf Logan got the bulk of its offense from Ryan Bohm who 1 scored 14 of his team-hig- h (points in the first two quarters On the other hand Nelson who finished with 13 points— sixbeiow his average — had just five athalftime Also missing from the offense was White who scored just seven shooting points overall oh "I tried to show my speed by getting to the baisket but they didn't " drop White said "It seemed like there was a plastic bag up top" Said Bennett: "Terrell needed to pull up a little bit more instead of trying to penetrate every time He to fin- got deep bdt still wasn't able ' ' ishiL" Nevertheless die Grizzlies led 42- first-ha- 1 min41 with about utes remaining in the contest They did so because Tunpview didn't exactiy shoot Ihe lights outeither connected at a 38 The percent clip from the field includon ing an abysmal 7 pun -o- : ' Tbur SBC Senior —8eniorPGA m— -- tla axvaiBncNL C&PQATbdonirity onahip first round 'atMtami v?!-- A—W '( Champ i ' ' See UNKIND on B2 Johnsen FORT COLLINS CoIo (AP)--J- eff scored 14 of his 21 points in the second half including a clutch 3 pointer late in the game as Utah defeated Colorado State 2 on Thursday LARAMIE Wyo (AP) — Marc BaUey sqored 18 points and Donta Richardson 16 as Wyoming beM BYU 7M0 Thursday niht to set up a head-to-heclash widi Utah fev the Mountain West Qonferencc champimishq) The Cowboys (19-- 7 rivereD) srifi host Utah Sat- -' ' unlay in the regular season finale for both (earns Bothare fiqd atop die oonftrericeYridi 10-- 3 - ( -- ' y--- ? 72-6- ' Util beatColorado Sttie Thursday 72-6-2 L I Yoming used its size and quickness to beat BYU to the ball Thursday mghL r ttdordx The Cowboys outrebounded BYU 48-2-4 Yoming had 21 offeruiVU rebounds and scored 27 second chance pcnius to jUst 7 for the Cougars Josh Davis who haa 10 points grabbed 10 Y ' to lead Wyoming on die boards first half saw die lead change seven times ahead with a 104 run at the ' pJn 9 lead a ESPN-8latendmdtahalfjfbr Farm Woritari’l'ftteV V the nis Classic eUrty'round coverage it 'TltoCowboys opened second halfwidi an 11- - Colorado Stated Brian Qraena (33) goes Scottsdale Artz y 4runandeventuaBy went upas pianyas 20 poiittsvTmvts Spivey for a basket on Thursday TOC — LPGA Tour lUtafyp Oat-sic second round alWaitotoa Hrowi'-’--:- : 4 4 MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL1 6 1) ' Greene’s baseline jumper in die last five sec- onds of the first half put Colorado State ahead 30- 28 CSU shot 65 percent in thehalf r The Rams hit two of thdr first dueeShots to But start the second half and held a after Nelson’s dunk with 17:161611101X6' State Was 1 or-8 from the field over the next 10 ! r 1 ' ad -r- ptxteniiiiutes''-- e 'rr' Britton Johnsen added 11 points land 14 rebounds for Utah (20-- 10-- 3 Mountain West Conference) Matt Nelson hacL22 points and six rebounds ior Brian Greene added Colorado State (llf-1- 7 11: 34-2- trr Then forward Brian Swindlehurst (14 points) chipped in two' followed by a couple of made free throws from Travis Clyde to increase the lead to 47-4- 2 Utes by Rams ad smeninMivreiq - 43-4- lead Johnsens lead V ' TGC European PGATqut Cart bera ifahuihn second round vBNiCi mm rouna end of the stanza "We just couldn't stop their high- -' low dump" Bennett said Still the trailed in the fourth quarter before Jackson dropped in a basket with 4:22 remaining to give them a 2 -- tries Such was a contrast to their effort Tuesday night in which they nailed 11 f-16 from beyond the arc against Olympus That seemed like a blessing to Logan which it was in a way but Tunpview coach Perry Wildeboer said it caused his team to lock more to its post game "It made us start to pound it inside" he said "And that made us more effective as an offense" Thunde&ird forward Ryan Jack-so- n scored nine of his 16 points in ESPN2— Champion Eric Lixas far vs Wmy raz(49-IH))-I WBC super mlddwweight chimy ' Tim-pview- er ds (34-4-- 3) - the second half most on layups Combined With sopho- more Chris Miles (seven points) the 's duo was responsible for 10 of 13 third-quartit as points ’ grabbed a brief 38-3- 4 lead near the four-and-a-h- gun 400 at Las Vena : ' BOXMG RAX ’l LuceroHefald Journal i tonCup Noon'1'-- EH Logan's Rob Smith left and Terrell White sit on the bench during the dosing seconds of their game against Timpview Thursday at the Dee Events Center in Ogden Both Smith and White fouled out in the Grizzlies' 53-4- 6 loss overUtalTO t - ' H v A' y' - SeeUTRSon B2 1 |