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Show B Scoreboard C3 O Comics C4 0 Arts C5 Wednesday March 1, 1995 The Daily Herald Majerus, Reid offering up no excuses Both Rick Majerus and Roger Reid are offering no excuses heading into this weekend's finale w un a piece of the W AC championship on the line. In press conferences Tuesday . neither Reid or Majerus used injuries or illness as crutches. Both teams are utilizing a complete w eek of preparation for the ESPN showdown Saturday Both could use some excuses, however. l ie forward Keith Van Home is suffering from a bruised shoulder and guard Mark Rydalch continues to play on a erv sore knee after n surgery BYU forward Shane Knight has been sick for a w eek and was ncar! given Super-Glby trainer . Mountain Crest ends Timpview title hopes In the other championship quarterfinal. No. 2 Murray won its By BOB HUDSON The Da.ly Herald Assistant Sports Editor Baugh and Greg Cook each scoring three points, to tie things at 44-4w ith 2: 2 left in the period. The score was tied at 47 and 49 before Baugh hit a trey with 30 seconds left to give Mountain Crest the lead for good. Vance Roberts and Dan Conger each had three points as the Mus4 17th straight came, downine Fast - 48-4- It was the best of OGDEN times. It was the worst of times. Charles Dickens could have been watching the boys basketball game between Mountain Crest and Timpv iew Tuesday No. 3 Mountain Crest edged No. 4 Timpv iew by shooting K) percent in the second half of their 4 A tournament quarterfinal at Weber State College. The Mustangs shot just 40 percent in the first half. Timpview shot just 8 percent overall. . ""0-b- T 1 0. In consolation play . Spanish Fork beat Logan 49-4- 3 and Sky View stopped Judge 54-3Mountain Crest 70. Timpv iew 67 "The game was decided in the last three or four minutes of the third quarter when we didn't do anything right." noted Timpview coach Don Chamberlain. Timpv iew led 44-3- 6 after Trent Church's basket with 5:02 left in the third quarter. But the Mustangs run. with Eric went on an tangs opened the fourth quarter w ith a 6-- spurt. With Beau Archibald scoring five. Timpview closed to 58-5- 4 with 5:36 left in the game. 0 Crest Mountain broke Timpv iew 's press several times and led 66-5- 7 with 3:22 left in the S-- 0 game. Archibald, who finished w ith 2 points, scored five during a " 0 run as Timpview closed to 66 64 w ith 1:11 remaining. But that was as close as the Thunderbirds got as Roberts got a lay up with 59 seconds to go and the Mustangs added a couple of single free throw s to offset a pair of charity tosses by Archibald. With Mountain Crest ahead 69-6Timpview 's Dan Brooks missed a driving lay up. That came w ith 25 seconds to go. "...1 thought he was fouled." said Chamberlain. "But some times vou can't 'jet everv thing called" w Jeff Crosbie hit one free throw ith 20 seconds left for Mountain Crest. Timpview still got a couple ol chances to pull out a victory With sev en seconds left, Roberts missed the front end of a Nate Cooper rebounded for Timpview. Four seconds (and later, he stepped to the He nailed the first, then intentionally missed the second, hoping a teammate change) foul line for two shots. (See STATE, Page C2) 'ft u tan gf Dick Harmon Sidelines George Curtis as a joke) to close his sinuses during practice Tuesday. Center Ken Roberts is approaching 100 percent after a k influenza attack. in. mg "We're as health) as we've been in some time." said Reid. w ho praised the play of L'tah of late. "There is no question L'tah is play ing the best and most consistent basketball of any body in the league right now ." i two-wee- All season long Reid has refused to buy into the hype from Salt Lake City, media that L'tah is a young, neophyte team. "They "ve been my pick from the start. I know w hat they had coming back." said Reid. ' Doug Chapman had f rebounds against us a ear ago and Ma Jian is a great shooter. Both are sitting the bench, getting little play ing time at all. Brandon Jessie was the best junior college player in California a y ear ago and Keith Van Home is one of the best NBA prospects this league has produced in y ears. like Ben Melmeth and Mike Doleac. who can play Rydalch has a calming effect on their team and he can shoot. So can Jimmy Carroll. "No. I don't buy into the y outh movement with L'tah. They are great." said Reid. 1 Majerus. asking about BYU now as opposed to the pre-WA- C Cougars: "I think they are play ing more guy s different minutes. They have great balance in their scoring. Craig Wilcox is coming on real strong and so has Mark Durrant. They have different people w ho can jump in and play good minutes. And they are very r r-Y?---- Daily Mark Infanger of Provo cranks up his 12 gauge shotgun to knock down some sporting clays at the Hatt Ranch in southeastern Utah. Like other 64-tea- GREEN RIVER Pick a weekend, any weekend, when the fishing is slow, the hunting is and you want to get out and expend a little nervous energy. Grab that shotgun and head to non-existe- nt the Hatt Ranch just outside Green River. Like an oasis amid the desert of southeast Utah, the Hatt Ranch sits on 1.000 acres along the San Rafael River. Just a stone's throw away is the grandeur of the San Rafael Swell, a north to south uplhrust of mountains that has all the color of the Grand Canyon, but on a smaller scale. The Hatt Ranch has been one of the premier private pheasant ranches in the West since 1976. With members from and foreign 400 Cody Sanderson, inarguahly the best high school w rcstler ever produced in the state of Utah, has been invited to wrestle in the 2 st annual Dapper Dan Wrestling Classic March 25 in Pittsburgh. Sanderson, a senior at Wasatch High, just finished w inning his fourth state title and has a 93-- 0 record the past three s ears. His overall high school record is 1 excellent hunt old farmfields, cattails, high brush, hedgerows and irrigation ditches ideal pheasant habitat. The Hatt Ranch offers several kinds of pheasants to choose from, white, melanistic mutant (black). California buff, and the regular ringneck (the Halts raise and release the Manchurian Ringneck). The Hatts also raise chukars. which are extremely difficult to shoot. The ranch's season runs October to March. The newest addition to the Hatt Ranch is an excellent sporting clays field which makes good practice for those who don't want to shoot pheasants all day or for older shooters w ho w ant to work on their accuracy. And believe me. this is one of the more difficult sporting clays fields in Utah. The five people in our party. Rex Intanger of Pleasant Grove, Ralph Johnson displays two of his pheasants that he bagged on a winter bird hunting trip near Green River. Mark Infanger of Provo. Ralph Johnson of Orem and John Henderson of Rock Springs, Wyo tried their hand at the sporting clays. Most shooters were adept, some inept. It has five stations which will be expanded in the future to eight or more. The birds or clays fire from every direction. They come left to right, right to left, high or low. right at the shooter and even the rabbit station where the clays roll on the ground at v arious speeds. Royd Hatt, vice president of Hatt Ranch, said the sporting clays were built and installed last September. "This offers a little more variety for our customers and maybe some challenging shooting. The n course can be comw ith rounds. 25 pleted "We use six fully automatic throwers. We throw three different sie targets, regular, midi and a rabbit target. We will install five-statio- Deacons step on Tarheels By The Associated Press Wake Forest clogged things up at the top of the Atlantic Coast Conference and gave itself a shot at finishing first for the first time in 33 years. Randolph Childress scored 26 Ded points to lead the v mon Deacons to a 79-7- 0 ictory at No. 2 North Carolina on Tuesday night and put four teams within one-hagame of the top of the league standings. d Maryland is alone 3 in first with an record, while Wake Forest. North Carolina and No. 13 Virginia are all at Mary land is at Duke tonight and at Virginia on Sunday, while North Carolina plays host to Duke on Saturday and the Demon Deacons finish at home w ith North Carolina State on Saturday . Wake Forest'(20-5- ) hasn't finished first in an ACC regular-seaso- n race since 1961-6- 2 when a senior guard named Billy Packer was a key player. ninth-ranke- lf The 1994-9- 5 Cougars are closing in on the WAC's single season free throw record of 80.5 percent, set by the BYU class of 1988-8BYU is currently shooting at a 79.5 clip in WAC play and statistics w ill count the Utah came and WAC tournament panics. outdoorsmen, Infanger is an avid shotgunner who enjoys the challenges of upland game hunting, whatever the time of year. the terrain necessary for an By ROD COLLETT The Daily Herald Associate Sports Editor countries, the Hatt Ranch ha all The most recent RPI ratines list BYU No. 35 and L'tah No. 38. The ratings are a formula used to evaluate college basketball performance and are key in the NCAA Tournament selection. Combine that w uh the 22-- 7 record heading into the L'tah game in the Huntsman Center, all against Di ision I opponents, and the Cougars look like they w ill be inv ited to the Big Dance this y ear. A w in ov er L'tah w ould make it a sure thing. But a loss, combined with two or three wins in the WAC Tournament next week would solidify speculation Reid's squad is field. in the Herald PholosRod Collett Sporting clays a great way to keep shotgun skills sharp doens of states experienced.' 1 -: Sixth-ranke- 11-- 11-- 4. The Demon Dcarons hadn't won at North Carolina in 13 years and Childress, a senior guard, was the key. "I was really focused on winning this game." Childress said POOR COPY from the field, after going "It was including four a place where I'd never won before. I just wanted to win this game. I wanted to do whatever it took for us to win this basketball game." It w as more than just Childress, though. Sophomore center Tim Duncan had 25 points and 12 rebounds and was chiefly responsifour points ble for the season-loCarNorth on shooting by olina's Rasheed Wallace. "Our kids stood tall." Wake Forest coach Dave Odom said. "I think I would be remiss if I didn't say our defense was extraordinary. I thought we were able to keep the ball out of the middle. I think North Carolina's as difficult a team as there is in the country to play on defense because they attack you at five positions every single possession." In other games involving ranked teams on Tuesday it was No. 7 Arkansas 94. Florida 85: No. 8 Massachusetts 86. Rhode Island 71: No. 11 Villanova 92. Boston College 68: and No. 13 Virginia 63. Virginia Tech 62. No. 7 Arkansas 94, Florida 85 The Razorbacks (24-5- . Southeastern Conference) 11-- 4 won their seventh straight as Corliss Williamson led a balanced attack ith 20 points. Arkansas hit eight in the first half of its 10 and led 57-4- 5 at halftime. A 14-- 0 run bv the visitors opened the lead Dan Cross had 29 points to 80-5to lead Florida (14-1w ). No. 8 .Massachusetts 86, Rhode Island 71 12-- 3 AtThe Minutcmcn (22-lantic 10) won their fourth consecutive regular-seaso- n conference title w ith the easy win in the home 4. finale of the successful senior class. Lou Roe had nine rebounds, 1. 000th No. 1 1 13 points and including the ol his career. Villanova 92, Boston lege 68 Kerry Kittles scored a 44' points to tie a Col- career-hig- h leaving the game w ith four minutes left. The junior sw ingman tied the school record for points, set by Bill Melchionni against St. Bonaven-tur- e in 1966. No. 13 Virginia 63, Virginia T h 62 Harold Deanc's runner in the lane with 17 seconds left gave the (20-7- ) the neutral-couvictory. e, rt ever gone through a sporting clays course before and have come and really enjoyed how it simulates real hunting situations." Hatt said each of the five stations duplicates what a typical shotgunner may face. "Each station serves a different purpose. We have stations for chukars, ducks, pheasants, rabbits and so on. Each station is designed to simulate what a hunter will see in the field, including the swiftness at which birds w ill fly. Hatt says sporting clays offer a different kind of challenge than trap shooting. "Sporting clays appeal to a broader group of people. Trap shooting is the same shot time after lime after time, whereas sporting clays draw the bird hunters." Hatt said the throwers are auto- matic since clay targets can be launched by the push of a button. "It's kind of self serve. Plus you don't need to have anybody there to w atch you if you miss, so you can come back to the main office and lie about your score. "Another thing about our sporting clays is that every few months we will change the course slightly or dramatically, so a shooter will have a whole new challenge even though you're shooting from the same stations. That's accomplished just by changing the angle or heighth of a throw er." Jazz deserve better fate in this season's playoffs By MARK WHICKER tery, or II years they have l upheld their Contract With Orange County Register INGLEWOOD. Calif. -The Utah Jazz deserve it this time. They deserve to visit the e NBA Finals because Karl and John Stockton have done every thing but. They should get there it would infuriate NBC. w hich would rather show us the Chicago Bulls' family picnic than the Jazz. They should get there because their man is the immortal Hot Rod Hundley . who uttered the greatest NBA quote of the "80s: "Ralph Sampson is the most overrated player since me." Most of all. the Jazz should be playing in June because they have done everything right. They have won 50 games in focr of the past five seasons. They are one of only two NBA teams (Portland is the other) that has never had to hold its nose and dive into the draft lot Ma-lon- play-by-pla- y Villanova scoring mark despite Cavaliers real soon a station that can throw mini, which is very, very small." Hatt explained. One of the ideal aspects about sporting clays is the way they mimic real situations in the outdoors. Plus it's a relatively cheap way to sharpen up gun skills. "People find the most problems with the rabbit station because it's so unpredictable. It can easily take a bad hop. We have,. had a very good response to the sporting clays. A lot of people haven't a Utah. Vou give them your money, and they always give you playoff games. Monday night they did what they are supposed to do to the 101-9- 5, and became the third NBA team to win their 40tli game. They also lead the league in field-go- percentage. Somehow the trend toward sloth, avarice and petulance got buried in the snow before tit; reached Utah. "It really is different," said league-wid- e Adam Keefe (Woodbridge High. Stanford). "For one thing, they pass you the ball." Keefe used to play with Dominique Wilkins in Atlanta, hence his sensitivity "It really isn't like a typical NBA team." he said. "You look in our parking lot, and it. looks like a church parking lot. Vou don't see sports cars, you see all-- t ?rrain vehicles and utili- . (Sec JAZZ, Page C2) . |