Show tJ t5alt UitZribunt SPORTS Scores BUSINESS OBITUARIES May 23 1992 SATURDAY cents per minute) (95 0 0 B1 Home Economises: jazz Make 11'll II) zers Pay - -- Blazers Cooked ' ' k i In Utalfs - I ' 2 e IP Defensive Oven (4444c ' ? The DC — the Defensive Center if you will for purposes freeof defining Utah's zeout of the Portland Trail Blazers Friday night — is the comfort zone for the Utah Jazz For opponents it's the twilight zone Or the no zone The Jazz just get awfully stingy when they invite folks into their private domain a 44-record (regular season and playoffs) and a penchant for holding teams under 100 points testimonials to their possessive attitude Portland's Terry Porter found out about the Delta Center You ' t - ''' N '-- ' - e' 1 4 "I - -- -d r : t i - - ' tg' -- ' - 'É A - ' ' t ' - F f '' - - ' 1 f Or ' t z 4ab‘-- t v !Itt 97-8- 9 e"''''''- '''' - I ' 1:" - N ' ' 0 77'' k::: - I Or ''' 4 "Nr ) 407 P 1- ' 1 I - N ' t' a T 1 if ''' ' It '''' - ' t ' A ' 1 A t- g ' ! - bt 1 r dtt Jo" 'q 4 1 s f '''t 4 4 r rg - e tt' - ' 1 Dick Rosetta rle -- -- - 1- - 'tN 2A oe--S ' I1 Sports Editor A2 t s- ' By Steve Luhm k On a night when Johnny Carson left television the Jazz stayed in the NBA playoffs on a night when NBC lost the longtime late-nigtalk show host it gained Karl Malone & Co Malone scored 25 of his 39 points in the second half Friday night leading the Jazz to a determned 97-8victory over Portland in Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals 4 v k II I Pi 't 1 ir t - ti i I ti I t k i i No- -- t 40- s c 9 tat t ' ee-minute-or-so ittl Column B-- 3 '''''' ''''''''''' ''''''''''''' 1 0 ' I ' i - " ' - a- 4t- -- 41 '''10 e 43 se "'"""3 t --t- - Paul Fraughton'The Salt Lake Tribune Jazz forward Karl Malone slips around Blazers' Mark Bryant on his way to hoop Malone exploded on offense after quiet performances in series' first two games 4' k Braves Knock Tooele From i0o4-vozterm-10i- r'''' '''') i - '- é t By - 1 ' f'- '44 jo NI ‘ Iv - ir k) 'I ' 5 — Tuesday 7 pm Utah at Portland Ch 2 Game 6 — Thursday 7 pm Portland at Utah Ch 2 Game 7 — May 30 or 31 130 Utah at Portland Ch 2 — It pm necessary All tirroes MDI Buck Williams Mark Bryant Cliff Robinson and the Blazers' other heavyweights "Karl is an aggressive player and a physical player" Adelman said "He's going to come across the lane and demand his spot We're going to have to adjust to the Karl Malone rules" "I don't know about that" snapped Jazz coach Jerry Sloan "And I'm not going to get into that kind of battle" Neither did Malone who made 14 of 23 shots from the field after taking only 22 in the first two games of the series "That's a good one" he said "I didn't know I was writing the rules But you know what's funny 1 shot 13 free throws tonight I shot 14 at their place and nobody said anything about it then" In all the Jazz owned a advantage in attempts although they made only 23 The poor marksmanship was a factor early then the Blazers jumped to a 32-1- V ri t' le- - 1 vite'' Jay Drew e4 't 3-- - - 1 A ' - 7 -- - - Crest Tuesday at 11 am at the BYU baseball field "We kinda died in the latter innings" said Bountiful coach Phil Olsen "The twilight made a big difference We didn't see the ball as well We've never played a night game before" Tooele stayed close until the third inning when Bountiful scored six runs to take an lead Jamie Jones and Doug Harding each drove in two runs in the inning while Mason Jacobs and Rick Crowley drove in a run 11-- 4 - - Barry KouighlThe Salt Lake Tribune Bountiful shortstop Brad Beck left and second baseman Mason Jacobs congratulate each other after helping turn double play See B-- 6 liti Y'''' 401001 51-4- See PRESS SACRAMENTO Calif — It would be fine with Garry St Jean if the Sacramento Kings begin to resemble the Golden State Warriors especially in the standings 44----w:- ' Sik stit 4 44 - lt) - 3 Column 3 B-- 2 fired The Kings finished last in the Pacific Division at 29-5and failed to make the playoffs for the sixth straight year 3 " t S 9 free-thro- Kings Hire Warrior Assistant 1) ' MURRAY — Next year someone might want to schedule the Bountiful Braves in a night game Scoring 11 of their 12 runs in the first three innings — before it started getting dark — the Braves held on to take a 12-- 8 win over the Tooele Buffaloes Friday in the state baseball tournaClass ment at Ken Price Park The loss ousted Tooele from the tournament Bountiful will meet either Spanish Fork or Mountain 1 1 't -- t New Kings coach Garry St Jean St Jean who spent 10 seasons as an assistant with Golden State was named head coach of the struggling Kings on Friday St Jean replaces Rex Hughes who finished the season as interim coach after Dick Motta was "I'm a guy who does not have a huge ego" St Jean said "Together — and I emphasize the word together — were going to make this an improved team" St Jean 42 said the Kings will be team g "We will have a very similar style to the Warriors" he said Mou Named Expos Manager THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MONTREAL Felipe Alou became the first Dominican manager in major league history when the Monreal Expos fired Tom Runnells on Friday and replaced All-Sthim with the three-tim- e Alou who has been in the Expos organization for 16 years became the third minority manager in the majors joining Hal McRae of the Kansas City Royals and Cito Gaston of the Toronto Blue Jays He also joined McRae as the sec ar ond current manager with a son on his own team "I was one of the first Dominicans to play in the major leagues and now I'm very proud to be the first Dominican to manage in the majors" said Alou a career 286 hitter with seven teams from 1959-7- k 5 2 - See B-- 4 Column 1 - t ' I 4 Runnel Is 37 was the youngest manager in the majors when he replaced Buck Rodgers on June 3 - t 1 p Expos manager Felipe Alou Column 2 - CAPSULE NBA Playoffs National League TV Utah 97 Portland 89 Montreal 7 Atlanta 1 Philadelphia 8 Cincinnati 2 Houston 3 St Louis 1 San Diego 2 Chicago 0 Pittsburgh at Los Angeles New York at San Francisco 11 am — WLAF Football a) Barcelona at Orlando Milwaukee 10 New York 9 (14) Oakland 5 Boston 3 Baltimore 5 California 3 Detroit 6 Minnesota 3 Toronto 6 Chicago 2 Texas 10 Kansas City 7 Cleveland at Seattle oh THE ASSOCIATED THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE American League Game p t N Tourney 3-- A 1'"'"-"""'- t Portland at Utch Ch 2 -- ' NHL Playoffs Chicago 5 Edmonton 11:05 am — Auto Racing Charlotte 300 ( 2 ) 1 pm — NBA Playoffs Bulls at Cavaliers ( 4 ) 2 pm — Women's Golf Skins Game 2 pm cfspc 2 — Golf The Colonial pm ESPN) 3:30 pm — Senior Golf Bell Atlantic Classic ( Vaal) CC 1 Sports Anthony Open - i it 1 t '1 - flw ' ''' - ' t 4 t !"":Ll'o ity best-of-seve- n e A - - k i - 15(Avt John Stockton added 14 points 11 assists and a vicelike defensive job on Terry in this Porter as Utah cut its deficit to series Game 4 is Sunday afternoon Carson-les- s NBC will be there "Obviously you've got to give the Jazz credit" said Blazer coach Rick Adelman "They came out and played a solid game They won a They were impressive game they had to win" The Jazz knew the death sentence they faced if they had lost their third in a row to the Trail Blazers who got 26 points each from Clyde Drexler and Jerome Kersey The Malones — Karl and Jeff — managed to laugh about it before the game "We have this joke" said the Mailman "We always talk and wonder what other guys are doing: probably driving their car and going fishing Tonight Jeff said If we don't win this one I'll be playing tennis and you'll be driving your truck going fishing' Hey you've got to have some fun in this game" Portland didn't enjoy Game 3 Adelman implied that Malone got away battles with with murder in his post-u- - 3 - F - 4 - ) :- r' -- I 1 t ' - p0- - il ''''''''''''''t'''''g4' I ti' 4 - (Best of Seven) 1 Game I — Portland 113 Utah 88 Game 2 — Portland 119 Utah 102 Game 3 — Utah 97 Portland 89 Game 4 — Sunday 130 pm 2-- 1 itio ''i -- ' 0 '''''''''''""'"'"'""4''':'''''''i-24'- I ' f ' 'Cij te 1 -- Jazz vs Blazers THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE 1 df At 1 '''' 1"' '7 -- i c-- 't I ' pointevery-thr- See - I i 1 --- - " Portland Cools Off Malone Heats Up And Utah Weathers West Final Storm te - :1 I- remember Terry the man of the first two games of this NBA Western Conference final when the Blazers humbled the Jazz in a pair of blowouts in Portland behind his 67 points 41 of them last Tuesday night? The Jazz's John Stockton turned Mr Porter into a man Friday Stock a ironman defender this night turned him man the into a a last 3412 minutes of the game Porter a 76 percent shooter the first two games was 3 for 13 He missed his last eight shots Blazer forward Jerome Kersey found out He frolicked for nine field goals the first 2512 minutes He fumbled around for two more the rest of the way Jazz sixth man Tyrone Corbin veteran took over for a rookie Jazzman David Benoit two minutes into the third period and put a silencer on Mr Kersey who scored just one more field goal until a gimme stuff with five seconds left Bespectacled Blazer forward Buck Williams found out Not a prolific scorer by any means he got one field goal Utah's Karl Malone turned Buck's lights out although Wil -- - - point-perminu- -- 1 ' 4 - Portland's Clyde Drexler gets an unwanted hand from Jazz defenders Blue Edwards left and Jeff Malone Jazz defense kicked in gear in win over Blazers " t : - v" 9 Paul FraughtonThe Salt Lake Tribune I ' - 7i I '- ' 4 V- ' 1 fI et rit s - r1- sN — ' - 0 — Bowling Earl LEM 5 pm — NHL Playoffs Penguins at Bruin3 6 pm — WLAF Football Sacramento at San Antonio CM mini-cam- CIRO 8 Padres pm — Baseball Cubs at Watts Trying Football basFormer University of T ketball player Walter Watts is now a three-spor- t professional athlete i free-agecontract with the Los Angeles Raiders on Friday according to his attorney Bob Burmeister Terms of the contract were not disclosed Watts is expected to participate in the Raiders' next June athAn outstanding lete out of Independence High School in San Jose Calif Watts was drafted by the Minnesota Twins and pitched in their minor league organization in the summers of 1987 and 1988 He signed a ) p 3 After starting at center for the Ute squad that made it to the NCAA tournament's Sweet Sixteen Watts moved on to pro basketball and played last season for the Grand Rapids Hoops of the Continental Basketball Association The Raiders will look at Watts as an offensive lineman or tight end Burmeister said He had a tryout with the team before |