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Show Sports| “WASATCH PAGE 15 COUNTY Juty 7, 1999 CouRmmR reyery ee eran ARAN Detriot Charlotte STARZZ Lf 70 102 - Cleveland 78 68 © ea MN 68 3 PACIFIC COAST Trey |We Cleveland Houston STARZZ NON Washington IT New York Ye fh STARZZ SCORES 83 GO) et Eastern Conference have been more than willing to buy tickets into nearly every market available this year. Orlando STARZZ fade Minnesota STARZZ Phoenix » ach me COO ~~] Los Angeles three teams in the east. | _ Leading the WNBA into their second season, the fans ie STANDINGS Barn stormn’ Buzz UZZ — | Pacific Conference | their second best offensive outing of the season. With an 83-68 score the Starzz earned the home opening win. Sacramento OC ONnNnABRW their next game. Hosting Cleveland, the Starzz posted Houston WU SALT LAKE CITY- In their second year of play, the Utah Starzz have had their struggles by the buckets-full. After limping to a 2-6 start to the season, Long time Jazz coach, and current Starzz coach Frank Layden stepped down from the helm on Friday, July 2, to give the team a fresh feel and a change for the future. Assistant coach Fred Williams steps up to take over the slumping team. Layden had stepped in to take over the team during last season’s woes and led them to an overall record of 8-22 during his time in charge. | Promptly following Layden’s move, the Starzz won: W SPORTS EDITOR Their previous wins came with a 71-65 season opener with Orlando and an 85-75 mark at Sacramento. | Tomorrow Utah hits the road to play Washington and then on to Orlando for round two. Monday the Starzz return home to host Phoenix to begin the week. Houston remains atop the league and the west with a 10-1 record for the season. Only Phoenix trails Utah in the west with a 3-7 record for this year. — New York sits atop the east with a 6-3 mark that is just. one game up on Orlando at 5-4 for the year. The strength in the WNBA seems to be west of the Mississippi this year with four of the teams above .500 so far compared to only ‘STANDINGS DN By KARI GIBB WNBA arya Layden hands off the ball — ey tty —« Starzz cbupiste onward | South. ae Fresno LAS. 2 BF BUZZ 39 40 Tucson 39 42 Las Vegas 37 ag Vancouver 42 39 Edmonton Tacoma Calgary 36 35 34 43 46 45 } Utah still trailing in south 3 The last three games the Buzz have gone 2-1 with - Fresno, but they have only met three,times this season. Since then Fresno has leap-frogged the ae into the lead SPORTS EDITOR in the south. | The last time the Buzz faced Omaha, go to catch the Pacific Coast League leading record of 52- _ SALT LAKE - The Salt Lake Buzz have a long way to 28 held by Nashville, but they are only six games out of the 45-37 record held by Fresno in the South Division. The Buzz are an even .500 with a 40-41 record at this the half-way point of the season. With a 3-1 showing against Tucson last week, things are heating up at Franklin Covey Field. The Buzz are now -in the middle of a eight game home stretch that had Las Vegas here last week and Tucson this week. The rest of July will be filled with Fresno, Omaha and Colorado Springs. Getting better than even wins with _ Fresno would go a long way in setting Salt Lake up for the _ playoffs later this fall. the two teams split games at two apiece. Colorado Springs will bring aa new look to the Buzz. The two teams have yet to face each other and both teams 7 Las Vegas BUZZ é. BUZZ Las Vegas 6 Las Vegas BUZZ To BUZZ American Conference are looking to solidify a slot in the top of the heap. While this is still the middle of the season, the next couple of weeks will go a long way in determining the playoff line ups for the end of the year. As at the start of the year, any teams with longer winters have had to struggle through the first half of the season, while the warm weather teams have had a much eas- Midwest Omaha Colorad6 Springs Albuquerque 50 41 2 36 31 39 43 38 43 East Nashville Memphis Oklahoma City 52 42 42 28 34 38 New Orleans 33, 49 lowa ler a Buzz SCORES Las Vegas : 13 BUZZ Tucson us 4 > =14 BUZZ Tucson 5 4 | ees By KARI GIBB | West |