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Show CdooNtclE Pqt Ten TtEMUy, April 26, 1988 SPORTS Big storm halts Softball action I l! I i .A -- ,! J April showers bring May flowers. April showers also have a tendency to cancel softball games. Utah's scheduled doubleheader against UNLV was rainedsnowed out Monday due to inclement weather and will not be replayed. The Lady "Utes," who struggled in the early part of the season, seem to be coming together as of late. Utah is 2 on the season and 4 in HCAC play. Not coming up with the RBI when they needed one has been one of the Lady "Utes"' biggest problems this year. Another reason for Utah's disappointing record is the fact it constantly competed against Top-2- 0 teams in the first half of the season. Utah's Wendi Warhurst (at right with ball), a sophomore and Woods Cross High graduate, has been one of Utah's mainstays this year. Warhurst leads the team with 15 a .295 batting average and has scored a team-hig- h runs for the Lady "Utes." 14-2- 4-- Warhurst also has seven RBIs and six doubles. As a freshman at the U., Warhurst received all-regi- " S ' ' '' h ' fa ' - on honors. honors and honorable mention She participated in five sports while attending Woods Cross. Utah will now prepare for the UtahUtah State Invitational held April 0 in Logan. Chronicle photo by Jennifer Peterson 28-3- Even lightoimg cami'lt stop U.'s Davis Track star overcomes freak accident to play for Utah By Dirk Facer Chronicle staff writer Great comebacks deserve attention. The story of Utah track star Collin Davis is worthy of such admiration. As a student at Hillcrest High School in Midvale, Davis filled the bill as the typical kid. Athletically, Davis started on the varsity All-Americ- an football team and was an outstanding long jumper. In the classroom, he was an excellent student. Everything seemed to be going just fine for him. Fine that is until tragedy struck the teenager just prior to his senior year in high school. On August 20, 1985, while coaching a little league football team with some Collin Davis survived being struck by. lightning to star on this year's U. track team. friends, Collin Davis was struck by lightning. The bolt struck Davis on the top of the baseball hat he was wearing. Luckily it passed along the outside of his body. To this day, he has no recollection of what happened to him. All he knows about it is what witnesses have told him. "From what they tell me, a really bad storm came in and struck me with lightning." Davis said. "I have no memory as far as two days before it happened and for about a whole week after it happened." Right after the accident occurred, Jim Haney, one of the other coaches on that team, quickly administered CPR to Davis with the help of others until paramedics arrived. Even with the CPR, Davis' heart was still not beating. He was technically dead for a period of time. The paramedics were finally able to restore fibulation to his silent organ with the aid of electrical shock. After spending several days in the intensive care unit at the hospital, Davis see "lightning" on page eleven U.'s Bowman tops Mt. SAC Utah trackster Celsa Bowman placed BM in two events, and teammate finJeimifer Ward recorded a Top-1- 0 ish at the prestigious Mt SAC relays in Walnut, Calif., this past weekend. Bowman, a cross country All American, appears to be carrying that success over into the outdoor track season. The Lady "Ute" senior, clocked a wuining time of 9:45.02 in the and a victorious 5K race. At the relays 3,000-mete- rs 16:54.00 in the last year Bowman finished fourth and fifth in the same events. Bowman's teammate Jeimifer Ward improved her personal best time in the by 37 seconds. Ward finished eighth in the event with a time of 17:30. The sophomore from Longmont, Colo., also finished eighth in the 3K event with a 10:06. 5,000-mete- rs Glenn Seninger This 'Stock Exchange' has been bullish If you look down the list of some of the greatest NBA guards in the history of the game, names like Oscar Robertson, Bob Cousy, Jerry West, Nate Archibald and Magic Johnson come to mind. Now add to that distinguished list the name of Utah Jazz point guard John Stockton. Some may argue this little speedster from Spokane, Wash., hasn't earned the right to be mentioned among such talented company. Some may say he hasn't played long enough, while others might think "Stock" hasn't proved himself year after year like the great guards have. Those who subscribe to these kind of thoughts are probably the same group, who picked the Baltimore Orioles to win the World Series before this season began. After Stockton's record breaking outing Saturday night at the Salt Palace, his total of 1,128 regular season assists and his accomplishments for the 1987-8- 8 season stand alone. No longer will the name of Isiah Thomas be atop the assist mountain. The new conqueror of the modern-da- y Mount Everest of assists is none other worker of point than the blue-collStockton. guards-Jo- hn You can bet the Jazz are happy to have Stockton now. Turning back the hands of time, Jazz Coach Frank Layden, along with his staff of scouts, spotted Stockton and went after him. Fortunately for the Jazz, not too many other people knew about "Stock's" abilities. In 1984, when Layden announced the Jazz were taking the guard from some place called Gonzaga, in the first round, Utah fans may have second-guesse- d Layden's decision. Now Layden and Stockton are having the last laugh. And now that Layden seems to have flexed his coaching muscle once again, he can add Stockton's name to his personal list of prized picks-rig- ht there with Thurl Bailey and Karl ar Malone. Stockton has proved his critics wrong in almost every statistical category. And remember, looking at the statistics is the on7y way to measure a player's ability. Forget the intangibles. For starters, Stockton is the only member of the 1984 class of draft who hasn't missed a game since Eicks a Jazz uniform on, and that includes all regular and postseason play. His 13.8 assists per game and 1,128 total for the season set the e NBA record. After finishing up the regular season all-tim- with the second highest shooting percentage ever for a guard (454 for 791 which translates into .574 percent from the floor), Stockton also set a franchise record averaging 2.9 steals a game. That put him third in the NBA among all guards. Don't forget he also averaged 14.7 points per game ranking him third on the team behind Bailey and Malone. And if Stockton needs a job after his NBA career is over, he shouldn't have trouble finding a job in the insurance Insurance business, since All-Sta- te has awarded him its "Good Hands Award" for five consecutive months. If those stats aren't enough to paint the picture of his abilities, Braille copies are available at the Jazz office. And now after the recent spread in Sports Illustrated and national exposure in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, "Little John" seems to have finally come into his own. Of course Layden and his staff knew all along this from School later turn would Gonzaga Prep out to be the steal of the '84 draft. But what the Jazz nor anyone else could have predicted was the way Stockton has continued to improve. Stockton has brought an air of mystique to the Jazz guard line. And in my opinion, as far as sheer passing ability alone goes, Stockton ranks No. 1. Forget Magic, Fat Lever, Isiah and Mark Jackson, who have all shared the spotlight this year with Stockton. Because this year belongs to the "Stock Exchange." Irish-Cathol- ic |
