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Show TmttiMj, October The Dally Vtak Ckroalde - 9 17, 199$ Sports Utah Spikers Roll Over Utah Sports Fans Don't Deserve Sports In what should have been a mere tuneup for an important WAC showdown against BYU on Friday, the Utah women's volleyball team struggled against a Utah State team. The Utes managed a , 15-3 victory against a team which coming in boasted an record. The Aggies' win in the third game was only their third all Editor season. Teams They Have James Jardine Aggies Morris scored 21 points, including 13 in the third quarter, and Bryon Russell added 20 points to lead Utah to a preseason victory over the Portland Trail Blazers Monday night at Weber State University. Reggie Slater led Portland with 20 points and Ravydas Sabonis had 10 rebounds. The Trail Blazers led after the first quarter 33-2as Clifford Robinson and Rod Strickland scored nine points each, and on a foul shot went ahead by Derrick Chievous with 8:30 left in the half. However, the Jazz went on a 20-run over the next six minutes and the Jazz took their first lead of the game on a by Morris, a former New Jersey Net signed as a free agent. The Jazz led at the half, and led by as many as six in the 15-1- 114-11- 0 8 Chronicle 15-1-0 Utah coach Beth Launiere attributes the battle to Utah State's unusually sharp play. "I thought (Utah State)played really well," said Launiere. "Everything we threw down, they dug. We didn't play horribly tonight, just good enough to win." With the win, their third in a row, the Utes improved their overall record to 11-They were led by middle blocker Amanda Van Schalkwyk, who tallied 12 kills, 3 blocks, and an outstanding .600 hitting percentage in what was easily her best match of the Everything was in perfect hard-foug- place for the dearly anticipated return of professional hockey to Utah. A fireworks show in the Delta Center ... the Turner Cup gleaming at the center of the ice ... a clever video clip of Grizzly coach Butch Goring satirizing Brigham Young, proclaiming that "This is the place" ... for what opening night would be complete without the rowdy throngs of hockey-hungr- puck-piner- 40-2- 45-4- 50-4- "(Amanda) played one of her better matches of the season," Launiere said. "She has kind of gone unnoticed." ice-itchi- -- points in the fourth quarter. Portland rookie Randolph in Childress hit two Marie CaflaO . --Rick Vazquez the last 13 seconds to narrow the Utah lead to Howard Eisley hit two foul shots with five seconds to play to secure the victory for the Jazz. 112-11- Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Smith Ficldhouse in Provo. 8 third quarter before the Trail solid performance adding 11 kills and 17 digs for Utah. a game-hig- h Sheralyn Gappmeyer turned in a notable performance for the Aggies, with 9 kills and 15 digs. The Utes face WAC rival BYU on 4 Blazers tied it at 76 at the end of the quarter. Utah led by as many as seven Senior Rene Maggard also had of them. Wait a minute. Only 8,274 fans for the inaugural game of a new professional sports franchise in Utah? Heidi Fleiss gets more visitors than that in one night at her place. And West Valley, with help from the Olympic Committee, will have to foot a bill for (and arena for a fill) a 10,000-sea- t team that couldn't fill that many seats on opening night? Unfortunately, it isn't likely. " Not because hockey isn't an exciting sport; the opposite is true. Hockey's combination of grace, skill, power and stamina provides a rush that can't be 5 4 year. all 8,274 s 3 8. hockey. And, after nearly two years with nary a shot being slapped, Drives Utah Over Blazers in Ogden OGDEN, Utah (AP) - Chris 10-1-5, 15-6- Jazz's New Addition Chhonku Photo Jeff Beckttrand Senior setter Katie Tagge, shown here in action against Wyoming, lied 16 assists in Utah's Monday night win over Utah State. tal- 0. Lievers' Overtime Goal Lifts Grizzlies Over The Ice Dogs 5-- 4 JAMES EDWARD Chronicle Assistant Sports Editor rivaled. The problem is that sports and Utah don't mix. Fans (and I use that term in its most liberal sense) in Utah have all the loyalty of a dead dog. It may sound crazy and cynical, but just look at the in Utah: On Sept. 9, a scant 4,772 fans showed up at Franklin Quest Field to watch the Buzz capture the PCL's Northern Division crown. That was a professional team in a playoff game, not an exhibition matchup with an assortment of kids from nearby neighborhoods. Saturday afternoon 27,691 Red k White fans showed up (most of them late) to see the Utah football team's rematch with Colorado State, a game that wasn't televised and should have sold out based solely on the legend of last year's meeting. Plus, going into the game Utah was very much in the thick of the WAC champiathletic-environmen- They are called shootouts, but after Monday night's Grizzlies game, the name ought to be changed to t TV, certainly there must have been an outstanding Susan infomercial on that the . Pewter faithful couldn't break away U. from. Not that 27,691 people gathered at one event isn't impressive, but last year the Utes drew 32,620 to a 52-- thrashing of UTEP, a team that hasn't had a winning season since Reagan was President. The if. basketball team suf-: ?$H "JirdlM" on pa II 'c Through nine of the 10 shots in the overtime shootout, neither team had managed to get one past the goalie. That is until Brett Lievers stepped onto center ice. Lievers skated up the ice and went five hole on Los Angeles goalie Dave Littman giving Utah a 54 victory over t . onship race. But while the game wasn't on 7 "k shutouts. the Ice Dogs. I The win improved the Grizzlies' record to 4--2 on the season, but more jL V HI it importantly pulled them to within one point of Los Angeles in the Southwest Division standings. "This was a huge win for us, and particularly the way it happened for us," Utah head coach Butch Goring said. The goal by Lievers was his second g goal in overtime this winner first came in Utah's His year. game-winnin- season opener against Phoenix on Sept. 26. "It's really exciting," Lievers said. "I bobblcd it right before I went to my backhand." During the first four minutes of the opening period, it appeared the Grizzlies were still fazed by their 6-- 5 loss to Orlando on Saturday night The Ice Dogs scored on a power play 0 5-- 4-- McDonough added another even strength goal, giving Los Angeles a lead. commanding Even though the scoreboard goal 2:42 into the 'game when Hibic showed a first period and McDonough beat Grizz goalie Mark LA outshot the Grizz Goring McArthur. -. .. ' told his team it wasn't over And yet Things got worse 53 seconds later they responded. when Los Angeles got on the board The Grizzlies scored three goals again on a Tracy Egcland goaL over a three minute span in the second "The Ice Dogs were ready to go period, knotting the game up a right off the bat," Goring said. "It's The first goal came from crazy to get yourself down like that" phenom Robert Dome at 9:24 into 3-- 0 . lop-side- d 18-1- -- .. - 3-- Before the period concluded,. Omonku Photo Spencer Young Utah's Andre VasOjev drives by Los Angeles' Clark Donatelli in the Grizzlies 4 overtime victory over the Ice Dogs Monday night Vasiljev tallied one assist in helping the Grizz improve to 2 on the season. the period. He beat goalie Charlie Thuss down low after a Andy Bricklcy hit him with a perfect pinpoint pass. "When Dome came ofT the bench and scored on the that great backhand, it got us back in the hockey game," said Goring. Two minutes later, Bricklcy got in on the scoring when he took a Danton Cole pass that went through the crease and pounded it past the goalie. . But Utah wasn't finished yet. Grigori Pantclcev added another power play goal one minute later to even the game up at 3-- Unfortunately Utah's momentum was quickly washed away. McDonough knocked in his third goal of the game on a power play five minutes later giving the Ice Dogs a lead at the second intermission. Utah's Danton Cole set up the shootout seven minutes into the third when he knocked in his fifth goal of 4-- the season. |
