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Show THE DAILY HERALD, Page B2 w conn. Prwo, Utah, Sunday, April 30. 2000 HaitThcHerald NQA PLAYOFFS 6 L.w-M- : .iJ Notable Quote They look like his fast' ball down the middle. Dr. Mark Felger, Smooth." describing the other arteries in Nolan Ryan's heart, after the former pitcher had double Defending champs staring down By The Associated Press bypass surgery. AUBURN HILLS. Mich. -TDetroit Pistons had almost no fijrht left in them Saturdav without an injured ' ;. Grant Hill. Reserve Clarence Weatherspoon had 18 points and 10 rebounds as the Miami Heat powered to a victory over Detroit, sweeping the Pistons in their best Eastern Conference playoff series. j The Pistons had been talking bravely about finding someone to step up ever. since Hill went down in the second a broken .left game-witankle'.: But that fizzled fast he Basketball Basketball Hall of Famer Pete Carril. an assistant coach with the Sacramento rungs the last four seasons, had a minor heart attack Saturdayaccording to team physician Dr. Jeff Tanji. Carril, 69, was taken to Sutter General Hospital NBA BOXES, BG around 10 a.m because he was not feeing well, and was later transferred to Sutter Memorial Hospital. Both medical centers are in Sacramento. Tanji said Carril had complained of. chest pains and was diagnosed as being in the early stages of a minor heart attack. Carril. who was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1997, was expected to remain at the hospital, until next week in order to get rest and undergo more diagnostic tests, Tanji. said. Carril was listed in stable condition-Saturda- ' 2 first-roun- e No one is questioning that after the' 1962 game in', which Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points, a teen-age- r named Kerry Ryman ran on to the court and grabbed a basketball. On Friday, Ryman, now 52, sold that basketball through an anction house to a collector for $551,844. No one questions that either. What is being questioned is whether the ball Ryman took that night is the one Chamberlain used to score 100 points. Harvey Pollack, now a Wa A 1KI I HjRK I he Associated ' Olympic sports Australia's Rod de Highden won the Host City Marathon over the Sydney Olympics 2000 course Saturday, covering the 26.2 miles 2 hours. 16 minutes and 35 seconds. The winning time was outside the Olympic qualifying standard for Australians but de Highden, who has previously bettered the 2:14 Olympic standard, was likely to gain a spot on the' Australian Olympic team. Susan Hobson, a mother of four, dominated the women's race in 2:35:20 and earned a berth on the Australian women's team. Whaddya mean, foul? Phoenix's stops San Antonio's Terry Porter by grabbing his head during the third quarter on Saturday. Todd Day, right, ' d d Wrestling Provo High will hold a team wrestling camp beginning Monday and continuing through Friday in the Provo wrestling room from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Cost for the camp is $30 and includes a camp The camp is for athletes in for the 2000-200grades academic school year. For more information on the camp, please contact Provo wrestling coach Brian - With Todd PHOENIX Day the unlikely hero, Phoenix is on the brink of eliminating the defending NBA champions from the first round of the '' points in the fourth quarter and Penny Hardaway had his first playoff triple-doublas the Suns, down by 10 points at the end of the third period, rallied to win. e ' TORONTO !,P)- ,- Toronto ;miglif;b'" hostin the first NBA play oft' game everoutside of the Uniu-States today, but the embattled Raptors are more .concerned about preventing it. from becoming their last game of the season. Down 2-- in their best-of-fiv- e series, the Raptors find themselves battling not only the New Yor.k .Knicks but also feuding among themselves. The city woke up Saturday front-pagheadlines as The Toronto Sun's: "Raptors trash 'n' burn; Coach, players each other on brink of playoff ouster." It'.-- iill a result of the. team's reaction to coach Butch Carter's suggestions that' the Raptors lack leadership and are more concerned- over their contract .statu.- - than the playoffs. Point guard Doug Christie led Friday's critical mass of respoii.-e- . saying: "You say dumb .stuff when you're in a position where you can't point the linijer nr anvbodv else." first-roun- d On the surface, cooler heads prevailed after Saturday's practice. "We need to just forget about everything and concentrate on this game and the importance of this game if we want to con-- . tinue to fight," forward Antonio Davis said. 'The easiest thing is to give up. We're not going to . give up. "We owe it to our fans, we owe it to the organization. As long as we feel like that, I'll accept our chances." Carter calmly said he wasn't worried. 'The main thing is for me to be ready, not worried," Carter said. "Worried is not going to help my guys when they need me. ... If I look like I'm worried and scared, then what are they going to do? They seem to be okay." Curiously, their differences have kept the team in the Toronto sports pages generally jammed with coverage of the hockey-macity's beloved NHL Maple Leafs. The tabloid Sun devoted four Penguins too much for Philly once again By The Associated Press Robert I'llILADKU'lUA Lang and Jnromir Jagr each scored twice and the Pittsburgh Penguins again befuddled the Philadelphia Flyers in heir own arena to win Saturday. The Penguins had not won in Philadelphia in 16 games over six years, only to do so twice in three days to seize a lead highly unanticipated in the Eastern Conference semifinals. Game :i of the series will he Tuesday night at Pittsburgh, where the Flyers are in their last 22 games. Goalie Ron Tugnutt turned aside 44 Philadelphia shots. Simon Gagne finally scored Philadelphia's first goal of the series at 4:34, preventing the Flyers' first consecutive playoff shutouts since 1969. I bot-of-seve- AVALANCHE 3 REDWINGS 1 exten- DENVER Milan Hejduk -- - ill I firm. 4! PACERS 109 BUCKS 96 MILWAUKEE Only. Reggie Miller could have saved Indiana so he did. Miller scored 34 points with a barrage of outside shots as the Pacers beat Milwaukee to e lead in their take a ' playoff series. With a sellout crowd at Bradley Center booing his every move and his team- - ' . mates mostly inefTx itive, ) Miller turned in yet another amazing playoff performance. He staved off a fired-uMilwaukee team aching for its first home playoff win in a decade. . Indiana, the Eastern best-of-fiv- 2-- 1 ; ', Day scored all 16 of his .V free-thro- " p Raptors hope home soil helps out 2-- sion 234. The Pistons made just 23 of turnovers by the Pistons into 21 points. The game w as so that Heat coach Pat Riley was able to sit Alonzo Mourning down after just 22 minutes of playing time. Mourning, who blocked 14 shots in the three games, finished with 12 points and Jamal Mashburn added Press bad-mout- was played in Hershey, said referee Willie Smith took the ball out of the game after Chamberlain scored his 100th point. Another ball was taken from a bag beneath Pollack's seat and used for the remainder of t he game, he said. 373-655- ' 73 shots and were outrebound-e47.-3Miami converted 18 playoffs. e statistician for the Philadelphia 7(iers who was working for the Philadelphia Warriors when that game against the New York Knicks Preece at ' SUNS 101 SPURS 94 best-of-fiv- 2 " looked." Both had scored over 20 points in each of the first two games. d ' " I! single-h- andedly 11. Tracy McGrady and Doug Christie of the 2-- 0 best-of-fiv- e 2-- 1 once the action started before a crowd of only 14.507 at The Palace. "I think some guys just looked scared out there." Detroit's interim coach, George Irvine, said. "I don't know why they would be. They have been in this league for years, at least some of them have. "I hope to God they weren't scared, but that's how it one-side- evening. Toronto Raptors both have ankle injuries and could miss today's Game 3 of the first-rounplayoff series against the New York Knicks. The Raptors trail the in the Knicks series. McGrady mildly sprained his left ankle during Friday night's practice. Both he and Christie, who has been hampered by a bruised right ankle for a couple of weeks, :, did not participate in Saturday's practice. Coach Butch Carter said deciit will be a game-timsion on whether either of the ' two can play. Phoenix leads the and can clinch it series with a home-couvictory in Game 4 Tuesday. As Tim Duncan again sat and watched in street clothes, David Robinson almost kept San Antonio in the game with 37 points, three short of his career playoff high, and 13 rebounds. Hardaway had 17 points, 13 assists and 12 rebounds. Day, who played J 3 minutes and scored six points in the first two games, was 4 for 9 from the field in the fourth quarter, including 3 of 6 on and was 5 of 6 from the line. Six Suns scored in double figures. Shawn Marion had 16 points and 14 rebounds, w hile Rodney Rogers scored 15 points, Cliff Robinson 14 and Kevin Johnson 10. rt ' . 91-7- v?1 exit first-roun- d pages to the Raptors, while The Toronto Star's lead sports story reported on the Raptors' troubles. Otherwise, few would be aware that the NBA playoffs had arrived north of the border. Outside the Air Canada Center, home of both the Maple Leafs and Raptors, scalpers hawked tickets for Game 2 of the Leafs.-Devil-s series, while around in walked many people Maple Leafs e paraphernalia. Inside the arena, there was little evidence the d Raptors even played there. The predominant color scheme is Maple Leafs blue, not Raptors purple. And all but one of the many banners that hang from the arena's ceiling feature the Leafs. outside the Standing Raptors' third-floo- r practice fan Henry facility, sgorts DeVries said he followed both teams, but favors the Leafs. "I'm a Canadian, so hockey's more important to me than basketball." DeVries said. Press lie Associated PM I SANCVA hoists up a shot over Shot in the dark: Detroit's Christian Laettner dunng Saturday's showdown at The Palace in Auburn Hills. Miami's Alonzo Mourning time in another intensely Conference's top seed, can , clinch the series with another physical game between bitter rivals.' ' ! road victory in Game 4 on .After Milwaukee pulled Monday. with eight min- within The game was marred by Miller and Jalen ; utes to play, the ejections of Milwaukee's Rose keyed a 13-- run that Sam Cassell and Indiana's Dale Davis with six minutes to sealed the victory. Rose fin- 27 points, hitting play. The players confronted . ished with each other and received double three straight long shots durtechnical fouls for the second ' ing the deciding run. 87-8- 5 2 refused to blame the four-dalayoff from Game 2 to Game 3 for his team's lacklusterper-formance- . y JAZZ Continued from Bl Jer. but his most impressive play in the period came when he scrambled on the floor to keep the ball alive before scoring on a putback with 4:27 left. He then made a free throw after, being fouled by Greg Ostertag lead. that gave Seattle a "I just try to bring a lot of energy to my team," Patterson said. In the second quarter, Malone picked up two fouls in 23 seconds and then was called for a technical with 6:13 left in the period. He sat out the' remainder of the first half. With 3:31 left in the second quarter, Greg Foster of the Sonics and Armen Gilliam of the Jazz had to be separated by the officials after getting locked up while Patterson Was shooting free throws. The Sonics led 40-3at half-timafter scoring the first nine points of the second quarter, by including a Shammond Williams. Utah coach Jerrv Sloan 54-4- 6 'They had the same number of days off as we did," he said. But then he sarcastically added, "We've got a few weeks off before we play again." Jeff Hornacek of the Jazz said Game 3 was the kind of playoff game he's used to. Tn Utah, we did what we wanted to. You don't expect that in a playoff game," he said. "Tonight is more of what you expect in a playoff game." ' UTAH 178) 5 6 30. Riisrai A 9 Maior.e 10 Polymce 1'5. Stockton 2. Homact 4. 7 2 0. G 3 ?. lliani 00 0 Eisley 0 Osteriaq 0. Q Lewis 4 Totals Vaughn 0 6. 78 SEATTLE Baer (89) 7 12 15 10. B Barry 0 0 2 A'.;ai.-- 0 000 0 R Lewis 3 4 14. Fay(on 8 24 7 12 Patterson 5 8 89 1.3 2 2 5 Totals Utah Seattle 16 20 Gctts- - Uta! 4 2 StocMoi e . 13 Honoctf ' 18 18 20 24 10 :Pussr?ll 2 Giant 4 7 22 23. Foster 3 3 13. 26 25 4, McCoy - 78 89 Mafonc Seattle fcmnson vmmi Btmy Fou'ed out-- B Barry Rebounds - Utah 44 Paylon (Ostertag. Mainne G.ilian 6). Seattle 56 (Baker 11). Assists -- Utah 22 tStocklon 13), Seattle 20 (Paylon 10) Total fouls - Utah. 28 Seattle 25 Tt .hmcals Matone. Utah Stcan. Gttinrrr foul-,Parnice A 16.731 (17072) ;P EcJey 5 E Lewis-- - PproJlFF iNKLRESULTiBol ., and Peter Forsberg scored power-plagoals in the first period, and Colorado skated to victory over Detroit. The Avalanche took a lead in the Western Conference semifinals, with Games 3 and 4 scheduled for Detroit on Monday and Wednesday. Tomas Holmstrom broke Detroit's scoring drought with a goal midway through the third period, but Colorado's Chris Drury coun- tered with an empty-ne- t goal y 2-- 0 n at BRYAN 19:01. Colorado's Patrick Roy had 29 saves, and Detroit's Chris Osgood had 30. DEVILS 1 MAPLE LEAFS 0 - TORONTO Martin Brodeur stopped 20 Toronto shots as New Jersey evened the second-rounplayoff series. KH.StN I he Associated Press He shoots, he ... Colorado center Chris Drury has his shot turned away by Detroit goalie Chris Osgood during the third period of Saturday's' game, which was claimed by the Avalanche, 3-- Curtis Joseph was screened when the Devils' Colin White scored the lone goal. The Eastern Conference semifinals series, tied moves to New Jersey for games 3 and 4 on Monday and Wednesday. best-of-seve- n Toronto's best chance came four minutes into the game when Wendel Clark broke in alone only to shoot the puck into Brodeur's chest. The e Leafs also failed on a power play in the third period. The loss ended Toronto's four-minut- three-gam- e playoff winning streak, and was the first the Maple Leafs in five postseason home games. e The Devils ended a winless streak against the Maple Leafs, going back to the 1998-9regular season. six-gam- 9 |