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Show JPWF8 SECTION 2mlttHcrali FRIDAY, MAY 4, SPORTS EDITOR PREP SPORTS WW Knights hit courts today after rest on first day i - j ,94 I if li f "H Hill II Hi II II Darnell Dickson 2007 ddicksonhefaldextra.com 344-255- 5 PBHKHHMWMI ijmMMT""" FIRST ROUND - ;82 ( GAME 6: HOUSTON AT UTAH Forcing" Game 7 Russ Lyman HERALD DAILY Neil Warner After the first day of the Region 4 tennis tournament held Thursday at the Spanish Fork indoor tennis courts, the team that's in the best position going into today's semifinal and final matches is the team that didn't even touch The Front Row F aracket. Lone Peak holds the No. and received a . REGION 4 TENNIS a combined 49-- 1 1 Si r seed bye in each of the five brackets due to a dominant regular season in which its players went against region first-roun- d JAZZ SHOULD competition. Mountain View, the team that finished second during regular season play, had byes in four brackets. Going into the tournament, the Knights were overwhelming favorites, and that status has been strengthened after the Bruins' d Jorge Encinis lost his match to Spanish Fork's Colton Semershein. Lone Peak's team is highlighted BE CONFIDENT HEADING BACK TO HOUSTON first-roun- by brothers Spencer and Tyler Loong, who man the No. 1 and I: if ' . the evidence points to a Jazz win in Game 7. All Yep, movin' on. State tickUtah ets on sale now. Okay, so that's a little presumptuous of me, but there is enough evidence to suggest you should have your debit card ready for Round 2. Utah did it again on Thursday night at the Energy Solutions Arena. The Jazz, who have won While seven of their HOUStOn last eight Jazz-Golde- n See TENNIS, C6 More Preps Inside o Former BYU player Dan Han- sen was named Springville's head football coach Thursday. .Blljfjjajliihutr.iyigtj J - Page C6 0 - ' :--: Jk : " . - CT Sei may have 77J . aLbener chance of having COach Jeff 20 puiied 5SSta the final fhre minutes of the fourth quarter , Van Gundy 3 showing a ! , dreadlOCkS v. I C, ASHLEY T Power of two works for Bruins in victory Several Jazz players step up to extend series Doug Alden in the first five games. "1 think it's a great performance by everybody." Carlos Boozer scored 22 and Mehm-e- t Andrei SALT LAKE CITY Okur added 19 points as he finally Kirilenko shadowed Tracy McGrady started hitting his shots, makall night. Now he'll be following Mcing four and matching his total for the first five games. Grady back to Houston, too. "I don't give up. If I'm open I'm goKirilenko easily had his best game of the first round with 14 points and five ing to take it," Okur said. blocks to lead the Utah Jazz to a 2 Kirilenko was exhausted after trying to keep up with McGrady. The victory over the Rockets on Thursday Rockets' superstar still scored 26 night, tying the series and forcing a Game 7 Saturday in Houston. points, but nine came from the foul line as Kirilenko and the rest of the "We kept it aiive," said Kirilenko, who hadn't scored more than eight Jazz pretty much shut down every THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 94-8- With each team winning , It QOeS STEVE C WILSON Associated Press Utah Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko, right, scores over Houston Rockets guard Luther Head during the second quarter of their NBA Western Conference first round playoff game Thursday in Salt Lake City. Mountain View's Braden Hellewell, right fights off Timpanogos' Tyler Bingham on Thursday. n on Saturday niqht than Saturday. v y n? ..... FRANSCELLDaily Herald the deciding game of this Up in N route to the basket. Utah didn't let McGrady get much easy scoring and the Rockets fell to 3 in playoff road games. Yao Ming added 25 points, but he also had eight two more th in his returnovers as Okur and rookie bound total Paul Millsap constantly pressured the 0-- 7-- f oot-- 6 center. The rest of the Rockets besides McGrady and Yao combined for 31 points. Houston finished with 19 turnovers. See C5 JAZZ, winn!n9a SEES? game in Salt court, natural- Lake, that is figure t0 be not the case thorite on Saturday, When the but not if Utah Jazz play at ITJ'Sof itshomecourt momentum. "I say Jazz and Houston are even teams," said Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko. "Probably they have a little bit of an advantage, maybe a one percent advantage because of the fans. But we can play them there. We showed it. We've been a little bit unlucky there for three games. HOUStOn. See WARNER, C5 Jared Lloyd DAILY HERALD The Mountain View boys soccer team picked up three twos in the first half of Thursday's home game against Timpanogos: r Two great attacks, two shots ' on goal, two goals. That's all it would take for the Bruins as they came away win with the and retained , BYU RUGBY BYU faces Penn Jared Lloyd DAILY GAMEDAY HERALD 2-- 1 possession of first place in Region 4. Mountain View got things 2 MTN. VIEW in the TIMPANOGOS 1 going 12th minute with a nice sequence of passes deep in the Timberwolf end of the field. "We had possession, brought the ball down the line and crossed it, then (senior midfielder) Dustin i . See BRUINS, C6 State for right to play for national title It may be the best team on campus of BYU this spring, yet relatively few people know about it. Check out the numbers: It is undefeated at 12-- on the season, is winning by an average of 29.6 points per game (40.7 to 11.1) and has only had one truly close game all year (a 0 win over Utah). Indeed, the BYU men's rugby squad has had remarkable success in 2007. "I'm very pleased with how we've done this year," said Cougar head coach David Smyth. "At the start of the year we lost a few kids to inju- 21-2- USA Rugby Collegiate Semifinal BYU vs. Penn State WTT Today, 6 p.m. fZr TV:CSTV iJ ries, but we've had others step in. I'm proud of what we've accomplished." , This is the big weekend for the Cougars as they once again earned a spot in the USA Rugby Collegiate Semifinals. BYU will meet Penn State today for the right to advance to the title match ' RUGBY, , , ASHLEY FRANSCELLDaily Herald left end the Cmmm wHI try to advance to the rugby national C4 title game for the second year In a row when they play Penn State today. BYU See O Q David Root |