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Show w DAILY C4 Friday. May 4. HERALD 2007 2007 NBA PLAYOFFS wins Deng central: Mavs Chicago's eliminate Warriors Upset Janie McCauley Whoa, Nellie, what a shocker! THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Coach Don Nelson's emoBaron tional bunch of castoffs beat OAKLAND, Calif. his old team by holding likely Davis and Stephen Jackson shot the ragtag Warriors right league MVP Dirk Nowitzki into the second round, capping to eight points and two field goals, after he saved the Mavs perhaps the NBA's biggest with 30 points in their playoff up set with yet Game 5 win Tuesday. The Warriors, making their one more memorable first playoff appearance in 13 years, will open the second on round Monday night at either their home Houston or Utah. floor. Jackson who avoided a Davis suspension for Game 6 after 111 GLON ST. two ejections in the series DALLAS 86 willed the hit four Warriors during r on one good leg, shaking off a decisive 24-- 3 a strained hamstring to score run and finished with a playoff 33 points, while 20 points, Jackson made a career-hig- h franchise playoff-recor- d seven Davis also added 10 rebounds and Golden State and six assists. He sat down became the first No. 8 seed to with 2:19 to play, throwing capture a best-o- f seven playoff his arms in the air to the fans series with a who chanted "MVP!" When victory over the NBA-bes- t Dallas Mav- the final buzzer sounded, the ericks in Game 6 on Thursday Warriors hugged as confetti streamed onto the court. night. six-poi- nt third-quarte- 111-8- 6 sportsmanship award Andris Biedrins had 12 points and 12 rebounds, not to mention a handful of key hustle plays, Matt Barnes took advantage of his first start of the series with 16 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists, ' and Jason Richardson added 15 points, five rebounds and four assists. Josh Howard scored 20 points and Jerry Stackhouse had 14 of his 20 points in the first quarter for the n Mavericks, who along with volatile owner Mark Cuban had high hopes of going deep in the postseason after their remarkable regular-seaso- "I havent told my parents yet about it, but I think for them it means a lot more than DEERF1ELD, I1L any other award," Deng said. Chicago "I can win awards on the Bulls forward Luol Deng won basketball court and it would the NBA's sportsmanship award Thursday, edging Shane mean a lot to me. But this Battier and four other divisional award is on and off the court. It's something for me to give winners in a vote by players. e back to my parents. They will Deng received 52 22 votes and 2,027 points appreciate I'm being recognized for who I am," more than Battier of Houston. Born in The Sudan, Deng Utah's Derek Fisher (1,953) was third, followed by the Los was 5 when his family fled to Angeles Clippers' Elton Brand Egypt after the government was overthrown. They eventu(1,935), Atlanta's Joe Johnson Toronto's and (1,737) Anthony ally settled in England, where his parents still live. He spent Parker (1,611). The award honors the player his high school years at a prep school in New Jersey and went who best exemplifies ethical behavior, fair play and integri- to Duke for a year before enty on the court, and the winner tering the NBA. receives the Joe Dumars TroDeng is involved in numerous named after the Detroit charities, and the league will dophy nate $25,000 on his behalf to PaPistons Hall of Fame guard, Garden Mission, the oldest cific of basketball their president continuously operating rescue operations and the inaugural Andrew Seligman THE ASSOCIATED PRESS first-plac- 67-wi- n showing. The Warriors became only the third eighth seed to upset the No. 1 and the first since the opening round e to the went from JEFF CHIUAssociated Press current format. The Denver Warriors' Baron Golden State and the New Nuggets (1994) Davis points after making a York Knicks (1999) are the only other teams to win a against the Dallas series. Mavericks on Thursday. best-of-fiv- mission in the country. recipient. BYUUVSC ROUNDUP BYU baseball, softball find success in Albuquerque Johnson went f or4 in the game along with scoring a run. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Craig moves to 2 with the Jesse Craig pitched a complete-gam- e win. shutout on Thursday "Jesse is such a kind guy and night, striking out five for BYU is such a competitor when he as it beat New Mexico, 34). takes the rubber," Law said. The game was a defensive "He just handled (Jordan) in that last battle into the eighth with the teams deadlocked at BYU Jordan Pacheco got two of (27-1started that inning the Lobos' three hits off Craig with a lead-of- f single, courtesy during the game, but popped of Leon Johnson, followed with up to first base to end the game a single by J.T. Musso that with a runner on second. New 9 Mexico dropped to moved Johnson into scoring position. Shortstop Dan Vargas with the loss. then loaded the bases by reachWith the win, the Cougars extended their current winning ing on a fielder's choice. "J.T.'s was actually a sacristreak to five games. This is fice situation, but they threw their third streak this season of five or more wins. Their a fastball down the middle and he hit a line drive," said longest streak of the season is BYU coach Vance Law. "They six games. elected to get Johnson at third, BYU and New Mexico face off again today at 6 p.m. The which was a mistake (on Vargas' bunt). One run was all we Cougars' Jordan Muir , 5.84) needed tonight with Jesse on will be up against the Lobos' the mound." Bobby LaFromboise (5-- 3.32). Kent Walton was up next and hit a sacrifice fly to bring I Norton breaks school home the runner in and give BYU the run record as BYU sweeps New Mexico: At Albuquerque, N.M., edge. The sudden offensive outsenior Jodi Norton broke BYUs n home run record burst knocked New Mexico's starting pitcher Stephen Smith as the Cougars swept New out of the game. The next Mexico, 1 and 74, on Thurspitcher Bobby Moore walked day. n BYU head coach Gordon two, the final walk bringing has now led his team to 16 Musso in to score and make the lead straight victories. The Cougars (36-1In the ninth, BYU added MWQ have hit a toanother run on a Vargas triple tal of 77 homers on the season that brought Stephen Wells in and have hit at least one home to score and give BYU the 34) run in 16 straight games. "These girls have tremendous lead. DAILY 2-- HERALD 8-- 0-- 11-- 7-- 21-2- (5-3- 0 single-seaso- 4-- Ea-ki- 2-- 12-- 2 character," Eakin said. "They never quit. The wins feel good, but it feels better to be associated with these players." As has been the case for most of the season's late run, a BYU home run began the scoring in Game 1. It was sophomore Andrea Ramirez going long in the top of the second to give the lead. Cougars a Freshman Angeline Quiocho lead in the gave BYU a two-ruthird. After stealing third base, her 13th stolen base of the season, senior Jennifer Whiteley hit a sacrifice fly to right field, bringing Quiocho home. The Cougars got their third run in the fourth inning when an Emi Snow lead-of- f double was followed by a Dani single to left field two batters later. Urincho-Snow'- s hit drove in her sister-in-lafrom third. BYU put a stamp on the game in the seventh where Quiocho went up to bat with ' runners at the corners and no outs. Quiocho singled to left r Jana field, scoring 0 n pinch-runne- Anderson. The Lobos (18-2scored an unearned run in the sixth for the 1 final Mountain West Conference Pitcher of the Week Christie Zinanti picked up her team-bes- t 16th win. Zinanti struck out six in her 14th complete game of 7-- 4-- the year. fourth gave the Cougars a deficit heading into the fifth. winWith the team's ning streak in jeopardy, senior Jodi Norton hit her 22nd home run of the season. The two-ru- n shot to center field gave Norton BYUs single season record in home runs and cut the Lobos lead down to one. The Cougars' second leading home run hitter, Snow, went to bat next and took care of that. The junior from Mililani, Hawaii cranked her 13th of the year to left field to make it a 3-- 0 e 3-- 3 ballgame. New Mexico regained the lead in the bottom of the order when a fielding error allowed Ray to advantage. give the Lobos the However, BYU was not quite ready to have its winning streak snapped. With runners in scoring k position, senior Cortney grounded out to short, but Tracee Hoch scored on the play. Whiteley then doubled down the left field line bringing in Quiocho for the run. In the seventh inning, Urincho-Snodrove Anderson in and Hoch drove Stephanie Piatt in for the 74finaL "We talked in the fourth about how they weren't going to give it to us," Eakin said. "We had to earn it. We made the right adjustments at the plate and just got the snowball going." 4-- 3 Nix-dar- game-winnin- g In Game 2, New Mexico took lead behind two solo home ) BYU, UVSC track show well a at Weber Twilight meet The runs by Amy Ray in the first BYU Cougars' track and field inning and Ashley Allen in the second. An unearned run in the teams sharpened their claws 2-- 0 Advertise your at the Weber Twilight meet Wednesday in preparation for the Mountain West Conference meet next weekend. The Cougars' Nate Rencher ran the 200 meters for the first time this season and clocked the fastest time of anyone on the team at 21.64, finishing second. Teammate Lance Walker also had his first attempt at the race and finished in a time of 2220. Stig Robertson had a 49.94 second time in the 400 mark for meters, a season-bes- t him. Jake Garlick improved his time in the hurdles to 14.65 and placed second. Walker again improved his time and finished sixth. Brad Ellertson qualified for Regionals in the pole vault by clearing 16 feet 6.75 inches. There are now five qualified for the West Region meet. The BYU men's 4x100 relay team also improved its time to 41.40. The, women had a larger group of athletes at Weber and had many top finishes and improvements. Jennifer Grossarth ran the fastest time of the year for the women's team. She finished in a time of 54.42 to take first. Stacy Slight and Jenna Lowder took second and third, respectively, in the 800 meters Carolyn Quebe and Tawany By bee placed third and fourth, respectively, in the 1500 meters. Bybee had her best time of the season at 4:40.47. Jenna Jensen won the 5000 meters in 17.42.62. Kathryn Beck placed fourth in the 100 hurdles. Julie Andersen won the 400 hurdles. Kari McAllister won the pole vault, and Katie Hawkins tied for third. Tiffany Arrhenius img proved on her mark in the javelin. She won the event with a throw of 153-0is the third best mark in the MWC Tipaleli Fotu improved her mark in the discus and finished second in the hammer throw. u For UVSC, Kari highlighted a strong finish to the regular season, registerfinish in the ing a second-plac- e women's 100 meter dash with a ,MJJL V first-plac- top-fiv- 110-met- rs 400-met- region-qualifyin- g region-qualifyin- SaHe time of 12.23. She finished just e .19 seconds behind the runner. Tupou also had a strong showing in the women's 100 meter hurdles, posting a time of 14.48. Ashley Timo took second in the women's long jump with a team meet best leap On the men's side, Zach Cook e finish in the posted a 400 meter hurdles, running a 54.98, while Gavin Shaw took second in the hammer throw. Shaw's best throw was a hurl of 193'06". Snow-Tupo- t Fairbourne announces signing of Telarroja: Utah Valley State softball coach Todd Fairbourne has announced the signing of Samantha Telarroja to a letter of intent. Telarroja will join the Wolverines next year after a very successful high school career at Claremont High School in California. She is currently in the middle of her senior season where she is one of the top home run hitters in the state of California with seven. She also leads her high school team in nearly every offensive statistical category. I UVSC baseball heads to Colorado: The Utah Valley baseball team is heading back out on the road this week when it heads to Colorado to face Air Force in a single game today and Northern Colorado on Saturday and Sunday. Today's contest begins at II am., with Saturday slated for a 3 p.ra first pitch and Sunday a noon start. All of the weekend games will be played at Northern Colorado's Jackson Field. I NCAA Volleyball Final Four: At Columbus, Ohio, Pepperdine was upset by IPFW in one semifinal at the NCAA men's volleyball Final Four, losing In the other semifinal, UC Irvine, who beat BYU in the MPSF semifinals last week, defeated Perm State in four d 30-2- games, 27-3- 30-2- 5, 27-3- 30-2- 25-3- 26-3- 0, 30-2- IPFW and UC Irvine will play for the national title on Saturday at 7 p.m. on ESPN2. Get 15 lines Continued from CI pAlr f) Garage Sale Kit against either Navy or Cal (which includes signs, price tags, and balloons) Call today to place jour ad! very, very tough game." But that doesn't mean Smyth won't think about how big a national title would be for Rugby of text and a 9 1 Sat- urday evening. "We're excited (to be in the semifinals)," Smyth said. "This is a goal we set at the start of the year, where we want to be every year. We're looking forward to it." Smyth explained that the key to beating the Nittany Lions a team they've played three times in the past 18 months will be intensity and executioa "They're an excellent team with a storied tradition in rugby," he said. "It will be a big task to go out and beat them. We need to do what we've planned and prepared, go out and play BYU-styl- e rugby." A victory today would most likely mean a rematch of last year's title game against the Golden Bears. In 2006, Cal staved off a late Cougar charge to get the 6 win and 29-2- while supplies list Private party onry. Restrictions 2)ailyHcmlftihera,dcxtra i. com may appfy. the national championship. "Cal is an incredibly strong team," Smyth said. "They've been very successful and most teams arent even able to get dose. That would be a very, BYU. "Words can't describe how big that would be for our program," he said. "We've only been in for about four years and to do it in such a short period of time would be a monumental achievement." In order to take the first step today, however, Smyth said all of his players would need to step up and play well. He pointed to the forwards as the ones that would provide the platform for a successful tour- nament. "We have a few areas we can attack," the BYU head coach said. "If we follow our game plan, I think We'll have success. If we dont, we'll struggle." Both of today's'semif inal matches and Saturday's final will be broadcast live on CSTV. The Cougars are set to play at " 6 p.m. tonight and would play at the same time Saturday if they advance. I Jared Lloyd can be 2 reached at or JJoydhera!dextra.com. 344-255- |