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Show 0 I I A HlMtD V 11 NBA ROUNDUP Nuggets fall in AI's return to Pliilly; Rockets lose again the sellout crowd of 20,674 at the Wachovia Center. All eyes were on the former miLADOJIil- A- Allen Iverson had the ball in his 76ers star when he trotted out hands and the game on the for pregame warmups. The ovation grew louder, and then line, yet couldn't produce the Iverson made his way to center ending he'd hoped for. Iverson, playing in Philadelcourt, where he dropped down and kissed the 76ers logo. phia for the first time since beThe affection between the ing traded to Denver in December 2006, led all scorers with 32 2001 NBA MVP and the fans intensified throughout the points Wednesday night. But it was the 76ers who made the pregame, When Iverson was big plays down the stretch and introduced, the fans showered him with raucous applause and spoiled their former M VPs 3 return with a a lengthy standing ovation. He victory over the Nuggets. worked the crowd by putting "1 dreamed it up a certain his hand to his ear and turning to each corner of the arena as way, and it was better than the roar grew louder. The apthat," Iverson said. "Everything was perfect but one plause was only cut short by the introduction of the rest of thing, and that was not winthe Denver lineup. ning the game." Iverson misfired on a It almost got to me, lver- Marcus and jumper Cambysson acknowledged. "It made missed a put back in the final me feel good. It made me feel seconds as the Nuggets lost appreciated." Just before the game started, their second straight and failed to pick up any ground in their Iverson trotted down the sidebid for a playoff spot in the line to the Sixers' bench and embraced former coach Mautough Western Conference. "I almost had a perfect trip rice Cheeks, the first time the at my home away from home," two got together since he was Iverson said. traded 15 months before. Samuel Dalembert scored "It felt great for him to do the decisive basket with 32.9 that," the Sixers' coach said. seconds remaining. When An"We didn't want to make a dre Iguodala lost possession of scene. I thought everyone was excited about it when it hapthe ball as he fell, Dalembert was there to grab it and turned pened." for a lay-iCheeks couldn't help but notice the reception for his f Andre Miller, acquired by the Sixers in the Iverson trade, star. "I got to watching him and scored 28 points on his 32nd birthday and the 76ers reached got a little touched by it," Cheeks said. the .500 mark (34-3for the While Iverson got the recepfirst time since opening the tion he had hoped for, the Sixseason at Even in defeat, the night ers got the win. "We knew it would be emobelonged to Iverson, who received a hero's welcome from tional," Nuggets forward Ken- THf AbSOOA'ID PMSV 115-11- 20-fo- n. or-m- 2-- 2. yon Martin said. "They didn't want to have a player come in and get the love, but lose tin game." I Hornets 96, Rockets 69: At New Orleans, former Houston swingman Bonzi Wells helped New Orleans hand the Rockets their second straight loss after a winning streak, scoring 20 of his 25 point s in Kints to pass lit ad Uuighrrty the Cavs" scoring leader Tlie NBAs leading scorer will likely break the mark on l i when Clev eland hosts the Toronto Raptors in a potential playoff preview. its first-roun- d Raptors 96, Heat 54: At Toronto, Toronto held Miami to the point total in the shot clock era. Miami was just five points the fourth quarter in the Horsince off the NBA record-lonets' victory. David West, returning from the shot clock was introduced in the 1954-5a right ankle sprain that sideseason, Chicalined him for two games, had effort against the go's Heat in April 1999. 23 points and 11 rebounds to ) Andrea Bargnani and Anpull a help New Orleans e ahead of the Rockthony Parker each scored 14 ets for the Southwest Division points and Jose Calderon had lead and even with the Los An- 10 points and 10 assists to help geles Lakers atop the Western the Raptors snap a season-hige Conference. losing streak. The scored who McGrady, margin of victory was Tracy the largest in franchise history, only eight points in a 94-7- 4 loss to Boston a night earlier, beating Toronto's previous scored 15 against New Orleans, mark of 39. still well below his nearly 22- Nets 125, Hawks 117: At East point average. Chris Paul had 21 points and Rutherford, N.J., Vince Carter 10 assists for the Hornets, who had a season-hig39 points and 10 assists and New Jersey extended their home winning moved into a tie with Atlanta streak to eight while ending for the final playoff spot in the the Rockets winning Eastern Conference. streak on the road. Richard Jefferson added 33 Houston, which shot 41 percent against Boston, was even points and Devin Harris had a 26 points and nine career-hig- h worse in New Orleans, finishassists despite playing on a ing at 34 percent. sprained ankle as the Nets had ft Cavaliers 89, Pistons 73: At a season-higpoint total. Cleveland, LeBron James ft Wizards 87, Magic 86: At Orscored 30 points, moving closer to becoming Cleveland's top lando, Fla., Antawn Jamison had 31 points and 11 rebounds career scorer, and the Cavaliers beat Detroit in the Pistons' and Washington shut down first visit to Cleveland since Dwight Howard offensively in a win over Orlando. losing Game 6 of last year's Eastern Conference finals. ft Pacers 102, Bobcats 95: At In- James came in needing 35 third-lowe- 5 (46-21- half-gam- h 'J .r s r five-gam- - " , T ' 7 , v i er-game h h H. Press RUMPH, JR. Associated Denver Nuggets' Allen Iverson (3) shoots as Philadelphia 76ers' Jason Smith (14) watches during the second quarter Wednesday in Philadelphia. dianapolis, Flip Murray scored 22 points, and Indiana won its second straight game while handing Charlotte is fifth consecutive loss. Troy Murphy had 18 points and 13 rebounds and Shawne Williams, who had been benched for five straight games, scored 14 of his 16 points in the fourth quarter for Indiana. I Timberwolves 98, Grizzlies 94: At Minneapolis, Al Jefferson scored 22 of his 29 points in the second half to help M innesota deficit and beat erase a MemphisAfter hitting just one of his first 11 shots, Minnesota's Ryan Gomes made two free throws and then jumper from the elbow with 52.8 seconds left to help seal it. HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Pleasant Grove baseball tops Clearfield; Wasatch soccer falls to Judge DAILY BASEBALL PLEASANT GROVE 2, CLEARFIELD Clearfield Pleasant Grove Aaron Neuenswander retired the middle of the Clearfield lineup in order in the top of the seventh, then singled and event ually scored the winning run on a wild pitch in the bottom of the seventh to pace Pleasant Grove to a 1 victory over Clearfield in prep baseball action Wednesday. Neuenswander took over for Calder Bonnett, who had pitched an outstanding game, giving up just six hits, striking out three and giving up no earned runs, in the top of the seventh. The reliever got two groundouts and a strikeout to send the Vikings ) into the bottom of the inning with a tie. He and Quade Frampton opened P.G.'s half of the sevk enth with singles. A walk to Brian Schonbeck loaded the bases, and with Riley White at the plate, a wild pitch from the Clearfield hurler got Neuenswander to the plate. Schonbeck drove in the Vikings' first run with a double in the third. Clearfield scored on an error in the fifth. 2-- Manti North ALA 1 261 Neil 4 420 030 202 After Brock Duke aborted a bunt attempt, Spanish Fork had another idea. 5 10 10 1 5 12 2 000 205 001 000 in the sixth inTrailing ning with Trevor Randolph, one of the team's best base runners, on first and Duke, one of the team's best hitters, at the plate, Spanish Fork made the call to put the wheels in motion. It turned Out to be a winner. Duke tripled in a run and helped Spanish Fork rally on to beat Cottonwood 2-- 1 Koons, Collins (5) and East. Nelson, Lyons (7), Stewart (9) and Foster. Judge 13, Gunnison 4: At Salt Lopez (T), Lyons (T), Koons V), Threw (V). (T). Lake City, Keenan Walker homered and tripled to lead Judge (4-past Gunnison (40). Hanslnk (V), Foster Bailey (NS): Soccer (R), (T). 210 102 362 550 (R), K. Daniels (NS). BEAVER 10, MANTI Manti ft 000 322 6 3 611 2 1094 X 30) (M), Henrie (M), Gurr (B). Whrte 5-- 2 (B). JUDGE 13, GUNNISON 111' 000 650 001 Gunnison Judge 0-- . Barrus (M), 0-- (M), T.Jackson (B). (T), 3 NORTH SANPETE 5, RICHFIELD 001 Richfield 000 2 North Sanpete 100 003 1 Wednesday afternoon Spanish Fork. 4 4 53 1 1314 1x (J), Zollinger (J). Hill (G). (J), Ney (G). SOFTBALL PAYSON 8, MANTI 7 101 7 102 Manti 400 1 8 7 3 2 302 001 Payson Tamml and Haley. Stevenson, Fridell (4) and Gonzalez, A. Christensen (4), (6-2- 1- , (P). Mangleson PLEASANT GROVE 16, DELTA Grove 051 311 5 back-to-bac- Pleasant Delta 124 000 started when Tyler Hanks led off the sixth inning with a walk. Randolph was sent in to run for Hanks. Duke then drove a line drive over the second baseman's head that was hit so hard that it rolled to the wall. Ran- 7 16144 93 7 0 (PG), Fitzgerald (D), Bliss (D), Dalto (D). (PG), Lines 2 (PG), Giles (PG), Dodson (PG). WASATCH Wasatch West Jordan Beazle 8, WEST JORDAN 0 202 040 0 890 000 000 0 032 2B- - Peice (W) 2, J. Beazle (W). W). MOUNTAIN VIEW 7, PR0V0 Mountain View 002 311 0 Pnwo 4 020 0 Hatch and Miller. 002 and Bradshaw Olsen. 2-- 7 4 122 71 (MV), Nielsen (P). (MV). dolph scored easily and Duke chugged around to third for a triple. Gentry Mitchell followed with a single to right field that put the Dons ahead "Sometimes you need to take the pressure off a kid reading the strike zone," coach Nelson 3--2. start of the game, putting the Cowboys at a disadvantage and an eventual loss to Carbon Beau Morley and Cal Samu-elsoeach scored a goal for the Dinos. 5-- 0, (4-1- 2-- that's what you want. They're experienced and you can tell. That's what we're lacking." Lunceford went f or-- 2 for Cade Christensen the Dons went with a double. The loss was Cottonwood's 2-- (7-1- ). second straight. The Colts lost to American Fork &6. Cottonwood Spanish Fork Devin Nelson pitched five innings and gave up just one hit, but was on the hook for the loss until Duke delivered. 101 010 000 0 004 x and Bowles. Mayer, Adams (5), Poulsen (6) Duke (5) and Lunceford. WP-(S), Christensen (1-- 221 5 7 Nelson, 2 A. Duke, (S). Duke (S). Cougars edge Kansas State in 10 innings BYU BASEBALL Eric May Softball I Payson 8, Manti 7: At Payson, Karlie Mangleson drove in Lexi Bushman with a triple in the bottom of the seventh, then scored on Chelsey Diamond's two-osingle to lift Payson (6-to the victory. Taelyr Stevenson and Shel- - , by Fridell combined to strike out eight Templars. ut Pleasant Grove 16, Delta 7: At Delta, the Vikings (1-- blasted five home runs to roll past Delta ft (1-3- ). I Wasatch 8, West Jordan 0: At West Jordan, Janeece Beazle earned another win on the mound and added a home run from the plate as Wasatch ) cruised over West Jordan (44). . (4-5- TUESDAY I Mountain View 7, Provo 4: At Provo, the Bruins (14, picked up their first win of the season, and their first Region 7 victory, with a win over Provo and was relieved after 1 Vs innings by sophomore Tyler Westensee. Pitching seven solid innings and allowing only one run (in the fourth), Westensee gave the Cougars the confidence boost they needed to fight back. The Wildcats, scoreless in the last six innings, tried protect their lead and stop the I baseball, HERALD CORRESPONDENT 5-- 5 (6-1- starter) threw real weU for them, but it's too early to go a full game. When they came with their bullpen, it wasn't as good as our bullpen. That was the big key in the game." Nelson gave up a run in the first when Eric Doi walked and took second on wild pickoff attempt. He went to third on a ground ball and scored on a sacrifice fly. Nelson gave up another run in the third The way and fell behind Cottonwood's starter looked through five innings, it looked like Cottonwood's lead would hold up. Mayer pitched five innings, fanned nine and gave up just one run on an RBI single in the third from Lunceford. But Mayer reached his pitch count and was lifted from the game after the fourth inning and the Dons got to Cottonwood's bullpen. "It's awesome (Spanish Fork's pitching). They bring two guys in and they've got three others out there that are just as good or better," said Cottonwood coach Jon Hoover. "They know out to pitch. They keep you off stride, challenge you and n 2-- g said. "You need a few breaks in this game. It (Duke's hit) happened to be a shot in the gap. It could have been a shot at the second baseman for a double play. We're just struggling to be consistent offensively so we've been trying to get a bunt down, start runners, and just try ing a few things just to get some aggression going." Spanish Fork wasn't done yet. When playing the state's No. 4A team, why take any chances? The Dons added two more runs in the indouble ning, thanks to a from Taggert Lunceford, to put the game out of reach. Once the Dons had the lead, Adam Duke put down the Colts in order in the seventh to pick up the win on the mound. Duke pitched the sixth and seventh innings. He fanned three and gave up one hit. "You can't say enough about our pitching, holy Mo- ses. Devin Nelson looked great and then you bring in Adam Duke," Nelson said. "I thought the difference in the game was Kendall (Mayer, Cottonwood (4-3- ). (6-2- ). (5-2- in "I've been struggling a little bit so Whites (coach Jeff Nelson) just tried to do something to get me going," Duke said. "I got a good pitch and stayed with it and just drove it in the gap." For Spanish Fork, it all 2 (J), Warner HERALD 162 15 VISTA (CA) 10, TIMPANOGOS K. DAILY Learning and Argyle. Torres, Peterson (3) and Gardner. 2 (A), Reynolds (NS), Black (A). Torres (A), Frailer (A). (NS). VISta (3-3- 2 1 (PG. (3-8- ). Judge Memorial 3, Wasatch 2: The Wasatch Wasps (3-on the road against the Judge Memorial Bulldogs started quiet, finishing the first half tied Seven minutes into the sec- ond half .Judge was awarded a penalty kick after Wasatch keeper Tyson Day reached to knock the ball out of the box and fought through a Bulldog player earning Judge a penalty kick and the first score of the game. In the 57th minute Cameron Lowry headed the tying score off a corner kick by Mathew Wheatley. The game remained 1 until the final three minutes of regulation and injury time, when Judge's Alex Bennion started the scoring spree by putting the Bulldogs up ft American Leadership 15, Wasatch scored off a goalNorth Sevier 4: At Spanish keeper violation, giving them an indirect free kick from Fork, the ALA Eagles scored 12 yards out. A Judge player runs in bunches early, defeatmoved in five toward the ball early on ) Sevier North ing the initial attempt, which gave innings. Wasatch a redo. Wheatley Tyson Lambourne went with four RBI and two tapped the ball over to Victor doubles and Robby Black was Sosa, who threaded the ball five with a game-hig- h past 11 Judge players stacking the box and just missed the left RBI for ALA post. I American Fork 10, Fremont 5: Judge broke the 2 tie just 30 seconds later, returning At Plain City, Josh Mooney, with its own attack. Andy Lewis and Scott The Wasps appeared to tie it, each doubled for when the ball was lobbed deep American Fork (50), as the Cavemen doubled up Fremont into the corner and a Wasatch ) in the win. James Davis player sprinted to receive and was the winning pitcher, going cross the ball to the middle. Devin King headed it in for a five innings. header. The goal game-tyinwas called off by the assistant ft Vista, Calif. 10, Timpanogos 5: At San Diego, Timpanogos fell referee for an offsides call and apart down the stretch, watch- the game ended in favor of the five-ru- n Bulldogs. ing a 3 lead turn into a Wasatch will play Uintah loss in nine innings at the riext Wednesday at home startLions Tournament. in the bottom of Tied ing at 3:30 p.m. if the 18 inches of snow melts from its field. If the eighth with two runners not, Wasatch will seek another on and no outs, Vista's center location for their first home fielder made an outstanding game,catch deep in the outfield to scorof a rob Timpanogos ) ft American Leadership 1, South ing opportunity. Vista then got five runs across to put the Summit 0: At Kamas, David game away. Jordan Cooper hit Armendariz scored in the first half to lead American Leadera home run for the TWolves. ship past South Summit in Region I North Sanpete 5, Richfield 3: 14. At Mt . Pleasant, Tyler Daniels homer in jacked a three-ru- n I Carbon 2, Grantsville 1: At the sixth as North Sanpete (24) Grantsville, in a rare disqualiwent on to defeat Richfield ). fication, the Grantsville goalie received a red card before the ft Beaver 10, Manti 6: At Bea Dons rally to get past Cottonwood 1 0 ALA 15, NORTH SEVIER 301 00 Sevier 074 4X Timpanogos ft 010 001 000 1 Nope, Thurgood (7) and Sattord. Bonnett, Neuenswander (7) and Stevenson. ver, Jud Marshall picked up the win as Beaver (7-- beat HERALD 000 Walton chased down a fly ball for a spectacular catch at the warning track that ended the inning, leaving two on base and preventing the Wildcats victoryoverKansasState.lt from adding to a lead. was a rally so exciting, they needed 10 innings to get it all in. The first four innings of the Bills had a tying sacrifice fly game were not so cheery. g in the ninth and a BYU recorded five errors, shot that scooted just over three of which scored three line in the 10th, the third-basunearned runs giving its early lead. Coupled with both times scoring teammate Steve Parker. That helped help numerous balks and botched overcome the Cougars plays, the Cougars were hapan ugly first four innings.of py just to escape with a win. se"It was sloppy; no question play to sweep the two-daabout it," said BYU coach Vance ries against the Wildcats ). Law. "But, I'll take a sloppy win "I kinda got a little excited over a sloppy loss any day." to get a chance to hit a ball The BYU skipper couldn't hard and end this ball game," have chosen a better adjective Bills said. "We have gotten into games before that went for BYUs early innings. "We just need to take better into extra innings that we care of the ball. They weren't ended up losing late. I was fortunate enough to get a fast- difficult plays, but I think it ball, and it was something that was just lack of concentraI was looking for in that situation," Law said. "We reboundtion, to score a run and end it." ed well, and the spirit in the The third-bas- e dugout really changed and we blooper by Bills capped off the rally which were able to rally. Freshman Daniel Welch began in the fourth inning afmade his first start in Division ter junior center fielder Kent Designated hitter Thomas earned two of BYLPs most important RBI of the day Wednesday afternoon in a Bills 6-- 5 5-- 2 game-winnin- e (9-1- y ; Cougar scoring. The Wildcats utilized seven pitchers. Their closer, whose sidearm delivery resembled more a professional bowler than a college pitcher, came into the game in the eighth inning and gave the BYU batters some trouble with an impressive slider but still couldn't stop the Cougars from getting on base. The Cougars hext host the Air Force Academy in a three-gam- e MWC series at Larry H. Miller Field beginning today . Games today and Friday begin at 6 p.m. Saturday's game begins at 1 p.m. All three games will be broadcast on KSRR 1400AM. Kansas State BYU 130 100 000 020 001 110 0 1 S73 685 Bayuk, Vogel (2), Rooke (5), Hoge (6), Edwards (7), Bachman (10), Lindsay (10) and Dellasega Welch, Westensee (2), Miller (8) and Musso. (KS), King (KS), |