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Show CI D Alt T' M I A H t 0 NHL ROUNDUP AMBRIEFING The annual Utah High School Ctiaches Association game will tip off today at Boys Basketball Orem High School. The 1 A North will play the 1A South at 4 p m. followed by the 2A vs. 3A at 6 p.m. A slam dunk contest will take place at 7:15 and the final game of the night will be the 4A vs. 5A at 8 p.m. Lone Peak coach Quincy lewis wil coach the 5A and Provo coach Craig Drury will coach the All-St- All-Sta- 4A W'i ?Zlt Collie Softball Utah at UVSC Noon - straight sets. game tonight ar fTr iiUJ s. The 5A team includes Josh Sharp and Bracken Funk of Lone Peak, along with Jackson Stevenett and Connor Van Brocklin of Davis, Cameron Evans of Clearfield; Tanner Connors of West Jordan, TJ Ford of Bingham, Tommy Barrett and Davis Emery of View-moand Jace Tavita of Brighton. The 4A team includes Marcus Hunt of Timpview, Goose Kallunki of Orem and Seth lovell of Payson. are Ben Aird of Bountiful, Elliott Other 4A Bullock and Preston Fairbourn of Olympus, Lewis Garrett of Pine View, Dalton Groskruetz of Snow Canyon and Eric Hanson of Roy. include Jaren Jeffery and Kurt The 3A Nielson of Delta, Taylor Woodruff of Wasatch and Russell Christensen of North Sanpete. nt All-Sta- All-Sta- TENNIS at Key Biscayne tournament Novak Djokovic often KEY BISCAYNE, Ma. bounces the ball more than a dozen times before serving, and the tedious ritual may have cost him a match Friday. The defending champion at the Sony Ericsson Open went into a funk after being warned for taking too much time between points, then blew lead to lose his opening match. a third-se- t 7 former NCAA Qualifier Kevin Anderson, a d doubles champion at Illinois, beat the ( 1), 64. Djokovic won his first Djokovic Grand Slam title at this year's Australian Open and was coming off a title at Indian Wells last week. But he struggled from the start against Anderson and was rattled by the warning from the chair umpire. Another qualifier, Benjamin Becker, had no luck Rafael Nadal, who won against second-seedeNo. 7 David Nalbandian lost to Xavier Malisse and No. 8 Richard Gasquet was beaten by Dmitry d Tursunov (5). No. 9 James Blake (2), Andreas Seppi In women's play, defending champion Serena Williams, three-tim- e champion Venus Williams and Justine Henin won their opening matches in third-ranke- 7-- 6 3-- 7-- d 6-- 6-- 6-- 6-- elimi-nate- 7-- 6 6-- 7 7-- 6-- top-rank- ON THE AIR Jeff Gordon wins pole at Martinsville Television Jeff Gordon laughs at the MARTINSVILLE. Va. notion that sitting 14th in the point standings after five races means he's of f to a slow start, and he showed that he's doing just fine on Friday by winning the pole at Martinsville Speedway. "Yes, turn things around. It has been a terrible year," Gordon said in jest Friday after turning a lap at 96.288 mph. "I don't mind people saying, 'Hey, you are 14th in points, You aren't having the type of year youi had last year." Gordon's lap on the 0.526-mil- e oval, the oldest, shortest and trickiest in NASCAR's Spring Cup Series, easily beat Denny Hamlin (95.757) for his seventh career Martinsville pole and the 65th of his total in NASCAR history. career, the fourth-bes- t Only Richard Petty (126), David Pearson (112) and Cale Yarborough (70) won more. Gordon also has won seven times on the oval, tops among active drivers, and hopes he can quiet the critics who say his Hendrick Motorsports team is struggling. The second row features rookie Aric Almirola and David Ragan, followed by Jamie McMurray, Kasey Kahne, Ken Schrader and Kyle Busch. Jimmie Johnson, winner of the last three races at h Martinsville, will start 10th. IRL transplant Sam Jr. was the top qualifying rookie, securing the 26th spot with a lap at 94.637 mph, while fellow former open wheel racers Patrick Carpentier and Dario Franchitti also made the race. Carpentier will start 37th, Franchitti 43rd. Arena Football THE 30-2- 9 31-2- 9 hitting errors. The Cougars forced the final game by winning Game 4, BYU got out early with a lead after a kill from Perez and consecutive blocks from Sorensen. Perez had seven kills and BYU hit .441 in the fourth game. Holmes started Game 5 with two powerful solo blocks for a Cougar lead. He got a kill moments later for a 1 advantage and BYU fed Perez for three kills f or t he lead that held up. "The reason I was on fire was because the middles (Holmes and Sorensen) got going," said Perez, who also led BYU with 12 digs. "If everybody doesn't step up, we lose. I found that out this year when I 30-2- 6-- 3 . FOX Rolex, 2:30 p.m.ESPN2 SPD 4 p.m. NHRA qualifying 6 p.m. 7 p.m. 8 p.m. ESPN2 SPD ESPN2 TGC TGC NBC TGC ESPN2 ESPN WGN NCAA Basketball Tournament 12:30 p.m. CBS championship Div. I Tourney doubleheader4:30 CBS p.m. Men's College Lacrosse 10 a.m. ESPN2 Virginia at Maryland II NBA : ; 6:30 Milwaukee at Chicago Rodeo Ty Murray Invitational Tennis : WGN p.m. 6 p.m. VRS ESPN ESPN2 ESPN 7 p.m. 9:30 p.m. ESPN2 Noon Oklahoma St. vs. LSU Div. II 4 p.m. championship Maryland vs. Vanderbilt Stanford vs. Pittsburgh DAILY SALT LAKE CITY In her sixth performance of the season, senior Alethea Boon finished her career leading the No. 28 BYU gymnastics team to a 193.850 posting Friday night against the No. 2 Univesity of Utah. The Utes y. MARIO RUIZDaily Herald BYU's Russell Holmes (11) blocks San ta Barbara's Jeff Menzel on Friday at the Smith Fieldhouse. had 24 kills and hit .571 against Stanford, and we lost. We just need to keep doing what we're doing. It's a team thing." Charette had 16 kills and Sorensen 15 to put four Cougars in double-figur- e kills. BYU hit .556 in Game 5 to finished at .330. Menzel led the Gauchos with 19 kills but also had 14 attack errors and hit just .088. The Cougars outblocked UCSB 12.0 to 6.5. BYU is 18--4 overall and 13--4 in MPSF, and the win kept the Cougars among the league leaders as the regular season counts down. The Cougars will play UCSB tonight at 7 p.m. again (9-1- I Daily Herald Sports Editor Darnell Dickson can be reached 5 or by at at ddicksona heraldextra.com 344-255- Football for 449 yards passes (fourth-best- ) he produced a year ago. "During the winter I think Continued from CI he worked harder than he's ever worked, at least since I've choices made that sent shock-wave- s been here," the junior Hall said. through the program "Mike wants to be good, he that are still being felt today. wants to be great." A coaching change transReed's development could help Bronco pired, and fourth-yea- r BYU's offense one of two ways, Mendenhall has said the proHall figures. Double teams will gram is just getting back to even ground after a destroyed continue to take place on Collie and tight end Dennis Pitta, thus recruiting class. Reed There were, among others, meaning the would be available for more some native Texans Like Reed that fled Provo after potential plays "we didn't always take adrecourse in court. vantage of last year." Or Reed's prowess forces Now, Reed is trying his best to be a part of future recruiting teams to go with classes. Not part of Utah's culcoverage on its top two sets of hands, in theory making Colture, he's still thrived in it. lie and Pitta that much more He's had a hand in talking with highly touted Florida redangerous. Reed said he's in regular ceiver O'Neil Chambers. Reed contact with his old high school is aware that putting up numcoach in suburban Houston, bers, touchdowns and yards, Dick Olin of Robert E. Lee will also send a message. in Baytown. He wants more Mendenhall and quarterback Max Hall agreed that Reed, the Texans, like himself and Utah second option at receiver behind quarterback Brian Johnson Austin Collie, has done the neces- ( Reed's cousin), to experience sary work in the offseason to put the Mountain West Conference. himself in position to have much Olin, who has sent a few more of an impact than the 41 players in recent years to Iowa single-covere- d man-to-ma- n baseball: At Tulsa, Okla., Oral Roberts used a n third inning to take control of the game and went on to a 1 A victory over BYU ( two-ru- n homer in the first and homer in the n a three-ru- n third inning, both by Brian Van Kirk, did the bulk of the damage. Golden Eagle southpaw Michael Jarman threw a no-hins shutout through nings. BYU didn't register a hit until the sixth inning when Sean McNaughton doubled with two outs, sending teammate Michael Bowen, who had walked, to third. Bowen scored on a passed ball. Bowen got BYU's second hit in the ninth. The Cougars and Oral Roberts ( ) finish their three-gam- e series today. BYU HERALD came out on top recording 197. 100 on the night. "The girls did a pretty good job adjusting," said BYU coach Brad Cattermole. "Sometimes it's hard to figure out reasoning behind the results of each meet, but with all things considered the girls did pretty well." Boon totaled 38.075 in the and led the squad on vault with a 9.850. The Cougars had two falls on their opening event, bars, earning just 48.075. Senior Kylee Draper-Marvi- n topped BYU with a 9.825. Megan Donehue and Melissa Hough each earned 9.750. BYU got 48.70 on the vault, led by Boon and senior Dayna Smart-Allewho scored 9.825. On floor exercise, the Cougars recorded 48.450. Hay ley Jensen topped BYU with a 9.775 and Danielle Goldman added 9.7. BYU finished with 48.625 on led the the beam. Smart-Alle- n Cougars with a 9.85, and Kaylee Gallup added a 9.775. The Cougar squad is now looking toward Regionals. The destination assignments for Regionals will be announced Monday. 16-- ). it five-plu- 15-6- 3-- quick work of Kristina (6-Wins by Nedel-tchev- ). I BYU men's tennis: At Las Vegas.the BYU men's tennis team (12-MWQ lost its 0-- 2 second consecutive MWC match, falling 1 to TCU. ; The Horned Frogs swept the doubles matches, putting BYU (6-hole. MWQ in a y In singles, BYU's Mears forced a three-se- t 1 at match, but fell The Cougars' only wih'came at the No. 6 position when A.J. 6-- 100-yar- I Hurricanes 7, Thrashers 1: u At Raleigh, N.C, Tuomo and Jeff Hamilton each scored two of Carolina's five power-pla- y goals in a rout of 0 Cas-sid- 6-- I BYU swimming: At Federal Way, Wash., BYU's Jorge Azevedo finished 34th in d the butterfly at the NCAA Championships, in a time of 47.99 not enough to qualify for the final. I Predators 2, Blue Jackets 0: At Columbus, Ohio, Dan Ellis shut out Columbus for the second time in four days, and Nashville mastered the Blue Jackets again. Jan Hlavac and Radek Bonk scored on consecutive shots in the second period and Ellis made a 43 saves. career-hig- h Miccoli will be honored. 0-- 2 3-- Ru-ut- 6-- Atlanta. Young defeated TOTs Jack Seider BYU plays Air Force today at 11 a.m. MT. 6-- third-perio- Wild 4, Canucks 0: At St. Paul, Minn,, Pierre-Mar- c Bouchard and Brent Burns scored with the man advantage for Minnesota and sent Vancouver to its fourth straight loss and a tie for eighth place in the Western Conference with Nashville. a Surkova and Hayasa-k- a clinched the win for BYU, as both defeated their UNLV opponents in straight sets. The Cougars host San Diego State today at 10 a.m. (indoord) or 11 a.m. (weather permitting, outdoors). Seniors Surkova, Chang and Jennifer 1, los- five-gam- e I Canadiens 4, Sabres 3, 0T: At Buffalo, N.Y,, Christopher Higgins scored 3:38 into overtime, capping Montreal's rally against Buffalo. Tomas Plekanec scored consecutive goals in the final three minutes, and Montreal regained the top spot in the Eastern Conference. The Canadiens lead the Pittsburgh Penguins by one point. The Sabres squandered a 1 d lead for the second straight home game, and had their playoff hopes take another hit entering the final week of the season. Stuck in 10th place, Buffalo is four points back of Boston and the eighth-plac- e postseason cutoff in the East. FSN 11 a.m. Sony Ericsson Open Women's NCAA Basketball Tournament ESPN North Carolina vs. Louisville 10 a.m. g , and ended ing streak e Philadelphia's run. Every Devils winning shooter beat goalie Martin Biron in the tiebreaker. Johnny Oduya had his first two-gogame for the Devils and Jamie Langenbrunner also scored in regulation. : Mike Knuble sent the game into overtime, scoring the equalizer for Philadelphia with 55.2 seconds remaining. Vinnie Prospal, Jim Dowd and Randy Jones also scored for Philadelphia. The Devils jumped over Ottawa into fourth place in the Eastern Conference playoff race. Philadelphia is in seventh, two points behind the New York Rangers and one ahead of Boston. SHO 3 p.m. Div, PRESS four-gam- Major League Baseball 1 p.m. ChiCubs vs. Seattle Exhib., ChiSox vs. N.Y. Mets3 p.m. , season-high- Men's NEW YORK Major League Baseball put the suspensions of Baltimore's Jay Gibbons and Kansas City's Jose Guillen on hold for 10 days, giving lawyers for players and owners more time to reach an agreement toughening their drug rules. The outfielders were suspended for 15 days each by commissioner Bud Selig on Dec, 6, following media reports linking them to performance-enhancindrugs. The penalties were to start Sunday, when the U.S. portion of the major league season begins. Negotiators are close to an agreement that would call for more frequent drug testing and would strengthen the authority of the independent program administrator. If there is an agreement, the suspensions of Gibbons and Guillen most likely would be eliminated. 18-1- 0 7-- Trucks, Kroger 250 NHRA qualifying Horse Racing Florida Derby Gibbons, Guillen suspensions on hold Back-to-bac- 4-- SPD 1 p.m. Lady Utes top Cougar gjimiasts well. They're battling for the last playoff spot and you can't take anyone lightly in the MI'S!', ever." BYU got back on track in Game 2, holding UCSB to a k .000 hitting percentage. kills by Perez gave the Cougars a 13--9 lead and BYU cruised from there, picking up four blocks and holding Menzel to just two kills on 13 attacks. BYU fell behind early in Game 3. The Cougars managed to work its way back from an deficit to tie the game at 27 all on a block from Charette and Trent Sorensen. UCSB lead on a hitting took a error by BYU and at second game point, the Cougars had a communication problem at the net to let a ball drop for the UCSB win. BYU was its own worst enemy in Game 3 2-- 8 a.m. Boxing 9 p.m. Froch vs. Inkin Golf 8 p.m. Open de Andalucia Sr., The Ginn Championship 11 a.m. 1 p.m. PGA, Zurich Classic 4:30 p.m. LPGA, Safeway Internat'l. Baseball Continued from CI 11 Noon ASSOCIATED Brian NEWARK, N.J. Gionta, Patrik Elias and Jamie Langenbrunner scored in the shootout to lead the New Jersey Devils to a 12th straight home victory over the Philadelphia Flyers, 54 on Friday night. New Jersey snapped a ESPN2 Tampa Bay at Philadelphia Auto Racing Trucks qualifying Giansco 250 IndyCar, Indy 300 Sprint Car Series practice : Volleyball with Devils win X v 1:30 p.m. FSN Airro Racing Hor-nis- Djokovic NBA Utah at Minnesota 12th stmiglit nipnASKi:njAiL All-St- SUNDAY TODAY I Blues 4, Red Wings 3, OT: At Detroit, Brad Boyes' second goal of the game and 40th of the season gave St. Louis an overtime win against g Detroit. Erik Johnson and Andy McDonald also scored for the Blues, and Paul Kariy a had three .assists. 7-- UVSC golf: At Arroyo Grande, Calif., UVSCs Nick Nelson shot a final-roun- d 72, good enough NHL-leadin- I BYU women's tennis: At Pro-vfor third place overall at the Cal the BYU women's tennis team won its first Mountain Poly Intercollegiate. Nelson finWest Conference match of the ished one shot back of Bry cen season, sweeping UNLV Wagner of Cal Poly and Cory BYU (9-Renfrew of British Columbia. MWQ took The Wolverines had their best two of the three doubles round of the tournament commatches, getting wins from a Doerr Dolly bining to shoot 298 and mov(8-and Chie Hayasaka-Ell- e ing up to seventh place after starting the day in eighth. Jeff Carney Gibson shot 76 to finish plus-1- 2 In singles play, Doerr conover the tinued to dominate, making tournament. 4-- I Avalanche 5, Oilers 4, SO: At Denver, Joe Sakic forced overtime by scoring with 5.9 seconds left in regulation, then added the decisive tally in a shootout as Colorado strengthened its playoff position with a win over Edmonton. 0 Chang-Kristin- (8-6- ). and said BYU coaches used to year's game against Utah at be in more contact with him LaVeil Edwards Stadium. about a decade ago, said the ad"They left the comforts of dition of Texas Christian in Fort Baytown and they managed Worth plus the expanded televi- to flourish," Olin said of Reed sion access, now that Comcast and Johnson. "But gosh, what and Direct TV reached a deal, would you not like at BYU and will help the league. Utah? It's beautiful out there." "Some of those guys are Mendenhall noted that current players are forbidden by starting to catch our games NCAA rules to communicate on TV, and realize how good with prospects off campus. But we are. They're starting to see the offense, starting to see once at BYU for a visit, the acthe defense," Reed said. "They quaintance time is priceless. The understand, going to the (BCS coach's question, to his leaders, about possible future members: affiliated) schools, sometimes Is this one of our guys? you might get lost in their While regional connections systems. There are so many can play a part, it's the leadergood athletes. I'm not saying the Mountain West and other ship council that is usually put conferences don't have good to work in finding answers. Reed said he does his part, players, but sometimes you can come here and play right answering questions, stifling steaway rather than having three reotypes and laying it out in plain or four guys ahead of you." view. He's been known to do his Olin's stepson, Drew Tate, is guidance at bowling alleys. a former Iowa quarterback. So "I don't try to fill their heads the coach, even during his own with a bunch of lies," he said. "I'm 22 apd probably still one season, would travel to Iowa City and all around the Big Ten of the younger guys on the Conference to watch him. He team, and I have a different said even those trips made him perspective than some. I feel appreciate how good Reed has like I can give (recruits) some it at BYU. Olin watched last support and if they don't ask me questions, I'll tell them a little bit about BYU. "But I would never tell a person absolutely not to come here, because anybody can adapt." nant offense. "That's what a quarterback is going to do when the offense isn't working out," said receiver Austin Collie, who called the unit as a whole "a little bit immature" with its ineffectiveness. I Friday scrimmage: The first one of spring ended Friday with Wayne Latu had 30 yards touchdown pass from on four carries, getting some a Max Hall to Andrew George, nice repetitions. That's how the as the tight end slipped into a team will use him in the spring, pocket amidst blown coverage knowing what Harvey Unga then chugged down the sideline. is capable of, Mendenhall said. That moment was far from Fui Vakapuna was supposed the norm, as far as Mendenhall to get some more carries, but was concerned. He planned on Mendenhall said he took some only running about 15 plays, but stitches to the chin. extended to about 25 minutes. "I think that in general, ofFirst impression? It left a lot fensively, when they ran the of room for improvement, the football they were clearly fourth-yea- r coach said. effective. When they had to "We were not clean in terms throw it they struggled with of our execution on either protection," Mendenhall said. side," Mendenhall said. "And I "Especially with an experithink in general the composure enced group I would've excomponent of it, when they put pected them to just transition on the pads and scrimmaged easily and move the ball up and for the first time, they lost down the field, but that's not some composure." what happened. I think maybe Hall was credited with 107 (it was a) wake-u- p call." passing. He yards on received a I Jason Franchuk can be unsportsmanlike penalty as he voiced reached at jfranchuk frustration at one point of stag heraldextra.com. 79-ya- I. i. I inn h I l In .lull I il il Ii I I I . .li ' Jl .. Hi Ii, I ,,.. ii |