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Show IB PREP BASEBALL itUlUN , v ' i mltj0ilcml& (c SATURDAY, APRIL 5, SPORTS EDITOR 37 UTAH JAZZ 90, SAN ANTONIO it I Darnell Dickson 344-255- 5 r 2008 ddicksonheraldextra.com T7 SPURS 64 jiti Jazz pull away in fourth quarter to rout San Antonio 7 Doug Aiden THE MARK .JOHNSTONDaily Herald Spanish Fork's Brock Duke pitches Spanish Fork out-Duk- es i Taylorville Jared Lloyd DAILY HeW ' (51-26- ). See started today The Jazz would be the No. 4 seed and would play fifth seed Phoenix in the first round. I p. SP. FORK a pitcher." Duke took the mound for six innings and struck out : two Warrior batters in each i of the first For video four frames, highlights of consistently the Spanish" hitting 86 miles Fork baseball per hour with team's victory over Taylorsville his pitches and on Friday, go to going up to 90 heraldextra.com mph a couple of times. His final i numbers were nine strikeouts to just five hits and one walk in six scoreless innings of work. Duke said he wouldn't have minded taking the mound for the final inning as wefl. "I wanted to stay in, but they said they wanted to get (sophomore pitcher) Adam (Duke, Brock's brother) an inning of work," Brock Duke explained. Adam Duke allowed a walk and had a strikeout in his inning of work as he preserved the shutout. "All of our pitchers are good," said Spanish Fork head coach Jim Nelsoa "Yesterday we had a shutout and we got another one today. We'd only allowed nine runs before last Friday (a loss to t if si y y o half-gam- e I Jazz record: Frst in 51-2- Northwest Division, lead on Denver I Jazz remaining games: Two DOUGLAS home, three away UPCOMING GAMES: Tuesday, at New Orleans Thursday, at Dallas April 12, vs. Denver C. PIZACAssociated Press San Antonio Spurs forward Manu Ginobili during the third quarter Friday in Salt Lake City. Okur finished the night with 17 points as the Jazz beat the Spurs, Utah Jazz forward Mehmet Okur, right, scores against 90-6- Jazz bury Spurs from beyond the arc for 16 percent, while Utah hit on Mehmet Okur, Deron for 53 percent. Game over. Williams, Kyle Korver or In the third quarter it was Utah's Ronnie Price, it doesn't matter. shooting that softened up taken awhile for the Utah Jazz this 3 thing, but now It's figure out kind have it down, they they of like it. The old catch phrase, "Memo for 3," has caught oa Mehmet Okur, Deron Williams, Kyle Korver or Ronnie Price, it doesn't matter. Everybody's doing it. Andrei Kirilenko and C. J. Miles this team has gone crazy. And why not? It's working. Friday night when the Jazz hosted the San Antonio Spurs, Utah put San Antonio away in the second half faster than you can say, "Bruce Bowen for 3." Six different Jazz players hit 3-- San Antonio's defense. Price got the Everybody's doing it Andrei Jazz going with a 3 that gave Utah a Kirilenko and C J. Miles this lead with 5:30 left in the third 51-4- 4 , team has gone crazy. And why not? It's working. Neil Warner On the Jazz pointers as Utah blew out San Antonio JKH54, thanks to the accuracy of e Utah's bombing. long-rang- Utah held San Antonio to a franch64 points. One of the keys to the game was shooting. The Spurs connected on just ise-low ' quarter. Okur faked a pointer and powered inside for two. After a Tim Duncan dunk, Kirilener to ko spotted up and sank a give Utah a 5648 lead. Williams hit a trey, then it was Korver's turn. Just like that Utah had lead. a 62-5- See WARNER, C3 DONS, C4 BYU FOOTBALL Cougars show off for alumni at scrimmage BYU athletes set qualifying marks at various meets young outdoor season. Bergen matched the mark he set at the ASU Invi- With BYU track and field tationaL and Arrhenius threw athletes dotting the United six feet shorter than he did at States on Friday, 11 regional ! the ASU Invitational but still qualifying marks were set. BYU played host to the managed to throw a qualifying Cougar Invitational sent pole mark of 190. Three of Arrhenius' teamvaulters to the Clyde Littlef ield Texas Relays in Austin, Texas, mates Dust in Lawrenson (16M1), Daniel Lawsbn (157-1and sent many of its distance '.. . "'', runners to the Stanford Invita- and Clint Prestwich (15640) X'-tX- . finished in the collegiate top tional in Palo Alto, Calif. five in the discus. Lawson, a During the third day of the Cougar Invitational, BYU high sophomore from Moses Lake, disWash., also placed first in the jumper Bryce Bergen and MARIO RUIZDally Herald v cus thrower Leif Arrhenius set shot put with a toss of 54-Chelsl in BYlFi the Petersen competes long lump Friday at the regional qualifying marks for third took BYU overall in the event. Petersen C4 Invitational See in this TRACK, so far time Cougar second the Darnell Dickson HERALD DAILY HERALD 10-in- ' . 2-- 1 ... I Homecourt edge: Phoenix The Suns have a lead on Utah for homecourt advantage in the first round BYU TRACK AND FIELD DAILY s Jazz won, More Online See Jazz-Sun- season record: TAYLORSVILLE Viewmont)." JAZZ, C3 If the NBA playoffs 6-- you're supposed to do as PRESS SALT LAKE CITY The Utah Jazz may have picked up a few pointers last year while being humbled by San Antonio in the Western Conference finals. The Jazz reversed the roles Friday night in a 90-6- 4 victory that matched the Spurs' lowest point total in franchise history and ended San Antonio's eight-gamwinning streak. . The beating was bad enough that San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich pulled his starters early in the fourth quarter, resting them for the next six games and a run at the best record in the West. The Spurs (52-2are still in contention for that, as are the Jazz And neither team has officially clinched a playoff berth yet. against Taylorsville on Friday. Every knew about the Y2K is sue that surfaced almost 10 years ago when people pondered what would happen if the dates on the computers didn't make the transition to the year 2000. The' Spanish Fork baseball team has its own version: BD2K. Eton junior pitcher Brock Duke is almost guaranteed to strike out two batters per inning or at least he was in six innings of work Friday as he led his team to a 0 shutout win at Taylorsville. ' "Today I was spotting my fastball pretty well" Duke said. "I also had a pretty good slider. I couldn't find the curve or the change-uI just tried to keep them guessing, which is what ASSOCIATED f 0) . - i fail 4 i imili ISM BYU head coach Bronco Mendenhall is a firm believer in limited contact during spring foot- fully-padde- d and goal line. The scrimmage was originally scheduled for 50 plays. "We got a lot accom plished, Mendenhall said. "There will still be corrections. We felt like the situ- ational work needed more emphasis and The Cougars held a short scrimmage today was the first SPRING in front of an enthuday we installed siastic alumni crowd PRACTICE goal-lin- e packages. The offense scored at LaVeil Edwards three times and the Stadium on Friday defense held twice. Other than that went about 30 plays, the spring game, we won't working mostly on specific situations like coming out from the See BYU FOOTBALL, C4 line, blue zone ball. 1 |