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Show Pure I - THE HERALD, Provo. Utah, Sport Wednesday, April 25, 1984 A full report and commentary on winners, X? losers and coming events Jazz Stage - S pecimulm imiebadi, DENVER (UPI) Adrian Dantley bulled his way to 39 points and Darrell Griffith ignited a last second Utah Jazz burst with soft jump shots to stave off elimination from an NBA series with a 4 win over the Denver Nuggets Tuesday night I ISN - ill 129-12- finished Utah, seemingly U- 129-12- 4 j 3 when they trailed with 4:05 left, came alive on Griffith's shots and then scored the final eight points to send the series back to Salt Lake City. Dantley had gotten the Jazz started with 18 points in the first quarter but much later Denver appeared to have had things in hand until Griffith took things in his own hands. He scored a quiet 26 points and found a hot hand with three consecutive jump shots around the three minute mark despite Nuggets defender T.R. Dunn hanging tightly to him. 118-11- Griffith's third jumper at to play made it Denver, and after Kiki scored on a fall away shot seconds later for a three-poi2:25 122-12- 1 Van-deweg- nt bulge, the Nuggets' outside shooters went cold. For Denver, Alex English scored 34 points and Dan Issel added 28. Vandeweghe missed 13 of 21 shots and his misfires late contributed to the Nuggets' fold. Also in the final seconds, English committed an offensive foul and Issel was stripped of the ball by Rich Kelley. Thurl Bailey's free-thro- w with 70 second remaining tied the game at 1:24 and then shot Bailey scored on a for the lead. On the critical next possession, Vandeweghe missed a 20 footer and on the rebound Nuggets guard Mike Evans fouled. Griffith then made two free throws with 23 seconds left to ice Utah's first win in McNi-choSports Arena in nine games. The Jazz' Jeff Wilklns, (45), grimaces as he battles former Utah center Danny Schayes (34) for a lose ball during first period play. On his way up for two points, Denver Nugget BUI Hanzlik (24), knocks over John Drew (22) of the Utah Jazz. 10-fo- ot ls The teams entered the fourth quarter in a tight struggle and with Denver leading 100-9- 7. In other playoff games, Boston crunched Washington Philadelphia downed New JerAtlanta defeated sey 99-9- 6, 110-10- 2, Milwaukee sank Phoenix Portland 100-9113-10- and 0 las drubbed Seattle Dal- 107-9- 6. Celtics If, Bullets N Robert Parish woke up from a slumber Tuesday night and e helped put the Washington Bullets' playoff hopes to rest. Boston's center, who had only connected on eight of 29 shots in two previous playoff games, scored 20 points and added 12 rebounds to g 6 lead the Celtics to a victory over the Bullets at Landover, Md. e The Celtics, who won the matchup in four games, will Eastern Conference Washington vs. Boston (Boston wins series Boston 99, Washington 96 Apr. 24 Philadelphia vs. New Jersey (Series tied Apr. 24 Philly 110, N.J. 102 N.J. at Philly Apr. 26 Milwaukee vs. Atlanta (Series tied Atlanta 100, Milw. 97 Apr. 24 Atlanta at Milw. Apr. 26 Western Conference Utah vs. Denver (Series tied Utah 129, Denver 124 Apr. 24 Denver at Utah, 7:30 pm Apr. 26 Portland vs. Phoenix (Series tied Portland 113, Phoenix 110 Apr. 24 Phoenix at Portland Apr. 26 Dallas vs. Seattle (Series tied Dallas 107, Seattle 96 Apr. 24 Seattle at Dallas Apr. 26 meet the winner of the Detroit-NeYork meeting. 76ers 110, Nets 102 At East Rutherford, N.J., Julius Fouled -- Erving and Moses Malone each scored 22 points to enable the defending NBA champions to stave oft a furious New Jersey comeback. The shifts to Philadelphia series, tied for Game 5 Thursday night. The Nets cut the deficit to 100-9- 6 with 2:07 remaining, but Bobby Jones drove for a layup and 31 seconds later canned two free throws to seal it. Hawks 100, Bucks 97 At Atlanta, Dan Roundfield blocked d Bob Lanier's jumper with eight seconds left Tuesday night to boost the Hawks into the series tie. The deciding filth game will be played Thursday night in Milwaukee. Dominique Wilkins scored 19 points to pace Atlanta and Glenn Rivers added Dantley 17. Eaton 39, Bailey 4 Green 26, Kelley 9, Wilkins 6 Boswell 0 5, 4 4 Griffith 3 8 7 10. Drew 0 6. 0 Eaves 1 0 0. 0, 6 129. ToUls 3 DENVER (124) 0 9 34. Vandeweghe English 2 0 28. Issel 0 32. Wi2 lliams 5 4 0 Dunn 4, 6, Evans 3 0 0. Schayes 5 0 6, Hanzlik 5 4 4 10. Carter 0 4. Totals 8 17. 7 8 124. Utah Denver 36 26 32 34 37 29 24 35 -- 2 29. Vincent 0 0 4 4. Harper 6. Turner 0 0 0. 7 129 15 Wnod 9, 6 0--2 7 124 Herald Sports Writer BYU sophomore Gary Cooper has more than a little larceny in his soul, and it helped BYU Tuesday. Cooper jumped on the first pitch from tiring Northern Colorado pitcher Todd Anderson with two out in the bottom of the 11th inning and sent the ball out of the park to give the Cougars an exciting 10-- 9 win in the second game of the doubleheader after winning the first But 13-- 4. it was Cooper's larcenous nature that tied the game in the bottom of the ninth and gave the Cats a chance to win it. The Cougars trailed 8 going into the final inning. With one out Cooper got to first on an error, then turned burglar for the fourth time in the game and stole second. The next batter fljed out and the Cats were down to their last out. With a 1 count on Eric Varoz, Cooper's burglar instincts got the better of him again and he broke 9-- 3-- for third. The pitch was a ball, so Varoz hustled down towards first while the catcher pegged to third. But Cooper slid under the third baseman's glove and the ball jumped out of his mitt and dribbled back behind third base and the former Mountain View High star climbed out from under the Bears' third sacker and headed for home to tie the game. Meanwhile, Varoz, trying to go to second on the wild play, was thrown out for the third out and the game went into extra innings. "We practiced all fall and winter on stealing third, but Gary is the only one on the team who has really done it well. Most of the players seem afraid to take the big lead at second," Pullins said. "We only try (stealing third) when we think the other team won't expect it. "Like this time. Bottom of the ninth, two out, a 1 count, I mean, it would be dumb to try to steal third. So we go and it works. We kinda 3-- out-dumb- them." It was the second time in the game that Cooper had stolen third and his five stolen bases in one game set a new BYU record. "To steal third you just need a big lead and steal it on the pitcher," Cooper explained after the game. "I got thrown out trying to steal third down at the Riverside tournament and then that vowed I thrown out again. wouldn't I I be may get picked off second, but I wasn't going to get thrown out at third." As for the homerun that won it, Cooper said he was looking for it. "The pitcher (Todd Anderson) had gone the whole game and he was getting tired so he was throwing a lot of fastballs without much on them. I thought he might throw one- - to me on the first pitch," Cooper grinned. The game was a wild one from the word go. The Cougars took a lead in the second when Dave Morrow hit a grandslam homerun on an 2 pitch and were comfortably ahead 2 in the seventh behind the pitching of junior college transfer Bill Anderson. But then UNC scored one and 4-- 0 0-- 6-- 25-2-7 3 BOSTON Vranes 3 6 . 7 0 0,' loaded the bases and ace reliever Steve Nielsen came in, only to give up a grandslam of his own to Chris Knabenshue and the Cougars trailed, BYU went back on top 7 on a two-ru- n homer by Cory Snyder in the bottom of the seventh, but the Bears came back with two more in the top of the eighth to set up the ninth inning dramatics. In the first game, Colby Ward went the distance and Varoz and Snyder homered to lead the Cats to a 13-- 4 win. Defense was a strong point with the Cats in both game", particularly from Snyder. The rangy Cougar shortstop made every kind of play imaginable, going to his left, to his right, charging shallow infield grounders and going deep for hard shots, continually nipping the runners at first and aiding in a couple of doubleplays. The Cougars, ranked 15th this week bv Collegiate Baseball, are 1 on the year and face Wyoming at Laramie this weekend in WAC series. a three-gam- e 7-- 8-- 34-1- Twinbills On Tap for Utah Tech By RAY SCHWARTZ Herald Sports Writer Utah Tech's baseball team is rolling these days after getting off to a slow start and Coach Dave Nelsons' Wolverines now stand atop the Intermountain Co- llegiate Athletic Conference (ICAC) standings with a 6-- 0 record. this week UTC goes after four more ICAC wins plus a couple of victories over the College of Southern Idaho, a And foe. The Wolverines played Rick's College in a twinbill this afternoon in Rexburg. Two more games are Friday on the UTC diamond. The home games start at 1 p.m. On Saturday, the Wolverines will play a doubleheader with the CSI of Twin Falls, on the UTC field starting at noon. Coach Nelson started Randy Cina and Layne Hales today in Rexburg with Carl Coates and Bill Call expected to start in Friday's game. The coach hasn't decided on the starting pitchers for the CSI doublehpader. Cina and Coates were impressive last Saturday both going the full route as the Wolverines swept a pair of games from the College of Eastern Utah 0 and Cina now boasts a record and Coates a 1 mark. With the wins over CEU the Wolverines are 3 over all this season. Mark Kendzior and Nick Spilker were the hitting stars for the Tech. Spilker singled home the only run of the first game and hit a two-ruhomer in the second game. Kendzior banged out four hits and six trips to the plate including a two-rutriple in the 7-- 3. 3-- 14-1- n n second game. Both Snow (100) 17, Maxwell 20, Hndrsn 4 6 9 9 0 McHale 9, Wedman 8 2. Totals 18, 8 0 0 2 3 2 9 4, 13, 7 9 0 12, 4, 99. College and Dixie doubleheaders. On Saturday CNCC will play at Snow and CEU at Dixie in a couple of twinbills. All four doubleheaders will start 1 p.m. Snow played a double-headwith CSI last Friday in er Ephraim losing the first game 11-- 12-- 0 (N) 1 9 2 Ballard 12, Ruland 6 2 16, FJhnsn 30, Mahorn 7 0 2 17, Sobers 0, 9, Kopicki 0 0 0 Malone 0 0, 12, McMillen 2 1 96. Daye 04 0 O.Total 7 21 31 18 21 -- M Boston 24 17 24 31 N Washington Three-poigoal-F- . Johnson. Fouled Total 26, fouls-Bosto- n 38 Washington 24. Rebounds-Bosto- n (Parish 12), Washington 32 (Ruland 15"). AssistsBoston 20 (Bird 7), Washington 24 (Ruland 8). PHILADELPHIA (110) 5 7 13, 22, Jones 6 Erving 6 2 2 4 Malone 22, Cheeks 2 0 9 20, Toney 18, C.Rchrdsn 7 0--0 4 8, Iavaroni 6, S. Williams 0 - 2 1, C Jhnsn 0--2 0 0, Matthews 0 0- - 0 0 0 0, Threatt 0 0, Rautins 0 26-2- 9 2 110. 0. Totals NEW JERSEY (102) O'Koren 5 2 4, B. Williams 5 Dawkins 16, Birdsong 3- - 8 4 2 7, M.Rchrdsn 13, King 3 0 0 20, Ransey 5 4, Gminski -3 8 8, Cook 14, R.Jhnsn 0--0 3 0. Total 2540 102. 3418 28 3- 0- 110 Philadelphia 2- - 6 16, New 22222533-1- Jersey 26, Fouls-Phi- lly illy (B. Williams (99) 3 37 02 N.J. 32. (Malone 15), N.J. 50 18). Assists-Phi- lly 22 (Erving 8), N.J. 22 (M. Richardson 8). Technical Dawkins, N.J. coach Albeck, B. Williams, Philly coach Cunningham, Philly (illegal defense). Preps still Fighting For Playoff Spots By DOUG WILKS Herald Sports Writer An 1 upset win by Orem over American Fork and Mountain View's 11-- 9 baseball win over Provo Tuesday has left five of Region Seven's six teams still in the fight for Utah's precious state 8-- Prep Baseball playoff spots. The Cavemen heed to win two of their next three games to lock up first place in the region after cruising through the first six And with two games at games at Uintah on the schedule, the Cavemen appear to be a shoe-i- n for the region title. The rest gets a little crazy. A win over Orem Tuesday, would have further solidified American Fork's domination of the league and would have left Orem scrapping at But the Tigers proved they still have a lot of fight in them as they powered their way to the 1 win. 6-- 0. 8-- College are scheduled in ICAC action this weekend with the Badgers hosting CEU and the Rebels entertaining Colorado Northwestern in a pair of Friday and winning the second Dixie was idle last weekend. Bird Parish D.Jhnsn Buckner Carr 1 3-- 4. at WASHINGTON Reb-Ph- Base Neiroks Lead Cougars By DOROTHY KNOELL 97. -- 7 27, Williams 0 16. King Reb-Da- 2 Roundfield 3 14, Wilkins 1 2 6 19, Rollins 3 2, Davis 5 6 19, E. Johnson 17, Rivers 3 0 0 - 3 12, Brown 3 5, Hastings 0 0 0, Wittman 9 0, Glenn 0 3 100. 5 12. Totals 97 22 23 30 22 Milwuakee 100 27 24 23 26 Atlanta Three point goal Dunleavy, E. Johnson. Fouled out None. Total foul- s- Milwaukee 27, Atlanta 28. Rebounds Milwaukee 36 (Moncrief 13), Atlanta 44 (Roundfield 13). AssistsMilwaukee 17 (Dunleavy 6), Atlanta 26 (Davis 6). Technical Lanier, Atlanta (six men on floor). A 6,435. 107. SEATTLE (96) Chambers 1 0 10. Sikma 96. 27 22 30 28-- 107 20 23 22 31- -06 ATLANTA Blackman Totals 8, 2, MILWAUKEE ((7) 2 M. Johnson 18, Lister 6 0 2 8 18, Dunleavy 9 6, Lanier 2 4 19, Mokeski 3 11, Moncrief 9 0 20, Pressey 4, Bridgeman 3 0- - 3 0 0 0. Totals 2 1, Breuer 2 8. Ellis 3. Nimphius 2 0 16, 00 Hawes. Foul- s- Dallas 55 (Aguirre, llas Vincent 11 each), Seat. 55 (Sikma 14). 27 (Davis 8), Seat.25 Assists-Dal- las (Williams 9). A 11,893. DALLAS (107) Aguirre 0. 0 2 8 Sndvld Total 7 3, 0 goal 7 21. Cummings 6 2 8 20. Davis 6, Brown 1 5 2 26, Seat. 28. -- UTAH (129) 5 32 PORTLAND (113) 9 3 14. Natt Carr 8 30, 0 2, Paxson 4 Thompson 0 2 19. Valentine 16, Cooper 9 8 5 0, Drexler 8, Verhoeven 0 7 2 0 10, Lever 0, 6, Lamp 0 7 113. Norris 4 2 8. Totals 3 PHOENIX (110) 4 8 6 Lucas 11, 23, Nance 2 8 9 18. Davis Edwards 4 4 8 29. Macy 4, 11, Pittman 8 2 5. Foster 0 2, Adams 2 7 1 0 Sanders 14 2, Westphal 5, 2 0 0 5 0. 110. Totals Scott 32 24 21 113 28 Portland 110 26 26 32 26 Phoenix Three-poi2. Fouled goals-Mac- y d outCarr, Norris. Total 37 32. Phoenix 32. Rebounds-Portlan- d (Natt 8i. Phoenix 44 (Lucas 10). AssistsPortland 26 (Valentine 13), Phoenix 27 (Davis, Macy 7 each). Technicals-LucaAdams. -- 0 McCray Hawes Jhnsn 1 Dallas Seattle fouls-Uta- h h (Bailey 8i, Denver 34 (English 10). 20 (Bailey 7), Denver 26 (English 6). --- Trail Blazers 113, Suns 110 At Phoenix, Ariz., Calvin Natt scored 30 points and Clyde Drexler scored 10 in the final quarter, includ-- , ing two insurance free throws with nine seconds left, to lead Portland. will conclude The series, tied Thursday night in Portland, Ore. Walter Davis paced Phoenix with 29 points. Mavericks 107, Sonics 6 At Seattle, Mark Aguirre scored 29 points and Jay Vincent 21 to lead the Sonics and tie the series at two games each. The fifth game will be played Thursday night at Southern Methodist's Moody Coliseum. Jack Sikma paced Seattle with 27 points. Rebounds-Uta- Assists-Uta- h -- 19. Total 33. Denver 34. It leaves Orem tied with on the year: Timpview at 3 Mountain View sits at 54 while Provo drops to With two games to gp in the season, the. playoff spots are still up for grabs. "We played really good. The kids were happy to win but it wasn't like winning the world series or anything. We know we still have some games to win if we are going to make it to the playoffs" said Greg Sheide, coach of Orem. Mike Gammell provided the strong pitching for Orem coming 4-- in to relieve Kyle Hoover in the third inning. Gammell, plagued with arm problems all year long, entered the game with one out in the third inning and men on second and third. American Fork had already evened the game at one and were threatening to blow it wide open. Gammell took the mojnd and calmly struck out the first two batters he faced. Orem came to the plate and relied on the bat of Brad Eagar to take the lead. Eagar hit his second ensecutive RBI single to give the Tigers a 1 advantage they never would relinquish. Eagar was 3 on the day and provided the catching for the Tigers. Richard Ballard also was instrumental in the win with a 2 performance for three RBI's. 2-- 2-- 2-- Richard Lamoreaux keyed a fourth innning rally with a triple to bring in Jim Hoyle and also scored in the Tigers' four-ru- n sixth inning. At Provo, six pitchers took the mound in a slug fest featuring 20 runs and 24 hits. In the end, it was Mountain View which came up with the key hits at the key times. "We didn't get the clutch hits but I was pleased. We played pretty well," said Chuck Shack-et-t, coach of Provo. II AM. FORK Ml MSt 1 111 mx OREM I III Hoover i2'n. Gammell 4 and Eagar Kniaht and Robinson. Severn. Lamoreaux. MTN. VIEW ft) Mil U U PROVO 18 MM Clatk (J). 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