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Show Page THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 24 Sunday, February 28, 1988 Wyoming whips GAMES: San Diego State rect the basketball program. And while the Cowboys might have been bitter, they didn't show it Saturday as Wyoming ripped San Diego State 9 in WAC play. "We've been playing this well for the last couple of weeks, so it wasn't really any- LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) Jim Brandenburg unearthed a diamond in the rough four years ago when he recruited Fennis Dembo. Saturday the Wyoming forward sparkled in front of his former coach. A year ago Dembo and his teammates were shocked when Brandenburg bolted Wyoming after an appearance in the Sweet 16 for San Dieo State where he was hired to resur 85-7- thing because of Coach Brandenburg," Dembo, who had 24 points and 10 rebounds, said of a possible revenge factor. COUGARS: (Continued from Page 25) doesn't make them drop in the rankings because they deserve it." While Smith was Utah's star, the game was won by Utah Keith sharpshooter a returned LDS k missionary, who hit 3 pointers in the final 30 seconds, to set up the upset. Chapman, back-to-bac- ' The Cougars had two chances going down the wire, both by Ladell Andersen's designated clutch player Brian Taylor. With 28 seconds left, Taylor got the ball and drove for a jumpshot, hoping to make good and get fouled. He got neither and BYU trailed 60-5BYU fouled Connor, 9. who connected both ends of a bonus. Utah led 9 with nine seconds to play. Enter Taylor again. He drew a foul on a three-poiattempt. Sinking the first, he intentionally missed the second and stretching his 5 frame, nearly tipped it in. 62-5- nt 6-- "Taylor nearly completed that play," said Ute coach Lynn Archibald. Like a lumbering, whale, tired offense BYU's chugged to a halt after build9 lead three ing up a minutes into the second half before Utah's Smith seemingly scored at will over BYU's foul troubled Jim Usevitch. "Give Utah credit. They played great and hit their key shots when they had to, said Andersen. "If we get a hand on either one of Chapman's shots we win the game. But we didn't. And he's a great shooter. He's no secret. Not to us. And he won't be left alone next time, even if I have to guard him 44-3- myself." Jeff Chatman calmly sunk Assistant Sports Editor OGDEN Spanish Fork placed six men in double figures and got a little bit of consolation for its first round loss to Provo by beating West 2 in the consolation championship game at the state tournament Saturday night. "I'm really pleased for the kids," said Don coach Mike Gardner. "I think we're one of the class teams in the tournament and for the kids to come back like they did shows a great deal of character." Spanish Fork led by 11 in the first half, but the Panthers came back to deadlock things at 49 midway through the third quarter when Jimmy Glasker scored on a layup. But Josh Kallunki started a 0 and run with a three-poithe Dons were off to the races. 2 going into They led just the final quarter but went on a 15--0 run to open the period. That salted things away. - 98-7- 3-- A 9-- nt 62-5- Randy Reid led the Dons with 24 points. Matt Smith had 22, Eric Smith and Aaron Coward 13 each and Kallunki and Scott Brumfield 10 apiece. Glasker led West with 28 points. David Shaw added 21. Spanish Fork finished sixth in the tournament and had a 20-- 8 record overall. Logan 49, Springville 48 By JOE PRATT Herald Correspondent OGDEN For the second the state 3A tournatime ment, Springville lost a close, unevenly officiated game. This time, it was a 8 loss in 49-4- (Continued from Page 23) her coach, Alex McGowan, as she skated off the ice. Later, she said: "I'm not going to make any excuses. I was really skating well this week. It wasn't supposed to happen, I guess. But I tried." V. ' - fPw "f jt c11 The world champion Witt, skating to the Spanish opera of unrequited love in her ' ck orrgc flamenco-styl- e dress, flashed her eyes and drew the audience to her. She created the mood with her music and her face. It swung from ecstacy, then to infidelity, then to love, until, two freethrows with 2:10 left in the first half to score his 500th (11th of the game) and 501st (12th) points of the sea- son, making the senior the only player in BYU history to score 500 points in each of three seasons. Chatman got his other first half points on driving finger rolls across the key to lead BYU to crucial but futile first half momentum. He led the Cougars with 19 points. Andersen admitted his team may have been tired, and agreed Utah had the pressure on them and needed the win. Archibald said this week's games with New Mexico and UTEP were actually more important because of the seeding and a chance at post season play. If the Cougars were slow to stop Smith and pressure Chapman, they did stumble offensively. Michael Smith, who had his worst scoring night of the year (8 points) traveled twice during a key time with 10 minutes to play. Taylor then got an offensive charge and Marty Haws dribbled the ball off his foot on the baseline. All systems, including defense, shut down. "Michael Smith might be the best offensive player in the country. And Brian Taylor is a great player. If the game goes 20 seconds more, those guys would have found a way to win it for BYU," said Archibald. BYU and Utah committed only them. 10 at the end, she crumpled to the ice, slain by her jealous lover. Although she scaled down one jump from a triple to a double, she received high enough marks for technical merit and, for her artistic impression, she got two 5.8s and seven 5.9s to win the gold. "I skated well, I think," Witt said. Thomas went into Saturday night's freestyle with a slim lead over Witt, but she could not hold it, despite skating to the same music and opening with two triple toe loops in combination. She stopped on the ice as she landed the second triple in the opening combination, bobbled a triple toe loop a little later, then touched the ice after almost falling out of a triple Salchow. "I didn't feel over my feet tonight," Thomas said. "It was a long wait. It was hard to stay psyched up for the whole thing." Brent Rushlaw, a hard-drivin- hard-bitte- n, throwback g to bobsledding's old days, was fifth, just .19 seconds out of third and less than a second away from gold after the first two runs of the four-ma-n bobsled. Others Americans came close, but came up empty. Speed skater Bonnie Blair, America's only double medalist, tried again in the 1,500 meters but finished fourth, T-BIR- DS: turnovers between But the Cougars hit only 46 percent to Utah' 50 percent. Archibald predictUtah would win if they could outshoot BYU. 3 on the year BYU is and Utah 23-- 17-- 9. 15-- in Logan's Todd Wilson missed both ends of a two-shfoul. But a lane violation was called on Springville on the second miss and Wilson was given another try. He took advantage of it, draining the free throw to give the Grizzlies the victory. ot Springville led 15-1- 4 after 8 one period and early h the second quarter. But Logan went on a 2 run to lead 8 for its biggest lead. The Red Devils closed to 8 24-1- 34-2- 16-- 39-3- after three quarters. Springville 's Matt Petersen and Duaine Williams scored to tie the game at 42 at the 6:42 mark of the fourth period. The Red Devils were then hit with a technical, and after the Grizzlies hit the two free throws they went into a delay. With 2:22 left, Red Devil floor general Scott Hullinger fouled out. But free throws by Williams and a layup by Pen-ro- d helped the Red Devils tie the game at 46 with 1:59 left. Then Williams muscled in a layup at the 1:08 mark to give 6 lead. But Springville a Wilson tied it, leading to the free throw that won it. Wilson led Logan with 20, while Petersen topped Springville with 20. 48-4- two. Before the game, a Logan radio announcer told reporters n the Mustangs would play the entire game. It didn't matter. "Man's easier to play than zone," said Bowman. "That's because no one can play me and Kurt and, if they double us, Sean and Quincy will can the outside shots." Saturday night, though, the didn't need those outside shots. man-to-ma- one-on-o- Debi Thomas of the United States took the bronze medal at the Winter Olympics. well off the pace of the Netherlands van Gennip, who also won the 3,000 on Tues- It was Blair's last day. chance of the Games. "In a way, it's a relief to be finished there is so much emphasis put on the Olympics," Blair said. "But in a way, it's sad, too." Saturday's race was just a little too long for her. She finished in 2 minutes, 4.02 to van Gennip's Karin Kania of East Germany won the silver, followed by her teammate, Andrea Ehrig. At least Blair finished on the ice. Figure skater Caryn Kadavy, a U.S. bronze medal seconds 2:00.68. ne That's because the other members of the Timpview Paint Co. got the ball to the journeymen time and again. "These guys are the epitome of the work ethic," Lewis said of the entire team. "Tonight our guys played with the same intensity as they have in 24 other games this year." Mountain Crest played with intensity, too. But, they didn't have the mistakes other teams have made against them to take advantage of. "Mountain Crest lives on steals and the mistakes of other teams," said Lewis. "I've prided our team on no mis- takes. We've averaged just five turnovers a game." (Sat- had a few urday the more, a dozen to be exact, but the Mustangs seldom were able to capitalize. Jason Maughan led the Mustangs with 18 points and Troy Sampson added 14. Dixon had 10 points to give the three men in double figures and Lewis had nine points. In other games Saturday, Judge earned third place with 0 win over Pine View, an Logan placed fifth with a 8 victory over Springville and Spanish Fork earned the consolation title with a 2 win over West. ) ds 81-8- 49-4- 98-7- hopeful who was sixth entering the finale, was feverish and weak during practice, and later withdrew. Canada defeated Czechoslovakia 3 Saturday and remained in the running for a bronze medal. 6-- America's medal count stood at its worst since ning only four in the Tomba, who won the giant slalom Thursday, raced from third after the first run to win the men's slalom by the smallest margin in Olympic winpre-Wor- ld War II Garmisch Games of 1936 when only 51 medals were available. This history, year, there were 138. Americans won eight medals in 1984 and a record-tyin- g high 12 in 1980 at Lake Placid. first-ru- n The Soviets' count stood at their best Winter Games in 1976 at Innsbruck, its hockey seconds leader over Frank Woerndl of West Germany. Veteran Paul Frommelt of Liechtenstein won the bronze. Tomba thus . became the first Italian ever to win two Alpine gold medals and joined Vreni Schneider of Switzerland as the only dou- -' ble Alpine winners here. 27, equal to after .06 team clinched the gold medal with a 1 victory Friday night over world champion Sweden. 7-- Batcats sweep four games By DOROTHY KNOELL Herald Staff Writer In a word, the BYU baseball e team's season opening series with Mesa State Friday and Saturday at Cougar field was ideal. At least, that was the word s that Cougar coach Gary used to describe Satur2 doubleheader day's sweep coupled with Friday's four-gam- Pul-lin- After that, though, the went on a 2 run to put the championship away. Sean Dixon was from the free throw line during that streak, Bowman had four, Bailey three and Quincy Lewis many foul shots." the final seconds, midway through the first tie quarter to break a nine-a- ll and the Mustangs never got closer than seven after that. Even so, the Mustangs never gave up. They nibbled at what had once been an lead until it was 9 with 5:44 left 56-4- 68-6- 48 9-- in the game. to Logan Saturday afternoon which gave the Grizzlies fifth place and Springville seventh. "I felt that both of our losses 4 loss to (the other a in tournament the Judge) could have been wins with better officiating," said Springville coach Mark Bake calmly. "Like the Judge game, we had opportunities to win it ourselves, but we missed too With the game tied at (Continued from Page 23) and Bowman led a 0 spurt 18-po- Spanish Fork takes consolation crown; Logan tips 'Devils By BOB HUDSON -- 9-- 14-- 2, 11-- 8, twinbill killings. 16-- 6 "We had sunshine, great crowds, good field conditions ... we were at home. We feel more relaxed and comfortable at home. It was just an ideal s way to start the season," Pul-lin- said. How ideal? Well, opening at home has to be considered ideal when Pullins can't recall ever in 12 years at the Cougar helm opening the season at home or playing a game in his own ballpark in February. Other "ideal" happenings included an exceptional start for 1987 NCAA home run king, Mike Willes, who pounded five homers in the four games; more great hitting from, among others, Bruce Ellis 3 homers, 8 RBI), Mike 3 HR, 9 Littlewood (10-11 RBI) and Carter Cox (4-HR, 2 RBI); nice pitching, particularly from a bunch of relievers which included the Cox (yes, the same one men 6, 6, tioned in the hitting part), Paul Prinz, John DeSilva and David Nash; and, with the exception of one inning, some pretty nifty defensive work. On the side was the end of the hitting streak of shortstop Gary Schoonover, who extended the streak that began at 37 from last year in Friday's games, but failed to get a hit in Saturday's first game in less-than-id- 39-ga- four (groundout to second, fly to center, grounder to first and fly to short). at-ba- ts "Yeah, I'm disappointed," said Schoonover. "In a way, maybe, it takes some pressure off, but I wanted to keep it (See BASEBALL, Page 27) Wolverine cage squads score over 100 to whip CNCC teams By DON BEU Herald Correspondent "The importance of a game like this," said Utah Valley Community College Basketball coach Duke Reid of his 1 squad's romp over Colorado Northwestern, "is that it gives us momentum going into 105-8- the (Region 18) round robin tournament. "The other reason a game like this is important is that it gets everybody loose and we get to have fun. It's important to have fun once in awhile." The game gave the entire UVCC squad a chance to get in on the fun, as the entire whole found its way into the score-boo- k and spent most of the second half on the floor. Leading the Wolverines in scoring was Peter Martin with 26 points, followed by Randy Funk with 17. Funk also had an excellent night defensively, BYU The Wolverines waited until midway through the first half to pull away from Northwestern, until Randy Funk sparked a scoring spree that, bolstered by a tough defensive effort put the Wolverines up by 24 points at the half. After that it was all UVCC as the Wolverines laid back and maintained their lead until the closing buzzer. Womens game Mandy Martinez of Colorado Northwestern went home from her squad's game with Utah Valley Community College with 1,000 career points and the game ball after her nt performance. UVCC's Stephanie Trane went home with 1,004 career points, a UVCC single game record of 44 points and another notch in the win column for her squad as the Lady Wolverines walked away with a 7 109-5- victor'. "We didn't plan it this way," said UVCC coach Tom Perkins. "But at halftone Steph was 16 points away from having 1,000, so we decided to feed her the ball. "And once she got 1,000 points, she was only four away from the single-gam- e scoring record, so we decided to go for that, too." The game ended the UVCC home season and gave Perkins a nice birthday present. His squad is 22-- 3 overall going into the Region 18 tournament in Idaho next week. The game was fairly close until the midway point of the first half, when the Lady Wolverines began to pull away. They kept pulling away throughout the rest of the game. gridders to open spring practice BYUs football team will open its 20 days of spring drills Monday. Under a new rule, 15 of those days can be in pads with the remainder in shorts and helmets. Coach LaVell Edwards has indicated that weather will play a role in which days are in pads and which are in NCAA turning two of his three steals into easy layups. shorts. Practice will be daily at 3:30 p.m. on the fields just north of the Smith Field-house. Much of the interest will center on the battle for the starting quarterback position. Bob Jensen, who started part of last year, signed a profes- - sional contract with Ottawa oi me Canadian Football League. His replacement, Covey, a junior who graduated from Provo High School, is expected to face a stiff challenge from redshirt freshman Ty Detmer from Sean San Antonio, Texas. |
