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Show .Awn Tuesday Sports m i Jazz officials I NOTABLE QUOTE: "When you're a scorer, you take pride in leading the league in scoring. I'm a defender, so this is the biggest tribute you could pay to a player like me." Detroit's Dennis Rodman on being named the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year. Rodman edged Houston's Akeem Olajuwon, receiving 49 of a possible 92 votes cast by writers and broadcasters. Olajuwon had 35 votes, followed by Detroit's Joe Dumars and Dallas' Derek Harper with two each. VALENTINE HONORED: Ann Valentine, BYU's women's tennis coach for 23 years, has been voted Central Region ITCAWilson Coach of the Year for 1990 by the NCAA coaches in the te remained "unequivocally" committed to Coach Jerry Sloan, who led Utah to a record 55 wins in the regular season. But the Jazz roster will get a hard look, Miller said, though "not until we have time to allow emotions to drain off." "If I'd made the decisions yesterday, I'd probably have changed all 12 of them," he added with disgust. Sloan and Scott Layden, director quarterfinal Sunday, went cold the stretch ana lost wholesale changes in the roster were not likely. The players autographed souve- 95-8- down when Phoenix Suns' guard Kevin Johnson scored with eight-tentof a second to play. "This is a very difficult one to accept," Miller said Monday. "I feel a lot of frustration and anger right now." The millionaire car dealer said he region. Valentine also received the award in 1988. From the 1975-7- 6 season through April 1990, she has amassed a dual team record of In the past 17 years, her teams have finished in the Top 10 nine times, once ending the season ranked fourth. COUGARS HOST: The byu GOLFERS FOURTH: After holes of play Monday, BYU's women's golf team is trailing No. San Jose State by 30 shots to place fourth in an eight-teafield at the California Collegiate Invitational. San Jose State leads with a 600, followed by Stanford's 601 and San Diego State's 613. BYU is at 630. Senior Mary Grace Estuesta put together rounds of 6 153 to tie for 10th, eight strokes behind the leader. Other BYU scores are: Lachell Simmons 1 158; Ruby Chico 6 9 159; Paula Suarez 160; and Robin Barry 6 169. The final 18 holes were played today. 36 m 77-7- 77-8- 83-7- 81-7- 83-8- BELTRAN TOPS WAC: baseman Wyoming pitcher-firRigo Beltran hurled a three-hi- t, st nine-innin- g 5-- 0 shutout over Hawaii on Saturday to earn this week's WAC athlete of the week honors. It was the first shutout at Wyoming's Cowboy Field since May 1, 1988. In the Cowboys' other four games last week, Beltran, playing first base, batted .357 including one home run and drove in four runs. SORENSEN SIGNS: Orem's Julie Sorensen has signed a letter-o- f intent to compete in women's cross country and track at the University of Utah. Sorensen's best times are 5:03 in the 1600, 11:18 in the 3200 and 2:20 in: the 800. She has been plagued with illnesses and injuries her senior year, but finished fourth at the state cross country meet and was invited to the Junior Olympic Training Camp in Colorado Springs, Colo, this summer. -- 4-- A JORGENSEN WINS: Bart Jorgensen of American Fork, a freshman at Ricks College, won the dash in 10.67 seconds at the Region 18 track and field championships in Bend, Ore. last weekend. He finished fourth in the 200 at 21.60 and also placed sixth in the triple jump, a new event for him. er SUTCLIFFE SURGERY: Chicago Cubs pitcher Rick Sutcliffe underwent arthroscopic surgery on his pitching shoulder at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and, according to the club, is expected to be out for several weeks. player personnel, nirs, distributed anything about it now. But we wanted to play on. Just winning the Midwest Division (in 1989) and 55 games isn't enough any more." John Stockton, a red welt on his neck from Sunday's action, said the playoff loss didn't take anything away from the Jazz' best season ever. "It's disappointing, but you can't cash in your whole future for it," he said. "We'll just have to get started again, to improve both individually and as a team." Miller said there was no doubt that losing a crucial playoff game at home where the Jazz were 36-- 5 was worse than the this season Golden State Warriors' lopsided sweep last year. "This is a let more frustrating. To get that close and not get the indicated their summer phone numbers and divided their $69,375 playoff money into 13 shares. "No one thought it would be over this quick," Karl Malone said. "It's one of those things; you can't do 2 J. NtKnl Cnt(t Ugu 4, American On Sunday, Fielder 307 304 Pnn Ipagut 6 N Y 7. 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Elsewhere in the American League, it was Boston 5, Seattle 4; Kansas City 4, Cleveland 2 in 11 innings; and Baltimore 6, Cali5-- AP Laserphoto Oakland's Rickey Henderson dives back to first as New York's Don Mattingly takes throw from Yankee pitcher Tim Leary. 1 fornia 5. Canseco has been particularly tough against the Yankees. It was Canseco's 17th and 18th lifetime homers against New York since he joined Oakland in 198C. He has hit two homers in a game times, the last time coming Aug. 29, 1989, against the Yan- 10 kees. going to keep challenging me, we'll see what happens." Last season, Gruber hit 18 home runs in 135 games. "Kelly's got a good head on his shoulders and he's not about to let something like this go to his head," Gaston said. "But one of the reasons I've got him hitting in the third spot is to keep him from thinking that way." NATIONAL LEAGUE The Cincinnati Reds and St. "I made a mistake with those balls to Canseco," pitcher Tim Leary said. "I maybe could have been more aggressive. When I gave up that three-ru- n homer, it was a big letdown right there." Canseco entered the game in a slump. "Not too many pitchers will try to challenge me inside like that all night," Canseco said. "I respect him for trying. But if you're Bulls hang on to beat 76ers Michael Jor dan never had any doubts when he and the Chicago Bulls went through an agonizing scoreless spell that could have cost them the game. "It was important that our defense stopped them and they couldn't make up much ground," said Jordan, who helped to turn things around by scoring 15 of his 39 points in the closing game-hig- h minutes, leading the Bulls to a 5 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers Monday night in the opener of their best-of-- 7 NBA playoff series. The Bulls led all the way and held several leads in the third quarter that ended with the score Then came the fourth-quartdrought. The 7Gers inched within 1 on a basket by Charles Barkley. Scottie Pippen, who finished with 18 points and 12 assists, broke the spell with a pair of free throws before Jordan, sore ankle and all, CHICAGO (AP) 96-8- nt 73-6- er 73-7- took command to clinch the victory. Pippen had six of the Bulls' other eight points in the final quarter. Barkley could have dominated the game. Barkley almost did. He had 20 rebounds. But he wasn't happy. "I'm disappointed we didn't do more, compete more," said Barkley. "We didn't play intense. We should have played much more physical. We didn't hit anybody." But the 76ers' problem was scoring. Everytime they threatened, the Bulls simply pulled away. "I felt confident all the way," Jordan said. "I had good shots, but a few fell short. I couldn't push off the ankle like I wanted. But our defense did the job, really." So much so that the 76ers shot only 38 percent from the field. "We obviously didn't shoot the ball well," said 76ers coach Jim Lynam. "We shot 40 percent in the first half and about the same in the second half for a total of 85 points. That's below what I expect from our offense. "Michael and Scottie delivered it came to crunch time," Chicago coach Phil Jackson said. "We were at the beginning of the fourth quarter, and I think for about three minutes there we ran out of gas. We had fresh bodies out there but nobody was clicking." "We had some good shots but they weren't falling in," said Jordan, who iced his left ankle after the game. Jordan twisted it in the final game of the Milwaukee series, but it is not considered serious. Jordan, who held Hersey Hawkins to 12 points, credited the defense with the victory. He even gave Horace Grant credit for "holding" Barkley to 30 points, high for Philadelphia. "I think Horace did a heckuva job on Barkley," Jordan said. "He kept the pressure on. Otherwise when Collt hki . Sporttcnll St t10 JO (l CutM 0fN) pj" BmWwH Btvet 1pm CoU9 ibll, Rict al UMonofttt II. U (PSN) 1pm M Colin (KFMY AJ) tMbll Wuhiu St it BVU Louis Cardinals are streaking in opposite directions. Tom Browning pitched a three-hitt- er night as the Reds beat the Cardinals 0 to complete e their first sweep at St. Louis since 1966. It was the fifth straight win for the Reds and fifth straight loss for the Cardinals, who were 20-in the Cincinnati series. After scoring three runs in the series opener, the Cardinals' Monday 3-- four-gam- out-scor- 6 run production dropped to two, one and zero in the final three games. ), who threw the Browning first perfect game in Reds history in 1988, limited the Cardinals to three singles. In other NL games, Montreal New edged San Francisco York beat Houston Pittsburgh downed San Diego 1 and Allante defeated Chicago 8 . I (3-2- 1, 4-- 9-- Bruins take 3 - 0 series lead - raucous fans. Problem their matter. the The LANDOVER, Md. (AP) size of the rink doesn't The cheers of the fans are irrelevant. And who cares who gets the last expansive Capital Centre and is, Bruins don't seem to care where they play. line change? "We've been a good road team With their workmanlike 1 victoall year long," Boston coach Mike ry at the Capital Centre Monday Milbury said. "In fact, our road night, the Boston Bruins proved record is just a hair better than our they can handle the Washington home record. Home or away, it Capitals at home or away. The doesn't really bother us." The way Boston has been playing, triumph gave the Bruins a 0 lead in the best-of-- 7 Stanley Cup semifi- it wouldn't matter whether the nals and left Boston one game Bruins were skating on an ice cube away from reaching the finals for or a lake. Moog has been brilliant, the second time in three years. as has his supporting cast. Craig Janney, Randy Burridge Clearly, it was Boston's defense and Cam Neely each had a goal that made the difference. In a and an assist and Andy Moog streak that began in the opening turned aside 25 shots to put Boston game of the series, the Bruins held within reach of its first playoff Washington without a goal for 117 sweep since 1979. The Bruins can minutes before John Druce scored best wrap up the series at the Capital his 14th goal of the playoffs in the NHL at 15:23 of the second Centre Wednesday night. Upon returning home during the period. weekend, the Capitals spoke with 3 Moog, who improved to in relief about leaving the smallish the playoffs, kept his postseason Boston Garden and returning to the average under 2.00. 4-- 3-- 11-- goals-again- st Just the facts, ma'am; save the window dressing Ain't computers wonderful? may have noticed that there wasn't much information about Friday's portion of the BYU Invitational in Saturday papers around the state. Perhaps the headline in the News said it best. "Richfield's Daniels top performer in meet at BYU Invitational But who won? results not in." De-ser- et officials saying that computer Saturday JO all-tim- Yankees The two homers raised Canse- 1A-2- i My choice would be to come back here," said Griffith, 31, Utah's No. 1 draft pick in 1980 and the team's e leader in games played at 670. "If it doesn't work out here, hopefully it will somewhere else." Layden said he could not comment on whether Griffith will be with the Jazz next year. 1 kIZj f- returning to BYU for the state meets in two weeks. And so are some coaches from the bigger schools. BYU and the state will be trying to conduct eight meets (boys and girls' meets in each of four classifications) on May 18 and 19. If meet officials try to make the computer work and make all the results pretty, coaches, athletes and those who cover such events could be in for a long haul. Bob y Hudson Is gized, BYU apoloprob- lems delayed the results. test year, when BYU played host to the NCAA championships, writers from around the country complained about receiving results of events up to an hour after their completion. Since BYU officials were using the same computer system that ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR You Coait laagu 302 team avtrage ot 160 pro club waa backup center Eric Leckner, averaghg 4.3 points. "Bobby has played well in streaks," he said. "This year, he's been in a Jekyll and Hyde syndrome. (But) today, I'm not aware r "I would like to come back.... No. hit three one? BYU has. 306 Auooatton J Southern AmocmIkmi off-gua- rd He said Sloan and Layden feel Leckner has a lot of talent. "I hope that sometime soon with him we see more of that come through. He gets so many fouls early," he said. ' The Jazz did not pick up the contract of Darrell Griffith and he will become an unrestricted free ; agent on July 1. homers and Gruber two, while Canseco was shut out. Canseco got started early Mon- they are when they work. Sometimes. At other times computers are a real pain. Ever try to produce a newspaper when the computers go down? It's a real pain. Ever try to run a track meet with L9UFor Batting Avrg 130 Ston ltgut - .303 American Ltaqu 288 1 1. All-Sta- of any urgent need to do anything there." By The Associated Press Cecil Fielder, Kelly Gruber and Jose Canseco staged their version of home-ru- n derby, with the Oakland slugger winning a round. Well, HIT PARADE club's. My ire job done," he said. Miller would discuss little of his intentions regarding player personnel, but offered, "I think we've got to do some things next year. "We clearly need to get some outside shooting to take pressure off Karl (Malone)," he said, noting that opponents were able to "double, triple, even quadruple cover" r the forward this season. While denying any trades are in the works, Miller said he had expected more from Bobby Hansen, a seventh-yea- r pro who averaged 7.6 points a game, and second-yea- 8 Canseco leads A's by Yanks 348-12- 7. baseball team hosts defending national champion Wichita State, currently ranked fifth, today ana Wednesday before getting back into WAC action Thursday through Saturday against Utah. Today, BYU played Wichita at 3 p.m. Wednesday, the game will be at 1 p.m. The Utah series schedule is: Thursday, 1 p.m. at BYU; Friday, 7 p.m. at Utah; Saturday, noon at BYU, 7 p.m. at Utah. 104-1- of C yimsy ire afoowfi By ROBERT MUMS Associated Press Writer SALT LAKE CITY (AP) As the Utah Jazz players cleaned out their lockers and split their playoff money, team owner Larry H. Miller puzzled over their failure to make it past the first round of the playoffs for the second straight year. 6 The Jazz, leading with 6:55 to play in the fifth and deciding game of the Western Conference - May 8, 1990 was in operation last weekend, it got the blame. Those same officials said the problem was that NCAA officials wouldn't release the results to them to input into the computer system until those NCAA functionaries had given them a thorough once-ove- r. Sounds like a good explanation in that instance. It seems, however, that the BYU officials running the track meets are determined to get their system to work come heck or high water. That apparently was the situation Friday. Saturday, when it broke down and they were forced to use the old il method to some extent, things appeared to go more smoothly. Coaches, athletes and writers were relieved. In some ways it seems those running the meet are more concerned with appearances than they are with results. The information handed to the media looks nice, but it's a pain to wade through. Media rs types only care about the six place-winne- at major track meets. Coaches like the bigger picture but they're not used to getting it until they open the mail several days after the meet. So why bother to be nice and pretty when quick and dirty will do? paper-and-penc- 2-- I've been told that some coaches are concerned A and about You might have noticed that team results printed in the various newspapers didn't quite agree. Again, blame the computer. Somehow that marvelous machine and the people operating it shorted some teams points. That changed their standing in the final overall team picture. I'm not sure if the announcer ever received the team scoresheets which the computer spat out every so often. He certainly didn't read them over the public address system if he did. Coaches and athletes like to hear how their teams are doing from lime to time. Otherwise, what's the point of calling anything a competition. It becomes a recreational activity instead. I certainly hope BYU's officials bring out the pencil and paper for the state meets. It's time-wor- n and proven. It's not perfect, of course. Earlier this year, Weber State officials made a mathematical mistake that cost Provo a share of that invitational title. That happens. But it's not supposed to when machines as sophisticated as the computers BYU has are working properly. On the plus side of things, BYU oiticials did a lot of good things with the meet. Despite the large number of participants, things went quite smoothly. Most events Saturday were less than half an hour late although there were as many as 14 trials in events such as thp 100 and the 200. two-poi- nt Overall the BYU Invitational is a class event. Coaches and their athletes enjoy getting the opportunity to compete on such a world-classurface. But, those people deserve to know who won. Headlines such as the one in the Deseret News d& BYU plenty of harm. Thev can be avoided by a common-sens- e approach to the use of the university wonderful system. fi |