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Show Thursday Also in this section: Sports Scoreboard F3 Outdoor news F4 (3Bm I NOTABLE QUOTES: "The most fun part of playing quarterback is trying to dodge those big guys when they're tugging on your jersey and breathing down your neck. I like to make them look silly, let them get close enough to get an arm on me, then put a spin move on them and get away. Of course, there are dangers to it. Sometimes I wind up BYU flat on my back." quarterback Ty Detmer. Oct. P irates - But there's one thing they're not the champions. The Reds are going back to Cincinnati, but so are the Pittsburgh Pirates. And for at least one more night, the champagne is still win," Pirates manager Jim Ley-lan- d said. "We had three games to win. Now we've got two. If we win two in a row, we're the champions." The Pirates' 2 victory in Game 5 followed the script of the first four games as pitching and defense dictated the winner more than good hitting. Pittsburgh got Cy Young Award-calibpitching from its on ice. Despite Reds pitcher Jose Rijo's claim the National League playoffs "are pretty much over," there will be a Game 6 Friday night in Riverfront Stadium. The Pirates plan to be there. one game to win, and the night's over and they still have one game to On BlCBHOStl trailed 1 in the postseason only histotwice before in their ry, but rallied to win in both the 1925 and 1979 World Series. "(The Reds) are comfortable and they're going to be comfortab'e (Friday). I hope they party and celebrate all they want, but, hey, don't look back because somebody might be ahead of you," said Pirates left fielder Barry Bonds. (See PLAYOFFS, Page F2) Drabek, and Gold play from a defense that's committed only two errors in five games. Andy Van Slyke tripled home a run and scored another in the first and Don Slaught's sacrifice fly in the fourth scored the eventual deciding run. Most of the Reds shrugged off the loss. The Pirates are hoping history remains on their side. They've winner, Doug Glove-calib- 3-- "All I know is, when the night started (Wednesday), they had 1990 F, send playoffs buck to The CinPITTSBURGH (AP) cinnati Reds are heading back home, with a lot of baseball ahead of them. They're confident, they're composed, they're in control. 11, er 3-- 104-ye- ar er JAZZ CUTS: The Utah Jazz, making their first cuts of the preseason, have released veterans Brett Vroman and Nate Johnston. The Jazz now have 16 players going into the exhibition season opening Saturday at Chicago against the Bulls. "It's time to think about numbers, coach Jerry Sloan said Wednesday night. "It isn't feasible to try and work in 17 or 18 guys during the exhibition season. It's time we go on about our business." Vroman, 34, Provo, played 11 games for the Jazz in 1980 and since then has played in Europe. Johnston played briefly with the Jazz last year, then finished the season with Portland. FROST, COOK LEAD: David Frost had three eagles to tie d lead John Cook for the in the PGA's five-da- y Las Vegas Invitational. Frost twice holed out from off the green in a round of 64 at the Las Vegas Country Club. The three eagles tied the PGA Tour record of Bruce Lietzke and Howard Twitty. first-roun- MIAMI TO BIG EAST: The University of Miami joined the Big East Conference in an alliance that commissioner Mike Tranghese said would save the conference. The Big East extended the invitation in part to ensure its three major college football Boston College, members don't Pittsburgh and Syracuse conference. defect to an The university's Board of Trustees voted unanimously to accept the invitation extended Monday. Miami will become the 10th Big East member, beginning with the 1991-9- 2 seasons in most sports. The Hurricanes' nationally-ranke- d baseball team will remain independent. Miami football, which has won three national titles since 1983, will stay on its own until it can work out a commitment with the other three Big East Division football members probably about three to five years. ts A SIGNINGS: Former Oregon State guard Gary Payton, the second selection in the NBA draft, contract with the signed a Seattle SuperSonics for a reported $12 million. Former Illinois guard Kendall Gill, the fifth player selected, signed a four-yecontract with the Charlotte Hornets. six-ye- ar ar TOP RECRUIT OUT: UCLA freshman guard Ed O'Bannon, one of the most highly recruited players in the country, suffered a serious knee injury (a tear in his anterior cruciate ligament and a torn meniscus cartilage) and will be sidelined for the entire 1990-9- 1 basketball season. The injury occurred in a campus pickup game. FELONY CHARGES: New England Patriots wide receiver Irving Fryar, who faces a felony weapons charge, says "I did what I had to do" to help teammate Hart Lee Dykes escape an unruly crowd outside a nightclub. Dykes, also a wide receiver, remained hospitalized with an injury to his left eye. A Rhode Island Hospital spokeswoman said he was in satisfactory condition this morning. Fryar, charged with possessing a weapon without a permit, was released after a court appearance Wednesday. MOST SEASONS APPEARING ON NFL MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL, 1S70-199- 0 x 1. Raiders appeared 21 of 21 seasons 2. Dolphins 20 of 21 seasons Tie Rams - 20 of 21 seasons 19 of 21 seasons 4 Cowboys 19 of 21 seasons Tie Redskins IB of 21 seasons 6. Jets 7. Vikings - 17 of 21 seasons Tie Giants - 17 of 21 seasons Bay appeared 3 of 15 seasons. Colts - - 8 of 21 Source: Sports Features Syndicate Sports Features Syndicate will pay SS for your list published. Send lists to Sports features, P.O. Boa 660, Maple Shade, N.J. 080S2. Include name, address, phone number and source. H 0Bssnai!KSQi859BnRRS9BnsnMRMnNaMaMaBj QMBEffi I Thursday 6 p.m. Baseball. AL Playoffs il necessary (CBS Channel 5 KSL 1160 AM) 6pm. NBA. McDonalds Open. Knicks vs Scavolini Pesaro (TNT) 7 p.m. Boxing. Mayweather vs. Johnson (ESPN) 8 30 p.m. NBA. McDonalds Open. Barcelona vs Jugoplastika Split (TNT) 10 30 p.m. racing (ESPN) 10 30 p.m. Boxing. Hernandez vs. Lopez (PSN) Friday, Oct. 12 a m. College soccer (PSN) 1:30 p.m. College volleyball (PSN) 2 p m PGA. Las Vegas Invitational (fcbPN) 10 eid looking for 'chemistry' with new Door on By DICK HARMON Herald Sports Editor A year ago experts predicted BYU would be lucky to win seven basketball games and the WAC skywriters voted the Cougars to finish sixth in the league race. Rookie coach Roger Reid and his team of supposed "non-talenended up winning the WAC title in a remarkable season in which the Cougars won 10 straight games, cracked into the Top 20 and earned a berth to the NCAA tournament. jf m V v. recruiting is closed i t" Expectations, says Reid, are in the eye of the beholder. This year the scenario is reversed: After a highly successful ranked as high recruiting year as No. 4 by some services many expect a repeat WAC title and high NCAA finish. Again, Reid begins his second year at the BYU helm, with his own set of expectations. The Couedition gars unveiled the 1990-9- 1 Wednesday in the Marriott Center for photo day. Practice begins Monday. The only senior r ,: h "' .,,-- . :m :s, i v y i 'f , 'f sfiy. fj!. ' Schreiner. And according to Reid, Schreiner is the only one considered a starter before camp opens because he earned it last year. "Otherwise we see this camp wide open and it will be a battle s Vns - j Jr 1 t starter is Steve returning forward-cente- By DICK HARMON That's right, it is over, the door is closed. All that's left is tying up the bundles and signing on the line. - "" K letter-of-inte- ' : ' :,,.,-.- . ft 1 , - Y , w - .V s. The early signdate is Nov. 14, but the Cougar staff, working summer camps and homes this summer and visiting in September have verbal commitments from three prepsters and one junior college ing . . Herald Sports Editor It doesn't happen to most college coaches but Saturday Oct. 6 when BYU's coaching staff arrived at the Salt Lake Interna-- , tional Airport City from points nationwide, they finished recruiting for the year. f " .V ?' ' . ' , !: :: .&.'::. - star. 1 ? "It was kind of odd, we told recruits we had to have their . . , , zone out there." No other players have any real history with the Cougars. "I expect us to excell, I expect to win. I had that expectation last year regardless of what people thought, and I have that same expectation of these players and our staff." BYU's first order of business Monday will be evaluating talent and finding possible starters. It is tX . , ' . v r f -- wide open. Reid said he'd make that clear even the first day of practice though the Cougars appear loaded on the front line. Much of the attention centers around the arrival of the most sought-afte- r prep player in Utah history. Freshman Shawn Bradley, the celebrated prep from Emery County made his first appearance in a Cougar uniform Wednesday. When Bradley came into the Marriott Center, Reid hurried over and asked him to put on a jersey. "These past few years you dream about having a 6 guy in a Cougar uniform. Seeing him in a Cougar uniform was a big thrill for a guy like me." The addition of Bradley has brought BYU national recognition before the the Cougars have even started practice Monday. It's also brought high expectations. The Cougars got invited to the preseason NIT, they will appear on ESPN cable three times and during the Holiday Tournament in New York after Christmas, will be on the Madison Square Garden cable system, one of the largest in the country. Much of that is due to Bradley. J. :.v rfw-f . . - . i - .r:i : 6-- . " '. ' j w . f:- 1 , u commitments early because we were locking it up early. We had one outstanding highly recruited 0 player who we had to say no to and another in the South we turned away." NCAA regulations prohibit Reid from discussing or identifying recruits until Nov. 14, but according to announcements made by players, two of the verbal commitments come from inside Utah and the other two are from Georgia. Kevin Nixon, a sophomore forward at UVCC who transferred from Northwestern of the Big 10, agreed to play for the Cougars. Nixon, considered a Mike Smith-typ- e shooter, is still receiving calls from schools like Oklahoma, Iowa and Kansas who thought they'd have time to project visits. The other Utahn is 8 Justin Weidauer of Cottonwood High, the best prep player in Utah this year. According to Hoop Scoop recruiting service, Weidauer is one of the top three forwards in the . '; , .u' ,4 - ' 6-- West. The Georgia players are among the top five guards in the state. They include 3 Lakista McCuller and 5 Craig Wilcox. Roid said Wednesday the Cougars had four scholarships to give in November. 6-- - N -- "' " 6-- f. Herald PhotoTrent Nelson 7-- Coach Roger Reid says basketball expectations are in the eye of the beholder. 5-- "Obviously we've benefited from his national exposure, the media attention, plus our players and recruits are excited about playing with him," said Reid. "But it is also reality that he is a freshman and hasn't played a second of major college basketball, and playing Wyoming in Laramie or New Mexico in the Pit and others on our schedule is different than going against Souui Sevier at Emery High." Bradley injured his shoulder and knee in recent weeks and underwent an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Image) Wednesday night on his knee at UVRMC. Doctors will decide tonight how serious his knee is injured. Reid said he will play the very best players this season and he doesn't care what they did in high school. "I've always believed that before and I'll keep to that now. It may not make all of them or their parents happy, but that's the way it is." The final of talent, judgment according to Reid, is after the end of the season when games have been won and championships recorded. Not before. Returning lettermen include 9 David Astle, 9 Kirk Davidson, 5 guard Mark Heslop and 1 guard Scott Moon. Nathan Call, a junior guard who started for Ladell Anderson before going on an LDS mission returns as does Gary Trost. Then the roster is ne" ?omer time. 6-- 6-- 6-- 6-- "Last year is a prime example. At the end of the season I could tell you Andy Toolson was a great shooter, Marty Haws was one of the WAC's best guards, and Kevin Santiago was a tremendous leader on that championship team. I can't tell you any of those things now about this team. Not yet." Reid said a big task is finding a chemistry on the team on which Schreiner is the only starter. 5-- 6-- 5 BYU added Bradley and Utah's other super prep big man 8 Kenneth Roberts. The other (See BYU, Page F2) 6-- Public can help keep sleaze out of big game hunts Call them sleazebags, jerks, lawbreakers, prison material or whatever. There are three classes of poachers: those who kill an animal illegally and consume it because they need the meat, those who kill illegally just for the thrill of it and consume the meal and those who kill illegally and leave the animal to spoil. (See outdoor news. Page F4) Down on the Manti elk unit, where a spike is the biggest bull hunters are allowed to take, several of these aforementioned types have performed some illicit activities. Specifically, said Ken Conway, Division of Wildlife Resources regional enforcement officer for for southeast office in Price, 14 known poaching incidents have occurred since the opening of the elk hunt Oct. 3. "We ran a fairly coordinated and saturated effort on the first five days on the hunt to determine what Rod Collett 7fcSSi..- f- toll-fre- ASSOCIATE SPORTS 1 ' . l trUI UH our losses might be on- - the bull elk hunt," said Conway. "We documented a loss of 14 mature bulls. We have made arrests on three of those and are working on a fourth. "Something important to mention is the arrests are a result of the public turning these people in. Many of the cases are where people just shot the bulls and left the meat. This ia a malicious waste of a resource." Conway said enforcement stations were set up at head of Huntington Canyon for 24 straight hours. Some violations were reported at this check station, some directly to conservation officers the effort to halt poaching by calling our hotline. We don't have the manpower to catch every illegal kill. The regulation is going to have to become All citizens can report poaching e number at violations on a Get location of violation, license number of poacher and description of the person. Above all, avoid a personal confrontation with the violator. With the general deer hunt opener scheduled for Oct. 20 and running for 11 days, every Utah hunter should be on his toes and report this illegal, wasteful taking of big game, or for that matter, any other species in Utah administered by the DWR. The sad commentary is that dozens of poaching incidents go unreported because of public apathy, fear of reprisal or because many cases happen deep in the back country. and others through the DWR dispatch. The penalty for illegally taking big game is a class A misdemeanor. The fine is up to the court but can reach $2,500 with a maximum of one year in jail, not to mention the loss of equipment and hunting privileges. It's also a class B misdemeanor to shoot an animal and leave the meat. This is punishable with up to a $1,000 fine. "One thing we want to stress is that the spike-onl- y harvest is designed to produce bigger bulls in the future. People can assist us in at Almost 900 hours of Strawberry Reservoir have turned good news for up no living fish gill-netti- fish biologists who in late August spent over $3 million dollars chemically treating the big pond to remove all the fish. The reservoir, traditionally the top trout fishing spot in the state, had become choked with millions of chubs and suckers that were crowding out the trout. DWR fisheries program coordinator Glenn Davis, who helped engineer the massive project, says everything is on track for a late of the reservoir October with Bear Lake cutthroat and sterilized rainbow trout. The reservoir will reopen to fishing on January 1, DWR 1991. Ray Remund, DWR information officer for the Strawberry project, said the restocking could be as early as next week. He said the trout will be in the 7- - to range. Right now, a team of biologists is performing tests at Strawberry to determine if the food chain is in working order after the rotenone killed off everything, including ihe zooplankton. 12-in- |