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Show - sb Saturday Also in tliis section: March 9, Theater B4 B. Comics B5 taS3 iYU NOTABLE QUOTES: "Everyone speculates that this is my last game. But I'm going to wait until the end of the season, throw my cards on the table and talk to the coach, then go from there." Georgia Tech sophomore guard Kenny Anderson after the Yellow Jackets were eliminated from the ACC Tournament with an 8 loss to North Carolina State. 82-6- BRONCOS TIP WASPS: San Juan's Ryan Nielson scored on a layup at the buzzer to lift the Broncos to a 5 win over Juab in the state boys' basketball semifinals in St. George Friday. Todd Pay, who finished with 27 points, had hit two free throws with seven seconds left to give the Wasps the lead. In a consolation game. North Sanpete beat Park City 6 as Matt Bailey had 13. 66-6- 2-- A Moon's H&TOOO torn toyi?n)y Fredericks wins 200 at NCAA tip-i- n at buzzer wins it - By ROD COLLETT Associate Sports Editor In one of LARAMIE, Wyo. those games destined to go down as a classic of WAC Tournament play, BYU's Scott Moon made a bucket with just one second left on the clock in overtime, giving the win over Hawaii Cougars a 73-night. Friday With the victory, BYU made the WAC finals for the first time ever since the league started play in 1984. It was how Moon's shot went in that made all the difference to 71 post-seas- 76-5- BYU BASEBALL: The byu baseball team makes its Provo debut Saturday with an 11 a.m. Blue-Whigame, which is free to the public. Seniors Lance Clark and Rob Jensen are scheduled to g start on the mound for the intrasquad game on the C Cougars' home field. Former shortstop Jeff Howes and te ft to Hawaii GiUess 44 Shepherd Wall 3 t M ' i H Sf 4 4. H IS 8 4 4 2 J 3 J 0 2 0 Bowe Lott Reed StovaU Winter 1 (Ml 04 H Totals 2M 12 4 2 nine-innin- 27 26 4 9 I 27 11 41 21 1 40 2S 7 41 0 0 15 71 22 Oil II 23 1 0 0 20 All-WA- second-tea- first m baseman Brent Brown lead the Blue team while catcher Blaine Milne and rightfielder Brian Simpson head the White squad. Steffi Graf beat 1 to Meredith McGrath advance to Saturday's semifinals in the Virginia Slims of Florida. German will play The No. 8 Nathalie Tauziat, who beat a ?impy Mary Joe Fernandez, the No. 3 seed, The other bracket will pit Jennifer Capriati, the No. 4 seed, against No. 2 Gabriela Sabatini. Capriati won her quarterfinals match against Claudia Porwik 64, and Sabatini beat Regina Rajchrtova 6-- top-seed- 7-- 5. 6-- 1, 6-- 1, 6-- 2, 7-- third-seede- 7-- 5, 6-- 1. 6-- 2, Call Moon 4 Trost 64 M pf 3 2 5 1 34 ( 0 Santiago Totals Halftime 42 3 I 9 C 21 1 11 2 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 73 17 39 It 27, Hawaii 24. (Lott Call (Roberts score-B- YU 34). 9 Steals-HA- Lott, Reed 2), BYU Blocked shots-Ha- 2, Shepherd 2, Bowe 2, (Roberts, Call 2, Trost). 2 (Reed, StovaU), BYU 2 (Roberts, Trost). 12 aii 15 (GUless, Shepherd, Bowe 6, (Schreiner, Bradley 4, Call Herald PhotoPatrick J. Krohn Hall, xxx. Officials-Stubi- ng, Attendance-10,1- Reed Moon (GiUess 4 Lott 2, Reed 2), BYU 5, Moon, Trost 4). Technical 35 half.33. 2nd haU.59.OT.29.Game.43. half.90. 2nd half.75.OT.83.Game.84. BYU Turnovers-Haw- 27 3 2 3 3 12 2 4 04 04 goals-Ha- Winter 10 26 9 5 Pet :1st FT Pct:lst FG mp 2 H i ! 94 04 04 a 4 16 4 2 Heslop Miller tp 0 0 4 fouls BYU's Gary Trost fires a shot against Hawaii's Ray Reed and Mike GiUess in a earlier game. none. 69. BYU. Moon grabbed Defending champion Stefan Edberg came back from a dismal opening set to defeat Michael 5 in a Chang quarterfinal match Friday in the Champions Cup tennis tournament. Edberg d faces Guy Forget in the semifinals Saturday. Forget, from France, defeated Scott Davis In the other quarterfinal matches, Jim Courier downed seventh-seede-d Emilio Sanchez of and No. 11 Michael Spain Stitch of Germany beat Richey Renenberg 6-- 2, 3 Heslop r ft fg Roberts Schreiner Bradley 6--2. EDBERG ADVANCES: 6, Pet :1st half.37.2nd half &1.0T 40.Game.tt. FT Pet :1st half. 00. 2nd half 80.OT M.Game.M. FG BYU GRAF WINS: 6-- 3, 6-- 2, 2-- 6, 6-- 0, 6-- 4. CAREFUL, PAUL! Paul Azinger, once again a shot out of the lead, will take precautions to prevent a repeat performance of his day-lat- e disqualification of a week ago. So will the PGA Tour. "I'm just happy to be playing," Azinger said Friday after moving Dan within a stroke of Halldorson, Steve Pate and John Huston at the halfway point of the Honda Classic. It was a wry, tongue-in-chee- k and slightly bitter reference to his misfortunes in the Doral Open a week ago when a telephone call from a television viewer resulted in Azinger's ouster from the tournament. the rebound of a missed shot by Mark Heslop in the final seconds of overtime. "Yeah, I call that my flinger shot," said Moon afterwards of the ball which bounced on the rim not once, not twice but seven times. In fact, the red backboard light flashed red and the ball was on its last bounce before finding the net. "Once I got the ball I knew I had to get it up fast. I sort of threw it up with my right hand and it hung on the rim with one second left. Call it anything you want but it went in and that's the only thing that counts." All this comes from a player who had surgery on his right hand two weeks ago for a broken bone. "He's got six screws and a plate in there," chimed in Heslop who bucket from 22 made a three-poifeet with 20 seconds left on the nt JOHNSON LOSES: Ben Johnson, returning to competition after a two-yesuspension for taking steroids, failed even to get dash at a medal in the the World Indoor Track Championships in Seville, Spain was won by Friday. The American Andrew Cason in 6.54, followed by Linford Christie at 6.55. Johnson was fourth at 6.61. ar er er DAVIES LEADS: Laura 68 Davies shot a one-shlead a to take Friday over Tina Barrett with a 138 after two rounds of the LPGA Inamori Classic in California. ar ot I I Noon. Drag racing (NBC Channel 2) Noon, Tennis. Virginia Slims of Florida (PSN) 12:30 p.m. College basketball. Big East Tournament (CBS Channel 5) 1 p.m. SportsWorld. track & field (NBC) 1 p.m. Bowling (ABC Channel 4) 1 p.m. Preseason baseball. Brewers vs. Cubs (WGN) 1:30 p.m. College basketball, ACC Tournament (ESPN) 2:30 p.m. Golf. Honda Classic (NBC) 2:30 p.m. Wide World of Sports. Santa Anita Handicap, motorcycle racing, Superstars. Iditarod (ABC) 2:30 p.m. Olympic Winterlest (CBS) Midwest 4 p.m. College basketball, Collegiate Tournament (ESPN) S p.m. Jatz Talk (KISN S70 AM) S p.m. NBA, Jazz at Knicks (PSN, KISN 570 AM) 6 p.m. College basketball. WAC Tournament championship, BYU vs. Utah (ESPN, KSL 1160 AM) p.m. College basketball, Notre Dame at DePaul (WGN) 7:15 p.m. College volleyball. BYU vs. Indiana-Purdu- e (KSRR radio, 1400 AM) 7:30 p.m. College hockey (PSN) 6 p.m. College baksetball, Big Sky Tournament (ESPN) U.S. 8:35 p.m. Olympic Gold, figure skating, skiing (TBS) 9:30 p.m. Skiing (ESPN) 10 p.m. College hockey (PSN) 10 30 p.m. College basketball, Big West Tournament (ESPN) t clock in regulation that sent the game into overtime at was a play "That three-pointdesigned off a double pick," said Heslop. "Moon's shot was incredible. I kept yelling and yelling for it to go in and it seemed like it was on the rim forever. Actually, by bouncing on the rim so many times, it helped because it took time off the clock." While BYU won the game, it took some luck and good fortune in overtime. On consecutive possessions Hawaii gave up the ball on a 10 second backcourt violation and a five second possession penalty. Both miscues were committed by Hawaii guard Troy Bowe. After Heslop made two free throws to put BYU ahead Hawaii's Tim Shepherd followed with a layup and Bowe added a free throw to push the 'Bows out 63-6- 3. er 67-6- 6, front Then came the two consecutive possession turnovers by Hawaii. The Cougars capitalized with Moon nailing two free throws, Heslop a bucket and all of the sudden 9 BYU was ahead with 54 seconds left. Down came the 'Bows and Moon fouled Hawaii forward Ray Reed who calmly drained his charity tosses to set up Moon's heroics. "Number one, you've got to be lucky and very fortunate to come through what just happened," said BYU mentor Roger Reid. "It's especialvery tough in ly since each team knows each other so well having played three times (this season)." Reid said Heslop's trey that sent the game into OT wasn't a fluke. "We had two or three plays there near the end where we executed what we had planned. It all wasn't 69-6- 7. 20-fo-ot 71-6- post-seas- happenstance. Heslop's play was designed and he executed it well." And what of the loud crowd of 10,000 people who if not ? was 99 percent "I love Wyoming and its fans here. If Saddam Hussein were playing us tonight, the crowd would cheer for him," said Reid. Meanwhile, Hawaii coach Riley e Wallace was first-clas- s in a interview. "You have to give BYU credit. We had them down and out at a couple of points but they battled back. I think we peaked a little to early. They hit some big-tim- e shots, no question about it. Anyone who paid to get into this one got his money's worth." Commenting on the two crucial possession turnovers, Wallace said "Troy (Bowe) is my coach on the floor; he has been all year and he (See COUGARS, Page B-pro-Haw- anti-BYU- post-gam- 3) Ind. After INDIANAPOLIS, taking on Ben Johnson earlier in the year, the NCAA finals might have seemed a little easier, but Frank Fredericks of BYU raced past the field to win the 200 meters Friday. Fredericks, a senior, won his preliminary race in 21 seconds and then turned on the speed in the final to win with a time of 20.68 seconds. The time was a season best for Fredericks, eclipsing his old mark hundredth of a second. by one-on- e Earlier in the day Fredericks ran preliminary and semifinal heats in the 55 meter dash and qualified for Saturday's final. "Frank really looked super," said BYU Coach Willard Hirschi. "He really accerated and poured on the afterburners." Hirschi said Fredericks "could win the 55 if he gets a good start. He hasn't had good starts, but he has been running well." Hirschi noted that Fredericks had four races Friday and spent nine hours at the track. He is one of three athletes attempting to double in the 55 and the 200. The fastest time of the day in the 55 meter dash was turned in by Notre Dame's Raghib Ismail, of football fame, with a time of 6.13. Fredericks ran a 6.17 in the semifinal. However, the other Cougar men at the meet didn't fare as well. Per Karlsson, the defending champion, fouled three times in the weight throw. Leif Lundahl was sick and only placed 12th. He was second last year. Dave Brannon, who qualified in the pole vault, competed late into the night. The Cougars' Anu Kaljurand missed qualifying for the finals in the hurdles by less than a second as she clocked 7.87 seconds. Kartsi Leppaluoto didn't do well in the shot put with a best of well off her top mark of In the long jump Shu-Hw- a Hwang leaped 204 2 to place fifth. 2. Bulls rally past Jazz - CHICAGO (AP) When his outside shot wasn't working, Michael Jordan drove the Chicago Bulls to an 9 victory Friday night over the Utah Jazz. Jordan decide to take his offensive show inside and it worked. He scored 17 of his 37 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Bulls to their 1,000th franchise victory and 22nd straight at Chicago Stadium. "I was missing easy shots," Jordan said. "So I looked to drive and get myself into a high percentage shot." 6 The Bulls trailed entering 's the fourth quarter, but Scottie bomb as the shot clock was winding down with 2:40 Ht save them the lead for good at 99-8- 73-6- Utah rolls past Wyoming into finals By DICK HARMON Herald Sports Editor Western LARAMIE, Wyo. Ath- letic Conference regular season champion Utah held off a furious and host Wyorally by fourth-plac- e 3 win and ming to notch a make it to the championship finals of the WAC tournament Friday. For the first time in history the two Utah schools will square off in a WAC tournament final. The game will begin at 6 p.m. and will be televised live on ESPN. Utah led from start to finish and wrapped up the victory with free throws by Josh Grant and Walter 69-6- Saturday 1991 Watts in the final five minutes. Grant scored 13 points in leading eighth-ranke- d Utah to an impressive 28-- 2 record. Wyoming tied the game at 62 on a pair of Mo Alexander free throws with 3:41 left to play in the game. In a rare move by the officials earlier, referees on the court consulted a TV replay on an Alexander shot to award the Pokes a ll tie with 6:4) to go, but none of that seemed to matter at the end as the Utes kept their composure in the final moments. 56-a- Utah led the Pokes 8 at the half after leading by as much as 40-3- earlier in the session. In the early going Craig Rydalch and M'Kay McGrath led the Utes with seven points each. McGrath hits all three of his field goals. In the first half Utah outshot Wyoming from the field, hitting 14 of 29 shots to the Cowboys' 12 of 25. For the Cowboys, who closed the gap on Utah with a rally in the final five minutes of the first half, Mo Alexander and Tim Breaux had eight early points. The partisan Wyoming crowd, which just an hour earlier had joined about a hundred Utah faithful in booing and harrassing BYU's basketball team, coaches and pep 37-3- 0 Pip-pen- squad, abandoned their alliance at tipoff. It was like an old pair of socks. They'd been slapping skin and coming up with new ways to barb BYU. Then it turned like night to day as they went after the Utes. Utah led 8 early in the second half. The Utes used a 0 run to build that lead as Tyrone Tate and M'kay McGrath hit baskets and r. Grant hit a Watts k blew a slam dunk that could have continued the run Coach Rick Majerus immeto diately pulled Watts after that mistake and inserted Paul Afeaki in his place. hand-in-han- d, 47-3- 7-- three-pointe- behind-the-bac- 9-- 87-8- 4. Jordan followed that with a play for a three-poi- nt 90-8- 4 advan- tage. John Stockton countered with a field goal, but Pippen answered that with a basket making it Mark Eaton scored with 1:26 left, but the cutting the lead to Jazz did not score again. Pippen finished with 19 points, 10 in the fourth quarter. Karl Malone paced Utah with 19 points, Jeff Maine had 18, Stockton 17 and Thurl Bailey 16. The loss snapped Utah's five-gawinning streak. 92-8- 7. 92-8- 9, Cougars got a few overdue lucky bounces It bounced LARAMIE, Wyo. once, then again, and again, then a fourth time. Then a fifth, sixth and seventh. It then danced six inches around the rim. And before the ball dropped, the crowd that booed BYU for two solid nights was stone silent. These eternities can be long. Real long for BYU. It was so quiet in Wyoming's Arena Auditorium during that promenade by the basketball on the orange circle you could hear the buzzer go off, signaling the end of overtime and the game. Then it dropped. And as BYU celebrated, the crowd, which had booed the Cougars for the second straight night, booed for four solid minutes. BYU 73, Hawaii 71. Overtime. "That made it all the sweeter," said Scott Moon, the shooter of the hook that sent the Cougars into a Western Athletic Conference territory they'd never been before. For the first time in the seven year history of the WAC Basketball Tournament, BYU is in the finals. The Finals. For the Cougars that is foreign guys like Mark Heslop hitting a three-pointto get into overtime. And a rebound like Moon's when he was pushed. And it takes a guy like Gary Trost off the bench. Just guts. " Moon, who rebounded a missed shot by Heslop, saw Hawaii's Tim Shepherd in front of him, decided to use a hook shot so it wouldn't get blocked. "I saw it hang on the rim and I started jumping up and down, hoping to make it go down," he said. Roger Reid, who's hung around BYU for 11 years as an assistant until he was named head coach two years ago, said while the ball was testing its own air pressure on the rim, he was praying. On the other side of the floor Hawaii's Riley Wallace had just gone to his knees after fainting during overtime. A trainer gave him some pills. "I just got up to quickly. I got lightheaded," said Wallace. Maybe after seven years in this affair Reid and BYU were due some lucky bounces. In the first WAC tournament in 1984 BYU lost to New Mexico 6r-5The next vear AFA whipped er Dick Harmon SPORTS ffSDITOR soil. An alien land. BYU might as well be on another planet, maybe Venus, than here extending its motel reservations for another night. But BYU plays Saturday. In the finals. All these years, all these teams. All those WAC titles since 1984 and no final for the Cougars. Did it take something different in 1991? "To tell you the truth, I don't know," said BYU senior Steve Schreiner. BYU didn't do anything differently. Nothing weird. No extra practices, hypnosis, cow bag balm. Nothing. "It is a little bit of luck, a lot of determination and a lot of courage. And guts," said Schreiner. "It took post-seas- 9 in the opening 1986 New Mexico beat the In game. Cougars Then for the first time ever, the Cougars won a WAC tournament game. In 1987 BYU defeated AFA but lost the next night to New Mexico. Again in 1988 the Cougars got by the first game, But in the whipping Hawaii semifinal UTEP clipped them BYU in Provo 82-7- 79-8- 82-7- 9, 76-7- 4. 66-6- 3. The Cougars didn't win a WAC tournament game the next two seasons. Friday's win was BYU's first successful experience in a semifinal. If you narrow it down, maybe it was some luck. Those seven h hook bounces of Moon's shot represented each of the years BYU shot blanks. On the seventh it went down. It also took some guts. The front court defense by BYU in overtime when Hawaii's Troy Bowe was forced into 10 second and five second calls on consecutive possessions epitomized the win. "I knew he wasn't going to drive because they wanted to kill the last-ditc- clock. But the entire team gave him nobody to throw to and all I had to do is keep by him," said BYU's much maligned point guard Nathan Call. This entry into unknown land by BYU also took the emergence of a bonifide star sixth man Gary Trost. Maybe in all these years the Cougars haven't had a back-brea- k player come off the bench and carry the yoke. Schreiner sat out the overtime and seven minutes of regulation sick to his stomach. Somebody called Trost's number there, too. Trost came off the bench in place of a center Shawn Bradley in the first half and scored in just 16 minutes. a double-doubl- e At halftime Trost had 11 rebounds and 12 points. After the orbit of the Moon's satellite, Trost led all Cougars with 21 points and 12 rebounds. His 21 points was his cafoul-plagu- reer high. Getting career performances from a yoke man is one way BYU may earn its fourth consecutive NCAA bid come Sunday. The finals. The finals. It finally happened. |