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Show AM IYk Ok Also in this section: YU NOTABLE QUOTES: DAVIS CUP TEAM: u.s. Davis Cup captain Tom Gorman announced his lineup for the d defending champion's match against Mexico at Mexico Brad Gilbert City on March and Davis Cup rookie Jim Courier will play singles, and Rick Leach and Jim Pugh will play doubles. first-roun- 29-3- INSTANT REPLAY: in a replay from the 1970's, leader Jack Nicklaus and pursuer Tom Watson will be paired in the last group on the golf course Saturday in the third round of the USF&G Classic in New Orleans. The two Hall of Fame members, heroes of an historic confrontation at Turnberry in 1977, gained the two top spots in this event Friday when most of the field could not handle howling winds. Friday, Nicklaus turned successful scrambler in a second-roun- d 69 for a 137 total, and Watson was the grinder in a hard-wo- n round of par 72 for a 139. SAFE TO PLAY: it is now safe to play hole No. 11 at Windance Country Club, site of the Ben Hogan Mississippi Gulf Coast Classic golf event. It wasn't always that way though. Until recently, the hole was the home of a alligator that made the pond around the hole his home. The gator, dubbed "Mr. Al E. Gator" would lumber up on the green and sun himself while members would try to play. Mr. Gator refused to follow proper golf etiquette and let people play through, so the club had him evicted to a local wildlife reserve. ot YEAR'S BEST: Mountain View coach Dave Houle and center Kim Henry were honored as coach and player of the year during ceremonies at the annual coaches' association basketball game Friday. Jordan's Tim Lewis, who lives in coach Provo, was honored as of the year. The two coaches guided their teams to state championships. all-st- ar 3-- A sweeps on Barb Bunkowsky, a the LPGA tour since 1984, carded 68 eight birdies in a lead after and a Friday's second round of the Standard Register tournament in Phoenix. Bunkowsky was at 142. Tied for second place were Betsy King, Danielle Ammaccapane and Cathy Gerring. non-winn- er two-stro- local prep cagers were named first or second team on the Deseret News girls teams. Thirteen others were honorable mention. Mountain View's Kim Henry was named the 4A MVP after averaging 18 points, 13 rebounds and two blocked shots in leading the Bruins to the state title. Teammate Jennifer Schlappi joined her on the first team, while Orem's Tami Frame was second team. Juab's Heidi Cowan was second team in the 3A ranks. Honorable mention honors went to: Julie Krommenhoek, Jeanette Yazzie (A.F.), Carmen Bahr, Suzie Paulsen lOrem), Julie Wilde (Mt. View), Tara Houtz, Julie Kirby, Mary Ellen Stover, Stacey MacArthur (Springville), Camela Maupin (Lehi), Content Anderson, Catherine Cook (No. Sanpete) and Alesa Patterson (Manti). All-Sta- te Saturday a.m. Tennis. Lipton International Channel 4) 11:30 p m. Exhibition baseball. Red Sox vs. White Sox (WGN) Noon. College baseball. Mesa St. at BYU (KFMY 960 AM) Noon. SportsWorld. hgure skating (NBC Channel 2) Noon. College basketball. NCAA Div. II final (CBS Channel 5) UCLA. Noon. College gymnastics. Stantord at California (PSN) 1 Channel 4) (ABC p.m. Bowling 2 p.m. PGA. USF&G Classic (NCB) 2 p.m. NCAA. Southeast Regional final (CBS. KSL 1160 AMI 2pm. LPGA. Standard Register PING (ESPN) swimming (PSN) 2pm. CollegeWide World of Sports, 2:30 pin. superstars. WLAF preview (ABC) PGA. Vintage ARCO 4pm Senior International (ESPN) 4 30 p m NCAA. W!si Regional final (CBS. KSL 1160 AM) 6 p m Jazz Talk (KISN 170 AM) football (USA) 6pm. mWLAF NBA. Pacers at Bulls (WGN) 6 30 p 6 30 pm College swimming (PSN) 7 30 p.m. NBA. Timberwolves at Jazz (KISN 570 AM) 7 30 p m College volleyball. Ohio St at BYU (KSRR 1400 AM) Boxing (SHOWl 8pm 6 35 p m. U S. Olympic Gold, skiing, luge (TBS) 11 (ABC Mesa dloufolelfteadleir from , ; tJt V k iff mt , ,4 H. By DOROTHY KNOELL The Herald Sports Writer bats made a bit more noise this time around, and Rob Jensen was still in the groove as the BYU baseball team swept a pair from 1 Mesa State, on a and blustery Friday afternoon. 7 The Cougars, now on the year, and Mavericks, who fell to face off again today at noon in another twinbill. The first game will be on KFMY 960 AM. Jensen threw his second straight three-hitteseven-innin- g striking out eight en route to the victory. The Cougars woke up at the plate, too, getting seven hits in the first game and 12 in the second, through five innings. With none out in the bottom of the fifth and BYU the game was called leading because of darkness and the score went back to the last completed inning, the fourth. "What I liked was that the bats came alive a little, and that we're playing good defense," said BYU coach Gary Pullins. "That's what we're getting excited about. And of course, Rob is just pitching great." BYU 7, Mesa St. 1 Jensen didn't give up a hit until the fourth inning and twice fanned two in an inning on the way to his third win of the year. "The fastball was working good I was hitting spots well," Jensen said. "Mostly, I was getting ahead in the count, which let me throw stuff." my Jensen retired the first eight Mavericks he faced before issuing a walk one of only two he gave up in the game. He was in trouble only twice. In the fourth inning, a lead-of- f single from Shon Saline, followed by a hit batsman put two on with none out. But Jensen and his fielders got the next three hitters out. In the sixth, centerfielder Andrew Jackson led off the inning with a home run. Saline followed with a single, but was thrown out trying to steal second, and Jensen 8-- 4, K 9-- 5, SprJ r, iChl . 1 J P ( 4 C t ) 11-- 6, f o 4 4 v : mrw wmm mm vi3a.iifci kVj' off-spe- Herald Photo Patrick J. Krohn BYU catcher Blaine Milne slides in safely home in the third inning as the ball skips past Mesa State catcher Anthony Carevale. struck out the next two Mavericks to end that threat. Meanwhile, freshman David Madsen blasted a three-ru- n homer in the second inning for a 0 Cougar lead. Gabe Diaz' single and walked to Blaine Milne and Troy Hymas loaded the bases in the third. Three Cougars scored on singles from Darren Milne and Madsen and Blaine Christensen's fielder's choice. The Cougars' final run came on an RBI single from Troy Hymas in the fourth. 3-- . BYU 8, Mesa St. 4 Cougar sophomore Mike Nielsen had trouble finding the plate in this game, but tough defense and some good pitches when he needed them helped Nielsen get the win. Good offense helped, too. Jeff Howes led off the bottom of the first with a double and scored on Chris Cooper's fifth home run of the season. Ed Chatterley had two RBI singles, Michael Espiritu added a single and Troy Hymas drove in the final Cougar run with another single. "Our depth is good we had a lot of guys swing the bat well for us in this game," Pullins said. Nielsen escaped a bases-loadeone-ojam in the first inning giving up just one run, thanks to a two-ru- n d, ut Brent double play. He gave up only one in a two-hsecond after coming up with a key strike out. Mesa State managed only two in the fourth despite two hits and three walks, thanks to two Nielsen strike outs. The Mavericks closed to 6 in the top of the fifth, but the Cougars responded by scoring three runs in the bottom of the frame before the game was called. it 8-- Final 1 6 the blowout round as four more reach finals By The Associated Press The final 16 of the NCAA tournament is turning into the blowout round. North Carolina, Duke and St. John's advanced to regional finals by routing their opposition Friday night. The Tar Heels beat longshot Eastern Michigan 7 in the East, Duke blasted Connecticut 7 and the Redmen dominated 4 Ohio State in the Midwest to move within one victory of the Final Four. Temple downed Oklain overtime in the homa State other East Regional semifinal. The average margin in the eight regional semifinals was 16 points. The closest was Seton Hall's four-poiwin over Arizona on Thursday. The Tar Heels (28-5- ) will play Temple for the East championship at East Rutherford, N.J. Fourth-seedeSt. John's (23-- 8 meets Duke for the Midwest title at Pontiac, Mich. Those games will be played on Sunday. Today, UNLV (33-0- ) plays Seton in the West final at Hall (25-8- ) Seattle and Arkansas (34-3- ) faces Kansas (25-7- ) for the Southeast championship at Charlotte, N.C. 81-6- top-seed- 91-7- 72-6- 3 nt top-seed- LOCALS HONORED: Four 3 Cougar batsmen collect 19 hits 93-6- BUNKOWSKI LEADS: Saturday March 23, 1991 Sports Theater B3 Comics B4 "Please advise Mr. Jackson that practice is on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays and a missed practice means he will not start in Saturday's game. He will have to supply his own jockstrap, cleats, Daniel glove and one baseball." McKeever of the Live Oak (Fla.) Gray Ghosts Little League team after he sent the Kansas City Royals $1 to claim Bo Jackson on waivers. Although only a major league team can put in a waiver claim, that hasn't stopped the wishful thinkers or the publicity minded. No one claimed Jackson by Friday's deadline. I d. ) Tar Heels 93, Hurons 67 Hubert Davis hit all five ot his North Carolina held Eastern Michigan scoreless lor S'2 minutes to d break it open. The Hurons shots and stayed with the Tar Heels for 28 minutes, but were finally worn down by North Carolina's superior depth and talent. "They have so many players," said Carl 27 Thomas, who scored a career-hig- h points for Eastern Michigan. "They come at you in waves and it takes a toll when you have only one or two big guys." his fifth of the Thomas' last with game, got the Huroiis within 12:49 remaining. But Eastern Michigan then went cold, missing 17 of its last 21 shots, and was outscored 32-1- 0 the rest of the way. Pete Chilcutt and Davis led North Carolina with 18 points apiece, while Eric Montross had 17. Marcus Kennedy had 19 points for Eastern Michigan (26-7Redmen 91, Buckeyes 74 halftime lead St. John's raced to a 43-2- 4 over Ohio State, and never let up in the second half. "To play that well and sustain it makes me feel very, very good," said St. John's Lou Carnesecca. Malik Sealy led the coach Redmen with 22 while Robert Werdann added a 21. All of St. John's starters career-highad at least 14 points. Jimmy Jackson had 19 points for Ohio which lost three of its last five State (27-4games. The loss. Ohio State's worst in 16 months, eliminated the last of the Big Ten's five tournament teams. points, Blue Devils 81, Huskies 67 So much for packing the lane. Christian Laettner's teammates did to Connecticut what Shaquille O'Neal's couldn't and Duke did to the Huskies what it couldn t do last year beat them easily. Laettner scored 19 points and Greg Koubek added 18 Friday night as second-seede- d Duke moved within one victory of its fourth straight Final Four appearance with its Midwest Reqional semifinal victory d over the Huskies. Koubek, one of only two Duke seniors, is looking for a personal Final Four streak. A victory over St. John's Sunday would send No. 6 Duke to the NCAA semifinals in for the fifth time six years and for the ninth time overall. The Huskies got to the round of 16 by daring opponents to shoot from the outd win ove" side. In their 79-6- 2 LSU, they denied O'Neal the ball and the teammates shot only 24.5 percent. UConn used a similar formula to whip Xavier in the second round. But while Laettner finished second to O'Neal in the voting, his supporting cast is far superior. ' J . It ir i 1 A . V -- - T rs v- 1 Owls 72, Cowboys 63 cast aside bitter memories of the Meadowlands and gave the Eastern Regional another upset Friday night. with eight airballs in the Macon, 1988 East Regional final against Duke, scored eight of his 26 points in overtime as Temple advanced to the regional championship game with its victory over Oklahoma State. Macon played the entire game until fouling out with 1:19 left in the extra Mark Macon period and Temple leading 64-5d The Owls became the third team with a double-digi- t seeding to advance to an NCAA regional final. LSU reached the Final Four as an 11th seed in 1986 and the regional finals in 1987 as a 10th seed. Macon scored the first six points of lead. Mik overtime, giving Temple a 59-5Kilgore, who scored 17 points, made it eight consecutive points for the Owls with another basket, and Oklahoma State didn't threaten to catch up. Corey Williams, a backup point guard, led Oklahoma Stale with 17 points. ,. v., ,t AP Iiserphoto Ohio State's Jim Jackson tries to shot against St. John's Malik Sealy in Friday NCAA action. St. John's won the game 91-7- 4. New NCAA rules trim traditional spring practice When is spring practice a little spring practice? Well, when it is cut back and there is no elaborate big spring football game. Sort of. Recent NCAA regulations curbing time allocated for spring drills may have made features like the annual Cougar Club Pigskin Preview in Cougar Stadium a dinosuar of the past. This spring there is no Pigskin Preview. BYU's spring drills, which have been forced into 15 sessions within 21 days, officially end Wednesday. There is a scrimmage today at noon in the stadium. There will be no spring game per se. There is a college baseball game: BYU vs. Mesa State. While he is pleased with drills, BYU coach LaVell Edwards said the new rules pose problems, especially when there is bad weather. For the first time ever, BYU's offense went indoors Thursday for a spring drill practice session. Spring drills indoors? When Utah football coach Ron Dick Harmon nator for the Spartans, the big west champions lost to the Pac-1- 0 Washlost to Cal 4 ington Huskies after failing on a d conversion and tied Fiesta Louisville You get the picture why McBride wanted Rasnick. The unique title given to Rasnick at Utah is even more unusual when you consider events leading up to the hiring of Rasnick. McBride wanted BYU quarterback coach Norm Chow. The Chow, a former center for the Utes and sometimes whipping boy for Cougar fans, was approached by McBride before McBride hired Rasnick. It took place at the BYU-Uta- h basketball game in Salt Iake City. It was talk of a lateral move as a position coach, then as the discussion progressed, talk turned to the promotion of Chow to Utah offensive coordinator and assistant head coach to McBride. Chow told McBride he wanted to discuss the program with other Ute offensive coaches including staff members who would obviously 20-1- 35-3- two-poi- nt have concerns about titles, pecking order and roles. Those discussions never took place and McBride and Chow never got into a stage of Bowl-boun- 10-a- r -rt V SPORTS pniTnn McBride hired San Jose State's Rick Rasnick as the assistant head coach for offense this winter, it was a unique title in a sense, because the Utes retained offensive coordinator Dan Hansen. The move was obviously made to pump up the Ute offense which will continue to undergo a facelift under McBride in McBride: Year Two. Rasnick coached former BYU quarterback Ralph Martini at SJS. Martini led the Spartans to impres3 and sive wins over Stanford Fresno State 47-Rasnick was the offensive coordi 2!t-2- Chow confirms he and McBride had the conversation. This wasn't the only sniff Chow got since New Year's. There was a call from the Canadian Football League and an opportunity (simi-lia- r to N.Y. Giants offer to former Utah coach Jim Fassel) in the NFL he never pursued. Chow did come away with a sense that Utah's athletic department, armed with support and deep-pockmoney, was determined and committed to make major inroads with its football proet gram. Speaking of money, the BYU football stadium expansion, which increased the facility from 35,000 to 65,000 seating capacity, has still not been paid for by the university. But this past year the school jacked up efforts to retire the debt. This year more money went towards that debt than last year. "We're getting closer, but it's not gone," said university spokesman Paul Richards. New NCAA regulations will make it harder for college football field goal kickers. The goal posts will be narrowed by a net four feet two feet on each side. That is forcing BYU kicking coach Chris Pella to straighten out the angle of approach for soccer style kickers. There is no change in widening the hash marks like in the NFL. "What it means is a lot of teams will be rethinking third down plays to position themselves on the field for a better angle," said Edwards "The thing I emphasize with our kickers," said Pella, "is the middle is still the middle and we try to kick for the middle of the uprights ' Don't worry about the sides." |