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Show Page C2 - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, '' By CARL WALTERS Herald Correspondent - Wednesday, February 26, OREM The No. 1 ranked Mountain View Bruins rolled into the Utah girls' basketball tournament by drubbing American Fork 69r32, finishing the Region Four season with a perfect 10-- 0 record. In other action Timpview clinched second place bu squeak-inm- g by Orem in double overtime 0 and Provo beat Pleasant Grove No information was reported on the Grove game. American Fork started well as Julie Krommenhoek hit a jumper to open the game. Then Karrie Henrie went inside for the Bruins, trading buckets with Melissa Durrant, Margie Wilson and Krommenhoek again. Mountain View took a 8 lead when Jamie and Henry Dodge hit a made a free throw. Ali Lamb stole a rebound and dropped in a bucket to give the Cavemen their last lead of the night at 10-LeAnn Muranaka dumped in a and a free throw to pair of 0 the Bruins up for good put late in the first quarter. To begin the second quarter Liz Pinegar swapped two inside shots for two Krommenhoek as the Cavemen cut the mpilJUI. lilliHUWyillUJHII"! "" 'WMWMWJ' ? Karl Malone Seaves Clippers in f "' of KSJ&ki'rt'"' - ?S-- . ; ' .... 67-6- i 0. Provo-Pleasa- nt 19-fo- ot er ; " J ' r i tf v fourth-quart- ti N-n- r T - ; m ps 14-1- three-pointe- A" Du-ma- rs 46-3- 106-10- 1. er 30-poi- nt Pip-pe- 14-of- 61-5- er 91-8- 0. 76-6- 26-1- Krommenhoek led ail scorers with 16 (14 in the first minutes). Scott led the Bruins with 13, Henry had 12. At Timpview, the went to the Ross combination, Angie and Jeni, for 44 points to hand the Tigers their first loss in three overtime games this year. Jeni Ross was tops with 24 and Angie Ross lit it up for 20. Sherrie Rasmusen led Orem with 18. e Lhe er fourth-quart- with three fouls. The Cavemen didn't score again until a minute into the third period. Meanwhile, the Bruins hit 6 charity and tosses (Raegan Scott was Dodge ended the half with a to put Mountain View up 39-2- five-gam- nt rs lead to 20-- 1 8. With her team still down by only three with 4:29 left in the first half Krommenhoek went to the bench three-point- tain its Antonio in third-leadin- 9-- lay-u- lead over San Midwest Division. The Jazz are coming off two straight seasons in whicn the Spurs beat them out for the division title by a single game. Elsewhere in the NBA, it was New Jersey 109, Boston 95; Charlotte 94, Milwaukee 82; San Antonio 123, Miami 101; and Detroit 108, Chicago 106. Pistons 108, Bulls 106 The Detroit Pistons beat the Chicago Bulls the with spectacular guard play way and tough rebounding. Winless in eight games against Chicago since last April 12, the Pistons edged the Bulls as Joe scored 28 points, Isiah Thomas had 24 points and 13 assists and Dennis Rodman had 20 rebounds, helping Detroit to a 5 advantage on the boards. The Bulls had a chance to force overtime when Horace Grant stole Rodman's inbounds pass with 15 seconds remaining. But backup guard Darrell Walker prevented the Bulls from going a to their designed play trouble." and Malone, who scored 33 points, attempt by Craig Hodges Dumars blanketed Michael Jorkeyed Utah's rally from an deficit. dan, forcing an airball by the NBA's leading scorer, who finMalone, coming off a n effort in Monday night's loss at ished with 23 points. Scottie 33. Bulls led the with Portland, made all 10 of his free throws in the final period as the Spurs 123, Heat 101 David Robinson scored 26 Jazz beat the Clippers for the 17th time in their last 2 1 meetings . points and San Antonio beat Miami Danny Manning scored 28 for its ninth victory in 10 home points for the Clippers, who have games. lost three straight after winning Leading 8 late in the second their first five under Brown. quarter, the Spurs scored the final 0 with 8:45 tc five points of the half and 10 of the Trailing the Jazz outscored the Clip- first 13 in the third quarter to take a play, 1 lead that the Heat never 0 the rest of the way. pers Fourteen of those points came threatened. The Heat hit just 30 shots from the line, giving percent of their loss Utah a 31-- 8 advantage from the en route to their 1 1th of the season, including 10 on the foul line. After Malone scored eight road. The Heat, playing without inpoints in a 14-- 4 spurt'that closed Utah to short jured Glen Rice, got 25 points Manning's from Grant Long and 15 points and hook gave Los Angeles a 4 14 rebounds from Rony Seikaly. xh with 3 minutes left. edge ; Nets 109, Celtics 95 Corbin's two free Tyrone New Jersey won for the 13th throws and Jeff Malone's jumper with 2lA minutes remaining put time in 15 home games and gave Utah ahead for the first time since the Celtics a 7 record since they the second quarter, and last played in Boston Garden on Karl Malone's two free throws Feb. 5. Drazen Petrovic scored 26 made it 100-9Mark Eaton then scored his first points of the game points and Derrick Coleman had on a desperation that just 21 for the Nets, while Reggie Lewbeat the clock, capping is had 24 for Boston, which returns an 0 run and giving the Jazz a home against Indiana tonight. 102-9- 7 lead with 1:22 left. Hornets 94, Bucks 82 Brown felt the game was decidKenny Gattison scored 23 points ed by those key plays down the d and Charlotte extended its stretch. six home streak to a lot "We didn't get of breaks," winning by defeating Milwaukee. he said. "Eaton hits that shot, It was the 12th consecutive road Rudd made two real tough shots (for his only four points of loss for the Bucks, who have the record differenthe game), then we got a little carelargest home-roa- d 20-- 7 at home less and made some silly plays. We tial in the NBA and away. got in such bad foul trouble in the fourth quarter, we just put ourLarry Johnson scored 21 points selves in a hole. If you keep putting for the Hornets. Moses Malone them on the line, it makes it awful and Frank Brickowski had 13 each for the Bucks, who scored just 52 tough." The victory helped Utah main points in the final three periods. Karl 17 foul Malone, who made 15 shots for the Utah Jazz, left the Los Angeles Clippers in a foul mood. "He's trying to be the king of everybody," said Olden Polynice, after exchanging heated words with Malone with 19 seconds left in the first half Tuesday night. "He tries to be the almighty one. It's just not that way." Clippers coach Larry Brown immediately substituted Bo Kimble for Polynice to allow his starting center to cool off and remain in the game. It was in the fourth quarter, g however that the NBA's scorer continuously drew fouls in the lane and converted them into points. Malone was fouled by four different Clippers in the final five minutes, and 10 of his 12 points came on free throws as the Jazz beat the Clippers "Playing against a guy like Malone takes its toll, so we tried to put fresh people on him," Brown said. "I didn't want guys to get into foul LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 4-- A 52-4- 1992 1 1 third-quart- free-thro- w er 20-poi- nt 95-9- 4, 97-9- Herald PhotoBrent Stevens over American Fork's McCall Egan during girls' View's Raegan Scott launches a shot basketball action Tuesday. The Bruins swatted the Cavemen Mountain 69-3- 1 - 2. . 2-- 98-9- baseball team should be strong, but coach isn't predicting league crown UVCC By BOB HUDSON Assistant Sports Editor Pardon coach Steve OREM Gardner's modesty. Gardner has five returning position plajers and two starting pitchers back from last year's 3 baseball team at Utah Valley Community College. But, he's not guaranteeing, or even predicting, an Intermoun-tai- n Collegiate Athletic Conference championship. Instead, he's quite "At the start we'll probably lose a few games," Gardner said. "But, in conference play, we should be right up there. 27-2- low-ke- probably the favorite because of their returning pla"Dixie i y. is Gardner continued. "Snow's good and Eastern Utah yers," is improved. "We've got to beat everybody at home and beat somebody we're not supposed to beat on the road," he added. after a Gardner's squad is games pair of against Dixie a couple of weeks ago. The Wolverines open the season in earnest next week. They will travel to the Phoenix area for eight games against Arizona junior colleges March They will also play an exhibition game at the San Francisco Giants' camp March 7. man from Springville; Paul Simmons, a returned missionary transfer from the University of Utah; Darrin Upham, a freshman from Piano, Texas; and Joe Arnold, a transfer from Dixie. Gardner does admit his team has the potential to improve upon last year's record. That's partly because he's so high on this year's pitching staff. Back are Shane Wilde, who was 4 with a 6.31 earned run average, and Dave Brock, 6 with a 4.50 E.R.A., to anchor that corps. Add reliever Jason Smith, "who is looking good right now" and you've got a good nucleus. They and Dereck Hope, a transfer from Southern Utah University, will begin the season as the starters. "Our other spot is up for grabs," Gardner said. "We're good enough' that I have eight guys who could be starters. " Others battling for that other starting spot on the mound include Pat Bird, a redshirt fresh "Barring any shoulder or elbow problems, we should be pretty strong out there because we have some older kids with good expe- 2-- 6. "Our pitching staff is probably While remaining modest, our strong point," Gardner said. 6-- 4-- rience." Not that his returning position players are weak links or inexperienced, mind you. In that category are catcher Brian Hull, who had 15 home runs last year and needs just two this season to tie Randy Wilstead for the school record. Wilstead went on to BYU and is now playing professionally. Hull batted .355. First baseman Chris Arambula hit .417 with 10 home runs last season. Third baseman Shane Quesnell hit .310 with four home runs. Shortstop Matt Rasmussen hit .280 with five homers and outfielder Shane Marshall hit .321 with six homers. The top newcomer? Danny Schoonover and Scott Vest, infielders from Pleasant Grove and Spanish Fork, respectively, were, first team in their classifications last year. Eric Johnsen, a from Pleasant Grove, was among the best prepsters in the area last season. all-stat- er Mike Rummens, an outfielder from California, hit over .400 during fall scrimmages. Robert Jenco, an outfielder from Twin Falls, played at Southern Idaho last season. Brian Argyle, a catcher from Spanish Fork, started for Gardner at Snow College before serving an LDS Church mission. Paul James, an infielder from Bountiful, played at UVCC before serving his church. "I think we're going to be pretty good," Gardner admitted at the end of the discussion about his team. Snow baseball coach says his Badgers could contend for ICAC championship - EPHRAIM Snow College baseball coach Robert Andersen figures his Badgers could contend for the Intermountain Collegiate Athletic Conference crown. "We won't be as experienced this year as we have been in the past, but we really have some talented athletes who will be fun to watch," Andersen said. "We should battle UVCC for the conference title." Six players return from last year's 8 squad. The Badgers will play over 20 games away from home before their first game in Ephraim. Andersen said such a schedule will provide his young team with a stiff test. "It's tough to play the caliber of people that we do, especially on the road, and be able to come home with a winning record," Andersen said. "But we did last year and I'm sure we can do it this year, too. Our kids really know how to win. So many of 21-1- them come from very successful programs where they have won a of games." Andersen noted that Mark Nielsen, a freshman pitcher, lot comes from a high school program in Mira Mesa, Calif, that was ranked third in the nation. "The kids from the Logan area had one of the best (American) Legion teams you'll find anywhere," Andersen said. 'Vnd the list goes on and on. We have some very competitive kids that want to win ball games. ' ' Andersen said his team has great overall speed, a fact he plans to capitalize upon. "We have great team speed, probably more overall speed than anyone in our league," Anderson said. "We have speed in the outfield for our defense and we will have several guys who can lay down a bunt and be able to get on base. "We led the league in base stealing last year and I really be lieve we can improve on that this year," Andersen continued. "I also think we are going to have more power this year. We will probably hit more doubles and shots in the gap this year. We won't hit six or seven home runs a game, but we might hit three or 7. 20-foot- er 24-seco- nd 8-- team-recor- "We've got pretty good talent all the way around," Gardner said. pitcher-outfield- 7, Kevin Lewis of American Fork, Daniel Christensen of Moroni and Mori Speakman of Mt. Pleasant. Even though the pitching staff is going to be relatively young this year, Andersen expressed confidence that his starting rotafour." tion will be strong. "When the pitching staff Among the sophomores on this John outfielders are comes roster together, I think we could year's Ballegooie and Jason Butcher of have four or five players we can Salt Lake City, Andy Naylor of' count on to win every time they Ephraim and Mickey Houston of take the mound," Andersen said. Kanab; pitchersDavid Hicks of He said that Nordick, a starter Eureka, Nev., Gary Sorrells of last season, will be expected to Clearfield, and David Worthing-to- n anchor the staff. Others expected of Huntsville, Ala. and Troy to be in the rotation include NielNordick of Millville; catchers and basketball sen, Doug Hagler Derrick Sorensen of Salt Lake player Preston Johnson. The latCity and Mark Wathen of ter two are freshmen. Ephraim; and first baseman "It really depends on how well Wayne Taylor of Pleasant Grove. team comes together," Anthe newcomAndersen's Among said. "It's just a matter of dersen ers are several players from central Utah. That group includes putting these athletes together as a team unit and they are already Jerry Beck of Orem, Jason Bender of Nephi, Brandon Crotts and showing me something there. De-lan- ey 5-- we're better off than a lot of teams. We weren't even supposed to be COUGARS: (Continued from Page C-- here." l) and guard the perimeter with Cain and Davison. Well, at BYU that is exactly what we have to do with our big guys all the time . " Asked Tuesday if he thought the Cougars were in the WAC driver's seat, Reid declined. "I will say SWIMMER: (Continued from Page C-- l) "She always thinks about her teammates first and has always done what's best for the team. " Part of that unselfishness was evident during her sophomore and junior years. Despite showing great promise as a freshman in the backstroke, Miller asked her to switch to freestyle because it was an area where the Tigers needed help. "Celeste never complained or even questioned my asking her to swim the freestyle," said Miller. "She just went out and gave her best no matter what event she was swimming. She's just a tough com- petitor." Part of that toughness was evident during an incident in her freshman year. While cooking dinner for the family, she accidentally spilled scalding water down the front of her body and legs . Despite the fact she suffered second degree burns and was covered with blisters, she competed in a swim meet the next day. "Her tolerance for pain is incredible," said Miller. "The tougher things are, the tougher she gets." V Nick Sanderson, a reserve guard and forward is doubtful for Thursday's game after injuring his hand at New Mexico. Sanderson suffered a bruised right thumb (shooting hand) trying to block a shot and hitting the backboard . "Right now if you ask me if he'll play, I'd say no. We'll have to see at game time," said Reid. That toughness also impressed the local universities. Celeste signed with BYU last fall and will be competing for the Cougars next season. Currently, however, she is on qualifying for the upcoming junior nationals. She is about second off the qualifying times for both the 100 backstroke and 200 freestyle. "I think I have a pretty good chance of qualifying," said Celeste. "I've already taken a lot of time (off) this year, and I still have three or four weeks to qualify." Despite the amount ot time Celeste spends in the pool, she still finds time to maintain a 3.86 grade point average (4.0 A). She was also named to the academic team this year. With her success in the pool and classroom, the future for Celeste looks good. She said she plans on majoring in elementary education because she enjoys working with and teaching children. She also says that swimming will always be a part of her life. "I think I'll always be involved in swimming in one way or another. It helped teach me the importance of dedication and responsibility. It's been a great sport for me, and I hope I can pass on what I've one-ha- lf all-sta- learned toothers," she said. te |