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Show Page THE HERALD, Prove, Utah, Friday, April 3, D2 1992 M I ers pumme Tig Reaion Four softbalB - In v V ' . - - In other league action, By BOYD KARREN Herald Correspondent Orem rode three exPROVO 30-- 2 to a Region Four plosions softball victory over Timpview Thursday. The visiting Tigers came out swinging and scored nine runs in the first inning. Michelle Paulson runs g drove in four while Jill Martin added a two-ru- n homer that inning. first-innin- Orem's f v jr 7-- 6. ng smarter." In American Fork, the Bruins withstood a Caveman rally. American Fork had the tying run on third base with one out mT2 Meanwhile, the Tigers contin- the bottom of the seventh inning." ued to pummel Timpview pitching But, the Cavemen were unable to;.- as they scored 10 runs in the fourth get her home. inning and 10 more in the fifth. M1 M. ISO 3 Paulson eventually accounted for MeCm, two-tim- e all-regi- on last-inni- ng - -- j with CM. seven runs as she went PL 8fW double in the fifth. a two-ru-n "We really hit the ball hard," gkiw, said Orem coach Deb Zirbes. "We Mln. Wow ran well... and we were very !B.Fk Fgo. - v? fff'M I in. .I;-- ' "4 .a BYU I- - star qualifies for AUSTIN, Texas - nacfctwnt. Spain's Seve Ballesteros watches the flight of his fairway shot on the firth hole of the Freeport McMoRan Classic Thursday. He shares the lead in the tournament with Chip Beck. Ballesteros sh ares lead at New Orleans first-roun- on age of 4.61. field shot had The 53 bogeys and eight eight birdies, double bogeys on the hole in the first round. "I don't recall ever having holed a shot on the last hole, other than a chip or a putt," Haas said. "I could see it the whole way, and you could tell from the people the building roar that it was going to be close. "I think that was the first time I ever got on that green in two. I was just trying to carry the green. "When I hit the shot, it felt good like a putt for a birdie. It just rolled on up there. It looked like a putt. Bob Eastwood, Scott Gump, 144-ma- n Lon Hinkle, Jeff Maggert, David Rummells and Duffy Waldorf opened with 68s and Robin Freeman, Neal Lancaster, Fran Quinn and Mike Standly shot 69s. Ballesteros failed to make the cut at The Players Championship last week, so he said he used Saturday and Sunday to consult with swing guru David Leadbetter in Orlando, Fla. "Simple things," Ballesteros said. "Some adjustments with my shoulders. The swing was there, but the alignment wasn't there. It still feels a little bit uncomfort- pion at New Orleans as well as the Masters, was tied with 17 others at 71. Mark O'Meara and Tom Kite also shots 71s. Jose Maria Olazabal, winner of The International last year and second to Woosnam at the Masters, tie at 72. was in a The first players went off Thursday in temperatures of 50 degrees and winds from the northeast at 4 a wind chill of 33 demph grees. "British weather," Ballesteros said. "Bitter cold," Rummells said. able." "I played with two sweaters and a Greg Norman, winless since rain suit on." tie at 70. "When you can't feel your 1990, was in an 1 Ian Woosnam, defending cham hands, it's tough," Gump said. 17-w- ay 20-2- Rockets get together to clobber Nuggets By The Associated Press The Houston Rockets did what they have to do to get back into the NBA playoff race play as a team. in their second The Rockets Hakeem since Olajuwon game e susreturned from a had nine players in pension double figures and outrebounded Denver 1 on Thursday night while routing the Nuggets three-gam- 55-4- 137-11- 4. ' ' Everybody got a chance to be a part of it and we needed to get our morale and confidence back, ' ' coach Rudy Tomjanovich said. "We needed more of a blue collar attitude." Houston exploited the inside against Denver, which played center without its rookie Dikembe Mutombo after he had surgery on the torn ligaments in his left thumb earlier in the day. Houston established a season-hig- h for points in snapping a losing streak, while the Nuggets extended their string of losses to six. "This was a big win for us because it stopped our losing ways," Olajuwon said. "All we need to do now is just win each game and not worry about what everyone else is doing." 1 Olajuwon had 17 points and 1 scored 'rebounds, Sleepy Floyd 17 points and reserve forward Larry Smith scored 15 on shooting for the Rockets, who trail the Los Angeles Lakers by All-St- ar six-ea- -- i JAZZ: (Continued from Page Dl) could play, and did he ever. He scored 33 points in 29 minutes and combined with Terry offenPorter in a second-quartsive blitz that buried the Jazz for good. After making only 12 of 41 shots in losses to New York and Phoenix, Drexler missed his first two against Utah, then made 13 of his last 14. "You've got to go out and just push it to the limit," Drexler said. "When you're not healthy er 46-3- 7-- points behind her BYU record mark of 5,982 set at the meet last year. Another stellar Cougar performance came Thursday evening in the 10,000 when Leanne White-sidgained provisional qualifying status with her time of 35:02.3 for second place. es Mtebon tseaot i NCAA meet Terri Turner Hairston of Mi- - The Cougar distance runnersJ?", raced against wind and tempera- - tures in the 40s. Veteran Lisap Chipman trailed Whitesides to" place fourth in the 10,00a?'. (35:29.1). Tonya Todd came ia':? third in the 3000 (9:36.7), and :, SondraGibb was seventh (10:02). Despite bad shots, Nioklaus leads Nicklaus has won the $800,000 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) -Jack Nicklaus knew he wouldn't be tournament two straight years,' believed. both times by gaining momentum -- I "I know if you heard someone after the midway point. Last year,;;. and hit a say that he was lot of bad golf shots, it sounds crazy, but I hit a lot of bad golf shots," Nicklaus said after shoot65 Thursday and ing a record-tyin- g d lead in grabbing the The Tradition. "I hit a lot of great putts," said Nicklaus, who needed just 26 and d as he overcame never a bogey and double bogey with a barrage of super shots eight birdies and an eagle on the 6,864-yar- d Cochise Course at Desert first-roun- three-putte- he was 12 shots behind after 36 holes but still won by a shot. . On Thursday, however, he said' his putting saved him in the Senior'!; M4 PGA Tour event. Nicklaus has tried 30 drivers in kj the past year and switched to metal one in an attempt to get bet- -" ter control. He said after the first'-rou- nd he was still experimenting. "I tried about everything I could think of during the round. I'm trying to develop some kind of pat-tern," he added. ' J" c everyone knows. O l Cincinnati (29-4- ) has seveni first-yeplayers on the roster-fiv- e junior college transfers, aT"j freshman and a transfer from Ak-i'- ', ron. The Bearcats worked their, way to the Final Four through the Midwest Regional and are still the team that could walk through a'Vr Twin Cities hotel lobby without ''Yi " ar (Continued from Page Dl) "I don't think Laettner's a posiHe's probably the best basketball big player that I've seen in a long time," said Knight, who will counter Laettner with Matt Nover, Anderson and forward Alan Henderson. "He really plays a different game than anyone else," Andertion player. son said. Indiana will try to wear down d rotation Hurley with its of Damon Bailey, Greg Graham, Jamal Meeks and Chris Reynolds. They combined for 22 of Indiana's 23 assists against UCLA in a game where the Hoosiers had eight turnovers. "He's a good guard who penetrates, gets in the lane and dishes the ball off," Meeks said of Hurley. "It's definitely gonna be tough for our guards to stay on him for 40 minutes." Duke has one big advantage in after the game experience getting to the Final Four for five straight years and six of seven. "The more Final Fours you go to,, the more cousins you find out you have who need tickets," Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski four-guar- "5 108-10- your concentration is so much better. You know you're not 100 percent and you have to compensate in other areas." Porter scored 22 for Portland, 14 in the second quarter. The two Blazer guards were" 19 for 25 from the field. Cliff Robinson scored 18 for the Blazers. Jeff Malone led the Jazz with 17 points. Drexler scored six and Porter five during a 13-- 2 run that gave 2 lead with the Blazers a 2: 15 to play in the half. The Blazers outscored the Jazz 23-- 7 over the last 6Vi minutes of the quarter, including a 0 run in the final 50 seconds, to iead 56- - - 1 ei r 5.6 seconds remaining gave the 3 Suns a lead, and they went on to win their sixth straight game while snapping the Warriors' winning streak at five. Kevin Johnson had 22 points and 15 assists for Phoenix, now just a half game behind Golden State in the Western Conference standings. Billy Owens and Sarunas had 21 points for the Warriors. SuperSonics 111, Kings 103 Seattle handed Sacramento its ninth loss in 10 home games as Eddie Johnson scored 28 points. The SuperSonics outscored the Kings 15-- 6 in the final 4:42, overcoming a 6 deficit. Mitch Richmond scored 29 points and Anthony Bonner a 2 1 for the Kings. Ricky er-high Pierce had 25 points, and Derrick McKey 20 for the Sonics. Cavaliers 115, Clippers 98 Cleveland reached 50 wins for care- 73 gan, the team with the freshmen Cleveland 115, the Los Angeles Clippers 98; Phoenix 109, Golden State 105; Portland 118, Utafi 86; and Seattle 111, Sacramento 103. Suns 1C9, Warriors 105 Andrew Lang matched his career high with 21 points and grabbed 13 rebounds as Phoenix won for the 13th consecutive time at home against Golden State. Lang's two free throws with 97-9- Srtuon. and chilling rain thwarted heptath-lete- s zuno TC won the heptathlon with . at the Texas Relays Wednes5,871 points. and Nevertheless, day Thursday. Laura Zaugg, a former BYU p.; BYU's Anu Kaljurand made autoearned 5,166 points fir matic qualification for the NCAA heptathlete, for seventh place, but failed in her championships with her second-plac- e effort to qualify for TAG nation- - ; I score of 5,766 points, 216 als. Mountain. two games for the last Western Conference playoff berth. Elsewhere in the NBA, it was New York 117, Charlotte 96; Mar-ciulion- Wind gusts Bos 38-P-r, f i AP Photo - - -rj 12 -5 J8-A- Seve NEW ORLEANS (AP) Ballesteros said he was too busy trying to win the Freeport McMoRan Classic to give much thought to next week's Masters. "Right now, I'm focused on this tournament," said Ballesteros, d lead who shared the with Haas, Chip Jay Thursday Beck and Brad Bryant at 67 on the 7,116-yar- d English. Turn course. "Why think about the Masters when I'm playing at New Orleans." Haas holed out from 196 yards for the first eagle in with a four years of tournament play on the 1 8th hole. The par-- 4 hole ranks as toughest finishing hole on the PGA Tour tour with a stroke aver ve : 'ft. 'if Pleasant-Gro- downed Provo 18-- 5 and Mountain View edged American Fork At Provo, the Vikings took ad- - : vantage of 19 walks off unstable :1 Bulldog pitching. "We were willing to wait," said . Pleasant Grove coach Rachel : .;; Wrape. "We wanted to go after. ; them (the pitches), but we're get-ti" pitcher Gina Clark displayed excellent form throughout the game. r , - . T-Bir- ds 4. . i.v 7 - Vi t;i ,.HM." is AP Photo Houston's Greg Anderson goes for the steal against Denver's Kenny Smith In Thursday's NBA action. Houston won 137-11- 4. the second time in franchise history and beat Los Angeles for its 1 1th straight victory at home. ), who The Cavaliers must win eight of their last 10 games to eclipse the 1988-8- 9 team mark of 57 victories, got 19 points from Larry Nance and 18 points each from Mark Price and BradDaugherty. Ron Harper, playing his first game at Richfield Coliseum since being traded to the Clippers in 1989, led Los Angeles with 20 points. Knicks 117, Hornets 96 Patrick Ewing had 25 points, 14 rebounds and four blocked shots as New York dominated Charlotte on the boards and extended its road winning streak to six games. 37 at halftime. Porter was 5 for 5 and Drexler 4 for 5 in the quarter. "You guys give Duckworth a lot of credit," Drexler said. "He did a heck of a job occupying big (50-22- Stockton, the league's assist leader, didn't get his first against Portland until there was 1:15 left in the first half. Adelman said he couldn't believe it when he looked at the halftime stats and saw that the Utah playmakcr had only one assist. "You better take that one and just frame it because you're not going to see that very often," Adelman said. Adelman and Drexler both complimented the play of Kevin Duckworth, the often maligned cen'er. Mark Eaton tonight. Utah was blown out on the road for the second straight game and saw its chances to finish with the best record in the Western Conference viitually vanish. "They came out and wiped us out in the second quarter,' Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said. "We couldn't shut them down. We were simply unable to defend them." "This is the way it's been for us the last couple of games," he said. quipped, being noticed. "Our guys chase cameras like, this dog in my neighborhood chas- es cars. It's unbelievable," said -- ;r - -- , Cincinnati coach Bob Huggins who is in his third year with the'Xt Bearcats and second NCAA tour-Jjnament, the first with Akron in ; 51,01 1986. "Our guys see a TV truck going down the road and they're more". apt than not to get off the bus and .1 follow it. It wouldn't do any good'i:" to tell them not to. I couldn't tell f. them not to enjoy it even if I was Scrooge. They're going to enjoy it s"" because that's the way they are.! f I hey have tun in life. So does Michigan and its group,;: oi rreshmen starters known as the "Fab Five" to everyone but them-y- j selves. They don't like the namer but you have to like the way they M., play. The Wolverines (24-8- ) werd.: third in the Big Ten and won theif first four tournament games at Atf,: lanta and Lexington, Ky., the iden, tical scenario to 1989 when V:zW.. gan won it all under then-intericoacn Meve fisher. p - Indiana is at its fifth Final Four under coach Bob Knight, the last in 1987 when the Hoosiers won. In fact, the only Final Four appearance by Knight that didn't end with a title was the first, 1973, when UCLA beat Indiana on the way to its seventh straight title, the last team to repeat as national champi- nj Having had the interim tae re moved, Fisher is now known as th& man who recruited what may InSnM the best class ever and he has it tw4".'.S games away from another title. on. t '"-h- "I worry more now because The current Indiana players, more time to think about it,'' however, are playing beyond the said Fisher, who replaced third round for the first time. the day before the tourna:2 have a and Krzyzewski Knight mentinl989. long, close relationship and teams with similar styles. But the Hoosiers don't have anyone who truly Bulldog m!sidentifled matches up well against Laettner. "When he was a freshman he PROVO Provo's Liz StmghiSs was not nearly the player he is am won three events for the Bull-".- '! now," Knight said of Laettner, the dogs in a dual meet with OrerfCS e tournament's leading earlier this week. She was incor? scorer and master of the regional rectly identified as Liz Pinegar in iffi " story Thursday. championship buzzer-beatehas the ability to pass, shoot and Stringham won the 100 in create for his team." seconds, the 200 in 27.9 seconds Ht Duke and Indiana will follow the and the hurdles. Her. game between Cincinnati, the team time for the hurdles was not report? ' ed. : no one really knows, and Michi Bill--Frie- der - all-tim- r. 13.5i' 300-met- er r |
