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Show Imsise J 'J S3 Baseball Scoreboard Business ... Weather t Grant Hill and the Detroit Pistons lost to the Toronto Raptors in NBA action. B2 B8 B9 B12 PORTS . EDITOR: TAD WALCH lT Today s Bl THE DAILY HERALD 0 FRIDAY. NOVEMBER nan 12, IW9 IB ft Oft . Freshman bothered by calf injury Dick Harmon hi LaVell's squad will get first taste of Laramie soon ll 7 By DICK HARMON , The Daily Herald La Veil Edwards is facing a first. He's taking a football team to Laramie and none of his players have ever been there wearing Cougar uniforms. Oh, some may have stopped by in Laramie while traveling on gassing up at this glorified truck stop with its lunar landscape and stiff wind, But filling up and making a potty i stop in town is far from playing in War Memorial Stadium. The Cougars haven't been to Laramie since 1992, the first post-TDetmer season. That was 64 BYU wins ago. Neither have two of Edwards' assistant coaches as BYU employees: Barry Lamb and Brian Mitchell. Neither has Edwards's administrative assistant Duane Busby or media relations director Jeff Reynolds as t BYU employees. I Tm wondering if I should pack my ; BYU clothes," Busby said, noting horror ; stories he s heard of how Wyoming fans treat the Cougars. "I didn't have a pleasant experience," Lamb said of his last trip to Laramie as a San Diego State football coach. Now he's a Cougar. Cougars are hated 20 times more than Aztecs in Wyoming. y 1 , .1 DEFENSIVE TACKLE Hans Olsen stopped in Laramie as a high school football player once. He's been trying to indoctrinate his teammates about the place. "He's filled us in," teammate Chris Hoke said. "But what does it matter what they do to us out there as long as we play our game?" y ' "If anything," Hoke said. "It will fire us up. It won't be like at UTEP where there was just no emotion at all in We can use this." warm-up' Use what? Take this week's Wyoming student paper for example. In a wrap-u- p of Wyoming's win over Utah, student columnist Joe Milczewski wrote: "The Cowboys showed up something Saturday night ... that Wyoming people are naturally stronger and smarter than people from Utah." "(The Cougars) are a fearful Mormon juggernaut that tears into towns spewing forth touchdowns and the gospel according to Joe Smith with equal enthusiasm." "Our defensive line will turn Feterik's pretty blonde hair gray and leave his mother looking for soft tis" sues." PPvOVO Luke Staley is invited to to Laramie, but hell likely not play. Staley, fresh off a scope procedure on his left knee, has been out jogging on that knee and it's fine. But his calf muscle on that same leg is knotted up tighter than a golf ball. 'If I don't play, I'd just soon as stay home," Staley said on Thursday. "It's just to hard to stand there on the sidelines and not play." The last time Staley stood on the sidelines was BYlTs overtime win at Utah State in Logan. Ironically, that was the only time this season a BYU back (Fahu Tahi) gained more than 100 yards rushing. go d3 ' "But Fahu is nicked up too," offensive coordinator Norm Chow said. "Hell be OK, but he's not completely healthy." This means the Cougars will rely heavily on fullbacks Kalani Sitake, JASON OLSONThc Daily HeoLd jukes for you: Freshman running back Wyoming with a calf injury. No See LUKE, B5 Luke Staley, shown against Air Force, will probably miss Saturday's game against to v UVSC bepts up altimore City 9 By DARNELL DICKSON ' - s. beer-guzzlin- al theMWCroad. Dick Harmon is The Daily Herald's executive sports editor. Reach him via mail at dharmon&ieraldextra.com. V 4 4 . MILCZEWSKTS TAKES are typical Laramie fodder. But he's forgiven. We shouldn't stereotype the kid as a truck-drivin- g redneck from Cody who ties gays to fence posts on his way home from beating up his girlfriend. No, that would be unfair. Wyoming is a great state filled with otherwise sane, smart, caring people. Heck, Patti Edwards is from Wyoming. So was my father, born in Star Valley. Harrison Ford lives in Jackson. There are only a few dumb bigoted i critters, just like in Utak'-- ; 1 1 They all need our love. Milczewski just needs someone to inform him Feterik has dark hair. And the rest of the noisy Laramie BYU haters Saturday? .. . Just tell them to take" a number and stand in line. The Mountain West Conference is ensuring everything will be back to nor-min the Rockies. ; That includes BYU handling it on OREM Just wait until he warms up. Former BYU guard Scott Sonnenberg hit his first seven shots and scored 23 points in only 20 minutes to lead UVSC to a 119-7- 0 demolition of Baltimore City College in the first game of the LaQuinta Rotary Shootout at the McKay Events Center. Baltimore has been a favorite whipping boy for UVSC in this tournament, two years ago, 101-7losing 138-8in three seasons ago and 131-101995. Maybe it should be called the Turkey" Shootout, because as in year's past, Baltimore got cooked, basted and gobbled up by UVSC Thursday night. Sonnenberg scored 12 points in the first 5:14 to lead UVSC to a quick 17-- 9 lead and finished with 18 points in 11 minutes in the first half. "Scott came out and shot the ball 6 BRIAN FITZGERALDThe Daily Herald the move: UVSC guard Scott Sonnenberg drives to the paint during the Wolverines' game agaJnst Baltimore City Community College on Thursday. On Provo hopes to get fWmMm.'PWOfF CLASS 6A SEMRNAL PREDICTIONS Hunter 21, Taylorsyllle 14 Skyline 31, Bingham 17 offensive in semis well," UVSC coach Jeff Reinert said. run a lot of stuff for him, and he came out in a good rhythm and had a good stroke." All 13 players in uniform scored in the first half, and UVSC shot a sizzling 68 percent from the field for a "We The Daily Herald 65-3- 1 PREVIEWS WHAT'S UP: Bountiful is undefeated but has won several very close games. Provo Is playing its best ball and its potent passing game, can stay with anybody. picked against Provo last week and they won, so I'll pick against them again this week. But the Buitdogs can pull off the upset : with Last year, Bountiful saw such a scheme in its game with Springville. Bountiful came in with a record, but glittering Springville's Brent Neel threw for 336 yards and a pair of touchdowns in a 42- By DARNELL DICKSON first-roun- d The Daily Herald PROVO Bountiful should be afraid of Provo's passing attack. It should be very afraid. "Most of the teams in " Region 5 run the ball Provo assistant coach Brian Preece said. He named off Olympus, Highland, Cyprus and East as teams in Region 5 that run almost exclusively. They just don't we a passing game liks oura very much." Bountiful will get an eyeful of Provo'i complicated passing game today in the Class 4A state semifinals at Weber State.' 8-- 1 . -' 21 . upset Neel carved up the Bountiful secondary like an early Thanksgiving turkey. Provo'i Chad Nichols, who's passed for 20 touchdowns in 1999, has a chance to do the very same thing. Throwing to receivers Darek Giles, David Aihworth and Judd Gines, Nichols should give Bountiful fits. Everyone knows that the CLASS 4A SEMiFlNALS Provo (S3) vs Bountiful (11-0- ) SERIES RECORD: Provo leads series 2-- LAST MSETH4Q: Provo beat Bountiful 3S6 in the first round of the 1972 Class 4A state PREDiCTrON: Bountiful ' 33, Provo 31.. It playoffs. OTHER 4A SEMIFINAL PLAYOFF RECORDS; Provo 29-3- 0, Bountiful PREDICTION 28-2- rremont24,VVebef 21 , Mi." The second half was basically used as a practice game as Reinert continually shuffled players into the game. "Donnie Jackson needs more minutes," Reinert said. The more he plays, the better he gets. And Robbie Warren's got to play. We've got a lot of guys on the bench that just need playing time. "But there are some guys who really need to start getting it done. I told the team in the locker room that i utes aren't given out; they're earned And some guys aren't earning their minutes. Reinert gets another chance to experiment with lineups tonight r See UVSC, Mottola oi six weeks SALT LAKE CITY (AP) forward 'Han a preseason norJ nee for the Wooden . af Naismith. awards, will ml the first six weeks nf tho aJ son with a torn knee lij 1 ment. Mottola, a sen! Utah, Mottola, from Hfllainln J lftrnlan1 hurt when he took a char exhibit I during Utah's loss to the California West A 1 Stars on Tuesday night M Team Dr. physician Patrick Greiss initially diagnosed the injury as a sprain of the medial collateral ligament in Mottola's left knee. After reviewing ' an NSR1, Greiss detected a tear cn Thursday. 70-6- 8 . Provo's offense can put points on the board. But it was the defense that propelled Provo into today's Class 4A state semifinals. Cyrpus and its "Wing T" offense blistered Lone Peak's rugged defense for over 300 yards rushing in of the the opening round ' playoffs. But Provo held the Wing T to 156 rushing yards in its pounding of Cyprus in 48-13 See PREP, B5 f |
