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Show c Stocks C10 The Daily Herald Thursday, Sept. 29, 1994 SMe brings sSingy defense to Utah Dick By DICK HARMON Daily Herald Sports Editor Harmon r and Colorado State are averaging a combined 62 yards per game. USU coach Charlie Weatherbie day. There is no live television scheduled. "I'd rather have our games earlier in the seaLaVell Edwards whose said son," team has played four straight ce When Utah State comes to Cougar Stadium Friday, the Aggie offense will be nothing like the one which keyed a 58-5- 6 win over the Cougars a year ago. Or the New Mexico offense ran up 599 yards total offense last Saturday on BYU. Sports Editor BYU will try to fine-tun- What the Aggies will bring to the turf Saturday is a much better defense than New Mexico, Air Force, or Hawaii showed against the Cougars. e against USU break in the A action for BYU? What is that? ce It's the Kickotl is scheduled at 7 p.m. The game is Friday because of LDS General Conference Satur Western Athletic Conference games. "Utah State has done a nice job. Any time you play an game, there is good motivation to go out and play well. They have a good defensive unit. Our defense has been playing well at times, but I think we wili settle down and get te better." The Aggies are coming off a 23-2- 1 loss to UNLV this past week- end. They are averaging two touchdowns and 250 yards per said he is concerned that the Aggie Kickotl is 7 p.m. at Cougar Stadium. No live television li planned. In 27 games Charlie Weatherbie's Aggie offense have averaged 387.1 yards and 26 7 points per game. The Aggies were picked to finish second in the Big West Conference by the coaches. BYU's Jamal Willis now stands No. 4 in career rushing for the Cougars with 2.414 yards. He needs 296 yards to tie LaKei Heimull. Willis has gained more yards (486) rushing than USU's entire team (155). offense has not played Anthony Calvillo, USU ranked 15th nationally in total offense, scoring an average of 29 points per game. The Aggies use a line and have been able to apply pressure on quarterbacks up front while re4-- 2 game this season. Quarterback Matt Wells has had good and bad streaks. The two running backs k who alternate playing in the one-bac- set used by San Diego State 3-- 1 Cou- lying on a talented secondary man-to-ma- n. team that went to the Las Vegas Silver Bowl a year ago. The Aggies have been hurt on the offensive front where tackle Marcus Daley went down for the season with two herniated discs. Another tackle, Brian Davies, is out for the season with knee surgery. The Aggies lost strong safcj Travis Schow (ankle) and tight end Kevin Welch (knee) for the game following injuries at UNLV. BU aton to retire 6. By BOB MIMS AP Sports Writer - have beaten Colorado State last weekend but a field goal attempt went wide right. d New Mexico its conference-leading offensive attack by taking on Texas Tech, TCU and SMU before scaring BYU to death in its first WAC game. Generally speaking, games can be a great tool for college coaches. Football is one of the few sports that does not have a preseason like Major League Baseball, the NBA and the NFL's exhibition games. BYU never had a preseason, an exhibition, or the luxury of experimenting this season. LaVell Edwards, because of BYU's television appeal and its desire to schedule teams like Notre Dame and Arizona State, went from sumto count'em WAC mer games. Now, after Hawaii, Air Force, CSU and New Mexico, Edwards takes his 1 mark into its first WAC timeout: a game with fine-tune- ce f 7 7 ys -3 Utah State. Ordinarily this would be a routine break for the Cougars. Like 'Oh, yeah, it's Utah State time.' And the two teams would enter an contest featurugly, penalty-fille- d ing unmotivated and uninspired BYU players against the Aggies and their various whose career dream is to defeat BYU-wannab- fense was the Aggies' welcome mat. In an embarrassing upset, featuring almost no defense on either and side, the Aggies won 58-5- 6 USU fans tore town the goal posts and then danced on Edwards and the Cougars' bones. BYU players were humiliated. USU coach Charlie Weatherbie, obviously ecstatic, wallowed in the win to a point many BYU players got literally ill. Those who were sick have not forgotten. "Payback time," were two words used in the Cougar locker room after the win over New Mexico. In that USU loss BYU's John Walsh established a school record by passing for 619 yards, a feat unmatched by any of his predecessors including Dctmcr, Young, Boscoand McMahon. This year the Aggie offense is not as prolific, but USU does have a defense. This week BYU's defense and offense is retooling and refining, something Fresno State, Utah and New Mexico had plenty of time to do. A game? Ye .h, but perhaps it is a little different for the Cougars come Friday. of training camp and miss the season, which would have been his 12th. Eaton promised a comeback, but his back refused to heal. "It's amazing when you look back at it," said Eaton, 37, who was flanked by his wife, Marcie, at a news conference. "It was a lot of fun and I certainly didn't think it would turn out this way . ' ' Knee surgery and back problems had limited him to 17 minutes a his last playing game in 1992-9season well below the average of the season before. Ea1993-9- 4 O fl i L S ZZ te ton's Herald PhotoMatthew R. Smith Fork, who will turn 14 Adam Warnock of Spanish on the opening day of the general deer hunt, sights in his rifle at the Hobble Creek Shooting Range. Warnock's mother, Donna, an instructor, recommends that all hunters sight their rifles in before going into the field. NRA-certi-fi- ed es BYU. But this year is different. The Cougars didn't like the way Saturday's 49-4- 7 game ended with the Lobos. BYU's defense should have limited UNM's Stoney Case to four touchdown passes and his mighty offense to about 360 yards. But as it turned out, Case ripped the Cougars for two touchdown passes in the final three minutes. When the dust settled, the Lobos had redlined 599 yards total offense. Oops. But as much as BYU's defense hated that ending, for the first time in years, the Cougars may take into Friday's Utah State game a bit of motivation: A year ago BYU's de- SALT LAKE CITY For more than a year, Mark Eaton defied age and a degenerative back injury, determined to extend his professional basketball career. But on Wednesday, the Utah Jazz center gave up and took his final bow, admitting that treatment and therapy had done little to alleviate the pain that forced him to miss all of last season. "Due to lingering physical injuries that I have been unable to overcome, effective immediately, I am retiring from the Jazz and the veteran said. NBA," the Eaton's career actually ended a year ago when pain from deteriorating discs forced him to drop out 3, 3-- ce to cover receivers The Aggies have just two offensive starters returning from the 351yardstoBYU's405. Age, injury force! Fresno State scheduled Ohio State, San Jose State and Washington State before ever getting to Hawaii for a Western Athletic Conference game, which the Bulldogs won Utah scheduled an opener with Utah State, a cakewalk with Idaho State and a trip to Oregon before ever playing a WAC game, a 41-- 7 win over Wyoming. San Diego State opened the season with a preseason schedule of Navy, California, and Minnesota before ever trying to challenge a WAC foe. Then the Aztecs should two-a-da- complete Profail Grier (66 carries for 142 yards and no touchdowns) is the Aggies' leading ball carrier. Wells is 36 of 80 for 499 yards, tour touchdowns and four interceptions" on the season. USU is averaging 205 Yards to BYU's 468 while the Aggie defense has allowed an average o( preseason, or head-star- t, experimentation time the gars never had. 31-1- a game this season. A year ago with quarterback BYU Assistant Sports Editor - SPRINGVILLE Last year John and Mary Smith (the names are ficticious but the incident is real) dragged Mary's dad to the Hobble Creek Shooting Range to sight in his rifle. Dad didn't figure he and "Old Trusty" needed to bother. But, after missing the target at 300 yards by three feet, he remarked, "No wonder I haven't gotten my deer for the past seven years." "No kidding," exclaimed Don- na Warnock, a volunteer at the range that day. rid Warnock, an fle shooting instructor, strongly advocates sighting in before each big game season. "It's partly practice," Warnock said. "A hunter should go out and fire between 50 and 100 rounds each year before going into the hills. While they're doing it. they should practice obeying safety in all its aspects." Each year new hunters come of age. They should sight in their weapons at the same time their parents sight in theirs. "It's important to get out and know what you're doing," Warnock said. She offered some tips. NRA-certifie- "First, pick the rifle you're going to use on the hunt," she said. "Make sure it fits you. An incorrect fit will affect your point of aim. "Then pick your ammunition. You should sight in with the load you're going to hunt with. A lot of hunters don't realize most rifles bullet that's adequate to do the job." When hunters go somewhere such as the Hobble Creek range Brown settles suit PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -Men's and women's sports programs at Brown University will continue to be treated equally for the next three years under a partial settlement of a sexual discrimination lawsuit brought by women athletes. School officials said the settlement only verifies the fairness of Brown's sports programs, but a lawyer for the women athletes called the agreement "a major vic'' tory for women's rights. The agreement, which came on the third day of a trial, settles the part of the suit claiming Brown gives preferential treatment to male athletes, but leaves open the question of whether Brown women are given sufficient opportunity to participate in sports. Testimony will continue on that claim. "We agreed to continue to exercise our discretion in an equitable bamanner on a program-wid- e and Brown vice president sis," general counsel Beverly Lcdbctter said. "It expresses our intent that if there arc changes they will be made in an equitable manner." Lawyers for the athletes claimed victory. "This agreement will make Brown University a model for the nation in the treatment of men and women in Bryant said. athletics." Arthur whose scoring average never topped single digits, instead made shot-blocki- to a successful deer hunt won't be sighted in with different ammunitions. Be sure to pick a average dipped to 1.23 from 2.53 the year before, and his 2.8 points per outing was the lowest of his career. But the Jazz, who drafted the UCLA backup center in the fourth round in 1982, never expected him to be their leading scorer. Eaton, his living clogging passing lanes and terrorizing shooters. Four times he won the NBA's title, adding Defensive Player of the Year honors in 1985 and 1989, the same year he made his only All-StGame ap- Sighting in rifle important By BOB HUDSON shot-blocki- ar which is open Saturdays and Sundays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from now until the general deer hunt to sight in, they opener Oct. 22 should first do so off a bench with a steady rest. "hire your weapon and see if the shot is on paper," Warnock suggested. "Center on a close-i- n target first, then sight in at the most likely range you'll be hunting at. "After you're finished on the bench, get down in the hunting sitting position and fire a three-sh- pearance. "I would have liked to have played last year and maybe this year, but I think a couple more years would have been it," Eaton said. "I accomplished much more than I ever dreamed possible, but the time had come for me to move on." Instead, he will now focus on programs for troubled youth he is involved in, a restaurant venture, and try his hand at broadcasting some college basketball games be- - The career statistics tor Mark Eaton, announced his retirement on Wednesday: Regular Season a FT Reb Ast .656 462 112 .594 595 113 .712 927 124 .604 675 101 .657 697 105 .623 717 55 .660 843 83 .669 601 39 .634 667 51 598 491 40 17 .700 264 Did not FG 81 .647 6675 840 87S 458 Totals Pts 4.3 .414 .466 .449 .470 .400 .418 .462 .527 80 .579 81 .446 64 .546 Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah 1991- - 92 Utah 1992- - 93 Utah 1993- - 94 Utah 1982- - 83 1983- - 84 1984- - 85 1985- - 86 1986- - 87 1987- - 88 1988- - 89 1989- - 90 1990- - 91 5 6 9.7 8 5 7.7 7 0 6 2 4 8 5.1 3.3 2 8 6.0 Playoffs FT Reb Ast Pts S 9 76 .471 45 5 .714 10 116 6 .667 3 108 55 .640 639 103 13 7 7 33 8.3 .818 30 .200 38 56 4.3 .583 4 6 90 .565 .778 33 4.4 5 .526 .50 .489 .639 557 52 6.4 FG G Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah 1991- - 92 Utah 1992- 93 11 .512 5 .353 4 .491 5 .463 11 .477 3 .471 5 .529 9 .516 1983- - 84 1984- - 85 1985- - 86 1986- - 87 1987- - 88 1988- - 89 1989- - 90 1990- - 91 Totals ginning next year. "There are a lot of things to conquer out there." Eaton said; But he acknowledged many of his greatest memories will be of the Jazz, though he never got to play in an NBA title game. "We were able to take a team that was in dire straits and not yerv popular and make them a contender," he said. "Sure, the (championship) ring would be great . . but I know that when I stepped out on the court, every game I gave it 111) percent. That's enough forme.' Jazz owner Larry H. Miller said Eaton's role in building the club from a loser to a regular playoff participant had been critical. "He and John (Stockton) and Karl (Malone) have been such major parts of what's built this franchise into what it is." Miller said. "It's like parting with a friend. "Most of the time when I hear someone say, gave it IK) per-- .' cent." 1 say oh yeah, right. But u ith Mark, he really did." Coach Jerry Sloan complimented Eaton for being a "unique guy . a great person (who) also gave us a tremendous amount as a player. But perhaps the highest praise came from Felton Spencer, the 7 footer who replaced the ailing last year. He said it had not been easy to follow a play er ;lhi. for years had been "the corner-4"- ' stone of this organization. J "I talked to Mark a lot last JEttf' He gave me advice on how toTj!a -- . i Ha-to- n different guys defensively. Pi is perspective on the game was really a key forme," Spencer said. ot group," Warnock said. "Check if the center of the group is where you want to be. "And," she continued." if your rifle has a variable power scope, check your sight at both powers. "Then practice at whatever power you plan to shoot." To use the Hobble Creek facilie $5 fee, ty, shooters pay a one-tim- which is actually a one-yemembership in the Pacific States Rifle Club which provides volunteers. There are other ranges available. Provo City's is open Monday through Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Cost is $2 per shooter with a half hour time limit. For additional information, contact Dean Hutchison at For more information on the Hobble Creek range, call Warnock at 798-644Hutchison said the two are the only supervised ranges he is aware of in Utah County. Shooters can also use several gravel pits in the area, but safety becomes an even more important issue at those facilities. "It's not important to sight in at ar 379-664- 3. 4. our range," Warnock concluded. "But it is important to sight in." With air back in the Force,? Falcons causing problems f By JOHN MOSSMAN AP Sports Writer Having put the air back in the force, Air Force has begun to create unique problems for its opponents. Just ask Texas-E- l Paso coach Charlie Bailey, whose defense surrendered an academy-recor- d 700 total yaroj. including 219 yards passing, in last week's 47-- 7 loss to the Falcons. "For about a quarter and a half, we played good football," Bailey said, "and then all at once we collapsed and they made some big plays on us. They kind of did what they wanted to in the second half. " Or ask this week's opposing coach, Ted Tollncr of San Diego State. "We haven't played any team that presents the problems they present," Tollncr said. "They do some really neat things with their option. There's a lot of variety to their old version of the wishbone." i f Specifically, the Falcons have e formation to gone with a better facilitate their newly effecslot-bon- tive play-actio- passing attack. n AFA leads the WAC in rushing, averaging 299 yards per game, but they're also averaging 142 yards passing. Tollncr said the Falcons, no "make longer as you play a disciplined game. If you don't, they're going to find an open lane." His Aztecs bring a overall record and 1 Western Athletic Conference mark into the Saturday night game in San Diego, one of three league games on the weekend slate. No. 24 Colorado State plays at winless New Mexico, and Hawaii travels to UTEP. Wyoming ) plays at No. 2 in a Nebraska (4-cnterV game. Brigham Young tains Utah State (10) on FrfdaJ night. Utah and Fresno State-a- re 2-- 2 0-- (2-2- 0) non-leagu- (3-- idle. e -- |