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Show iipffiL Financial Markets B6 Comics B9 The Daily Herald Good news for Cougars: Walker stays The University of Arizona's desire for a greater offense to complement its top 10 college football defense is BYU's gain. The Wildcats decided to" fill their coaching vacancy w ah a w ide receiv er coach instead of a secondary coach. That made it easy for BYU cornerback coach DeWay ne Walker to stay in Provo. If the Arizona offer had come. Walker and his wife. Zan. may ha e left Prov o after one y ear. Walker has been a solid coaching and recruiting gem for LaYcll Edwards the past ear. "That isNue has been resolved. " " jS " Dick By The . Walker said BYU's safeties under Lamb have show n great improvement. Jon Pollock and Cook are w orking out at strong safety w hile Eddie Sampson (second y ear from Ricks) and redshirt freshman Jason Walker are getting time at free safety. "Cook is really coming on and picked up big time. We've been very excited about the play of redshirt freshman Brad Martin, who has a knack like Humes for making play s. He can hit and is now playing the nickel back position in passing packages. "I've been very generous with mixing up the four corners and playing times. We'll narrow it down once begin." So BYU's secondary is in year tw o of having tw o coaches. Walker is stay ing. And for Edwards, who is scoping out year No. 24 as head BYU coach.' that could be the best new s of this spring day. two-a-da- Ostertag. scored Associated Press IS points for the Cavaliers. The other top seed knocked off was Wake Forest, dropped 71 fro by Oklahoma State in the Fast Regional semis. Oklahoma State's Bryant Reeves got the better of Wake Forest's Randolph Childress during a pivotal meeting of two star play ers in the last 20 seconds. Childress, scoreless over the last S minutes after scoring 22 points, had the ball and the game in his hands w ith 20 seconds to go and Oklahoma State clinging to a 69-6lead. It was obvious Childress was to tie the looking for a came and force overtime. fourth-seede- d No. w ent to the sidelines tw ice Friday night but last year's No. 1. Arkansas, is still around as the NCAA tournament field was pared to eight teams. Corliss Williamson was around at the end. and that's a major reason Arkansas beat Memphis 96-9- 1 in overtime to advance to Sunday's Midwest Region final. The Raorbacks will meet Virginia, which eliminated 67-5-the rein gion's top seed. Kansas. the other game Friday night. Junior Burrough. giving away six Gres: inches to Kansas' 1 S North But Reeves blocked his path and Childless hobbled the ball. Reeves picked it up and flipped it to Terry Collins for the dunk that propelled the Cowboys into Sunday's region final against Massachusetts, which buried Tulsa 76-5almost didn't Arkansas (30-6- ) make it this far, edging Texas 8 in the opening Southern round and surviving overtime to Williamson beat Syracuse 96-9wasn't around for the finish of either game after fouling out. That changed Friday night as he had 27 points and 13 rebounds. Thurman scored 17 points, includwith 2:59 left in ing a overtime to put Arkansas ahead for good. Mingo Johnson scored 32 points, but only one in the last 13 minutes as memphis squandered a lead. Five straight points by Childress had Wake Forest up 56-5but Oklahoma State wouldn't give up. When Reeves converted two free throws, the Cowboys led 57-5with 5:51 to play , and were never headed. Randy Rutherford led Oklahoma State with 23 points, the last two on free throws with 20.4 seconds to play to make it 69-6Reev es added 15 points. 6 height proves to be too much for South squad Kansas was heavily favored to make the Final F our because the regional was being played at Kansas City . only a few miles from the school's Lawrence, Kan., campus. But the Jay hawks took themselv es out of contention by missing 19 of 2 Kansas, down nine at the half, got as close as two in the second half, but the Burrough helped make sure Virginia stayed ahead. Massachusetts has been virtually unchallenged so far. winning its games by 17, 22 and 25 points. (See NCAA, Page B2) By DOROTHY KNOELL The Daily Herald Everyone scored. Both teams scored more than 100 points. There were IS hit. There were just about as many slam dunks. All that's left to say about the ISth annual Daily Herald Boys and Girls Club North-Sout- h Boys r Game Friday night is that a good time was had by all. And that the North won By The Associated Press Michael Jordan was officially welcomed home in classic Chicago style Friday night, but he often durlooked tired and ing a 2 point performance and his Bulls lost to the Orlando Magic 1 -- 106-9- When he was introduced with lights dimmed and Hash bulbs popping, Jordan's name was lost in the voices of 24,247 screaming fans. from the Jordan was from the line. floor and Shaquille O'Neal had 24 points and 16 rebounds for the Magic, the NBA's best team. Hardaway added 22 points, Nick Anderson 21 and Grant 19 for Orlando, which set a team record w ith its 51st victory. B.J. Armstrong led the Bulls' w ith 23 points. "new sub." of his 15 first-haJordan missed Then there was Ramey finding shots, leaving most of his Orem's Ryan Bott underneath the jumpers short. He had nine points basket, and pumping his fist in celas Chicago trailed 57-5ebration after Bott made a great Celtics 107, 76er.s75 move to score the bucket. Dominique Wilkins had 26 "One of the most enjoyable points and 13 rebounds as the Bosthings in this kind of game is to see ton Celtics overpowered the Philakids like Brent Ramey, who kind delphia 76ers. of got overshadowed on a great e The Celtics, who broke a Mountain View team, come out losing streak, also got 18 and have a great game like he had points and nine rebounds from in this setting," Warner said of Dino Radja. at least 0 assist Ramey 's t, The 76ers, who have lost 17 of outing. "It's kids like Adam Lamtheir last 21 games, trailed by as bert, Curtis Jacobsen, those guys many as 25 points early in the third all coming out and play ing great." quarter. And each player did have his Dana Barros led the 76ers with moment to show why he was se19 points, followed by Clarence lected for the game. Ramey led the Weatherspoon with 17. North with 20 points, including a Cavaliers 75, Hawks 74 couple of treys, while Fugal and Bobby Phills' free throw with 16 Hunsaker had 18 each, Justin seconds remaining gave the CleveWilkes with 16, including four land Cavaliers a victory over the Atlanta Hawks.;. treys, and Ryan Bott with 15. Mike Leatham had 14. Rounding out the Terrell Brandon scored nine North's scoring were Blake Garpoints in the fourth quarter to keep ner with nine, Lambert with six, Cleveland in the game, and Tyrone Jacobson with five and Eckles with Hill made four straight free throws two. in the final minute. For the South, Nielsen, BrimHill had 24 points and 13 rehall and Dan Brooks had 21 each, bounds for Cleveland, which held with Nielsen draining three the Hawks to 28 first-ha- lf points, a FrankAfa added 14, Dan franchise low for Atlanta. Cranney and Wade Henderson Blaylock's 20 points led the seven each and Joel Ockey and Hawks, which lost its second Greg Cook had six each. The straight game and fourth in the last South had only eight players besix. cause a couple of those were inSpurs 111, Timberwolves 97 volved in another sport. David Robinson scored 29 points and sparked a third-quartrally that blew the game open as the San Antonio Spurs defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves. Robinson scored eight points in a 21-- 8 run that began the third Agassi saved his best tennis for quarter, opening up an 80-5- 8 lead the tiebreaker, stinging service refor the Spurs, who have won six turns and keeping Larsson straight. Larsson, who lost the final Robinson added 13 rebounds, seven points, made four unforced and Avery Johnson had 18 points at errors and double-faulte- d and 2 assists as the Spurs ran their "Great returns," Larsson said. record to 25-- 4 since Jan. 24. "I didn't feel tight at all. He just Tom Gugliotta had 22 points off returned the ball well." the bench for the Wolves, who and have lost eight of their last Agassi had no break-poie are against San Antochances in the final two sets. Larsnio. son mixed the pace of his serves Heat 115, Warriors 111 and groundstrokes and became the After the Heat scored 26 unanfirst player to win a set against swered points in the first quarter, Agassi in the tournament. Miami needed Kevin Gamble's Agassi, serving and trailing free throws with 8.5 seconds left to in the third set, was at deuce and a v ictory over the Golden preserve within two points of losing the State Warriors. match. But Agassi served an ace, Glen Rice paced Miami with 22 then hit a spectacular passing shot but missed four free throws points forehand a running, cross-couin the final 21.2 seconds to give the to win the game and force the Warriors an opportunity to tie a tiebreaker. game in which they had trailed by 32 in the third quarter. With a victory that took 2 hours, Latrell Sprewcll scored 37, inminutes, Agassi is 46-- 4 since the start of last year's U.S. Open. cluding 21 in the fourth quarter, two-on-o- three-pointe- :if All-Sta- 125-10- "It's really a lot of fun." said North coach Neil Warner of The L'tuh County Journal. "The most important thing in a game like this is for everyone to have fun. So we tried to make sure everyone scored, tried to divide up the play ing time and tried to give kids a chance to play with the guys they wanted to play with. "Like, some of the Mountain View and Orem kids went to the same junior high, so they enjoy ed getting a chance to play on the same team again. We tried to do that kind of thing." The North's height proved to be both in too much for the smaller sie and in number South team. "We had no answer for their size inside," said South coach Bob Hudson of The Daily Herald. "Our intent was to shoot threes, but our three-poishooters were kind of cold early on." The game was close through one quarter, then a trio of tall timber from Mountain View turned things around for the North in the second period. Jared Hunsaker Jake Fugal ) and Brent Ramey combined for 13 points in the ) first three minutes of the period to lead into turn a 24-2- 2 a 37-2- 7 advantage. Adam Lambert of American Fork was the only n to score in the period, as the Mountain View trio finished the quarter with 25 points between them and the North led It never got much closer than that in the second half. Instead, the final 20 minutes became a chance for individuals to show their stuff and for teammates and former foes to enjoy a chance to work with each other. homecoming for Jordan At one point, there were the three Bruins working together for two points Hunsaker. the North MVP. dove after a loose ball and managed to bat it toward Ramey, who came up w ith it and hit Fugal under the basket for two. Then it was a chance for former foes to team up. as Payson's Joel Ockey race downcourt on a fastbreak, pulled up for one of his patented and instead fed Provo's Kelly Brimhall underneath for two of his 2 points. Or y ou might see Brimhall. who spent much of his time above the rim stuffing the ball and copped MVP honors for the South, inviting the North's David Fckles to rest on the Smith's bench during a free throw, then calling down to Warner that the South now had a Fw?l I sP.n G all-star- s' three-pointe- said Walker Friday as the Cougars were preparing for today 's intrasquad scrimmage, scheduled for noon in Cougar Stadium. Walker is excited about BYU. the Cougar secondary and year No. 2 working for Edwards. BYU fans should thank him. Walker's connections in Southern California circles hae made an immediate impact on BYU football. The full extent of his recruiting efforts are still to come. '"As a staff, we are very excited about this spring. We got a lot done. Last year we (Barry Lamb and Walker) came in cold. We had w hat w as there and w ent on from there. But now we hae some play ers w ho are used to the new coaches and hae responded to what we have." Walker is still waiting for two junior college recruits to fini:,h their classwork. Tim McTy re (L.A. Southwest), a bigger, more athletic defensi e back than the Cougars are used to fun ing. w ill come to camp in the fall Floy d Young ( Scottsdale JC) has more of a challenge to get his degree, but scholarships are locked in for both. Meanwhile. Walker is happy w ith the progressof BYU's returning cornerbacks. using a core rotation of four players. They include returning starter Dermmell Reed. Greg Steele. James Heggins and Dixie transfer James Humes. Walker's assessment: Steele: "The biggest surprise. One year off redshirt. he is play ing more confidently and has come on strong. He was ahead of every one the first week of practice." Heggins: "The overall most consistent performer from start to end. A real competitor who has captured the feel for w hat he's doing in coverage and performed under all kinds of situations." Reed: "Started slow after havi.ig his ankle 'scoped at the conclusion of the Copper Bowl. Making a late move w ith performance. BYU's most experienced secondary player." Humes: "Came in this semester from Dixie. Started slow . Play ed a lot of vanilla-t- y pe coverage at Dixie and has had to make the adjustment to Division I. He didn't get a lot ot technique work. A great knack for making plays and a player w ith football sense. Breaks on the ball and makes play s. Led BYU's secondary this spring in interceptions." Saturday, March 25, 1995 Arkansas stays in hunt for NCAA crown Harmon Sidelines El 1 1 1 lf 4. two-gam- (6-9- (6-7- first-quart- non-Brui- three-pointer- Daily Herald PhotoJason 51-3- Olson Timpview's Dan Cranney of the South goes up for a shot between the North's Mike Leatham (50) of Pleasant Grove and Blake Gardner of Orem during Friday's Girls' and Boys' Club of Utah game. The North won 125-10County all-st- s. er Agassi, Sampras to vie for Upton title By STEVEN WINE AP Sports Writer - The KEY BiSCAYNE. Fla. best rivalry in tennis took a twist Friday when Andre Agassi led cheers for Pete Sampras. Both won in three sets and advanced to Sunday's final in the Lipton Championships, their third meeting this y ear. Agassi earned his victory first, tieplaying a flawless third-se- t beat to Swede breaker Magnus Larsson Then, during an interview over the public address system. Agassi encouraged the spectators to stay and support Sampras, leading them in a chant of "Pete! Pete! 7-- 5, 4-- Pete!" "You need to cheer for Pete tonight for two reasons." Agassi told the crowd. "He's my Davis Cup teammate, and I want a piece of him irt the final." Agassi got his w ish a few hours later, when Sampras beat another Swede, unseeded Jonas Bjorkman, Sampras, seeking his third consecutive Lipton title, beat Agassi in last year's final. Both of their meetings this year were in finals, w ith Agassi w inning the Australian Open and Sampras at Indian Wells. "Hopefully Andre and I can bring tennis to a new level and get it more exciting for the fans and for little kids." Sampras said. "We really bring out the best in each other. Time w ill tell if w e can get the rivalry going like a but I'm looking forward to it. and I'm sure he is. It's like two heavyweights going at it." Regardless of Sunday's result. Sampras will remain ranked No. for the 81st consecutive week and 100th overall. Agassi is ranked second. No. 2 Steffi Graf, seeking her fourth Lipton title, will face No. 9 Kimiko Date of Japan in the women's final Saturday. Date, who reached the final despite a strained rotator cuff, has won only one set in four previous matches against Graf. The Bjorkman-Sampra- s pairing shaped up as a mismatch, but the Swede started aggressively and converted 'the only break point to take the first set. "I plain and simple got outplayed the first set," Sampras said. "He was really playing well. I raised my level a couple of notches in the second set." Sampras won 10 consecutive Borg-Mc-Enro- e. games and served better as the match progressed, hitting six aces in the third set. When Bjorkman he pumped his fist in mock celebration. finally held serve at 4-- "When it goes wrong against Pete, you start thinking a lot." he said. "Then it's not so easy to 1 1 nt play." 3-- Agassi blamed windy weather and questionable rulings for his Lars-soclose call against the who is ranked 16th. "I would have to say that is the worst officione of absolutely said. "It matches." Agassi ating just seemed like the linesmen were '' missing calls all over the place. A swirling wind. Agassi said, made it difficult to gauge shots. "Wind is an incredible equalizhe said. "It takes two people, and one might be clearly better, and it makes it very unpredictable. I felt that's what happened today." er." Larsson, w ho beat Agassi in December in the Grand Slam Cup, lodged no complaints about the linesmen or weather. "It was a bit gusty," he said, "but I can't blame e. the wind." 5-- 6 rt 1 1 "Now he has a chance to be No. 1, and he's not giving away any points, or any matches." Larsson said. "If you make 50 aces and 50 forehand winners, you can beat him. It is not so easy to do." Sampras w ill try Sunday. for Golden State. Chris Mullin added 20, all but four in the second half. It was the Heat's third win a row , their longest winning streak ; of the season. (See NBA, Page B2) |