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Show I Scoreboard B4 Sunday. March 7. 1993 The Daily Herald Lobo sharp-shooters gun down BYU NOTABLE QUOTES: “Goodbye — let's hit the trail and get there.” ~~ Manin Buser. defending champion ofthe Iditarod sled dog race. as the l.I60-mile trek was about to begin Saturday. Sixty-eight dog teams are entered in this year's race. II. DEFEND TITLES. Anclat Wamba of France and Wilfredo Vasquez of Puerto Rico defended world championship boxing titles Saturday with decisions over challengers in France Saturday. Wamba defended his World Boxing Council cruiserweight title over American David Vedder. while Vasquez held onto to his World Boxing Association superbantamweight crown over Colombian Luis Mendoza. Neither fight provided much excitement and the champion of the respective divisions won each of the IZ-round bouts without much trouble or power. By DICK HARMON Herald Sports Editor ALBUQUERQUE. NM. — Steve Logan. :1 New Mexico student ztthlete with a 0.00 grade point average last semester may not do any homework. but he figured out how to prevent BYU from defending its Western Athletic Conference basketball title. Logan calmly made four pressure-packed free throws in the final 27 seconds to defeat BYU 79- 76 in the Pit. The BYU loss all but New Mexico coach Daic Bliss. shut the door on Cougar hopes for "This wasn’t the artistic battle a tie with Utah. The Utes play ed in of the Utah game Thursday This a late game Saturday night past was a gut check.” said Bliss. "We deadline. The Cougars left the Pit were in foul trouble and that is for their hotel rooms after the BYU ‘s strength with their depth. " game to see if the Miners could New Mexico used the support of open back that door. a standing—room only crowd to cast The win ended a week UNM off bombs against the taller and knocked off No. 9 and No. 2] stronger Cougars. The Lobos fired ranked BYU. away with reckless abandon. "I know there is one team in the launching shots front their threeWAC that is awfully happy for us guard offense. tonight and that is Utah.“ said “The fans got our blood going. And we got our shot working.” said l‘NM guard (ircg Brown. “We wercii‘t rcally going to Inc and die by the thrcc poiiitci but when we had our shot we took it. “ the} d be Ill tioiiblc "\\ c wanted The l.obos tied the WAC record the WAC Tournament tlits week w ith .i 337 rccoitl. will be sccdcd FORT COLLINS. Colo. (AP) ~ Seth Marshall‘s 20 points led four Bulldogs in double figures as Fresno State beat Western Athletic Conference foe Colorado State 8378 Saturday. Benn was stunned by a solid right just before the final bell but still won a unanimous decision Saturday over Mario Galvano to hang on to his World Boxing Council super-middleweight title in Glasgow, Scotland. Though well ahead on points. Benn left himself open to a late counter-attack. and Galvano. a former champion from Italy. unloaded the right hand to the chin. Benn wobbled but survived the follow-up blows. The win ga\c l‘rcsno State a season—ending record of 13-14 overall and 8—H) in the WAC. while Colorado State finished at l7—l I and 9—9. Fresno State outshot the Rants .0. WILDCATS WIN: Stan Rose scored 29 points and had nine rebounds. and teammate Al Hamilton added 24 to lead Weber State to a 100— 79 victory over Northern Arizona Saturday night. NAU was led by John Rondeno with 20 points. USU GOES DOWN: Jody Daggs scored a career-high 25 points to lead Nevada to a 97-87 Big West Conference victory over Utah State Saturday night. Eric Morris added 23 points and 18 rebounds for Nevada. now 9- l 7 overall and 4-14 in conference play. Rod Brown had 20 for the Wolf Pack. Herald Photonlenniter Gngg STAT LEADERS: Five BYU’s Albert Olson (right) puts a move on Drake’s Tony Burger Saturday en route to winning an early round in the WAC Tournament. Fresno captures WAC mat title game. Shawn Patchell seventh in DISPUTE BREWING: A hot dispute is developing over what to name the NFL expansion franchise Baltimore hopes to get to replace the long departed Colts. even though the city is far front sure of getting a team. If the prospective owners of the prospective team can't buy the Colts name from Indianapolis. one said he would name the team the Cobras. while another likes the Bombers. "To be honest with you all the good names are already taken." said Leonard Weinglass. who heads one of three ownership groups. Weinglass said he considered the “Ravens" as a kind of Edgar Allan Poe alternative to the Baltimore Orioles. Weinglass also likes the Animals and the Gorillas. but the NFL doesn't. so he filed the name Bombers with the league. Florida— based investor Malcolm Glazer submitted the name Cobras. Sunday 0 9 am. College baaketball. Utah at New Mexico (KUED Channel 7? - 10 am. Track I. Fle it. Big 3 indoor championehlpe (PSN) ' 10:30 am. NBA, Cavaliera at Celtlca (NBC Channel 2) By BOB HUDSON Assistant Sports Editor PROVO — As expected. ninth-ranked Fresno State won the Western Athletic Conference wrestling championship easily Saturday night. In fact. the Bulldogs had the title wrapped up before the finals started. They had 86 points and eight men in the finals while BYU had 551/2 and five finalists. Fresno finished with 1061/2 points and five champions. BYU placed second with 66 Drake with 32 V4 and New Mexico with 3 V2. Although there was no drama in the team race. it wasn‘t lacking in the finals. Both BYU champions recorded upsets. So. too. did Drake's Scott Gonyo. "I felt like our kids did really well." said BYU coach Alan Albright. “We only had one heartbreaking Ioss. That was at 126 with (Scott) Eastmond (in the ear- ly rounds). “Even if we had do all we could. (BYU had five men in the points and two champions. De- finals). Fresno would still have fending champion Wyoming was third with 50. Air Force was fourth with 45 '/2 followed by beat us.” As he tried to visualize all the matches. Albright noted that sev- - 11 a.m. Auto raclng (TBS) 0 11:30 a.m. Col e beeketbell. Duke at North Carolina (AB Channell) - 10:30 pm. Mtd-Eaatern Athletic beeket- ball toumement (ESPN Iona-y. eon e 2 . . rec e , 5 l mplot Gemee I noon-ii'Wk'T'giTe‘Psm (PSN? .E 3 p.rn. Sun Belt beaketbatl tournament ( 83PM I .m. ACC Wo mene ' chain: g'NNPSN) beeketbell ‘ 5: 5!") .m. MAAC be Netball champion . Into BYU 's Phil Armstrong and Albert Olson. seniors from PocatelIo. Idaho and Helena. Mont. respectively. gave the home crowd something to cheer about. Armstrong upended eighth— ranked Serge Mezheritsky of Fresno State 6-4 at 150 pounds. Olson beat Johnny Harrison of Air Force 12-7 in overtime at 190 pounds. “It was a great win for both of them.” Albright said. “Serge beat us in a dual meet here and the kid from Air Force beat us (for the championship) last year. " Armstrong got off to a good start with a takedown early in his match. Fresno State coach Den— nis DeLiddo complained loudly that Mezheritsky had gotten outof—bounds before the fact. but to no avail. Armstrong led by just a point through most of the match. but got the final margin when Mezh— eritsky was penalized a point for (See WAC, Page B4) Gosar makes AFA suffer LARAMIE. Wyo. (AP) - Wyoming ended its regular season on a high note Saturday. and Steve Gosar ended it on an even higher one. Gosar. a senior guard. received a rare start and produced just three points in Wyoming's 64-58 win over Air Force. But his field goal and free throw came in the final 25 seconds to punctuate a 9-0 Cowboy run and seal the Western Athletic Conference win. the WAC) was hampered down the stretch by had shot selection and tough Cowboy defense. Wyoming coach Benny Dees Shark zones out With 62 at Doral MIAMI (AP) — Pro golfers call it "the zone." It defies description. It's almost mystical. very nearly a trance. containing something of a dreamlike quality. It's the state of being they all seek and some never find. “It's hard to explain." Greg scoring record for 90 holes at the Bob Hope Classic earlier this month. The third-round 62 went with earlier scores of 65 and 68 for a 195 total. a distant 21 under par and all but out of reach of any would—be challengers going into Sunday‘s final round of the chase for a 3252.000 first prize. The Australian ace. who broke a long slump last year in Canada. is Archer shoots 68 despite bogeys Norman said Saturday after his visit into that never-never land OJAI. Calif. (AP) — George produced some startling numbers Archer's 2-under-par 68 gave him and a 6-shot lead through three sole possession of the lead Satur- Archer rolled in a 30-foot ptitt his four bogies. “This course is tricky.” he said. “You have so many small landing areas that you have to be careful all the time. I could have made more birdies today but I could have made more bogies too. ‘ Geiberger began his round with bogies on two of the first four holes. Bttt birdies on six ofthe final 14 holes put him in the hunt for Sunday‘s final round. “I‘ve done some stupid things this week.” Geiberger said. ”But I keep coming back with good stuff. That‘s the nature of this course. You have to be careful on this course and let the birdies come to for birdie at the 14th hole to reach respected on the PGA Tour. Beautifully conditioned and lI-under. But bogies at the l5th lacking the winds that make up its and l7th holes brought him back to you. You can‘t panic. " Player was reasonably happy with his round except for bogies at rounds of the $1.4 million Doral day after two rounds of the $500.— 000 Senior GTE Classic. Open. In his case “the zone" was - Noon. Tennla. Neweweek Champlona Cu (ESPN) 0 oon. Sporte Cavalcade (TNN) - 1 pm. Colonial baaketball tournament (PSN) - 1:15 pm. NBA. Trail Blazera at Warriore (NBC) - 1:45 p.m. College beaketball. Arizona at Stantord (ABC) - 2:30 p.rn. Skllng (ESPN) ‘ 3 .m. Rodeo MN) 0 :30 gm. enlor PGA. GTE Weet Cleaalc( SPN) 0 3:30 .m. Colonial baaketball tournement (P N) 0 s p.m. Sporte Cavalcade (TNN: 0 5:30 .m. Southern beeketbel championettlp ESPN) ' 0:30 tun. SEC women'e beeketball tournament gPOSN 0 1:30 pm. ut lend baaketball championangp (ESPN) ' I: 0 pm. SEC women'e beeketbalt tournament (PSN) en of his wrestlers beat opponents who were seeded higher than they were. “We‘re young.” Albright concluded. “We only have two seniors. Unfortunately. they're the two WAC champs. " 55 percent to 34 percent. and took a 40—29 halftime lead. Colorado Statc scored the first fitc points of the second half to come within six at 40-34. but didn‘t threaten again until 25 sec» onds remaining. wlicn Ryan Yod» er‘s 2—point jumper brought Colorado State to within four at 78—74. Seth Marshall‘s free throw and DeAndre Austin‘s pair of free throws kept Fresno State on top. and Davon Sattcrwhite‘s two free throws capped the scoring and the game for Fresno State. Fresno State outshot Colorado State again in the second half 73 percent to 5) percent. and held a 34-33 edge in rebounding behind Lee Maybcrry‘s eight grabs. Travis Stcl added 19 points and five rebounds for Fresno State. while Satterwhite scored I4 and Brian Santiago l2 to round out the double figure scorers for thc Bulldogs. Colorado State was led by Dwayne Molyneaus with 18 points and Aaron Atkinson with IS. Both teams move on to the Western Athletic Conference tour— nament next week in Salt Lake City. AirForce (9-18 overall. 3-15 in 0 11 am. Track a Field. World High Jump Cteeelc (ESPN) Roget Reid. w hosc team enters WAC action: Fresno clips CSU, 83-78 nan 5/1/1071! ANOTHER WINNER: Nigel hitting (.495) and Hugh McCutcheon 17th in kills (5.08 per game). In addition. Watts is l7th in blocks (1 .42 per game) and Sinclair is 20th in kills (4.79). As a team. the Cougars are fourth iii hitting at .373. lll\ltlL‘.' for three point attempts with 29 and tied thc lcagtic mark by mak sc'c‘ttlltl l’k'lllttd l Ital) When asked ll he'd like to meet ing 14. Those 42 points from the trey linc. plus 17 from the ltnc with \cw Mcsico in tlic sciiiilinals of no dcfendcr in front of thcm. cost the tournament. Rcid responded, ' Sure. It it isn't thc l’tt " the Cougars. BYU coaches said before the (Sec BYL. Page B4) game if UNM made It) threes. .0. volleyball players from BYU’s sixthranked men’s team are among national leaders in statistics released this week by the NCAA. Ethan Watts is second in hitting at .529. Pat Sinclair third in service aces at .590 (per game). Kevin Hambly fourth in blocking at 1.79 per to attempt iii.” said Bliss “We knew wc wctcnl going to gct it Archer's two-day total of 9-mi- helped. at least partially. by a spec- der I3l leads Al Geiberger and tator‘s hip. a six-month old hurricane named Andrew and a brand new set of guidelines and penalties combating slow play. Throw in what Norman called “the kind of things that happen Gary Player by one stroke. Geiberger fired a 65 to move into a tie with Player at 8-under. Player shot a 69 over the par-7t). 6. l9()-ytird Ojai Valley Inn course. when you're in the zone." and it Jack Kiefer matched Player to stay two shots behind Archer. added up to a IO-under-par 62 that tied Norman‘s own record on the Former champion Walt Zeni6.939 yards of sand and water and briski. Kermit Zarley and Don palms that make up Doral‘s Blue Bies all were at 6 under par. Monster course. one of the most natural defenses. however. the the pack. .“Hard to believe I‘m leading Blue Monster was no match for the this tournament.” he said. "I Great White Shark. the 7th and 8th holes. six shots in front. Not impossible to overtake. But very nearly so. “He can shoot 72 tomorrow and win." said Paul A/inger. who was tied for the lead at the tournament‘s halfway point. shot 68 and is Norman‘s closest pursuer at 201. “It‘s his tournament to win or lose." Jack Nicklaus. one of the victims ofNorman‘s heroics. said. Playing about an hour in front of Norman. the 53-year-old Nicklaus birdied four of the first six holes and held a share of the lead when he went to 12 under par with a birdie on the eighth. He parred in from there. however. and went to the practice tee after completing a 67 and a 204 total. “I'm tied for the lead after eight." Nicklaus said. "I don't make a bogey. and I look up and I‘m nine shots behind." Norman just rati away from ev— eryone else. “He was fabulous." Masters champion Fred Couples said. ”He‘s is in that (one. I think this was the round he was waiting for. ” "I played well today except I He did it all. He hit approachc. messed tip on 7 and 8.” Player In three days he's averaged 65 made four bogies today. I missed said. “I had a chance to tie George close to the hole. Hc madc long putts. He got sonic breaks. strokes a round. And that‘s three 3—footers at l5 and 17. Just tcrribetter than Tom Kite's total at this ble." Archer had six birdies to go with stage when he set a PGA Tour by making a seven-footer at the Norman was quick to acknowl- had to overcome a sluggish effort. especially early on. "We didn‘t have a lot of energy and get-up—tind-go. And what little get-up—and—go we got. Steve Gosar gave to us.” he said. “We were flat. We struggled. We fought through it and got the win. " Dees lamented the rebounding. noting Air Force grabbed too many offensive boards. “I thought that was going to beat us in the end also. They got several easy put— backs. We struggled with that all night.“ Air Force coach Reggie Minton called it a tough way to finish the scason. “Our kids played hard and made some shots. I think we deserved a better fatc than we got. " Air Force used offensive rebounding to go up 32-30 in the half. But the Falcons never led by more than five. and Wyoming‘s sis-point command at the end was the Cowboys' biggest margin. Rick Henry led Wyoming with a career-high I8 points. Teammate David Murray scored 10 points. while Theo Ratliff added lI points. seven rebounds and eight blocked shots. Ratliff ended the regular scitson with Il9 blocks. which is the second-best single— scasoii total iii WAC history The Falcons were led iii scoring by guards George Irvin with I7 final hole. I would have liked to have made it. " said the Cowboys (13—14. 7-Il) (See I)()RAI.. Page B2) I and Otis Jones with I4. |