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Show THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, I tah, Saturday, March 8, Page B2 197 Malone carries Jazz past Detroit, By ANTON GARRITY Herald Correspondent NOTABLE QUOTE Houston forward "A miracle." Charles Iiai kltv w hen asked what it w ould take for the Los Angeles Lakers to mesh as a team after he told members of the media that the Lakers would w in lots of games this year on talent alone, but that the L.A. team had a "bad mix of talent." ; ; ; : SWIMMING I The BYU men's swim team dropped from second to fourth place after two days of competition at the W AC Swimming and Diving Championships in San Antonio Fri-- : day. BYU is at 329.5, well behind leader SMU (526.5). UNLV (353) and TCU (333) are second and third. The bright spot for BYU was Byron Shcfchik. who won the 00 breaststroke in BYU record-tim- e 54.96 to qualify for the NCAAs. Teammate Dmitri Malinovski was fourth at 55.89. Alex Denke was third in the 200 free (139.07) and BYU's 200 medley relay team of Shefchik. Derek Church. Todd Wines and John Parise was fourth (1:31.12). ; ; : ; ; ; - ; FOOTBALL The Philadelphia Eagles signed free agent kicker Chris Boniol to an offer sheet Friday. The Eagles did not disclose its terms, but the Fort Worth (Texas) quoted an unidentified source as deal is worth saying the four-yeabout S2.5 million. Dallas has a week to match the offer. ar Warren Moon is going home to Seattle. The free agent quarterback agreed today to a SI. 65 million, two-yecontract with the and w ill become a back up to Sea-haw- ar John Fries. TENNIS The BYU women's tennis team dropped a dual match 3 to Wisconsin Friday at the BYU indoor courts. BYU is now 3 on the season. Angela Jewell came up with the only singles w in for BYU, 6-- 5-- defeating Barbara L'rbanska 6-- Kline Chiew ranked number 31 country and playing at number one. lost to Wisconsin's Melissa Zimpfer ranked No. 4 in straight The other five singles sets matches also went to the visitors. 6-- in the 3-- 3-- try ing for his fourth in eight years in (he Doral-Ryd- (ireg Norman, victory SALT LAKE CITY As good as Detroit's Grant Hill played, it was Karl Malone who stole the show and delivered a well deserved 95-8- 8 Jazz win over the Pistons Friday night. It was a classic matchup everyone was expecting with these two teams. Detroit is one of the best executing teams in the NBA simply because Hill makes great decisions when he's on the court and 90 percent of Detroit's plays are run through him. But it was Malone's night. He put the team on his shoulders and carried them to this win. Malone finished the iiame with Open, and David Duval, trying for his first PGA Tour title, shared the 34 after 36 holes lead at Friday. Norman built a 68 in Friday's second round in Miami around booming tee shots and a solid putter. BASKETBALL Ryan Dick had 16 points and nine rebounds in 23 minutes Friday night as Montana avenged a pair of eason losses to Weber State by in a Big 6 routing the Wildcats Sky Conference tournament semifinal in Flagstaff. Ari. Montana will 4 play Cal-- l ullerton in the finals, a w inner over Northern Arizona. regular-s- 81-5- 93-S- Marcus Saxon scored 25 points, including 10 straight free throws in ihe final 2:20 of the game, to spark win over Utah Stale to an Santa Barbara in the Big West Tournament Friday in Reno. Utah State (20 8) advances to the semifinals against Pacific, which defeated In another quarBoise State 68-5terfinal. Nevada beat Fulleilon 80-581-6- single-handed- ly seven-- game well on this trip. This was the sixth consecutive name in which Utah has shot at alive in 2 A action The underdog lives for another day, and has the unlikeliest of heroes to thank for it. A day after downing San Juan, Juab, the only team in the tournament with a losing record, knocked off another giant, beating in the 2A 0 Grantsville boys' semifinals at the McKay Center Friday night. Reserve Adam Ware made the shot of his life to propel Juab (11-1to the finals. Ware swished Trailing 40-3with 25 a wide open seconds to play. Grantsville (18-5- ) had one last chance, but Josh Park swatted away Isaac Butler's desperation shot, and pandemonium erupted on the Juab sideline. "I knew I could make it," Ware said. "1 just hucked it up there. We were going for a layup, so I passed up my first look. At the jump ball. I went over to coach and said. 'Let me have the three. I can hit it.'" The three was Ware's first and only field goal of the game. Juab slowed down the pace all night, and outscored Grantsville in the second quarter to take 2 fart) top-rank- 41-4- 1 3-- 7 half time lead. 5. Curtis 2. Jackson 6. Ware A Juab 13 8 AHred 9. S Allred f - 13 With a clean routine going, Andersen appeared to land her second tumbling pass cleanly. Then her ankle collapsed under her and she stumbled out of bounds. Nearly collapsing with pain, she gathered herself up and made it through the remainder of the routine to score a 9.525. The score didn't count and Utah 16th-rank- 12th-rank- Daily Herald photoFred McGuire Grantsville's Spencer Allred shoots over Juab's Josh Park in 2A state playoff action Friday night. Juab eked out a 0 win. Sevier over Morgan and back into the finals. North Sevier (20-3- ). trailed 2 at the half, but outscored Morgan 20-- in the third, with 13 points coming from Story, to seize the game. Ryan Randall and Kelly Kennedy scored 12 points apiece to lead Morsan ( l(V8). 33-3- 9 San Juan faces Millard for fifth place today at 2:30 p.m. KANAB (49) Gidaings 2, Wade 5 McFadden 3 Brinkerhotf 2. Starqill 2 Smith 2 Brumie' 6 Glazier 22 Cutler 3. Greenland 2 Totals '8 49 SAN JUAN (70) Dutson 6 Nieison 5 Lyman 2 Hall'day 8 Nieves 16. Soottedeik 2. Bennett 5. Workmen 2 Mex70 ican 17 Stevens 7 Totals 26 20 11 12 6 Kanab 49 17 70 20 16 17 San Juan 0 San Juan 4 (Dutson. Kanab goals Halliday MORGAN (59) Whimpey 3. Zieglowski 10. R Randall 12, Peterson 9. Barrett 2. Kennedy 12. B Randa'l 2. Ordy-n9. Totals 21 59 NORTH SEVIER (77) Burr 10. Mickelsen 15. Slory 31. Sorenson Yardley 4, Hallows 6. Shaheen 4. Totals 21 77, - 14 19 9 17 Morgan 17 North Sevier 20 25 15 goals Morgan 2 (Zieglowski. Ordyna). Sevier 5 (Burr 3. Mickelsen. Story) MILLARD 62 SOUTH SEVIER 46 diet Williams scored 20 points, including hitting from the free throw line in the fourth quarter, to lift Millard ( into the consolation final. South Sevier ended its season at Travis Story was the story, scoring 31 points to lead North San Juan bounced back from its quarterfinal loss, defeating Kanab to advance to the consolation final. A.J. Mexican scored 7 points to lead San Juan (17-6- ). Super sophomore Jeron Glaier scored 22 for Kanab (12-- 1 1). 11am Exhibition Baseball. Dodgers vs. Braves (FSR) Ham Exhibition baseball. White Son vs Pirates IWGN) it 30 a m ACC basketball tournament IESPNI Noon. Conference USA basketball championship (CBS KlSN 570 AMI 4) lpm Bowling (ABC Channel 1pm College baseball BYU at UNLV (KSRR 1400 AMI 1 30 p m Skung (NBC Channel 5i 45 p m ACC MCI Downhill Relays basketball tournament (ESPN) 2pm Golf Open (CBS) 2pm College basketball. UCLA at Wash- ington (FSR 2 30 p m Wide World ot Sports, skating, speedskating (ABC) 2 30 p m Gymnastics. Internaiion figure invita- tional (NBC) 4pm Atlantic 10 basketball championship (ESPN) 4pm. Women's basketball. Washington at USC (FSR) 5pm Women's basketball, Big 12 championship (FX) 6pm Big East basketball championship (ESPN. KSL 1160 AMI 6 pm Prep basketball. 5A boys firi (KlSN 570 AM) 6pm. Tennis. Franklin (FSR 8 pm (ESPN) 8 pm WAC Templeton Classic basketball championship Women's basketball. Big Sky championship (FSR) 8 30 p m Prep basketball. 4A boys final (KlSN 670 AM) 10 30 p m Big Sky basketball championship (ESPN) IBF Midniqht. fight (HBO) title A different day meant a different story for North Sev ier's Ann Braithwaite. dominated Bruithwaite Parowan inside, scoring 19 points to lead North Sevier to a 65-5- 8 victory in the 2A girls semifinals Friday afternoon at the McKay Center. The victory gave North Sev ier (17-6- ) a birth in this afternoon's 4:30 p.m. final against Beaver, in the which beat Morgan 62-- 5 other semifinal. "(Braithwaite) couldn't make a layup yesterday." North Sevier coach Lexa Larsen said. "Today she hit everything. I don't know w hat happened." No matter the reason. Braithwaite came out strong, scoring all her points in the first three quarters as her team built a 48-2- 8 lead. PAROWAN (58) Sant17 Burton 15 Cooke 15 Evans 6. 2. Bentley 3 Totals 22 56 11 8 Parowan 9 30 10 22 17 North Sevier 16 Parowan 2 (Sant, Cooe goals er 2 (Peterson 2i 58 65 North Sevi BEAVER 62 MORGAN 51 6- - 2 '0 nkernofl 12. Williams 20 Adams 2 Kunz i Robinson Arte" 1 Totals 19 62 SOUTH SEVIER (46) Stevens 9 Bfor 5 Payne 3 Rnrten's lace 9 Ga, 3 B'ewer 4 Totals 10 Millard 15 South Sevier goais M ,v 2 Al.oredqe' So i 14 14 15 14 19 9 Cnr.stensen 2 Sever 2 (Stevens 12. 46 Wal- 62 46 Bnnkernotl Robertsl e top-rank- MORGAN (51) Manning 5 Bice 17, Mullen 9 61 Totals 21 Rees 2. Koian 18 BEAVER (62) Bradsnaw 19 B Gilnns 7. Smith Taylor 4. M G.ilms 12 Totals 2D 10 Morgan 11 12 17 Yardiey 3 62 18 NORTH SEVIER (65) Braithwaite 19. Shaheen 6. Eppich 2 Sperry Peterson 10. Hawkins 12, Rasmussen 13 Totals 65 26 I p.m. today. Tiffany Thomas scored points to lead a balanced South Summit attack. Kaprece Acker-ma- n led South Sevier ( I4-with 16 points. SOUTH SEVIER (43) Weekv 3 R notsfrts 2 Oeriuna 2 Kan Arkpr-ma16 K.as:. Ackermar 6 AO'at-a2 N Robeir. 2 Nn&sor 4 Sorenson 2 Peterson 4 ' Totais 43 'J SOUTH SUMMIT (44) Tapp 4 Hoiman2 l.l'rhei.2 D'?es5 Thofias 11 Beai 9 Dege'ing 5 Smith 2 Cieorgi 4 Touts 18 44 11 South Sevier 5 South Summit 10 6 ooais Sou'r Sever South SumrT! - 51 Beaver 18 13 62 19 12 goals Morgan 1 (Manning). Beaver 4 (Brad- shaw 3, Smith), South Summit squeaked by South Sevier in consolation action. The w in earned South Summit (II-1a birth in the consolation final 3 (Thomas 14 16 13 12 2 s 3i 43 44 Nnsson) MILLARD 58 JUAB 34 there. SOUTH SUMMIT 44 SOUTH SEVIER 43 laurilzen against Millard at 9 defending champion Beaver moved within one win of a fourth straight title, Morgan. dumping led Bradshaw Shannon with 19 points. Beaver (19-4- ) Dallas Bice scored 17 points to lead Morgan (20-3- ). Beaver opened up a 37-2- 1 halfiime lead and coasted from Three-tim- 8-- 3. left-field- er 0, Ratlitf 15. McKie 3l b. Held Oj li-- l l bb. Thorpe 18, Hunter 13. Long 0. lotals 33-- UTAH 195) 4 41, Oslertf 3, Malone Russell n stocKton 9, Hornacek 0, Howard Poster 0, Eislev 11. Anderson ol 0, Carr Morris 6 95. 2. Totals 22 21 22 23 88 Detroit 21 21 28 25 95 Utah Mills 3 (Hunter goals Detroit mil uumars McKie uian - (arocKtonl Fouled outl Anderson Russell Morns uetroit 3b (inorpe 9), Utah None. Rebounds Detroit 18 (Hill 8). Utah 26 (Stod (Ostertao 91. Assists ton. Hornacek 9). Total touls Detroit 27. Utah 19. Tea meals Utah illegal detense. A is.yii (la.an). Utah State on vault. For the Cougars, all six routines ' were hit well, beginning w ith a sohjl 9.65 from freshman Hilary JohnsocU BYU totaled 49.075, the Cougars' Y on bars. second straight 49-pl- When BYU moved to vault, Jessica Young, vaulting last, landed badly on her first attempt anil ; the knee she in the first meet of the year. She was unable to do a floor routine, but is expected back tor the rest of the season. Andersen wasn't the only Cougar showing courage. Both Johnsons. Erin on floor and Hilary on beam, stepped up to replace their injured teammates and grab nr int'iKlt e"M-i'in; Itin etn was particularly impressive, scor-jing a 9.6 on the first scoring beam routine of her young career. Almost overshadowed by the injuries, was senior Kelli Rose'v, record 39.4 winning score. The junior from!" P p.'is.inl fitovp hit scores ot 4 ed hyper-extend- ; l--l . ol near-scho- .o.i on vault, on uaiN, beam and 9.825 on floor. i.yj Millard overp Lied Juab to Maivia Swallow scored 6 points to lead Millard (1 ). was led by Shantell Juab ( I2-IHall's l() points. JUAB (34) Nrnvton 4 Buyd 8 Hall Philips 7 Soerry Jackson 2 Paf 2 Totals 13 5 8 34 MILLARD (58) F'pp-r.a6 Ch'id 3 J Sevens 2 L b S Slivpn Swa!ir 11, Munroe 11, totals 2b 58 Juab 7 11 Millard 3,pmnt rjr.ais jUjih (Monroe) 10 5 12 12 16 17 (Phillips 2 Mali 3 (Continued from Page Bl) "That's why you try to host the tournament, because you play a little bit better at home." Seating in the gym puts the fans right on top of the players, which also feeds North Idaho's lightning-quic- k style of play. "I don't think it's really their quickness (that gives us fits)," forward Silester Rivers said. "I think it's their emotions. When they get going and get exci ed. they're difficult to stop." Shawn Myrick ied North ' iaho with 21 points. Chris Hi' rison added 20. Todd My les had 9 and Cameron Banks scored 6 Rivers had 13 points (despite getting just five shots) and nine rebounds before fouling out. Trav is Hansen added 15 points, but had nine turnovers. Nathan Hallows added 10 d UVSC points as dropped to 24-"Any loss is going to be tough." Rivers said, "but at this point in the season it's worse because you go home." Second-see- d North Idaho (26-4- ) Eastern Utah (28-4- ) plays first-seeSaturday at 8 p.m. for the Region 18 championship. DeGraffenried's first 7 tied the score with 12 minutes left in the first half. Utah Valley had to scrap and scrape to stay close, but Frank Ala's layin at the bu.zer pulled the Wolverines to within six, 45-3ut halttime. North Idaho blew the game stretch in open during a the second half. A DeGraflenried the most prolific shooter in UVSC history hit six on the night 1 O'1!? ! BYU" freshman lefty Will in striking earned save a Waldrip out four Rebels in the final two-plu- s inninsis. ) and UNLV meet BYU (5-in a single game this afternoon at p.m. The game will be broadcast E on KSRR 1400 AM. -l 3. BYU 100 200 4 UNLV 760 010 14 13 Bloomtield McDermaid (b) and Nelson lipton (2). Hancock 7 4 (4), Tittrington bcott ir) and Hall, Adolph, Hall. Adolph 060 000 BYU UNLV J. (3 100 001 000 300 8 12 0 3 4 4 Jensen. Waldrip (7) and Robinson. Perri. J. Smith Warren (5. Anderson J (9) and McNiel Jensen. Sv- - 2 DomDell. Circuit. ACSmith, Ludwick Spencer. Waldrip. Decker. 10 Stevens 2 7 - 34 68 Millard it 60-5- But North Idaho went on a 16-- 2 lead. run to take a 76-5- 4 The closest the Wolverines could get after that was nine, when Jared Call made one free throw and Nathan Hallows put back Call's second attempt w ith 1:26 to go. free-thro- "Teams that go to Hutchinson. Kan., hit big shots." Reinert said, referring to the NJCAA tournament where the Region 18 champ is headed. "North Idaho did that." UTAH VALLEY (84) DeGrattenned 15 lows Beard 21 Rivers 10, Ala 7 Totals Call 6, 13. Nelson 2, Hawkins 84, Hansen 6 Hal- 4, NORTH IDAHO (95) T Myles 7 19 Myrick 21, McKanstry 20. 16. Harrison 6, Banks 9. Webster Johnson 0, Houston 0 Ryan 2, L Myles 0. Totals 24 32 95 Halttime North Idaho 45. Utah Valley 39. T Myles Harrison (Myrick goals NIC Banks OeUratUVSC McKanstry Call lenried Ala Hallows Hansen Rebounds UVSC 35 Iflivers 9). NIC 30 (Harri son 6) Assists UVSC 18 (Call 7 NIC 21 (T Myles 24 NIC 25 Fouled out Hal i team touls lows, Rivers. Hawkins. McKanstry uvsc third-seede- 8. d win easily. i en innings. made UVSC: II-I- MILLARD (62) C Chnstenser 2 5 Turner 3 Borup 4 Giles North Sevier blasts Parowan By SCOTT BELL Herald Correspondent ?! 29. Dumars 7. Mills 0, Curry 4-- 9) SAN JUAN 70 KANAB 49 Top-rank- Nieves) 7 59 77 North BYU LAS VEGAS, Nev. split a doubleheader Friday with UNLV in the Cougars' WAC opener, losing 14-- 4 and winning the nishtcap he Rebels. 13-- 7 overall and in the WAC. bested BYU in the opener with 13 hits and stranding eight runners on base. UNLV Chris Adolph hit a double and a triple in that 14-- 4 victory. In BYU's victory, the Cougars stranded nine runners and got 12 hits, including four doubles. BYU scored six runs in the second inning and got good support from Jared Jensen on the mound. Jensen gave up three hits, all in the fourth inning, including a pair of homers, but he pitched nearly sev -I Cal-Stat- e Saturday 9 30 a m MAC DasketDali championship (FSPN) 10 a m College basketball (CBS Channel DETROIT (88) Hill splits doubleheader BYU 41 NORTH SKVIKK 77 MORGAN 59 5. With four solid event scores, ranging from 48.775 on floor to 49.075 on bars, the Cougars scored 195.6 to Utah State's 194.6 for their second straight w in over a higher-ranke- d team. The meet began with both teams nailing their first events BYU on bars and 10. goals Juab 4 (Blacken 2. Ware. Park). Grantsville 4 (Johansen 2. Butler. A Anted) 6 97.95-97.17- making it a moot point, but that didn't take away from the moment. 40 7 played. It's always a great pleasurj to play against a guy like that. Malone needs 26 points to read the 25,000 point plateau for his caieei gymnast State's final beam worker fell, 41. GRANTSVILLE (40) Buiier 5 Jonansen 6 Hatch 10 Totals 17 1 LOGAN Olympic hero Kerri Strug has nothing on BYU's Angie Andersen in a dual meet in Logan. With the Couars ahead of Utah State BYU took to the floor and scored a string of mid 9.7s. Meanwhile. Utah State was getting high 9.8s on beam and it looked like it might come down to BYU's final floor worker, Andersen. 41-4- But Grantsville battled back, and the lead switched hands several times down the stretch before Ware's trey. "I've been bringing these kids to camps since junior high." Juab coach Wade Jaeobsen said. "The last time we were here (at UVSC). at Duke Reid's camp, we beat Aha to win it. and Ware hit the same shot." Juab will meet defending champ North Sevier tonight at 7 p.m. in the finals. "This is my first year as a coach." Jaeobsen said. "Wouldn't that be something, we go .500 and we're state champs." JUAB (41) Blacken 12. Casper 5. Pa'k 11. Tolais 16 1 Dumars said. "Karl did a great iof tonight. Jeff (Hornacek) plays tin game the way it's supposed to bf topple Aggies By SCOTT BELL Herald Correspondent 21-1- least 50 percent from the field. The win over the Pistons was the 26th consecutive victory at home over a team from the Eastern Conference. John Stockton added 16 points for Utah while Chris Morris had one of his best games this year. Morris came off the bench to score points and grab seven rebounds. The Pistons also got 18 and 15 from Joe points respectively Dumars and Lindsey Hunter. All 15 of Hunter's points came from line. Terry Mills added the 13 points, but they all came in the first half. "They're a very smart, physical team. The last minute or so they executed better than we did, and that was the difference in the game," VU Juab stays a GOLF 1 :29 left in the game, but it was the Jazz who scored the final seven points of the game. "Down the stretch, we stepped it up on the offensive end." Malone said. "It's amazing how everyone of their (Detroit's) players compliment each other and everything they do. they do within their offense. You want to blow them out but you know you're not going to blow them out and you just have to keep executing." The Jaz now head out on a road swing and if their recent shooting and defense are any indication. Utah should do including 14 in the fourth quarter. "Every time I go to bed, I say something special about Karl Malone," said Jazz coach Jerry Sloan. "I'm grateful and very lucky to have a player like him to coach." Hill finished the game w ith 29 points, eight assists and five rebounds. He kept his team in the game all night. "That team (Utah) is so good execution-wis- e and have been so together long, that it's very difficult to guard them." said Detroit coach Doug Collins. "Karl Malone was just tremendous, and you have to take your hats off to them, they're a great team." The came was tied at 88 with 41 points, 95-8- 8 17-1- 9, te STATE: (Continued from Past' HI) got caught dreamy-eye"We beat the d team in the country, and then came out the next day really, really fiat." Provo star Mekeli Wesley said. "We were still kind of celebrating, and we got beat. "I hope we learned a lesson from d. i6th-ranke- that." It appears Provo could remain shorthanded for tonight's championship. Talented 6-- 4 junior swingman Eric Jackson, who suffered a -degree ankle sprain early in Monday's opener, is questionable for anything more than spot duty. second- |