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Show THE DAILY HERALD. Provo, Utah, Sunday, January 21, 1996 Page C2 ll !IR ll i Wldlilfa , LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. Patty Sheehan had (AP) in her pockets and Kristi Albers had them taped to her back. (The contenders in the LPGA NOTABLE QUOTE "J picked up a great player. I'm hand-warme- very familiar with what he can do." Mokeski. coach of the CJBA's P9pnc;ctict Pride., after ,, .. acquiring playing right's to himself from the Quad City Thunder, where he served as player-coac- h in the 1992-9- 3 season. ul short course swimming world record of 4 minute. 6.03 seconds in the medley at the Finnish championships Saturday. His tin& was 1.07 under his previous retord. Sievinen also holds the Olympic size pool world record for the 2(KUmeter medley of 1:58.16, set at Rome in 1994 when he won the woi'-lchampionship. Sievinen is the European champion in the 200 and 400 medleys and in the 200 freestyle. 400-met- er early-mornin- 1 first-roun- 27-1-- 1. FOOTBALL f " Tony Dungy, Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator, was offered the head coaching job by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and will take it if he and the club can get together on a contract, the Tampa Tribune reported Saturday. The newspaper quoted NFL sources it did not identify as saying Dungy representatives are working out final details and an official announcement could oome'within the next few days, pungy would replace Sam Wyche, fjred Dec' 27, after failing to produce a winning record in any of his four seasons and was 23-4- 1 overall. A Bucs spokesman did not immediately return telephone calls today and no team officials were available at the club's headquarters. Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman faces possible elbow surgery after the Super Bowl and will miss the Pro Bowl scheduled for Feb. 4 in Hawaii, the club said Saturday. "This is something that, in no way, has hindered my ability to throw" the football," Aikman s'aid, 'ft"is, howeveq an injury that Causes trie discomfort arid pain. It's something I want to address after ,: the season, and I don't want to run the risk of making the situation worse." Cowboys owner Jerry Jones noted that Aikman has suffered several nagging injuries this season. "He has experienced sore-rfO- " in his (right) elbow throughout tferyar. Our medical staff is aware crf"hi.? elbow problem, and although is ptislnpf affected his performance,, U)eJ O;0eicpjT)menfleiJ,A possible siugieaf)r6ced"iireTo1lowing the '"' SifpCF Bowl," Jones said. The Cowboy's released their official Super a.m. B,owl injury report after an workout Saturday. Defensive end Charles Haley, who underwent back surgery several weeks ago, is listed as questionable. Listed as probable are Aikman, with a sore right elbow and two sore knees, iiiid 14 other players, including running back Emmitt Smith for a sore riaht calf. 1 Switzerland's Bruno Kernen on Saturday became the 13th skier in hjstory to win two straight World gup downhill races on the same Bourse. The race took place in Veysonnaz, Switzerland. Greeted by deafening cow bells and cheers as the new local hero. Kernen was timed in minutes. 2.69 seconds, down the Bear Course. .80 icy 3,500-metseconds ahead of his nearest rivals. Luc AJphand of France, the downhill leader and defending champion, and Austria's Patrick Ortlieb. second in ifie.'downhill standings and the 1992 Olympic champion, tied for second I er at 2:03.49;'--.' BASKETBALL Tony Fuller resigned as head Basketball coach at Pepperdine on Sajurday, effective immediately. The Waves were under Fuller last season and 8 eniej-m-g 8-- 7-- San-f- o Saturday's game against Clara. In their final game under Puller, they lost to St. Mary's 89-7- 9 Friday night. Fuller falif.) ii a former San Diego State head enach. Sunday a m. College basketball, Perm State at Michigan (KUTV, channel 2) a m NBA, Bulls at Pistons (KSL, Chan- - 10 10 Noon iColiey fg basketball,' Syiacuse (KUTV. channel 2) 3cjtncUcut Noon CM'oqe basketball, Colorado j at Stat oru (f mm) at 30 p.m. NBA, Magic at Rocket! (KSL. channel 5) p.m. Senior golf. Senior Tournament ol Champions (ESPN) i, . 2 p.m. Co'lege basketball, Missuri at Iowa State (KUIV, channel i) M 3 p.m. Skiing, uownnw Meiaya (uiv, channel 21 Golf, Chrysler Clastic (KSL, chare 1 '3 H nel 5) ". Team (KSTU, channel 5 p.m. ,12 1 13) College football, Hula Bowl (cSPN) p.m. IHi- - Hockey, Houston at Utah PRMI 8p"i 1 a.m. "fenroa. Australian Open (ESPN) basketball, VanderWt at Horn Women ennsst (ESPN)- w Saturday. . Camby, the junior center who hasn't played since mysteriously collapsing before last Sunday's game at St. Bonaventure, rejoined the team Saturday but did not attend the game. He is expected to play Tuesday when the Minutemen fine road trip to this city ish a with a game at Pitt. ' " No. 2 Kentucky 124 y Texas Christian 80 Second-ranke' LEXINGTON, Ky. d h a sank season-higKentucky 15 led by Tony Delk's school-recor- d nine, to beat Texas Christian 124-8- 0 Saturday night and roll to its 14th straight victory. Delk scored 27 points, all com- letter-of-inte- . u t.f.-- . " AP Photo North Carolina's Dante Caiabria, lower right, struggles to keep the ball away from Villanova's Kerry Kittles Saturday in Top 25 cage action. No. 7 Villanova won the contest, 76-5- 80-7- head-coachi- j seconds left. Arkansas 80 . 62-6- No. 16 Iowa. 2 Brooks led the Spartans (9-Big Ten) with 18 points and 10 rebounds. Thomas Kelley came oft the bench to score a career-hig- h 3 77-7Maui Invitational on Nov. 22. points, and added seven assists. Illinois 71, No. 17 Purdue 67 No. 8 Georgetown 82 WEST LAFAYETTE. Ind. Seton Hall 62 Kiwane Garris, playing for the first EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. Allen Iverson scored 24 points,, time in four games, scored a basket and No. 8 Georgetown used suffo- - and two free throws in the final 30 i eating runs at the start of each half seconds Saturday night to lift 111 nois 17 No. over Purdue Seton over for an 82-6- 2 victory The victory snapped a five-gam- e Hall on Saturday. ' 1 The Hoyas (16-losing streak for the Illini, the Big East) won their third straight and 13th in worst start in Big Ten play in Lou Henson's 21 years as coach," and 14 games on the strength of a 26-- 6 run over the game's opening 6 12 ended the Boilermakers' conferminutes and a 14-- 4 spurt over the ence winning streak at 12 games. No. 18 Arizona 88 first five minutes of the second half. : No. 13 UCLA 79 59 . Marquette 4 No. 9 55 Michael TUCSON, Ariz. Memphis MILWAUKEE Amal Dickerson scored 14 of his 16 McCaskill scored 19 points and had points in the second half and made two big baskets and a key steal in a, key defensive play in the" final the final minute as Marquette beat minutes as No. ,18 Arizona No. 9 Memphis 59-5- 5 Saturday. snapped No. 13 UCLA's Pac-1- 0 .".McCaskill's fadeaway with 52 winning streak at 15 games with seconds left put the Eagles ahead an 88-7- 9 victory Saturday. 55-51 The Bruins ( ) had won Twenty seconds later, he stole a pass from Chris Garner their last 10 games overall, but intended for Lorenzen Wright. they couldn't withstand a After a timeout, he took the outlet barrage by the Wildcats (13-), rt who made eight of 12 in the pass against a press and in lead with 24 second half and were dunked for a 57-5- 3 : 8, 3-- . 1 ; 71-6- 7. 6-- 1 2-- 4, 3. 5-- 3, full-cou- Payne Stewart ' the game. . Michigan St. 62 No. 16 Iowa 60 EAST LANSING, Mich. Quinton Brooks tipped in Ray Weathers' miss with 5.6 seconds remaining, and Michigan State rode a solid rebounding advantage 0 to a victory Saturday over : ), er ar on-pas- s mi In an unexpected surprise,' BYU threw its hat in the ring for a big, quick receiver in Con-'- ; ' necticut, worked him this fall and received a verbal this past' week from Jason Loerzel, from Milford Prep Academy, who, is 190 and runs a 4.5 time jn the forty. Milford Academy is a one-yeprep school which plays a nt ( 6-- 3, ar schedule comprised of junior varsity teams from Princeton, Army, Columbia and other Ivy. League schools. Loerzel was recruited by Iowa,1 Iowa Siate : and Boston College after somx ing 16 touchdowns this past year. He is originally from Park .' Ridge, 111., and is one of 30 ath-- , letes from across the country recruited by the Milford Acade7 my Staff. Former Utah coach. Jim Fassel's son John played at., Milford Academy, according ix, ; Falcon coach Jeff Bevino. , players, three of whom are already enrolled in school. This past week the Cougars edged Nebraska for a Weiser, Idaho lineman, picked up a verbal from one of the top 20 high school running backs in the country and his teammate, a linebacker; and edged out Stanford and Utah for one of the top scorers in San Diego County. "Jason Loerzel is an excellEarlier this week Timpview ent player. He can do it all. He. quarterback Brett Engemann runs great routes, makes the. announced he had chosen the tough catch, blocks and is prob- -' Cougars over Utah, ending a ably the best receiver here in six-nationally-centere- d campaign years since I've been here," said for his services. Bevino. "We've put 150 kids in. The NCAA prohibits coaches Division I schools in that time.. from commenting on recruiting This year we had guys go to f until after players have officially Nebraska (LeRoy McFadden, a I signed. But tracking what the running back), and an offensive Cougars are going after, who lineman to Clemson and another they have commitments from, to Virginia Tech. The Falcons 2 this past year. i ,. and who else was in the running ,,were for recruits, 1996 could be one The Cougars already have; of Edwards' top classes in some three junior college players, time. enrolled in school. They are . defensive backs Nikia McKift1-neThis week Hans Olsen, a 255 offensive lineman from (Fullerton) and Chris Eili- -' son (El Camino) and receiver Weiser, Idaho, called a formal press conference of Boise and return specialist Aaron Rodmedia, and with Nebraska and erick (Ricks). A second EI BYU hats on a table, put on the Camino player, center Darin 275), .verbally Cougar hat. Just last Sunday Sagapolu (6-Maskers' head coach ' Tom committed to BYU in DecemOsborne was in the Olsen home. ber. Olsen is .the nephew of Hall of In addition to prepsters Enge- Fame Los Angeles Ram lineman mann, Snowden, Robinson, Ord, : Merlin Olsen. Olsen and Loerzel, already menAlso this week Denver newstioned, the Cougars have i papers announced the verbal received verbals from nose-- . commitment of Boulder High guard and center Larry Moeki standout running back Will (Wheaton, III.), quarterback Snowden to BYU. Snowden, Kevin Feterick (Los Alamitos,- i listed in most recruiting services Calif.), defensive linemen Braiit ,, as a top 20 back, was offered and Brent Diediker (Newhall," ' . scholarships to Arizona State Calif.). and Oklahoma State and canIn addition BYU hosted a celed his remaining trips to of recruits this past Michigan and Colorado State. weekend including Hawaii's 180 pounds, Snowden Faaesea Mailo and Arizona's hot At can play tailback or defensive linebacker-fullbacRussell Trev. back. He averaged 14 yards a jo. Both are LDS. The Cougars carry as a junior. His teammate, are in the running to sign the No; linebacker Danny Robinson, junior college runner last year; , 230, also committed to the Cory Dillon (Dixie College Cougars. and the best cover cornerback in i California junior colleges, first Andy Ord, the brother of former BYU receiver John Ord, team Omar Mor-- : announced this past week he gan (El Camino). ; . 6. 76-5- first-roun- this-ye- ; iiiiiiiBiiiaiii fourth-ranke- PALM DESERT, Calif. Payne Stewart, trying to prove he's still one of the best players in the world, made a case for himself on Saturday. Stewart shot a 63 and tie for the lead pulled into a four-wa- y in the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. With many of the players making a mockery of par on the desert courses used for the Hope, Stewart moved to tying him at the top of a crowded leader board with Jeff Mag-ger- t, John Huston and Mark Brooks. Maggert shot a 64, Huston had a d 65, and Brooks, a who has stayed in the thick of things, had a 67. Stewart, Huston and Brooks all played Indian Ridge Country Club, which also wHI be the site of Sunday's final round. Maggert played at Tamarisk Country Club. " F receptions. He was recruit- ed by Stanford, Washington State and Utah. to have the league's top recruiting class once more. Edwards could wrap up ail his available scholarships within 10 days, and call it quits a week before the Feb. 7 signing date. BYU has verbal commitments from at least 15 football s By KEN PETERS AP Sports Writer all-CI- Now with less than three weeks before the national signing date and no bowl game in 1995, La Veil Edwards and his staff are poised foul-troubl- '; would sign with BYU. Ord, who ' honors at Torrey earned Pines High, led San Diego County in scoring most of with 24 touchdowns, 17 in Tucson. (15-1- . hunger for more success. "Winning and being in the hunt never gets old," she said. "It's ' ; , always fun for me." Western Athletic Conference after playing in the Copper Bowl ), layoff didn't affect her Ihe A year ago BYU's football recruiting ranked No. 1 in the ' ! d, Maybe they should miss going to bowl games more often. 9 (9-9- -' ;- By DICK HARMON Daily Herald Sports Editor won its third in a row without Mar- one-side- 4-- I S cus Camby, holding off Duquesne 2, SKIING one-stro- CSOEf can play and was only five under." Geddes birdiea tne last tnree holes with putts of 6, 12 and 10 feet. Albers, meanwhile, made birdie putts ranging from 3 to 20 feet to move into position to chase her second victory in 11 LPGA seasons.. Sheehan, who has 34 LPGA victories, took what she has three-month described as a much-needebreak from competitive golf after her last tournament of 1995. with a bogey-fre- e round, while Geddes fashioned a 67 with seven birdies and two bogeys on Disney's 6,336-yar- d Lake Buena Vista course. Geddes said the bumpy greens will make it difficult for anyone to pull away in Sunday's final round. "I got it rolling today, but these greens aren't conducive to shooting really low numbers," Geddes said. "I played about as good as 1 two-gam- f 1 rs 1 range, while ing from Antoine Walker scored 16 and Wayne Turner, Derek Anderson and Walter McCarty 13 apiece. scored more than ) Kentucky 100 for the fourth time this season. Texas Christian in its d loss of the season,-wamost led by Damion Walker and Juan Bragg with 18 points each. No. 4 Kansas 80, Colorado 78 Kansas BOULDER, Colo. scored the last six points of the center game, four by d Scot Pollard, and the Jayhawks held off Colorado 8 Saturday in the debut of CU's Ricardo Patton. No. 7 Vi llano va 76 No. 10 North Carolina 56 PHILADELPHIA Kerry Kit- -' ties scored 23 points and held Dante Calabria to seven points as No. 7 Villanova beat No. 10 North Carolina 6 Saturday. Eric Eberz added 21 points for the Wildcats (14-3while North Carolina (13-4- ) got 14 points from ' Serge Zwikker. It was the Tar Heels' second loss this season to the Wildcats, who beat North Carin the finals of the 5 olina PCIA Pierce birdied No. 5 to remain one shot apart, then made the turn after Pierce together at bogeyed No. 7 and Sheehan lost strokes on No. 6 and No. 9. Albers moved into contention PITTSBURGH Carmelo Travieso scored 25 of his 33 points in the first eight minutes of the second half and No. Massachusetts 93-8- I j hps D uauesn DO By ALAN ROBINSON . AP Sports Writer Undefeated Russian-bor- n junior welterweight Kostya Tszyu sue- - " cpssfully defended his IBF title by stopping previously unbeaten Hugo Pineda of Colombia in the 1th ? rpund Saturday night in Sydney, Australia. Tszyu recovered from a d knockdown and sent Pineda crashing to the canvas five ' times before the fight was halted, tszyu improved his record to 16-- 0 ii his' second successful defense of the title, while No.l ranked Pineda dipped to hand-warme- ot 0. BOXING birdies on No. II and No. 13. "In weather like this, I get really stiff," Albers said. "I have taped to my back and a lot, of clothes on. I'm not surprised I'm doing well. I know I can do it. I just didn't expect it in weather like this." , Helen Alfredsson, Karrie Webb and Caroline Pierce trailed Sheehan 140. Alicia by three shots at DiBos, Alice Miller, Jill McGill and Martha Nause followed at 141. Sheehan began the day with a advantage over Pierce after shooting a tournament-lo66 in the opening round. She and 36-ho- le HealthSouth Inaugural each had their own way of. coping with Central Florida's chilly weather on Saturday. Sheehan posted a second-roun- d 71 to retain the lead in the $450,000 tournament at Walt Disney World. Albers and Jane Ged-de- s each shot 67 to trail the Hall of Famer by two strokes. The temperature rose from an g low of 40 to the upper 50s before dropping again SWIMMING Jani Sievinen of Finland set a iray by the time Sheehan completed her round just before nightfall. The leader with a total 137 said the weath- - j of er affected her more than finishing in darkness. , "I could see what I was doing ... but my hands were getting really cold," Sheehan said. "But we got in. Every body finished. So I guess the timing was perfect." Albers, who underwent back surgery for a herniated disk 15 months ago, and Geddes, who birdied the last three holes to pull into the second-place at 139, watched lead with Sheehan take her two-sh- rs in Cold No. 21 Mississippi St. 68 Pat FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. 19 Bradley scored a career-hig- h all on but four points, and Kareem Reid made nine free throws in the final minutes as Arkansas beat No. 21 Mississippi State 80-6- 8 Saturday. 16-JJJradleyJpd two 3s during a 0 reft' that gave Arkansas a 34-2- 7 lead late in the first half. His two free throws put the Razorbacks 2 (10-Southeastern Conference) ahead to stay, 29-2Tennessee 67 No. 22 Georgia 62 Steve KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Hamer scored 12 of his 21 points in the final eight minutes, and Tendefense stinessee's fled No. 22 Georgia in a 67-6- 2 upset victory Saturday. 4 Tennessee (9-Southeastern Conference) also got 16 points from Brandon Wharton. No. 24 Boston College 91 St. John's 78 6, 7. man-to-m- 7, 2-- James NEWTON. Mass. Penn scored 23 points and Danya Abrams added 21 Saturday night d as Boston College 8 a Big East Conferposted ence win over St. John's. It was the third straight win for the Eagles (12-and their eighth victory in their last nine 24th-ranke- 91-7- 3, 5-- 2) games. Zendon Hamilton led the Red Storm with 19 points while Tyrone Grant contributed 15 points and Rowan Barrett 14. It was the second consecutive loss for St. John's. puSSs into Stewart, who started tinkering with his game after winning the U.S. Open in 1993, has returned to his old form including a loop in his swing. After going winless in 1994, he took one title last year, the Houston Open. "I guess I tried to change things trying to take my game up to another level," Stewart said. "1 took the loop out of my swing. I learned a lot, but now I'm trying to throw all that out and let the old Payne Stewart come out. He can win. I'm one of the best players in the world but I have to prove myself again." Stewart, who turns 39 on Jan. 30 and says he feels his best golf is in front of him. had to laugh at himself and the other players who tinker with their games in search of perfection. "I look back and think,, 'Boy, aren't we silly. Boy aren't we stupid,'" he said with a chuckle. "We can be our own worst enemies." 3-- four-wa- y Twelve players will go into the final day of the Hope Classic bunched within three shots of each other at the top. Another six golfers are within five strokes of the lead. "Somebody could come out of the pack," Brooks said. "The course will play different tomorrow. .,. I've been pretty consistent, have made only three bogeys and two of " them were on par putts Said Huston; "Fortunately, I got myself in position to win. I haven't five-.day- , 90-ho- le ot been fantastic, but I've taken advantage of the easy holes. It will be a lot of fun Sunday." Frea Couples; who shot a 65 Saturday at Bermuda Dunes, and Nolan Henke. who had a 69 at Indian Ridge, were one shot back of the leading quartet. At were third-roun- d leader Brad Bryant, with a 71 on the fourth er day; second-roun- d leader Paul 1 0-- , , 6-- 4, ' , 2, ; . , , . , - -- 1, k 6-- 2, 1 tie at Hope 'tourney ' ' Scores are traditionally low; last; Goydos, with a 69; and Jesper Parnevik, with a 67. year's winner, Kenny Perry, ' I In a threesome another shot, ished at behind was Tom Kite, who set a Perry, who struggled to an open-- J tour record in the 1993 Hope ing 75 this year, has climbed backj n- -I 90-ho- le with a Fulton Allem and Jim Furyk were with Kite at after four rounds this lime. Four courses are used for the Hope, which features pro-aplay the first four days. All the golfers play one day at each of the courses, then the field is cut for the final day at the designated host club, Indian Ridge this year. into the hunt. His fourth-roun65 left him six shots off the pace.; i t Missing the cut with a par total was Arnold Palmer, 54'poJ has played in all 37 of the Hopej tournaments. Palmer won the ipiau-- i gural event in 1960 and also .wbn in 1962, 1968, 1971 and 1973 That last victory was also his las' ! I PGA Tour win. d; er m Summerhays wins event ST. GEORGE Kaysville's Boyd Summerhays won the St. the George Amateur Saturday, first of the major golf tourneys in the state for 1996. of Summerhays put together rounds or par on the I . j shot victory over Sieve rymnfilt who had rounds of J Ryan Job, also at Two strokes further back VCa BYU golfer David Sumnerty$ with scores of iM j ,1 |
