Show 28 ' Saturday April 20 1991 SPORTS "Pie Associated Press Michael Adams scored 30 points and Jerome Lane grabbed a career-hig- h 23 rebounds as Denver snapped a losing streak and narrowed San Antonio’s lead in the Midwest Divie sion to a with a 2 victory Friday night The Spurs’ record dropped to 7 with one game to play at home against Dallas on Sunday 7 Utah at could pull even by winning at home today against the Los Angeles Lakers and clinch a tie with a victory at Golden State on Sunday If the Jazz and Spurs finish in a tie Utah would win the division because it won the season series against San Antonio 10-ga- half-gam- 125-12- 54-2- 53-2- Sonlcs 104 Suns 93 Blazers 127 Kings 105 Kevin Duckworth scored 19 points as Portland defeated Sacramento the Kings’ 37th consecutive road loss and the Blazers’ 16th straight victory Portland with the best record in the NBA (63-1matched the Los Angeles Lakers for the longest winning streak in the league this season and finished the regular season with a 36-- 5 home record The Blazers had eight players in double figures including rookie Alaa Albdelnaby with a 15 points er-high Antoine Carr scored 29 points and rookie Duane Causwell a 22 for the Kings season-hig- h now on the road that sidelined him for seven games had 14 points and 12 rebounds in 22 minutes for Philadelphia With the playoffs starting next week 76ers coach Jim Lynam rested his starters in the fourth quarter as Miami pulled away 8) care- 40 23-poi- nt Bulls 115 Hornets 99 Michael Jordan scored 18 of his 41 points in the fourth quarter and Chicago won its 60th game for the first time in franchise history by beating Charlotte 8 with 3:35 Chicago led left in the third quarter and 2 going into the fourth period But Charlotte climbed within four on three occasions in the final quarter the last time at 0 with 5:11 left on Kelly Tripucka’s short jumper 82-5- 86-7- 94-9- 78-6- Warriors 114 Clippers 113 Mitch Richmond scored 23 points and Tim Hardaway 20 as Golden State held off a comeback effort by the Los Angeles Clippers The Clippers who trailed by 10 points with 4:15 left saw their bid for victory fall short when Ron Harper’s desperation shot hit the front of the rim at the buzzer 88-7- 1 1 15-ye- ar 99-8- Craig Ehlo scored six of his 20 points in overtime including a clinching layup with 117 seconds left as Cleveland beat Boston The loss was the third straight for the Celtics who were without leading scorers Larry Bird and Reggie Lewis both out with back spasms Boston has already clinched the second-bes- t record in the Eastern Conference Pistons 126 Hawks 120 Magic 112 Bullets 107 Scott Skiles scored 32 points as Orlando defeated Washington foi the first time The Magic who outrebounded the Bullets 0 trailed by 10 in the second half although Washington was playing without leading scorer Bernard King because of a sore back Orlando tied the score five times in the final eight minutes then opened a 4 lead on a ’ jumper by Skiles with 38 seconds remaining John Williams hit a for the Bullets four seconds later but Jerry Reynolds’ layup sealed the outcome with 18 seconds to 56-3- 109-10- Joe Dumars matched his season high with 42 points including 15 in the final quarter as Detroit Pistons swept the season series with Atlanta The Pistons who won all five games between the teams also won 50 games for the fifth consecutive year ' Atlanta’s Moses Malone broke Wilt Chamberlain’s NBA record by playing his 1046th consecutive game without fouling out 15-fo- ot go Heat 114 76ers 100 int ’Wolves 109 Bucks 91 Pooh Richardson the last half on the bench singlehandedly 0 in outscored Milwaukee the first seven minutes of the third period as Timberwolves built an lead and beat 13-1- nt the Bucks Richardson who finished with 19 points also had three of his nine assists during the third period for the Timberwolves who were 0 at home in their second NBA season 21-2- Mavs 113 Rockets 107 Derek Harper scored 19 points with 31 including a key seconds to play sending Dallas to a victory over Houston The Rockets slashed what had been an 2 Mavericks lead earlier in the quarter to 7 with 50 seconds to play on Hakeem Olajuwon’s turnaround jumper Sei-ka- ly 108-10- 14-fo- ot Roy defeats Layton in Region Standard-Examine- looking to future Sting beat WSU in exhibition game Standard Exammef correspondent ! — Exhibition games are supposed to tell you a lot about your team’s fortunes for the upcoming season Even with a 0 victory over the Weber State University club team to his credit Salt Lake Sting Coach Valery is still a little concerned about the upcoming season “This is the first time we’ve played together" said Volost nykh “It’s good to win 0 but I’m thinking of the level of play ahead of us Teams like Denver and San Francisco are at a different level than what OGDEN 3-- kh 3-- ’ we saw tonight" On the other side Weber State Coach Tom Vudhivad hana was pleased with his team’s performance in a losing cause and is optimistic about this year's team “I feel good about the way we played tonight" said Vud-hivadha- na “Our kids just played their hearts out It was a good experience for us to play a team like the Sting and I think that it will help us" You can’t blame the first-yeSting coach for wondering about the future After all the first two goals came on anything but fashionable style Eominic Mihtcllo scored the first goal of the night with 28 minutes to play in the opening half after an inbounds pass got past the Weber State defenders o directly in front of goal spotted the loose ball and blasted it into the net Bart Chatlin who was forced into the starting role after goal keeper Mike Turcson suffered a shoulder injury prevented Salt Lake from adding to its lead by coming up with several spectacular saves “Bart did a great job for us tonight" said Vudhivadhana ar Mili-tell- who spent minutes of the first 13 82-7- With Philadelphia’s starters sitting out half the game Rony grabbed 20 rebounds and scored a season-hig- h 35 points to Soccer coaches By TONY REYNA er help Miami beat the 76ers for the first time ever Charles Barkley playing in his second pme since a knee injury NBA Ricky Pierce scored eight of his 23 points during a 10-- 2 spurt to start the fourth quarter as SePacers 130 Knlcks 118 attle defeated Phoenix Chuck Person scored 25 points The Suns closed a as Indiana beat New York first-ha9 deficit to after the No 7 seed for the clinching three periods but Pierce hit three Eastern Conference playoffs straight baskets and two free The victory assured the Pacers throws and Eddie Johnson adwill meet Boston next week in ded a basket as the SupcrSonics the first round of the playoffs and stretched the lead to 1 gave them 29 home wins for the Seattle made nine of its first first time in their NBA shots of the quarter led by history Pierce who made his first five New York’s fifth straight road and the Sonics extended their loss left the Knicks with the No margin to 0 with 4:31 left in 8 and a date with Chicago in spot the game Pierce scored 12 points the playoffs after their regular in the final quarter season finale against Charlotte on Saturday night Cavs 124 Celtics 117 OT lf Standard-Examin- “Yesterday was his first day of practice I’m really happy with his performance" Salt Lake did its share too by not scoring on some golden opportunities as several shots sailed wide of goal “That is probably because it is our first game of the year" said Volostnykh of the missed shots “We have not played together and we need to sharpen our skills” Weber State threatened just ll once and a may have prevented a tie game at the half With just under 14 minutes to play in the opening stanza Scott Michels was setting up for an attempt on goal from 10 yards out when he was bumped hard The ball was cleared by the Sting defense and Weber State was never able to get close again The partisan crowd as well as Vudhivadhana felt that a penalty kick should have been awarded ll “That really hurt us” said Vudhivadhana “Those things happen in a game but it would have been a good chance for us to score" Lay-to- “We won errorless which was a goal that we wanted to do” said Roy Coach JoLeigh Kerr “Wendy Russell pitched a very good game" said Kerr Holly Knudson batted while Kristin Belnap went and Mary Housley Roy upped its record to 2 in league play and 4 overall Lay-to- n slipped to 4 in region play 5-- 9-- 3-- Weber 19 Viewmont 6 At Pleasant View the Warriors no-ca- no-ca- The Sting picked up the pace in the second half and just eight minutes into the period scored their second goal of the night Thor Lee scored on a header from 7 yards out after another inbounds pass got past the Weber State wall of defense Salt Lake was effectively able to keep on the offensive thus denying Weber State any serious threat on goal It was obvious that the Sting was a notch above their competition “We did play a lot of cefensc tonight It was good for us and I think that we learned a lot of things That’s what we were trying to accomplish" said Vudhivadhana staff r After being defeated by Weber High on Tuesday the Roy Royals took on Layton and defeated the Lancers 74 in Friday’s Ren gion 1 girls softball game at whipped the Vikings to bring their record 7-- 0 overall in region and 8-- 1 Weber didn’t score in the first inning but made up for it and then some in the second with 12 runs Kami Shrock did her share with a grand-slahome run for m Trade From IB fourth inning that DeMonge said “I thought was going to travel to the stars” But Audrey Turner caught the ball before it ever touched the ground Bonneville’s record is 2 in region 2 overall Clearfield is 4 in region Bonneville 2 Clearfield 0 Region 5 Bear River 10 BL 6 At Washington Terrace Amy Patterson struck out 12 Falcons as the Lakers blanked the Falcons “Our defense was jacked up today” said Bonneville Coach Carol DeMonge Clearfiefd didn’t come unprepared she said “Their pitcher had a good which caught us offchange-u- p and (made us) pop up the guard ball" DeMongc said “Rick (Miller Clearfield coach) came to play the game" she said Jennifer Wojciechowski of Clearfield had a smash in the At Garland it looked as if the Scotts were going to add a game to the win side but their hopes were crushed in the fifth inning when the Bears erupted “In the fifth inning we walked three people and in the sixth we walked three and that’s what hurt us” said Ben Lomond Coach Chris Tea The Scotts couldn’t get a hit off Sarah Poppleton who entered the game in the fifth Bear River built a two-ru-n lead in the first inning but then Stephanie Errigo hit a home run in the second inning and LeiAnnc Shupe ripped one in the third in at 9 nicked the bar on his first try at 0 “I had the form but no height I’ve got seven feet in me I think I just get tensed up at that height" he said Lundmark’s personal record is which he achieved at last year’s Region 2 meet He has cleared 9 several times this year in outdoor meets 6-- 7-- 6-- 6-- “We had the wrong schedule and we thought the high jump was tomorrow (Saturday) I didn’t bring any food or anything to drink and luckily I had the nght shoes in my bag So everything considered I’m pretty pleased with my jump" said Lundmark He needed a third attempt at 7 and cleared 9 on his second try He then elected to have the bar moved up three inches to 6-- ning that set the Scots’ hopes soaring “The kids played better defense than what they have recently” said Tea 5-- Box Elder 4 Ogden 0 2-- 8-- At Ogden the Bees scored all four runs in the first three innings to post their second win over the Tigers during the region season Mandy Crowson went six innings to pick up the win for Box Elder which is now 1 in the region and 3 overall The Tigers stay winless on the year at 6 and 0 After a run in the first inning the Bees scored twice in the second on a two-ru- n double by Char Rex An inning later Tonya Stokes singled home Staci Wells for the final Box Elder run The Tigers managed just three hits on the day all by freshmen Leftfielder Natalie Wallace had two of those hits and Lori Henderson the other 5-- 8-- 0-- 0-1- Six WSU players advance Special to ttie Standard Examiner POCATELLO — Weber State University advanced three wom0 where he missed all three at- en and three men into today’s tempts at tying the existing quarterfinal round of the Big Sky record Conference Invitational i tennis Five meet records were broken tournament being held at Idaho dunng Friday’s trials with Roy State University In the doubles portion the High’s Jake Shulz setting a new meet mark and Clearfield's Jill Wildcats advanced two men’s Zaugg coming within l100th of doubles teams and two women’s teams into today’s quarterfinals a second of setting another The singles format is a Shulz covered the indraw while the doubles is a termediate hurdles in 3850 secdraw onds while Zaugg clocked a In the women’s bracket Susie 4552 in the 300 hurdles — just Enncnga won both her matches an eyelash off the record of 4551 defeating Lisa Chacon of Nevada set in 1990 by Wasatch High’s (6-- 3 and Piper Lcbarge of Diana Bcscndorfer Boise State (6-- 1 Enncnga Other new meet records were faces Alex Kappel of Northern Arizona the number one seed in set in the following events: the women’s singles today at 9 100 meters — Skyline’s Matt Kristin Kelly won her first Hansen 1074 and American match in the top half draw deFork’s Windy Jorgensen 1194 feating Dawn Bulgin of Montana 200 meters — American State (6-and lost to Kim Fork’s Jorgensen 2501 Wertcnbcrgcr of Nevada (7-- 6 high hurdles — In the bottom half Lisa Debry Hillcrcst’s Troy Nesbit 1422 lost her opening round match to 7-- Lundmark who won the event 6-- four runs in the second inning and a double in the third “We have a big game on Tuesday with Bonneville and I was worried that they (the players) would lose their concentration tonight but they played real well” said Warrior Coach Jan Keim 1 4-- A 32-tca- m 300-met- cr 16-tea- m 6-- 3) 6-- 0 6--2) 110-mct- cr 6-- 2) 0) Rachel Von Rocschlaub of Montana (6-- 1 In the doubles Lani Hunsaker and Engle are the No seeded duo and play today at 3 pm against the team of from Nevada On the men’s side WSU’s Der-mseeded Sweeney is the No player and takes on David Smigel of Montana at 10:30 am in a quarterfinal affair In that same bracket WSU’s Ryan Grant lost in the opening round to Jim Cripe of Montana State (6-- 2 Hans Lissman also lost a first round match in the top half bowing to Mike Burns of Boise State 6 1 The bottom half draw saw Eric Sornas taking two victories over Nick Hclwig (Montana) 1 1 and Peter Pham (Idaho State) 6-- 1) 1 Wertember-gerWertenberg- er ot 1 6-- 2) (1-- 6-- 6-- 2) 6-- 6-- 4 6-- 6-- 4 Johan Strandbcrg playing in the same bracket with Sornas defeated Scott Anderson of Idaho (6-- 2 in the opening round but lost to Nevada’s Paul Grubi in the second round in a tight 6 6 match 6-- 3) 7-- |