Show Standard-Examin- 14A SeaurdayMay41996 er Jazz must deal with Sabonis factor He’s big he’s dominating and he’s playing even better for the Trail Blazers in the playoffs gimpy legs he didn’t establish himself as an elite player But over the final 22 games of the regular season when the Blazers 4 tear and now went on an throita four games of the playoffs people are seeing what the rest of the world was talking different level and he was able to do that He’s not a rookie” Malone said Sabonis has made an amazing difference for Port- land “He’s an inside presence for them” Malone said “Where By TOM McEACHIN would they be without them? staff make a concerted effort about They SALT LAKE CITY - Bas“He’s been very difficult for us now to go to him In the first half ketball fans in Utah are quickly to deal with” said Jazz coach of the season when he was maybe finding out what the rest of the Jerry Sloan feeling his way out and his teamworld learned long ago: Arvydas He has scored at least 25 mates were getting used to him Sabonis can play points in all four games and go- they would go away from him Lithuanian was ing into Sunday’s decisive Game Now he’s the first option” The drafted by the Portland Trail 5 at the Delta Center - NBC has Sabonis has dominated the Blazers in 1986 but they couldn’t finally said it can start at 1 pm Jazz inside so far in the lure him to the NBA until this - Sabonis averages 26 points playoff series The Jazz year 108 rebounds and 20 assists for haven’t found anyone strong He was a legend in Europe the series enough to move him out and Utah’s Karl Malone isn’t sur- they’re not getting help from the helping the Soviet Union win a gold medal in 1988 Olympics and prised to see Sabonis thrive in referees who have let him camp starring in the Spanish League the playoffs even in his first year out under the basket the past six years but he was in the NBA “Our big guys do a good job “He has played playoff games of getting him out as far as possirarely mentioned in this country outside of basketball circles ble but if they don’t call 3 secevery single year” Malone said Even at the start of the season “It’s pretty much the same play- onds on him it’s awful hard” as he struggled with a new team off experience because you know Jazz guard Jeff Homacek said a new language and a pair of you have to raise your game to a “A couple times he was in there r Standard-Examine- 18-- best-of-fi- ve awhile and then our guys said ‘I’ve got to get him out of the lane and then they give him a shove and they get called for a foul We’ve just got to continue doing a decent job on him and we’ll get there” Looking for an answer to Sabonis Sloan (an only joke “We’re going to put a couple of our guys in concrete stretchers and see if we can make them a little bit taller and see how that works out” he said But the Jazz are fans of the way Sabonis plays especially his passing ability outside shooting and team play “He can do a lot of things a lot of big guys can’t do” Malone said “He’s a wonderful player” Sloan added “It’s nice to see guys pass the ball and be willing It’s the way the to share it game was meant to be played” SABONIS: The Lithuanian is averaging over 25 points a game during series with the Jazz NBA playoffs 1: (OT) Game 4: Blazers 98 Jazz 90 Game 5: Sunday 1 pm Delta K1SN-ACenter NBC-T570 KSOS-A800 - V Winner advances to play San Antonio Spurs who defeated the and win Phoenix Suns 1 1 8 series 3-- 1 League 6 Seattle 4 5 Seattle 2 Detroit 0 Baltimore 8 Milwaukee 2 New York 2 Chicago 0 Kansas City 3 Oakland 1 California 4 Minnesota 1 Boston 6 Toronto 1 (susp) National League Chicago 4 New York 2 Los Angeles 10 Pittsburgh 1 Philadelphia 6 Atlanta 3 Houston 4 Montreal 1 Colorado 9 Florida 5 St Louis 3 San Diego 1 Cincinnati 5 San Francisco 3 MYRTLE BEACH staff - es Mike MacWilliam drew a double minor for crosschecking and roughing at 17:09 USA MPPStandardfiaminsr Ogden's Tyler Loveland (right) lands on Box Elder’s Jason Cook as he returns ball during Friday afternoon’s Region 5 game at Brigham City The Tigers won the game 2-- 1 IN FDR A LANDING: Complete baseball softball roundups15A INSIDE: champion is die By JEFF SIMON ability to bounce back”--- Grizzlies coach Standard-Examine- 39-3- goal-tend- er 4-- 3-- 2-- 17:58 tying the game 2-- 2 “The way the power play started off I thought it would be a positive” said Goring “We need to score 5 goals at home and give Tommy a cushion One goal isn’t to cut iL We need to be scoring more goals This wasn’t one of our better efforts and it’s going to be a tough series” “It’s imperative that we win tomorrow” said Utah defenseman Jason Herter “We knew that we weren’t going to walk through Peoria and blow them out” 4-- even-streng- r staff BRIGHAM Utah outshot the River-me- n Butch Goring 2 with Peoria Andre Racicot 1 outplaying Salo 3 “Raricot was great he defended die goal well” said Peoria coach Paul McLean who was a rookie winger with the 1980-8- 1 Salt Lake Golden Eagles “We just got one more goal (actually two) than they did We worked hard to get it done We got good goaltending and we worked hard as a team because there is no tomorrow” The Peoria franchise has been sold trying to relocate to San Antonio with an East Coast Hockey League team coming to town next season “We gave people shots in the slot and that’s not mentally being into the game” Goring said “There is no point in me rantirg and raving because it’s the players that have to get it done We’re going to play games that we’re not happy with and the mark of a champion is the ability to bounce back” The Grizzlies’ Chris Taylor scored a power-pla- y goal at 6:51 of the first period with Mongeau - making his first IHL playoff appearance in three years because of injuries - scoring his first goal at 11:54 Daniel Gauthier gave the Rivermen a 1 lead at 7:39 of the second period with Scott Amiel’s rebound goal at th Grizzlies’ notes: The New York Islanders’ Ai Arbour the team's vice president of hockey operations was m attendance at Friday’s game Arbour coached the Isles to four straight NHL Stanley Cup tiUtah is 3 when scoring the first goal 0-- 2 when tles frnm 1980-8- 3 tied after two periods and 2 when outshooting the opposition Taylor led Utah with six shots on goal and Andrey Vasiljev had Eve After giving up just eight goals in five games vs Kansas City the Grizzlies allowed four goals on Friday r- - i 1 VI K - CITY Three games this week was enough to slow down the Ogden boys soccer team It wasn’t enough to help Box Elder beat the Tigers who scored two second-hal- f goals Friday afternoon to get the victory come-from-behi- That win plus its 3-- 1 over Logan in Thursday’s decision make-u- p kick early in the second half But Ogden roared back with Tim Tcha scoring in the ninth minute of the half and Ryan Thomock in the 13 th minute tie game puts Ogden in a first-plawith Bear River in Region 5 with three games to play during the regular season Friday’s win wasn’t the most impressive of the season but Ogden ce coach Jon Contos was guiding a tired team “We had played three games this week” Contos said “We played good enough to win We didn’t get off to a fast start” Box Elder took a 0 lead when Kevin Hansen scored on a penalty The Associated Press - As if a LOUISVILLE Ky foot problem wasn’t enough the jinxes are stacking up for Unbridled’s Song He is the favorite for today’s Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs and a favorite hasn’t won a Derby since Spectacular Bid in 1979 He won the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and no winner of that race has won a Derby He drew the No 20 post from which only one Derby winner has started Then on Friday he drew No which has never produced a winner when City by Night was scratched because of a foot problem One jinx however doesn’t apply: No champion has won the Derby since again Spectacular 19 V pm Race length: 1 14 miles Bid But Unbridled’s Song wasn’t the champion That was Maria’s Mon Jim Ryerson Unbridled’s Song’s trainer was confident the quarter crack in the gray colt’s left front foot would not keep him from running well in the It appeared the winner of the rf4 i Masters Tournament at the Salt Palace Convention Center The top five after Friday’s action advance to today's stepladder finals 1 8 am Brigham Young’s Robison Track Stadium NCAA football: Weber State Purple-Whit- e Game noon Wildcat Stadium Horsemanship: National 5 Cutting Horse Association Western National — Championships finals 3:30 pm Weber County Fairgrounds IHL playoffs: Peoria vs Utah 7 pm Delta Center PCL baseball: Albuquerque vs Salt Lake 7 pm Franklin Quest Field st Florida Derby and Wood Memorial would run in bar shoes on his two front feet but a final decision won’t be made until today A bar shoe supports and protects the heel the one on the colt’s right foot is for balance “We’re going to go with what he’s thej Prep track and field: Among the human-interestories Charlie Whittingham 83 will try to top himself as oldest trainer to win a Derby when he saddles Corker Tommy Heard 78 will try to become the oldest winning trainer in his first Derby appearance and trainCynthia Reese the er of In Contention will try to become the first woman to train a Derby winner Derby champion Mike Auiby of Indianapolis won four matches Friday to remain in hunt for the $250000 American -Bowling Congress Bud Light At Tremonton the Bears survived the Scots’ trapping defense to win the overtime game and stay tied for first place in the region telling us and not listen to the skeptics” Ryerson said “He’s just telling us he's a special horse” Five of the going into the Derby off losses are trained by D Wayne Lukas who will be trying to stretch his winning streak in Triple Crown races to six The streak is comprised of Tabasco Cat’s Preak-ne- ss and Belmont victories in 1 994 Thunder Gulch’s win in last year’s Derby Timber Country’s win in the Preakness and Thunder Gulch’s Belmont Stakes triumph When: 3:32 (MDT) post time Where: Churchill Downs Coverage: ABC-Tstarting at 2:30 CITY-Defend- ing TAKE A TICKET See SOCCER15A 122nd Kentucky Derby SALT LAKE Bear River 2 Ben Lomond 0 (OT) Derby full of tender feet jinxes Favored Unbridled’s Song trying to capture the roses Auiby on track in of ABC title to earth after heading the Tigers grab share of league lead andthemarkofa tA He was in Taylor custody for about an hour before paying a r1’' $5000 surety bond “Is this going to be in the newspapers?” Taylor later asked The Sun News of Myrtle Beach “You don’t know what ‘ I’m going through You don’t know what I’m going through” Taylor said personal problems led to Friday night's incident nir ranting We’re going to play games that we’re not happy with - Division - raving because it’s the players that have to get it done SC agents -- 4-- - Taylor 37 was booked along with 17 others after the reverse drug sting said Hugh Munn spokesman for the State Law Enforcement -- 20 for future considerations scored on a rebound at 16:41 for a 2 Peoria lead Whatever chance the Griz-Izlihad for a comeback was dashed when burly forward ii All-Pr- best-of-sev- Former Utah forward Bar-Jr-y Nieckar who was traded to the Rivermen on March A Retired o linebacker Lawrence Taylor was arrested Friday night when he tried to buy $100 worth of crack cocaine from undercover SALT LAKE CITY Who took the bite out of the Utah Grizzlies? Lacking the fire and intensity that carried them to a vital Game 5 quarterfinal-roun- d victory over the Kansas City Blades just three days ago the Grizzlies find themselves in dire straits in their Western Conference semifinal-round matchup with the Peoria Rivermen “We didn’t have any intensity and certainly no emotion” Utah coach Butch Goring said “We were just trying to play the game without getting involved For whatever reason we thought it would be an easy hockey game" Pe i ’’s Michel Mongeau scored two goals and added an ssist Friday leading the Rivermen to a pivotal 4-- 2 Game 1 Ain over Utah in the Delta Center Game 2 in this IHL playoff series is at pm in the Delta Center Games 3 4 and 5 are Wednesday Friday and next Saturday if necessary in Peoria 111 “I’m not sure that we lacked any effort but we played 'liked this will be a seven-gam- e series” said Goring ‘“The game wasn’t very physical because we didn’t get into the game Peoria checked us well and they plugged tup the neutral zone We weren’t the better team tonight and Peoria which had a simple game plan - waited "There is no point ' for its opportunity” It was a 2 game going in me and high at 10:34 riV uAa Playoffs i7A Taylor arrested in drug sting By DENNIS LARSEN 2-- v Sports Shorts a into the third period with Mongeau’s second goal of the game and third of the playoffs beating Grizzlies goaltender Tommy Salo up im i i-- Pittsburgh 4 NY Rangers 3 Detroit 3 St Louis 2 Uninspired Utah squad gives IHL playoff home-ic-e advantage away to the Rivermen t American Cleveland Cleveland Texas 11 NHL series opener r 10AZ BASEBALL Grizzlies in ‘ 15A San Antonio 116 Phoenix 98 series tied at 2-- 2 Game Jazz 1 1 0 Blazers 1 02 Game 2: Jazz 105 Blazers 90 Game 3: Blazers 94 Jazz 91 Best-of-fi- Peoria tames 'Standard-Examine- 17A'”'' NBA PLAYOFFS Jazz vs Blazers ' Penguins Red Wings power to wins in series openers k :fr "l BYU Invitational ON THE AIR Baseball: New York Mets at Chicago Cubs WGN 12:20 pm Philadelphia at Atlanta TBS 5:05 pm NBA playoffs: Houston at Seattle NBC 1:30 pm IHL hockey: Turner Cup Playoffs PRIME 2 pm Horse racing: Kentucky Derby ABC 2:30 pm NHL playoffs: Florida at Philadelphia ESPN 5 pm Chicago at Colorado ESPN 8 - - Standard-Examine- r staff "" IK ’r 4'" ° To and wire services' |