| Show Standard-Examine- Sports 2B Saturday May 11999 r : SPORTS BRIEFS UTAH STATE FOOTBALL Storm Raiders will meet in Utah Football League battle Like weather Aggies defense pours it on ROY - The Top of Utah’s two entries in the Utah Football League will square off at 6 pm tonight at Roy High School Both teams picked up their first wins last Saturday The Northern Utah Storm whipped the West Jordan (1-- 1) Bull- while the South Ogdogs 4 beat the Elko den Raiders Gunslingers 14-- 6 Even though they’ve never met the Storm and Raiders already have a healthy rivalry already going In fact players from opposing teams are roommates Others played together and against each other in high school and college "W'e're real excited about the rivalry” Storm coach Rick Sparks said “Our offensive line played well and our offense placed much better (in the second game)” 59-1- (1-- “They’re the defending champs and we’ll have to play our best to dethrone them” Raiders ownercoach Alofaalo Williausva “We’re said pumped up for this game” NFL FOOTBALL: Steelers Stewart reach contract agreement - Bill PITTSBURGH Cowher says Kordell Stewart will be his quarterback as long as he coaches the Pittsburgh Steelers Apparently that will 2003 Despite watching Stewart’s production drop precipitously as they went 7-- 9 last sea- son the Steelers apparenthave ly worked out the details of an extension that will run at least three more seasons Stewart said several days ago that a new contract was imminent Stewart already is set to make S205 million this season and S25 million in 2000 though his base salary could drop next year to reflect a signing bonus of about $10 million planned move Patriots’ to Hartford called off - The New BOSTON Emgland Patriots are back where they started calling off a deal to move to Connecticut because a stadium could not be built fast enough fn a major blow to Connecticut Patriots spokesman Stacey James said the team notified Gov John Rowland of “our ter- mination” The Patriots did not immediately disclose their plans for a stadium but the NFL intends to discuss the situation in Atlanta on May 25 PREP FOOTBALL: Park City parents sue UHSAA over injuries SALT LAKE CITY -Parents of four Park City High School football players injured in a game last fall against Uintah High have filed suit against the Utah High School Activities Association for letting their boys play those from the larger school They contend Uintah in Verinnal should compete in 4-stead of “We are concerned about the safety of our kids and we are going to see this thing through It is a fairness issue” said Park City attorney Terry Christiansen whose son Clay suffered a knee injury last fall in Park City’s 41-- 7 loss to Uintah ”Vc want Uintah put in pure and simple” Christiansen A 3-- A 4-- A said The UHSAA says Uintah which is 130 to 180 miles from schools in Salt Lake and Utah counties belongs in to cut down on travel and time David Evans Jim Pack and Don Wilson also had sons who suffered ankle foot and elbow injuries and are plaintiffs in the suit They say that a small school forced to compete in football and other contact sports against a larger school creates an unsafe situation because the larger school has a deeper pool of plaers and can substitute in fresh players against tired ones The suit asks for unspecified damages and seeks a temporary restraining order to stop the UHSAA from classifying Uintah as a school until the matter is heard in court The lawsuit lists Uintah’s enrollment at 1518 and Park City’s at 750 4-- 3-- A 3-- A ATHLETICS: COLLEGE - OGDEN Sky Big Conference commissioner Doug Fullerton this week announced that Ellen Marie Ferris has been named assistant commissioner of compliance services Ferris comes from Southern Methodist University She also worked with the Southland Conference on compliance and sports management issues PRO GOLF: Sutton Sindelar share Houston Open lead THE WOODLANDS Texas - Hal Sutton and Joey Sindelar 68s Frieach shot day for the second straight day 136 and share the to go midway lead in the Houston Open Jeff Gallagher making the cut for only the fourth time in 1 3 events this year had a 69 and was one shot back Omar Uresti Mark Wiebe and Australian Stuart Appleby were 138 after two rounds at David Duval the world’s player was in a 70 group at 139 after a Friday top-rank- shoots 67 for senior lead Duval first-roun- d first-roun- Vincente Fernandez Jay Sig-Larry Nelson and Graham Marsh were three shots behind Duval Bruce Summerhays was at 1 under el -- to the movies LPGA cancels round as PRO TENNIS: victory over second-see- d Jason Stoltenberg of Australia to gain the semifinals of the $325000 AT&T Challenge 6-- 2 d Sebastien Gros-jea- n of France advanced as well Fifth-see- with a 6-- 7-- 6 4 (7-- victory over 5) Sargis Sargsian of Armenia Grosjean now faces Jim Couri(8-6 1 winner over American Justin Gimelstob earlier in the day in a match delayed because of rain from 6 Thursday night and a 1 (7-winner over Martin Rodriguez er a 7-- 6-- 6) 7-- 6-- 2) Venus Williams wins Novotna ousted at Hamburg HAMBURG Germany -S- Venus Williams econd-seeded reached the semifinals of the Betty Barclay Cup with another display of power tennis Friday Jana Novotna while was upset W illiams used her powerful serve to beat Amanda Coeter 6--3 4 Barbara Schett pulled off the first big upset beating 3 Novotna 4 In todaj’s semifinals Schctt will face Mary Pierce who beat Spain’s Conchita Martinez 4 d 4 Williams plays top-seed- 6-- 6-- 6-- 6-- third-seede- 6-- Arantxa Sanchez-Vicari- ousted Silvia - here" Dane Kidman an reshman place-kickfor the accounted Ogden High graduate W hue team’s scoring with field goals from 28 and 24 yards but with his team trailing 6 field goal from 42 his potential yards away fell short late in the fourth quarter The Blue team got on the scoreboard again with 1:11 remaining in the game when touchdown pass Logan Galli flipped a to Matt Schumann But typifying the tough kind of night it was for a USU offense which struggled much of last season kicker Brad candidate Bohn the Aggies’ shanked the PAT attempt “Both defenses did a good job of keeping the offense out of the end zone” said defensive coordinator Paul Arslanian who guided defense the Blue team “The second-tearose up and made some big plays and I was happy to see them step up and do what they did tonight” I 7-- go-ahe- m Offensively John Roberts (15 carries for 62 yards) and Damon Moore (10 for 47) led the Aggies’ ground game But all of their quarterbacks struggled as Crosbie completed passes for 116 yards In all the just for 171 yards and four Aggies were interceptions through the air Walker Gwangee Pittman Aminifu Johnson and Jesse Busta each came up with interceptions while Joe Solosabal Ryan Solo-moBrent Passey Vaea Fiefia Cade Smith Caleb Smith Adebola Jimoh Kyle ' Langston and Vashon Garmon also came up with big plays on defense Steve Mullins with a 457-yar- d average on seven punts emerged as a bright spot on a dreary night “I thought with the wet field that maybe it would slow things down a little bit” said ' USU head coach Dave Arslanian “but there t was some real hitting out there I was pleased with the physical aggressive play we demon- strated tonight and by a couple of great goal-lin- e ? stands the Blue team made “We might not have demonstrated it to- night but our offense made great strides this spring and we’re a much better offensive i team than we were a year ago We look more like the kind of offense that we want to ’ na have” i REGION 1 TENNIS PREP TRACK & FIELD Davis stumbles in quest for title Shaw leads decathlon at BYU meet By CHRIS CHRISTENSEN r correspondent SALT LAKE CITY - Davis High one of the favorites to fare well in the upcoming state boys tennis tournament made a good showing at the Region championships held at Liberty Park Friday afternoon Although Davis didn’t win any singles or doubles championships on the day they came oh so close on a couple of occasions Representing Davis in the championship finals was No 3 seed Cody Haacke an upset winner in the semifinals over highly-toute- d Adam Poulson of Cottonwood But the wet conditions were a factor and Flaacke never got on track as he fell in the finals to 1 Nick Kaloudis of Skyline 1 Both Darts’ doubles teams were represented as well with the No seeded Darts namely the duo of RossChnstensen eventually falling to the better Skyline team in 2 the finals 1 The No 2 doubles tandem of Mike Carmack and Darrell Thomas from Davis seeded first in the region tournament wiped out the competition on their way to the finals But a few mental errors cost them the cham(5-6 7 pionship in three sets 2 “If somebody told me that we would come in today and lose all of our chances at individual championships today I probably would have laughed” said Davis coach Jerry Hogge “We just made those few mistakes and that was the determining factor The unforced errors are a killer and we tried to force the issue by making shots that we can’t By BOB HUDSON 5-- A 1 PROVO - Box Elder’s Tyler Shaw enjoyed himself Friday After the first day of the BYU Invitational the defending champion leads the decathlon That 1 -- 6-- high-jump- 6-- 6-- 2-- A make” Davis also had their other singles players vying for third place Senior Matt Smoot battled all day with Viewmont’s Brandon Flammer After Flam-mwon the first set 4 Smoot earned the second set win 3 but Flammer turned it on and outlasted Smoot in the third 3 Smoot’s younger brother JC Smoot lost in straight sets to Viewmont’s Bryson Bach5 man 3 The entire Davis squad - along with will play in the Northridge’s Glen Park state championships next week at Liberty Park er 6-- 6-- 6-- 6-- is 1 6-- 3-- competition multi-eve- nt the centerpiece of the 88th annual meet Through five events Shaw has 3621 points while Brandon Farnsworth of West Jordan is second at 3258 with Ben Stewart of Hurricane third at 3253 Shaw had the best time in the 100 at 1 32 seconds had a long jump of 20-- 8 threw the shot 46-1- 0 0 and ran 5274 in the 400 “My 100 was slow” Shaw said “I came out of the blocks really slow and had to catch everybody “I was disappointed in my shot put and long jump because I have done two feet better in both” he continued Shaw who will compete at Weber State next year wasn’t the only Top of Utah athlete to fare well in the meet The rest of the day belonged to the schools St Jostate and seph’s boys and girls finished 17th overall in the competition Manuel Chavez placed second in the 1600 He ran the distance in 4:3877 with Carlos Rojas of Meadows a private school in Nevada edging him at 4:3829 Mary Dinsdale took third in the discus with a throw of 100 feet 9 inches and Natalie Lower was seventh in the high jump (4-- 6-- 6-- correspondent r Standard-Examine- A 6) events Today the 7-- Davis High’s Darrell Thomas returns the Region 1 doubles competition on Friday afternoon at Liberty Park MAXING A RETURN: - a serve 5-- A in will be decided Davis and Box Elder will be among the boys favorites Mountain View and Kearns are expected to battle for the girls crowns PREP ROUNDUP Larsson upsets No 2 seed Stoltenberg DULUTH GA - Unfazed by wind sprinkling rain and chilly temperatures Magnus Larsson of Sweden coasted to a 2 Blue-W'hit- 6-- MURRELLS INLET SC -When Michelle Estill woke to wind rain and cold Friday at the LPGA City of Hope Myrtle Beach Classic one thought jumped in her head “It’s movie day” she said About an inch of overnight rain and the threat of more throughout the day led the LPGA to cancel the round and shorten the tournament to 54 holes To Estill whose 72 was four shots behind leaders Judy Inkster and Amy Benz dealing with rain is part of the job - and a nice break in the grind of weekly tournaments She still planned to work out and stretch but then she and Gail Graham were going to check out Sean Connery’s new movie “Entrapment” 6-- LOGAN - The rain drizzled the defense sizzled and the offense fizzled That pretty much summed up Friday e spring football night’s annual State at Utah University where wet game weather conditions and a strong stingy defensive performance paved the way for a offensive showing For the record the Blue team won 13-- 6 but it was the Aggies’ defense and the rain -which turned into a downright downpour in the second half - that dominated things on this night On the game’s first play from scrimmage defensive back Tony Walker picked olT a Jell’ Crosbie pass and returned it 52 yards to give the Blue team a touchdown - what turned out to be the only TD of the first half and until the final minute the only one of the entire game “They tried to bait me but I was watching the back coming out of the backfield” Walker naid “(Crosbie) threw it up there and I just went up and got it The sideline was open and I got a couple of good blocks downticld and just took it all the way in “Both sides of the defense did a real good Standant-Examne- HOOVER Ala - Bob Duval sloshed through damp blustery fairways Friday to shoot a d 67 for the lead in the Bruno’s Memorial Classic While other Senior PGA Tour players were trying to figure out which of their long irons to use in the stiff wind Duval birdied three of the final nine holes including No 18 on the round way to a bogey-fre- e Joe Inman birdied three of the final four holes to join Tommy Aaron Larry Ziegler Walter Hall and Mike Hill at It’s off give up any points exfield of a for goals and we only couple cept gave up one big play all night “The rain slows you down a little bit” Walker said “but you’ve got to get used to placing in all kinds of weather especially up slaff r Standard-Examine- Big Sky names Ferris its compliance officer as job tonight We didn’t By RANUY HOLUS 1 arina Standard-Examin- who o er and 6-- 2 6-- 4 staff Hire services Tigers snare share of Region 7 soccer crown By JUSTIN JOHNSON Standard Examiner correspondent OGDEN - The Ogden Tigers have been waiting for three years to have the region trophy back By defeating the Morgan Trojans 1 on Friday the Tigers clinched no worse than a tie for the Region 7 boys soccer championship “I think we have the talent for it (the region championship) so that’s one of the things you hope to accomplish” Ogden coach Ken Robinson said “It wasn’t our main goal though It was to play 80 minutes and we didn’t do that today I think we were retoday” ally The Tigers got going early with a Cody Hadley tally that made it just a minute into the contest but that would be all the first-ha- lf offense “Morgan has improved since the first time we played them It at halftime and that was was a scare o us” Robinson said It took the Tigers just 12 minutes of the second half to put the game away f irst up was a Brett Williams’ blast that sailed right past Morgan’s goalkeeper Williams added another then Hadley added a second goal and just like that it was 4-- 0 “I thought we played very well in the first half but in the second half I think we let players and calls get into our heads we lost 5-- over-confide- nt 1- -0 Region 7 boys soccer League L T W 8 7 6 4 3 Ogden Ben Lomond Tooele Morgan Bear River Granite 1 0 Overall W L T 9 3 0 2 0 3 5 7 10 0 0 0 0 0 9 2 2 - - 5 8 0 - - - our concentration” Morgan coach Carol Anderson said Ben Lomond 3 Granite 2 At Salt Lake City the Scots got a scare from the pesky Farmers “I think the kids came in a litbut we’ll take tle the win” Ben Lomond coach Donnie Greenfield said “Bubba Laughter played well for us" over-confide-nt David Gongora and Cody goals Laughter scored but Granite made it 1 just befirst-ha- lf 2-- fore halftime In the second half Gordon Rigley scored to make it 1 but the Farmers again made it close 3-- Tooele 1 Bear River 0 At Tooele Lauren Jacks scored the game’s only goal as the Buffaloes clinched one of the league’s top three berths for the tournament state 3-- A boys league St Joseph 5 Meridian 1 At Mount Ogden Park the Jayhawks smashed the Mon goose with a strong offensive attack AJ Yerage scored two while Joe Schwartz Luke Peterson and Patrick Murphy each added a goal for the Jayhawks (3-- 2 in overall) league play “I thought we played very hard and very well” St Joseph coach Chad Loosemore said “Sometimes it’s tough playing two good games in a row but I was really impressed with the kids today” g’ris league SL Joseph 2 Grand 0 At Mount Ogden Park the Jayhawks (8-- 3 in league play overall) returned to their winning ways by downing the Red Devils (5-“What’s been killing us is that we need to play intense for 80 minutes” St Joseph coach Alex Salvo said “We didn’t do that against Waterford but I felt like we did a better job of it today” Sami Evans and Amanda Slet-te- n scored the Jayhawks’ two goals -1 7) Region 7 baseball Ben Lomond 10 Morgan 5 At Morgan the Scots came from behind by scoring nine runs in the last two innings Jay Estes had three hits four RBIs and three runs scored Aaron Poll added two hits for Ben 1 1 Lomond (5--7 overall) 6-- Jared Venz had two of the Trojans’ four hits with Morgan 1 overall) committing eight errors 5-- (1-1- Region 7 softball Bear River 1 Tooele 0 At Tooele the Bears (9-- 0 13-- 3 overall) clinched the league title -their first since sharing the Region 5 title in 1991 - with a season sweep of the defending state champion Buffaloes (6-“The kids were excited about winning the region title I’ve been waiting a long time (seven years) for it” Bear River coach Sandie Trapp said “I felt like we had the team right from the start to do it “We only stranded two runmisners but some takes cost us a chance to score some more runs We had a couple of base runners on third and didn’t score” 3-- A 2) base-runni- River freshman Courtnie Woerner tossed a five-hshutout - her Bear right-hand- er it first league shutout - with four strikeouts and no walks Mistie Williams went with a double with Jamie Hang sen’s double driving in the game’s lone run Three of the Bears’ five hits went for extra bases Standard-Examinstaff writer Dennis Larsen and correspondent Chad Pritchett contributed to this third-innin- er report |
