| Show Out of money and playoffs Scoreboard Theaters Classifieds Bankrupt Pittsburgh Penguins eliminated from NHL postseason in overtime 2C Standard-Examin- Tuesday May 1 8 er Game 1: 1 999 Executive Sports Editor: Portland at Utah 8:30 pm (KJZZ TNT) Are Jazz too old to win or too tough to lose? now begins over again In the NBA there’s never time to savor your last And and little chancemuch to catch your breath it all staff 6-- 6-- 8) (6-8- first-roun- st TIM SCHOONStandard Examiner Utah’s John Stockton is fouled by d Sacramento’s Chris Webber dunng Sunday’s game at the Delta Center The Jazz who survived a very physical series with the Kings expect another brusing battle with Portland ALL WRAPPED UP first-roun- first-roun- See HOLUS2C See JAZZ2C Darts Longtime NFL rivalry silence renewed Knights Steelers Browns exchange cheap shots at ‘Grudge Luncheon’ Davis moves on at state baseball tournament with win over Northridge The Associated Press -- jFLEVELAND & Pittsburgh Steelers By CHRIS CHRISTENSEN Standard Examiner correspondent This one was for all the marbles Davis facing Northridge for the third time this year kept its state title hopes alive on Monday with a 1 victory over the tournament acKnights in tion at Lindquist Field Northridge took advantage of three walks and a wild pitch to take a lead in the top of the first inning But Davis answered g run to even the with a score From there Davis’ Jeff Tibbs and Northridge’s Danny Wilding each pitched three innings of hitless baseball Wilding also used a move to tag out great pick-of- f four Davis runners in the game Davis finally broke through offensively in the fifth inning and loaded the bases for Nate Groll double to who belted a two-oscore two runners and give the Darts the lead for good Davis padded its lead with another run in the sixth inning Tibbs who pitched a earlier in the tournament had another going into the sixth inning before BJ Misik spoiled the pardouble ty with a one-oAfter going six innings Tibbs was pulled for Bronson Patten who after giving up a one-odouble to Jason Friz sat down the rest of the Knights in the seventh to get the save Davis moves on to face Alta 5-- 5-- A first-innin- $MfT k ‘i c ! 'r ' ' 'W ut BRIAN Examiner Applegate dives back to first base before Brighton's Mitch Evers can make the tag tournament game at Lindquist Field The Bengals defeated the Lancers HE’S SAFE: Layton’s T race during Monday’s state NICHOLSONStandard 7-- 5 5-- A no-hitt- er ut ut an 8-- am 1 winner over Hunter at today 11 fifth as the Lancers tallied two runs in the inning to cut the deficit to 3 Leading the charge was Layton’s Demck Thomas who went in the game and scored the Lancers’ first run of the fifth inning on a Luke Northern singly See State 6-- Brighton 7 Layton 5 At Lindquist Field Region 1 champion Layton fell to the Brighton Bengals but not without a little suspense After falling behind 1 Layton’s bats finally woke up in the 6-- C At 5-- baseball A Monday's results Ogden's Lindquist Field Davis 5 Northridge 1 Bnqhton 7 Layton 5 Hillcrest 3 Copper Hills 4 Alta 8 Hunter 1 Today's games Davis vs Alta 11am Hillcrest vs Brighton 1 30 p m T aylotsville vs West Jordan 4 30 p m Bingham vs Mountain View 7pm NOTE Wednesday s games are at 1 30 4pm and 7pm Jayhawks’ boys girls squads fall in semifinals of 2--1 I --A tournament Standard Examiner staff - Like many WENDOVER Wasatch Front residents trekking back home across the Western Utah desert the St Joseph boys and girls soccer teams must have felt a little unlucky Although each squad reached A its respective state final game each fell short with the boys losing to host Wendover -- 2-- 2 and the girls dropping a 0 decision to Wasatch Academy After dropping a 1 contest to Wendover two weeks ago the St Joseph boys put up a gallant effort in the rematch The Wildcats jumped out to a 0 lead within the game’s first 15 minutes however goals by Todd Schwartz and Joel Reed knotted the score at 2 early in the second 2-- 3-- 7-- 2-- half The Jayhawks had their chances down the stretch and put themselves in position to win but were unable to capitalize Wendover netted the game- - winner with about 18 minutes to go to move into the championship game St Joseph senior captain Luke Petersen finished out his high school career with a strong game from the sweeper and midfield positions “It was a close good game” St Joseph coach Chad Loose-mor- e said “We played about as good as we could It was a tremendous effort on our part” The St Joseph girls saw their season come to an end under similar circumstances The Jayhawks battled the Tigers to a scoreless tie until midway through the second half Wasatch Academy scored to take lead and then tacked on an a insurance goal with five minutes to play “We dominated most of the game" St Joseph coach Alex Salvo said “We had two open-nopportunities and didn’t finish We couldn't put the ball in the net” Nkoyo Lffiong Shawna Evans et and Maureen running back Rocky Bleier broke into the Cleveland Browns’ secondary only to be stopped cold and wrestled to the ground by Cleveland's No 53 backup linebacker Bill Cowher Of all the great plays and players shown in the NFL films video this one was nothing special However Doug Dieken pointed out its historic significance "It was nice of NFL films to show Bill Cowher’s tackle” Dieken said of the current Steelers coach “Actually Bill had two other tackles One was a guy going out of bounds and the other was a goalpost” Dicken’s cheap shot was one of many taken Monday as the Browns and Steelers rekindled their heated rivalry over lunch for the second time this month The second “Grudge Luncheon” a charity event gave some former and current Browns - and some vocal fans - a chance to mingle before they begin hating each other for real again The Browns are returning to the league in 1999 following hiatus as an a three-yea- r expansion team Fittingly they’ll open the season and a new stadium against the dreaded Steelers on Sept 12 in a nationally televised game Dieken a Browns offensive tackle and Myron Cope the Steelers’ acerbic radio analyst added fuel the old rivalry's flames “Here I am in Cleveland again after an enjoyable absence of three years” said Cope Then it was Dieken’s turn He remembered breaking from the Browns’ huddle lining up against Pittsburgh's “Steel Curtain” defense and being awed by the names on the other side “You’d see Jack Lambert smiling and you’d realize they’ve got some dam good football players” Dieken said “But we’ve got a better dental American League Boston 8 Toronto 7 Cleveland 13 Chicago 9 Tampa Bay 13 Texas 3 Seattle 15 Minnesota 5 National League Philadelphia 4 Montreal 3 Chicago 8 Florida 1 Atlanta 2 Pittsburgh 1 Milwaukee 7 New York 6 Cincinnati 7 Colorado 2 Arizona 12 San Francisco Sports Shorts Clearwater Wright win Open qualifier LEHI - Almost every golfer dreams of playing in the US Open For Jon Wright and Keith Clearwater their dreams of playing at Pinehurst Country Club for the 1999 U S Open are still alive Monday at Thanksgiving Point golf course Wright shot a 68 and Clearwater 70 at the par-7- 2 a 7728-yarLehi course to earn the two available spots for the sectional qualifying tournament in June Mark Owen defeated Nick Klassen in a playoff to earn the first alternate position d Stars capitalize on Buzz miscue LAS VEGAS - Aaron s Guiel scored the winning run and the Las Vegas Stars took advantage of a misplayed ball as it edged the Salt Lake Buzz 3 Monday in Pacific Coast League play trailed The Stars (19-1in the ninth with men on first and second and one out Ben Davis hit into what should have been a double play but Buzz second baseman Jeff Ferguson misplayed the ball and all three runners were safe Pinch hitter Frank Charles then singled to score Chris Prieto David Newhan hit into a fielders choice but the Buzz were unable to get two out and Guiel scored David Ortiz hit two home runs for the Buzz ) 4-- 3-- 2 (15-21- HiHIMHHiHHnMHnHKg Take A Ticket NBA playoffs: Portland at Utah Delta Center 8 30 p m PCL baseball: Memphis at Salt Lake Franklin Covey Field 6 15 pm Prep sports: See complete schedule on Scoreboard 3C On The Air 5 30 p m - NHL playoffs Colorado at Detroit ESPN 530 pm - NHL playoffs Boston at Buffalo ESPN2 5 30 p m - MLB baseball Pittsburgh at Atlanta TBS 6 pm - NBA playoffs: New York at Atlanta TNT 7pm- - MLB baseball Cincinnati at Colorado FSRM Wolf-Bertlin- paced the Jayhawks g plan” Sports Quote Shocking From Jay Leno “Bad news for professional wrestling TV Guide is reporting that a female wrestler named Chastity once appeared in a porno movie just hope this one incident 1 doesn’t overshadow the family-valuemessage that professional wrestling has been sending all these years" - Standard-Examine- r stafl and wire services wwwttndrd ' i 1 14-ye- ar St Joseph soccer teams unlucky on Wendover trip state lines SALT LAKE CITY - The Jazz need just two words to sum up their challenge of facing the Portland I rail Blazers in the playoffs: Big trouble For starters there is center Arvydas Saboms and his 1 backup Kelvin Cato And there’s 1 Rasheed Wallace who can cither back up the muscular 9 Brian Grant at power forward or even play small forward And there’s 6 guard Isaiah Rider who is two inches taller and 25 pounds heavier than Utah counterpart Jell' Homacck not to mention Jim Jackson (6-Stacey Aug-mo- n (6-and Walt Williams who can also play ) guard d Considering how the Jazz struggled tn their senes with the Sacramento Kings when they only had to contend with a pair of big men (Vlade Divac and Chris Webber) the Jazz anticipate all suits of problems in their best-of-- 7 second-roun- d series which tips off tonight at the Delta Center “I’m sure Portland was watching us play our interior defense and will come right at us" coach Jerry Sloan said “(Sacramento) did and had us on the ropes all the time” Utah’s problem matching up with Portland is compounded by the fact many of the big bodies they can throw at the Blazers have not been playing well Sloan rotated centers Greg Ostertag Greg I oster and Todd Fuller throughout the Sacramento series never finding one to give the team a consistent effort Ostertag who had 16 points and six blocked shots in Game I played just six minutes in Game 5 It took him less than three minutes to get into foul trouble in that game and he was ineffective the rest of the night late-seas- OGDEN Side By TOM McEACHIN Standard-Examin- first-roun- - 625-426- 1 Portland could present ‘big’ problems for Utah The questions now beg to be answered: Are the Utah Jazz finally showing signs of their advanced age? Have they grown too old to win the championship? Or is it that very vital ingredient m the form of their veteran leadership and experience that will finally propel them to the title this year? Well you couldn't exactly say the Jazz were “fresh” from their d series triumph especially with the exhausting excruciating way they struggled past a spunky Sacramento squad which was seemingly a decided underdog when the best-of-- 5 series began But the Jazz survived - just barely -thanks to a season-savin- g shot by John Stockton plenty of clutch plays by Karl Malone Jell' Ilomacck and Bryon Russell and a couple of much-neede- d sparkplug performances off the bench by Shandon Anderson So what do they get for their efforts? A second-roun- d matchup against the Portland Trail Blazers another one of those oung hungry and athletic balldubs that challenged lor the league's best regular-seaso- n record much of the year It took a slump to relegate them to the third-bemark in the Western Conference It appeared perhaps that Portland had peaked too soon but a d playoff sweep over Phoenix ended that speculation in a hurry “One through 12 Portland has the best talent in the 5--A I at nt |
