| Show rt Kitting ciinic ports Friday May 21 Standard-Examine- r Buzz belt out 1 3 hits on way to 1 6 win over Redbirds 6D Scoreboard 0-- Executive Sports Editor: 1 999 625-426- 1 SIDE Game 2: Portland 84 Utah 81 tempting D fate finally LIMES fails Jazz If Dream season i you insist on living your life the edge sooner or later gonna fall off as those Or wise old Far Eastern philosophers used to say 0n the TV show “Rung Fu”: If tnoth spends too much time fluttering close to flame it will someday get burned (Well it was something like that I was probably watching MASH reruns instead) Any how the Utah Jazz w ho have been hanging all 10 toes over the edge and tempting fate for more than a week finally fell off Thursday night And like that moth Grasshopper they got badly burned The Portland Trail Blazers did something that the Sacramento Kings couldn’t do holding off Utah’s heroic comeback bid down the stretch and hanging on for a vital 84-8-1 road victory m Game 2 of their Western Conference semifinal series The Jazz had wrangled their way out of a pair of similar seemingly hopeless situations in Games 4 and 5 against the Kings d barely surviving that g senes thanks to a shot by John Stockton and a senes-savin- g miss by Sacramento’s Vlade Divac And m Game 1 of this senes the Trail Blazers’ record-settin- g collapse in the fourth quarter paved the way for Utah’s wm Tuesday But this time there would be p shot like Stockton’s no dramatic buzzer-beatin Game 4 No repneves like the one they received from Divac And no fourth-quartgifts from the enemy either “They made some big shots down the stretch” Portland coach Mike Dunleavy said of the Jazz “That’s why they are who they are They just keep commg at you” Brimming with confidence after their last three gntty wins the Jazz kept coming at the Blazers this time too Utah trailed by nine points with less than five minutes left by five points with under a mmute remaining and by four points with 177 seconds to go yet never gave up and still had a chance a the final buzzer “We always feel like if we get an opportunity at the end we’ll have a chance to win the game” said Jazz guard Jeff Homacek h who fueled their latest Jack’s back playoff series with Jazz INSIDE: Nicklaus returns to competitive golt this week Jazz Blazers perspective 6D 2D By TOM McEACHIN Standard Examiner staff SALT LAKL CIIY - It took less than a minute for the Jazz to let Thursday’s game slip away from them Tor 3 12 quarters the battled the Portland Trail Blazers to a draw standing up to the phssieal play battling back from a cold first half and surviving a 15-- 0 Portland run m the third quarter When Shandon Anderson tied the seore at 64 with 6 58 left in the game it appeared the Jazz had taken control In a blink of an eye though it was lost Portland put seven points on the scoreboard before the Jazz knew what hit them breaking the game open in a span of 48 seconds to spark their 84-8- 1 victory at the Delta Center The victory evened the best-of-- 7 with the playoff series at next two games at Portland’s Rose Garden this weekend “We were not really playing with a great deal of intensity” Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said “We were just allowing too many things to happen” In the wake of the $10000 fine Utah’s Karl Malone received from the NBA for elbowing Portland's Brian Grant in Game 1 the two battled each other from the opening tip sending each other to the bench in foul trouble less than four minutes into the game But the physical play that was so prevalent from both teams m the senes opener never escalated probably because neither side had much left after a draining Game 1 Both teams shot 23 percent in the first quarter on Thursday and Portland’s lead after an anemic 1 first half was “That was some ugly basketball” Jazz guard Jeff Homacek said “It seemed like shots were going m and out on both sides” Grant and Malone were the only players sconng in double figures at halftime when they had 13 points apiece and for a while it looked like the game would be WHATEVER FT TAKES: Utah's more than their personal nothing Greg Ostertag (left) and duel John Stockton (right) put Both players scored 10 more pressure on Portland’s points in the second half but as Isaiah Rider dunng Thursday other players got involved m the night's NBA playoff game at offense the game opened up the Delta Center Rider The Jazz jumped out to a scored 27 points to lead the 4 lead early in the third quarTrail Blazers to the 84-8- 1 ter but Portland came right back victory which tied the senes with a 15-- 0 outburst keyed by a atone game apiece See JAZZ2D first-roun- game-winnin- come-from-behi- last-gas- er do-or-d- ie er 32-3- Utah vs Portland Tuesday’s result Utah 93 Portland 83 Thursday’s result Portland 84 Utah 81 (senes tied Saturday's game Utah at Portland 1 p m MDT 41-3- Sunday's game Utah at Portland 6 30 p m MDT Tuesday May 25 Portland at Utah TBA last-ditc- See HOLUS2D Bees add another crown memory Box Elder girls post three shutout wins for state 4-softball championship Rocky Mountain Junior High 3D snags baseball trophy Portland puts pretty finish on ugly game to even remont dropped the undefeated Region 4 champion Bees F on Wednesday scoring the winning run with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning on By DENNIS LARSEIN a Box Elder error Standard Examiner staff The Silver Wolves needed just HOLLADAY - How do you one win Thursday to capture softball title their first state spell dynasty? as in Box Elder but the Bees wouldn’t back Try down dealing Fremont decisive Bees 10-- 0 setbacks “We are the champions” is not 4--0 and Box Elder (22-- 7 "an unfamiliar phrase to the Box overall) which won 21 of its last 22 Elder softball team but what ocgames shut out Weber 0 in curred Thursday at game Cottonwood Complex carved yet Thursday’s losers-ou- t Another niche in an already earning another shot at the Silver Wolves program 4-“I feel good right now” said tournament Facing state elimination throughout the day Marcie Neff who threw 20 scoreless innings finishing with nine with one loss ending their season the Bees posted three shutout individual season shutouts “It was a total team effort I victories over Region 4 rivals Weber and Fremont - blanking couldn’t have had three shutouts the Silver Wolves twice - sweepwithout my defense behind me championship for the We have lots of talent at Box Eling the fourth time in the last five years der We love to play softball and “We came in thinking we we do anything to wm” could win three games and we’re Marcie Neff follows older sisthere” Box Elder senior ters Allicen and Natalie as an inright-handMarcie Neff said tegral part of the Bees’ state “There never was a question of championship run only winning one game We were Younger sister Ashley - a cenfrustrated after Wednesday's ter fielder and designated hitter -game but this team shakes things who got her first taste of the suc- off and comes back with a differSee SOFTBALL3D ent attitude” 2-- A - The tradi-tion-n- soccer semifinals and st soccer title tonight champiagainst defending on Bountiful Game time is 5 p m at Hillcrest High “Before the game I got on the bus and told the kids that this was for Jona (injured 4-- A er ALAN CHAMPIONSHIP BATTLE: Box Elder’s Dust Winward MURHAYStandard-Examme- (5) is safe al second base as Fremont’s Kate Peterson loses the ball dunng Thursday’s state softball championship game 4-- WILLARD BAY STATE PARK - Utah State Parks and Recreation will hold its free boating safety and personal watercraft demonstration day on Saturday frm 10 a m to 5 p m at Willard Bay State Park South Marina There will be an opportunity 7pm - MLB baseball 3-- state free boating day Arizona at Colorado FSRM came away with a 1 victory over Provo in action at Hill-creHigh School Bonneville can wm its first 4-- A Willard Bay offers 6pm- - NBA playoffs Indiana at Philadelphia TNT Bonne- the boys from Washington 4-- A I didn t make a lot of mistakes” Garrido said “1 hit the ball real well off the tee and ” ended up hitting 16 greens Matt Jones and Jeff Qumney each shot 3 under par 69 allowing Arizona State to lead team standings The Sun Devils’ aggregate 283 was total of five shots better than the team scores of UNLV and BYU Todd Rose of Fresno State joined Jones and Quinney in the tie for second There was tie for fifth another three-wa-y with David Hearn of Wyoming James Spence of San Diego State and Washington s Troy Kelly two shots off the lead baseball Chicago Cubs at Atlanta TBS Terrace put it all on the line Thursday night at the state A Regional golf tournament Garrido birdied the first two holes of his back nine start and another before the turn before finishing at 4 under par Thursday at the 7025 yard par 72 Tucson National Golf Resort ON THE AIR 5 30 p m - MLB ville Lakers had already exceeded the coach’s expectations So playing for themselves 2-- TUCSON Ariz - Brigham Young University’s Jose Garrido opened with a 68 and leads medal play after the first round of the NCAA Men s West 4-- A correspondent MIDVALE goiter in lead at NCAA regionals BYU Prep sports: See complete schedule on Scoreboard 5D By CHRIS CHRISTENSEN Standard-Examin- SPORTS SHORTS PCL baseball: Memphis vs Salt Lake 6 15 pm Franklin Covey Field soccer championship 4-- A New York 11 Milwaukee 10 New York 10 Milwaukee 1 St Louis 6 San Diego 4 Florida 4 Pittsburgh 3 (14) Chicago 6 Atlanta 5 (12) Colorado 8 Arizona 4 Houston 4 Los Angeles 3 (10) take A Ticket sight Bonneville faces Bountiful tonight for 1 National League to win life jackets and floating key chains test drive watercraft and learn boating laws and rules Lakers’ first title in 1 American League New York 3 Boston 1 Anaheim 6 Baltimore 4 Toronto 7 Detroit 0 Kansas City 7 Oakland teammate Jona Whitesides)” Lakers coach Bill Fletcher said “That was all that needed See SOCCER3D FYI What next? new magazine called Stuff reports that Pedal ’n’ Play will A soon be available on some cruises and in Atlantic City and Las Vegas It s an exercise bike wired to a slot machine So presumably you can lose weight while losing your bankroll - 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