Show Standard-Examine- r sports Saturday December 3 1988 ’Cats cramming for tonight’s contest against USU By JOHN YOUNGREN dar City earlier this week before Sta'xldfd Examiner staff LOGAN — Look out now The Wildcats are on a rolL Following Thursday night’s dra8 matic win over Brigham Young University Weber State’s basketball team is 0 and off to its best start since it went 10-- 0 to begin the 1985-8- 6 season The Wildcats struggled but pul5 led out an victory over Southern Oregon State last Saturday then managed to hold off a 80-7- 3-- 81-6- hard-chargin- Southern Utah g State team for a win at Ce 78-7- 3 three-point- have to be ready for them" For his part Weber State’s own first-yeCoach Denny Huston admits that his team focused more on its Thursday matchup with BYU then it did on its Saturday visit to Utah State in the limited practice time the Wildcats had this week The later tipoff time is to accommodate local television coverage of the game which will be broad- stunning the Cougars when Moo-chi- e Cobb tossed in a with three seconds left in the Dee Events Center Is Utah State next on the Wildcats’ menu? The Aggies are 1 and didn’t play well in an 7 loss at Kansas State on Wednesday night “Weber State is coming off a real emotional high right now Utah State Coacn said first-yeKohn Smith whose team will play host to the Wildcats in The Spectrum for tonight’s 8 08 game er ar 4 cast by KTVX-ChannBut would Smith who still was unsure of which Aggies will be on the floor to start the game against the hot Wildcats rather be facing Weber State at a different time? el 0-- 86-6- “No" Smith said “We’ll just “That was just a coaching decision" Huston said “We have spent almost no time on Utah State and all of our time concentrating on BYU and (last Monday's opponent) SUSC" play them when we play them W eber State has a real good team They (the Wildcats) are and I have a great deal of respect for them We’ll just ar well-coach- ed But the Wildcats’ coach was busy Friday cramming on the Aggies “Utah State presents different problems than what BYU did" Huston said "The Aggies are a perimeter-oriente- (shooting) d team — especially (guard Reid) Newey We'll have to change gears to try to slow him down" W ith his team olT to such a hot start Huston was not expected to tinker with the W lldcats’ starting lineup: Anthony McGowan and Fred Rcllin at forward Cobb and Timmy Gibbs at guard and Rico 6-- 6 6-- Lakers use Roy ‘playoff mentality1 takes INGLEWOOD Calif (AP) — Byron Scott scored nine of his 32 points during a 15-- 2 run that opened the third quarter Friday night as the Los Angeles Lakers went on to beat the Utah Jazz 113-9- 2 third title It was the first meeting between the two teams since Los Angeles defeated Utah in seven games to win the Western Conference semifinals last spring cn route its second straight National Basketball Association championship “I think this was our most efficient game this year” Lakers’ Coach Pat Riley said “We felt the urgency of the challenge Against Utah it’s our first game since the playofs and we played well We got good play from everyone “They are definitely the same team the same bodies” Riley said of the Jazz “Our guys just took the challenge Wc went to our playoff mentality tonight We had only three turnovers at the half Without Kareem and our game we had to execute" Magic Johnson scored 17 points with 12 rebounds and 15 assists including a k bounce pass that Scott turned into a during a 10-- 0 run in the first quarter It was the third time this season that Johnson reached double figures in all three categories Kareem did not play because of a severly bruised right knee injured Monday in Philadelphia He has Roy High School won its third straight title in the annual RoyBen Lomond Classic on Friday night while Bonneville and St Joseph advanced to the championship finals in their respective tournaments In Friday's other area prep boys basketball games Clearfield and Morgan n also picked up wins while Davis LoBen Bear River and Ogden mond all suffered setbacks Lay-to- low-po- Clearfield 55 Davis 31 At Clearfield Washington at center While all have shined at times in the first three games Washington has been particularly impressive — averaging 253 points and 14 rebounds per game Utah State meanwhile was practicing Friday afternoon after returning from its trip to Kansas While Smith was hedging a bit senior Danny Friday senior Nathan Conway and 9 Grant at forwards senior and center at Greg Housekeeper See WSC on 2B the Falcons took ad- st behind-the-bac- vantage of some poor shooting by the three-point- Darts and poured it on during the game's second quarter for the win Up 8 at the end of the first quarter Clearfield got hot for a 2 halftime lead “We played pretty good defense and that was the key” said Clearfield Coach Craig Hansen whose team jumped to 0 with the win “It was a very deliberate ball game Both teams were very 13-- 23-1- Abdul-Jabb- er ar See JAZZ on 2B 4-- Lady ’Cats patient" Russell Larson had 21 points and Jeff Painter added 12 to pace the Falcons Davis which made only 12 field goals fell to “It was a game” Hansen said “But it went pretty well for us” fall in No 5 -1 hard-foug- ht LINCOLN Neb — It isn't over until it’s over That is what the Roy 89 Viewmont 81 half7 At Roy the Royals had a time lead and then hung on to win a g shooting with the Vikings in the championship game of the RoyBen Lomond Classic Roy's Jeff Mager scored 28 points goals to pace including five three-poithe Royals to their third win of the year without a loss Mager was named the tournament’s MVP The Royals’ Ryan McCloy who had 13 points against the Vikings was also team named to the along with Viewmont’s Kelly Bland and Dave Chidcstcr “Both teams shot the ball pretty well to put that many points on the board” said Roy Coach Ted Smith “We manlead aged to get a six or seven-poiand then maintain it" battle for The game was a much of the first half but Roy broke lead in the third quarout to a ter before Viewmont came charging 42-3- University of high-scorin- nt first-roun- Tournament w nt back At Salt Lake City Bulldogs’ point guard Jeff Soto scored 36 points in- goals to lead cluding four three-poiJudge to the win over the visiting nt T lgers “Soto was everywhere" Ogden Coach Mitch Wilcox said “He's a pretty big key for them and tonight we loss “I felt that we could compete with Judge if we played smartly and we did until the last couple of minutes” Ogden's scoring effort was led by Brian Moore who got 18 and the tandem of Dan Burdett and JefT Knowles each of whom finished with 17 points (l9-of-3- Woods Cross 72 couldn't stop him” At Washington Terrace Tanoka It wasn't as if the Tigers didn't try Beard scored a career-hig36 points to Most of the game was close — Judge lead the Lakers to a victory 5 at the half — and in the annual Laker Classic was leading “He played real well tonight” said Ogden was down by just five with about three minutes to play Bonneville Coach Gary Alverson “At that point we missed a couple of “They (Woods Cross) were physical on shots and lost a couple of breaks and him but he did a great job Justin Butthings just went the other way" said ters did a real good job getting the ball with the inside to him He had 12 assists” Wilcox whose team fell to h first-roun- 2-- The game was ragged with the Wildcats being whistled for 30 fouls However Woods Cross managed to three-poikeep the game close with goals with Chad Rawlings getting four of them “They (Woods Cross) came back with some good shooting in the second and third quarters" said “We went to the line a lot in the fourth quarter and got some easy baskets" Butters had 17 points for the Lakers while teammate Scan Sylvester added 15 Quinn Woody has 21 rebounds for the Lakers and was also in double figures with 12 points for Bonneville The Lakers who improved to 0 with the victory face Cottonwood in See PREP on 2B 1 1 three-poi- Bonneville 85 d 38-3- “It seemed like they were making free throws all night" Smith said of Davis “We didn't shoot particularly well from the line but we did OK from the field and that made the difference" here Friday night The Cornhuskers built a e lead and served for match point twice but the Lady Wildcats responded to win the next two games before succumbing in the fifth and deciding game 15-- 5 The game scores were 0 6 and 15-- 8 “The girls were a little nervous in the first game" said Weber State Coach Cindy Frednck “It took them two games to settle down and get into sync They were a little intimidated at first until they realized they were able to play against Nebraska “Our NCAA inexperience hurt us against a team that has been there so many times” The Cornhuskers used a 12-- 6 run to win the first game while they built an insurmountable 12-- 1 lead in the second two-gam- Judge Memorial 84 Ogden 72 nt see-sa- Ne- braska women's volleyball team found out when it finally turned back an inspired Weber State d squad in action of the NCAA 1 nt nt 3-- 15-1- 14-1- 8-- game See Cougars MIAMI (AP) — Brigham Young University Coach La Veil Edwards chuckled at the notion that his team can put to rest the issue of whether Miami Fla should be ranked ahead of undefeated West Virginia All BYU has to do is beat the second-ranke- d Hurricanes to- night “It'll be a job" Edwards said “They have a lot of guns It's just an excellent football team I don't sec any weakness at all — offense defense where" kicking game any- Miami Coach Jimmy Johnson said this week that the Hurricanes 1 deserve the national championship if they win their final two games and No 1 Notre 9-- - on 2B underdogs before Hurricane matchup 24-poi- nt y VOLLEYBALL LaVell Edwards He sees no weakness in No team and says the big problem Is the quarterback Dame loses to No 3 West Virginia in the Fiesta Bowl “If those things do happen we want people to know that we've had an extremely difficult schedule" Johnson said But West Virginia Coach Don Nchlen believes such developments would cam his Mountain eers the title even though they've played a much weaker schedule than Miami “C'mon Jimmy I love you but nobody can be that dumb” Nchlen told The Miami Herald don't even see where there’s a point of discussion if anybody “I has any brains" Edwards can identify with West Virginia because BYU's 19j4 national champs were faulted for playing a weak schedule “We juM happened to get lucky the year we won it all Everybody else h3d been beaten" Edwards said "It's a subjective thing the wav the format is set up" Another subjective thing is U's chance of beating Miami The Freedom Cou Bowl-boun- d are underdogs and their weekly news release said the odds of a victory are “horrendous” “This is probably the best team we've ever played here at BYU" Cougars’ quarterback Sean Covey gars 8-- 24-poi- nt 3 said The Orange canes have won Hurri- Ikiwl-boun- d 41 of their past games and 24 home Miami at straight games has allowed only 96 points all 42 regular-seaso- n season long while BYU has given up 115 in us past three games And the Hurricanes are coming off an 18-1- 6 victory over Arkan- sas so overconfidence shouldn't be a problem “I think maybe the scare last week against Arkansas might make ’em take notice" Johnson said of his team The Hurricanes' top weapon is Steve Walsh who has thrown for 2878 yards and 28 touchdowns and is likely to finish in the top four when the Heisman Trophy results are announced today Another threat is fullback Gev eland Gary who leads the team in rushing (442 yards) and receiving (56 catches for 649 yards) “Lately it's been tougher" Gary said “Teams have been g me double- - and and that’s fine It opens it up for the other guys" Covey has paced BYU’s offense completing passes for 2548 yards and 13 touchdowns triple-coverin- 167-of-3- § “Miami is kind of the passing attack of the East" Covey said “We’re the passing attack of the West It's kind of an interesting matchup that way” Walsh agreed that the nationally televised game should be entertaining “After the country watches the game earlier that day ard falls asleep they'll want to see some balls in the air" he said “Their pass offense is Edwards said “It's a lot like ours It's mostly drop-bacand they throw a lot underneath to people “The big problem is gettirg pressure on the quarterback I don't see anybody getting pressure on him very often" Army-Nav- y k |