Show Sports Editor 625-426- Business 1 NBA wwwstandardnet Scoreboard i i Standard-Examin- Monday Apnt 16 2001 er gMTCrraaE3craEB JL X 2002 Stingers give one away late Gill becomes NBA’s INSIDE: NBA Gill: Ninth inning grand slam mins Salt Lake’s Easter Sunday -point X roundup layup with 10:57 left in the Nets’ 95-8- 8 loss to the Boston Celtics The Associated Press Former Weber State point guard achieve’s - Talk about The basket calculated as the milestone by the league came 4 years 4 12 months since the 7 millionth point was scored by Seattle's Hersey Hawkins on Dec 1 1996 Atlanta’s Stacey right place Boston the time Eddie Gill of the New Jersey Nets scored the 8 millionth point in NBA history Sunday when the rookie hit a NBA milestone By PRESTON TRUMAN Augmon scored the 6 millionth on March 23 1992 Gill was an Sky Conference guard at Weber State during the his tw-seasons and is the school’s career steals and percentage leader1 He is playing on his second y contract with the Nets All-Bi- g DAYS UNTIL THE GAMES free-thro- 10-da- staff Standard-Examn- National champs Box Elder High drill team 3C wins national competition SALT LAKE CITY - It must have been that darn’ Easter rr“'”Tm Bunny That’s really the only explanation for Salt Lake’s devastatloss to Oklahoing ninth-innin- g ma Sunday at Franklin Covey Field on what turned out to be a beautiful Easter day at the ballpark Leading 5 heading into the ninth the Stingers (7-- gave up five runs in the inning including a Cliff Brumbaugh e grand slam to right-centwith two outs to drop their first game at home this season 10--7 The loss came only a few hours after Stingers first base-ma- n Larry Barnes drilled a g solo home run in the bottom of the ninth Saturday to extend Salt Lake’s winning streak to three games This time though Oklahoma got the last laugh as it walked out of the park with a few extra Easter eggs er runs thanks in large part to some giving Stingers “Most the runs they scored were on our defensive mistakes” said Stingers skipper Garry Templeton whose team Oklaholost despite ma 13-- 7 "Outfield breaks back on a ball Infield misses a ball - it just seems like they did what we didn’t Somebody makes a mistake and they seem to capitalize on it” Templeton harped on his team’s miscues over and over after the game He obviously wasn’t happy his team managed to choke away the commanding 1 lead they held through four innings in front of 4535 fans Especially with the way starting pitcher Brian Cooper (7 13 innings five strikeouts three earned rims four hits) was handling guys at the plate “I thought Cooper was out- Minnesota 107 Utah 100 Boston 95 New Jersey 88 Philadelphia 89 New York 82 Cleveland 106 Washington 98 Orlando 90 Miami 73 Indiana 93 Chicago 86 L A Lakers 1 05 Portland 00 Charlotte 99 Detroit 90 Dallas 107 Seattle 99 (OT) Phoenix 88 Sacramento 86 7-- line-driv- game-winnin- g 5-- standing today” Templeton said ” But you can’t make mistakes in here and think your going to get away with it” Trouble started brewing in the fifth inning for Salt Lake’s defense Oklahoma’s Harry Berrios popped up to second baseman Jose Nieves but Nieves lost the ball in the wind and sun and dropped it A batter later Craig Munroe hit one of the RedHawks’ five homers to cut the Stingers’ lead to 3 Cooper finally managed to ‘get the Stingers out of the inning with a pop-u- p to first and a strikeout Salt Lake’s Scott Pritchett singled in a run in the Stingers’ half of the fifth to push the lead to 3 but in the top of the sixth Oklahoma scored an- 5-- 6-- See STINGERS2C a SL0C has unveiled a senes ot 52 pictograms based on branding-iron- s designs in the way cowboys identity their ranches and cattie man 8-million- - Hi) Malone Garnett both ejected in third quarter at Minnesota 1 The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS - The Min- American League Boston 5 N Y Yankees 4 Kansas City 4 Toronto 2 Tampa Bay 7 Baltimore 4 Minnesota 4 Chi White Sox 3 Seattle 7 Anaheim 5 Texas 10 Oakland 8 National League Atlanta 3 Philadelphia 0 Cincinnati 3 N Y Mets 1 Florida 6 Montreal 3 Milwaukee 7 San Francisco 4 Chi Cubs 5 Pittsburgh 1 Colorado 10 Arizona 7 (10) St Louis 6 Houston 5 Los Angeles 5 San Diego 4 nesota Timberwolves were planning to limit Kevin nett’s minutes Sunday but not like this Garnett and Karl Malone were ejected within a minute of each other during the third quarter as the Timberwolves Gar- defeated the Utah Jazz in a nationally televised game that included six technical fouls “That was the NBA at its Jazz coach best Jerry Sloan said The Wolves unintentionally got a chance to prepare for the playoffs without Garnett -107-10- 0 fan-tasti- czraoEsgra in Kenya streak and they liked the results lead Minnesota held a when Garnett was ejected with 7:24 remaining in the third period and built that to with 6:12 left in the 59-5- 8 BOSTON - It would seem the Kenyan men no longer have to worry about anyone else in 92-8- 2 game Then the Wolves held off thd Jazz after John Stockton’s back-doo- r layup cut their lead to 6 with 1:37 remaining “At the times we’ve played without KG in spurts we’ve done well” Wolves coach Flip Saunders said Malone and Garnett were given technicals for getting rough under the basket with 7:52 remaining in the third period Malone who scored 14 99-9- points was ejected for the second time this season after arguing with official Joey Crawford foul on Danny Manning on the Jazz’s next possession drawing a protest from Garnett Reggie Slater tried to hold given his second technical of the game and the first ejection of his career with 7:24 left in the period Garnett who finished with 17 points cursed and made an obscene gesture toward the officials as he walked off the court Clark and Malone declined to talk to reporters Garnett said he wasn’t sure why he was given the second technical claiming the strongest thing he said was: “Damn I can’t believe you made that JIM MONEThe Associated Press Minnesota’s Reggie Slater (35) pulls in a rebound as Utah's Olden Polymce defends dunng Sunday's NBA playoff-boun- d teams The Timberwolves won 1 07-- 00 game between 1 points About the gesture he made toward the officials he Slater agreed said he wasn’t worried about said he what “He may have "any repercussions said emphatically but he from possible the league didn’t say it in a threatening manner” Slater said "It “I'm the one who should be wasn’t a phantom tech - be- mad at them” he said cause he got it - but it was a mystery tech” The Jazz host the LA ClipUtah’s John Starks and pers on Tuesday at the Delta Manning were called for tech- Center Utah plays at Phoenix nicals in the fourth period on Wednesday to dose out the ' Garnett finished with 17 regular season zy” call” “I didn’t have a strong con- versation with the referee” Garnett said “My conversa- tion was basically very short and I said I can’t believe they called that touch foul Maybe the referee was sensitive at that point but this is crazy "I have never been kicked out of a game in my career -maybe chased out of a park a couple of times This is cra Grizzlies finish frustrating season Seeing Stars Utah franchise notches all-ti- me lows in wins By DENNIS LARSEN Standard-Examine- r staff VALLEY WEST - Chemistry- Without an influx of CAC the Utah Grizzlies stumbled their way to a franchise-wors- t record during the 2000-0- 1 season missing the International Hockey League playoffs for the second time in the last three years Saturday’s 3 loss to the Western Conference runner-u- p Houston Aeros in the E Center record gave Utah a regular-seaso- n and a skid Despite finishing with the IHL’s third-worrecord the Grizzlies were just six points away from clinching a Turner Cup Playoffs berth The top eight teams in the league regardless of their conference qualified for the playoffs "I didn’t expect this When you start the season you expect to make the Turner old Cup Playoffs” said 5-- WYIDThe Associated Press Edmonton's Igor Ulanov holds Dallas Stars forward Brett Hull on the ice after Hull crashed into Oilers goalie Tommy Salo during Sunday's NHL playoff game Playoff roundup I AC - - and -- ADRIAN the Boston Marathon Their success in the world s most renowned long run is unrivaled an unprecedented 10 straight victories finishes four of the past six years five of the top six finishers a year ago Yet there is a rivalry developing between Kenya's defending Boston champion Elijah Lagat and the Ethiopian whom Lagat defeated in a photo finish last year Gezahegne Abera It was the closest finish in the race s history That Abera went on to win the Olympic marathon gold the only distance-runninprize Kenya's men never have claimed has intensified the competition going into today's 105th Boston Marathon The women's field also is strong with defending champion and Chicago Marathon winner Catherine Ndereba of Kenya three-timBoston champion Fatuma Roba of Ethiopia and New York City Marathon winner Ludmila Petrova of Russia g Garnett was called for a Garnett away from official Jim Clark but Garnett spun away toward Clark and was Boston danger-i- 34-ye- left wing Brad Lauer “It’s frustrating and disappointing We’re one of the few (three) teams that couldn’t reach that goal Our consistency of 'play was not strong We never seemetl to jell We had more highs than lows” Among the season lows the Grizzlies experienced were new franchise records for most losses (36) fewest points (84) fewest wins (38) and fewest goals scored (208) Utah tied the franchise record of fewest goals allowed (220) which was set in 1999-200- 0 “We never put together a streak but we played well the last 14 games” Lauer said “Our whole season was very inconsistent We didn’t accomplish what we set out to do This season was a learning experience for everybody The team chemistry wasn’t as good as some teams that I played and goals on and not as bad as some others that I played on But the chemistry got better as the season progressed” The Grizzlies’ longest winning streak was four games the longest losing streak was also four games - This season was Utah’s first with a full affiliation with the National Hockey League’s Dallas Stars with six of 15 players assigned by Dallas - G Rick Tabaracci RW Tyler Bouck LW Steve Gainey LW Ryan Christie D Jeff MacMillan and D John Erskine - having a year left on their contract “The system that Dallas plays is a lot of hard work We call it ‘tracking the puck’ ” Lauer said "We worked so hard to get the puck and when we did get the puck we were too tired to create offensive chances It’s a great system but unfortunately we didn't have as skilled of players as Dallas did” The Grizzlies had just two V Xtreme advance to XFL final LOS ANGELES - Tommy Maddox threw two touchdown passes and Saladin McCullough ran for 164 yards on 21 carries as the Los Angeles Xtreme advanced to the XFL’s first championship game by beating the Chicago Enforcers Sunday The Xtreme will play the San Francisco Demons next Saturday at the Los Angeles Coliseum The Demons advanced by beating the Orlando Rage Saturday in the other semifinal 33-1- 6 26-2- 5 PCL baseball: Oklahoma City vs Salt Lake 615 p m Franklin Covey Field College men’s tennis: Idaho State vs Weber State 3 p m WSU's Edman Courts Local sports: See complete schedule on Scoreboard 4C 955 am - 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