| Show SPORTS Sports Editor 625-426- 1 wwyr standard net Standard-Examin- er Saturday April 21 2001 3C a 2002n'T-‘- Bruins claim another NCAA crown Sydney Games Coach Valerie Rondos Field said it wasn't as easy as most expected "All year we heard people saying ’It's a cakewalk for UCLA to win the championship”' she said "But it's extremely difficult to repeat" That was certainly apparent in the "Super Six" final matchteams from ing the Lady Utes tie for fifth in gymnastics The Associated Press ATHENS Ga - UCLA's "Dream Team" won a second straight NCAA women's gymnastics championship Friday top-scori- Thursday’s preliminary ses- sions night defying the raucous Georgia fans and a late fail on the balance beam Nothing less was expected from the Bruins who bolstered UCLA had a poor draw in the rotation finishing on the treacherous beam with just a 0100-poi- nt lead over the home team their defending champions with three Olympians from the Georgia ended with the - one of its strongest crowd of 8245 was roaring when Knsti Lichey did her best Kern Strug impression sticking the landing on a sprained right ankle for a near perfect 9950 "Obviously we fought to the end" Lichey said "You can't give up" UCLA finished with 197575 vault for fifth at 196025 no complaints about the way When UCLA last competed her team performed at Athens in a meet "When you lose to the Olymto kick off the 1999 season pic team you can't feel too DAYS UNTIL THE GAMES five of its six gymnasts fell off bad" she said “I'm very proud the beam This time the Bru- of our team Every drop was ins totaled the highest event expended" score (49575) of any team on Maloney and another freshthat same piece of equipment man Jamie Dantzscher joined “The most talented team the Bruins shortly after comCoaching change doesn't win it's the team with peting for the American team Judkins replaces Shippen as Oie most heart" Field said BYU women s coach that failed to wm a medal at 6C points the second-highes- t score in school history and The Bruins also bested Sydney enough to edge Georgia's total Georgia in the floor exercise Alabama came in as the top of 197400 Michigan was third while the Gym Dogs had seed but couldn’t overcome the American League at 197275 higher scores on the vault and loss of e Southeastern N Y Yankees 6 Boston bars Conference gymnast of the Rounding out the field were Baltimore 6 Tampa Bay 3 Alabama with 196550 folIt wasn't enough to make up year Andree Pickens who sufCleveland 5 Detroit 4 lowed by Nebraska and ninethe gap but Georgia coach fered a tom Achilles' tendon in Minnesota 4 Chi White Sox 1 time champion Utah who tied Suzanne Yoculan said she had practice Texas 9 Oakland 6 events - and the six-tea- two-tim- 1 Toronto 12 Kansas City 4 Seattle 4 Anaheim 1 National League Florida 5 Montreal 1 Cincinnati 9 N Y Mats 5 Philadelphia 8 Atlanta 3 Chicago Cubs 8 Pittsburgh 2 Arizona 3 Colorado 2 Houston 10 St Louis 1 Ferdinand in first round Williams San Francisco 3 Milwaukee 1 San Diego at Los Angeles late istmil hopes four picks will get Utah to WNBA playoffs IKSIDE: Overall draft Chargers trade top pick to Falcons 6C Associated Press Th SALT LAKE CITY - The Utah Starzz holding the No 8 overall selection In the WNBA draft Friday planned to take the best player available That turned out to be Marie Ferdinand of LSU Atlanta expected to take Vick Chiefs get QB The guard averaged 137 points 44 rebounds and 32 assists with the Tigers She was named to the Ferdinand: She was for last two seasons C Green in NEW YORK - It looks like Michael Vick will be a Falcon rather than a Charger San Diego unhappy with Its negotiations with the Virginia Tech quarterback made the first move in the 2001 NFL draft Friday by trading the first overall pick to Atlanta The Falcons will use it to take Vick " “We think he’s an exceptional young man” Atlanta coach Dan Reeves said of Vick who played just 20 games in college "He’s a great football player but he’s an exceptional young man who I think will set this franchise up for a long time to come" A few hours after that trade Kansas City acquired quarterback Trent Green from St Louis for the 12th choice overall The Falcons gave the Chargers the fifth overall pick in the first round their third-rounpick the 67th overall their second-rounpick in 2002 and wide receiver Tim Dwight The Chargers hope to use that fifth pick on TCU running back Tomlinson whom John Butler the Chargers' general manager is known to covet and also have two other players in mind Ieonard Daoffensive tackle vis the from Texas and defensive tackle Gerard Warren of Florida Butler considers Tomlinson similar to Thurman Thomas who he drafted in 1988 when he was in Buf- said "I’m just so was drafted and that I'm going to have the opportunity to play with a great post player Natalie Wil- liams" Starzz coach Fred Williams pects Ferdinand to help on exde- fense this season as Utah continues pursuit of its first trip to the WNBA playoffs "She's a very good quick athd letic who can also play the point” Williams said "We're very happy with our selection In the second round Utah used the 24th pick overall to take 3 forward Michaela Pavlickova a Czech Republic native from the University of Denver The Sun Belt player of the year averaged 131 points and 78 rebounds last season The Starzz used their third-roun- d pick the 40th selection overall on guard Shea at ConRalph an necticut who tore a ligament in her left knee late in the season two-guar- d d 6-- who averaged 143 Ralph points and 49 assists during her college career was named most outstanding player at the 2000 Final Four when the Huskies won the national title 370-poun- d falo The deal proved that the Char- gers weren't bluffing when team Roy's Jon Sparrow (left) heads the ball away from Weber's Cole Stagge and other players during Roy 1 Prep roundups 5C Friday's Region 4 soccer game Weber knocked off league-leadin- g president Dean Spanos warned Vick and his agents that they better have a deal donejiy the start of the draft See NFL6C 3-- Some baseball records really seem to stand the test of time calling BYU busketball in 1997 to the authors of Total According the official of Major League Baseball here are some of the longer standing marks in baseball Everyone knows it has been 60 years since anyone hit 400 (Ted Williams 406 1941) But did you know it has been: 76 years since anyone hit 25 triples (Kikl Cuylcr 26 1925) k 65 years since anyone had 60 doubles (Charlie Gchringcr 60 1936) k 65 years since anyone scored 155 runs (Lou Gehrig 167 1936) k 63 years since anyone had 170 RBI (Jimmie Foxx 175 1938) k 33 years since any pitcher won 30 games (Denny McClain 31 1968) k 24 years since a team won more than 15 games in a row (Kansas City Royals 161977) k 21 years since anyone pitched 300 innings (Steve Carlton 3040 1980) k 17 years since anyone had 700 at bats (Juan Samuel 701 1984) k 14 years since anyone got a hit in more than 35 consecutive games (Paul Aggies extend Morrill through 2011 LOGAN - One month after Utah State s first NCAA tournament victory in 31 years coach Stew Morrill signed a $1 5 million contract extension to keep him with the Aggies through 2011 “This kind of security for my family and our staff is very humbling and it allows me the opportunity to be able to finish my coaching career at USU which has been the basic plan since came here" said Morrill 48 Utah State went 28-in each of the past two seasons establishing and then matching a school record for wins in a I life" Ferdinand I deal pre-dra- ft The Associated Press Conference first team as a junior and senior “This is the best day of my happy NI ac fctws Rising to the challenge Starzz tab i dmaMroci (tab flung te Grw car t t the SlOC wetsite (www saiUaKeZOOZ com) Dae s v ha ad aubmalcA tpoadsd Al Tidbits The Big Sky Conference men's and women’s golf championships will be held Monday Tuesday and Wednesday at Valley View Golf Course ESPN will expand its coverage of the final and championship rounds of the Scrlpps Howard National Spelling Bee Presented by beginning this year with two additional live hours on May 31 The competition was started in 1925 with nine contestants and is now entering its 74th annual finals This year 10 million grade scluxil spellers will participate Colgate-Palmoliv- Molitor 39 1987) k 14 years since a pitcher started 40 games (Charlie Hough 40 1987) k 13 years since anyone stole 80 bases (Rickey Henderson 93 1988 Vince Coleman 81 1988) Wnibell BYU’s KSL-A- play-by-pla- y man 1160 has named Greg y announcer for Wrubcll the BYU football Wrubcll replaces Paul James who retired after 36 seasons as the voice of the Cougars Wrubcll has hosted a nightly sports show on KSL since 1995 and began play-by-pla- e Cindy Reeder Fowers of Kaysville has been inducted into the Ricks College Athletic Hull of Fame She led Ricks to notional junior college cross country titles in 1988 and 1989 and won the notional JC 1500 meters in' 1990 Ricks also chose quarterback Marc Dunn of Brigham City as Its top male athlete Southwest Missouri State standout Jaekie Stiles was drafted last week by the Dodge City Iegend of the men's United States Basketball League She is the sixth woman to be drafted by a USBL team joining Nancy Llcberman-Clin- c Saudia Roundtree Cheryl Miller Sheryl Swoopcs and Rebecca Lobo Stiles was drafted fourth overall by Portland in the WNBA draft on Friday We note the passing of William Henrichscn Neff who designed Oakridge Country Club and many other West Utah golf courses He was 95 I iigh senior Brian Nmezl earned the University of Utah athletic department’s first minority student internship scholarship Top of Utah racing will hold "The Good Guys Xtrcme Snocross" today and Sunday at Beaver Mountain Ski Resort Action begins at 10 am Chris J Miller Is executive sports He editor of the Standard-Examine- r or can be reached at 625-426- 1 cmilleriPstandardnetf season The Aggies won the Big West tournament twice to reach the NCAAs in consecutive seasons for the first time in 20 years Utah State beat Ohio at last month's State NCAA East Regional In Greensboro N C then lost 77-6- 75-5- to UCLA Morrill Is in three 71-2- seasons since leaving Colorado record State including a 37-in the Big West His 56 victories over the past two seasons are the fourth most in the country 1 Morrill is 289-16- overall 3 NBA playoffs: Dallas vs Utah 1pm Delta Center College football: Weber State Purple-Whitintrasquad game noon Stewart Stadium University of Utah spring game Stadium 1pm College basketball: Tara's 2001 University Spring Classic at Roy High Weber State women vs Southern Utah women 2pm Utah women vs BYU women 4pm women s champions 6 30 p m WSUUSU men vs BYUUtah men 8 30 p m College track and field: Weber State BYU at USU's Mark Faldmo Open 9am Local eporta' See complete schedule on Scoreboard 7C e s 10am- - 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