Show Obituaries Sports Editor 625-426- 1 H wwwstandard net Standard-Examine- y Saturday Apnl 20 2002 pionship with her third 995 of the The Associated Press TUSCALOOSA Ala - In Au-guAndree’ Pickens and four Al- st abama teammates were spending more time in the training room than on the mats The Crimson Tide were healthy enough Friday night to night pumping her fists after landing cleanly from the balance beam in the Pickens the runner-u- p all around had become the first gymnast to earn five honors in two seasons on Thursday night She missed last year’s championships after rupturing an Achilles’ tendon in practice a few days earlier “This was the perfect ending of their fourth NCAA women’s gymnastics championship once again before a home crowd “To see how far they’ve come a four-yea- r career” the e it’s incredible” Alabama coach Sa- said “The team told rah Patterson said me they wereift letting me go d Alabama finished without a title so I’m grateful to with a 197575 to beat Georgia them J19725) and end UCLA’s two-ye“I was crying before I went to Jtitle run It was the Tide’s third the beam I knew if we were sol"time playing host to the event id it was ours” Seventh-seede- d and they have won the crown Georgia wasa 'jeach time But no host team had runner-u- p for the second straight 7 won the championship since Alayear while UCLA (19715) slipped bama in 1996 to third despite raising its score Pickens punctuated the cham from the preliminary round Utah capture Top-seede- ar cinarEBB f Seeing Starzz Utah women gymnasts wind up fourth overall ! Theaters r Alabama roils to NGM title '' B Life Utah happy with its four WNBA draft picks 3B was fourth with 19695 while Nebraska had 196425 and Stanford 196025 in its first Super Six ap- rmmri pearance The individual event championships will be held tonight For the fourth straight time Alabama had to close on the beam the event that cost the Tide the Southeastern Conference title with two flubbed routines They more than atoned for that slipup with six strong routines discarding a 9825 as Georgia failed to close ground on the floor exercise “To conquer the balance beam in a matter very few could do under those pressure conditions I’m so proud and so happy for them” a teary-eye- d Patterson MARK ALMONDThe Associated Press said surrounded by her team It was a far cry from August Utah’s Melissa Vituj finishes her inverted spin during when five of her 12 scholarship her floor exercise on Friday at the NCAA women's gymnastics championships athletes were unable to practice American League NY Yankees 6 Toronto 5 Baltimore 6 Tampa Bay 5 Minnesota 12 Cleveland 3 Boston 4 Kansas City 0 Detroit 8 Chi White Sox 2" Texas 9 Seattle 0 Anaheim at Oakland (n) National League Chi Cubs 57Cincinnati 2 Montreal 5 NY Mets 3 Pittsburgh 7 Philadelphia 4 Atlanta 3 Florida 2 San Francisco 3 Houston 2 Milwaukee 6 St Louis 1 LA 5 San Diego 2 Colorado at Arizona (n) PORTISHORTm RedHawks ace shuts out Stingers - OKLAHOMA CITY Rob Bell allowed only six hits as &wm ffi 2-- ill Jazz INSIDE: in another uphill fight Series matchups 2B By TOM McEACHIN Standard-Examin- point losses to the Lakers all in the first week of the season staff With a few breaks the SACRAMENTO Calif - It could have had some started with an overtime loss Jazz momentum-buildin- g victories to Milwaukee on opening to open the year night Then came a pair of See JAZZ2B four- - one of four Western teams could this year’s NBA championship i Sadly enough though none of them are named the Utah Jazz t I The Jazz who open their ' first-roun- d playoff series today Jason Hart’s RBI-sing- in the fourth inning gave Oklahoma a 0 lead and Jeff Pickier wrapped up scoring in the seventh with a single run-scori- John Lackey (1-- pitched six innings for the Stingers allowing eight hits and two runs One trade can alter NFL draft NEW YORK -- At the 1986 NFL draft Bill Walsh and the Any San Francisco 49ers traded down and down and down ending up with eight players who had key roles on two Super Bowl champion teams at Sacramento against the Kings are no longer one of those elite teams with a legitimate chance to win the league title In fact most folks figure the Jazz will be fortunate if they manage to win as much as one game against a g Sacramento deep lineup that posted the league’s best record this season earning the Kings the No 1 seed in the West and home-couadvantage throughout the - Three years ago Mike Ditka traded away New Orleans’ entire draft to get Ricky Williams" The dealing could start early today - with the third pick held by Detroit The centerpiece is Joey Harrington the Oregon quarterback some teams think is better than David Carr who will be taken by Houston as the No 1 selection eighth-seede- d high-scorin- (61-2- the Oklahoma RedHawks beat Salt Lake 0 Friday in a Pacific Coast League game Bell struck out 1 1 in nine innings to remain unbeaten in three games 1) rt playoffs i It’s difficult almost impossible to remember the last time a Utah team was such a decided underdog in a postseason series You’d have to go back to the sometime shortly after the beginning of Utah’s long string of playoff appearances to find a Jime when this proud franchise yras so summarily dismissed and given no chance of achieving postseason success PCL baseball: Calgary vs Salt Lake 6:30 pm Franklin Covey Field College tennis: Big Sky men’s regional at Ogden Athletic Club: Sacramento State vs Portland State 1 pm Weber State vs Northern Arizona 4 pm Local sports: See complete schedule on Scoreboard 6B late-1980- ’s Today’s game Utah at Sacramento 1 pm (NBC) See HOLUS2B Pig Sky tennis They’re just To r understatement TOP-FLIT- vn'" £' AV E area golfers as they tee off Participating courses i include Lakeside Schneiter’s Bluff Wolf Creek Resort Davis Park Valley View Swan Lakes Logan River Eaglewood Birch Creek and Glen Eagle Draft potential The NFL draft is this weekend and The Sporting News likes several athletes with Utah ties iL i is competitive is Here’s an example: Today at 10 Northern Utah golf courses Spalding is XL giving away 3000 golf balls The company plans to give away 25 million of the new product and will offer two-pacto C ' say the golf products ROBERT JOHNSONStandard-Examme- r Weber State’s Daniel Salvato hits a forehand return during Friday’s Action at the Big Sky Conference Pacific Regional at the Ogden Athletic Club Story 3B TSN views Brandon Doman as the eighth-ranke- d quarterback BYU’s Luke Staley is seventh overall among running backs with em away Tidbits Actor Robert Urich who died Tuesday at age 55 had previously served on the Salt Lake Stingers advisory board Bill Bean director of sports medicine for the University of Utah and an Joann Hulbert-Eaga- n Utah’s Dameon Hunter academic advisor have been honored Bean has been among players to watch Utah’s Cliff Russell is the selected to receive the seventh-rate- d receiver while National Athletic Trainers’ BYU tight end Doug Jolley is Association’s most rated third on the list Utah distinguished athletic trainer offensive guard Ed Ta’Amu award Hulbert-Eaga- n has is listed seventh overall been named the winner of On defense BYU’s Justin the U’s Perlman Award for Ena was the fifth-rate- d excellence in student inside linebacker BYU’s counseling Ryan Denney was listed as The Team Chevy Trucks second-best the defensive Kawasaki Supercross will be end in the draft with at Rice-EcclStadium on teammate Brett Keisel 15th 27 April on the same list The University of Utah Utah State’s Emmett held its popular School is White did not make the list Cool Jam at the Huntsman but could surprise the Center on Thursday prognosticators That’s what makes the draft exciting See NAME5B 10 am - 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