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Show SPORTS STANDARD-EXAMINER WEDNESDAY,FEB. 12, 1992 SPORTS EDITOR: 625-4260 THEATERS OBITUARIES CLASSIFIED Sua Last-gasp shot “Ws gives Jazz win Sa Close calls it was down to the wire in two Region 1 boys basketball games Stockton’s bucketat final buzzer caps 111-109 victory over Cavs a little rusty after the NBA’s fiveday All-Star break. Wrong. John Stockton’s driving layup at the buzzer bounced around the rim and finaliy dropped to give the Jazz their third heart-stopping vic- tory in a row at the Delta Center, a on the play, but he said he never touched the ball. Karl Malone thought that maybe he got a piece of it, but he wasn't certain. The on- ly thing Edwards was sure of was In their two home gamesjust before the All-Star break, the Jazz top of the key, drove the lane as taller defenders collapsed on him, Chicago Bulls. All the Jazz did Tuesday was make three great plays in the last 9 seconds to steal the victory: Jeff Malone madehis first 3-pointer of the season, the Jazz defense forced a turnover, and Stockton drove in for the game-winner. team we played. They’re verysolid: they movethe ball very well ... they execute probably as well as any team in basketball.” Down 109-106 with 18 seconds left, the Jazz needed a 3-pointer. The ball ended up in the hands of on calmly stepped around a defender, leaned backwards and nailed the Brandenburg SAN DIEGO — Five straight losing seasons cost San Diego State basketball Coach Jim Brandenburg his job amid rumors that UNLV Coach Jerry Tarkanian would take over next season. Brandenburg, whose team was mired in a 14-game losing streak, was fired Tuesday and replaced by | Jim Harrick Jr., the 27year-old Malone, and the officials “Normally I don’t shoot 3s, but it was a situation where wehadto get the shot off,” Malone said. “I pump-faked and just moved to the side where I could stay behind the (3-point) line. I shot the type of shot I wanted to take, a fade.” Cleveland then called a timeout to set up a possible game-winner by All-Star guard Mark Price, but the Jazz swarmed around Price as he drove, and Jazz forward Blue Edwards came up with the ball ALBERTVILLE, France (AP) — Petra Kronberger, the Rip Van ‘Winkle of women’s Alpine skiing ithis winter, awoke just in time at ithe Winter Olympics today. | The Austrian superstar answered tthe repeated “What’s wrong with Petra?” questions by careening idown the rugged “Rock of Iron” ‘course more than a half-second faster than her nearest competitor — an unlikely American — in the combined downhill. ALBERTVILLE = 1992 course. The newcourse, which already has knocked three skiers out of the Olympics with injuries, scored two more wipeouts today despite warm temperatures that slowed it down. It was no small feat that Kron- U.S. skier Krista Schmidinger ‘berger managed to stay on herfeet was the surprise runner-up in the ‘on what skiers have called the world’s toughest women’s downhill first part of the Alpine combined event, which concludes Thursday games by an average of 16 points and are ranked seventh or worsein the WACin every players say he did, but I’m not under the basket, so I couldn't tell.” The controversial buzzer-beater Statistical category. mayhave been the perfect end to a game against the Cavaliers: Cleve- PSFL reportedly in money trouble land won at the Salt Palace two years ago on Craig Ehlo’s 3-pointer PORTLAND, Ore. — The that replays showed came after the Professional Spring Football League could fold before its season begins, according to a published report. buzzer, and Ehlo also beat the Jazz with a 3-pointer at the buzzer in See JAZZ on 2C The Oregonian reported in today's editions that the league is frantically looking for enough money to stay in business despite claims its formation of the Unified Team took the sil- finished higher than ninth in quickly revived and appeared to be World Cup competition, a down- OK. On Tuesday night, Russian skaters — representing the Unified Team instead of the Soviet Union seur and Lloyd Eisler earned the bronze as the top six placings in ver, and Canadians Isabelle Brasthe original program remained the same. — won an unprecedented eighth U.S. national champions Calla Urbanski and Rocky Marval straight Olympic title in pairs with tripped and flipped their wayto 10th place, while Californians Na- day when CammyMyler of Lake Piacid, N.Y., moved up a spot in the final two runs to finish fifth in the women’s singles. Hometown teammate Erica Terwillegar was ninth. Mishkutienok and Artur Dmitriev. The world champions brought the crowd to its feet and werefirst with all nine judges, earning seven near-perfect 5.9s for artistic impression. tasha Kuchiki and Todd Sand were Myler, who has been battling the Elena Bechke and Denis Petrov See OLYMPICS on 2C shaky but held onto sixth. Two Americans gave strong hope today for medals in the new Olympic sport of freestyle mogul skiing. Nelson Carmichael of Four earn top honor at WSU Wildcats hope to find to induct new members of Athletic Hall of Fame ) success on the road By JEFF SIMON Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner staff OGDEN -— The four inductees into the Weber State Athletic Hall of Fame span importanteras in the history of Wildcat sports. OGDEN — After what Weber State Coach Ron Abegglen called a so-so home stand over the last two weeks, the Wildcats return to their Basketball coach Phil Johnson, track star Dan Dean, diving ace Virginia Nelson Rich and football standout Ron McCall will officially join Weber State's elite during a banquet Tuesday at the Ogden Park Hotel. Tickets for the event are $15 each, and reservations can be made by calling Carol Nelson at 6266492. A social is scheduled for 6 p.m., with dinner at 7 and the induction ceremonyat 8. Phil Johnson You can see him now on the Utah Jazz bench, assisting head Coach Jerry Sloan, but Johnson got his start with the Wildcats. “I was very young,” said John- son, who served as head basketall coach from 1968-71. “Just the op- portunity to coach at that age — for them to have enough confidence for me to take that job when 1 was 27 years old, that was really ; Something for me.” j Johnson turned out to be really }something as a coach, His teams | posted a 68-16 record in his three ; 5 Johnson Rich - years as coach, captured three Big Sky Conference championships and made three appearances in the NCAA Tournament. His 1968-69 squad went undefeaied in conference play, and set a school and conference record with most wins in a season with a 27-3 mark. “Those times, you just don’t for- get them,” Johnson said. “We were in a situation at Weber where we were trying to get national recognition, and we weretrying to get rec- ognition in the state. We had tremendous fan support. It was just a special time. I don’t know that you can achievethat very often in your coaching career.” Joining the hall of fameis anoth- er highlight for Johnson. “That's just a great honor for me because | have so many warm memories from that time up there For them to honor me, that's really unexpected.” comfort zone Thursday and Saturday with road games at Northern sports excellence is not unusual. But when the accomplishments Arizona and Nevada. Weber State did go 2-1 at the Dee Events Center with wins over Idaho State and Montana State, but Abegglen is not at all happy. He hopes to change his mood on the road, where WSU has won three of came 50 years ago, that’s a different story. From the time as a youngster The Wildcats open this trip against Northern Arizona, which Dean McCall Virginia Nelson Rich A woman getting recognition for when she lined up with the boys for a turn at the diving board, Rich knew she was a pioneer. “I must have been a women’s libber awfully early, because whatever they did | mimicked,” Rich said. “I think that’s how my interest came in diving.” Her interest blossomed into a brilliant early career. Rich captured the Junior National AAU diving championship in 1939, becoming the first woman from Utah to win a national title Rich then overcame a serious illness and competed with the Weber State team coached by Ferron See WSU HALL on 2C its last four games. dwells in the basement of the Big Sky Conference standings. WSU then goes to Reno toface the Wolf Pack, a team which gave Weber State perhaps its most bitter loss in conference play, a 92-78 setback at Ogden on Jan. 9 With a 6-4 league record, the Wildcats are tied with Idaho for third place in the Big Sky, and Abegglen hopes to stay there. “It will be interesting to see how well we come together on this road trip,” Abeggien said. “The last four games have been so-so.” Weber State sophomore guard Robbie Johnson said the Wildcats seem like they are more comfortable on the road ndenburg Dec. 20, three short of the was, but they say he didn’t touch the bail,” said Wilkens, who was at the other end of the court. “The a masterful performance by Natalia . school record set the year before Brandenburg washired. They lost the nine conference flu, fainted into the arms of her coach after the final run. She was with a poor history in slalom, she’s still a long shot for an Olympic medal. Americans also had their bestever Olympic showing in luge to- nis Diego said. The Aztecs (2-19, 0-9) have lost 14 straight games since with the slalom. The 21-year-old skier from Lee, Mass., has never hill last season at Vail, Colo. And kes: San State. A permanentcoach will be Kronberger answerscritics, claims downhill gold | who was elevated from an assistant’s job to interim head coach at namedfollowing the season, Athletic Director Fred Miller But the Cavaliers weren’t convinced Malone didn’t interfere. “It looked like it from where I with 6.1 secondsleft. Stockton was credited with a steal son of the UCLA head coach, touchedtheball. “Nope. I didn’t touch it. I wanted to, but then you guys would have a lot to write about,” Karl Malone told reporters. shot with 9.0 seconds left to tie the score. Larry Nance on a drive to the basket during Tuesday night’s duel in the Delta Center. SBSU fires my wayoff the floor until I saweveryone standing around.” The Mailman insisted he never downtown this season. But he Utah’s Kari Malone(left) encounters heavy resistance from Cieveland Cavaliers forward SPORTS SHORTS thought about it for a moment before referee Greg Willard finally ruled the basket good. “J had as good an angle as anybody,” Stockton said. “I looked up and said ‘game over’ and was on Jeff Malone, who was 0-7 from es Milwaukee 104, Detroit 87 Portiand 121, Denver 112 Seattie 105, Houston 99 Golden State 139, Wash. 127 around the rim. “I was open up high,” Stockton said. “Maybe the smart play would have been to pull up for a jumper, but I took it in, and somehowthey missed the block.” Kari Malone went up fora tip-in as Stockton’s shot rolled on the rim, but he pulled his hand away as the ball fell through. Cleveland players cried for basket interference us in the ballgame, and otherwise we were in trouble,” said Jazz Coach Jerry Sloan. “This is a good CLYDE MUELLER/Standard-Examiner Chicago 133, New Jersey 113 and flipped up a shot that bounced “We had three great plays to get 4c Utah 111, Cleveland 109 indiana 100, Orlando 98 Philadelphia 114, Miami 102 Charlotte 113, Atlanta 108 L.A. Lakers 116, Minnesota 108 San Antonio 100, Boston 84 that he ended up with theball. “Basically, it was good team defense,” Edwards said. “I don’t know whether John or Kari got their hand on the ball — | think somebody did kind of tip it away. Just out of the natural rotation, I happened to be in the right place at the right time.” After the Jazz called timeout to set up their try for a game-winner, Stockton found an opening at the over the defending NBA champion Layton beatsits rival to capture the Region 1 girls NBA 111-109 thriller over Cleveland. pulled out a l-point overtime victory against the Phoenix Suns and a 3-point, triple-overtime victory Taking the titie NBA Standard-Examiner staff been hanging around the Delta Centerlately. Wilkens didn’t expect much of a game Tuesday night between his Cavaliers and the Utah Jazz because he thought players might be 3c basketbail title By TOM McEACHIN SALT LAKE CITY — Forgive Cieveland Coach Lenny Wilkens for being so wrong — he hasn't SIDE LINES WSU BASKETBALL was backed by $52.5 miilion. Commissioner Rex Lardner, OregonLightning Bolts owner Nick Bunick and other PSFL Inc. officials confirmed Tuesday that the new league doesn't have the cash to meet its first payroll this weekend. The league controls each franchise, receives all revenue and is responsible for paying all the bills. “My feeling is we have to meet the payroll by Monday, in one way or another, orit’s going to be difficult to go on,’ Lardner said from the PSFL's New Jersey headquarters. Lawsuit against Daly withdrawn MEMPHIS, Tenn. — John Daly's formerfiancee did not give a reason for withdrawing a lawsuit that said the PGA champion owed her $1 million for breaking a promise of marriage, her attorney said Bettye Fulford asked for voluntary dismissal of that “] think the whole team feels more confident when we go on the road,” Johnson said. The Wildcats have won two of their last three games played at the Walkup Sky Domein Flagstaff. The Lumberjacks will be a very different team from the one Weber State walloped 96-61 in January at the Dee Events Center. NAU’s leading scorer and rebounder, 6foot-9 center David Wolfe, quit the team two weeks ago. But Coach Harold Merritt said the Lumber- jacks have improved anyway. “We're playing a lot better,” Merritt said. “The chemistry has just turned around.” Taking up the slack for Wolfe's 15 points and nine rebounds a game have been seniors Steve Williams and Archie Toliver, along with junior Demetreus Robbins All three are now averaging more than 10 points a game On Saturday, the Wolf Pack entertains the Wildcats at the Lawlor Events Center, and the ‘Pack has won five of their last six games Nevada has only one homelossall season, a 71-67 overtime game against Si. Mary's of California “We weren't at our best when we See WILDCATS on 2C lawsuit in Shelby County Circuit Court and of an accompanying paternity lawsuit filed in Shelby County Juvenile Court, attorney F. Dulin Kelly of Hendersonville, Tenn., said Tuesday “| just did what my client told me to do,” said Kelly Memphis attorney Charles Hill, who represents Daly, said Monday there has been no financial settlement TAKE A TICKET IHL hockey: Peoria at Salt Lake, Delta Center, 7 p.m Prep basketball: Sky View at Ogden, 7 p.m LAINE SPORTS QUOTE Going flat “We played as well as we could, but the fourth quarter was ugly. It looked like weran out of Soap suds.” — New Jersey Coach Bill Fitch after the Nets, leading 94-93 entering the fourth — quarter, were beaten 133-113 Tuesday at Chicago ~~ Standard-Examiner staff and wire services |
