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Show By KEVIN CURTIS Special to The Daily Herald Just a great, great game.” — BYL Senior pitcher Scott Haws after pitching hisfirst nine-inning complete game as a Cougar for a 10-9 win over Cal-Northridge Friday to Members of one team did back flips; members of the other hung their heads. One team was smoth- tie the WAC baseball tournamentat @ game apiece GOL F ® Phil Mickelson shot 65 on a course he had never played to take the 36-hole lead in the Byron Nelson Classic in Irving, Texas. The 5under-par round Friday at Cottonwood Valley, one of twocourses used in the tournament, put himat 8-under-par 132. He was one shot ahead of Nick Price, Corey Pavin Mike Brisky @ Catrin Nilsmarksloshedaround @ Soggy and shortened DuPont Country Club in 4-under-par 67 on Friday totakethe lead after the rain-delayed first roundof the McDonaid’s LPGA Championship in Wilmington, Del. Nilsmark, who Started her day withabirdie. hit every greenbut one and never made a bogey. She was onestroke ahead of Alison Nicholas. Defending champion Kelly Robbins wasin a knot ofsix players tied with 69s, @ Bob Charles, using a new putter, shot a 7-under 65 Friday and tookathree-stroke lead in the opening round of the Senior PGA Nationwide Championshipat The Golf Club of Georgia. Bruce Crampton, Don Bies. John Jacobs and defending champion Bob Murphy weretiedat 68. TENNIS @ Steffi Graf was ousted from the Italian Open by talented 15-yearold Martina Hingis. touted as a possible suecessor someday Graf as the world’s No. | womanplayer Hingis wonthe quarterfinal match 2-6, 6-2, 6-3. sending Grafto her first tournament lossin seven monthsand herfirst on clay since the 1994 French Open. Another upset victim was No. 3 seed Arantxa SanchezVicario. who fell to No. 7 Irina Spirlea of Romania64. 6-3 @ The German Opentook on a Latin flavor Friday as two Spaniards and a Chilean advanced to the semifinals in Hamburg. Yevgeny Kafelnikoy, the thirdseeded Russian. was the other quarterfinal winner. beat Spaaniard Sergi Bruguera¢ (7-5). Marcelo Rios of Chile outlasted WayneFerreira of South Africa 3-6, 6-4. 6-4. Roberto Car- ar-old Spanish qual- id to upset 16th-seeded Gi haller of Austria 4-6, 64. 6-4 to reachthefirst semifinal of his pro career. The semifinal field was completed when Alex Corretja of Spain ousted MagnusLarsson of Sweden 6-1, 6-4. ® Mats Wilanderrallied froma set downFriday to defeat Vincent Spadeaand eamaspotin the semifinals of the U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championships in Pinehurst, N.C. Wilander frustratedthe 21 year-old Americanon his way to a 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 victory at Pinehurst Resort and Country Club. Wilander, seeking his first tournament title in six years, will be joined in the semifinals by Javier Frana, Jason Stoltenberg and aresilient FernandoMeligeni HOCKEY @ Wayne G retzky scoredhis first goal of the playoffs and Jon Casey a rusty backupat thestart of the postseason. threw a shutout at the Deiroit Reat Wings as the homes: tanding St. Louis Blues won 1-0 ht to eventhe series 2-2 TRACK & FIELD @ Scott Cummings won three events to pace Lehi's boys to a secefinish at the Region Ten mnships in Park City. Anna Bullock won two events to like. <wiseleadthe Pioneer girls to see- cond. Cummings wonthe 800 91:59.73], the 1600 [4:34.38] and the 3200 [10:05.27]. Bullock won athe discus [140-4] andthe shot put 434-2). Other Pioneer winners ‘included Andy Hadfield in the boys’ long jump: the Pioneers boys” medley relay team: Becky Turley inthegirls’ 300-meter hurdles and Ashley Wimmer in the girls’ 800. Wasatch winners were Karrie Probst in the 100-meter hurdles and Natasha Widdison in the high jump. Park City won both teamtitles. ered by classmates, the other team shed tears of agony. Springville is going to the state soccer playoffs. Spanish Fork is going home. The two teams tied for fourth placein Region Eight, making Friday’s game necessary. It all came downto a shootout Tm NBA Piayetts. Bulls at Knicks (NBC leap Auto racy g (ESP) Got US. Vign Wands Classe © 1:30 pm NBA Playotts. Spun at Jarz KISN 570 AM) Auto racing (TNN © 1.35 pm. Truck compen Si © 2pm. LPGA. McDonald's LPGA Champs ‘Channe! 2) (PSP) °S fe Leg eye Prayors ‘oo(ESPN i + Tom ‘heck Caliomsettovede Chang BBbomPOL. Burr at os ISN 57 the incredible goal keeper for the Dons. But this was for all the marbles. “The state tournament wasrunning through my mind. I wanted to gotostate,” said Lugo whose shot tifled past a diving Banksto give Springville a 4-3 victory The Dons scored first when Jake Fish went one-on-one with a defender and punched the ball into with nine shots on goal. Early in scogt one by for the Dons the netfor a 1-0 lead. Moments lat- the first half his vexalty kick Matchbank for the Red Devils. er, the Dons’ Josh Penrod sent a cross kick to Paul Frandsen who nailed a nicely placed kick into the net for a 2-0 lead. But that's when Lugo helped bring his team back with his mys- tery shot out ofthe pack, bringing his teamwithin 2-1 at the half. Midway through the second half, jordan Marchbank tipped the ball into the netto tie the score at bounced offthe cross bar. Springville, which had an unbelievable 59 shots on goal, narrowly missed on several oocassions through the overtime. Nowit was time for the sHootout as players and fanslaid on their bellies at midfield to see which team would go tostate. Both Banks and Springville goalie Jeff Nackos made diving “t looked him (Banks) right in the eye, then for a split second look to the right before I kicked it," said Marchbank whose shot went left into the net to set up Lugo’s hergics. ‘ "It’s too bad someone had to jose this one," said a teary eyed Springville coach Don Liddiard. : A jubliant Nackos jumped into two. Marchbank completely domi- stops and both teamshad shots sail his teammates’ arms and yelled nated on offense as he wascredited over the goal. But Frandsen did "We're goingto state, baby.". > Red Devils grab region baseball title COUGARS: | —_—_— (Continued from Page B1) By BOB HUDSON The Daily Herald Assistant Sports Editor whocompleted his longest stretch ever in a game as a Cougar. “We've been going 6-7 innings with Scott all year,” Pullins said. “It’s the first time we've used him SPANISH FORK — In the end, Springville’s Red Devils decided not to share, Thanks to Brad Neel’s eighthinning single, Springville is the undisputed Region Eight baseball champion. Neel’s hit broughtin Jesse Del- this long. Butafter the first seven innings,it was his game.” ri It was. Despite walking 10 and giving up 13 hits, Haws never gave up more than two runs in an lamas, whohad singled to open the inning, with what proved tobe the winning run in a 12-7 victory over Spanish Fork Friday. A Spanish Fork win would have produced a tie for thetitle. Andy Jensen also had an RBI single and Mike Sanford blasted a three-run homer as Springville exploded for five runs in the eighth. Mike Crane,pitchingin reliefof Jesse Huff, picked up the win. He struck out five and walked onein four and two-thirds innings of work. Crane allowed just one hit and set down || Dons in a row at one point Springville collected 13 hits while Spanish Fork managed just five. In other Region Eight action, Pleasant Grove beat Provo 4-2 and Payson stopped Timpview 4-1. In Region Four Mountain View stunned Alta 7-2; Orem beat Jordan 7-5 and Hillcrest blasted Brighton 10-0. In Region Twelve, Juab and Morgan split with Morgan taking the first game 6-2 and Juab winning the second 9-2. Springville finished with an 82 record. Spanish Fork, Pleasant Grove and Provofinished tied for second with 6-4 marks. Payson was 4-6 and Timpview 0-10. Crane took over on the mound after Springville coach Mike Wright learned he couldn't use Eric Johnson in relief of Huff. Johnson had been used as a courtesy runner for Huff after Huff had singled in the top of the fourth inning “I would have gone with [Johnson] because | mis-understood the tule.” said Wright. “But the umpire (Jim Gilbert] did a good job and caught my mistake.” Asit turned out. Crane was the right manfor the job. “Give him a lot of credit.” Wright said. “He has worked hard since he was a freshman. I can’t remember whenhe’s missed.” Actually, Crane made a crucial mistake early on. He gave up Blair Bingham’s two-run singletotie the score at 6-6 before settling into a groove. After that, he sailed throughthe Spanish Fork lineup “This is myfirst [region championship] in four years,” said Wright. whose teamis the defending 4A state champion. “I hope it carries us through alittle bit.” Springville will entertain Olympus at + p.m. Wednesday in the inter-region playoffs, an intermediate step to the state tournament Spanish Fork will entertain East while Pleasant Grove visits Mountain Crest and Provo visits Cyprus Those games haven't been scheduled y Springville jumped to anearly 2-0 lead in Friday's game. Damon MacArthur opened with a single and Mark Moyes followed with a tnple for one run. Neel drove in the second witha sacrifice fly Spanish Fork got one run back in the bottom of the inning when SPURS: ‘Saturday and a deciding kick by Gerrado Lugo. Earlier in the game, Lugo came out of a pack of players to score a mystery goal that somehow found its way past Brady Banks — (Continued from Page B1) Stockton is convinced the Jazz have not seen the Spurs at their best, “but I don’t think they've seenus at our best, either.” Utah coach Jerry Sloan, who was ejected Thursday, dismisses the notion that the Jazz now have the homecourt edge with three of the remaining five games sched- MAGIC: (Continued from Page B1) O'Neal with double-teams and makethe Magic center work harder on defense by getting Laettner involved in the Atlanta offense. The plan worked, but not well enough to make a difference. > inning. And he got timely heip from the Cougar defense, which came up with good plays when needed and, as illustrated by that ninth-inning gem, spectacular plays when necessary, In the fourth, catcher Patrick Johnson caught Eric Gillespie leaning too far off first after a pitch and picked him off. In the sixth, with a man on, Matt Stringham made an acrobatic catch at the centerfield fence to end the inning. In the eighth, with two on and only one out, Tyson DowDell made a spectacular unassisted double play that got the Cougars out ofthe inning. “Tt wasn’t just me,” Hawssaid. “The offense kept scoring runs here and there, and the guys played great defense behind me.” Haws also got himself out of a few jams with 12 strikeouts. Crabtree, meanwhile, didn’t walk anyone,struck out eight and gave up more than two runs in an inning only once, when the Cougars jumped on him in the top ofthe first for a four-run binge that turned out to perhaps be the differ- Springville's Eric Johnson slides sateiy into second base asthe ball gets away from Spanish Fork's Blair Bingham during the second inning of Friday's Josh Andrews walked and Chris Anderson doubled him home. In the third, Springville picked up two more runs. MacArthur was hit by a pitch and Moyes singled. MacArthurscored on a wild pitch before Jensen got an RBI single to score Moyes. Again Spanish Fork answered with one run in its half of the inning. Andrews walked, but was forced out by Joel Higginson. He scored when Anderson got another double. In the fourth. Springville ranits lead to 6-2. Huff opened with a single. Johnson came on as a speed-up runner. Dellamas bunted himto second before Brad Poulson doubled for one run. Poulson scored when Higginson bobbled a groundball at shortstop. Quinn Hampton opened Spanish Fork’s fourth with a double. Garrett Johnson was safe on Sanford’s error at shortstop and Lance Wilson walked to load the bases. Two runs scored when Sanford again mis-played the ball at shortstop. Higginsonsingled to put runners at the corners. Wright thenreplaced Huff, who had developed some stiffness in his shoulder, with Johnson “Sorry. coach,” said umpire Gilbert. “You can’t dothat. He just ran for the pitcher in your half of the inning.” So, on came Crane. Bingham greeted himwith his single to tie things. Higginsonscored ona wild pitch to give Spanish Fork a 7-6 lead Springville tied it at 7-7 in the sixth when Poulson and Daily Herald Phota/John Blodgett e. The Red Devils beat the Dons 12-7 to win the an Eight championshi ip it. Dons were trying to win a piece ofthe title. MacArthur hit back-to-back doules. That's how it stayed until Dellamas opened the eighth with a single. Poulson bunted him to second. After Johnson knocked around Moyes’ groundbal! at third, Neel drove in the go-ahead run. Jensen and Sanford added insurance runs with their hits “Iwas happy with ourteant hit- ling.” said Wright. “When we needed a bunt, we put it down. We played a team game.” MacArthur, Moyes, Jensen, Huff and Poulson all had two hits apiece for the Red Devils. Andersonhad twofor the Dons. Vikings 4, Bulldogs 2 At Provo, Chris Williams had two RBIs to pace Pleasant Grove to its victory. Trevor Gillman and Josh Harroun also had RBIs, Harcounalsohad threehits. Jesse Clark led Provowith three hits. Kodey Whitelely out-dueled Kyle Barnes on the mound. “It was a well-pitched game for both teams,” said Provo coach Vance Law. “We didn’t get the big hits and they did.” Lions 4, T-Birds 1 At Payson, Corey Watkins pitched a three-hitter with lastinning help from Layne Harris. Shawn Johnson drove in tworuns. Watkins had a no-hitter going intothe fifth inning. He gave up a hit in eachofthe last three innings. Harris came on to record three outs in the seventh Watkins helped his cause with twohits. “Corey pitched exceptionally well.” said Payson coach Scott Haney. “The [Shawn] Fitzgerald kid pitched well for them, too, with eight strikeouts.” Tigers 7, Beetdigge: At Orem,Taylor Pullins picked up a relief win as the defending SA state champion Tigers overcame a flat stretch and finished with an 8-4 league record. They share second with Alta, but the Hawks swept Orem to get the higher seed. Jason Gonzalez drove in three runs while Casey Hansen chased home two. Kyle Walker and Mike Weingarten had twhits apiece. Orem will be at Taylorsville at 4 p.m. Wednesdayin the inter-region playoffs. Bruins 7, Hawks 2 At Mountain View, the Bruins, who finished 3-9, finished on an up note after Taylor Ehat pitched a five-hitter. Matt Field had three of the Bru- ins’ eight hits. Clark Asay had two RBIs for Mountain View Ehat finished with three of Mountain View's six wins for the season Huskies 10, Bengals 0 At Brighton, the Huskies dropped the Bengals into a tie with American Fork for fourth place. Both teams are 6-6 and must play off for the final berth in the interregion playoffs. That is tentatively scheduled for Monday. Juab 2-9, Morgan 6-2 Juabis the fourth seed and will be at Grand at a time to be determined. Manti is the No. from Region Twelve. | seed uled for Salt Lake “We haven't beatenthis teamat homeall year. They know they can win here,” he said. Nouse, either to bait Sloan with questions about Game 2's officiating. Though Utah was whistled 27 times to San Antonio’s 12 resulting in a 29-5 freethrow advantage for the Spurs — the coach blames that on lack of aggressive offense “When you don’t take the ball to the basket, you don’t get to the foul line.” was all Sloan would UVSC: That criticism could have been directed, in part, at Malone, who scored most of his 24 points from (Continued from Page B1) key blast. Brody Bevan doubled he had no free throw attempts Thursday put UVSC up 7-3. said. “So why wake upthat sleep- threw Pene out at the plate from ing bear? Lethis ... sleep.” rightfield. When the Hawks made it tougher for O'Neal to get to the basketin the first quarter, the fourtime All-Star did a good job of Grant made six of eight shotsin the first quarter and O'Neal scored 12 second. points to finish the “It wasjust a great, aggressive. well-played game," said UVSC coach Steve Gardner. “Both teams made a lot of key plays. It didn't look like it at the time, but probably the biggest one was King's say the perimeter. Uncharacteristically, “It’s a no-winsituation for us to talk about (officiating),” Malone half with 16 on 6-for-8 shooting. Laettner had 14 at the half after finding open shooters on the scoring only seven on Wednesday perimeter. The Magic made five of seven night. But with Orlando shooting 3-pointers in the opening halfafter going 5-for-16 from the same distance in Game |. Meanwhile, . so well, O'Neal wasn't forced to move out and try to shut down the Atlanta center. home a run in the fourth, then scored on Mike Wood's single to Dixie scored a runin the fifth, but had a rally killed when Wood triple.” With the win, UVSC posted its 11th win in the last 12 games. The Wolverines improved to 28-19 on the year. ence in the game “Robby threw a great game,” Batesole said. “We made a coupte of mistakes behind him that we usually don’t, but he didn’t let it bother himand hungin there.” BYUgot the advantage early against Crabtree and his 3.61 ERA. DowDell’s two-run homer and Brown's two-out, two-ren doubie did the damage. But that was the only “big inning.” Solo homers by North- ridge’s Adam Kennedy (first) anid Kurt Airoso (fifth) and mid Ryan Roberts (second) and Stringham(fourth) Comat for one-run innings for each team. Fick's two-run homerin the fourth were all the runs Northridge managed in that inning, while Haws got himselfout ofa bases-loaded jam in the third by catching Cesar Martinez looking on a third strike. He had gotten himselfinto trouble in the frame with three walks. “I walked a few, but nena didn’t string too many together at once,” Haws said. Brown, who was 3-for-S with six RBIs on the day, had a two-run single in the fifth to give BYU an 8-5 lead at the time. Both pitchers found their see ond windin the sixth, setting down the other teamwithout a score. “I stopped counting (pitches) after the third inning, and each time | went out there, | was just saying. ‘one more inning, just one more inning,” Hawssaid. In the seventh, Brown blasted a two-run homer for BYU's final runs, But Martinez did the same in the bottom of the inning to keep the lead at just two, 10-8. It might have been worse for the Cougars but for DowDell’s great play. With Kennedy on second and Miranda on first and one out, Fick lashed a lowliner to right. DowDell made a diving catch, then jumped up and slid into first just a second ahead of Miranda for the double play to end the inning. “1 jus: dove and c: it, and “I slid in and him four inches, pene at ‘ann “This was a great game. I'll always rememberthis game. It was Ps NOTABLE QUOTE ph ED XTC PORESOPCHS OSLOTESICSOC HEME <0 + fips Springville kickers claim playoff berth «gt Pomoes: zecerzeree 8S a OES | Page DAILY 2 — THE DAILY HERALD,Provo, Utah, Saturday, May 12, 1996 |