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Show SPORTS Daily s SECTION jhe Me THURSDAY, FEBRUARY .16, 2006 SPORTS EDITOR | Darnell Dickson - 344-2555 - ddickson@heraldextra.com é O82 torino MEDAL COUNT As of Wednesday Country Total Norway 14 Russia 9 Us Germany i 8 8 Austria Canada 5 4 wa 4 4 Sweden Netherlands : 3 3 South Korea In need of another‘Miracle’ % U. S.e men Ss hockey 5 has to rally to tie Latvia in 0 ener e Italy Finland 3 2006 Pp ‘ ‘i ownpeople. “You can say that this probably means moreto us than to the American team.” Latvia, with only two current NHL players,rallied from an early two-goal Whenthe final horn sounded,the Latvian playersraised their arms in triumph while the Americans slowly gathered around goalie Grahame. “Wewerenot expected to win or even get the tie,” said former NHL goalie Arturs Irbe, who made 39 saves — 18 in the third period — for Latvia. “We werebig-time underdogsin.this gamein everybody's eyes except our Laviolette had every reason to be worried about this opening matchupin Olympic GroupB. Latvia had the luxury of playing mostly as a team in recent weeks, while the U.S. squad was scattered around North America. Only two American players werein Italy by Latvia. Ira Podell THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TURIN,Italy — John Grahame watched the movie “Miracle” almost 100 times during the NHLlockout. The waythe U.S. hockey team played against Latvia in the Olympic opener, Grahameandhis teammates 4 might need another miracleforhistory to repeatitself. Jordan Leopold scored early inthe third period, andthe Americanteam witha roster full of NHLplayers only managed a 3-3 tie against the under- deficit and proved USS.coach Petef ERIC RISBERG /Associated Press The United States’ Chris Drury,left, collides with Latvia's goalie Artus Irbe during the third periodof a 2006 Winter Olympics See OLYMPICS, B8 men’s ice hockey match Wednesday in Turin,Italy. PREP BOYS BASKETBALL CLUTCH CAVEMEN — American Fork converts from the free throw line in fourth to seal win Neil K. Warner ‘SEAN MAYE/Daily Herald Pleasant Grove's (15) drives to the hoop during the Vikings’ 59-54 loss to Spanish Fork on Wednesday. Lone Peak had American Fork right whereit wantedit — at the free throw line. American Fork was comingoff a 16of-32 performance from the free throw line last game against Mountain View, andfor the season, the Cavemendon't havea single player shooting over 70 Donshold off late Viking percent from the charity stripe. It was a great gameplan,butit didn’t work, But Lone Peak couldn't have foreseen. threat to win that on Wednesdaynight the Cavemen would comeup clutch Jared Lloyd DAILY HERALD Spanish Fork head basketball coach MarkBailey can sympathize with fighterpilot instructors after Wednesdaynight. For a few, heart-stopping seconds, he saw his team appear perfectly in commandofits game against Pleasant Grove, only to stall and go hurtling dangerously out of control. All he could do was watch and ype. Fortunately for the Dons, things camebackonline =o AM. FORK 51 LONEPEAK 41 See DONS, BS gameout offirst with one game to play. Theloss was a huge setback to Lone Peak the defending 4A state champs. whofell to 4-5 and nowmost beatPleas- ant Grove next week to have a chanceat the big dance. “Weimprovedonourfree throws,but whatI'm mostproud of is how hard we played.It seemedlike every looseball was ours,” said American Fork coach Doug Meacham. “Wehavethe elements of us getting that toughlookin our eyes and tonight wehad that fromthe beginning.” MARIO RUIZ/Dany Hera American Fork’s David Olden, right, goes for a layup during Wednesday night's game against Lone Peak on Tuesday. Doug Alden _ windoutof them,”said Morris, who scored all 17 of his points in the second half and overtime. The Rams (13-11, 2-9) meet a seven-game losing streak and won for just the second time Darnell Dickson DAILY HERALD in the Mountain West Neither seemed to il > Conference this season affect his shot much. la — with bothvictories Morris hit five 3-pointcoming overthe Utes ers, including one with (12-11,5-7). 15 seconds left to force Jason Smith added overtime and two 15 points. and eight remoreearly inth¢OT —_ bounds for the Rams, COLO. ST. a 69-61 win over Utah UTAH on Wednesday night. “Any time in overtime,if you can get a couple of3s or big buckets, that can really take the See RAMS, B4 ks In sports terminology, it's what's referred to as a “breather.” Oh,you won't hear BYU men'svolleyball codch Tom No. 1 BYU at Petersonsayit, or any ofthe players, but the topranked Cougars Today (7 p.m.) and travel to last-place Saturday (8 p.m.) UC San Diego for a pair of matches this weekend,and it couldn't comeat a better time. Banged-up BYU (8-2 MPSF,10-2 overall) should be able to ease by a UCSD team thaf has just one win in 2006 andis 0-7 in MPSFplay. The Cougarshaveseveral UC San Diego 69 whowere 24for-47 61 from the floor and comfed just five turnovers in the fi minutes, STEVE C. WILSON/Associated Press Colorado State forward Michael Harrison dunks the ball during the during the Rams’ ‘69-61 win over Utah on Wednesday. WWW.HERALDEXTRA.COM —' CALL 375-5103 TO SUBSCRIBE ' See CAVEMEN, B5 Cougarslookingto get healthy against last-place UC San Diego Morris lifts Rams over Utes in OT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS American Fork's fourth quarter freethrowparade began when Austin Haws sank pair of free throws with 6:50left in the gameto put the Cavemenup 38-35. Lone Peak’s Grant Cummings BYU MEN'SVOLLEYBALL MEN'SBASKETBALL UTAH to give Colorado State The win kept Amer- ican Fork’s Region 4 of having a greatteam, it’s just a matter win overthe Vikings,butit was oh,so close. With about 25 seconds left, Spanish Fork had a two-point lead and the ball out-of-bounds underthe Pleasant Grove basket. It appeared to be a routine scenario: Inboundtheball, run arounduntil the Vikingsfouled, hand. 5141 win. title hopes alive by improving to 54, a SP.FORK 59 and theyfinished PL.GROVE 54 Off a59-54 home SALT LAKE CITY — Sean Morris was raethe flu aged a bone bruise on in oneofthe biggest gamesofthe year. American Fork made10-of-11 free throwsin the fourth quarterto pull away from LonePeak for a , players nursing nagginginjuries, and after facing the nation’s volleyball elite the past four weeks, two matches against aninferior opponentwill be a welcome change. “UC SanDiegois the onlyDivision II team competinginour league,” Peterson said, “While they areat a disadvantagein that aspect, they work very hard and are very well coached. We wanttogo in there and playour hardest and show that we respect them.” After this weekend, BYU gets a week off before resuming MPSFplay March 344 in Provo against Stanford. So the next couple of weekswill be for recuperation and recovery, especially important with roadtrips to No. 3 UC Irvine, No. 4 Long See VOLLEYBALL, B2 my |