Show For Recorded Scores ' 'Section Saturday November 12 1988 B Page 3 By Bay llerbat Falcons lost one of By Dick Rosetta Executive Sports Editor LOGAN — The gauntlet has been thrown down The question is will it hit the ground? Furthermore will there be light enough to even see it? Utah State and Utah two football teams that hit the skids only to kick it into drive for shots at 500 seasons match talents for the 86th time here Saturday in Romney Stadium with a 1:08 pm kickoff It's not the start but the finish that is of major interest in this one and that doesn't necessarily mean the score in what many regard as a tossup game between the Ags of the Big West Conference and the Utes of the Western Athletic Conference Figuring a normal game these days between these two teams — who pass an average of 90 times a game between them — runs about 3‘£ hours and f hour because of you figure maybe another television (Channel 4) you've got about a 5 pm finish Sunset is predicted for around 510 p m but it’ll be well behind the Wellsville Range before that And there are no lights in Aggieville "Our coaches were putting the players through week that the Cougars have not been beaten in games in a season since 1982 Air Force Coach Fisher DeBerry however was quick to point out that it was an AFA team in 1982 that handed the Cougars a second straight loss 39-3- 8 The AFA win that year came on the day BYU opened newly expanded Cougar Stadium The question is being asked if history will repeat itself Saturday when Air Force and BYU renew series in 52000-sea- t this Falcon in a noon kickoff (Channel back-to-bac- mid-seaso- n d their big games of this or any season when Army rolled to a tory in New York 28-1- 5 vic- - Then hours later Brigham Young University suffered an em-- ! barrassing defeat clear across the country to San Diego State by an almost identical score ' The Falcons were reminded this 27-1- 5 Knee Problem Makes Malone one-side- ° 237-202- Call 5 d one-hal- 5) BYU’s bowl hopes may be on the line The Freedom Bowl is expect-Se- e Column 4 B-- 4 0 wind sprints at the end of practice Tuesday and Wednesday about 5 pm and they couldn't distinguish one player from another from about 40 yards away" said Aggie Sports Information Director 1 Craig Hislop So they may be scrounging around for that in the gauntlet when the Ags (4-- overall and overall and in the Big West) and Utes (4-WAC) wind down in what everyone from Dewey-vill- e to Draper is convinced will provide a barrelful of offensive pyrotechnics Don’t be deceived by the fact the Ags have yielded an average of only 15 points the last two games when they were giving up 38 a game their first seven Nor should anyone be doing cartwheels over the 4-- 2 3-- Millard Pounds Way to 230-poun- d B-- Title —Sports Capsulezz 2-- A NBA Philadelphia 107 Atlanta 105 Houston 121 Miami 100 New York 121 Indiana 120 (OT) Detroit 116 Boston 107 Washington 96 Charlotte 87 Chicago 97 New Jersey 85 Dallas 115 San Antonio 102 Phoenix 141 Golden State 103 L A Lakers 114 Seattle 103 Tribune Sports Writer Questionable g CEDAR CITY — Millard used a Swallow to soar like an Eagle Friday afternoon at Southern Utah State College’s Thunderbird Stadium Tilden Swallow scored all three Millard touchdowns as the Eagles football captured them first Class championship since 1982 by taking a 21-victory over Region Ten rival Richfield Swallow scored on runs of two two and three yards and anchored Millard’s fine defense from his linebacker position to lead the Eagles to their second victory over Richfield in less than a month "I love to get the ball there close to the goaline” said Swallow one of 23 seniors on Millard’s team "You just duck your head down and go" Millard started the season as nearly team but everyone’s No promptly lost to Hurricane and Emery Both Swallow and Eagle Coach Dennis Alldredge said losing those two games may have been the key to the Eagles’ drive to the state championship After those two losses Millard would win its next 10 games ‘Those losses helped us out” said Swallow “We were really cocky We got humbled out and came together as a team” Allredge never likes to be ranked No 1 and certainly didn’t like being in that position at the start of the Jazz Face Big Problems vs Spurs By Steve Luhm Tribune Sports Writer SAN ANTONIO — Maybe rain sleet or snow can’t stop the Mailman But a sore knee? That’s another matter Karl Malone the Jazz's power forward is a questionable starter Saturday night when the Jazz meet the Spurs at HemisFair Arena Malone was injured at some point loss at during Thursday’s 106-9Houston when he banged his knee on the court "I don’t really know exactly when it happened or how it happened” the Mailman said "But when I got up it felt funny from the last time-ou- t Then after the game it started killing 2-- 7 All-St- 9 me” Malone said the pain and swelling got so severe late Thursday night that he called Trainer Don Sparks about midnight Sparks treated Malone until 2 am Then after the Jazz arrived in San Antonio Friday morning the Mailman went via cab to a local doctor who examined the injured knee The good news? “There’s no ligament instability” said Sparks "It apears to be a soft tissue-typ- e bruise And maybe that ligament was stretched a little bit But the joint itself seems stable He should be fine” Asked what he’d done if Malone’s injury had been more serious Coach Frank Layden said "Nothing Just committed suicide” But the news wasn’t all good Malone who was limping around the Jazz’s practice late Friday afternoon might not be able to play against the Spurs If he can’t he’d miss his first regular-season game since he was a rookie If he can’t a in 1985-8per game scorer will be unavailable to a team that’s averaged only 100 points in its first three games “If he’s not ready to play without limping we obviously wouldn't let him play" Sparks said "But we really won’t know if he'll play until Maybe we’ll be able to tell at the (morning shootaround Or maybe we’ll have to wait until just before the 6 game" 32-po- Said Malone “I’ll just see how it feels Right now it feels a lot better than it did last (ThursdayJ night But we’ll have to see I can say this though Not playing will be the last resort I want to play That’s what I get paid to do” If Malone is unable to play veteran Marc Iavaroni would probably start in his place Thurl Bailey would continue coming off the Jazz’s bench which has been shortened considerably already by injuries to Bob Hansen and Mike Brown Depth in fact was a major topic of conversation after the loss to the Rockets That was hours before anyone knew about Malone’s injury Only five players — Bailey Malone Darrell Griffith John Stockton and Mark Eaton — scored against Houston Including designated starter Jose Ortiz the Jazz’s No 2 unit was a combined from the field in a combined 36 minutes But Layden defends his youthful second unit He points out that Ortiz Erie Lorkner and Jim Les are rookies Bart Kofoed and Scott Roth are in the second season after limited roles in their first "We’re just inexperienced that’s all” Layden said "They played pretty hard And they're getting better" Ferhaps But it’s clear the Jazz need Hansen playand Brown so their prime-timers get some rest Fact Malone and Stockton average 42 minutes through thn e games Bailey averages almost 38 and Eaton und Bailey average almost 35 Fact The Rockets outscored the Jazz in the fourth quarter to "You get wipe out a 10 point lead tired" Eaton said "but I like to play don t think anybody likes to sit The Jazz hope Malone doosn t have to Mi against the Spurs 0-- 7 31-1- 1 237-200- 1 Utes holding San Diego State and Colorado State to an average of 13 points when they coughed up an average of 40 through the first seven games These two teams are stocked up for offense with Ute sophomore quarterback Scott Mitchell ranked No 1 in the nation in total offense (391 yards per game) and Aggie senior Brent Snyder No 5 in the country (2901) Aggie Coach Chuck Shelton doesn't need to be reminded 'No one has stopped them the Utes can t conceive of us being the team that does that At the same time if we don't interrupt or disrupt their offense someway then 1 don t think we have a chance to win the Disrupt is the buzzword "We just can't let Mitch ell stand back there and have all day to throw I'm going in thinking that for us to have a chance our defense has to respond to the challenge of getting at Mitchell" That is a major task for any defense since the Mitchell has throw n for over 400 yards three tunes this season over 300 five times and never less than 271 He has seven NCAA records already and goes for another big one Saturday — most passing yards ever by a sophomore Column 2 See By Tom Wharton Low-Scorin- Sports Information Darkness to Stalk Utes Ags BYU Bowl Hopes On Line at AFA Tribune Sports Writer COLORADO SPRINGS — The news went from bad to worse for Air Force Academy last weekend First the ° Call Local Chicago 6 Winnipeg 5 (OT) Boston 4 New York Rangers 4 NY Islanders 3 New Jersey 3 Montreal 3 Vancouver 1 IHL Salt Lake 8 Denver “That No 1 ranking is a death 10:30 am — College Football Southeastern Conference nSPlU 11 am — Women's Bowling Sam’s Town National Pro-Af4) Noon — Auto Racing Oakwood Homes 500 (3D Noon — College Football BYU at Air Force ( HBO) Noon — Boxing Hearns vs Kin-ch- en ' (taped) (TSPN) 12:30 pm — Golf The Nabisco Championship — College Football Utah at (3D 1 Utah State QD 1 pm — Bowling True Value Open ( ESPN ) 2:30 pm — College Football Pitt vs Penn State g fESPNP 6 pm — College Football vs Houston fESPNl 9:30 pm — Auto Racing Aus- tralian Grand Prix ( HBO ) 10 pm — Boxing Leonard vs Lalonde (taped) ( WTBS ) P-- sig- who won his first state title as a head coach “We made some changes after those first two losses and that might have been the key to our season If we had won Wy-omin- those two ball games we might not have made some of those needed changes” — Tribune Millard’s Jake DeGraffenried (51) puts the hit on Richfield’s Kelly Ross Friday t I in the After beating Richfield final game of the regular season to e earn a tie for the league title 4 Column 1 staff Photo by Jeff Allred 7-- 0 afternoon in the state championship game at Cedar City Eagles won 21-- 7 2-- A 5 TV Sports year nal” said Alldredge ( NHL All-Se- B-- Orem Whips Brighton Earns Shot at Title By Dan Pattison Tribune Sports Writer Orem Coach Tom Rabb deserves the Buford T Pusser “Walking Tall coach walked Award” This tall and cast a giant shadow over Rice Stadium Friday afternoon as the TiBrighgers stuffed heavily-favoreton 28-Orem the defending champion is only this season and was the last team to qualify for the football tournament from Region Two The Tigers needed a win over Roy in the first round of the playoffs and they got it They needed a win over previously unbeaten Granger in the quarterfinals and they got it Friday afternoon Orem needed a win over the 10-- 2 Bengals in the semifinals a team that had intimidated d 7 4-- 7-- 4 4-- rout and dominated them in a earlier this season The rematch was also a rout But only because the Tigers figuring turnabout was fair play went out and did a little dominating themselves As a result Orem advances to the finals to defend its championship Friday at 11:30 am against Alta 21-winner over Davis "We didn’t expect to dominate them the Bengals like we did We knew we could win” explained quarterback Bryan Rowley Rabb’s only returning starter from last year's championship squad “We were intimidated by them the first game “But going into this game we had nothing to lose There wasn't any pressure on us like last year And we See Column 5 35-1- 2 4-- 0 B-- 4 —Tribune Staff Photo by Rick Egon With referee (background) making his official Orem QB Bryan Row- - i ley caps TD run with a little bration Tigers advanced to 4-- cele-touchdo- finals A Our Favorite Horse Race Pits Elephants Donkeys Every Olympic year we embrace our Sport of Kings’ our National Pastime and America's Game all rolled into one And it isn't the Olympics Some years the winner of our great American sport is a vicarious Redskins coach Other years he's an broadcaster this year he's an first baseman Nice race George Way to attack Great comeback Yes Americans our political system has given us another sporting event this fall complete w ith all the sports cliches you’ve known and loved — and with some of your familiar sports heroes too This was the year that Muhammad All w ho as he put it 20 years ago had no quarrel with those Viet Cong came to Utah to lend lus support to Orrin Hatch who has a quarrel with those Sandmistax Strange bedfellows perhaps but that s sports This was the yrar that Connie Mark’s grandson had to wait until the absentee ballots were rounted to claim his D s Senate seat in Florida In 50 seal s n managing the A's the s e fine-tune- was a placekicker for a original Connie never had race like that When his race was over Senator Mack told Ronald Reagan “I think we just won one more for the Gipper” Connie This was the year that Mike Ditka the coach of the Bears almost postponed hospital care for his chest pains in order to participate in a Bush rally When Ditka felt better Thursday he congratulated Bush and said of his election “It’s like the Super Bowl” Sadly he's right This was the year that New Jersey team m the US almost got an Senate Former basketball star Bill Bradley is there already and Pete Dawkins the Heisman Trophy winner at Army 30 years ago tried to join him Alas he was beaten by incumbent Frank Lautenbcrg who accused Dawkins of being a carpetbagger I ley sports guys are always changing addresses This was the year that Herb Kohl the owner of the NBA Milwaukee Burks won elerjion as a U S Senator the same state that at m Wisconsin all-joc- Lex Wrong sport Hemphill most elected former NFL players union boss Ed Garvey to the Senate two years ago Could Kohl be starting a trend? Is Larry Miller next? This was the year that a former pro football quarterback Jack Kemp ran for president Kemp also opted not to run for to his House seat from New York cutting the Jock Caucus in the House to three ex pro athletes who won Tuesday — former major-leagupitcher Jim Running (R Ky ) funnel NBA player Tom McMillen and former ABL Denver Nugget Mo ) Udall This was the year that the (f the Dukakis campaign in Utah e tD-M- z i major-colleg- e football team Jason Chaffetz of BYU Chaffetz is interested in a political career of his own some day and he sees the connection between sports and politics in America "I think one reason is people want their representatives to be someone they re familiar with someone they feei they know and sports provides that” he analyzed "I think also sports is a good learning experience in that running a government it's a team sport You've got to be able to work with people" Along the same line Kemp who served in Congress for 18 years told Sorts Illustrated last year "I like having jocks on the Hill no matter their political persuasion We tend to be problem solvers and we don t moan or groan about defeats " It's onlv natural that we should see more and more jocks in politics smci our view of the political process has become more and more a sporting one The reason politics is such a popular spot t IS that we get to spectate and participate at the1 same twin i n And now it s even more fun to spec tate because we've found a solution to the one problem politics once had as a sport which was" What a tin score'’" The solution is the polls This fall the polls so abounded that we were getting a new score every day We might complain that the can didates weren t talking about issues but the fact is the polls were what made it a sport a horse race znd that sadly is what interests Aineri cans despite their protest The first thing most people asked after the debates waxn t "What did they talk about’" Rather it was "Who won’’" When one of the candidates would make an assertion the commentator would sav He scored (Hunts with that one You could a' most hear Don Dunphv x voice Since politnx is about winning and losing there ho alwavs been an ele ment of sport involved But with tins fall s predilection for bovxrorf liki polls and film at ti" and jock v ernac iilit politics has become too much a spoil to aspii' to a higher purpose ' |