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Tit 41'1 VIP Utah State Works Some Overtime d Utah To Knock Off 10th-Rairike- By Joe Baird THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Utah State has fought a lot of rivals game battles against Utah and BYU during the four years Kohn Smith has been in Logan But they've also mostly been losing battles That changed Tuesday night however Up against the nation's team on the road the Aggies pulled off one of the upsets of the season — and gave Smith his biggest win as USU coach by overbeating the Utes in a time thriller at the Huntsman Cente 10th-ranke- d 74-7- 2 ter Before a gathering of 14963 and a local television audience USU forced overtime when Kendall Youngblood hit a frozen-ropfrom the top of the contest at to with tie the key 2:18 left The Aggies prevailed in the extra session by converting free throws and getting two huge baskets by guard Todd Gentry and forward Roger Daley in the final e three-point- er 62-6- 2 1:34 "It's just great for Utah State" said Smith in a raucous Aggie locker room "I'm as proud as I can be We beat a very good basketball team tonight This gives us a big lift" deUSU which dropped a cision to the Utes just last Tuesday at the Spectrum has now squared its record at The Aggries next face BYU Friday night in the 71-6- 2 2-- 2 'Little Man' Upstages Beetdiggers opening round of the Cougar Classic The Utes who jumped from 13th to 10th in this week's Associin losing ated Press poll fell to their first game of the season They get right back at it Thursday with another home date against College of Idaho Utah appeared to have matters in hand against USU when it took a lead on a pair of Paul Afeaki foul shots with 4:56 remaining in regulation But that was answered by six straight Aggie points that eventually set the stage for OT — and the victory "We played tough and we hung in there" said Smith who is now against the lite& "We missed some free throws we dug ourselves a hole but we dug down defensively and we made the plays at the end" Youngblood and Malloy Nesmith led the Aggies with 13 points apiece while Car lito Da Silva finished with 12 (and 11 rebounds) 6-- Lewis-Clar- '4 - i : - ' IV s 4 Two of the best big men in Utah high school basketball Jordan's Koy Lombardi and Bonneville's Mike De Groot showed up for a showdown at Jordan High Tuesday night But a little guy stole the show Hitting long bombs from all over the court Bonneville's 5- foot-junior point guard Dave Sivulich scored 27 points to lift the unbeaten Lakers to an intense 82 74 victory over the Beetdiggers in a preseason boys basketball game Sivulich wasn't hot the minute he hit the court His first offering from downtown an airball endeared him to the Jordan rooting section He answered the catcalls with 10 points inat at the buzzer cluding to put Bonneville ahead "That's his range" said Bonneville coach Gary Alverson of Sivulich's penchant for firing from 25 feet and beyond "He thinks he'll never miss" It was a game of spurts Down with three minutes remaining in the first half Jordan with Lombardi taking over scored 12 at instraight points to lead termission "We hustled but we didn't play smart" said Alverson De Groot's two quick hoops Bonneville started a run to open the second half and the Lakers never trailed again De Groot finished with 18 but he and Lombardi who topped Jordan with 21 seldom guarded each other This game however belonged to Sivulich who created countless Jordan turnovers with his while setting up Mike Porter and Justin Johnson for easy inside baskets with his passing Johnson had 15 See D-Column 1 8 er 20-1- 2 34-2- 3 35-3- 4 nine-poi- ball-hawkin- g De-Gro- ot 3 D0143Y TP Utah 13 McGrath 4 2 3 5 5 2 4 0 2 0 5 22 iNickizer Totals I 6 II 1 4 2 5 4 3 5 1 9 6 2 6 0 0-- 2 Sager Halftime Utah State 4 Dixon PP 0 7 0--0 Nay 1 0 5 0 1 0--1 0 14 0 3 2342 4 SI 0 0 15 9 12 II 6 13 0 4 0 6 74 Dixon Ateaki Tote Wilson Howard Pe PT U A PP TP 1 4 7 0 5 0 6 13 9 12 1 1 5 5 4 9 3 2 2 9 8 3 7 1 2 0 0 0 4 3 0 47 11 3 24 0--3 1 09 Grant Soto Rydalch 2 2 2 1 0 3 1 2 0-- 0--2 Totals 1 3142 0 2-- 6 and Jay Goodman added 11 points The Utes were led by Jimmy So25 points (on to's career-higshooting) while Phil Dixon contributed 13 Paul Afeaki and Tyrone Tate added nine points apiece But Utah as a team hit just 18 of 60 shots for the night That's 30 percent (267 percent in the second half) "We missed a lot of easy shots" said Ute coach Rick Majerus h tensity" It was a rugged game A total of 53 fouls were called and the two teams went to the line a combined 76 times That was no accident though The Aggies were outrebounded and dominated physically by the Utes last week in Logan They came out Tuesday determined not to let it happen again and by night's end whittled the Utes' board advantage to a more Afeaki led all respectable rebounders with 12 Sparked by a 10-- spurt USU lead a little over grabbed a 11 minutes into the contest But led by Josh Grant the Utes rallied with seven straight points and at inended up trailing just termission Utah reasserted itself in the secat the ond half knotted it at 1 L17 mark and outscored the Ag 42-2- 5 47-3- 8 0 21-1- 3 34-3- 3 47-a- ll 2 2 4 0 25 1 8 25 0 72 4 final-secon- Jan d 103 "We ran the break" said Edwards "and got a few easy baskets We got off to a good start and that helps anybody" The Magic who have now lost 12 of 15 after a start led just once A by Scott Ski les made it with three minutes gone Meet Edwards He scored six straight points to put Utah in front and his with five minutes left in the quarter highlighted a 12-- spurt that put the Jazz on cruise control Hitting 15 of their first 20 shots the Jazz powered to a lead It was early in the second at halftime period and "We shot the ball really well" said Sloan The thing I was concerned about was they got so If we don't many easy baskets shoot the ball so well we're in 3-- 7-- 0 6 steal-dun- k 2 36-2- 1 46-2- 7 67-5- 2 trouble" Other than the occasionally porous defense the Jazz's biggest concern in the first half was Edwards' health Midway through the second quarter he started limping on a suddenly tender knee "It just got sore" said Edwards "It was fine at practice Monday and it was fine at the shootaround Tuesday morning and it was fine when the game started I don't think it's serious It's just one of those things a little discomfort more than anything" The Magic had a chance to make the Jazz uncomfortable in the third quarter But the Magic made Orlando Turner Reynolds Kite Skiles Anderson Smith Catiedge M 19 12 24 25 32 35 27 Vincent 26 Williams 16 16 8 240 Acres Roberts Totals Utah Edwards K Malone Eaton Stockton J Malone Corbin Brown Benoit Rudd Crowder Murdock PA 20 33 21 31 122 Magic 103 FT Fe 5 2 5 2 62-6- 2 64-6- 3 6 2 5 3 5 I 9 3 6 0 2 3 3 0 4 I 4--4 0 7 9 5 8-- 5 6 2 3 240 4 2 I 72-6- 9 6 9 4 7 0 6 4 4 1 51 5128 4 9 0 0 1 2 7 8 7 0 0--1 0 2 2 3 220 0 2 0 I t 4 IN''' 0--1 2 4211 3515 21 ''' ' l'A leN r 1 ' 1 I I) f '1 ' t -- -' t 1 I 1 ) 1 '''' s - -- ' t et t i - 4--1 - ielIAtirediThe Salt Lake Tribune Utah State made Charlie hiring official Weath- lesday his first head coaching assign- ment Rattling off all the platitudes he could easily have picked up from De Berry — for instance — "You spell fun Weatherbie seems not the least bit fazed about USU's record of the Shelton-Chri- s Pella years from "I'm excited I'm fired up" he blurted his wife Leann beaming See D2 Column 4 W-I-- 30-62-- 1 1984-199- 1 : Conference simply could not PRESS raise the funds to keep its football team competitive at the level The 49ers coached by Hall of reFamer Willie Brown had a cord this season and an average home attendance of just 3893 They had shown a brief resutr posting gence the previous in their first winning season four years under George Allen: But even then their home games at 12500-sea- t Veterans Stadium drew an average of just 4900: Allen died last Dec 31 and was succeeded by Brown who had been an assistant on his staff: A 2-- 9 (6-- ik '‘ ' Big Five Basketball ‘ : 1 'ep ) SI Utah State 74 Utah 72 (OT) J' ts‘ Top 25 Basketball : "7 ' ' - 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' 122 Orlando 103 Atlanta 118 Milwaukee 104 Indiana 109 San Antonio 102 New York 114 New Jersey 88 Chicago 108 Seattle 103 Dallas 114 Miami 110 (OT) Phoenix 102 Detroit 93 Houston 108 Portland 106 Clippers 127 Golden St 117 LA Lakers 92 Sacramento 90 INI444 'N: ' 't '4 1 it I le IC Detroit 5 Chicago 3 St Louis 7 NY Islanders 7 A ''' I Pittsburgh 5 NY Rangers Quebec 5 Boston 2 Washington 4 Calgary 1 Minnesota 4 New Jersey 3 Winnipeg 3 San Jose 3 Edmonton 7 Vancouver 4 Irrbo 4 l'' ' i 1 A - 27 2 Orlando (Skiles shooting Smith 0-Utah 4 (Stockton Technical fouls — None Blocked shots — Orlando 4 (Roberts 2 Kite Acres) Utah 9 (Eaton 5 Brovm Z K Malone J — INA V 1 The school may bring back the program on a lesser scale — Divi— in 1993 sion State president Beach Long Curtis L Mc Cray said Long Beach State a member of the Big West 778 Three-poi- k fA 1 ''' 'I' 0 41 25 SI 25 26 26 31 30 25 Jan Shooting pertentoges — Field Goal: Orlando 440 Utah 519 Flee Throw alando 611 Utah Austin Totois Magic '' ‘ - ON 40 k IAPTP 2 13 2 I 9 1i'lliJ NBA 't 17 17 19 23 2 0 0 103 3 3 2 2 3 3 8 ' i :I - 1970s 74-7- 2 6 5 9 7 0 FT r k Beach State's financially strapped football program plagued by a lack of fan support is being dropped immediately the university announced Tuesday The 49ers fielded their first football team in 1955 and became a Division I team in the early --' 10 0 6 3 PG ') 4: - Calif — Long LONG BEACH N 31 40-9- 1 I ' ' C 1 Utah 49 18 0--2 Sports Editor i ) Ai - - 3 0 1 t gunno 51 2 I 2 36 25 27 19 17 1 0 4 2 5 3 ' ' c''' 1 THE ASSOCIATED Da-Sil- IAPTP I 4 5 1 I 1 Lack of Fan Support Forces Long Beach to Drop Football off-balan- id 3 0 12 3 3 I 1 1 No trepidation in this guy in Jazz Cruise hero last week in San Antonio Blue Edwards didn't wait nearly as long to help make the Magic disappear Edwards scored 10 of his 13 points in the first seven minutes Tuesday night as the Jazz pounded Orlando at the Delta Center 122- A --40- I I- 10-over the next six minutes to grab that seemingly comfy 58- 51 advantage with 4:56 left But USU which shot 442 percent for the night rallied with six straight points by Nesmith Goodman and DaSilva then knotted it at when Youngblood hit his trey from the top of the key with 2:18 remaining In overtime Soto hit a pair of early free throws to put the Utes on top with 3:47 left But that would be their last lead and Youngblood combined to hit five out of six free throws Gentry scored a banker over the outstretched arms of Afeaki at the 1:34 mark and Gary Patterson hit Daley with the decisive backdoor with 31 secplay to make it onds left After a Grant miss and a scramble for the ball Gentry a BYU transfer ended up on the line and calmly hit two free throws with 68 seconds remaining to make it 74 69 and put the victory in the books Soto hit a meaningless trey at the buzzer to make it Jazz Jump Up Early Cruise Past Magic By Steve Luhm Dick Rosetta an assignment his predecessor Chuck Shelton couldn't accomplish — beating many of those A schools with which the Ags aspire to keep company The former assistant at Wyoming Air Force and most recently the University of Arkansas hit Cache Valley running Tuesday "I can remember when I took the job at Air Force with Fisher De Berry they were saying 'Now remember you guys are going up against the likes of Notre Dame' Well we beat Notre Dame in consecutive years 1984 and 1985" said Weather-hi- e Utah State 34 Utah 33 Regulation — Utah State 62 Utah 621hree-poin- t Shooting — (Grant 5 Soto 2- (Goodman 3 Youngblood 2 Nesmlth 1 Gently OA) Utah Wilson 0-Technical Fouls — None A — 14963 gies 1 el 4--7 "We got 21 offensive rebounds but we didn't convert many It was like the rim had a lid on it But Utah State played very well liked their effort I like their in- THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE 2 k Youngblood Patterson Da Silva Goodman Gentry Nesmith A 5 3 i-- Kansas native The is not the school's new president but in becoming the Aggies' 18th head football coach he will serve as the linchpin in keeping USU among the ranks of the nation's 106 top-levinstitutions In signing a "multiyear" contract Weatherbie is charged with COT) I PI ' t I i lie 1 An Aggie Shocker 0 1 - 1 4---- tIMEIMIMMIIIMIN re 1 1 - 14 'k''T t?f' t it es Top thes Utah State I i 'k: t ' If -' Again 74 Wes 72 1 l'''' 1 58-5- 1 By Jay Drew first-quart- 1 10 '4 ' (' 4 ' s ' Aggies' Malloy Nesmith picks up foul knocking Utah's Byron Wilson to the floor in action at Huntsman Center Tuesday night 0 ' I-- A 4 Steve GriffinThe Salt Lake Tribune A - A 1- --- - 1di ar -- I- i if- - r 1 -- - —I N 414' ''''' 4- — -- 1 1 "N - -- A f - 4 ‘ t 4 4 4 ''''t-- - - 1212-yea- 4' t ? I-- A i 2 I 0 1 - University president Stanford Cazier made a priority of keeping the Aggies at NCAA Division status in football It's been a r struggle But in July when Cazier steps down he will have waged a victorious battle Tuesday Charlie Weatherbie stepped into USU's Division line of fire 3 ' ''''' - - - - --- LOGAN — Retiring Utah State 1 tk -- - s - P4 ‘ --- I t - A - - ' ' i ou - Iii ' - ) Ndt ' 11 - 1 Weatherbie Enters Battle As Aggies' New Coach ) A 3 '''- - t- '44k - :i Malone) I Steals — Orlando 4 (Anderson 2 Vincent Williams) Utah 11 (Edwards 2 Stockton 4 Brown 2 Benoit 2 Rudd) Turnovers — Orlando 20 (Turner 4 Reynolds 2 Kite Skiles 2 Anderson Smith 2 Catiedge 2 Vincent 2 Williams 3 Acres): Utah 11 (Edwards 2 K Malone 2 J Malone 3 Brown 2 Benoit Murdock) Officials — Lee Jones Dick Bavelia BM Saar T — 2:08 A— 18700 4"o 1 ' li I: A - t f'ot i : ' ' 'LL 4 V' r'''''''' w '' t '' N r4' I - 0e0 ' -7 tn7i é' ' -A- 4 I' -- h ' 4 In Action Tonight A -- 4 0 1 7--:1"--- only 11 of 19 free throws — including 3 of 11 in one stretch — and they never got closer than 10 "You have to be able to stay focused" said Karl Malone "We got a little lazy with some of the things we were doing and they cut the lead down It shouldn't be that hard to stay focused" Added Edwards "We can't afford to look past anybody The Magic always play us tough" This night? Not really : - g'' a 7 1 - 1 i "" 5 - 4‘ i n A 3 IHL Hockey: Eagles vs Muskegon Delta Center 7 pm NBA Basketball: Jazz vs Lakers The Forum 8:30 pm Ch13 ' Paul FraughtonThe Salt Lake Tribune Utah's Jeff Malone lets fly a running Jumper in win over Magic at Delta Center Tuesday night as Jazz increased hold on first place Orlando shot 44 percent and "That's 21 points a game That committed 20 turnovers Fourteen obviously hurts their team" of those came in the first half Said Goukas "We came out flat Coach Matt Goukas' starters shot and they took advantage of us We a combined are struggling right now at both Another problem: top scorer ends of the floor and not playing Dennis Scott missed the game with together like we have to" Sloan meanwhile tried to a leg injury "It's unfortunate for them that spread the minutes around in an Column 2 See they had a guy hurt" said Sloan TV Sports MEI fuze 9:30 am — Tennis Grand Slam Cup 5:30 pm — College Basketball Notre Dame at Boston College InI2D 6 pm — College Basket- ball Wisconsin at Nebraska 1SP—ND 7:30 pm — College Bas- Seton Hall at CID 8:30 pm utgers — NBA Basket- ball Jazz at Lakers D-- 3 1 i 4'4 4 44 fO 414 4kellt Aft 041 off4 ro 441 4 40e A"deg 44r 410A o-a - |
