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Show y - r'yfrrmrnT r y The Salt Lake Tribunt', f Naturdiiv. January ' r1 fff rvr ' C5 I, Sporllight Francis Hat Trick Gives Eagles Win in Indy Spinal to Tin- - Tritium1 leathers were ruflled twice Hut Bobby Francis changed all id that with his first hat trick of the season and Gary DcGrio scored a goal in leading the Golden Eagles to a victory here Friday night over the Checkers. The win moves Salt Lake into sole possession id second place in the IHL West. short-hande- d Indianapolis had been the onlv leant in the International llockev League which the Golden Fugles hadn't beaten Obviously. Golden Fugles Coach Wayne Thomas was elated with the victory. "Beating them takes the monkey olf our back." Thomas said. He pointed to two quick power-plagoals by Scott MacLeod and Francis as setting the tone for the remainder of the game. Coining into the game, Indianapolis had scored 10 percent of its sea- first-perio- i. v goals on the Golden Fagios the second lowest goals against average in the league "Those power-plagoals gave us a good feeling Wp hadn't been able to score much here," Thomas observed Thomas looked back to last Tuesday's victory over the Flint Spirits as a confidence builder for the team heading into Indianapolis "It showed we could come back under stress." In Flint game, the Golden Kagles in the third period before trailed rally ing to win the game in a doubleshootout. son-tota- INDIANAPOLIS Market Square Arena had been a ttoublesome dace lor the (iolden Eagles this season In the home rink o the Indianapolis Checkers, the Golden Katies' d l and had d 1 The Golden Fugles spotted Indialead on Marc Magnan s napolis a lirst goal of the game at 3 43 of the first period. It would be the only time the Checkers would lead. MacLeod scored his 24th goal ol the season on the power play and Francis scored less than two minutes later oil a rebound of a Doug Morrison shot to end a personal seven-game goal-scorin- g drought. Francis added his second goal ol the game on a breakaway with I 14 lett in the lirst period On his breakaway goal. Francis was in the right place at the right time The Golden Eagles center was just coming onto the ice for a shift change, when he intercepted an Indianapolis pass. He skated around former Golden Fugle defenseman I at Hibble. w ent to his backhand, and shoved the puck up over the right leg of Checkers' goaltender Mike Zanier. Francis completed the hat trick when he redirected another Morrison shot past Zanier at 14 29 of the second period to give the Golden Eagles a lead Indianapolis' Mel Hewitt had scored earlier in the period on a power play. For Hewitt, it was his seventh goal of the season, but only his first since joining the Checkers from Saginaw seven games ago. Golden Eagles goaltender Hick Heinz limited the Checkers to a single goal in the period, twice stopping nse-minded Hoy Sommer from close range. Indianapolis Coach Ron Ullyot had offe- " V i voiced concern oiei the Checkers inability to score goals The Checkers entered the game ranked last in the league in goals DcGrio broke the game open with his lust goal of the season. which removed Zanier from the short-hande- d nets His replacement, Hob Holland, was hit for two quick goals by Rrent and Kandy Turnbull to help the Golden Eagles build a commandiead. ing MacLeod and Supergu have now each scored at least a point in 12 straight games Magnan scoied the final Indianapolis goal on a breakaway with 4 40 loll to play. The Golden Dave DeBusschere Knit ks Fire DeBusschere York championship Dave DeBusschere. a key member of two Ii-teams during the 1970s w ho saw the Knicks sink into the doldrums in the 1980s. was fired Friday as general manager of Uv team and replaced by Scotty Stirling Jack Krumpe, president of Madison Square Garden Corp.. said he made the decision to replace DeBusschere three weeks ago and that his No choice for the job was Stirling, who quit tus job as vice president in charge of operations for the National Baskotbitll Association 1 Eagles hadn't practiced the last two days because of a Patriots Activate Grogan fir Playoffs England Iatriots Friday activated veteran quarterback lack of ice ' I wasn't upset about it Maybe we needed a break. It's been a hectic season It was nice to get away Irom hockey for a couple of days." The Golden Eagles conclude their road swing Saturday night at 6 p.m i.MST) in Fort Wayne and a 5 p.m. (MST) rematch Sunday night with the Flint Spirits The New Steve Grogan for Sunday's AFC playoff game with the Los Angeles Haiders To make room lor Grogan on the roster. New England placed wide receiver Derw in Williams on injured reserve with sprained ligaments in his right knee Grogan, 32, replaced injured Tony Eason on Oct 13 against Buffalo and won five of the next six games, the 12 vir veteran then suffered a fractured tibula and strained ligaments in hisi ighl knee against the New York Jets in a overtime loss on Nov. 1 16-1- f, )' i;. V H 1 S' L ). Akers Shakes Up Texas Couching Staff Celtics Roll to Fourth Straight Triumph Texas football coach Fred Akers Friday ftred four assistant coaches in that left him with only three of the nine assistants he began the a move season with. Akers said he would not renew the contracts this spring of offensive coordinator Ron Toman, running back coach Ronnie Thompson, tight end coach Ralph Harris and assistant limfiackcr coach Scott Conley. Tribune Wire Services Larry Bird scored 29 points, Dennis Johnson 24 and Kevin Mcllale 23 Friday night as the Boston Celtics rolled to their fourth consecutive victory in a 129-- 17 National Basketball Association shootout with the New Jersey Dartmouth Moves to Fine Yukica Again Dartmouth College lawyers asked a Superior Court judge Friday to lift an injunction that bars the Ivy Learie school from firing football coach Joe Yukica Judge Walter Murphy took the request under review and continued the injunction against Dartmouth indefinitely, said John Safford, Hillsborough County Superior Court clerk. Nets G Veteran guard Jerry Sichting. givrare start as a replacement for injured Danny Ainge. scored a season high 17 points in helping Boston improve its home record to Albert King and Mike Gminski led the Nets with 20 points, one more than Buck Williams. The Celtics had a pair of the first and the third periods and led by 18 points, 108-9at the r mark. However, they went into a swoon and enabled New Jersey to close to within with 4:45 left, before Boston starters regained command The Nets, who had won six of seven and 10 of 12 previous starts, stayed with the Celtics for the first 10 minutes. Then consecutive baskets by Juhnson. Sichting and Hubert Parish 5 lead after helped Boston to a one period Bucks 107, Bullets 100: At Lan- dover, Md., Terry Cummings, frustrated by a shooting performance in his last Capital Centre 31 appearance, scored a season-hig- en a 9 . Cavs Hubbard May Need Surgery Cleveland Cavaliers forward Phil Hubbard will have his injured right wrist examined by a specialist before deciding whether to have surgery, the team announced Friday. Hubbard, who has a torn ligament in the wrist that allows a bone to float freely in the joint, will go to Ann Arbor, Mich., Monday to consult with hand specialist Dr. Dewey Lewis of the University of Michigan. veterShould Hubbard and team physicians elect surgery, the an will miss the remainder of the season. 14-- 4 4' 0? :e )K y X S' ( 04 six-ve- three-quarte- Tribune Wire Services 117-11- 1 Local Briefs 40-3- 4 X 9 "J J h points as Milwaukee defeated c- Washington. Cummings, who was 13 for 23 from the floor this time, scored 18 of his points in the second half for the Bucks, who have won five in a row. The Central Division leaders, at 10-are one of five NBA teams with a winning road record. Cliff Robinson scored 26 points to lead the Bullets, who have lost four of their last five home games and are at the Capital Centre. only 10-- 9 Cavaliers 130, Clippers 111: At Richfield, Ohio. World B. Free scored 22 points and Mel Turpin added 20 as j d' Phil Hubbard - seven Cleveland Cavaliers scored in double figures. Free scored 10 points and added three spectacular assists in a 5:13 span of the third quarter during which the Cavaliers broke from a lead with 3:17 retie to an maining in the quarter. Included in Cleveland surge was one the 23-streak of 13 straight Cavalier points. Hinson scored 16 points for Cleveland. and John Bagley added 14. Marques Johnson scored 18 for the Clippers. 61-6- 1 84-6- 8 7 Hawks 111, Pistons 101: At Atlanta, Dominique Wilkins scored a 32 points to lead Atlanta game-higpast Detroit. h 111-10- The victory gave Atlanta a record and kept the Hawks in second place in their division. It was Detroit's sixth straight loss and 10th in 16-1- the Pistons' last 11 games. Doc Rivers had 17 points and 13 assists for the Hawks. Kevin Willis scored 12 points and led the Hawks with 13 rebounds. Randy Wittman had 13 points. Kelly Tripueka led the Pistons with 26 points, including 16 in the first quarter. Bill Laimbeer had 22 points 17 rebounds, and and a game-higIsiah Thomas added 21 points. h 133, Suns 104: At PortOre., land, Clyde Drexler scored his second triple double of the week. Blazers Cougars Down Weber for Copper Classic Title Continued From D-- l foot race and the Cougars won with no contest. Entering the second half the Wildcats down by one at saw their chances of winning their 38-3- first Classic championship diminish as Hare. Nixon and Mclntire went to work. The Cougars increased the lead from one point to nine points within the first three minutes of the second half. From there on it was all BYU. At one time the Cougars went up by 25 at 78-5- "In the second half there was that three or four minute period when we went cold." said Weber coach Jane Miner. "BYU outhustled us and out shot us. We re pleased with the team etlort. We did the things we needed to do. except for that span of time." Weber made an attempt to catch BYU but the Cougars were simply too the Wildcats made a hot. Down run for it, cutting the margin to 12 but time ran out. Weber has some gals that can shoot. But we changed our defense after the half and that made a couple of problems for them," Cougar Coach Courtney Leishman said. We shot well in the second half. We are just starting to get back as a team. Everyone is back healthy. I am more pleased that we are playing good basketball than winning the tourna78-5- 3 ment. "At halftime he Coach Leishman told us to get our heads in the game." said Mclntire. "The guards really sucked it up and did the job." Madsen, who was selected to the team, led the Wildcats with 24 points. Spaulding ended up with 2 Jersey Devils Friday night. It was the sixth consecutive loss for the Devils and their ninth in the last lu games Mel Bridgman scored both New Jersey goals Gustafsson scored at 5 56 of the first period on a power play, banging in Peter Anderssons rebound from Devil just outside the crease past Christian Reseh. Glenn goaltender scored his 21st goal of the season just two minutes later, knocking his own rebound past Resch from 10 feet out. Craig Laughlin extended Washingat 4 39 ol the second ton's lead to lie pu ked up a period as and slapped it into an open net. Bridgman added a pair of goals lor the Devils .it II 14 pi king the puck eat o the air and ba khaiidmg a netminder past Washington Pete peeleis A' 18 56. the conceited lett w ing picked up a loose puck in the crease otf a Peter Mi Nab shot and 3-- 25-fo- 4 points In the consolation game Utah surUtah was led passed Utah State by Mila Rogers who was 10 for 13 from the field and 3 for 3 from the charity stripe for 23 points. Ute Tiffany Rogers pulled down 14 rebounds. Valerie Vermeer led the Aggies with 80-3- points. Selected to the team were Mclntire of BYU, Hare and Spaulding of BYU, Madsen of Weber and Mila Rogers of University of Utah. Mclntire was selected as the tournament MVP. Devils Fall for 6th Straight Time EAST RUTHERFORD. N J. LAP) Bengt Gustafsson and Dave Christian scored goals two minutes apart carlv in the first period to lead the National Washington Capitals to a the New over Hockey League victory 16 for BYU. 12 Intfr nrrtiono Uottfel floor after an attempt by Wilkins to block Tripuckas drive. Atlanta won, Detroits Kelly Tripueka (foreground) and Atlantas Dominique Wilkins crash to the leading Portland to Phoenix. a 1. victory over Sonics 117, Nuggets 107: At Seattle. Seattle center Jack Sikma scored 32 points and pulled a season-higdown 14 rebounds as the SuperSonics deficit charged back from a first-hal- f and posted a victory over Denver. The Sonics' veteran center scored 13 points in the third period as the two teams exchanged leads nine times before settling for an tie at the end of the period. h 89-8- 9 The Nuggets were led by Alex English. who tossed in 27 points. Denver has now lost five straight on the road, something they have not done since the 1993-8- 4 season. Untested Rookie Fires 68, Gains Share of PGA Lead Tribune Wire Services Davis Love III. making his first the start its a touring pro. final two holes to salvage a 68 and a lead Frishare of the second-roun- d Classic Bahamas in the $300,000 day on Paradise Islands. one-putte- d Spaulding Invitational: At Pebble Beadh. Don Pooley. who had the lowest scoring average on the PGA tour last year, surprised himself Friday 64 on the Pebble with an BeaOh course and took the lead after two rounds of the $200,000 Spalding Invrtational tournament. 240 of Wests Top Skiers Here for Series Five-Da- y Dr. Pepper Westorn The Region Technical Ski Series begfas Sunday with a women's slalom at Park City and a men's giant slalom at Solitude. About 100 of the West's best amateur women ski racers and 140 of the top men will be competing in the five-da- y series, which includes races at Snowbird, Snowbasin. Solitude and Park City. Competition includes sJa-lo- giant slalom and super-- events. Seven members of the U.S. Ski Team's training squad, led by Orn-pi- e Valley, Calif., skier John VVilsh and Rowmarks Hillary Lindh, w Cl be competing and some of the faces competing on the Utah slopes this week may become famous before the 1988 Winter Olympic Games at Calgary. The Technical Series (this one in the West and another in the Eaa) provide a meeting ground for the best young skiers who are not already competing for the USST in Europe. City Holds Hearing on Golf The Salt Lake City Parks and Recreation will hold a public meeting Wednesday at 7 p.m. at its building at 1965 W. 500 South to discuss the city's golf program. A proposal to contruct new golf course facilities and the restructuring of the season golf pass and golf fees to finance these projects will be discussed. For information on the meeting, call Crow Leads Dixie to Victory MESA. Ariz. Freshman Todd 972-780- Crow scored 28 points to lead Dixie victory over New College to an Mexico Military in the consolation bracket of the Rotary Shootout Classic Friday afternoon. The Rebels, who dropped a double decision to host Mesa overtime on Thursday night in this eight-teatournament, will meet Hutchinson Community College Saturday afternoon for the consolation title. Dixie is now 10-- 4 on the season. 87-7- 0 82-8- 0 Cougar Club Meeting The Salt Lake Chapter of the BYU Cougar Club will meet at noon Tuesday at the Radisson Hotel. BYU basketball coach Ladcll Andersen and football color man Marc Lyons will be the guest speakers. Cost of the lunch is $6 and the public is invited 6 Cougars Undergo Surgery Doctors successfully operated on five RYU football players and one Cougar basehall pitcher Tuesday at the Intermountain Health Center in Salt Lake City. Linebackers Ladd Akeo and Steve Sanders, defensive back Courtney Rogers, offensive guard David King, kicker Mark Ormsby and pitcher David Wrape underwent surgery. Akeo. Sanders and Rogers had arthroscopic surgery on shoulders. King had an arthroscopy of a knee and had a shoulder examination. Ormsby had knee surgery to repair rugby injuries, and Wrape had a knee arthroscopy, according to team orthopedic surgeon Dr. Robert Metcall I 'N GRAND PREVIEW 1986 Construction Realty. Inc. presents LUXURY CUSTOM HOMES Exclusive Showing Daily Noon to Dark Until Dec. .list at Summit- Meadows (closed Sundays). Turn west from lightaiul Drive on SSHO South. - NATIONAL MOTOR SPECTACULAR pushed it into the net. lead. WashingAfter opening its ton fell asleep offensively and was in the final two periods. outshot in the middle session. 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