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Show Sports jlalt fake tribune 01)f Section C Friday Morning January 24, 19li(i Page 1 I ''onl('l 'riin, or Call I -- Call 2 K(MM,;M:m nI oriiiat ioii I 5 oral Goalies A I Sports Mysterious NT Lile: Glory And Danger Parish Vanishes A goaltender s life may be a glorious one. But, at the same time, it s down right dangerous work. Just ask a few who have played the game. "Some guys used their heads to stop the puck, says former National Hockey League goaltender Glenn Hall. "I got my head out of the wav when I could. It didn't matter that the puck went into the net." Hall, along with NHL pioneers like Emile Francis and Terry Sawchuk, played the game when facemasks weren't used and goaltenders wore their combat scares for everyone to see If the work of a goaltender could be put to music, the Bee Gee's Staying Alive" would be an appropriate title. They face a piece of frozen vulcanized rubber which is hurled By Roger Graves Tribune Sports Writer PROVO - Pardon Brigham Young basketball Coach Ladell Andersen for putting in a call to the campus lust and found prior to the Cougars Contorpedoing of Air Fori e vincing Academy Thursday evening before 15.210 Marriott Center witnesses. Why call the lost and found9 Well, Andersen wasn't overly c in cerned about BYl' losing its winning streak The Cougars routinely ran said streak to seven games, the fourth longest winning streak since B C joined the WAC in 1962. by dispatch ing Air Force for the second time in six days to soar above .500 for the first time this season at 10-BYUs Andersen wasn't particularly concerned about losing ground in WAC race either. Tie the Cougars maintained a share of second place with a record, thanks to 53.7 percent field goal accuracy while Air Force, or Air Farce, shot below 40 on percent for the sixth time m games. So why place a call to the missing persons bureau9 sen-inFirst, BYU season-lonleader Jeff Chatman was missing m action while scoring only two p unts Tuesday night at Oral Roberts. Tnen, junior guard Averian Parrish was for the AWOL, a true-bluCougars return engagement with Air Force Thursday night. Thats worrisome to any coach, especially when you're riding the crest of a seven-gam- e winning streak and arch-riva- l Utah is on the schedule Saturday. Fortunately for BYU. Chatman found himself against the Falcons by from the floor connecting on 20 points. So en route to a game-higChatman is lost no more. "I was mad at myself against Oral Roberts for not working harder to get the ball," stressed Chatman, who played like a man with a mission against Air Force. I expected at least 20 points tonight. Two points Tuesday? That wasn't me. I had to make a little adjustment and put my body to the person guarding me and open it up so the guards could get me the basketball. I had to make it easier for them to get me the ball and it worked." Yes, Chatman was found Thursday But Parrish, the gifted national junior college Player of the Year last season who led Dixie College to the national championship, was conspicuous by his absence. Parrish, who played only 28 total minutes and scored zero points on BYUs recent three-gam- e road trip, missed the teams practice Thursday afternoon and surprised Andersen and his teammates by failing to appear at Thursday nights game. I was much more concerned about Averian Parrish than a basketball game tonight, acknowledged BYUs Andersen, who said Parrish had not contacted affiliated with the university or the team Thursday I called his mom tonight and she. 66-4- six-oun- kiss-clos- e 2 R.C. Roberg g at them at speeds equal or in excess of a Dwight Gooden fastball. Now what would cause a man of sound mind and body to want to subject himself to the perils of stopping those lethal missiles? Sometimes it just evolves. Some people just gravitate to the situation. For a lot of young kids it may be the equipment. Its kind of a specialized position in sports and a lot of people enjoy and like pressure. I think there's probably a thousand reasons, said Golden Eagles Coach Wayne Thomas. For eight seasons, Thomas toiled in goal for Montreal, Toronto and the New York Rangers. He logged 13,768 minutes in the 243 games in which he appeared. Thats a lot of time in a game that demands much of the goaltender. He must wear all that extra equipment for a full 60 minutes in a sport in which the players' shoes never touch the playing surface. He's asked to field line drives that would make a pitcher run babbling from the mound. And the game's pace would leave lesser athletes demanding to play only one game a week. Just what are the risks involved? Thomas described them in the following way: "Youre standing on a foreign object. Youve got a foreign object in your hand and youre handling another foreign object. And somebody is trying to hurt you while you're doing all this at a very high speed." Some goaltender s careers came to an abrupt end even with the protective head gear now worn by nearly all of them. Philadelphias Bernie Parent and Jerry Desjardins of Buffalo had their careers cut short due to eye injuries. Both were wearing protective facemasks, but in each case, a deflected puck penetrated the unprotected eye slits at a sharp angle. Hall, now a goaltender coach with the Calgary Flames, played 552 consecutive games without a protective facemask, simply because none were available. During his career, he received more than 200 stitches to his facial area. The scar tissue is still visible today. Thomas says he escaped serious injury himself due to advancements in equipment at a time when he was just breaking into organized hockey. Some of those advancements were a cage-lik- e facemask, which Thomas says has taken away most of the fear of head injuries. There were some anxious moments, though, even for him. He recalled his playing days with s the Montreal Voyages when felt were in style. "The shooters could shoot pretty hard but they always didn't hit the corner. They tended to hit you in practice more than the corner. My lymph system was so full of blood from bruises that I couldn't lift either arm over my shoulder. My arms were " just black and blue from practicing Thomas said with the advent of the specialized facemasks and rotation of goaltenders. the risk of injuries really decreased. "I think most goaltending injuries now come from officials letting people run through the crease." He said he hasn't seen any incidents of this in the International Hockey League. But in the NHL, he jays, it's a real serious problem. "Certain forwards are allowed basically to run a defenseless goaltender that's keying on the puck They'll just blind-sid- " him and lake him out of the play Thomas says e 'cels it's more haza goaltender ardous mental1 than it is physic (, y "Most goaltrioeis can withstand the hardest shots with the equipment But I think the biggest fear of goaltending is letting in a bad goal and " !oting his teammates down arm-guard- e ti-- . . e h Tribune Staff Photo bv Croig Honsell Salt Lakes World Cup freestyle ballet ski champion Jan Bucher Judge executes a pole flip during practice run on Snowbirds Chickadee. Bucher is competing for her 7th World Cup ballet title in the sport she has helped shape. Bucher Seeks to Regain Lost Crown By Craig Hansell Tribune Sports Writer SNOWBIRD After dominating the sport for six consecutive years. Salt Laker Jan Bucher Judge lost her World Cup freestyle ballet skiing crown last year to Frances Christina Rossi. This year Bucher is shooting for her seventh title. Ballet skiing mixes gymnastics, dance, ballet and skiing with music and choreography into a flowing routine which resembles ice skating. Freestyle began as Hot Dogging and evolved into ballet, aerial and mogul-skiin- g events which athletes have specialized and re- Going into this weeks World Cup freestyle at Breckenridge, Colo., Bucher has won three of the four World Cup ballets after placing fifth in the season's first contest. She edged Rossi and American Ellen Breen Thursday at Breckenridge in a contest scheduled for the Lake Placid event which as a make-uwasn't held. Bucher's victory breaks the World s tie with Canadian Cup ballet Lucie Barma. Bucher now has 44 points while Barma (40) is second with Rossi and Switzerlands Connie Kissling tied for third with 39 points. Bucher, for example, began her athletic pursuits as an ice skater before injuries forced her to rethink her goals. About that time the old Western Amateur Freestyle Association (WAFA) was hosting contests and Bucher was talked into competing. The skill which she developed on her skates carried her a long way on her skis and she quickly ascended from the status of the learning observer to the watched innovator. Her discipline and intense desire to excel has brought her to the zenith of the sport six consecu. and she wants a seventh. tive times Bucners contribution has been substantial, p season-standmg- fined. j United States Ski Association Freestyle Director Jeff Chumas said from Breckenridge. "She has given style and direction to some of the other competitors and now some of them are ehalleng- ing her. There will be two separate ballet contests at Breckenridge. Thursdays event was a make-umeet while Fridays contest will be a part of the Breckenridge meet. Bucher married Peter Judge last fall. He is the former Canadian World Cup freestyle champion who is now coaching the Canadian freestyle team. At first he couldnt even talk to me, "Bucher said of the strained relations between Judge's Canadian skiers and herself. Then they got to know me and warmed up. Canadians and Americans might disagree on p . . See C-- Column shoot-aroun- d 1 See Column C-- 1 Dantleys Missed Free Throw Lifts New Jersey Sugar Doesnt Miss the Beat Shorthanded Nets Prevail, 106-10- 5 By Lex Hemphill Tribune Sports Writer Micheal Ray Richardson migh. have lost 11 games of his season to i drug relapse, but it's apparenl he never lost his confidence By Lex Hemphill Tribune Sports Writer The Jazzs disease may be catching. Adrian Dantley, an 82 percent foul shooter both this season and in his career, got caught up in his teammates' penchant for missing from the foul line Thursday night. He missed his final free throw with four seconds remaining, leaving the Jazz one point short in a Salt Palace loss to the New Jersey Nets. g "Micheal Ray lose conf'dence smiled an incredulous Nets Co, Dave Wohl to the suggestion n Pope would probably convei to -- e, other religion befoie he'd lose . deuce." ' 106-10- 5 crowd of the Jazzs seventh straight Palace sellout, was anticipating that the Jazz could duplicate their Tuesday feat against Denver come back from four points down in the final minute of regulation to force overtime and then win it there. The Jazz, trailing put the scenario in motion again by getting a basket from Dantley with 40 seconds left, and then by getting the ball back after a missed shot by Micheal Ray Richardson. Now they had their chance to tie. After the Jazz took a timeout with 14 seconds left. Dantley drove the right side and got fouled. He went to the line with the knoweledge that he had missed four free throws earlier in the game, including two in a row in the second quarter. He shot his first one and watched it roll around the rim before going in. His second one was too hard. "I just missed the shot, that's all," said Dantley, who had the memory of a 36 point, effort spoiled A "If you can play, you tan said Richardson, who shov.ee iic ously can in the Nets' H)b 195 v over the Jazz Thursday mg! Palace. "It was ail theio 12,199, good C-- Column I ' " i He looked good too tn who returned to action Wedm-l- i, night in Denver after hi time- - ' layoff and had 15 points agot:.-- it' 106-10- See j t Nuggets, followed that up w strong performance against ,u" - 18 points, 10 assists, anJ fiv .vials He certainly ran by our guys ,ik they were standing still, said ,laz Coach Frank Layden "lie looked i strong" Richardson was a catalyst Nets victory In the first hall, "V tered for his second stint of with four minutes left and tfcr thr down by five, he got thsmto in a tie, dishing 52-5- Tr Utah rookie Karl Malone found himself in an awkward position along the baseline on Thursday night during NBA action at the ibune Stuff Photo b f P k k t yon Salt Palace. Malone scored 18 points and collected eight rebounds, but New Jersey went on to a victory over the Jazz. Koren three-potatonds left. Then, in the thip' tered with Vh 9' O 106-10- 5 I X f i" |
