| Show --- ' ----- f B4 LP Trt'::rP 1 SPORTS Sa!71av IMINIMN Yamaguchi's Art Is Gold on Ice 1 tc1E11iw)uL::::7' 1 : r - I S L Softball Team Opens Season With Two Wins in Arizona Seeking to return to ther days 6f pat glory the 'A orric-softball team got the SPIsrin off to a good start Friday by winning their firA two games in a tournament at Tempe Arz itehrici the pithing (if DeAnna Ears ley the Aggeis heat ll:1- then came hark n(j is State tr) stop Colorado State h USU ripening the sea rj 22 straight road games meet Northw-esterand f)klahoma State today 11l1 of return-mWith a line-Jstarters the Agges are hoping to make noise in their ifronri season in the Eig West Second-yea- r Aggie coach her 9I Lloydene Searle record and w1:1 squad to a have starters back to help move her team up from last 12 Utah State 4MS peTformartes B111 3-- 0 finish The Lady Av7ies won national rhampiorn:ps in 1521 and gives Starle and a tangNe goal the 'Obvio!y you can t be look at the national championhJp untA you get to nationas ve got to take Searle one step at a time We've g!-- t take one ball team at a time and to play our gameve tVith two pitcher nirrS Parsley and Debbie Cor5ett Searle hopes that experi- year's seventh-plac- Arg-7e- returg enre will propel her team into the NCAA tournament Senior Yrr7 shortstop Stacy who was named Big West 'F'eld Player of the Week the last e fA of the I91 SP:i611 Will act as team captain Ltah State will have to wat untA April 2 when it hosts Big West rival 11awai for the Ag- ges frat home game Track: Coming off some im 7171 A rrPn Cos-- into artion rifirk s !P lt at to- atTYatello 4nior Scott Hanes to win the prA mile re the frst with a time of rlearel The c-s A 1 had s:mar 'Aen the i!e 7or Led 2 0 relay in A:7neta Westen recr1 mark of Ti 712: 3 suec- - r A tyh )urnp the Du- Tryfor her- a na7rie lra self eekend terorning the first fmale Aggie to 'An a natioria charnprinship in any track and field event Regina Durnage a native Saskatrhewan won the thple jurrp at the Canathans Indoor Trark and Field Char7-Ionship- Sa:katoon Sakatftewan Acr'ordirig to Agg:e coach in Vauzhi-- Courtney DiJil::'age's is her hest inlurnp of door lurnp by more than a foot corr::!te for UST Dulrnage in the outdoor season 39-71'- 2 a Ms Utah State lost both matches at the University of Nevada-LaVegas Invitational falling to 3 for the sea-:so- n s 0-- No 1 seed Oklalrioma State swept USU PA to open the tourney then New Mexico State defeated the Aggies 1 5-- Petersen Back on the Court While the men's basketball team was trying to regroup afhead coach two ter losing weeks ago it suffered another If it-- s 1 Southern kt Utah bl ow Guar Sean Petersen passed out during a shootaround in Chicago The cause according to coach Bill Evans was hypoglycemia "He missed two games but bounced back strong" Evans said "He just has to watch his diet That is the key to controlling it" Petersen came back against Northern Arizona Tuesday with 13 points helping the improve their record to since coach Neil Roberts resigned Evans expects Petersen and the team to finish strong in spite of adversity "It's amazing how resilient kids are and how quick they are to go on with their lives" he said 2-- 2 1 Three Thunderbirds have been included on Don Hanson's team Running back Zed Robinson arid linebacker Clint Christiansen made the first team while punter Steve McDowell made the second team Members of the team are named by Don Hanson's Football Gazette and honor the nation's best players from small schools a junior rushed Robinson I Football: p:y Greg for 1823 yards last season including 343 against Santa Clara Christiansen was the Western Football Conference Defensive Player of the Year and had 145 tackles McDowell a GTE Academic averaged 12 yards per punt Gyrnnastes: Looking for improved scoring and another dual meet win the hit the road Friday for meets at Denver University and tonight at Air Force -If we get everything cleaned - teamup were a 186-plu- s coach Scott Bauman said after his team beat Denver and New Mexico at home Southern Utah beat the Lobos 18455-1769- 0 and could have broken the school record (18555) except for some bad luck Bauman said The had two double falls on beam and only scored 448 on the vault two meets after scoring 46 in that event SUU beat Denver 18435- 17990 in their first meeting Jodi Mc Kays leads the TBirds with a 3701 average while Julie Aguirre averages 3656 Traffic Jammed on Road To WAC Championship Continued From PA MORMINIMMIIIINNIVIIREINSIONINIMMINIMPROMMIMMENI Mexico's home finale After that the Lobos make the swing then wrap up the season in El Paso against the Miners Good luck g Utah: The Utes' title chances appeared to sink with Thursday's loss at BYU But Utah has the WAC's most favorable schedule going down the stretch: all four of : its remaining games are at home The catch? Two of them are against dangerous Wyoming (tonight) and the Cougars (in the March 7 finale) The Utes have proven themselves vulnerable in the Huntsman Center with losses to Utah State and Colorado State They can't afford to slip again Where did these guys come from? The Rainbows' victory over BYU on Feb 8 surge that has sparked a late with the Utes even them pulled And Hawaii still has two home games left against Air Force and San Diego State Put the '8OW3 13 Hawaii: 87-8- 3-- 1 3 jump-starte- d must also play at BYU and Utah and that will probably be their undoing Colorado St: The Rams missed an opportunity to put some heat on the leaders by losing at Hawaii ) on Thursday However CSU still has five WAC games remaining Three are at home (New Mexico UT EP and Air Force) and one of the two road dates is against pathetic San Diego State This is a dangerous team with a chance to become even more dan- (79-65- oerous Peyond the top six are the underachieving Cowboys who have shown signs of life in the last couple of weeks and the Falcons who have clinched the WAC's eighth and final tournament spot via a win over the winless Aztecs on Thursday Given all that has transpired and with Colorado State hosting the conference tourney this year there's no telling what's going to happen when th e postseason finally begins The only real certainty is that its riot going to be El0-5- 8 - o Center At the pm MST 10 II TY: ESPN Radio: tl Continued From (910) KALL-A- (941) Records: Utah 17-- WAC): Wyoming Line: Utes by 8 13-1- (7-- 7 (5-7- 1 n the Cow boys ronferenre tart Utah whinh rebounded from a with six straight 'A it13 h1' s been aow ed by conseculast Saturday tive losses at Colorado State (P1-7and BYU 587e on Tharsday With the setharka the Utes haae fallen tao games behind the league-leadinCoagara Bat they haven't given up hope It'd he touah " gaard J re my Soto ronceled "but be ready to we're not going to lay down and die We'll trinightl NI rne's going to gaitSoto almost sehandeidly did the (":0'AtOyEi in at the The janior scored a 23 points incInding seven point nand the game-higgameea inning aanat to Barry Ilaward in the overtime The Ittea dd a lot of thing right at BYU Tharsday They limited the Congara to 455 percent shooting and in the night's most amazing state outhoarded them ty a 32-2margin We otitrehounded a team with an hieight disparitya said coarh Rick Maerus But Utah will need to shoot better tonight than it in 3(18 dd in Provo The Utes shot a the first ha:f a itainst the Cougars and ended up hitting jast 38 8 percent 4 Ith AbOAA tr 5 ) fey h 6 frd pert After Thuradays emotional draining virtary over Utah the cougara have to came back and deal with a rested New Mexico team in The Pit this afternoon At stake: BYU-- eltiance to stay alone in first place Paso idle in the 'A'AC The Cougar lead Texas-E- l a a Lobos and the fall ha' by game If today) by New Mexico wins the three teams will be tied for first with three games left We know Lhere they are" BYU center Gary Trost said of the Lobos standing -- This is a hag step pmg stone WP nan do ourselves a lot of good The Cougars ha l a fairly easy time with the Lobos last month in Provo taking advantage of UNNtas adverse travel situation Fog forced a game-daarrival win BYU which and the Cougs rolled to an 85-6- 5 shot 54 percent from the field in that game rernains the orly team to hit better than 44 percent against the Lobos since Dec 21 While the horriecourt and the week's schedule are definitely in UNMs favor the Lobos have trouble matching up with BYUs front line Trost left that game with an injured neck midway through the second half but not before he'd scored 17 points Forwards Kevin Nixon and Jared Miller added 17 and 14 points while BYU held the Lobos to El BIC at New YlatIcri: y shooting The Lobos are trying to complete a perfect WiAC home schedule this season their last conference loss 3 decision against BYIJ last in The Pit was an Feb rua ry r- rAs fo 're Crxclort t4t wth 13 ot r'fc) t7E2 r J ftt rwO lid wne rtFt- Yr3491S - noel sfrg of sroPCA3d of tokif About IrAt '4ar$) Ne koss t Tr pirrere A tsok rord Artf49 !'Ar &or g Arena-Audtaria- : p trqrrPout o rrfm 1040C sqt ti (Kit trr::Icrtrrf 3rj fl ieosrr dryrle-6-41f- e got-e- s Ire Ar'son re-orco rAtre etel 3y ot SPre nod yo-Covotoyt ost roo rAfrr) toPtrg to y ter krls Berry goor' srd "CAlf Pfsdriy sr stivl Sooch r cy rord y 0 MO Of 0 Sirlef (73 pot1 Trn Rfents$ (5 4 Ord Mokara Aieyorrjer r4531 Ortts tla fesoertvety WAC 307re:e SKrw 1v) eods fre CCOP! r e iery-41- J 4 V4)- At The Pit TY: Ch 11 Radio: (11P0) KSL-A- Recordi: BY15 13-- 5 WAC): 1:NM 14-1Line: LotAs by 2 (3-4- 0 (9-- 3 ) tArd r Utah St at San Jose St 8 8143 Center San MST pm TV: None Radio: KIINU-A(610): KCPX-A(1320) MI Records: Utah State 13-1- 0 (7-- 7 Big West): San Jose State (1-1- 9 Aggies The 22-poi- Spartans are last in the Big West with a conference record Utah State took the Spartans apart Jan 23 in Loallowing only two players gan beating San Jose to score in double figures That kind of game is all too familiar to the Aggies who only had two players get into double figures in loss to Pacific Thursday their coach Kohn Smith is looking for starting Aggie freshman center Nathan Wickizer who shoots 65 percent from the floor but only averages six points per game to start adding more points to USU's struggling offense 1- 9 12 80-6- 3 86-6- 4 St: Despite a slight slump in their last three games the Wildcats have won two of the three to solidify their hold on third place in th Big Sky Conference Weber remains three games behind r Montana with Nevada and four behind just three games to play Weber coach Ron Abegglen is hoping his team gets untracked on offense tonight against the Boise State Broncos saying the Weber fans have yet to see the Wildcats play their best at home With only two home games left time is running out ) Weber was lucky to edge Idaho Thursday as slumping Al Hamilton blocked a shot by Big Sky's leading scorer Orlando Lightfoot in the final seconds to preserve the win Moments before Hamilton missed two free throws that could have iced the game Weber won despite hitting only 31 percent of its shots "We have been in somewhat of a slump" said Abegglen "But the kids are trying hard and sometimes the shots fail and sometimes they don't Both teams played good defense Thursday and Idaho slowed the ball down and that hurt our tempo and the kids got a little anxious" If the Wildcats get it together before the home folks they may have to do it without their leading scorer Hamilton Hamilton is listed as questionable for tonight's game after spraining his ankle in the first half against Idaho Abegglen said Hamilton ppg) missed Friday's practice and will not know if he can go until game time If he doesn't Robbie Johnson will get the call 13 So Utah at Sacramento St: Now that Southern Utah is assured its best record since moving to NCAA Division I the Thunderbirds can turn toward another El Weber St vs Boise league-leade- (62-59- goal — 20 wins To reach that plateau they have to win three of their final four They have two on the road — Sacramento State tonight and UTEP Monday — and home games against Cal State Northridge and Idaho in their last four and coach The TBirds are Bill Evans has one big concern "We're not shooting the ball like we have been" he said pointing to a 39 percent effort at Northern Arizona Thursday "Obviously you've got to shoot the ball better than that" If tonight's game follows the pattern of last year's meeting between the two teams the TBirda better have their shooting touch They raced away from the in the Centrum Hornets 2-- 2 About fil Aggiort Atter scoring 14 points in tre9 striligtt gomet sococ more Rod Hay who oniy it nine points Thursday at Pacific saw his streak end However he has another streak going — 17 stroight tree !troy's Senior Kendall Youngblood who leads his !earn ir scia- (69 pogl aril rebounding (77 per shots gotnel has also hit 31 of 70 for 44 percent to lead the Aggies About the Semitone They came close to their second conference win Thursday right But with a to hand the Spartans Fresno wan their fourth stroiert OS While orty hitting 34 7 percent of his shots iurior Tem Cannon (13 pr4) still manages to lead his tirwim in scoring As a 'earn the Soar-tan-s from the fleld shoot 39 7 perc-en-t rirg d 74-7-1 Weber St vs Boise St Z 2 - Records: Weber 111 Big Sky): Boise St Line: None 13-1- (8-- 5 1 14-1- 0 (5-- About Ito Wildtotst The Wlidocts and Hatrilton continued their offensive skimp against Idaho Tburvicy Kornitton 10 points in the scored a season-to- game before at Nevada he 14 after a then season-lostretch of seven games with at least 20 or more points The win OVSr Idaho upped the Widoats !cox! over them to 112 games with iust three ieft play Webers only remaining toad game is at Idaho State About the Broncoit The Broncos are coming off a 2 win over Idaho State Thursday as Ogden's Tarok° Boy 1rd tio points) swished two tout shots in the Nnal seronds to help the Broncos overcame deffcit in the final 48 sec a It was Boise's third straigrt conference win Bead continues to lead Boise in scoring (175) and has moved into list third place on the Broncos' win The scored a 74-7- four-poi- e with 1272 points So Utah at Sacra St 2 At Hornet Gym Sacramento Calif 13 (949) (980975) KCVC-AMI- Southern Utah I7: Records: Sacramento State 17- - 2 Z Line: None free-ro- w te f- te tomento State I Ike SUU Soc in Di s Aoomt rosoord new is ston tre Hornets have to among DiNision t rdependerts this season Lost psor trey were I 5 132-10- 5 I 2 3 6 2 1 2 5 2 a 1 0 3 4 I 0 i — 1— 2 0 2 0 — 2 0 2 2 0 0 a— 2— 0 G 1 0 1 — i 3 I 2 I third-bes- 2-- 2 2 3 (3-1- 1) 4-- 2 (5-1-- (5-- 19 followed by Norway with 18 Italy is fifth with 11 the last one its first-eve- r gold in women's skiing by Stefania Belmondo in the The Unified Team's Lyuboy Egorova was second making her the most sucy cessful athlete in a single Games Egorova medaled in every event collecting three golds and two silvers cross-countr- y Out of Miracles US Falls to Unified Team NEWS SERVICE KNIGHT-RIDDE- MERIBEL France — There will be no gold but there was a miracle Anybody who witnessed the hockey game between the US and the Big Red Unified Machine can attest to that The fact that the score was 2 after two lopsided periods in favor of the Unified Team definitely had to be the result of Divine Intervention With a big assist to Saint LeBlanc Even though the US team cried foul over the offidating afterwards the Unified Team simply overpowered the Americans on Friday night displaying of the great Soviet teams the speed and puck-controf the past Goalie Ray LeBlanc held the US in as long as he could But even he could not withstand the wave upon wave of red and white jerseys that bore in on him A three-goa- l burst in the third period gave the Unified Team a 2 victory and a berth in Sundpy's gold medal game against Canada The US plays for bronze Saturday night against the Czechs "I think that our team will come out and play very well and represent our country very well" US coach Dave Peterson said of going for the bronze Actually the US players had nothing to hang their heads about against the Unified Team They gave it their best shot but simply were outclassed on this night The fact that the score still was only 2 after two periods was amazing And it was all attributable to LeBlanc in goal "Ray stood on his head" winger Carl Young said "'It could have been 2 in that second period" The Unified Team outshot the US 55-1- 8 Most of those 55 shots were tough ones The real problem however was that its hard enough to play these guys at even strength The US spent much of the third period a man short Swedish referee Sven Erik Sold whistled the US for five penalties from the final seconds of the middle period to the end of the game The Unified Team received none Afterwards the Americans were livid at the officiating "You can't kill five penalties" captain Clark Donatem said "We can't do it and an NHL all-stteam and we get five straight penalcan't do it It was ties The only Swede left in the tournament stuck it to usI know we had our hands full but weve got a chance five on five We can't beat them five nn four" 2-- 2-- About Me Thunderbirds: Drpor Mot-c- c ranks in tr e top 23 notionalty in thote cafecrxies He is 15th in scoring wit 0 23 pont 04ranie 17in in shooting percentage 1871 and 16th in per garie (3) The Birds are levent in scoring with on averroad age of 91 points per garne On fru season Soutrem Utah is the Birds are in tett last four d an rood About the Hornets: in tree games against Southern Utori tow have tost Iwo Last season trey went down 132- 105 in Cedar City tfs (s tre first time e two toorns Dim in Sacramento since moving to NCA A Division 3— 1 5-- it 8:30 pm MST TV: None Radio: KERE-F- 3 cross-countr- At the Dee Center Ogden 730 pm MST TV: None Radio: KSOS-A(800) 2 1 1 Walker stood forlornly off to the side Dressed in gray while his teammates wore red white and blue Walker helped them prepare their two sleds then stood out of the way while they raced to the ninth-bes- t time going into Saturday's final two runs Brakeman Chris Coleman did his job as Walker's replacement tying for best start time on the first run t on the second But driver Randy Will and 1Ato canned Walker didn't quite do his losing enough time to have moved up three places when the right rear runner lifted off the track two turns from the finish line on the first run There were no spoilsport words from Walker though "Let them have their day this is their time" he said "I want them to go to the finish with no kind of controversy" There was nothing but controversy at hockey at least as far as the Americans were concerned Though outskated outplayed and outshot the whole with just over nine game they were still tied minutes left "No disrespect to the Russians but the referee kind of took the sticks out of our hands" US forward Ted Donato said He recalled the Swedish teams bitterness after a bruising US victory just before the Games and after a tie during the preliminary round "Maybe he was trying to stick it to us" Donato said a now meets Canada The Unified Team (6-) winner over Czechoslovakia in the other semifinal for the gold medal on Sunday Team USA plays Czechoslovakia Saturday for the bronze The Unified Team is guaranteed at least a silver medal for the ninth time in the 10 Olympic hockey tournaments it has entered Going into the final weekend Germany led with 10 golds and 25 medals overall to eight golds and 22 overall for the Unified Team Austria was third with 3-- 86-7- 5 n 3-- Line: Aggies by 9 i St: Coming off a loss Thursday night at Pacific the Aggies hope to re group at San Jose State Utah State still has only won one league game on the road all year so a win tonight is vital for the disappointment for zarliord the beleaguered US four-mabobsled svin team as Herschel — 3 1 a About the Cougars: They hod mode r every gorre lecist tree fr ahh1 77embted 7t eost eort before oo ?re Cirr143 g 0 tor 4 frtin Ogniirc Jjt P""ohl John Psh had not povfy-- i in three grimes before ocrimorthe first NA CcninSt the iites being others' too4 !routie He 9rished cokise Lwth three txAnts OnfiN0ebouho's Lorson hos overo941 1 ports over e lost tve oonnes About the Lobos: They've teqoined their homero&iirt ohlvontry:je In AiAC ploy atter losirg frvs nroignt crt t rrey'-it- i gornes in 8 hore the ienque erfaring !heir tiro' home game rhe Lobos hove shot 50 cArrAnt frr1 !Pe 5eld in only ore 1(AC game o fen over Air P'Yce even 'touch totynord Khort JoYsin 64') leoOs the leogue r shootro He's also No 1 in blocked shots (3 4) the Events IJoseAt Calif Fr Nobody couid be happier than I am right now" Yamagee Soot Kor chi said "I still can't Swtzericall believe what's hap- - Cesro pening to me" 16Yg!tr ri)13 The day began with 405 pm MST El showed in winning the World Championships In her one fragile moment she touched the ice with her hand to keep from falling on a triple loop and cut a triple salchow to a double "I knew the opening was very strong and when I t had the loop I didn-- fight it" Yamaguchi said "and then I decided to play it safe on the next jump and go for it in the end" Those slight problems lowered her scores for technique to 573 and 58s but she on a string of 59s for artistry Still her rivals had a ray of hope They just couldn't do anything about it after each Olympic Medals one landed with a S I — Tot Motion thud on the ice 10 9 6 — 25 Ito fell on a triple Gl'rnarv a — 22 8 6 axel as did Harding Urifed Teri 7 — 19 7 5 Atist'n on Kerrigan tumbled 7 a triple toe loop Nrviriy 5 — 13 6 France's Suria Bona- - Italy 4 4 3— ii Iy third after the tirtei Stcles 4 2 — 10 4 original program Albuquerque NM I just missed an histor- iC quadruple toe loop prrd r11 and fell on a triple Coecida to finish fifth flip-1"1'444'P''''''cr''''s BIT at New Mexico m B-- --asinimommommumens KALL-F- CO'A-tr)::- Utah St at San Jose ' CI The Utes their run for the 'VAC title bark on Jan 25 with a stunning ao75 overtime virtory over the in Laramie Tonight in an ESP N late show flO p m hat the Hants-mafaint chamCenter they'll try to pionship hopes with a repeat performance against WyornInla 2 ev thp Ji Reno inclotir track e s he 3 :or StP71 Rv 3-- 1 3 The rare for the 'VAC baskethall title continues for Utah and Brighiarn Young tonight Utah State Weber State and Southern Utah also return to action s - - Utah vs Wyoming n 2 the 6o n 3Fl-2- Division I Teams In Action Tonight a ttah - - ' 5-- ar 2-- 2 4 |
