Show m Ogden Sunday dies of apathy IF on 3B 986 Slandard Associated Press Rockets’ Ralph Sampson goes high above Nuggets’ Calvin Natt to block shot 7 Olajuwon eplayed great launches Rockets to win HOUSTON (AP) — Denver center Danny says the Nuggets are going to need some they're going to do a good job defending Houston Rockets center Akeem Olajuwon “Akeem played great We’ve got to help out more on defense against him” Schayes lamented after the Rockets defeated the Nuggets Saturday in the opening game of the second round of the NBA Western Conference playoffs Schayes help if NBA staff WSC Football the Wildcats have three playover 300 pounds Juniors Michael Moore 310 pounds Kelly Widmeyer 308 and Ray Goerke 9 303 will battle for two spots At guard Angus Maclnnes an- chors the line after starting five games last year “Our No priority on offense is to find a center” Price said “We need some stability there which has been lacking over the past couple of seasons” Juniors Paul Valenzuela Docj Mcndivel and sophomore Troy Munday will all get close looks! ) that position At quarterback the Wildcats ‘ must replace departed Dave Stire- - j man who averaged 3417 yards I per game total offense Brian Larsen Stireman’s back- up last year senior Phil Cooper and sophomore redshirt Jeff Carl- son are expected to wage a tight battle for starting quarterback in ! J spring training “A lot of people were concerned j about our quarterback situation with Stireman gone” Price said “But we’re as good if not better f than ever there “Just off last season Larsen would have to be considered No but it’s competitively open” At the other skill positions Price feels Brown is ready to take startover for departed er Freddie Cook Brown carried 79 times for 344 yards and six touchdowns last season behind Cook At wide receiver redshirt Chris Darrington is expected to pick up some of the slack left by the parture of tight end Craig Slama the Wildcats’ leading receiver last season Defensively three starters return at linebacker and several quality junior college transfers should make linebacking the strength of the defense Sophomores Taoni Tai and Howard Terry are also challenging at that position “Maybe we didn't emphasize “D" like we should have last year” said Price whose defense yielded 4386 yards and 303 points per game last season “We gave it more lip service than concrete help If we take 10 points off our offense and defense we'll win more games “We'll do a lot more hitting than before Last year we went with the guys we knew were going to play This year we don’t know who is going to play” Practices begin at 3 pm on the softball field north of Promontory Tower and are open to the public Ie ers Bullets 76ers fight out d playoff title Game NBA playoff seof the here Tuesday night 38 points Olajuwon finished with a and pulled down 16 rebounds before fouling out with 45 seconds left “It’s tough for Schayes and (Blair) Rasmussen to guard Akeem We didn’t make a good enough effort to block him out" Denver Coach Doug Moe said “Akeem said at the start of the game he felt a little tired and sluggish but in the second half he took control of the game" Houston Coach Bill Filch said 2 ries will be But Olajuwon said that as far as he was concerned “the big difference was that we were able to get long rebounds and not give them second and third shots Denver played their best game this year today Schayes and Rasmussen were very physical" Moe credited Houston’s scoring surge early in the third quarter that gave the Rockets a lead as a key in the game “I thought we did a really good job but we had that one bad spurt" Moe said "The only thing that bothered me was the rebounds You just have to keep fighting and see what happens tThcy have too many offensive boards during that run" Olajuwon scored seven straight points midway through the fourth quarter to put Houston ahead with 7:55 left to play When Denver 13 came within Olajuwon again responded by scoring two baskets to increase Houston’s with 1:28 to play lead to Alev English led the Nuggets with 34 points while Calvin Natl added 28 early in the game but neither IXnver led team led by more than four again in the first was tied score The times and was quarter after the opening 12 minutes tied Lewis Lloyd who finished with 28 points had Examiner “Paying the price” could very well be the theme of this year’s spring training camp for the Weber State football team With camp opening Monday head coach Mike Price says this year's spring" training will emphasize the two big D’s discipline and defense" And not necessarily in that order “We dpn’t have the stars Or big names we had last year" said Price who is entering his sixth season' at the helm of the' Wildcats “So this team: w ill be more disciplined and team oriented We’ll have to be to win” This is not to say last year’s team ran “I’ve seen it happen with other programs” Price said “Sometimes you have a tendency with a lot of seniors and good players to let players get away with little things This year we want to be more structured and disciplined We want to and revitalize by putting a fresh coat of So we’ll paint on everything have to have some spring cleaning” : With only two offensive starters and five defensive starters returning from last year Price doesn’t 'consider it a rebuilding year for the Wildcats “I see the total progression of the program — where we were fiv6 years ago and where we are now" he said “1 think we have ourselves in the established league 'The program has come from the bottom up to the middle and I feel we are ready to challenge the upper echelon" Price and his assistant coaches have some very specific objectives they want to accomplish by the end of thecamp v“We hope to find 11 starters on defense solidify our offensive line and stay healthy" he said “I don’t know how good a football team we are and that’s what we’ll try to find out this spring’’ On offense Price’s task will be to refurbish an offense that led the' nation averaging 5 6 yards per gameV and also set an NCAA record for most Division total yardsi in a game with 800 against Montana Only running back Eric Brown and split end Pete Sefakis saw enough action to be considered C starters this year “Pip not sure we tan match last Price said year statistically” “But we could come close We’re certainly not going to fall off the table I don’t know if we’ll gain 800 yards in one game It just depends on how out offensive line comes along” ' And if it took only size to open up holes the Wildcats would be in good shape At offensive tack- - Ve part! 1 By JON HIGUERA the Kariger aid “It was basically my to fold up the league Three ward members showed up at our irst organizational meeting in anuary and one of them turned n his resignation If even four to ix' people had showed up I vould have kept the league going the diamond reservations over to the city because they toon the Kids for the year But the recreation division was late getting the word out that there would be no Randy Russell League this year If the information would have come out sooner more Kids could have gotten 27 Training to emphasize big D’s Ogden City's Randy Russell Baseball League has taken a ailed third strike But its demise was not by league president James Cariger ” “Apathy was the biggest program “I turned April t Practice code: ‘Paying price’ League “Nobody came to the meetings not even to dissolve the league had a pretty good running jrogram last year and the pro- ram could be run with eight to 10 board members delegating iome authority “It takes a good dedicated force o do things and we didn’t have hat this year People should have lad some realization it's going to take somebody to run the pro- gram You can’t run a successful program when you have to force the coaches to prepare the diamonds” he said The Randy Russell League while not a citywide program haJ been in existence since 1961 and provided an opportunity for - to boys living between 8th Street and Ogden’s north city limits to play three months' of baseball Frank Quinn started4he league and ran it until 1981 when Tim Dyer assumed the leadership responsibilities! “Tim was the last dedicated person wb had in the program” Kariger' said “The whole thing got to be too political and just too much for me We’ve always depended on volunteers to help run the league This is my eighth year in the league and every year there has been less and less support “The player support has always been there but we’ve had trouble and adult support finding coaches At one time we had 16 minor (ages 8 to 10) league teams and eight major (ages II and 12) Last year it league teams drdppcd down to five minor league teams and six major I’ve been the league teams league’s equipment manager for the last six years and there never has been a full set of gear turned inr Kariger said ZW'c would play games five nights a week We would start at 5 O'clock and go until it got dark We even had little league tournaments and invited surrounding towns to play The Randy Russell League played its games at Bonneville Park (Second Street and Monroe AVenue) the only ballpark in Ogden designed for little leaguers and donations helped build Bonneville Park in the early 1970s but even though thejOgden City Parks Department did the required maintenance the league handled upkeep “All season long nobody wanted to do anything" Kariger said “It was a constant job to maintain the two diamonds It was like having another job but basically everything was left up to Tim and me “I remember having three other teams plus mine standing arounding while I set up the bases couldn't even warm up my kids because I was busy raking the field” Some of the 300 boys who would have played in the Randy Russell League this year have found spots on teams in the Ogden City Recreation Division's i Standard-Examine- r first-rounAssociated Heading to the basket Rocket Lewis Lloyd bowls over Nugget Mike Evans 16 points for the Rockets The game remained close in the second quarter until with five minutes left English scored 12 straight points to give Denver a lead with 1:16 left in the first half Houston cut the deficit to at halftime lead with Houston’s gave them the 8:24 to play in the quarter Denver playing without reserve defensive specialist Bill Hanhk who is suffering from a sore back came back to tie the score but Houston regained the lead with three minutes left in the third quarter and led i entering the final period Houston advanced to the second round by sweeping thiee games from Sacramento while in IKrnver advanced by defeating Portland the opening round of lhe playoffs ' Press The news that Moses Malone’s fractured eye socket will keep him from playing In today’s deciding1 NBA playoff game against the Washington Bullets is just as well for the Phil76crs' center adelphia Game No 5 is shaping up as the kind of game that could result in an elbow in the face under the boards Jeff Ruland the Bullets’ big man and rebounding leader will be back in the lineup after helping Washington tie the series on Thursday RuThe land underwent arthroscopic knee surgery April I and had not played since March 22 but still helped hold Philadelphia’s Charles Barkley to just two offensive rebounds “Washington was running to the boards on every shot and were on our backs a lot I don’t think the referees did a good job" said Barkley “We have to do a better job of keeping the Bullets off our backs "I’ll be read) tomorrow You can count on that" While the Bullets and 76crs conclude their scries Boston and Los Angeles the two championship finalists last year begin mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm NBA play on opposite coasts the Celtics playing the visiting Atlanta Haw ks the Lakers taking on the Dallas Mavericks Ruland “presents a quality player for us to deal with inside He’s a big strong guy who wc always seem to have trouble wi(h" and he plays tough defense" said ' Sixers Coach Matt Guokas Dr Jack Jeffers an opthalmolb- gist who examined Malone cop- eluded the Q Friday center wasn't ready to risk mixing it up under the boards Malone was injured March 28 against Milwaukee ' “A stray elbow could complicate the healing process” Jeffers said ! For the season Malone aver- aged 238 points through 74 games with an 118 rebound average and 45S percent shooting percentage I’m hurl “I'm disappointed that I can’t play but Fm not going to ptav with an injured eye” Malone said “It’s not just a vision problem The mam thing is the fracture of the bone It’s healing but can’t See NBA on 6B ) j ! I |