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Show Daws County Clipper hoop season in full swing WAC verett l.vnn S Tuesday, January 7, men's basketCollege ball is over as conference play began 'i'' Writer with mixed success for Wasatch he college football season came ,o an end as Brigham Young I insersit) came up big in bowl loll I ilili ranked BYU 3 (14-1- ) battled lo earn their first ever Ness Near's Day bowl game as the "tigars defeated No. 14 Kansas N 5 in the 61st annual ) aie otion Bossl. BN I is in bossl games and this mas hase been their biggest not only for the school but the Western Athletic Conference. BYU rallied Being dossn 15-hack and sealed the sictory sshen iuk ' 19-1- (9-3- Front schools. BYU (0-played better, but fell at home to San Diego State 86-8in overtime University (8-- and then opened 89-6- Cougar defensise back Omarr Morgan intercepted a KSU pass at the Cougs three ssith under a minute lelt in the contest. BYU totaled 350 sards, 59 rushing and 291 passing. KSU managed 274 total sards. 41 on the ground and 2 1 1 passing for Stese Sarkisian ssas 291 saids. one 1NT and tsso TDs. lames )se caught one TD for 32 yards sstule K.O Kealaluhi had a ID reception. Saikisian ssas named player ol the game ssith KSU's sside res eis er Kevin Lockett. Lockett had seven catches for 135 yards and one TD BYU's Shay Nluirhrook ssas named defensise MVP. Muirbrook had tour sacks and one for a safety. BN U ended the season ranked at No 5 ssith an NCAA record 14 svins and 5 games. the final pool. No. ssent to H irida ( 1 1, No. 2 Ohio State (11- No. 3 Florida State ( and No. : Nriona State (11-1Wyoming finished in the 22nd spot. In 12-- 1 ). i()-- (1-- 0, 5-- i sic-!oi- s, the Western Athletic Conference season by being 1 destroyed by Wyoming in Laramie. The SDSU game wasn't counted as a WAC contest. Against SDSU, the Aztecs jumped out to an early lead and held a 5 halftime advantage. In the second half, BYU overtook the Aztecs and tied the score at 78 sending the game into OT. However, SDSU managed to pull out the victo45-3- rs. Jeff Campbell led BYU with 23 while Grant Berges and Justin Weidauer each scored 15. Lance Archibald added eleven and Matt Montague contributed ten for the Cougars. Against Wyoming. BYU was never in the game as the Cowboys built halftime advantage. The Cougars didn't challenge in the a 49-3- 0 second half as BYU lost for the 10th time this season. BYU only shot 32 percent from the field while Wyoming was 46 percent. The Cowboys out rebounded the Cougars Campbell led BYU with 13 while Weidauer added 2. Next up for the Y" is Utah on Saturday. 54-3- 1 Number 8 Utah ( hosted No. 2 Wake Forest ) New Year's Eve and played well in the first half. However, the Demon Deacons came victoback in the second for a ry. Utah then opened WAC play by 9-- (9-0- crushing Colorado State University 10-(0-3 Saturday night in the Huntsman Center. Against Wake, Utah played well 7 in the first half and led at the break. However, late in the second half. Wake made their run to earn the victory as the Utes let down defensively. NVake shot 53 percent from the field while Utah only managed 33 percent. However, the key to Utahs loss was the missed free throws late in the game. The Utes went from the line w ith the misses coming when Utah had an opportunity to keep the game close. 84-6- 30-2- Wake's Tim Duncan led the Deacons with 23. Duncan also pulled down a game-hig- h 16 rebounds and handed out eight assists w ith two blocked shots. Keith Van Horn led Utah with a 24 points with 15 coming game-hig- h in the first half. Andre Miller added eleven for the Utes. Against CSU, Utah schooled the Rams and the bench early. Utah was 5 at the break and everyone up played for the Utes. Utah shot 47 percent from the field while the Rams were 38 percent. The Utes out boarded the Rams 43-2- 45-3- Van Horn led Utah with a game- - points and eleven boards 21 high while Mike Doleac added 15 points. Utah plays BYU Saturday night. Utah State University opened Big West action with a (1-- 8-68-5- 9 in victory over Nevada (0-Logan on Thursday then fell to Southern Illinois University ) 5-- (8-4- 67-6- Saturday night in Carbondale, 4 Against Nevada, the Aggies start- - Christopher Thomas pre-seas- Antwan Smith scored 13. Against SIU, USU fell down halfearly with SIU holding a 8 time advantage. However, in the second, USU battled back to tie the game at 64. With 4.9 seconds remaining in the contest, SIUs Troy Hudson hit a three to pull out the victory. Spillers led USU with 20 while Smith added 14 with eleven boards and Justin Jones scored 12. 32-2- 65-4- 9. in the first quarter forcing several turnovers off of Bountifuls press and scoring from the inside. The 63 senior guard jockeyed for position in the paint and utilized his strength and quickness to score seven of the full-cou- rt Braves 5-- 0, 1 2, Against Montana State, WSU couldnt get anything going and trailed 44-3- 4 at the break. The second half wasnt much better as MSU rolled for the victory. WSU shot 42 percent from the field while Montana State hit for 61 percent. Warriors Ryan Cuff led WSU with 14 Wednesday and Thursday. After losing to San Antonio last week, Utah was just 6 on the road this what's important. while Nathan Miller added ten. Against Montana, WSU rebounded and opened fast as the Wildcats built a 0 halftime lead. Montana made a run in the second but Weber managed to pull off the win. Alex Fisher led WSU with 30 while Damien Baskerville scored 17, Patrick Wrigg added 15, Cuff con52-4- Kay and Karl Malone are saving money lately. They'se been trimming their Christmas card list. And they'se been able to remose a couple of Miami Heat players in just he last couple of sseeks. irst it ssas forward P.J. Brown who complained about Karl's play1 ing style after the Utah Jazz had beaten the Heat in overtime in Miami. Strike his name from the card list. Then Saturday night they were able to scratch Alonzo Mourning from the list after yet another Jazz sictory over Miami. "I have no respect for any of them (the Utah Jazz players), said Mourning, "especially Karl Malone. All they're doing is yelling, flopping and crying. I'm season. Saturday, Jan. 4 Jazz 83, Miami Heat 80 The Jazz watched in terror as a 15 point lead evaporated in the fourth quarter. With a nice boost from forward Isaac Austin, Miami narrowed the lead to a single ex-Ja- point with about 50 seconds remaining in the game, but free throws by Antoine Carr and Bryon Russell were enough to preserve victory. Miami had a chance to tie score with 15 seconds to go, double team defense by Malone the but and ed. the words of Jazz guard Jeff liornacek, They just grab and hold on. That's their style. That's why they had two guys foul out. We played a sloppy game made too many mistakes and too said Heat coach many turnovers, Pat Riley. "We played one of our worst games of the season, and they may have played one of their best. We didn't deserve to win we could have stole one but we didn't deserve to win." The Jazz now face a five game goad trip and must play nine of games between now and Jan. 25 away from the Delta Center. The current road swing started with the Bulls in Chicago Monday and goes to Milwaukee and Toronto 1 about a call by official Hugh Evans who promptly assessed a second technical and sent Ostertag to the With both Lenard and Danilovic on the bench, and Kurt Thomas ejected it." sore because Malone will be in the Hall of l ame while he'll still have to buy a ticket to get in. On the court, it looked more like a case of the Jazz being unwilling to hack down to a Miami team that plays defense with all the finesse of Sumo wrestler's. The Heat was whistled for 31 personal fouls and had two players, Voshon Lenard and Sasha Danilovic, leave the game with six personal fouls, and in bench, jumped up to complain John Stockton on Miami's Tim Hardaway forced a weak shot which fell far short of his target. them the game, they didn't deserve Mournings probably just keep the two apart, but not before each was assessed a technical foul. A few minutes later, Ostertag who was now on the end of the Jazz the for two technical fouls, Riley's options for the long shot were limit- not giving them no credit. We gave down, and when the two finally made it to their feet, they were pushing and shoving each other. Both teams came to the floor to showers early. Following the game, the Jazz center was mum about the whole affair. I've got nothing to was his terse comments to say, waiting reporters. The loss ended at 14 the consecutive wins away from home by Miami. A win would have tied them with the Jazz for the second longest successful road streak in league history, but Riley said falling short of the record was unimportant. NVe're not about setting records. I was just very disappointed in our approach to the game. We were just very sloppy. Utah built its big lead with solid effort off the bench in the second and third periods, along with a strong start by Malone who scored 17 of his game high 28 points in the first period. After going to the locker room with 23 points by halftime, Malone scored just five points in the second half, and had just one field goal. But, while Malone struggled in the second half, Utah was helped by the return to form of Hornacek who scored points in the second half, 1 Game highlights: Shooting: fg 44.6, fts 63.9, 3 ptrs 33.3. Total Jazz: 1 and Russell who scored seven. Chris Morris also gave the Jazz a rebounds: 36. Points: Malone 28, Hornacek 13, Russell 11. Rebounds: Malone 12. Assists: Stockton 11. Turno Heat: Shooting: fg 41.3, 3 ptrs fts Total rebounds: 47. Points: Mourning 18, Lenard 18, Danilovic 15, Hardaway 15. lift with eight points, two rebounds and some solid defense. And while the Jazz were scoring just 13 points in the final period, they still held the visitors to just 41 percent shooting form the field for the game and made key defensive stops when Miami was threatening late in the contest. We played a little bit better than we have been playing, said coach Jerry Sloan of his teams performance against the Heat. We played " with mote intensity. Utah High School Hockey forced 20 turnovers. We worked hard on our period helping to extend the Bountiful lead to 3 at the shooting and making better passes all week. When youre in a shooting slump, you dont worry if you break. have good shooters and theyre . I felt it. The coaches have been telling me to stay down low and that is where I have had the most Peterson success, explained. I adjusted my shot a little and it was falling, live team was shooting well it was bound to happen. I dont know what happened to Gym Rat (Danny-Wilburin the second' taking good shots, Maxwell said. Tonight we made easy passes which made a big difference. In the past we were trying to make fancy passes. When you catch an easy pass in rhythm it makes all the difference in the world. We need to keep playing our game and improving and we will be ' very competitive. 45-3- nt two straight this season. Theyve lost two in a row three times thus far. 47.8, The Home Health Care Industiy Is Growing Dramatically In Utan! 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Gamer Insurance Concepts 1610 SOUTH MAIN SUITE D - 298-597- 7 YOU CAN COUNT ON YOUR NATURAL GAS Representing ' Said Russell, We just fought, 'em off and held on. We hit the big , one when we heeded them-thaf- s 20. 60, more from Sean 20. 6-- 3. Smith, Elliott to win their second straight. Meanwhile, the Jazz committed 28 personal fouls, gave up 21 turnovers and were San Antonio hit just one of 15 three-poishots it attempted but made 24 of 36 foul shots to win the game. Utah has yet to lose more than 3 ry that improved Bountifuls Peterson led all record to scores with 22. Wilbur chipped in 18 points, 16 of which came in the second half and Hewlett added 14 in the winning cause. The Braves shot a season high 59.6 percent from the field and 31-2- Dominique Wilkins and Vinny Del Negro, but got 22 points from Avery 66.7, 47-2- Meanwhile Peterson connected on field goals and added two free throws to score 14 of the teams 19 points in the second 4-- Game highlights: Jazz: Shooting: fg Bountiful a 9 lead. The Braves used a Kilgore basket off of a Wilbur steal to open up a 20 point lead and cruised the rest of the way to the 65-4- 9 victo- one-of-tw- 1 1 18 leading scorer and team o on technical free throws assessed to Bountifuls bench when a player failed to check in before a substitution. con- San Antonio Spurs 83, Jazz 80 Utah dropped its second straight game and lost for the sixth time in their last games by falling to an undermanned Spurs team. The Jazz have now lost four straight away from home and slumped to a 6 mark in their last 10 games. The Spurs were without David Johnson and Wilbur dominated the third quarter. He hit a three pointer at the 6:02 mark and then finished the period by scoring the last seven points including a three pointer with three seconds left, Wilburs play fueled an 11-- 0 run to close out the quarter and give point in the first half which came Mourning 15. Assists: Hardaway 8. Turnovers: 17. Thursday, Jan. 2 Charles could. I came out with a lot more intensity in the second half. Robinson was held to one tributed 12. Robinson, me a little more confident, Wilbur said. I knew time was running out and I did what I Maxwell praising his centers performance against Robinson. Pete got up in his face and didnt let him have anything. Rebounds: This was a different Jazz team than what we've been lately," said Adam Keefe. The fire was back. Even if we'd lost, at least we played hard, we fought, that's different. One player who fought was Greg Ostertag. In the third period, he and Hardaway went to the floor together and got tangled up. In Ostertags view, Hardaway was holding him 7-- banked as time expired. It game me a boost and made leader, scoreless for most of the first half and went on a scoring rampage in the second quarter. Peterson got after him, said Bountiful head coach Mike Utah Jazz begin lengthy road trip Randy Hendricks Spoils Writer 12 first quarter points. The defense was sucking up on (Brandt) Peterson and I was getting easy shots, Hewlett said. I guess it w as my turn to score. I worked hard all summer to improve my game. Defensively (previous to the Taylorsville game), I felt like I had improved but my offense hadnt come yet In the second quarter, Hewlett passed the baton off to Peterson who had concentrated his efforts on defending Taylorsvilles Jason Robinson in the first quarter. Peterson held Robinson, the Weber State University split as the Wildcats opened Big Sky Conference play in Ogden. Thursday night, WSU fell to Montana State (1-87-- 7 then defeated Montana (0-86) 105-9- 5 Friday night. and Ryan Jama B2 Wilbur, who was one of the most dangerous outside shooters in Region 2 last season, struggled for the first eight and a half games. Wilbur said a last second shot in the first half helped to rekindle his game. was After a twisting lay-u- p taken away when Wilbur was called for charging, the senior small forward looked stymied as he went to he bench. In the first half he was 0--2 and seemed tenta-tiv- e from the field. But that changed when Peterson hit Wilbur on the left baseline with time running out. Wilbur fumbled the ball, regained possession and heaved a desperation shot just inside the three point line that Bountiful broke out of their shooting slump and used a double-figur- e performance from three starters to defeat Taylorsville Brett Hewlett started things off while Kevin Rice added 16 and 13 page half. He was on fire. 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