| Show r The Herald Journal Page 10 Wednesday January 5 1994 Logan Utah 1 USU freshmen Grizz open region with win getting it done free throws When last seen the Grizzlies were encased in ice paralyzed pillars as Preston pulled out a win in the fourth quarter It was a drippy endthat had seen the team ing to a 4 dead to from dynamic go But Tuesday on that same Recreation Center floor the Grizzlies gunned to life storming 4-- “He’s going to stay down a while” Eustachy said “1 like the way he played We’jl make him Jeff Hunter sports writer By According to Coach Larry the best sixth man in the Eustachy the Aggies had an league” After scoring 24 points -unlikely hero Monday night in - in their 74-6-5 victory over Pacific including the Old over win 1 just decided to go with the Aggies’ game-winn- Tony (Schumacher) late in the game and I thought he won it" Eustachy said “I’d give him player of the game” Averaging just 84 minutes and opening win Schumacher usually spelled starting point guard Roddie Anderson in the middle of games Monday evening Eustachy inserted him with just under eight minutes left in the game and the 6-- freshman 1 guard never left the floor “Roddie just had an off night” Eustachy who said he never considered returning Anderson to the court said At the time of Schumacher’s entrance the Aggies were holdlead that ing onto a three-poihad dwindled down from nine 'ust three minutes earlier His nt however liggest moments came as the game neared the one minute mark and the Tigers were charging Pacific fouls sent Schumacher to the line twice Although he free only converted just 2-o- throws they were sufficient enough to keep the Tigers at bay “He stepped up and made some huge free throws” Eustachy said “You know it’s a great situation for both freshman (including guard Jarobi Kemp) to be able to contribute at the end of the game” Dominion Woodard struggled the next night against Wyoming and put up a few ed 19-poi- nt m scored 53 points in a high school game settling into Eustachy’s deliberate offensive style often seems difficult “It took me a little while to get used to it” Woodard said “I got in trouble a couple of times for shooting the ball early but I’m getting used to it now This was my best game so far I just did what the coach wanted me to do: run the offense take good shots and defend” The Aggies put their 0 Big West record (4-- 5 overall) on the line tonight in the Spectrum as they face off against San Jose State at 7 pm The Spartans 0 and 4 are no strangers to close games as three of their four wins have come in overtime Monday night in their BWC opener at Nevada the Spartans’ guard Terry Cannon put up 24 points in their 8 OTWin It was the seventh time that the senior who sat out last season with a knee injury has led SJSU in scoring this year He’s currently averaging 182 points per game with a 57 percent field goal percentage including attempts first half points weren't enough to earn him a starting spot as the second half opened and 21 points in the game apparently aren’t enough to cam him a starting spot tonight against San Jose State ' 4Vimi 1-- 4-- y 82-7- ’ overall last season Coach Stan Morrison has a wealt pf expert) ence to draw from this year 11 sports writer Senior forward Jason Allen (136 points) and 8 junior center Mike Brotherton (121 6-- points 64 rebounds) round out the nucleus of the Spartans School Wrestling Coach Jim mater in Preston Wednesday night and the road was a rough one In a the Indians took down the Grizthen wrapped up the zlies 49-1-9 with a 59-1drubbing of evening the Malad Dragons The Dragons 1 in the had laid Logan low encounter second night’s “I thought both matches would tri-me- ed et 4 45-2- be closer than that” Preston Cbach Doug Higley said “The home crowd always helps out but our kids were aggressive and went after it” "We’re a young team” Peacock said “We’ve got seven underclassmen and six upperclassmen One of my best aids Chad Shumway was out sick That’s six points and we lost that match big” (145-pound- s) Peacock graduated from Preston in 1982 and was state champ as a 155-poun- “It was good coming back up here” Peacock said “But I don’t like to lose" The Indians got a quick six off the Grizzlies on a Jordan Leak forfeit in the 103-pou- nd division Preston’s Chris Stevenson then held Brian Schultz on his back for Tuesday's Games NBA Nrw Yorii 100 OWndO US Mi! 100 Now Jwwr 3 Alamo 133 Chorion 94 10 Contend 99 Chicago 9T OVo0 91 Mouaton 10& Portend 95 hwo 107 PhOoriotoWo 9 5an Antonio 119 Drw IIS lALfcn 1 12 PhoonOi 106 SoaRt wwrio iiSb range 112 NHL NwJonTMVWwO Tcnoroo 0 Tempo Boy Mn90 1 4LaoeM 1 Cmcogo Z OoOoo OT So MonTMt 2 Son Jon 2 5 ftntoc 1 Lou vym 119-pound- er James Isabell dropped Pea- cock made the trip to his alma Tribe-dominat- two slaps at 3:22 for another six putting the Indians up 12-Logan grabbed one of its two pins against Preston when Aaron Lion in 3:22 That put the Grizz within six 12-- 6 But after that the Indians resumed their attack leaping to a 39-- 6 lead following five wins Preston's Matt Leak mauled Chris Behm in a major 125-pou- nd 1 pre-seas- on 55-5- Brandon Butters 135-pou- nd 19--5 Chris Phillips pinned Logan’s nd 145-pou- nd improved to The fact that the NBA playoffs are still 3 12 months away doesn’t stop the Seattle SuperSonics from looking ahead to them The Sonics got an important road victoe lead over ry and grabbed a Western Conference champion defending 6 decision over the Phoenix with a Suns Tuesday night “This gives us a chance to win the tiebreaker against them by winning our games at home so from that standpoint it was an important win” coach George Karl said “After losing the other game I think we realized we had to play at a different level against this team and we did York 100 Orlando 95 Miami 100 New Jersey 83 Atlanta 133 Charlotte 94 Indi- two-gam- 112-10- 6 in The Suns defeated the Sonics Seattle on Dec 23 the first of five meetings between the 1993 Western Conference finalists By dropping the Suns to 14-- 2 in their own arena Seattle regained the NBA's best home record at 13-- 1 and 87-8- 4-- otOomoan 6Sh TNT— NBA BaafcetMfl Chicago at Oriando WON — NBA Baekoeok Maine el OoParf 79 ESPN — NCAA BeekeftaS Satan PHI m prime — NBA Baehatbett nWKS PhoantaerUtah rJOexi — KVTV KSt — Taaaa-QPa- NCAA Bwhoeet NCAA Baefcataal 10--2 Elsewhere in the NBA it was New ana 104 Cleveland 99 Chicago 97 Detroit 91 Houston 106 Portland 95 San Antonio 107 Philadelphia 84 the Los Angeles Lakers 119 Denver 118 and Golden State 115 Sacramento 112 Kendall Gill scored 12 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter making all five of his shots and stealing the ball three times in the final period “I was playing like a dog all game long missing shots all over the place and hurting us” he said “I was able to turn it around in the fourth quarter and help out" Gary Payton and Dellcf Schrempf had 18 points each for the Sonics who e winning streak by snapped a the Suns Charles Barkley scored 23 points Kevin Johnson had 22 points and 14 assists and Dan Majerle added 21 points for the Suns four-gam- AP photo Phoenix’s Kevin Johnson drives past Seattle’s Kendal Gil towards the basket Sports report 189-pou- nd 4 3-- on the road By The Associated Press Cody Buttars in 3:27 Jason Keller finished the Indian rally with a 15-- 0 technical fall over a less experienced Jon Donigan who stepped in for the sick Shumway Indian Anthony Lion strained to a 6-- OT victory over Jared Sweeten in the meet's most rankings heated match With the score still Gymnastics By Utah State Media Relations tied 4 and only 15 seconds left in OT Lion applied a Herculean The 1994 Utah State gymnastics bear hug slamming Sweeten to will enter the season ranked squad the mat The crowd cheered and to the National 18th according the but one the coach chalked up Association of Collegiate Coaches referee just stood there with his for Women prcscason poll hands half way in the air He coached by Ray The Aggies until all the didn’t raise them way Lion threw himself on lop for two Corn lied with Ohio State for the 18th position in the polls The points coaches hip choices for 1994 followed the lop four from the 93 IHL national championships Georgia Kaiwnazoo 7 Son Lofco Cy 9 Alabama Utah and UCLA TV Today “The rankings arc about what I expected" Corn said ESPN — NCAA BoeVofbol OiAo 140-pou- and 4 SuperSonics stop Suns in Phoenix 13-- 1 Grizz Jeremie Paulus was disqualified for a series of illegal locks on 130-Ian Clark Indian Kevin Siund got a technical fall over that” decision 10-foot- er Logan’s Arme Cox goes up for a shot in traffic in the Grizz win over Bear River Tuesday Indians This to Logan was an awful breach By Mike Ingraham of etiquette “We would never cheer an sports editor team against a region team” growled As if in response to the melt of the past few one Grizzly Whether the Cats can be held accountable is days the Logan High School girls basketball team flowed freely Tuesday night taking it to another question Jessica Sparrow scored 21 at Weber Mari Bumingham had 18 and 5 in the Region 5 the Bear River Bears Eints Peterson 10 six in the overtime period opener for both teams — such a glittering offensive array it’s with for the set View meanwhile stage Sky that under coach Alan Wunsley ' ’s-- collision with to Recreat the forget easy Logan Thursday ation Center by (sweatily) wrapping up a perSky View became synonymous with defense in overtime over Weber Mountain Crest jvas Cache Valley's lone 4 fect lTne Cals have been to the Rec Center once "“loser Tuesday going down 52-4-2 at Ogden overall received 15 points this season as the Grizzlies bitterly recall The Stangs While Logan was losing to Preston Dec 30 from guard Cami Brown and another 15 from the Bobcats in the bleachers cheered on the center Connie South but hit just one of seven cold” 1- -6 returning lettermen 0 PRESTON — Logan High a 55-4- int including i out-ofregi-on 16-of-- 35 7-- 19 - Smith who may be even quicker than Koerner also seemed magnetized by the basket flying to it at every opportunity and scoring 12 points But her chief contribution may have been on defense Noticing that the Bears were going to Lara Sadler who was heating up in the second quarter Logan coach Bryant McKay sicked Smith on her in the third quarter as the Grizz greeted the Bears with a “Heather really frustrated that Sadler girl” said McKay Behind 34-3-3 Logan tied the game on a Smith free throw then went ahead on four straight points from Jeremi Covingand two free throws ton including a Forward Anne Cox who always seems to be involved when anything important is going on hit a jumper and just like that it was 40-3Sadler (12 points) finally ended the drought draining one from the outside but the damage was done Logan outscored BR that third quarter 12-- 5 Nikki Wood’s (12 points) uncontested jumper pulled BR to within five points 46-4- 1 but Covington came through m the clutch again with a rebound and follow The junior swings an (swingperson?) then forced a turnover and Koerner added two free throws as the Grizz pulled sway “We couldn’t throw it in the ocean in the second half” said BR Coach Kevin Prusak who saw him team dip to 5 “We just went box-and-o- ne Dan MiNerHerald Journal 5-- 11 Tribe rules the mat By Shawn Fullmer we all think we can do it” Koerner continued One reason is that her backcouit mate Heather Smith is back in form — "me and Heather know we need to take control because we’re the seniors” said Koerner 1-- 4-1- 15 ge shots possibly prompting his move to the bench But for a Although the Spartans fin' 4 in die BWC ynd ished also junior thought Eustachy guard Corwin Woodard played hit best game of the season but through the Bears' defenses while sealing them off with a zone that limited the visitors to a scrawny 14 second-ha- lf points “Yesterday we had a really good practice” noted guard Kristen Koerner Having earned bomber the her reputation as a long-ranspeedy senior this night infiltrated enemy lines and lobbed grenade after grenade from beneath the hoop in a performance that had the crowd clapping and the Bears brain trust on a special No 5 alert: “No 5’s coming in again” they would notify each other as Koerner approached the scorer’s table “We’ve bcen'down on ourselves but now er 11 points per game prior to North Carolina native who once USU’s Big West Conference- pre-seas- on Utah et BVU el preparation for Monday’s opener Fresno's Dilfer leaves FRESNO Calif (AP) — Trent Dilfer says prayer arid a gut feeling made him decide to skip his senior season at Fresno State and enter the National Football League draft The quarterback could go high in the first round in the April draft observers feci because he and 230 has the size at statistics of the pounds plus type NFL teams like Dilfer led major college passers in 1993 with a 1731 efficiency in NCAA history and threw 271 passes without an interceprating the third-be- st USU opens the season next Monday by hosting Kentucky The Aggies will find themselves tion a Division competing against prescason Top 20 teams in eight of the team s 13 Thomas staying put meets Ranked teams on the schedule include Utah (third) BYU (14ib) Boise State (16th) and Washington (20(h) Fans can get an early look at the Aggie gymnastics team this Friday at 7 pm in the Smith Spec- trum Cora will be putting his team through a scrimmage in Division 1-- A A record AUBURN HILLS Mich (AP) — When Detroit Pistons star Isiah Thomas retires he reportedly will become general manager and part owner of the club he led to two NBA championships Thomas agreed to a deal that 153 will pay the million after he bangs up his uni 12-ti- All-St- ar form the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News said in today’s editions The negotiations reportedly followed a meeting Monday with owner William Davidson According to the News source Thomas also will receive 10 percent of Davidson’s sports empire which includes the Pistons The Palace of Auburn Hills and the Pine Knob Music Theater In addition to heading the the team's basketball operations agreement calls for Thomas to contract extenreceive a one-yesion with a balloon payment estimated to be somewhere between $7 to S12 million the News said The balloon payment will be on Thomas’ player contract so the money will count against the Pistons’ salary cap ar Turner top candidate (AP) — The Washington skins only hours after firing Redfirst-ye- ar coach Richie Petitboa received permission Tuesday from Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to interview Norv Turner who is expected to meet w ith Redskins officials this Friday “I'd be awfully interested and again you still want to sit down and talk about specifics and details and all of those things but it sure seems like a great opportunity” Turner said Dallas winners of the NFC d East has a bye this weekend in the playoffs Turner also appears to be on the first-roun- short list in Atlanta where the Falcons fired Jerry Glanville on Tuesday Additionally Houston Oilers defensive coordinator Baddy Ryan who stirred controversy this weekend by punching offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride on the sidelines Sunday said be is interested in both openings “I'd like to talk to anybody who has a head coaching job avai- lable” Ryan told the Houston Chronicle in an interview pub- lished today wbo last coached Ryan Philadelphia has made no secret about his ambition to become a bead coach again He may have ruined his chances with Sunday’s natiorally televised slugging |
