Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday February 22 1995 Cal Poly caught in Aggie stampede in 22 briefs Just plain bad play “We played as bad as we have played all year — the worst effort and our worst game No heart no effort I'm not trying to take anything away from Denver or Bernie (Bickerstaff) but anybody could've beaten us tonight" — Clippers coach Bill Fitch after a 118-8- 0 rout by the Nuggets Grgurich needs rest LAS VEGAS (AP) — UNLV coach Tim Grgurich hospitalized last month for symptoms relating to exhaus- tion has been told to stay away from the team UNLV trainer Jerry Koloskie said Grgurich who was not coached the Rebels since early January made a mistake returning to practice before completing the six weeks of rest prescribed Chiefs look at Shell KANSAS CITY Mo (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs have interviewed former Los Angeles Raiders coach Art Shell for an assistant coaching position Shell who met Monday with offensive coordinator Paul Hackett was 54-3-8 with the Raiders from 1989-9- 4 Replacement umps DUNEDIN Fla (AP) — With major league umpires locked out by owners because of a contract dispute AL umpire supervisor Marty Springstead said amateur crews have been lined up to call spring training games Springstead said minor league umpires will not be v asked to work while owners and big league umpires are locked m a labor dispute Naslund joins Bruins — BOSTON (AP) Swedish left wing Mats Naslund who last played in the NHL with Montreal in con1990 signed a one-ye- ar tract with the Boston Bruins Naslund 35 agreed to terms last week for a reported $200000 with an option He had 243 for 1995-9- 6 goals and 369 assists in eight seasons with the Canadiens South Korea bids for 2002 World Cup margin of victory Largest Jeff Hunter By sports writer Even after being throttled 106-5- 3 by the Aggies Tuesday night there were still a couple of bright sides for the Mustangs of Cal Poly — San Luis Obispo to reflect on: - Despite losing by 53 points they can’t fall any further m the power rankings They’re already 302nd out of 302 teams - Food is cheap in Logan Big Macs are just 53 cents thanks to a McDonald’s promotion distributing the hamburgers for the price of the Mustangs’ scene - It could have been worse Eric Franson and Roddie Anderson only played half the game and defensively the Aggies were pretty flimsy in the second halfL - They still have another year before they join the Big West Unfortunately for Cal Poly they picked the wrong time to play a game against a Utah State team aiming to be the first to reach 20 wins since the 1987-8- 8 Aggies went non-confere- 21-i- a “I’ve dreamed about being on a 20-w- in team” said junior guard Myron Simms after his four helped push USU’s record to 1$5 Cal Poly who lost to Eastern Washington in December by 52 points falls in their first season at the Divito sion I level But despite draining a season-hig- h and recording the largest 10 of margin victory for a USU team since the 1972-7- 3 version of the Aggies routthe USU ed Cal State Fullerton 115-6- 0 still felt that staff was there coaching room for improvement after surrender 1-- 23 think they could compete with anybody” Starting forwards Silas Mills and Maurice Spillers were a combined from the field totaling 26 points and 16 rebounds Woodard led Utah State in scoring for the third time in four games with 19 points (including five while Simms and point guard Covington Cormier added 12 each “Corwin’s' shooting real good right 13 iod t'licwf By The Associated Press Another matchup another close game And another San Antonio win In five meetings between the Midwest Conference rivals this season four of the games have been decided by three points or less On Tuesday night the Spurs got a 7 win — their fourth over the Rockets this season — at Houston on David Robinson’s jam with 22 seconds left Robinson had an off night scoring 18 points on shooting but teammate Dermis Rodman had the biggest rebounding night in the NBA this season with 30 “We really got into the game early running and sharing the ball” Spurs coach Bob Hill said “It was maybe the best half offensively we had all year” Robinson beat the Rockets when Hakeem Olaju-wo- n Sean Elliott on the perimewent to double-teater leaving the San Antonio center open to take Spurs-Rocke- ts 98-9- m sponsors and successfully organize a huge sport event” Connecticut 88 Boa College 75 Kentucky 72 Alabama 62 Mfctaan St 67 Michigan 64 £' UCLA 88 Stanford 77 S3 Utah St 106 Cal Poiy-SL- : O 5 pm TV Today ESPN — NCAA Basketball Baton Hal at Miami 6pjn PRIME — IHL Hockey Phoenix at Minnesota 7 pjn ESPN — NCAA Baskatball Florida Btat Duka All-St- ar third-quart- nt er 99-9- vide the infrastructure attract NCAA Basketball nt Tyrone Hill has a sprained left finger and right hand and Bobby Phills has a strained right shoulder Patrick Ewing led New York with 33 points on shooting Mavericks 102 Bullets 97 Jim Jackson scored 44 points and Dallas overcame deficit a Jackson scored 30 points in the second half including a layup that put the Mavericks ahead for 7 with 41 seconds left good 25 Reserve Lucious Harris scored a career-hig-h points for Dallas which rallied after losing rookie guard Jason Kidd with a sprained left ankle late in the first half Washington which has lost five straight at home and 10 of 11 overall got 30 points from Juwan Howard 21-poi- Seoul we can that proOlympics NHL ot 17 the Pittsburgh 5 Quebec 4 NY Rangers 5 Florida 3 60-3- Cavs used only eight players because Song Young Sam who handed over the official letter to FIFA general secretary Sepp Blatter It is clear from our Chicago 105 Atlanta 88 San Antonio 98 Houston 97 Denver 1 18 LA dippers 80 Boston 129 Phoenix 121 Portland 99 Minnesota 86 outre-bound- ed 27-poi- more than a decade” said Dates 102 Wt Mngton97 rSpbrtsodlor !? 93-8- although in reality our campaign has been underway for NBA k Mike Ingraham : Elliott’s pass “I thought I saw (Clyde) Drexler slip and I was running at Sean” Olajuwon said “It was just an automatic reaction He (Elliott) made the big pass in finding David under the basket” Houston trailed by as many as 23 midway through the second period but regrouped in the second half behind Drexler making his home debut after a trade a week ago brought him from Portland for power forward (Mis Thorpe Drexler finished with 29 but Rodman capitalized on Thorpe’s absence on the front line “He’s awesome Thirty rebounds is unreal” Robinson said “He just exploited the size advantage we had on them inside” Vinny Del Negro led San Antonio with 23 points while Elliott added 19 points San Antonio Houston 7 Cavaliers 99 Knicks 91 Geveland held off a furious New York rally to beat the Knicks behind John Williams’ 19 points Williams hit a jumper with 1:03 remaining to give the Cavaliers a 7 lead after the Knicks second-ha- lf deficit had stormed back from a to pull within four Danny Ferry scored 20 points for Geveland The 19-fo- the World Cup to Korea Cleveland 99 Mew York 91 Houston i e v documentation to FIFA is the next step in our bid to bring Tuesday’s Scores a steal in the first half with a dunk Cormier had 12 Spurs pull out close one Cats dump Scots Robinson dunks San Antonio to win over “The submission of this South Korea and Japan are the main contenders Mitcti MascanVHaraid Journal Utah State guard Covington Cormier completes points hi die Aggies blowout of Cal Poly 106-5- 3 See AGGIE on page 9 body of years ing 38 second half points “I think in these kind of games you play against yourself and hope you don’t get into any bad habits” said associate head coach Kermit Davis “The first 20 minutes we executed good defensively and only gave up 15 points but in the second hall we broke down in all areas ”1 think we got progress in the first 20 minutes but I think we went back in the next 20” Davis handled the coaching responsibilities Tuesday allowing head coach Larry Eustachy suffering from a severe bout of bronchitis to simply observe from the bench ”7116 doctor told him not to come tonight but he wanted to just come and watch” Davis said Junior forward Jon Wickizer apparently battling the flu joined Eustachy on the sideline “You just hope these things aren’t contagious” Davis lamented Scoring against the Mustangs was All 10 Aggies who got in the game scored at least four points with six reaching double figures “Utah State is a real buzz saw” said Cal Poly head coach Steve Beason “I ZURICH Switzerland — submitKorea South (AP) ted its formal bid for the 2002 World Cup today to soccer’s world governing hosting Pages AP photo Houston’s Clyde Drexler (22) drives against San See NBA on page 9 Antonio's Sean Elliott during the first half - -! MURRAY — This is the ' week that if there is any justice the Sky View High School girls basketball team makes a major But first came a little throat clearing at the 4--A tour- nament at Murray High School Tuesday The tournament favorite already has everyone’s attention but Tuesday’s 45-3- 1 ed the focus With marquee victory over Ben Lomond slightly shift- - attraction Mari Bumingham off the court with a jammed toe the rest of the Cats reminded every- one that the show goes on Jessica Sparrow’s 15 points may have been “quiet” as BL coach Gyde Moore put it but the versatile forward and her were rockin’ ‘n rollin’ at just the right time As Sparrow put it “we just stuck it out endured I guess you could say” The hotly pursing Scots saw a 26-2-2 Cat' advantage suddenly balloon to 34-2- 2 to big offensive moves inside and outside and a giant defensive stand closing the third quarter Katie Parker’s trey capped a 2 Scots run and brought BL to within four with 4:15 to play in the third quarter The Cats 9-- then showed they can score layups off the interior offense as well as the fast break Forward Tkffy Smart who has as a clutch player wheeled to the hoop and hit She then boarded a Debbi Bcnford miss and was upoourt in time to catch the watchful Sparrow’s sudden arrow down the lane for another layup “I saw her hair” said Sparrow when asked how in the world she had spotted Smart Of course more than ing strawberry hair did in the Scots As Coach Alan Wamsley stream-stateme- nt shouted encouragement the Cats stifled the Scots on their final possession of 50-seco- nd the third quarter which closed 32-2- 2 From that grand stand Jodie Alvey’s steal and layup and Sparrow’s with 2:45 left could be considered a proverbial nails in the coffin “It hurt” said Moore of Spar- row’s shot “I’m like is it smart to take a three?” Sparrow recounted “1 looked around first then every-matone behind me goes ‘shoot it Jess!’ I said okay” So it was curtains for Region 5’s fifth-plaentry dismissed the league champs for the by third time this season ham for one was glad to see BL at last in the rear view ror “This was the team I was most worried about” she said citing last year’s failure to beat another es ce Burning-dwindli- mir-than- ng lu Region 5 team Ogden three times “I told the team ‘guys if we get beat this is the team that’s going to do it’” But at no time did BL lead and now the Bobcats proceed to a second-roun- d date with ant Grove Thursday at 8:10 pm Pleas-credenti- The Vikings Tuesday topped See CATS on page 7 Penguins hold off Nordiques in thriller PITTSBURGH (AP) — Big plays by big crowd Lead on shift every Funny changes seemingly the NFL usually waits until the playoffs to stage games this good If the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 4 victory over the Quebec Nordiques in the NHL’s game so far this season is any example maybe die NHL should never start a season until late January k was one bell of a hockey came” coach Eddie Johnston said “There were great plays great skating great goaltending” the Nordiques’ Wendel Gark said “It was an hockey game It had to be a great game to watch” semen A pumped-to-the-m- ax 5-- most-await- ed '-- Pen-'gm- ns lt end-to-e- nd In other words Tuesday’s game was exactly the kind that two te&ms with a com- record — and only one loss bined 26-4between them until last weekend — were supposed to play' -2 The defending Stanley Cup champion New York Rangers defeated Florida 3 in Tuesday night’s only other NHL game In the game the lead changed hands three times just in the third 5-- Quebec-Pittsbur- gh period the last time coming on Jaromir Jagr’s sixth goal this season with 4:48 remaining and a tie beginning to look very likely “It was a very entertaining game After watching so many games in our league that are it’s nice to see a game like this” Johnston said after the Penguins’ second d comeback in as many games Maybe the lack of clutching and grabbing was the reason neither team could hold a game-winni- dutch-and-gr- ng ab third-perio- lead until Jagr fought off Bob Bassen’s to score stickwork and sweater-pullin- g Before that the game was tied at and 4--4 3--3 1-- 1 2-- 2 Of course the Penguins are accustomed dramatics they rallied to such deficit after two periods to from a three-gotie Buffalo 3 Sunday They played both games without center Ron Francis who is again bothered by a bad back that initially flared up in last season’s playoffs Jagr’s goal was the third in a span of 1:19 and came just 22 seconds after Quebec’s Owen Nolan scored to halt the momentum generated by Tomas Sandstrom’s pivotal shorthanded goal for Pittsburgh at 13:53 in a “You expect him to do big things big game” Johnston said of Jagr the NHL’s top scorer with 14 goals and 30 points third-peri- od al 3-- Unless of course Quebec's Stephane Fiset is in the opposing net Jagr took as much satisfaction with finally beating Fiset for a big goal as he did in keeping the Penin first place in the Northeast guins Division (13-1-- 2) I AP photo Pittsburgh's John Cullen center is pushed off the puck by Quebec’s Scott Young left and Sytvain Lefebvre (2) POOR COPY i |