Show rv'V v IS— Din Harold Journal Logan Utah 8unday Match 1 1886 Leonard leads Utah to easy win Denson paces USU By Shaun about doing my best on the tteat of the events” Melissa frerinnan Kilpatrick just Aggie in the missed a career-bewith a 3865 (her previous best marit was Harrioon Jut thought - ’ SAIT LAKE CTIY — The streak rolls all-arou- nd st 3870) She would have had another Wbea it comes to gymnastics Utah doesn't loae at home At lean aot aince dot tenth but her beam routine waa too meet” “I had a consistent 1979 ad The Utei had no trouble picking np a very consistent performer" of Kilpatrick ”1 thought she did a tremendous job I’m jUst disappointed she was under time an beam We their 144th atraight tegular aeaaon home win FHday night a national record Despite time falls on balance beam Utah tallied a 196175 to Utah State’s 192773 ln front of 9934 fans in the made some Bide tiny mistakes ton beam tonight other than the fells We biased a lot of requirements We need tp Setback 'V-- in the gym md work on feat” some Carn had hoped to apply pressure to No 2 Utah but that neverhap Like the hosts the Aggies had several falls on beam But the visitors also had two fills on uneven ban and a few other1 minor miscues on the night Despite the' mistakes USU head coach Ray Com was i plfBffd with his thought we competed much better1 Com said "For the first time I saw an intensity level that went from one event pened Right from the start the 22nd ranked Ames were playing catbh-u- p Krissy Richards juK mined fee bar on her Mg release move to start the meet wife a fall for the Aggies It looked like USU was jback on track when Trina Ewart matched her careerbi with a 9723 and Kilpatrick muled fa£ntine for a 973 Freshman LyndseyGaustad waa cruising until the dismount and M loring eight tenths Denson (980) and Emily Swank (9773) finished off the 1 to another If we continue to compete with this kind of intensity level it will onlet better 4 three out of four events then going to hmch on one Tonight I didn’t fed we did that We made some very aggressive inzie whenher "always XitoUuhtod joked ' coach Greg Msrsden Ute freshman Shannon Bowles won the vault wife a 9 JO and took second in the all-arou- nd with a 39023 despite feUing an fee beam f Denson turned in a solid performance lull lOKflKKjQ “Our competitive level on ars was i with a 3883 She lead the Aggies on mndi much better” Com said After one event Utah held a 48J23 to three events wife a 9JO on bars a 9825 48J751ead oo beam and a 9823 on floor: USU turned in its second-be- s team Utah’s Angie Leonard won the ‘“I was disappointed about vault wife a seaaon-be3960 missing because I think I could have got a good : vault scare of fee year (48223) Jamison her career-higby 025 Leonard a native score” Densoo said “We’ve been hiving led the way with a 97Q Meanwhpe the of Tempe Ariz won the bare with a a lot of team meetings about attitude and Utes were picking up a 49473 on ban : fi 993 tied for fust on fee beam wife teaffl- - not giving up We need to finish rod get and widening their lead : mate Trad Sommer with a career-hig- h a good scare so we can move up in the : u See AGS en Page II 9923 and woo the floor exercise after rankings and get ready for regnnals I Back on Feb 2 the Aggie duo of Christy Denson and Amber Jamison took That wasn’t top honors in fee about to happen on fee Utes’ home tm£ - ? nd all-arou- nd ri h E1 LuoareHaratd Journal Aggie aophomora Christy Denson had no trouhta staying on the balance beam Friday night and scored a tsanvhigh 0825 8he led Utah State in the ataround wife a 36J6 : f - PreplBasketball - Brown scores 39 for Mountain Crest ball and getting ready to shoot it Because of feat they stinted going doWn for me” Itwas apparent from fee opening tipoff rind Munay’a game phnwas to slowdown fee' game The Spartans bepn by read-fe- e offense feeff fee ing mhopre or preventing 5 — from scoring Mustangs quid UpfortunateJy far fee early k By Marit Olaen agortawrltor ' HYRUM — Tony Brown hit Ms first basket of the game and fee last basket of evening for Mountain CreK Friday night but it was the 18 baskets in hurt the Murray between that Spmtans'V-"-‘'- ' J 1 I 4 frm the floor imdferliiftinWmPl3tuinoveii:Jtt‘‘ shots fee Mustangs to a ray in fee first round of the 4A State HmIwIImII ftuimpMWifiipi i 1 told Ibny that he was thinking way loo much about shooting fee basketball Mountain CreK head coach John Nielsen related in a postgame interview ”1 told Mm ‘If you get fee (hot shoot fee dam ball and don't hold on to it so long’” Brown heeded Ms coach's advice and 39 finiahed the night wife game-hig- h MSrti MaacamI tarKd Journal ’ SlANGSoaFiv - In 1$ Muatanga beat fee 8partm 'Vi -vv a Murray ptayw Friday the that round of the 4A Stale Boys Basketball Tournament The Mountain Craetforwaid Chria Howe! (42) ootHdaa with night Sea v YV1 75-6- 3 : - season '!' ' ‘iVti- - r ( asked of them out there and everything they could think of above and beyond that They played phenomenaL" The Grizzlies who laK year finished third at fee Kate tournament have now' By8cottDunn ' aoorta writer (J T r v SAIT LAKE — They saved CTTY their bed for last The Logan Grizzlies playing in fee conaolatina find of the 4A Giria Stale Baskefeall Champtonahtya on Friday capped two consecutive seasons on ': ? "Those girls played so well Logan head coach Bryant McKay said of his tteam after its 66-3- 5 j Logan’s upperclassmen — Tonya Smart SmdjyKrogh and Entity HiDyard eacb turned in solid swan-son- g performances agrinK fee haplem Braves vibe trio combined for 28 points 23 rebounds eight assists four steals and V' - butchered Bountiful by 31 points to ' earn a fiffe-pbtrophy and bid a I season-culmina- ing win “They did everything we state ii otivt fUollfl ’ ' A vi-- ' ' 1 f0Vp ' ? w V pUWaZro J ByLancoPMcher aoorta writer - ' “I told trim he was PRESTON — So what ia a According to West Side Pirates gwad hidd Austin it's s stack of pan- cakes That’s what he ale Friday morn21 ing before he scared s sessoo-Mgpants to lead his team to s 66-5- 9 win over Malad in fee title game of fee A-- ’ 3 District 5 tournament : “We didn't stopAnstin Kail” said u h ' i ‘ i ' then again in the the fourth round ' Auatin and finally once more in the champi- - u good as any Malad head coach Terry Jones "whose Dragons have now dropped gamea to West Side on fee f5 seasont lyfricalty a team doesn’t have to junior was stop Austu The avoaging less than 10 points a game coming into Friday night’s game : V arid he didn't score a single point during West Side vs Malad Part Four However before West Side- ot ’ Ralpha' inspirational qweeh led to Austin netting nine paints in toe first ‘ quarter is WeK Side staked a 17-1-6 ' lead h‘ "We knew where their holes were and I picked them out” Austin said Austin was forced into a little pine : time after committing his fourth foul ' in the third quarter but he returned in the fourth period to spark a 5-- 2 run for fee Pirates helping them lead wife 2:28gain a 10-poi- nt 'v remaining jv “He carried ua most of the first half" teammate Aaron Mekter said of Austin “We cleared out a little room for Mm and let him take it” i Which waa about all fee Pirates could do to give Malad something new to think about After playing twice in fee regular aeaaon West Side and Malad met Main in fed second round of fee district tournament - Jri4 i Wilson and fellow junior guard Kensie Nyman refused to let fee seniors steal all Friday’s season-endin- g glory as they scored 15 and 10 points respectively - riee r ' i roOed the dice VP' w’ Mg-m- an - 43-4- began chewing away fee remaining seconds The Bobcats' tim£killing scheme worked flawlessly until RandaD in an attempt to pass to Ihnrgood r threw fee ban sway wife :17 left “That WU just tniipntiummirjtifW" BiuUtl aid Tie thought I was going to send Mm backdoor and I was juK tMnkjng a totally safe pass It ended up not being a safe pass” U The resulting backconrt vidation gave poarea-k- n to tiie Rams but they wasted omy eight seconds before making a backcout bhmder af their own Sky View however could not take advanshot tage of fee turnover as the buzzer-beatin- g attemptof forward Adam Winger went awry Sky View headed into fee extra period aou fee services of starter Tevor Stokes who fouled but wife 3:26 left in fee fourth quarter after scaring oMy four points in 18 minutes of playing time Stokes Randall arid Thurgood 4 trio that burned Weber for 62 combined points ia Sky View’s laK outing — tallied juK 18 Aointi on a Side’s duo of point leaders were held to 14jxrints combined in the firK hall Taking s uunble the two would be covered Ralphs said he would eonfe down to who’s fee and wanted to run” pan and us fellow postman Clint Graves WeK drought we could run against inbound quarter-commenci-ng streaked for a layup and swingman Trevor Stokes immedistrly followed wife another steal that led to a Randall three-poi- nt play ami a 43-3- 3 Sky i “There’s nothing we could do” Melder said refemug the chalknge of showing a new wrinkle to such a familiar foe “They knew us and we knew them' I mean what are you going to do any dilferentiyT” 'bidder had a point since he and ism? Ralphs said “I thought it Si- gamersfemiity foul feotcaiqe on fee hods of a near calamitous fourth tyferter performance by the Cats who squandered lead and went scoreless dating the fimil - nriimtea of iuletion n’- 'yi' Sky View ooened fee find period wife a finny as point guard Brandoo Hmrgood stole AeSpre-tana- ’ “They’re a good outside shooting team imd they've got a lot of giria S k ewadvaatana' who pan shoot it” Bountiful head Then the Cato went cold Really cold ike fee coach Jill Aaay arid of die Grizzlies toenails of a polar beat V ip1' after they had dealt her team its worst w""11 In the dx-dthat foOowed Hignland loss of fee season “They like to get up netted 10 View and netted none Rams Sky points cuard Dave Blade hit a riidini underhand lavnn to' See LOGAN on Page 14 score K 3 wife3£3 left and featVfee wmr it would stay until the fourth quarter buzzes ' 1 think we got thttkMt apprehensive about some of fee tints we were taking Sky View head coach TtareQ Baldwin arid of baa team’s latogzme drought “We had a few essy looks and we nriaaed them and all of a sodden we became a little bit tigfat” i Trifehnt more tinm tiro nriantes showing on fee clock Sky View qxead its anemic offense and agam Happen : d —r r - Wil-- V '“Something’s wrong when yon face a team five times m one you" Ralphs laid “Hopefully it won’t fT 3) 10-pd- nt “Em was on fire” Logan's Erin son said of Hillyard with Grace during dot stretch WeK Side was forced to tangle wife the Dragons three straight times of those guys out there” Ralphs 'tdated ' r“BredfeK of Chamrionsr : - v- 7 Malad Part Five Pirates head coach Lee Ralphs said he pulled Bijaf 'j- ' -- Reacuing fee Cats from disaster waa Chria Randall who aank a free throw wife 35 seconds left in the game to send Sky View to a slender 52-5- 1 overtime victtxy over Region 5’s No 4 team '! y The Bobcati (18-now move on to feoe tpp-- : ranked Frovo (19-2- ) in the tournament’! second round That game ia dated for Iheaday at 8:10 ' throe winning notes “That ii ao important for me“- V Smart who averaged 17 points and his eyes moist wife the 11 rebounda in Logan’s four tourney : McKay said tears “Yon know as games led fee way with 19 points and of beginnings hard as I might seem to these Mds I’ve 13 boards Krogh tallied 10 paints and actually got a pretty soft spot I’m in eight rebounds and Hillyard added and feat’s fee nine points all of them coming during their talking to them laK time FU see those seniors They’re a third quarter explosion feat gave the done I’mjuK going to miss them” ! ' Grizz fedr first 2ftpoint lead ee - J'V' e i i ra hv1 st hurt wnrtmvo — In assessing fee first round of the JuKnMcloreenouA:?:-- game- ing fee victory “I came up catching fee ludTi-- i proving that prognoaticatioa true That in combination wife Andrew “I was ready to play and much more relaxed in this game” Brown said follow- v 'iTS -- r Levin’s 18 points kept the final outcome in doubt until fee dosing minutes of fee Mocked shots VVT 9 4A State Basketball Chinmmmslrips Friday ing’s edition of The Salt take Tribune had this to sayabout Sky View’s game wife Ifighland: ( s: :Evetytoinney has an upset this may bd it” The 7Whi0ie wot on to predict Highland srould defeat the Bobcats by one point ana Friday night atFrevoIfighj School theRamscame very dose to by pouring 30 points faelmHwg four and five rebounds points plus five rebounds and two ivi 4: r': PROVO V -- ftfBpopflur i JSSQLBBSL JHaey kekuyitrieo id U&W md EBe down and take control of it” Nielsen said “But when we got a lead' they couldn’t continue to slow it down rod we were able to take that lead and bold on to it for the win” V The win however did not come easy for Mountain Crest Brad Race kept fee Spartans nipping at die Mnstugs’ heels win over Mur- 73-6- 3 ! t collective cno oivwoarnwso sjiwmB Wait Skirt Zack BeuHsr (10) bentos Mdad’e Tim Jenkins for a rebound Friday night In Praatort The Pirates won See STATE on Page 13 handed to stato ’ f 96-5- 9 and art shooting effort gainst fed Rams They were (Lof-- 8 from as a team fee Bobcats made juK ' behind fee are range Shots i RriM to See SKY VIEW on Prigs 13 : |