Show T-i- -i ''' I'nTTrTTlIVI m v " i '': y vj“ ltVl ' tnrtrmVmti-- ’1 v I i V" - : J''j 'TV ' 'j' V-i vi’'' ' ‘ i'J":"aX-3E- ' ' ':'-n(V'‘'- I I 'v " v ' t h' Ci 1 ' r t (flvT'V -- f ‘ - ’ ’ ' t V V’ V : ' J ' ' 'v tO 11 - Vi I Tha Herald Journal Logan Utah f at ' 5 Pay 12 Friday March 27 1996 Sports brlofs Spartan$tzzo named ( APs coacK of the year ' SANANTONIO (AP) — Tom Izzo whose Michigan State team was picked to finish in fee bottom half of the Big Ten and wound up as the regular-seaso- n received The Associated Press’ college basketball coach of the Izzo in his third season at Michigan State after serving as a longtime assistant to Jud Heathcote led the Spartans to a 22-- 8 record and a berth in the NCAA tournament’s round of 16 where they North Caroliwere beaten by na Michigan State finished 13--3 in the Big Ten and tied with Illinois for first place Izzo 43 who has a career-recorof 55-3- 6 received 39 votes in nationwide balloting three more than Princeton’s top-rank- Bill'Carmody North Carolina's Bill Guthridge was third in the close vote with 33 and Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski had 31 Rick Majerus of Utah with 11 was the only other coach to receive more " than 10 votes NBA Cleveland 97 Toronto 96 Charlotte 94 Milwaukee 80 Portland 108 Vancouver 102 Golden State 98 Seattle 91 NHL Carolina 4 NY Rangers 1 NY Islanders 4 Pittsburgh 3 Florida 5 Montreal 4 Anaheim 3 Detroit 3 tie ' St Louie 3 Tampa Bay 2 ' Toronto 1 Dallas 0 New Jersey 2 Colorado 0 Calgary 3 Washington 2 Bufnlo 5 Vancouver 2 8an Jose 5 Los Angeles 2 MLS (4-- 2) On television l!' FS- 'U'jijiiu 'ill 4i!i!i yr-i- leWNCAAf W- aTufi i Bafttefeall Tournament semifinale Louisiana Tech vs North Carolina at Kansas City Mo TBS — Preseason Major League Base-ba- t Atlanta vs Tampa Bay at Tampa Fla 6 pjn — NBA TNT Basketball Houston at Orlando 6:30 pm FSR — NBA Basketball Utah at Daks 7:30 pjn ESPN — Women’s NCAA Basketball Tournament semifinaJs Arkansas vs Tennessee at Kansas City Mo 8 pm ESPN2 — Boxing Paul Nave (14-6-for vacant WBF vs Greg Haugen (37-7-- Vitale wasn't kidding Corey Brewer and a local favorite I'm talking about Mr Rice baby from Utah State who grew up here in San Antonia Unable to practice because of die injury how many friends and relatives were oq hand Rice replied “Too many" then v- clarified that as over 200 people Not wanting to disappoint his admir Sec RICE on Page 14 By Shawn Harrison anorta writer ed a swing through St George and didn't see any action Tuesday at Roy But the senior was on his game Thursday "Chris Randall played great” Sky View coach Jonathan Howell said "I was glad to see him come out and play so well and get nis confidence back He’s a good shortstop and showed it today” With die defense turning in a solid game the Bobcat bats were alao hot far two innings Sky View scattered 11 hits eight of them coming in the first two innings "We came out early and rrelly hit the ball well” the Sky View coach said That’s what I wanted us to do" The Bobcats batted around in die top of the first Sly View scored five thns aftetfettinjl two onteifieni Raadall:Started the aenrhsg widmJtobtnm! single !upi the middle plating 'Shawn Oisewhnd: Robert iftippv Nick Oldroyd scored on a Logan error Kish Christensen chased Logan starter Rhett Udy with a two-nsingle to center for a 5--0 lead Sky View turned a double play in the bottom of die first then chased another Logan pitcher in the second shot well beyond inning Tripp deposited a two-ru-n the left fieu fence that may still be rolling Okboyd made it back-to-badingers with a blast to left ck Sky View's Nick Oldroyd (3) la congratutatod by his teammates after Ns See BOMB on Page 14 Bobcats bait fhe Grizzles 94 o JmWi vVMwYnOTK! JQUfliM ever home list tun Thursday againet Logan'Tha ' ' ' ' I welterweight championship ESPN2 — Tennis Lipton Championships men’s semifinal match 2 at Key Biscayne Fla (delayed tape) Saturday TNN — World of Outlaws Auto Racing Spring Classic at Phoenix 11:30ajn Auto Racing Japan CART Auto Race at Motogi Japan ESPN — NASCAR Auto Racing Busch Grand National Series Moore's Snacks 2S0 NBC — PGA Golf The Players Championship third round at Ponte Vedra Fla RT 240 pjn ABC — LPGA Golf Nabisco Dinah Shore third round at Rancho Mirage Calf Stun Thoroughbred racing Jim Beam Stakes at Florence Ky and Dubai World Cup at Dubai (live and same-da- y tape) 3:30 pm CBS n- NCAA Baskefeal Championship Final FOur Stanford vs Kentucky at San Antonio 4 pm ESPN2 — NASCAR Auto Racing “Happy Hour Series’’ final practice for Winston Cup Food City 500 at Bristol Term 6 tape) y pjn CBS — NCAA Baskelbal Championship Final FOur Utah vs North Carolina at San Antonio 7 pjn FSR — NBA Basketball Los Angeles Lakers at Utah ESPN2 — NHL Hockey New Jersey at Ipjn HBO — (32-1-- 0) t ' A doee call at the plate in the fourth inning fired Sky View up Sky View imd Mountain Crest both used five-ru-n innings to notch Region 4 softball wins Thursday The game was knotted at 2--2 in the fourth when Sky View's Melissa Nyman tried to score from Ain) on a passed ball Logan catcher Mary Morgan corralled the ball and dove at tte plat& Nyman was called ouL "From my viewpoint Nyman was safe” Wellard said The Grizzlies then plated a run in the bottom of the inning to take a 3--2 lead Steamed by die controversial call in the previous frame Sky View batted a round in the top of the fifth bringing home five runs Nyman got fee scoring started wife an RBI single and Brit- - The Bobcats downed valley-riv3 and the Mustangs Logan outacored Weber 7 In other region Action Bonneville and Box Elder remained perfect with 1 wins over 8-- 9-- 2-- Fremont and Roy respectively is tied with the LakSky View (2-ers and Bees for first place “We still have S long way to go" Bobcat head coach Amy Wellard said “We have a lot of big ball games ahead but it’s nice to be 2--0 right now” 0) f )' they Andersen followed that with a two-ru-n double '“My team ate it 19 when Lraan got so excited about feat out in the fourth” Wellard said “We got a too of hits and plenty of runs” ! Utes intd - The Bobcats got nine hits in die game off Logan starter Randi Carver but errors riso aided the Bobcats’ cause “We made seven errors in the game” Logan coach Steve Huff said "Basically the scenario in every game is we aie up and then we collapse defensively The pitcher starts to get down and we become self destructive in fee middle and late part of the game' p SAN ANTONIO (AP) When North Carolina’s coaches looked at UtahYlmt game film feey saw quhfy trianglMnd-tw- o defense construct a nt victory over defending national champion Arizona i So does that mean coach Rick Majerus will automatically use the same gimmicky arrangement against the Tbr Heels in the Final Four on Saturday? Of course not ' "We’re at 29--3 and we’ve used it in one game” Muerus arid “We have a tremen- doua record over the but decade and we've ’ r uaed it 11 games The manta-ma- n apur 1 but after Arizona ataple watching thought we had to do a couple of htde things w I thought we would visit an old friend” : the Utah playbook it is called fee 66 i 25-poi- 1 See PICK ea Page 14 1 1 ESPN — (same-da- Boborti8lGriallei3 8tawn Harrison and Cindy Jansen staff writers By al CBS — Tennis Lipton Champtonshtoe women's championship match at Key Bte-cayne Fla (same-da- y tape) ABC-CA- ( f 1030 pjn ' 66 defense 2) am t iu When asked 2) 11 V' He’s got everybody here with him Mustangs pick up a winat Weber 10-- 4 Randall had struggled on IHL Tampa Bay 0 SO O surprised” by the dunking abilities of his fellow competitors but did note that Pat- tenon was "u strong as belL” The event was hosted on ESPN by Brad Nessler and Dick Vitale and while Dick- ey V picked Felipe Lopez of St John's as Bobcats bomb Grizzlies 9 rain-soak- Fort Wayne 5 Indtanapotis 2 Houston 5 Cleveland 2 Utah 5 Detroit 2 1 The set-u- p was all wrong There was Kevin Rioe — a San Antonio nativb hometown hero and local favorite — competing in the Tbnth Annual College Slam Dunk and Three-Poi- nt Shooting Championships wearing his away Jeney And widi a tender ankle to boot Needless to say Thursday night's slam dunk competition at the Freeman Colise 1 ! 1-- Boston 4 Philadelphia 2 Miami little better for the gravity- - defiant senior forward in Aggie blue "But I thinkl did aU right considering the other contestants I was in it with" Rice said Rice finished filth out of eight participants and tailed to make it past the second round Centenary’s Herbert Lang ended up as the champion outdueling Cincinnati’s Ruben Patterson in die finale Rice said he was "impressed but not noniwnn - Sky View scored early and let its defense do die rest Thursday at Worthington Park The Bobcats plated eight runs during the first two innings against two Logan pitchers and hdd on for a wet 9-- 5 Region 4 win With the victory Sky View stays on of lop the region at 2-- 0 whflethe Grizzlies tail to 1 "I have to credit thrir defense” Logan coach Stuart Howell said "That was the difference in the game” Sky View turned two double plays and Bobcat shortstop Chris Randall gobbled up some hard hit field ground balls on the “The key to this game was Chris Randall” Howell said "He had a great game He made five great plays at shortstop and turned two double plays” Ihursdqy's scores - um in San Antonio could have gone a ' By Jeff Hunter 1 Boxing champion Lennox Lewis vs Shannon Briggs (29-1-- 0) for WBC heavyweight championship Golden capture NIT title NEW YORK (AP) — Clem Haskins strode into die interview wife a smile on his face and a net Tpdqyquoo “I imagine die dean of discipline Rod Thorn will be calling (Toronto GM) Glen Grunwaldwith some very bad news— TorontoRaptors coach Butch Carter after Gary Trent and Marcue Camby left the bench to shove Cleve land’ll Danny Ferry daring an altercation at the end of the third quarter of the Coy-oile-rs ’ 97-96 victory Thursday night envisioned the 1997-9- 8 season ending like this for his Gophers — as NTT champions Kevin Clark overcame a flu bug to score 28 points and Sam Jacobson had 23 Thursday night leading (20-15- I ' points 11 rebounds in two games at Madison Square Garden was the tournament’s MVP "I was sick before die game but I knew I had to put it behind me” Clark said "I was taking medication all day and feeling real tired There wu no way I waa miasing thia game though’ Playing in its first men’s basket- ball championship game Penn ’ Sea GOPHERS on Pngs 14 I ' man-to-ma- n' alternative was to play straight man agamstJ one of the nation’s most potent offenses Welcome to Defense 66 the road less “ ' ! traveled " ' season ig defense for no apparent reaaon It iaai combination of Utah's usual l applied to the two 6est1shooterswith aome zone mixed in for fee other three opponents to spice fee package Utah’s players were astounded that Majerus would go to this seldoutAised weapon in the biggeat game of feeseuon "We’ve nracticedit for About 20 all year Hanno Mottola said BqtAe I r Clark a junior who had 58 79-7- ured to rebuild this seaaon Instead after getting off to a shaky start the y aU-B- ig After losing most of his Final Four team from a year ago Minnesota's coach could have never aU-B- of their laat14 Gophers won games to win their second NTT tide m six years ‘ 10 final was die first The for fee NTT since 1979 wheaIndi- ana beat Purdue rad it provided a distraction for the conference in the wake of two indictments handed down against two former Northwestern players for alleged point shaving during games in the 1994-9- 5 - ‘ draped around his neck win over Minnesota to a 2 Tfcn finaL Penn State in ah “This is a bigger thrill for me than getting to the Final Four” said Haskins who was named national coach of the year last season after leading Minnesota to a 31-- 4 record "Because we weren’t expected to be berg” Quincy Lewis added 19 points which figfor Minnesota ) h 11 Arizona seemed confounded by thei twist The rule is you beat zone defense from outride From outside Arizona was on a dreadfol attempta and shot 28 percent Michael Bibby was' ! and Miles Simon agrinst Defense 66 “We were fortunate it wu able to teork1 AP photo Minnesota coach Ctem Haaklne front center poaea with Ns playera after the Gophers beat Penn State 79-7- 2 In foe NIT championship Thursday ntgfit the last game” Majerus said with no guarantees that he would use it for the : next one North Carolina though has the same kind ofjioteni attack feat caused fee coach to use 66 against Arizona ’ il’OI |