Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday March pointer from die left baseline and Harris' Cats The Wildbumped the lead up to 9 cats then rattled off five straight points of their own to close to within six points with one period remaining But it was all Sky View in the fourth quarter as the Bobcats scored almost as many points (24) as they had netted in the first three quarters combined (30) Sky View also shot nearly twice as good in the second half (62 percent from the field) as they did in the first half (32 percent) "They put in is zone and we caught them standing" Harris said ' Once Wassom and Harris found this 28-1- Continued from Page 6 Sky View's slow start to take 10-- 9 lead after the first quarter Sky View then jumped ahead for the first time at on a quick baseline layup by Jeff Was-soThe lead flopped rack and forth until Sky View went ahead for good at 6 to end the half thought we didn't play smart in die first half" Baldwin said "We weren’t afegresshfe on their weave — we backed 11-- 10 m 17-1- 1 off"' : Sky View almost seemed tq double its aggressiveness in die second half Josh Randall ignited an 3 run with his 3- 11-- hole in the Wildcats defense they exploited it for a combined 16 points in a rebound bucket and was fouled He sank the free throw Another play by Monson and a score inside by Jake Knresa off a Monson pass tied die game at 5 with 4:28 to play “I wanted die ball trying to get our team going” Monson said "At state you have to be a leader out there I did what I could but it wasn't enough 1 didn’t defend all that well and it hurt us” A pair of free throws by "They happen to get a couple of scores at the end that put them over and we had to foul" point with ed tfaree-poi- Continued from Page 6 The Mustangs (12-1had been on a ndl to end die season winning five of their last six ' games Tuesday MC just ran into a opponent 0) Corey Monson did all he could to try and keep the S tangs alive The senior for- ward scored a game-hig- h 25 h a points grabbed game-higeight rebounds and dished out three assists "The game plan was to win” Monson said 1 tried iny best I would rather have scored no points and won die game than score 25 "They (Lions) are a good team It was unfortunate for ns we came out on the wrong end” Trailing by four heading into the fourth quarter Monson quickly pulled MC within a Derrick Reynolds and a rebound basket by Kevin Massey put the Lions ahead for good A couple of missed Payson had four players reach double digits with ‘ 32-3- Massey leading the way with 20 Reynolds added 19 Brady Buys netted 16 and Skyler Crouch had 12 "We happened to get a few breaks ami die ball went our way tonight” Lunt said On a day of blowouts it looked like another one wu brewing when Mountain Crest The lead switched hands three times m the first two minutes of the second half until Reynolds scored and was fouled He sank foe free throw to give the Lions a 38-3- 4 lead and they would not fell behind again Mountain Crest had several opportunities to cut into die four-poi- nt had just won their eighty a row overall Other ramblings from the Only two other coaches have ever guided a Big pres: "When they started tuming’the ball over I thought at Long Beach State (1969- - " 71) white Lute Olsen in hiw together Once we sot in their only season at Long Beach guided the Niners to a perfect T regular-seaso- ed 62-5- - - 7-- 8) 4) SetonHaU60 : Bootsy Thornton scored 28 points to lead the Red Storm 12-- 3 (21-Big East) to their eighth straight win despite not having leading scorer Erick Barkley who wu ruled ineli6 gible earlier Tuesday for breaking NCAA rules It wu foe sophomore guard’s second suspension by foe NCAA this season — foe other was for two games for exchanging cars with a family friend Now 22 Kentucky 73 Mississippi SL 61 Jamaal and Magloire Tayshaun Prince each scored 16 points for the Wildcats (21-- 8 11-- 4 Soutbeutern Confer- ence) who missed their fust 11 and finished from beyond the arc Antonio Jackson and Michael Gholar each had 12 points for the Bulldogs (13-1- 5 4-1- 1) who lost to Kentucky at home for the fifth straight time fitpgrCom SUPPLIES r a flppc £ jk - wvv-r- i i' '- t j Mnonn uckt A - m sowoc 1 ntwu f htbri TOse’ little surprises M ? mark in 1973-7-4 Should the Aggies win its final two fifth-rank- u Key Home Equity is perfect for large purchases full-cou-rt and twice team: ed Temple got similar treatment from nnranked city rival St Joseph’s The Owls the best in a dty crazy for college basketball lost 9 to the Hawks on Tuesday night Tim Brown’s with just under two minutes left gave foe Hanks a 60-5-7 lead and Na’im Crenshaw added two free throws with 16 seconds left to seal their first win in the rivalry since 1995 Temple (22-- 5 13-- 2 Atlantic 10) had a chance to tie but Mark Karcher missed a with two seconds left — a shot that Hawks coach Phil Martelli said took forever to hit the rim “It seemed like it was in slow motion” said Martelli who finally beat foe Owls ate 10 straight losses in his five seasons at SL Joseph’s "That was a neat Philadelphia series game “We got the shot we wanted” Owls coach John Chaney Nursing 7 1394 n 400 e Uniforms final minutes when the Mean Green turned on its record in conference play Jerry Tarkanian did it five times thJce times at UNLV top-rank- AJ Guyton scored 17 points m his final home game the Hoouers (20--6 10-5-) jumped to a 17-- 2 lead knocked the Boilermakers out of first place in foe Big Tm and likely cost them a shot at the conference championship Mike Robinson had 23 points for Purdue (21-- 8 12-which needs both Ohio State and Michigan State to lose at least one of their final two games in order to claim a share of the tide Now 18 St John's 66 752-222- Chris Davis on the game’s WestFCAA team to a perfect nation’s 48-4- Medical I Oxygen it seems a stretch to say that die Eagles’ hearts were bigger Any time you win on the road it takes some heart and guts and USU could have let the game slip away like they did last year in a 94-9-0 loss but gutted it up down the stretch And UNT freshman guard PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A week after defeating the int Oxygen 10' straight road game and 14th in deficit but three 2000 —Page 9 comes to turnovers to end die third quar- said of the final ter allowed Payson to take a attempt “It wu probably foe 4 lead into the fourth only pattern we tried that a "It was good game” worked well tonight” Marvin O’Connor scored 20 Nielsen said "I can’t find a lot of fault with the way we points and Crenshaw and played Corey had a great Damian Reid each had 10 for (12-1- 4 game He wu great from the St Joseph’s Now 14 Indiana 79 line and made some tough No 29 Purdue 65 shots inside” nt Aggie front: 3) 17-1- nt : 1991-9- second left to give Payson its first lead of die game 6 at the end of the first quarter After six lead changes and one tie Webb gave foe Mustangs a 1 lead at the break with a rebound bucket foul shots by MC could have tied it up The Stangs did sink 19 25 free throws for out to a quick 13-- 4 ' gameof including a 10 for the 11 jumped three-poilead A play by performance by Monsoo Monson gave the Mustangs Monson scored nire points lead midway the nine-poiin the final quarter but the the opening quartet Lions scored on two layups through "That was so early in the and sank five straight foul game” Nielsen said "Teams shots to seal the Mustangs fate make runs we just made ours early” a hole too deep to climb out He was exactly right After o£" Considering that die Aggies Continued from Page 6 everything they have to do to get back on the same page "I think that team has done a better job of it than anybody in die league I’m tickled that they continued their unbeaten standi” (1986-8- 7 the Monson play the Lions went on a 13-- 3 run to dose die first quarter Skyler Crouch sank two free throws with a Nielsen said "They were able to make the foul shots” Knresa was the kne Stang to join Monson in double figures with 12 points off the bench Aaron Webb chipped in nine nt 55-5- well-balanc- ed ' the final period Hards ended' up leading all scorers with 18 points eight rebounds and five steals Wassom finished with 14 points and three assists i Sky View also won the game with tenacious defense that forced 17 Wildcat turnovers 10 of them from Bobcat steals Sky View only turned the ball over seven times in the game Another key for die Bobcats was the discrepancy at die fiml line The Bobcats only fooled 13 times in the entire game and only twice for free throws Sky View connected on a solid 14 of 19 fine throws which dwarfed Woods Cross’ four points from the foul line Oy View will now play Timpview (16-6- ) at 6:40 pm on Thursday jumper off an Erik Swensen assist 1 n games Morrill would join the impressive company of a couple of coaches who have both won national championships A sign in front of the Car Connection on Main Street proclaims “Stew Morrill for ' PresidenL” While Morrill doesn’t have the financial backing of Bush the Beltway experience of Gore or the war hero status of McCain he would be the only candidate that could give Bill Bradley a decent battle on foe basketball court Prime -- 1 51 for sbe months The Aggies are edging ever so closer to breaking into both Top 25 polls Utah State picked up 10 votes in this week’s USA TodayESPN coaches poll five more than last week and good enough for 30fo place In the Associated Press poll USU jumped from three votes to 17 and would be 29fo in the country if the list extended that for 1 think any recognition that we get at Utah State is extremely positive” Morrill said "But it’s not something we are dwelling on right now” Standard pricing FYime 50 with $50 annual fee Thanks to the research efforts of USU athletic media relations director Mike wu a labor of love” Strauss we know that the last time the Aggies were in the AP Ibp 25 wu March 9 1971 Ranked all season king the Ladell ached team wu 20-- 6 at the time but fell out in the ' final poll losing to BYU in the first 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