Show Page 14 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday March 12 2000 Sports brlofs Fresno St wins WAC FRESNO Calif (AP)— Terrance with 11 3 Roberson hit a seconds remaining to give the Bulldogs a victory over the Golden Hurricane in the championship game of the Western Athletic Conference tournament 1ilsa (29-- lost only four games this season and three of those were defeats by Fresno State : 14tb-nnke- d ' te (24-9- ) Though the winner of the WAC tournament does not receive an automatic NCAA tournament berth both teams are likely candidates for bids It would be Fresno State coach Jerry Tkrkanian’s first return to the tournament since 1990-9- 1 Denver skis to title Den- ver University swept the top three spots in the men’s cross country doing event Saturday to win the NCAA Skiing Championships by a convincing margin Pietro Broggini won the men’s even with a time of 45:46 Teammates Wolf Wallendorf and Jorn Frohs finished within 24 seconds of Broggini Denver started the day with a lead over defending Colorado but built the champion 99 into points racking up margin 720 points In the women’s event Kristina Strandbeig of New Mexico finished first (45:556) followed by Britta Wienand of Dartmouth and Unni Odegard of ter 37-poi- Leave it to the Event winner Libor Charfeitag ' Southern 73-37- cool” Colorado finished second with 621 points followed by Vermont with 592 and Utah with 555 Saturday1! scares Big 5 basketball Utah State 71 New Mexico 8r UNLV 79 Brigham Young 56 NBA Atlanta 91 Vancouver 86 Oriando 110 Denver 107 Portland 99 Detroit 94 Dallas 104 Phoenix 99 Minnesota 100 Houston 66 15 I would have been one rtf die top two spots I think” Parker said His best throw this season was a 71-- 2 ' Parka’s sixth place was a kind ending to the national meet that saw high jumper Lance Thurston finish 16th and miler Marcus Morgan roll honors While Parker only threw twice his first was enough to earn him sixth place “It was better than I finished last year" Parker noted At the 1999 et “This should be an outstanding meet” Aggie head coach Ray Con said “We’re excited for this event tiw top positions would have been his 75 se Hopefully die new arena is as kind to us down there as the old gym” The last time USU visited Denton Texas to face Texas Woman’s the ’ Aggies scored a school-recor- d 197225 That was back in 1997 The 23rd ranked Aggies are out to See PARKER onPage 15 : r a wflEmnni See AGGIE on Page 15 roove- - Utah surging since break with 12 of 14 12-ga- “We’re a veteran team’’ said forward Armen Gilliam who joined the Jazz in January “With a team like this we might go througha bad stretch and then get back on target as soon ss possible" - Ite year''Utah’U'BUcefcs tas flowed’ from-iBid jThree: pesieAMtirfortfM KariMalboCNB' 'career sssistkteader Jotte'Stockton'anGjdekleyeiuhDotd'i t die break Malone has scored at least 30 points in seven of 13 games Stockton who turns 38 later this month had 18 assists in a win over Cleveland onltaesday Homacek leads the NBA in percentage He also has shot hitting 953 percent from break range since the : “I don’t know if we’re in a position to have an swagger but we’re playing a little bit better and I All-St- ar AUTO RACING llaLm ABC — NASCAR Winston Cup Cracker Barrel 500 at Atlanta MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL pjn — VVGN All-St- ar break If the playoffs started now Utah would be seeded No 2 in the Western Conference The Jazz held a 1 lead over San Antonio in die Midwest Division entering tins weekend’s games In a mercurial season things are once again going well in Utah “Everyone is getting on die same page” said center Greg Ostertag “I think we’ve realized we can go somewhere when we do what we’re supposed to do if we go out and execute on offense and beat people defensively” This season die Jazz have looked alternately unbeatable and uncoordinated After going 7 in November Utah won 19 of its next 24 Then came a losing streak then a victory in the last game before the break All-St- ar On television ' SALT LAKE CITY — What are the Utah Jazz eating for breakfast these days? Surely some kind of power meal fueling victories in 12 of 14 games since die six-ga- Anaheim 1SL Louis 1 tie Toronto 4 Ottawa 2 Boston 5 Montreal 3 ui un n4nn j SI New jeveey A 4 wasrangion Pittsburgh 3 NY Rangers 1 Chicago 5 Florida 2 Phoenix 5 VancouverO free-thro- w (143-of-15- 23-of-- 30 0) All-St- ar int Chicago Cubs Pre-seas- vs Arizona at Mesa Ariz GOLF ' JAZZ on Page 15 TGC — European Tour Qatar Masters final round at Doha Qatar (same-da- tri-me- replace a 194250 mark hut lope to score much higher to improve on their Regional Qualifying Score (RQS) Corn is looking for Iris team to break into the top 20 and improve on its 194285 RQS “We’ve bad two gnat days of train- -' is always key to mg this week which ' '' ' us" Corn said has meet a Putting complete together been hard for USU this season with the lone time coming sgainst BYU (19555) a month ago The Aggies have been recording good scores but having to count a falL Adding up die best season team scores on each event USU wbuldscorea1 196250 Thking the five best individual scores on each ! event would add up to 196925 8-- NHL 7am 71-1- 35-pou- nd All-Ameri- pow-'erhou- with a If he’d been 100 percent Parker felt one iof Parker said “I didn’t know that” throw of the With a weight Saturday at the NCAA Indoor Championships Parker tied himself with Aggie-greMarkEnyeart for the most 1 Today the Aggie gymnastics team will be trying to put it all together and record a high score at Texas Woman’s Utah State faces die Division H Pioneers and Missouri in a that begins at 1 pm It is the final regular season road meet a meet record with a Second (brow of 5 place went to another Mustang Xavier Uson an “That’s kinds ThisisiL Methodist University set Parker to down the significance pf earning his fifth Colorado 1 ei - nt : ' soft-Jam- at — PARK CITY Utah (AP) - 13th 4) last-minu- By Shawn Harrison sports writer NCAA’s he finished ' if-‘- APphotb Utah Jazzfnwafd Kari Malone psiis down a rebound against the Phoenix Suns Friday night Utah ed Phoenix 99-9- 6 and has won 12 of its 188114 games tape) y IldOajn TGC — Senior PGA Audi Senior Classic final round at Puebla Mexico pm 1 NBC — PGA Honda Classic KALTAG Alaska (AP) — Defending champion Doug Swingley set a blistering pace down the Yukon River on Saturday to reclaim the lead in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Swingley from Lincoln MoinL cov- final round at Coral Springs Fla HORSERACING 2d0pjn — ESPN2 Thoroughbreds' Louisiana Derby at New Orleans MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 42-mi-le CBS — Southeastern Conference Tournament championship Auburn vs Arkansas at Atlanta ESPN — Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championship Duka vs Maryland at Charlotte NC 1 pm hours arriving at 1:05 pm Kaltag is about 350 miles fiom the Iditarod finish line in Nome Paul Gebhardt of Kasilof drove his 10 out of Nulato at 9:27 am and dogs ' AP photo' Swingley followed 23 minutes later Both in his hometown village of mushers made only brief stops at the Sled Dog Race Yukon River village ESPN — Big 12 Conference Tournament championship Iowa State vs Oklahoma at Kansas City Mo Emilt Peters parks his dog team after arriving Ruby Alaska Saturday during tha Idltarod Trail IdOpjn— Stanford shares league title - CBS Big 10 Conference Tourna- ment championship Illinois vs State at Chicago Michl- - SIpm CBS — Selection show for NCAA Tournament at Indianapolis and Chicago NBA BASKETBALL 10:30 am NBC — Miami at Indiana Philadelphia at Boston 4 pm NBC — Toronto at Seattle Antonio ox now Tone NHL HOCKEY 1(17-1- 6 pm ESPN — Philadelphia at Colorado SOCCER 12:30 p — ESPN2 — US Man’s National Team vs Republic of Tunisia at Birmingham Ala TENNIS FSN — ATP Franklin Templeton Classic championship match at Scottsdale Ariz WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 3 pm ESPN — Selection show for NCAA Tournament at Bristol Conn Todayfs quota woman” — Pitcher Adrian Her-nand- ez denying that he sneaked out of Cuba wearing a dress E Casey Jacobsen scored 14 of his 17 points in the second half as No 2 Stanford overcame a sloppy start to beat Arizona State 7 Saturday at Temper Ariz and clinch a share of its second straight Pac-1- 0 title share the confer-Hie Cardinal (26--3 15-- 3 Pac-1ence title with No 4 Arizona after the Wildcats beat California 7041 David Mosely finished with 15 points for the Cardie nal all in the second halt as Stanford stopped a streak and tied school a record its with losing 15th conference win with Mon Mason led the Sun Devils (18-1- 2 ) 13 points and Eddie House had 11 but only two in the secondhalf No 3 Duke 82 Wake Forest 73 A week ago No 3 Duke didn’t expect to have Mike Dunleavy for the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament at Charlotte NC Now he’s helped lead the Blue Devils to the finals Dunleavy in his second game back since contracting mononucleosis scored 15 points in 22 minutes as Blue Devils (26-returned to the the championship to defend their tide by beating 65-5- 0) two-gam- top-seed- J‘I don’t know when that rumor got started I’d make a very ugly Gam Gulch and DeeDee Jonrowe of Willow SeelDnARODonPageW 4) No 5 Michigan State 55 Wisconsin 46 10-8- 1pm mid-afterno- on Duke tops Wake Forest Michigan State wins or or San et ered the stretch of trail from Nulato to Kaltag in a little oyer three Ham From Kaltag the race continues 90 miles through the Nulato Hills to Unalak-leon the Norton Sound coast Charlie Bouldiiig of Manley left Nulato at 2 pm Saturday Six other mushers — including former winners Jeff King of Denali Park Rick Swenson of Two Rivers Martin Buser of Big Lake and Rick Mackey of Nenana — were all into Nulato by Saturday Another nine mushers were on the trail from Galena to Nulata That group includes Mitch Seavey of Seward Urn Osmar of ed 4) fifth-seed- Wake ed Forest Shane Battier led the way with 18 points while Jason Williami had 16 points and 11 assists 19 points for the Josh Howard had a season-hig- h J in nmm nrntmfmpmim aww m i At Chicago Mateen Cleaves had fix points and a nice feed in die dosing four minutes and Michigan held Wisconsin without a basket in the final 529 to advance to the Big Tm tournament finals for a second straight year zz? The chanionship will be a rematch of s year ago when the No 5 Spartans face Illinois which beat Penn State 4 Morris Peterson led Michigan State (25-with 18 N points and Cleaves finished with 13 — shooting just — and had seven assists Maik Venhaw scored 11 points and Duany Duany 10 for the Badgers (18-1who shot just 31 percenL No 6 Temple 65 SL Bona venture 44 Looking dominant one moment and vulnerable the next Temple beat St Bonaventure for their first Atlantic 10 championship since 1990 Temple (26-5- ) led by as many as 28 and coasted despite a subpar game fiom Pepe Sanchez The Owls star pant guard was scoreless missing7 th& only two shots he lode at Philadelphia Much of their early lead disappeared during a 17-- 5 run by the Bonnies (21-that infuriated Chaney u Nonetheless the Owls recovered and never let the AP photo 15 Bonnies get closer than Tournament MVP Quincy 16 had and Mark Karcher IS added Wadley Arizona State guard Tanner Shel (IS) is fouled points v"v 94-8- L 7) 3) JL 9) See TITLE on Page 16 v p a r w eWfcatoiUMtodtftenaflmwrittirresiiifimriPie' ntseOn mm iinrimuiawesfiiiaeMa'Bwwi by StahfonTe Jtnon CoUne (31) at the two hat- Be tore rebound during the second halt |