Show ri r r r r rt r r r r "TT T-rr- rr Trrrr I The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday March 12 2000 —Page 19 Utah State softball drops 2 Utah Statedropped iti final two garnet of the San Jose Natiooal Invitational Softball Tour- namcnt finishing on the weekend The Aggies fell 1 to Arizona State and to Wisconsin Against Arizona State it wu a pitching dual until the bottom of the fourth when ASU scored four runs on three hits and three walks USU could not come up with a enough to pull out of the four run State-host- deficit managing only four hits and leaving three nrnnen on base in the final three innings USU wu shut out by Wisconsin in its second game of die day Wisconsin scored two runs in the fourth inning on three hits and ooe Aggie error UW capped off its victory in the bottom rtf the sixth scoring its final jun when Amur Jones scored on a sacrifice fly by Lindy Barth ed 1- -5 4-- 3-- 0 minutes toga But New Mexico State which made 11 rtf 36 attempts State managed to head into the locker room with a 36-3-4 lead But while the Aggies shot only 39 percent over the jirst 20 minutes and made just 12 of 18 free throws they hit die boards hand committed a mere three turnovers and Mocked six shots — five of them courtesy of Dimitri Jorssen 4 "We came out a little slow" Brown said "But after about the first 10 minutes we came out and started playing ball and pretty much took it to 'em” Utah State either trailed or wu tied with die New Mags for the first eight minutes of the game The Aggies took their first lead of die contest at 2 on a driving layup by Brown but were never able to - ’ int for the nine nearly shot its Confirmed from Page 13 points nine rebounds) nnd semdr small forward TroyRoIk (13 points) were named co- MVPs ttf die tournament a g-tribute to the Aggies' season:long commitment to playing as a team It's like we've ben all year fittin- —really balanced” Morrill said “It's been the nature of this team ' Nobody cares who gets it done tart we all try to feetit done" Utah State’s third Big West Aggie rivals battled throughout the game and were never separated by more than oe eight points until USU put together a 16-- 2 run midway through the second half Triggered by USlTs first field goal of the second half — a by Rolle three-and-- a- half mimilM intn tha Half — rtw Aggies rode the wave all the 9 lead with 12 way to a 53-3- “it got reaUcao? Jorssen A trey by NMSU guard Eric during to a 8 advantage with five minutes left but thea the New Mags went cold missing its next five 3- -' point attempts to M behind by a couple of possessions ooceagam Charming left USU 61-5- New Mexico State' had to championship in three years hardly came easily The two toe-to-t- hit- - way back mto die lead by tina from resort to fouling and the Aggies maintained their lead by draining 4 of 7 free throws Jorssen' also came up with a breakaway reverse slam dunk in the final 20 seconds to seal the trip to “It wu tough trying to beat die (other) Aggies three tunes" Daniels said "But we just came out and played our game We 13-1- put any distance between themselves and New Mexico State A slam by Jorssen over NMSU forward Daveeno Hines seemed just the thing to trigger an Aggie run butthe New Mags came back with started off a little slow but consecutive treys by Eric rhanning coach talked to us during a and Brad Bestor Following three timeout and we picked it up and f Hines scored on got it going" It wu a rugged fipst half for USU eight points behind its largest die Aggies but ioi how Utah deficit of the opening half After going over four minutes without a field god Rolle stripped a would-b- e defensive rebound away firm NMSU forward Ryan McDermott and turned it into his second play of the half Moments later Daniels slammed back a attempt by Bestor ' int APphoto : UNLV guard Mark Dickel goes up for a layup against BYU guard Michael Vranes in the" Mountain West Conference Championship game in Las Vegas Nev Dickel made the shot and went to the free throw Ine int and chased down the rebound Although he missed die breakaway layup Bernard Rock came up with the follow from die other side of die 26-- 2 basket A couple of possessions later Rock snared a rebound LAS VEGAS (AP) — UNLV made an Lyday had 18 for BYU pushed it up the floor pulled off a UNLV led by as many as 38 points in the dribble at the emphatic statement in its bid for an NCAA line and then dished off to tournament berth Saturday night opening second half before BYU closed the gap Daniels to complete an 0 Aggie with a 26-- 2 run and going on to blow out some against UNLV’s reserves UNLV led 17-- 2 before missing a shot BYU 6 to win the first Mountain West with run that tied the score at 32-3Conference basketball championship and was up 28--3 before Wesley hit a layup 1:13 to go in die half UNLV winning for die 23rd time domiwith 6:24 left in the half for BYU’s first i A couple of free throws by Billy field goal since the opening minute of play ! from with a the nated relentless NMSU die lead for opening tip Keys regained During that period UNLV’s smothering momentarily but a pretty drive by defense that held BYU to only one field to defense held BYU ) Rolle and two free throws from goal and three points in the first 13:36 of 13 while in the one field tries USU with the BrownJcfo goal jlJjbegam rv no automatic both m die touroa- - ’ Cougars turned the ball over another eigbr times" ' selection At one point BYU didn’t scare for nearNCAA half die Rebels had to impress 41 percent shooting in the first committee with a win against a team ly 10 minutes and 38 percent for the game BYU recovered to make four out of its "I don’t think we played real UNLV had lost to twice during die regular last five shots of the half but with UNLV wed” NMSU head coach Lou HenUNLV (23-did just that turning a 2 son aaid "We didn’t have that dominating on the boards the Rebels 4 bounce and energy that we had last game into a rout by scoring the next 24 opened the biggest lead of the game as ran time a before hit basket die crowd at home before as a wasn’t defease Our Wesley points night good roaring halftime lead Thomas & Mack Center but to make it a and I don’t think we shot that welL” UNLV went on another 15-- 4 run to open Trevor Diggs scored the first five points Keys (14 points) and Chinning 20 for the second half erasing any thoughts BYU (16 points) were both named to die for UNLV part of his game-hig- h 18 and had1 of mounting a comeback Johnson’s and had Johnson Dalron UNLV team along with - i aa mu MWCfi MMClfOrl MrMIO JOUinW Runnin’ Mil-ithe added 15 for Kambala State Mate Beach center jumper from the free throw line with 15 Kaspars Long minutes left in die game gave UNLV its and Nevada guard Terrance Rebels Utah Stats center Dimitri Jorssen gets tangled up with New Mexico Mekeli Wesley scored 19 and and Terrel biggest lead of the night 58-2-0 States Staph Green wtie fighting for an offansiva rebound’ Greta' lead in first half UNLV jumps to behind-the-ba- foee-thro- ck w 8-- 79-5- 2 1 (20-10- man-to-m- an iSo'MlwMdie‘iii&renca'the'Run 2-- 7) 43-1- 27-poi- nt sa ’ Jt- 7?' v weekends iP y ' Buy online at nktstrtamxom " yd CAl-88S4aw- T ? 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