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'i j I The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday May 12 2000 — Page 9 transfers to Westminster Utah State basketball player Brad Willden has transferred to Westminster College in pursuit of of more playing time Westminster coach Tommy Connor announced on Thursday that Willden will use his two remaining years of eli-- " gibility as a Griffin “Brad is a high character person and will be an impact play at our level” Connor said “He wanted to finish his college career haying the opportunity to play without sacrificing his education Brad will be a perfect fit for Westminster : Taylor Nickle named to this season For her career Thy lor school record for owns the home runs (24) and RBI (111) Nickle a native of Bluffdalc Utah carries a 380 GPA in family science and human development Team She has started all but one game The team is selected by memfor the Aggies in her first two bers of the College Sports Inforyears at USU This season Nickle mation Directors Association is fourth on the team with a 243 (CoSIDA) batting average and third in dou- native blcs (7) and home runs (2) Calif a of Poway Taylor To be eligible fw academic carries a 325 grade point average in political scicncepre-laOn the honors a student-athle' an w A5 tive grade point average start or contribute in at least their second season Eleven all-ti- All-Distr- ict ' te 320 cumula- must have at lcast a batting average along with 10 home runs 16 doublcsand 40 RBI Utah State’s softball team was honored this week as senior first baseman Sandy Taylor and sophomore catcher Breanne Nickle were named to the 2000 GTE Academic VIII Women’s Softball ar I4 Softball Team ict field Taylor leads USU with a 374 By Doug Hoffman USU Athletic Media Relations College" The forward helped Alta High School to a stale championship in 1995 before playing at Utah Valley State College After a two-yeLDS mission he signed with USU Aggie head coach Stew Morrill said Willden will be missed “Brad Willden is what having a basketball program is all about” Morrill said “He is a good player but a better person We will miss him dearly but understand his desire to seek a better playing opportunity and we wish him nothing but the best” All-Distr- student-athlet- repre- es senting eight different NCAA Division 1 schools were honored Beside Utah State the otilyothcr university’s in the district with two representatives named to the team were Fresno State and the University of Washington These 11 stu- - are now on the national GTECoSIDA Women's Softball Academic ballot which wilj be announced dent-athlet- es Jutie 8 StateBaseball Tournament L The : Grilics found that baseball and breakfast don't mix Forced to lake the field at 9 am due to a scheduling conflict at Lindquist Field in Ogden Utgan suffered a 1 loss at the hands of Region 4 rival Weber ' i ' 3-- "We hit the ball hard” Logan head coach Stu Howell said of the season-endin- g loss “But we couldn't get a break” The ' Grizzlies (716) banged out eight hits — a ' n more than the Warriors r— but were unable to bunch them together at v the right times In the sixth Logan had ' runners on second and third faced buLa strikeout on a 2 pitch a pop up gnd a with one out und the bases baserunning blunder by the Knights got he tuid the loaded with two out but Slangs out of the jam without surrendering a run couldn't push anybody Mountain Crest's luck would change in the third across In the seventh the inning After retiring the leadoff hitter on a line Grizzlies strung together drive Maughan walked thle next two batters before three hits but plated just one homer toLP catcher Trevor run surrendering a three-ru- n Eastman “The absence of timely That blast to dead center left the hosts down 2 hitting has been the story for heading into the fourth and the Knights quickly us all year” Howell said added two more runs on a single a double and a game Despite the early " triple A perfect throw from center fielder Aaron time Howell said (he Webb and a spectacular job of blocking the plate by “weather ended up being Robinson kept one Lone Peak run off the score: nice” and Logan starter board but the Knights still managed to end Maugh-an’- s Tyler Kohler thrived in it afternoon The righthander struck out “He wasn’t as sharp today” Hansen said of five and gave up only two Maughan “He didn't get a few borderline pitches hits over seven innings and lie got frustrated “Tyler pitched the game of g ball team They hit his life” Howell said “lie “And they're a " just pitched great He had an every pitch we put in there Lefthander Rick Hansen fresh off a collision with excellent curveball and gins! field came in to get the last location" Webb in the two outs of the fourth and worked a scoreless fifth Already down Grizz fell behind by thre before running into trouble in the sixth Lone Peak recorded six straight hits including runs after' Weber plated a doubles by Burgess and Jace Birehall pair of scores in the fifth Mitch MascaraHerald Lone Peak third baseman Reno Mendenhall slides safely into second base around the missed tag of MC's Nick Bcitt Journal Thursday afternoon in Hyrum half-doze- severe r By Jeff Hunter if ’' ' r spbrts'writer J HYRUM — Amos Burgess’s little brother came through in a big way conIn a rematch of last year’s second-roun- d frontation between Lone Peak and Mountain Crest Sam Burgess avenged the heartbreaking joss of his efder brother at the hands of the state championship-boun- d Slangs “The first thing I’m going to do when I get home is call (Amos)” Burgess said following the Knights’ 1 2 pummcling of the No 1 team in the state “He’ll be happy” Just a day short of a year earlier Amos Buigess dominated the Mustangs for six innings and held a 0 lead heading into the bottom of the seventh But Mountain Crest managed to scratch out a couple of runs to tic the score then won it with one out when Burgess plunked Doug Robinson with the bases loaded “I wasn't playing but I was here in the dugout” Sam Burgess said of last year’s game “It was on my mind” Thursday's loss dropped Mountain Crest (17-7- ) into the elimination bracket of the 4A State Baseball 5-- 2-- Tournament Beginning with Monday's game — scheduled for 7 pm against Springvillc in Field at Lindquist Ogden — the Mustangs have to (11-1- 2) win span in games over a ftye-da- y order to repeat as champs “1 hope that they're battlers” Hansen said of his team which had to come back through the losers' bracket last year “I hope they don't get down come back don't think this is impossible and just play their guts out and see what happens'” Thursday's game between the Knights and Slangs was the completion of Wednesday's contest which was suspended because of rain after one inning Mountain Crest held a 1 advantage entering the lop of the second but the Mustangs would total just two hits and no runs over the final six innings Thanks to six walks Mountain Crest had a couple of opportunities to break out but Burgess worked three innings and struck out the side in order in the sixth “It took me a while but my curvcball really started to work" Burgess said “I started getting ahead of the batters and that helped a lot I was able to do what I wanted with the pitches and I think I got them out on the front foot a little bit” Burgess started Wednesday's game as did MC righthander Cole Maughan Maughan didn't fare near as well on Thursday however and it was obvious early he'd have his problems Thanks in part to a rather minuscule strike zone the senior hurlcr walked the first three batters he seven-straig- ht 2-- 3-- 4-- good-hittin- right-cent- er -0 back-to-ba- ck See STANGS on Page 11 See GK1ZZ on Page 10 Trustees to resign : v'£ top rookies CHICAGO (AP) — Elton Brand and Steve Francis discovered they had a lot in common when they got to know each other last summer They both loved basketball obviously They had both played at Atlantic Coast Conference schools Brand at Duke and Francis at Maryland in the NBA draft And they had gone the two have something else to share On Now and Francis were selected co- Brand Thursday winners of the NBA's Rookie of the Year Award “Our relationship is basketball" Brand said M '$5? “We like to play basketball we like to have a lot of fun I think that's why we hit if off so well and became friends “We may always be connected' especially AP photo because of the tough rookie of the year race" Brand the forward from the Chicago Bulls Elton Brand gets a kiss from his mother Daisy after and Francis the guard for the Houston Rockets receiving his NBA Rookie of the Year Award ' each received 58 of a possible 121 votes from a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters Lamar junior year at Duke if he had stayed in college Odom of the Los Angeles Clippers received three “At 21 years old it helps having your mom in the area" votes and Andre Miller of the Cleveland Cavaliers got two Though Brand was the No I pick in the draft No 1 for the Bulls — Francis It was only the third time two rookies have — the first-evshared the honor Jason Kidd and Grant Hill were was the early favorite for the rookie award There and Dave Cowens and were those who thought Brand was too small to in 1994-9- 5 1970-71 Geoff Petrie shared it in bang with the NBA's big boys Others said he ' Brand said he was also sharing the award with lacked Francis' flash and flair But Brand was consistently solid all season He his mother Daisy who moved to Chicago with all rookies in scoring (201 points) reboundled this his of one all but attended him and games season He surprised his mother with flowers and ing (100) blocked shots (163) and minutes (37) per game He also was tops in double-dqublgave her a kiss after accepting the award “Without my mom it would have been a lot (42) and led the NBA with 43 offensive rebounds tougher" said Brand who would be finishing his pcrgajne 1- -2 y W' er cs BLOOMINGTON Ind (AP) — Bob Knight's once rock-soli- d support at Indiana University might be eroding amid an avalanche of accusations that he has long intimidated students staff and school officials school official told The A Associated Press that university trustees arc weighing whether to ask Knight to resign rather than continue an investigation and risk a showdown that could lead to his firing The official speaking on condition of anonymity after talking to several trustees said the decision could be “tantamount to dishigh-ranki- ng Many of Knight's players say they will leave the program if he is forced out ah athletic department spokesman said Thursday “Our players became very upset today and told me they were tired of being quiet They don't want to sec things tried in the media” Todd Slarowitz said “To a man everyone supports Coach Knight" The trustees will meet apparently to decide whether to expand an investigation of Knight who has been accused of physical and vetbil abuse during his 29 years as Indiana's basketd ball coach The probe is expected to be com-plete- by mid-Jun- e In one of the latest damaging allegations to missal" WRTV station television emerge Knight is accused of throw ing a Indianapolis vase near the secretary to the athletic direcnine four of that reported Thursday night members on the university's board of tor 12 years ago shattering it against a glass-frame- d' trustees already are prepared to recommend the university dismiss Knight Three support the coach and two are undecided WRTV said Indianapolis radio station W1BC reported Knight planned to meet with university President Myles Brand on Sunday the same day the trustees meet in Indianapolis A spokesman for Brand however told the AP today he was unaware of a meeting with Knight :il j “If there were a meeting scheduled I would think I'd be aware of it" said Christopher Simpson an IU vice president who has spoken for Brand throughout the investigation “I'm not aware any such meeting has been scheduled" picture on an office door Also the Chicago Sun-Tim- es reported Thursday that Knight attacked former assistant coach Ron Felling on Nov 30 after overhearing him talk about problems with the program The two had to be separated the newspaper said and Felling left the team five days later A third incident surfaced when WRTV reported that Knight attacked sports information director Kit Klingelhoffer 10 years ago during a confrontation over a news release Klingelhoffer was knocked out the station reported Despite the mounting evidence against Knight some at the school believe he will keep his job 1 - ! y - |
