Show B4 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday April 2 2003 §ta?® WoDEsbods Kings rally to top Pacers By The Associated Press mer Raptor Corliss Williamson added 19 points oft the bench Kings 103 Pacers 98 Peja Stojakovic scored 26 points and Chris Webber added 22 points and 14 rebounds The Kings trailed by 13 early staged a comeback in the third and then exchanged the lead with Indiana eight times in the fourth quarter Webber gave Sacramento the lead for good with six straight points including a tip-i- n that made it 6 88-8- around average is the best ever at L'SU 39225 She was second on beam (9777) and bars (9814) and third on vault (9800) and floor Four Continued from B1 (9835) CSl' misM'dijualilyitic as a team depiie a sehobi record Regional Qualifying Score RQS i ot !t'5l5(i It snaps a streak of 1" straight trips to regionals for the Aggies and is just the second time in the 26-uhistory of the pro-the team did not make gram that hi postseason "I'm evrcmeh pleased our Parenti a freshman ) Rdpclato a sophomore had the seventh best season average on vault 9740 She is ranked 24th in the region Her RQS of 9810 is just behind Bauer's 9825 Another Aggie just missed being named an alternate on the floor Freshman Liesel Kohler had an RQS of 9870 compared to SlT's Shecna Shaw ’s 9880 The top two teams and the top tw o competitors iwho are not on an advancing team) from each regional site will receive an automatic berth to the national championships in LinThe event coln Neb April 24-2- 6 winner at the regional championship will advance to nationals if the are not pan of an ad vane- -' qualifier ing team o an ai qualified" om said "i believe each of them ha- - legitimate shot at qualifying e sean Neis-i- j all- - Power Continued from B1 din like u t die t'da ' certain! had in' Mui hit'ti-’trine heading mi!- ib firs: trim' 'i'iinc! 'if the seavit Inlicwtng 2' sciii!li- game- on Itu road Bui v tui- tn- - Aggie gw home run-'iire baseman Kelly Leo and iinrMo Haven Vance they totaled Ini - in the firs' game and ii ouuii ) Lome ur with a dutch bast : i in n in nightcap "I t in- i see ti lake advantage n 0'iiig ' opportunities when We 'SI' coaeh Debbie Bii-i- u in' in isuii "They only outlut us by nui' iiik in ttie second garni hut iliiv Cougars) score wheri people u- - in scoring position "They do a good job of doing that and I'd like to see pur team lake " advantage ol those opportunities Dow n after the first two u iii 11011 i 2 - n - I was second 39095 and fourth on bars (9777 in the alLaround -- three 1 1 -- llhfel with 2:44 left Jermaine O'Neal led the Pacers with 24 points and Ron Attest had 23 The Pacers had their regular starting five — Reggie and Brad Miller O'Neal Artest and Jamaal Tinsley — together for the first time since March 8 Mavericks 95 Hornets 86 Dirk Nowitzki had 30 points and Brent Barry hit a desperation from just inside the halfcourt line with 21 seconds left to help secure die victory Barry scored seven points in overtime and Lewis added five i Eddy Curry led Chicago with 28 points and 15 rebounds Jamal 25 Crawford added a career-hig- h points and eight assists Suns 95 Nuggets 65 Shawn Marion scored 24 of his 33 points in the second half and the Phoenix Suns tied a team record for fewest points by an opponent The Suns moved one game ahead of the idle Houston Rockets in the race for the eighth and final playoff berth in the Western Conference! Each team has eight games remaining Phoenix limited die Nuggets to a 263 shooting percentage the lowest in Suns history The Nuggets' 20 field goals were the fewest by any team inthe league this season Previously the low was 21 accomplished four times Phoenix also had its biggest winning margin of the season Trail Blazers 100 Warriors 86 Derek Anderson had 21 points and seven assists as the Trail Blazers turned in their second straight decisive victory Portland trying to hold off the Minnesota Timberwolves for fourth place in the Western Conference and homecqurt advantage in the playoffs was coming off a confident 112-9- 5 thumping of the Dallas Mavericks on Friday which snapped a e losing streak Anderson's jumper put the Blazers on top 6 with 9:51 to play for their widest margin of the I rebounds and Steve Nash added 17 points as the Mavericks moved 11 within a game of matching the most wins in franchise history The Mavericks a league-be8 56-1- with eight games left maintained their e lead over die San Antonio Spurs in die Midwest Division Baron Davis scored 18 points George Lynch had 13 and Jerome Moiso contributed 12 points and 11 rebounds for the Hornets who’ve lost four of their last five Dallas held the Hornets’ leading wora Jamal Mashbura to 10 points on two-gam- shooting Spun 118 Magic 105 Tim Duncan scored 20 points to lead seven players in double figures and the Spurs had their highest point total of the season The Spurs won their sixth in a row and stayed two games behind die Dallas Mavericks in the Midwest Division San Antonio went ahead by as many as 18 late in the third quarter but the Magic opened the fourth with a 14-- 5 spurt including six straight by Darrell Armstrong to cut the lead to 9 with 9:3Q left But that was as close as Orlando would get as San Antonio outscored the Magic 18-- 1 1 in the final six minutes - 98-8- Tracy McGrady led all scorers with 30 SuperSonics 101 Bulb 94 OT Rashard Lewis scored 26 points and Ray Allen added 26 points and 13 rebounds as Seattle dropped Chicago’s record in overtime games to 0-- 7 ' three-gam- 15-fo- ot : Winning for the seventh time in nine games the Sonics remained within 2 12 games of the Phoenix Suns for the final playoff spot in the ' 88-6- game Troy Murphy led the Warriors with 22 points and 10 rebounds West Bonds swats first homer of 2003 SAN DIEGO ( AP) — Barry Bonds' first hit of the season was as impressive as they come v Bonds hit a booming three-ru- n homer an estimated 463 feet to help back jason Schmidt's crisp pitching and the San Francisco Giants beat the San Diego Padres 1 Tuesday night “He was telling some guys there ‘I might need a pitcher to get 8-- left-hand- ed Jazz Continued from B1 throws and Miller's layup put the Clippers ahead 86-8- 5 with 1 : 1 0 to play Stockton regained the lead for Utah with a The Jazz made it 89-8- 6 when Harpring sneaked behind Brand stripped him of the ball and went the length of the court for a layup "It w as huge" Malone sajd “I told innings of the second game the Aggies ended up' stranding six baserunners in six innings and had two potential rallies brought to an abrupt end when runners were ' caught off base online drives snagged by the Cougars Freshman righthander Leslie Higley who relieved starter Carli Baumgartner with two outs in the second inning gave the Aggies hopes ol a comeback by holding BVl' scoreless for three innings But in the lop of the sixth a hit bai-te- r and a single left two runners on foi Keohohou With every Aggie outfielder hacked up against the fence the iwo-tuselection crushed Higley's first offering onto 800 East f or her third home run of the afternoon B YL"s leadoff hitter Keohohou at the plate and went stretched her season home run total to 1 3 The junior centtf fielder's slugging percentage was already ne f st Lenny Wilkens tied the NBA record for most career coaching losses going down to defeat for the 1106th time Tuesday night as Richard Hamilton scored 20 points and Ben Wallace had 20 rebounds to lead the Detroit Pistons past the Toronto Raptors 92-8- 5 Wilkens already thcwinningest coach in league history with 1291 victories tied Bill Fitch’s record Wilkens is in his 30th year as an -NBA coach whereas Fitch coached for 25 seasons Chauncey Billups scored 15 points including six free throws in die final minute to help Detroit win its fifth straight over Toronto For- AP photo Toronto Raptors guard Vince Carter goes up for a reverse jam against Detroit Pistons forwards Ben Wallace right and Clifford Robinson in the first half D©s§ nrfF 959 and her percentage a stunning 560 coming into Tues- - ' day's twinbill “She's the best leadoff hitter in the country” Eakin said of Keohohou “We put her in the leadoff spot because teams try and pitch around her It's pretty hard to pitch around her in the leadoff spot and then we have hitters behind her that are just as dangerous” While the Aggies who went 6-- 5 against BYU this year are trying to make due with a pair of freshman pitchers the Cougars have the luxury of a true pitching staff Brooke Boyce and former Roy standout Mandy Flint limited Utah State to five hits and two runs in five innings in the first game while Niki Anderson and Cynthia Fallowfield scattered seven hits in the finale Higley started the opener ‘for Utah State but was relieved by Baumgartner after giving up 13 hits pine runs and the first three home runs of the Cougars' initial homer streak' on-ba- se me in the gifiove"' Giants manager Felipe Alou said Bonds turned on a fat pitch from rookie lefty Mike Bynum on a 2rl count with one out in the eighth His 614th career homer landed several feet in front of the lower right corner of the big scoreboard that's 29 rows beyond the right-fiel- d wall at Qualcomm Stadium Matt they’d run the play for him and I knew for a fact that he wasn't going to pass He wasn't going to score Sometimes when a guy gets in that comfort zone they're not going to pass and they don't see the guy coming from the weak side And Matt was able to time it just right and steal it' After Sean Rooks made one of two tree throws at the other end Malone's 1 helped seal it with 1 7 seconds left Melvin Ely opened the scoring with a short hook shot and the Clippers ‘We put ourselves in a hole the first two innings of both games and that's a tough situation to be in” Bilbao said “Unless you have an offense like BYU does right now you can't be doing that We need to keep the game manageable and dose and we didn’t do that “We've been doing that the last few weeks and hopefully we can do it again against Long Beach State this weekend” Third baseman Stephanie Vasaihely stroked three hits for the Aggies in the second game' and Vance hitting out of foe No 9 hole drilled a solo homo' to center in the fifth inning After leading off the second inning of the opening game with a single catcher Amanda Carlson sewed USU's first run of the day on a double by Aimee Johnson The Aggies' second run came in the bottom of the fifth when Leos belted a homer that hit halfway up the score- board in right-cent- er e with MVP was The three walks and three strikeouts in two games before connecting to give the Giants a 0 lead “I was just trying to participate’’ Bonds said ' Bonds didn’t look like the slugger he’s been the past two seasons in his first several plate appearances of the year five-tim- 7-- didn't lead again until there were 105 seconds left in the third quarter Maggette drove on Greg Ostertag and k tried a bouncing the ball off the rim But the Utah center was called for a foul and Maggette sank both free throws for a 5 lead completing the Clippers' comeback from a 1 deficit early in the second quarto' “It didn’t happen in a blast I mean it happened kind of gradually” Stockton ' said “They did a nice job of making shot after shot getting a good look at the basket every time as we weren't We were turning the ball over and were a little disjointed" slam-dun- 66-6- int Big Continued from B2 Lakers 12 Grizzlies 1 had The young Grizzlies (0-- 2 another rough outing at Washington Terrace giving up eight hits and committing eight errors against the Lakers 0-- 4) (1-- 1 4-- 4) “They had to get us out a lot more” Logan coach Stacee Flygare said comparing Tuesday's outing with Monday’s 17-- 0 setback against Box Elder “We made a lot more contact in this game than the last one so that's a positive thing” Catcher Becky Phillips drove in Logan's lone run with a stand-u-p double in the top of the fifth inning but it wasn’t enough for the Grizz to avoid the Kknin mercy mle Royals 7 Mustangs 5 Mountain Crest put up a mighty fight against Roy but the Mustangs (1-- 1 2-ended up losing in nine innings to one of Region 4’s top teams With the game scoreless through 3 12 innings the Slangs finally broke out with three runs in the bottom of the fourth The hosts maintained their lead until the seventh when the Royals (2-- 0 6-tied it up to force extra innings Roy scored one run in the eighth ' which the Mustangs matched with a run of their own in the bottom half of the inning Errors in the ninth were costly however and Roy escaped with the vic5) ' Tribe Cufdiuued lruiii 152 iijlir iieluet Koifiy Kuwimgv who nai 'liit- ui tu loun's four futs off a triple in the wxih k iw st j i O ut Bears) didn't make a iiiaiiy triors as us and that ' was in- difiticutt Bca’ Lai t scored twice more in the fourth on a couple ofKBI single as well as another Preston error giving Row sell more than enough run support "We just jumped on them at llie beginning and kind of let off at the end but we had a good lead” Caywood said "We played good defense and defense is what kept us in it - - "Some of the bats that we normally have weren't there today hit some people came through for us”' Until Adam Beardall flew out to right field for the last out in the third Row sell had not allowed a 1 ribe batter 10 hit a1 ball out of the infield Preston ( 1 1 didn't even’ record us first hit until there were two outs in the bottom of the fifth Tylur Maxsfield look the first pitch he saw from Rowseil and drove it into center field That began' a two-orally for the Indians as Russell Madsen followed with an infield hit Both baserunners eventually scored on an error by Bears second baseman Cody Shelton 'llK lndians cut it to 7-- 3 in the -- 7-- 4) ul ' sixth when Kellen Hansen drove in Kolby Rawlings with a sacrifice fly but that’s as close as they would get Rowseil went the distance to record the win for Bear Lake He struck out six and walked one Home Continued from B2 ings went the distance for Preston He allowed just three earned runs on 10 hits while striking out nine and walking three “You can’t blame Kelly" coach Hansen said “1 thought Kelly pitched a good enough game be threw the ball where it “I didn’t see it go in I thought it went ovpr (the net)” Davidson said “It was just hustle Sometimes they go in sometimes they don’t” Now the Grizzlies just need to realize that when they do go in — for the opposition that is — the game is still in reach Royals 3 Bobcats 0 Apparently this one wasn’t too pleasant on the eyes if you woe a Sky View fan At Cedar Ridge Middle School Roy had its way with the Bobcats in winning 0 was a good “Roy look it to us” Geddes said We didn’t play well” and it The Bobcats region record fell to was their first loss of the season after four wins and a tie Colin Larsen scored two goals for the needed to be” Royals “He's a good pitcher but I don't think he's anything extraordinary” Kolby Rawlings said “I just don’t think we hit the ball well today” ' In a losing effort Kelly Rawl- 3-- It ed butt-kicki- ng 1- -1 2) tory “The girls fought hard” MC coach Heather Farmer said “1 think we kind of surprised ’em” Melanie Maughan drove in a couple of runs for Mountain Crest with a base-h- it in the fourth and shortstop Tara Anderson came up with a diving snag of a blooper in the fifth to save 4 couple of runs |