Show ‘'U ' if' ' ’ ' Section ft g Sunday April 6 2003 The Herald Journal Insido OT ©oiid — Pagel foOao® Cincinnati's Griffey suffer B3 another setback Sporls briefs Pair of Aggie track athletes earn honors Utah State senior dirower Neil Wan was named the Big West Conference Male Itack Athlete of the Week while Aggie distance nraner Carol Cabanilias earned the BWC of the Female Track Week Thursday Warr threw for a USU record in the javelin with a distance of in his second-plac- e finish at Stanford last week Ware’s throw is the longest distance in the conference this season ami qualified him for the NCAA Regional Cabanilias a senior shared the award with Gladys Iwubaof Long Beach State Cabanilias set a new USU record in the 10000 meters with a time of 36:3654 minutes at Stanford last week AP photo Kansas' Kirk H in rich and Jeff Graves (42) react from the bench in the final minutes of their semifinal game Saturday 233-fe- et Hawks rock Marquette in laugher Saturday's mows rim-rattli- ng NBA Phoenix 111 Minnesota 94 Atlanta 97 Memphis 91 Cleveland 79 New Orleans 76 Dallas 108 Oriando 90 Chicago 117 Milwaukee 115 OT LA dippers 109 New York 98 - an AL 61 Baltimore 2 Boston 1 Kansas City 8 Cleveland 1 Chicago White Sox 7 Detroit 0 Oakland 4 Anaheim 2 Tampa Bay 6 NY Yankees 5 Toronto 4 Minnesota 3 (11) Texas 8 Seattle 4 : history ‘Some people could say we reached the pinnacle of our game today” Williams said “I hope there’s still something left in NL NYMets 3 Montreal 1 us” Chicago Cubs 9 Cincinnati 7 San Francisco 6 Milwaukee 5 Houston 2 St Louis 1 Colorado 4 Arizona 3 (10) Philadelphia 16 Pittsburgh 1 Florida 17 Atlantal San Diego 3 Los Angeles 0 In his 15th season as coach at Kansas ' (30-7- ) Williams stands one win away from the national title he needs to fill out an otherwise impeccable resume Whether he gets it or not Monday ' night against Syracuse a 95-8- 4 winner over Texas in the other semifinal he will go home knowing his team set a standard for Final Four excellence Pushing the ball at will outjumping the and outhustling Marquette (27-shot Big 12 regular-seaso-n champions 53 potent — and that was despite a long dry spell when die reserves were on court at the end of the game ’ and many They made eight times simply embarrassed the Golden Eagles snatching loose balls out of their hands and beating them downcourt for uncontested layups and dunks no ewer PCL Las Vegas 4 Salt Lake 1 NHL Boston 8 Buffalo 5 Atlanta 3 NY Islanders 2 Ottawa 3 Toronto 1 Montreal 5 NY Rangers 4 Washington 5 Pittsburgh 3 Calgary 4 Edmonton 1 6) AHL Milwaukee 2 Utah 1 On television ARENA FOOTBALL 9un WB — than 15times AUTO RACING pm - FOX NASCAR Winston Cup Aaron’s 499 at Taladega Ala GOLF -f- WB PGA Tour BellSouth Classic final round at Duluth Ga 3 pm - ESPN2 LPGA The Office Depot Championship final round MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 11:10 un WP1X-Mon- WON 5pjn treal - at NYMets Detroit at Chicago White Sax TBS — Florida at Atlanta ESPN2 — Anaheim at Oakland 11am 'NBA ABC— Washington at Boeton 1:30 pm ABC — Sacramento at Philadelphia 7 pjn KJZZ— Utah at Seattle NHL 1pm ESPN — St Louis at Colorado WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 8 pm ESPN — NCAA tournament semifinal 1 Tennessee vs Duke at Atlanta 7pjn SeeKUonB5 ' ESPN— NCAA tournament semifi- nal 2 Connecticut vs Texas at Atlanta ap photo- Syracuse's Carmelo Anthony (1 Balanced attack led Syracuse 5) goes up for a dunk in front of Texas' Brad Buckman Saturday night Anthony scores 33 for Syracuse NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Carmelo Anthony twisted turned and dunked all over Texas stealing the show and giving Syracuse another chance to win the national championship in the Superdome — of all places The super freshman scored a 33 points and had 14 rebounds and the Orangemen’s 2--3 zone defense was tough enough for a 95-8- 4 victory over Texas on Saturday night “He’s a man man” Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said “He : knows what to do” gh Collison may be the best player For Kansas but he certainly wasn’t the only star Keith Langford led die Jayhawks with 23 points on 11 or-14 shooting Kirk Hinrich and Aaron Miles scored 18 points each San Jose at Dallas 10 am 1 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Kansas shook the Superdome with dunks a fast break that couldn’t be stopped and a blowout of historic proportions It was as close to perfect as basketball can get and now the Jayhawks and Roy Williams are one step closer to that elusive national title Nick Collison scored 12 points and had 15 rebounds Saturday vicnight to lift the Jayhawks to a 94-tory against overmatched Marquette1 the fourth-mo- st lopsided game in Firiil Fdur Syracuse (29-5- ) will play Kansas on Monday night in the title game on the same court it had a chance to win it all 16 years ago Then Indiana's Keith Smart hit a jumper in the final seconds to beat Now Anthothe Orangemen 74-7- 3 Boeheim will get coach Jim and ny a shot to win the school’s first national championship Brandon Mouton had 25 points for the Longhorns (26-7- ) the only ' ’ difference 94-6- time in its six tournament games The Orangemen beat Oklahoma State in the second round Oklahoma in the East Regional ' final and Texas Though Boeheim and Kansas' Roy Williams are among tin top five active coaches by winning per top-seed- ed See SYRACUSE on B5 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It feels more and more like his Like all the suffering Rpy Williams endured will end in another day with his second shot to get the one win that will validate all the others Kansas 94 Marquette 61 was the fourth-bigge- st blowout in Final Four history and after the last few weeks Williams has had it's hard to argue he didn’t deserve at least one laugher somewhere along the road to the national championship game Not only did his Jayhawks have to recover from a 3 start in the regular season there was grueling round-robi- n play in the Big 12 to climb into the NCAA tournament Once there they had to go through Duke and Arizona just to reach Saturday night’s semifinal Williams may have it tougher still 3-- 95-8- See ATTACK on B5 1 Williams closing in on elusive title NEW ORLEANS (AP) — While one freshman got all the attention three other young Syracuse players may have made the Freshman guard Gerry McNamara sophomore forward Hakim Warrick and sophomore guard Josh Pace all scored in double fig- ures jn the Orangemen's 4 victory over Tsxas in the national semifinals Saturday night provid-ing a formidable supplement to No seed to reach the Final Four The Jayhawks beat Marquette 1 in the other semifinal on Saturday That means Syracuse will play a team from the Big 12 for the fourth APphoto Syracuse's Hakim Warrick dunks as Texas' Brandon Mouton left and SydmiH Harris watch during the first half of their semifinal game in New Orleans Saturday See ELUSIVE on B5 |