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The Herald Journal nab 8 titles at invitational Insido By Thomas Manning staff writer Minnesota holds off Colorado B2 to extend series Sports briefs UOP beats USU again Utah State softball lost the third game of its weekend series with the University of the Pacific Saturday in Stockton Calif With die 0 loss the Aggies in Big West Conferdropped to ence play 8 overall) while the Tigers improved to 6 and 8 "I think our defense was there today" USU head coach Debbie Bilbao said "but as far as pitching and hitting we're still inconsistent We get chances to score but we need to take advantage of 8-- 1- -8 (6-2- 28-1- 6-- everything" In the 5000-metrun the Aggies literally ran away with die race Utah State's Christi Howell Tiffany Strickland and Lida Clapier set the pace early and steadily pulled away throughout to finish first second and third respectively USU also claimed both the men's and women's shot put titles Kelli Burton pushed the shot put SO feet 5 12 inches while Josh Sides who also finished second place to Aggte mae Ryan Bruhn in the hammer A field thfow pushed the shot put 59 feet 11 inches — both distances were good enough to deliver the two Aggies individual tides Burton went on to take first in the discus throw as well with a toss of 161 feet 9 inches which happened to be a personal best for her Utah State's Justin Wickard Joel Johnson er Utah State's trade and field teams hosted the annual Mark Faldmo Invitational Saturday at Ralph Maughan Stadium The Aggies along with teams from Weber State the University of Utah Brigham Young University Montana State and Utah Valley State College couldnt have asked for better weather for a track invitational — especially after last year's cancellation due to snow Many Utah State fans took advantage of the balmy weather turning out in mass to cheer on die USU teams The Aggies didnt disappoint either nabbing eight individual titles "Our team is awesome" USU’S Emily Hillamsaid "We have an amazing team up here We're really close — good friends and ' See TITLES on B8 NBA Mitch MascaroHerald Journal Utah State's Justin Wickard knocks over a hurdle on his way to race Saturday winning the men's 110-met- er Playoffs them" Senior Mancie Neff notched USU's lone hit of the day going Saturday's scores NBA playoffs Utah 96 Sacramento 90 New Jersey 109 Milwaukee 96 Boston 103 Indiana 100 Phoenix 96 San Antonio 95 OT Dallas 96 Portland 86 AL Boston 7 Toronto 2 Tampa Bay 8 Baltimore 7 Kansas City 9 Detroit 2 Chicago White Sox 12 Cleveland 3 Oakland 12 Texas 2 NY Yankees 4 Minnesota 2 Anaheim 7 Seattle 6 NL Montreal 8 Cincinnati 7 1st game Montreal 9 Cincinnati 5 2nd game Florida 6 NY Meta 5 Milwaukee 3 Houston 2 14 innings Arizona 4 St Louis 3 18-ye- ar Colorado 10 San Diego 9 Philadelphia 4 Atlanta 0 Chicago 6 Pittsburgh 1 10 innings San Francisco 9 Los Angeles 3 PCI- Salt Lake 4 Fresno 2 NHL SACRAMENTO Calif ry in the first round last season (AP) — In their playoff In the first game of what opener the Sacramento discithe showed Kings might be the final playoff run in Malone's pline they'll need to contend for the NBA title partnership with John Stock-to- n Chris Webber had 27 points the Jazz shut down and 11 rebounds and Reja Sacramento's fast break rebounded well and kept the Stojakovic scored 16 points as die Kings beat the Utah score low against the NBA's third-be- st Jazz 96-9- 0 Saturday night offense Slowed once again by The Jazz pulled to 78-7- 6 Utah’s famously on Malone's free Gamel deliberate style the throws with 3:13 left but Mike Bibby Kings nursed a small lead drove past Stockton and dished for conthrough the second half but never secutive baskets — a Kings 96 breathed easily The by Webber jumper Jazz 90 seventh-seede- d Jazz and a Sacramento lead by got an outstanding Stojakovic Game 2 in the game from Kail Malone who had 27 points series is eight assists and seven Monday night rebounds in the first game of An uneasy vibe hung over his 18th trip to the playoffs Arco Arena throughout the Jim Jackson scored 15 second half as Utah thwarted Sacramento's points for the Kings who are facing the Jazz in the offense and kept the Kings' first round of the playoffs lead small Coach Rick for the third time in five Adelman used unorthodox seasons As usual in the lineups limiting starter teams’ meetings Utah conDoug Christie to 22 minutes trolled the tempo — and as and keeping Bibby on the usual the Kings won bench in the fourth quarter The Pacific Division until the final minutes champions have won 13 of Greg Ostertag had a their last 15 against Utah See JAZZ on B4 including a 1 series victo- high-scori- playoffs Philadelphia 4 Toronto 1 Minnesota 3 Colorado 2 DaBas 3 Edmonton 2 On television ng 0 best-of-sev- ARENA FOOTBALL 1 pjn NBC — Regional coverage Dallas at Chicago Las Vegas at Orlando or Colorado at TamgaBay up-tem- 7 am TGC— European PGA Tour Alganre Open de Portugal final round at Alganre Portugal I ' pjn CBS — PGA Tour The Heritage at HWon Head Island SC final round - 230 pjn LPGA Takefuji Classic TGC final round at Las Vegas 4 pm CNBC — Champions Tour Emerald Coast Classic final round at Milton Fla (same-da-y tape) MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL II am TBS — Philadelphia at Atlanta 11:30ajn WGN — Chicago Cubs ESPN — Texas at Oakland ' NBA ' 10:30 ajn ESPN — Playoffs first round game 1 Orlando at Detroit 130 pjn — 1 6 1 ApC Playoffs first round game pjn TNT— Playoffs first roiind game LA Lakers at Minnesota i New Orleans at Philadelphia NHL I pjn ESPN — Playoffs conference quarterfinals game 6 Tampa Bay at Washington 5 pjn ESPN2 — Playoffs conference quarterfinals game 6 Vancouver at St Louis TENNIS II ajn - ESPN2 Women's Bausch & Lomb Championships championship match at Ameta Wand Fla : 3-- Suns take win to the bank Big fourth at Pitts- burgh 6 pjn AP photo Utah's Karl Malone goes up for a shot between Sacramento defenders Doug Christie left and Chris Webber Saturday night at Aroo Arena By quarter by Pierce’ good enough for Celtics ' The Associated Press The Spurs missed six of eight foul shots in overtime and managed to go only (634 percent) at the line for the game Duncan was Nets 109 Bucks 96 At New Jersey Jason Kidd schooled his playground mentor with 14 points 14'assists and six rebounds holding Gary Payton scoreless for more thari 3 1 (1 quarters as die defending Eastern Conference champion Nets defeated Milwaukee Payton didn’t score until there was 4:10 to go drawing a derisive cheer from those left in the crowd of 16102 He finished with eight points 10 assists and five turnovers in a game in which the Nets led by 20 at halftime and 31 early in the fourth quarter Kenyon Martin who took an awkward fall under the basket early in the third quarter returned quickly and had 21 points and 15 26-for--41 Two bank shots from range — one by Amare Stoudemiie late in regulation the other by Stcphon Marbury at the buzzer in overtime — gave die Phoenix Suns an unlikely victory after ' Marbury banked in a running 11m Duncan missedthree free throws in the final 16 seconds lifting Phoenix past the San Antonio Spurs 96-9- 5 Saturday in Game 1 of their first-rouplayoff series at the SBC Center in San Antonio Marbury got the rebound after Duncan's final miss with 51 seci onds left and sped up the floor He leaped from a foot outside the arc and released his shot just 'before the horn sounded the baH kissing off the gfoss and through die net Tnf win was the Suns’ fourth in five games against San Antonie this season Two of those dm tests went into overtime int nd int ’ See BANK on B4 AP photo Phoenix guard Stephen Martxiry (3) goes to the hoop Saturday against San Antonio |