Show ""T "V V TTH WCCWCV V TV TT ' i ’' ”!"l"lrTTT"1: TT' ’ y The Ha raid Journal Logan Utah" 1 i I I 1 '" i i i Page 8 Friday April 27 2001 Sports snapshot night for the Raptors who take home-cou- rt advantage into Sunday’s Game 3 at Toronto Antonio Davis had 13 points and 12 rebounds and Charles Oakley added 12 points and 10 rebounds Toronto held a 6 reboundand outshot New York ing edge from the field (43 percent to 39 - ' percent) Kurt Thomas led the Knicks with 23 points and 12 rebounds But Latrell Sprewell — often matched with Carter — scored just six points on shooting and New York’s other Allan Houston Lakers thump Trail Blazers AP photo Arizona Diamondbacks slugger Luis Gonzalez watches his 13th home run of April tying the major league record off Atlanta Braves' Damian Moss during the eighth inning Thursday in Phoenix NEW YORK (AP) — Vince Carter finally found reason to smile during & playoff game As the capacity crowd at Madison Square Garden started streaming out with about eight minutes left in a lopsided game Carter sidled up to forma teammate Mark Jackson with a wide grin and whispered in his ear for a few seconds “That was not taunting or anything” Carter said after he had 22 points and seven rebounds as' Raptors beat the New York Knicks 94-7- 4 Thursday night d series to even the “I was just having a good time” He’s not used to feeling that first-roun- Sports briefs Former IU assistant sues Knight Hoosiers 1- -1 way in the postseason where Toronto had been 0-including 4 48-3- last season’s sweep by New York as Carter made just 30 percent of his shots “We have a new slate There are not that many guys who were here last year and a part of that bad memory” Carter said “This is big for us: Our first playoff win as a franchise and my first playoff win So I hope ' it’s a confidence-buildeMiami will try to avoid a sweep in Charlotte in Frinight’s day only game Alvin Williams — who played less than a minute in all of last season’s series against New York — scored 23 points Thursday one-on-on- All-St- ar scored 10 ' Marcus Camby playing three days after his mother and two sisters were held hostage at their home in Connecticut had two points and two rebounds in 31 r” first-rou- e nd : AP photo minutes Toronto Raptors guard Vinca Carter (15) has the bql knocked loose by the New York Knicks Kurt Thomas in the first half of of their playoff game Thursday See NBA on Page 9 - BLOOMINGTON Ind (AP) — Former Indiana University assistant basketball coach Ron Felling filed a lawsuit seeking unspecified damages from Bob Knight and the school “I’ve been planning on doing this for a long time” Felling told The Associated Press early- Friday: He declined to comment on the lawsuit or' the events surrounding his leaving Indiana In the lawsuit filed Thursday in' Indianapolis in US District Court Felling claimed he was wrongfully fired by Knight in December 1999 B obcats Grizzlies pick up region wins By HYRUM — The Mountain Crest Mustangs are so Felling says he was fired after the former Hoosiers coach eavesdropped on a telephone call between Felling and former assistant coach DariDakich Felling and Dakich were talking about a victory against'Notre Dame The lawsuit says that Knight interrupted the conversation and told Felling he was fired after overhearing Felling say that Knight had and raving to the been team” and that “to me that just takes the fun out of winning” Felling who became an assistant coach at Indiana in 1985 says Knight then forced Felling to accompany him to his office Knight then berated Felling in front of other assistants and punched him in the chest knocking him backward into a television Knight was fired by Indiana in "September and has since been hired as coach at Texas Tech - with two games to go Roy won a NBA playoffs Toronto 94 New York 74 LA Lakers 106 Portland 88 6-4- -3 AL pcl Sait Lake 2 Memphis Logan and Sky View both fall on the road ' staff writer On television ESPN2- - Junior middleweights vs Carlos Pemell Whitaker (40-3-at Lake Tahoe' Bojorquez (14-2-Nevada ' -!- 1) 5) GOLF- IdOpjn FSN TGC — PGA Greater Greensboro Classic second round at Greensboro NC MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL WGN — Chicago Cubs Francisco at Arizona FSN— Atlanta ' N?A at San '' un 3 TNT — Playoffs first round game Miami at Charlotte NHL Ipjn ESPN — Playoffs finals game 1 conference semiSt Louis at Dallas Toddy's quote “Our main problem is Shaq Right now he's a man among boys” — Portland’s Damon Stoudamirt onShaquille O’Neal who’s led the Los Angeles Lakers to a 2--0 series lead Near flawless ball wasn’t enough for the West Side softball team to sweep its doubleheader with Marsh Valley Thursday afternoon in Arimo Idaho ' However the Pirates did gain a split with the Eagles as they lost the first game 24 then bounced back to 0 win the second Eagles 2 Pirates 1: West Side (9-took a lead in the fourth inning following a sacrifice fly by Chelsi Beckstead that scored Rainee Hatch Marsh Valley rallied in the bottom of the seventh The Eagles’ Becky Parke led off the inning by reaching on an error Alisha Denney followed with a double before a sacrifice fly by Julie Guianan tied it and an by Jesse Dalhke won the game The loss snapped a season-hig- h e streak for the winning " Bucs “You can’t win every game” West Side coach Lori Beckstead said “They were trying hard and doing really good” : Chelsi Beckstead took the loss for the Pirates despite a great outing in which she struck out three and gave up just three hits Pirates ll Eagles 0 West Side bounced back in a big way in the second game as Jill Hatch pitched a two-h- it shutout with four 4) 7pm 8 pm ' 11-- BOXING - By Wade Denniston 1 2 New Jersey 0 Pittsburgh 3 Buffalo 0 Los Angeles 4 Colorado 3 OT ever Smith struck out Lacy Gustaveson and got Sarah Francis to ground out to end the threat The Mustangs left four on during the gamel Smith picked up the win By Wade Denniston staff writer ' : playoffs ' Toronto See STANGS on Page 9 m ' Montreal 4 St Louis 3 (15) Milwaukee 12 NY Mets 8 Chicago Cubs 7 Colorado 2 Cincinnati 7 San Francisco 5 Sarf Diego 11 Philadelphia 0 Arizona 13 Atlanta 6 Los Angeles 6 Pittsburgh 3 ' Mitch MaacaroHemld Journal Mountain Crest first baseman Bryan Stevenson waits for the throw from pitcher Jury Jensen as Weber baserunner Jason Merrill makes it safely back to first! Kansas City 6 Tampa Bay 0 ' Detroit 8 Baltimore 2 Boston 2 Minnesota 0 Cleveland 6 Anaheim 5 Seattle 7 NY Yankees 3 Oakland 16 Chicago White Sox 6 NL 'we can keep if goiqg” said Mustangs senior shortstop TravisJames with an RBI “If who went there’s a time to peak it’s right now” In other region action Thursday Logan defeated Bonneville 12-- 8 and Sky View defeated Fremont 5 “It’s never been out of our sights” Mountain Crest head coaich Stephen Hansen said of a third straight region crown “That's one of our goals that we wanted at the beginning of the year We’re gonna go out fighting to keep that region championship It’s something we want” In six innings of work Jensen had two strikeouts and two walks For the most part he let his defense back double ' him up The Mustangs tinned a textbook Warrior down cut a the fourth in rally inning to play and Baugh ciaught Weber’s Brian Larson trying to steal second base in the sixth to help preserve the shutout 9-- Thuradoy's scores : close to their third straight Region 4 title they can taste it “It’s in our hands” S tangs catcher Casey Baugh said after his team blasted the Weber Warriors 10-- 0 Thure-da- y at The Yard “If we go and take care of business it’s ours to lose” A five-h- it shutout by Jory Jensen and a four RBI performance by Baugh kept Mountain Crest win-nets of six straight tied with die Roy Royals for first place in region at 9-- 3 Thursday game against die Box Elder Bees who entered die contest also tied for first with the Royals and Mustangs “We were hoping we were going to peak at this time and let’s hope - ' Gregg Hardy staff writer 0 RBI-sing- le four-gam- K’s : : The Eagles used the same pitcher and she gave up 11 ' : “ hits'' - “I think that might have been the difference” Lori Beckstead said “We went with a fresh pitcher” See PIRATES on Page 9 ' HYRUM — The good news for the Mountain Crest softball team on Thursday was it put seven strong innings together The bad news was the Mustangs needed eight Mountain Crest played visiting Weber tight as the two teams battled to a scoreless tie after seven! The Warriors ertipted for five runs in the g top of the eighth to win the Region 4 affair 0 at Hyrum City Park In other region action Thursday Logan was blanked at Bonneville 0 Sky View fell at Fremont 10-- 1 and Roy bested Box Elder 2 Weber (7-- 5 in region 6 overall) opened die eighth by having its first five batters reach base safely Ashley Smith drove in Jessica Shupe with a single to left for die game’s first run and the floodgates opened from there : for Weber while Robin Taylor got the loss for MC‘ Lakers 5 Grizzlies 0 Jackie Robots struck out 10 and allowed just two hits for extra-innin- 5-- Bonneville which bat Logap for the second straight day 5-- 7-- 9-- “I’ve always come from the school pf thought that if you have the first chance to scree you don’t have to play catch-u- p ball” Mustangs coach Chris Clark said “You can kind of change your philosophy to protect and you don’t have to give up some things “ You score one run in an overtime that gives you a huge amount of confidence going up to the (date because you don’t have any pressure on you All you know is you’ve got to hit the ball and if you don’t then just go play defense and it’s over" That’s what Weber did in the last of the had a eighth as Mountain Crest 0 runner gunned down at the plate for die first' out then went quietly after that “We always have one bad inning” said S tangs thud baseman Heidi Bowen who had five assists and three put outs in die game ' They got the hits in the holes and we didn’t” a had to Crest Mountain golden opportunity get on die board in the bottom of the first when Amelia Jackson led off die inning which was followed by a Bowen single with one out How-(2-1- 3) V ' I v v - " " - Kimberly Gladwell put die Lakers (8-- 4 on die board in the bottom of the third with her sacrifice fly A second runner scored on the play on a Grizzly throwing error Bonneville added three more runs in the bottom of the fourth "Other than those two innings our girls played really weQ”said Logan coach Natalie Neff whose team dropped to 0 and 3 with die loss Nichole Romrell was credited with the losg ' The junior righthander allowed three earned rum on five hits walked two and struck out seven Silver Wolves 10 Bobcats 1 Fremont kept pace with the Royals by taking care of Sky View behind season-hig- h 16 hit — five for extra bases They’re a good hitting team and they were hits that were right in die spots” Bobcats coach Holly Dixon said Sky View managed just one hit in the g off erf Amy Russell as Candice Hatch went with two walks Defensively die Bobcats (1-played well as they committed just ' one error iri the game t: was a good game for a while there” “It Dixon said “I was very proud of their defense The Bobcats trailed just 24 heading into the last of the fourth but die Silver Wolves (10-- 2 14-broke the game open with eight mm 11-- 2-1- 11 2-1- 2-1- 6) ' - 5) 5) T |