Show Section Sunday February 1 2004 Pagel The Herald Journal Inside Utes rally past Cougs Utah victorious in first game without Majerus SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Andrew Bogut scored 17 of his 21 points in the second half Saturday to lead Utah back from a deficit and beat Brigham Young 64-5- 6 in the Utes’ first game without ailing coach Rick Majerus Nick Jacobson also scored 21 for the Utes (16-- 5 4-hitting 5 of 8 nt 2) Good performances byAgs B2 indoor meet at Jacobson one of just two Sports briefs Watson claims Champions Skins Utah seniors and the only Ute to play his entire career for Majerus dribbled out the clock and heaved the ball toward BYU’s basket after the buzzer in celebration of Utah’s' 10th straight home win over the rival Cougars (12-- 7 2-Majerus left the team indefinitely to deal with his health : WAILEA Hawaii (AP) — Tom Watson wanted to talk more about his childhood hero than himself after winning the Champions Skins Game “Arnold (Palmer) was die star of the two days” Watson said “He made everyone dream of Arnold's ' charges again I think we’re all pair of Amie’s Army He can still do it" ' Watson won the y event taking the final five skins Saturday and $260000 with a par on the third hole of a playoff Palmer who failed to win a skin the past two years was second with five skins and $140000 Jack Nick-lau- s made $60000 with his three skins and defending champion Lee '' ' Trevino was shut out two-da- 4) IBeehivelhoops after suffering chest pains Tuesday night and has spent the week under his cardiologist’s care in Santa Barbara Calif" The Utes playing under assistant coach Kerry Rupp were erratic in the first half tling the Cougars on the boards in a thrilling comeback After falling behind 36-1- 9 early in the second half on a layup by Mark Hall the Utes used an 0 run to get back into it and revive the home crowd Bogut hit a Chaney tipped in a rebound and Tim Drisdom converted a three- point play to get Utah back within single digits Bogut took over from there scoring eight straight for Utah with to get the Utes to 40-314:31 remaining He also had 12 rebounds Jacobson’s after an offensive rebound made it 44- 39 and the Utes kept cutting 8-- then settled down in the second to outscore the Cougars 45-2- 2 Utah held BYU to 7 of 26 shooting in the final 20 minutes Mark Bigelow led the Cougars with 22 points Gamer Meads added 10 points for BYU which has not won at Utah since a 64- 62 victory Jan 8 1994 The Cougars were heading toward skid with a snappmoteiO-yea- r 34-1- 9 hnUme lead but Utah started hitting shots and outhus- - ?m 4 ' BYU guard Luiz Lames left See RALLY on B6 Drisdom Saturday afternoon at the Hgntsman Center a ms& &s Gfl w AP pfioto Tim passes around Utah's Harris scores career-hig- h 26 as Ags get 14th straight win By Jeff Hunter sports writer Harris set a new career-hig- h in scoring for the third time in the last four games by racking up 26 points in just 24 minutes After having to grind out The sophomore forward their last three victories Utah from field went State head coach Stew Morrill w and snared from the insisted his Aggies "are not a 1 1 rebounds to record the fust dominant basketball team" ' ' double-doub- le of his career You'll have to forgive the "1 don't know what it is" Beach if State 49er$ Long USU guard Mark Brown said they laugh ' Once they stop crying of Harris "but whatever it is I ' Utah State put togrther hope he keeps doing if" Brown (13 points) was the its most dominating arguably only other Aggie to reach douperformance of the year Saturday night blowing out the Nin-e- rs ble figures but a dozen differ84-4ent players ended up in the in front of the6 in school " scoring column and 1 1 pulled down at least one rebound history for its 14th straight win "We've had a lot of Asa team Utah State shot 491 close wins so it was USU MEN’S cent from the floor turned the baH over win" Morrill said ' Aggies 84 after USUs most lop- only seven times and) 49ers 46 outboarded the Nitsided victory ova a ers (4-- 5 Division! team since by a 45 margin routing Albany by points during the 2000-0- 1 season OVhpn you are playing a ' "But you never plan on blast-- Jeateds good as Utah State you have to do everything ing somebody by that maigin" well" LBSU head coach The announced attendance of 10381 — thie Spectrum ' Larry Rieynolds pointed out "We have to play a perfect officially seats 10270 — was the largest since a couple hungame in order to compete with them! and we didn't dred more fans packed their ' "We let the game kind of way into the building to see the 1983 drift UNLV in take on away from us in the sec- Aggies ond half Against a good team But with Utah State (9-- 0 at home we don't enough fireBig West 17-- 1 overall) on the ' power to come back" cusp of breaking into the Louis Darby scored li points Associated Press Top 25 Poll to lead the 49ers offensively for the first time since 1970 there was just no holding back while LBSU's top two scorers suffered through a horrible the Big Blue faithful ' And don't think the Aggies night Kevin Roberts who was didn't notice averaging 15 points and seven ' rebounds totaled just six points "I thought the crowd was ' and one rebound and shaip-shootincredible" USU forward John Neil declared "The stuguard Jibril Hodges went the field 0-- dents are incredible We were ' of-- 5 from 3 -were 40 and point range and (ahead) by they scored only two points: still going J 00 percent" ' ' After winning back-to-baThe monster crowd was treatanodier to ed yet games to pulj even in Big outstanding its own one of by performance See ROUT on B6 Former Sky View star Nate - -8 free-thro- Tigers Rodriguez aim to close deal Monday - NEW YORK (AP) — The Detroit Tigers and Ivan Rodriguez moved closer to finalizing their $40 million four-yecontract and the deal could be announced Monday afternoon The sides were faxing language Saturday aimed at finishing off the agreement a baseball source said on the condition of anonymity: The goal iyas to complete the deal in time for x news conference Monday in Detroit the source said ' ar - seventh-laigestero- — Saturday's Mores kg Beehive basketball Utah State 84 Long Beach State 46 Utah 64 BYU 56 E Washington 73 Weber State 67 2) 45-to-- 20 J r NBA Denver 107 Dallas 102 New' Jersey B8 Houston 77 Atlanta 93 Milwaukee 83 LA Clippers 115 Oilando 1QB New York 110 Phoenix 105 Detroit 80 Memphis 78 Indiana 99 Boston 98 Miami 94 New Orleans 70 San Antonio 85 Utah 81 Sacramento HO’SeatUa 103 Portland 102 Chicago 95 OT NHL : : ' -- ' ' 'Vv Philadelphia 5 Pittsburgh 3 Boston 1 Montreal 0 Vancouver 6 Washington 1 NY Islanders 4 Florida 2 Buffalo 3 NY Rangers 1 Columbus 2 Minnesota 1OT Carolina 4 Detroit 4 tie Toronto 5 Ottawa 1 Taippa Bay 5 Atlanta 2 New Jersey 4 St Louis 1 '' NashviHe 3 San Jose 2 OJ Dallas 5 Phoenix 4 Lbs Angeies 4 Edmonton 3 C Grand'Rapids 5 Utah 2 ahl Ontolevision ‘ n IV ck Milch MascaraHeraJd Journal Utah State's Spencer Nelson (32) shoots over Long Beach State's Lucian Graham on Saturday ' night at the Spectrum Jazz fall to vs raw power BOWUNG 2£o pjn -PESPN Redo Nev BA Reno Open at tape) VOOIF IlhSOajn ' ABC — Champions Tour Champion Skins Game final round at Waitea HawaK (same-da- y tape) i dm " - ABC— PGA Tour FBR Open final round at Scottsdale Ariz MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL FOXSN — NC State a! Maryland NBA - ESP- N- PhiadeiphiaalMmnesoto NFL 435 puli :f- - C8S — Super Bowl Carolina vs New Engtand at Houston WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL '2pjn' FOXSN— Texas Tech at Texas If the Carolina Panthers HOUSTON (AP) win die Super Bowl if will be with power If the New England Patriots wiiv it will be with finesse deceptionintunidationand experience So while today's NFL' championship game may not feature football’s biggest i stars it could be a fascinating chess match between two of the game’s headiest coaches : accomplished grandmaster Bill Bclichick of New England and Carolina's quickly ascend- ing John Fox: Don’t look for glamorous quarterbacks The most famous are otherwise occupied Joe Montana is making a promotional tour and JotoElway was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this weekend : (same-da-y SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Tim Chincan had 33 points and 14 rcbotinds to help the San Antonio Spun beat Utah 1 Saturday night for their 15th consecutive wjn over the Jazz CariosArroyo’s layup widj4 seconds left pulled the Jazz to 83- 85-8- - " t 81butManuGinobiIihittwo clutch free throws to seal it Gino- bili finished with six points going from the foul line in die Spun 85 final 21 seconds ' Ttmy Parker added 20 points for the Spurs 10 in the fourth quarter and Hedo Turfcoglu scored 13- - San Antonio has not lost to : Utah sincb'Feb 62000 The Spurs hit consecutive midway - : - See JAZZ on B6 : : '''' :: AP photo Utah's Raul Lopez (24) gete tangted with San Antoni Spurs toward IteSk Rose on Saturday night W SeeCHESSonBf |