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Logan 963 PROBABLE r' JUiLgtatsJullertpn F Bron CSF: USU: 5-- 8 in 9-t- 3 21-- 13-- 1 Bear take TV: Nona 2 V Utah State F 30 Jason WMiama 6u Sbie Fnumi F 32 Spencer Nelson C 4 Nate' Hams G 45Xardeff Buttefr-v- -' G 20 Mark Brown a Dm Sun Ags nearly pull off upset of Arizona St " After the Utah State softball team opened its season On Friday with a 1 loss to Illinois State the Aggies nearly pulled off an upset of Arizona State before falling ' 6 at ASU’s Louisville Slugger - 9-- 22nd-rank- ed ide on for the homore postpaced the' in the game at ' 7-- Region 4 boys baskollgll 1- -0 ?BS2 s:v :'r loss other hits in the Garnett a freshman was the starting pitcher and gave up four runs on two hits She walked six batters and hit three in 2 13 innings-ThAggies will play lowl and Wisconsin today before closing the tournament with a rematch against ASU on ' Sunday five-inni- ng I t )W i with with victory By Thomas Manning sports writer scores Friday's " : After knocking off the Mountain Crest on Wednesday the Logan Grizzlies maintained their momentum r Friday night Logan rolled over the 1 visiting Roy Royals in the Grizzly Den “It was a great game" Grizzly coach Jeff Brimhall said “Our kids havq been playing really well for ' us this Logan second boya basketball half of the seavalley-riv- NBA Indiana 96 Washington 87 Orlando 102 Denver 98 Miami 125 Atlanta 92 Utah 92 New York 78 New Jersey 91 Toronto 72 Cleveland 89 San Antonio 87 Memphis 97 Phoenix 92 Minnesota 88 Detroit 87 Sacramento 91 Chicago 83 LA Lakers 116 Philadelphia 88 Portland 94 Golden State 93 By Jeff Hunter sports writer al JuwanDeShawn Desmond With the right pronuncia- tion it sounds like Desmond Penigar is in the right place And Friday night in his NBA debuL the former Aggie standout plriyed like it Penigar who has been starring for die Asheville Altitude 63-3- - NHL Detroit 5 St Louis 1 Florida 2 Pittsburgh O Buffalo 4 T&rripa Bay 3 OT Dallas 5 Colorado 1 Phoenix 3 Columbus 2 Nashville 3 Anaheim 2 OT See AGGIES on B3 on e - -- playing well “They are probably at their best right now because they’ve kind of stabilized after all of their turbulence with roster changes” While the Aggies (13-- 1 in the Big LHS Keeps 19th-rank- ed ' 93 49 The Titans meanwhil will have a slightly different look dqe to the recent dismissal of seniof guard Der- ick Andrew and the addition of senior swingman Anthony Bolton who missed five games due to acade 77-7- Classic Utah State put together five hits in the game against ISU but managed ' just one run in the first inning as Kelly Leos knocked in QuelaHen- lead Leos derson to give USU a led the Aggies at the plate going Henderson Haven Vance and Jessica Garnett recorded USU’s STJkLI Gnxxnes 40 F 21 YaphettKing C 11’ PapeSow'' G 3 Anthony Bolton G 25 Zakee Smith FM in Salt ' Lake 102 3FM Even though Utah State and Cal State Fullerton played each other just a month ago' the two Big West rivals might not recognize one another when they step on the court tonight for the Aggies’ home finale overtime win over Ri In the first meeting Utah State Titan a at out Thursday will be bad pulled rematch along with GytO despite lacking forward man Nate Harris wl Spencer Nelson due to a broken v nose Nelson who totaled 13 points 'Aggies with 22 poinl Fullerton 2 and 10 rebounds in USU’s Sports briefs V FM-94- 'sports writer Aggie gymnasts shine on the B2 floor at Spectrum f RADtO:KVNU KVFX 0 AM-61- Jeff Hunter By mic problems “On our scouting report we listed all of the things that have changed for them since we last played them” USU head coach Stew Morrill said ' of the Titans“They were shooting like 28 percent from range at the time now they're shooting 37 percent They didn't have Bolton now they have Bolton and he's playing really well (Pape) Sow has become much better at handling double-team- s and passing out of double-team- s And they're actually bringing (Bobby) Brown off the bench now and Zakee Smith is A66IE HEM’S BASKETBALL ' the Wi ofNational Basketball Development League the last few months signed a 10-d- son” The Griz-zli- ay es contract-wit- AHL Utah 4 Chicago Desmond Penigar On television 4 :8pjn ESPN2 — NHRA WintemationaJs IV qualifying for GOLF 11:30 am TGC— Champions Tour Outback Steakhouse ProAm second round 1 pjn — ABC PGA Tour Nissan Open at Pacific Palisades COLLEGE BASKETBALL third round Calif-MEN’- 10am ESPN — Syracuse at Georgetown ESPN2 — Creighton at Kent State ! 11 tun ABC — Louisville at Cincinnati - CBS — Notre Dame at Connecticut ESPN — Dayton at Xavier ESPN2 — ManhattarvatWis-Mil--- : waukee " ! r ' pm 1 KJZZ— Air Force at Utah 2 pjn — CBS Stanford at UCLA 4 v: pjn x ESPN2 — Gonzaga at Tuisa 5 L pjn ESPN 6pm ' - 7- UAB at Memphis - ESPN2 — Florida at Mississippi ''r- 7 plbl: 'v'':-- ' ESPN —Texas at Oklahoma KSL— New Mexico at BYU 10 pjn ' ESPN — Hawaii a! NBA 6 pjn FOXSN— Denver at Miami ' WON — Memphis at Chicago WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL ' 2 pjn 4 pjn FOXSN at Iowa State ''TV:' FOXSN —Oklahoma ' -8 ' ' ' V ' ' ' likely be a coin toss with winnCT the receiving an automatic playoff bid and the remaining (wo teams playing for the fourth and standings with the Mustangs Bobcats and Griz- zlies all boasting 3 region records and only two playoff slots left tie If the three-wa- y ' plays ouL there will 5-- sce-nar- Logan’s offense has greatly fmalspot io ' : Friday arid was in control the whole game After sputtering early in the season See GRIZZ on B3 Logim looked good oii half-tim- BEbests Cats Mountain Crest V Sports writer boys basketball WASHINGTON Buttars found DaWkf It’sJJvnevilev Skv View V r— r luirae“m -- loss : guard Cody Webb the lineuo When telcftFri- day’s game after taJdng a bone-rattlipick die Bobcats’ play spi- - BRIGHAM JGITY — Basketball is alquif ng -- ! ’ fiee-dnp- 35-poi- nt Ib“tolbdl b TERRACE— game- yet a scenario proba-iVStlms team -less of what even 56 ' Mustongp by'tviro' bly every high jdkig Even when moist clicb' fhe Bm 59 ' school basketball just ' ‘ Kirin Webb ' 49 Bobcats arguably secrmds remain player has the' squads most ' ' ' conin the dreamed of sometime in 4 ' Region ing iriakitaworidofdif- - important player— test Buttars was at his life rference rcturnedSky View could-- '' Tb have the balance of V linoYtfi m n’t recover losing 9 to his absence So can die game in your hands in opportunity to sdtl die win View line: Bottom Sky the waningmoments See CATS on B3 was a better club with point v: :: SeeMC onB3 Mountam Crest’s BJ w : - ' in - r Cordero By soofts writer - very situation Friday night against Bon- - scores 15 Godfrey 39-4- V St at Colorado — UCLA at Stanford Mitch MascaroHeraU Journal Logan's Jacob Loosle (34) shoots over Roy defender Drew Willard Friday night " Buttars lifts MG with free throws ByWtide : DemiMon ing pulled dowri'ght L rebounds and addeg twqi assists and one blocked shot Pcnigar’s debut with the Magic interestingly enough came in the same game as DeShawn Stevenson’s " Stevenson who was trarfed ' from the Utah Jazz for Gor- dah Giricek earlier this week scored 10 points “Both DeShawn and ' Desmond played terrific defense gave us some energy played hud on the glass and' made solid plays for us” Orlando head coach Johnny Davis said ' ' Magic star Tracy McGrady e was ejected just before after twice kicking a basketball into the stands on the ' same night he kored his 10000th career point How- ever Juwan Howard scored ' 24 points and Drew Goodenadded 16 points and 12 rebounds to offset a ' eiitil 6£0 pjn FOXSN — Nebraska : : ESPN — lUinois at Penn State ESPN2 — Coll of Charleston at W Michigan 4 ? tape) (same-da- y 3-- 8-- 12 v ' : and their ' overall record to With die win Logan will play at least two more games ' The Grizzlies will first travel to Sky View on ' Wednesday to take on the Bobcats IfLogan wins its second game will be a state playoff game “Wc’re going into the Sky View game with a little bit of momentum” Grizzly Cam Nyman said “I’m excited to play Sky View There'S going to be a lot of people there — it's a big game” But IfLogan loses and Mountain Crest beats Roy (1-- 8 there will be a quagmire in the Region 4 recoird to AUTO RACING ' the Orlando Magic on i Friday and ended up playing 1 8 minutes in his new squpd’s 102-9- 8 victory over Denver The scored shoot- four points on 1 : ' performance by Denver rook- ie Carmelo Anthony “1 guess it got us hyped up and amped up to' go out there and play” Gooden said of T McGrady’s twin boots State first Utah is the Penigar player to play in the NBA since the 1978-7- 9 season when Nate Williams played for Golden State OveralL Fenigkr is the ninth Aggie to ever play in either the NBA or Amoican Baskedll Association v - See DEZ on B4 ' |