Show 32 —The Herald Journal ytiaGfl Logan Utah Saturday February 21 2004 Jazz NEW YORK (AP) — Stephon Marbury had an unhappy 27th birthday getting booed at Madison Square Garden in a Friday night fiasco Facing a Utah Jazz team that exposed their new weakness die New York Knicks played one of their worst games of the Isiah Thomas era and lost 9378 “I never would have wished for this but it happened — and it happened on my birthday" Marbury said Andrei Kirilenko scored 23 points Sasha Pavlovic moved into the vacated starting shooting guard spot and scored 16 and the Jazz opened a big early lead and were never threatened in the second half Marbury scored 21 and Tim Thomas moved into Keith Van Horn's old starting spot at small forward and struggled on both ends of the 1 and scored 17 court He shot points 1 1 coming in the fourth quarter after the game had already been decided r-l aft oft ftlto® ©aHrattem 28 points in the fourth quarter — matching their first-ha-lf output— to make the final score somewhat respectable “We played hard ui spurts" Marbury said before stepping himself “I don’t know I’m consecutive game “We always play teams that way If trying to make something up We just we keep teams from getting layups and didn’t have it tonight” we get layups that’s to our advantage” Utah coming off lopsided road losses e Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said “We know at Miami and Orlando snapped a if we can’t handle them in certain situalosing streak using a new starting Jazz 82 tions we’ve got to try and make them lineup Knicks 78 shoot over the top” Jarron Collins replaced Greg Ostertag The Knicks recently had two other at center for the first time this season and Pavlovic took over the spot formerly held strong perimeter shooters but Van Horn and Michael Doleac were traded last weekend for by DeShawn Stevenson who was traded to Tim Thomas and Nazr Mohammed — the last Orlando on Thursday for Gordan Giricek Giricek played only the final 2 minutes of a flurry of moves by the new team president Isiah Thomas had some company for this game while Ostertag had 16 points and seven rebounds as Cablevision chairman James Dolan watched the game alongside him near the midcourt tunnel “Usually when changes are made they’re The Knicks who shot just 38 percent scored made with me first but I’ve grown accustomed The Jazz employed a zone defense for long stretches and dared the Knicks to beat them from outside and New York couldn’t do it Allan Houston (sore knee) missed his ninth three-gam- to that” Ostertag said Utah held New York to 11 points in the first quarter with Penny Hardaway providing a glimpse of what kind of night it would bis for the Knicks by missing a breakaway layup late in the period The Knicks had 10 field goals and 10 turnovers at halftime when they trailed 8 and Marbury missed his first three free throw attempts in the third quarter It was 0 after three quarters and Ostertag met no resistance as he screed on a layup off a pass from Kirilenko with 9:33 remaining to make it 6 “No effort! Must be a big birthday party tonight" a heckler yelled at the Knicks It certainly wasn’t a party for them in their own building “We came out way too soft in the beginning They took it to us and never looked back” Hardaway said 43-2- 67-5- 76-5- Stall ball doesn’t work vs Indians Jason Turner sports writer By After allowing the Preston boys basketball team to outscore them by an average of 23 points in the two previous contests the Beavers of American Falls knew they had to tty something : different And it came in the form of stall ball Unfortunately for American Falls all the tactic did was make the final tally ' look like a football score as the Indians 2 beat the Beams Friday night at Highland High School in Pocatello Idaho With the victory Preston advanced to the 3 A Fifth Dis--' trict title game on Preston basketball Monday and will boys 29-2- face long-tim- e nemesis S nake River — a 8 victor over Marsh Valley in the late game Friday The contest is slated to start at 8 pm with the winner receiv- iiig an automatic bid to the state tournament “I had a suspicion they might (stall) but I really didn’t know” Tribe head coach Coy Pratt raid “We were ready for it ” They had a good gameplan That was probably the only way they could T - : beat us” American Falls certainly gave Preston all it could handle in the first half however as it led for a good part of the first quarter and only trailed 2 at the break Although their only points of the third period — on a mere two possessions — would be a Russell Madsen the Indians held the Beavers scoreless in the stanza This forced American Falls to be more assertive on offense in the fourth quarter but the damage had been done “We were ahead We didn’t have to go out and guard them when they were stalling (until the fourth)” Pratt said In an attempt td get back in the game the Beavers tried their luck line sending Preston to die but the Indians hit freebies V Kelly Rawlings led the Indians with 10 points a game-hig- h 64-5- ED Aggie sophomore Ashley Barr eyes the bar on a release move Friday night She scored a career-hig- h :o)inciuiiniiiK7 9875 LuceraHerald Journal on the uneven bars DBflD Aggies still finish’ strong with big floor score “I thought the crowd (1256 ' -strong) was great” Tiger cpach Rob Dress said “Sorry we didn’t What a finish! give our best performance We ' kind of had a rough flpor- - That is All three teams went over the 49 mark' on their respective events about the worst floor we’ve had in three years in the final rotation Friday night We should at the Spectrum So each of the havebeen should be ' gymnastics coaches around 197” happy right? v The Broncos' Well not exactly Each cpach had competed left the et shaking their at BYU on head about what could have been State’s Thursday Utah Com Ray including njght but coach Sam Sandmire “A golden opportunity was was not looking for any excuses missed" Com said after his team “Oiir team is capable of great scored a 19535 to place second ' ' things but we have yet to'put “From the very beginning we had ' together four events? Sandmire the 10th ranked team on the ropes and couldn't put the second event ' said “When we do look out” ‘ ' In only die second home meet together We can’t let that happen” after five on the road the Aggies (7-No TO Missouri recovered started strong and finished strong ': from a shaky start to win the meet : Still Com was not a happy camper with a 19635 score Boise State no longer going to be 'There’s with a 19410 firiished By Shawn Harrison sports accolades for a great finish” Com said “We applauded them for how they came roaring back and made' the fans remember a great meet Three times now we have had to walk off and say what a great finish We’ve' got to put it all editor- ' together” Com was pleased with how his team did on vault — a 48775 for the second best mark of the season and floor exercise where five ' of six Aggies tied or set career highs He just wished his team had not had to count a fall and several mistakes on the uneven bars “What’s most frustrating isbars is actually our highest scoring event” said Aggie Ashley Barr who turned in a career-be9875 score to lead the team Like ' Ray (Com) said we are a 1965 ” team We gave it away tonight v : ' tri-me- - USU : wraps up home season By Jason Dimer sports writer NORTH LOGAN— Although the Utah State hockey club is still two weeks away from competing at nationals its home finale against BYU had the intensity ofa national touma- ’ ment game In a contest that featured a com- bined 14 penalties from the second ' : -- ' scored period on the Aggies ( twice in the third period to pull away from the Ice Cats 2 Friday night at a packed Eccles Ice Center “We’ve got to play even more physical than that at nationals because those guys back East are small and fast and don’t like to get hit so if we just put a body onthenvwe can get : 5-- them off their game” USU defense- ' man Jordan Francom said In Friday's game neither the Aggies or Ice Cats were on "their game” in the eariy going and BYU didn't record its first shot on goal until the midway point of the first period Searching for a UTAH STATE shot in the arm CLUB USU got it in the HOCKEY form of Aaron ' Burrell Jhesenibr AaalM 5 scored on a m Cats 2 rebound to give lead and added his the Aggies a second goal of the period on a nifty backhand at the 1:45 mark ' ' the third period The Ice Cats would never recover ' ' despite having a handful of powerplay opportunities themselves in the final ' stanza- y y From a coacnmg standpoint irs pitt-ty nice to have what I dunk is one erf die- ' :best forwards in our league and any ' where in die country" said USU head ' ‘ -- - v However the Ice Cats would respond asBen Shugart and Jimmy Burkhart — who both scored off the counterattack — found the back erf the net sandwiched around Burrell's third goalof the contest' Utah State refused to panic turning once again to Burrell as the club's all-ti- ' Sophomore forward Robert Hashimoto would give the Aggies another insurance goal withl: 47 remaining in the contest' when he y deflected in a shot by Brandon Lang sending the USU fans into a frenzy "We've just got to cany this momen-tuinto nationals and I Wish we could rake diese 2000 people with us" Burrell said of the Aggie fans ' USU will close the regular seasem portion of its schedule tonight in Pipvo with a rematch against BYU : : leading scorer notched his fourth coach Jeriy Crossley ofBurrelL "And you could see that in the game ioiiiiL" ’ 1- -0 ' ' EN LuceraHerald Journal USlTs Uesol Kohler tied the second-bemark in school history on floor exercise with a 995 w ofthegameonanAggiepowpiplay in - : 19-1L- 1) free-thro- st ' : 15-1- st See MISSED on B3 ‘ : : 6) -- y m - v MWlI Utah State's Brandon Lang (5) checks Provo Icecat David Mecham as a Aaron BurraTs shot crpsara the goal bra during the first period Saturday night - 'y I |