Show Best Available Copy period on a Wait Continued from B1 the entire game and the score was tied at the end of the first ' and second quarters Heading into the contest Ralphs said it was imperative his club hit some early perime- ter shots to loosen up Malad’s I matchup zone defense : West Side which had strug- gled from beyond the arc in the two regular season games against the Dragons took Ralphs’ advice to heart as Danny Beutler drilled two in the first quarter treys ' However Malad was up to I the task as well hitting two in the opening stan- za before opening the second nose’’- - ' Had lie not his nose Nelson would have been able to play without his bothersome mask following Satur- day’s game against UC Irvine Now short of an appearance in the Final Four he’ll be strapping it on for the rest of the season Still Nelson’s spirit remains ' “Spencer’s one' of those guys that when he gets knocked down he’s going to ‘ - - " ular season” USU postman Nate Harris said “We’ll enjoy that when the time comes” -7 7-- 36-3- That showed last Saturday when Nelson despite his injury and impending surgery I stuck around the Spectrum to " sign autographs for young fans long aft-- ' Jie game He also answered questions from " the media despite sounding running at a nearby golf ' course when they ran into Spinks coming in from a night out on the town-- woman on : each arm “Champ! How’s it going?” ' Spinks slurred ' Ali wasn’t happy with get--' ting up so early to begin with Now he headed straight fra die hotel coffee shop planted himself in a booth and refused to go train ‘Tmafl Olympic champion : ia e heavyweight champion and I have to go through this for him?” Ali said Spinks of course upset Ali to win the title ' Other stories didn’t have happy endings AH was training at his camp in the Poconos for the Fore- man fight when a father and son asked if they could meet him: The boy had a skull cap on and Ali asked him why he was' wearing it-- ' :X “Ali I got cancer and lost all my Juur” the bey toM him “Well you’re going to beat cancer and I’m going to beat ' George Foreman” Ali said “Remember that” ' Kihoy took a picture of die ' : boy and Ali who signed it with die same inscriptionA few weeks later the father : called to thank Kilroy and said his kin was now in die Univer-ylvanhospital AH didn’t hesitate He and : Kilroy got in the car and drove to the hospital where AH went to the boy’s bedside and told hi m agai n he would V beat the cancer “He said ’No champ I’m going to meet God and tell ' ’ him I know you and you’re said friend’” my Kilroy Three days later the boy V ‘ died Kilny went to the funer -9 10-fo- ot UTAH'S GUARANTEED LOWEST TIRE PRICESI int N to trim NalOMai st --of-18 ‘ int al OUH3X!l£MD st muaii people whether it was stopping tridfic while crossing & street in New York or filling hotels in Las Vegas “He won his tides with his fists but he' won the world with his heart’’ Kilroy said Kilroy and Ali still talk regularly and he says Ali is doing well despite the Parkinsoa’s disease that limits his speech and makes his body tremble uncon- trollably at times He worries that Ali travels too much - It’s been 40 years since Ali won the title against Liston 30 years since he beat Fore man To some the memories are as distant as a film clip Not to Kilroy who treasures the time he had with his friend 7 “He always said ’Did we hre fun?’” Kilroy said ‘‘I’d say ’Muhammad we sure black-and-wh- mtUWS ’ML' isniMii OMSTM JHV Ml' dusism nn' mS79Mt nti' W1LSMIU 141' tmim iii Qmu3anBi : -- ite ' did’” V Lewiston State Bank asyi Hometown Banking Since 1905 Rank 24 Homs aDatInternet VoiceATM li db4i wW ari ki UkkiilA Lewiston State Bank of Idaho ISWEETSAVINGSIOIM WWWLEWISTONSlArEBANKCOM SUN VALLEY - nsaMAu nMSM:nn : : : ml1 Ill' IIIMlMIS free-thro- w the casket was the picture Ali signed “He’d go to hospitals from the goodness of his heart” Kilroy said “He didn’t do it fra the publicity He didn’t even want anyone to make a fuss over him while he was there lt was just the kind of person he was”Kilroy saw that kind ofthoughtfulness every dry He saw die impact Ali had on : : ng 10-of-- 20 two-tim- ' Canucks 4 Red Wings 2 Daniel Sedin scored all four 24-of-- 39 : ' game-winni- 3-- -f- al and lying next to the boy in Continued from B2 Continued from B2 36-3- score-board- ’s - All all Vancouver goals Sedin completed his first career hat trick with 6:58 left giving the Canucks a 2 lead then added his fourth into an empty net with 34 seconds left 10-of-- off-seas- on like he had saved up three years’ worth of head colds for the occasion-Amonthe queries Nelson responded to was whether he like teammateCardell Butler planned to kiss center court at NHL After Buttars (10 points six boards) dropped in his the forward calmly dropped in two foil! shots to cut the deficit to 5 A Preston Call foul shot would push the West Side advantage to a basket but Dragon senior Clair Semrad’s (10 points) scored twice on drives to the hoop including the bucket West Side which hurt its cause by hitting foul shots in the final quarter had a chance to tie the game at the buzzer but Beutler ’s leaner was off the mark “One out of two (freebies) doesn't cut it when they’re ' scoring at the other end” Ralphs said free-thro-w 13-of-- third-plac- ever-opti-mis- tic lead pretty vital statistic the rest of the way ' “I think the word is ‘contagious’” Harris said of USU’s ' Few things are more puz- - " recent slump “It’s a mental line game at the zling than watching a team go from and once you start missing a range (presumably while being couple or the team starts missdefended) but a mere ing a couple I think you start from the free throw line (in thinking about it too much front of its home crowd) instead of just going out and Such was the situation in knocking ‘em down like we USU’s rout of Cal State can “I think we’ll come out of Fullerton it though because we’ve got While the Aggies’ woes at the line were more than offset great shooters and good free- throw shooters on this team by their brilliant shooting so it’s just a matter of stepping from the field it was the third Utah State that contest up having confidence and straight has seriously struggled from knocking ‘em down” the line Utah State not only tied the “One thing I would hope to school record for most 3- - ' change next year is we don’t pointers in game against Cal get so quiet on free throws” Morrill said of the crowd at State Fullerton last week but the Aggies’ the Spectrum which is field goal prompted to be quiet by a percentage of 722 equaled the second-bemark in the nation giant “Shhhhhh” on the video screen this year ' “Because I think that’s getting Only Clemson which hit on or-13 11 attempts (846) my guys nervous and they’re bricking ‘em up there” against North Carolina on Jan effort 31 charts higher on the Add USU’s in its loss at Pacific its NCAA list (a minimum of 10 is required) mark in its overtime win made Rhode Island and New over UC Riverside and its Mexico also knocked down r night against Fullerton 13 shots against together and the Aggies’ free Vermont and San Francisco throw percentage is a mere 645 percent of the last three respectively The Aggies’ overall field-gogames It’s hardly the end of the percentage of 686 in the world — especially when rout of the Titans was also the single-gam-e Utah State has made 60 more ' 10th-beperformance of the year while Utah free throws this season than their opponents have attempt- -' State (515 ) is still third in the ed — but with three straight country in field goal percentroad games and the postseaage for the season just behind' Oklahoma State (520) and son coming up percentage could become a Gonzaga (517) time? Tied at 14-- L — a full six e games in front of Idaho — the Aggies and Tigers are both assured of a bye through the first and sec- -' ond rounds of this year’s postseason toiimey That means it will take just one victory by each team to come up with the championship game matchup everyone really wants to see and USU and UOP obviously deserve A year ago the league’s top two teams would have had to fight off two upset bids in order to make to the title ' game but the coaches voted to place during the more importance on playing well in the regular season With two teams clearly superior to the rest of the league this year it was the rigid call at the right time “Obviously it’s a nice reward to have for the success the top teams have in the reg- - —ever” ' the Spectrum after playing his final game as a senior? Nose or no nose Nelson still delivered one of the quips he’s renowned for “I’m not going to kiss it where Cardell kissed it because then I’d be kissing Cardell I don’t want to do I’ll have to bring some that Windex or something and wash down a little place if I go that far” And when the time comes lower his face — and what’s left of his nose — ever so carefully down to the floor st Could the change in format fra' the Big West Tournament ' have taken place at a better pop back up" teammate John Neil declared “He’s never going to stay down He’s never going to stay frustrated : quarter Bingham finished with a team-benine points “I’m proud of my kids" Ralphs said “They came to play tonight They woe focused A couple things here and there and dial ballgame was ours I guess what makes it hurt so bad is the fact that we led the whole game and let it get away at the end” West Side certainly came to play defensively in the third quarter limiting Malad to six shooting points on while forcing four turnovers Momentum transferred over to the fourth period as a Kevin Beckstead free throw (game-hig- h five assists eight points) capped off a 2 spurt to put his club up 0 It proved to be an unsafe 15-1- Continued from B1 “If it breaks again it’s going to bleed” Nelson pointed out “And obviously you can’t play if you have a bloody nose and it’s just gushing “ (Against Fullerton) we stuck in a whole bunch of gauze but it was still bleeding It soaked the gauze and then just start draining out the ' 0 run to take a lead Unfortunately for the Pirates the Dragons continued to shoot well from die perimeter as the game progressed while West Side’s outside touch tapered off “We got and little more active on defense and took away the outside and still did a pretty good job on the inside” Jones said Not well enough to stop the Bucs from dominating the paint at times though Down 0 West Side made a concerted effort to get the ball inside to Brad Dance and Robert Bingham and it paid off The two post players who combined to grab 13 rebounds scored four points apiece in a ' 12-- 7 Pirate run to end the 5-- 15-1- 0 m " The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday February 25 2004 — B3 ia -- prams praws-jw- ' pbwris:iw pnsHM'iJui " ptMorou Prams xa prams i'Jaa TbrapsUnfi BACKED BY THE BEST WARRANTY IN THE BUSINESSI 2190 North Main V North Logan Ut 84341 : i 435-750-67- ijU rTl JlJ 00 ' 227 South State 17 East Center Shite B Preston ID 83263 LewistonUt 84320 (inside Stokes Huiftway) :'y (208)852-242- 0 435-258-24- 56 : 11 IOOAH 990 Lsamn 734-942- 9 - 140 L 1400 73N432 NL 777 A RM It 20N3MIN |