Show Section Saturday February 28 2004 Pagel The Herald Journal Inside Aggies and Anteateirs mix it up Late start to clash AGGIE MEN’S BASKETBALL UCI-US- U in Lake USU: 15-- 1 UCI: 6-- 9 al III later-than-nor- Aggies fare well but are no B2 match for Utes ed Aggie women in action tonight hard-nos- Utah State’s women's basketball will host UC Irvine today at 1 pm at the Smith Spectrum A win by the Aggies (4-2-0 overall 4-league play) keeps them alive for a both in the Big West Conference Tournament Should UCI (6-1- 7 prevail it would clinch a spot in the eight-teatourney The game can be heard live on KLGN 1390 AM with Evan Nyman and Katie calling the Miller providing color commentary 12 m ay leads Toronto 75 Cleveland 112 Orlando 107 OT Minnesota 91 Golden State 81 New Orleans 89 Intfiana 77 Detroit 105 Atlanta 83 Houston 89 Portland 85 Milwaukee 106 Memphis 104 Phoenix 104 Seattle 99 Utah 102 Sacramento 97 LA Clippers 96 New York 94 Boston-8- ' pm 0) champion Jesus Chavez (40-2-- 1 vs Erik Morales (45-1-for WBC super featherweight championship GOLF 8:30 am AccenESPN — PGA Tour-WG-C ture Match Play Championship quarterfinal matches at Carlsbad Calif 11:30 am TGC — Nationwide Tour New Zealand PGA Championship third round (sameKlay tape 3-- ) 0) MC C pm NBC — American Cup at New Ybrk MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL ESPN2— Saint Joseph's at Rhode Island : 11am ' ABC — Memphis v at Louisville DQDty® to win 12:30pm: ESPN —Connecticut at Villanova KJZZ— Colorado State at Wyoming : 2pm CBS — Notre Dame at UCLA Spm ESPN - Cincinnati at Charlotte 7 pm — 0 pm ESPN2 9:30 pm - Utah State at - FOXSN-- UC Irvine 'v: ' pm FOXSN — Denver at San Antonio TRACK A HELD - pm ESPN2— USA Indoor Championshipe WOMENS COLLEGE BASKETBALL -- : FOXSN— f Oklahoma at OktahomdSL V 1pm FOXSN — Iowa State at Missouri : - h' FOXSN — Arizona 4 pm 'FOXSN— BYU at Washington at Utah : The Mountain Crest Mustangs ended the Logan Grizzlies’ season jri the Spectrum on Friday Logan shot a miserable 26 percent in los- Mountain Crest ing to the Stangs 53-4- 1 advances to face Mountain View in the state playoffs with the win “You don’t ever want to lose” Grizzly Brok Nelson said “But to lose this way makes you feel bad You want to win the big games” Friday's game seemed to be several seasons removed from the last time these two rivals met On Feb 18 Logan welcomed the Mustangs to the Grizzly Den and promptly ' disposed of Mountain Crest 7-But if there ever were polar Tlpposites in basketball games — the Feb 18 tilt between the two rivals as well as Friday's Logan- Mountain Crest’s games are it will be haunted by sounds of Logan (8-1' clanging iron and the sight of Mustang' hands pulling down rebounds1 “It came down to two things” Grizz coach Jeff Brimhall said “Missed shots — we got some good looks but didn’t hit the shots Rebounding — 1 don’t think we rebounded ' iveiy well” ' After three quarters of play the Grizz had managed just 18 points' a six- - pqint average per quarter to the Stangs’ 30 points: Logan got some good looks but nothing was falling for the Gimlies: The Grizz finally came out of hibernation in the final period scoring 23 points as Logan fans wondered where the offense hack ' heed f “Wie played tough we always ptay tough" Logan's Dani Bates said “The difference was we didn't hit our shots and our rebound positioning wasn’t there” Logan made seven shots and nine free throws in the fourth quarter in a h effort to catch Mountain Crest (12-1Logan’s Cam Nyman led all Grizz scorers with 16 points But hititinga mere 12 buckets will not wiii basketball games and Logan from the field with seven finished of those shots coming in the fourth' Meanwhile Mountain Crest's defense was tough and seemed to have a suffocating 58 4) 1 last-ditc- ' 0) Mitcti MascaroHerald Journal Mountain Crest's Brent Pickett shoots over Logan defender Jacob Loosle during the first half Friday night at the Spectrum See DOOMS bn B4 : Kings suffer rare home loss to Jazz ms It the epitome of a letdown after an emotional win the Sacramento Kings lost at home for only the fifth time all season ' Andrei Kirilenko had'24 points and 14 rebounds Friday night leading the Utah Jazz to a 102-9- 7 victory over die Kings! Kirilenko scored the final four points for Utah which flapped Sacra-- 1 e mento’s winning streak Peja Stojakovic missed a potential in the closing game-tyin- g seconds and Kirilenko made a fast- break dunkit die final buzzer Thie Kings were coming off a 1 - victory Thmsclay night in Los Angeles and didn't arrive home until 4 ajn rebounds: : Reminiscent of their plkyoff series of ayear ago won by the Kings 1 Utah played a physical game and keptSacrunrato from! operating its typically smooth first-rou- nd 4-- : : v offense ''"That V "'jJ-'Z"-' how they play diey do ' whatever they can to disrupt you” Kings coach Rick Adelman said “I don’t agree with it But give them eomeat you’’ crediLthey ' The Kings shot 38 percent and had more turnovers (18) than assists (16) “Its not dirty the way we play we ' them out of their rhythm” “ Kirilenko said We did a great job of ' just-tak- - four-gam- 103-10- i “No excuses” Kings crater Vlade Divac said “I respect them a lot They have one of the best cpachra in the league They play hard” Reserve guard Maoirice Williams seined 19 points and Raja Bell came off the bebch for 15 " ) Greg Ostertag who had two key baskets in the final three minutes finished with eight points and 14! ' Oregon State at Cafifomia — NBA 3pm ' By The Associated Press Santa Clara at Gonzaga ESPN2 ©OB Problems scoring doom Grizzlies See MG on B4 pm See AGGIES on B4 By Thomas Manning sports writer CBS — Texas at Texas Tech ESPN2 — ETSU at Col of Charleston 11am (45-to-2- 0) s1 ' 10am 4:30 6-- 4) 2pm : 6-- 4 top-seed- ed TGC — Canadian tour The Barton Creek Classic third round 9 pm : USA— PGA Tour Chrysler Classic of Tucson third round (same-da- y tape) GYMNASTICS: ak 0 started a half hour later than most of its conference contests Utah State’s lead stood at just one point with 14:25 left in the second half before ' Stew Morrill’s crew took over Playing in front of an uninspired : Pyramid crowd of 1812 the Aggies season “We may have been a little bit down on ourselves after that last Logan game but (head) coach (Jim) Crasbie brought us back and he said ‘If you do exactly what we say if you do exactly what we tell you to do we’re going to state’” said the Mustangs’ Brent Pickett Mountain Orest is doing just thiat as the No 4 seed out of Region 4 — it will take on Mountain View in the first round Tuesday evening at die E Cento1 A big reason the Mustangs are in the play- offs ii the play of Pickett especially against which ended die season with Logan (8-1two straight losses In arguably the biggest game of his career in points (27) Pickett recorded game-bestand rebounds (12) vs the Grizzlies During one stretch in the fourth quarter Pickett scored 10 of histeam’s 13 points to help Mountain Crest open its largest lead of the contest 45-2- 9 with 3:37 remaining “I can’t say enough about him” Crosbie ABC — PGA Tour-WGAccenture Match Play Championship semifinal' matches at Carlsbad Calif - 6-- 2000-0- 1 1pm 6:30 6-- ’ - 1 0 72-5- HBO — Junior welterweights Miguel Cotto (17-0-vs Victoriano Sosa (36-- ' 121 0) BOXING ' Sr 145 53-4- On television 2 So 4 pwgm We have to figureout a way to start the game early because if we don’t we’re going to get beat” The Aggies (15-- 1 in the Big West 23-- 2 overall) were a bit sluggish coming out of the gate at Long Beach State that game which ed 7 6-- ng USU’s 67-4- 7 victory Morrill who referred to some of the Aggies as being "cloudy” in the first half was pleased with the way his team handled LBSU's transition game (the speedy 49ers totaled just two fast-brepoints) and its response tohis heated halftime speech “This is a team we oulrebounded in Logan and we badly were behind at half on the boards” Morrill stated: “We’re the leading rebounding team in the league! and that’s all about your energy and effort level “To me this isn’t the NBA' We 81 64 29 Sr 94 50 ht yr ppg rpg 7 Sr 32 46 8 Jr 64 30 '7-Sr 127 66 So 96 66 5 So 68 13 6-- Jake Bassett didn’t like how the last Logan game turned out You can bet the Mountain Crest senior point guard sure liked the outcome of the rematch " Bassett scored 10 of his 16 points in the fourth quarter to help lead the Mustangs to a ' 1 victory over the Grizzlies iq a 4A state tournament play-i- n game Friday night before 1451 fans at the Spectrum “I liked the way this one went for sure” Bassett said “We had so much fun playing I ' think that’s why we’ve been winning lately it’s because we’re just having fun together” Mountain Crest (12-1has now won a three season-hig- h straight since its last defeat — a 8 setback at Logan in which the Mustangs led by as many as 13 in the first half At the time the loss to the Grizzlies put Moun-tai- n Crest in serious jeopardy of missing the state tournament for the first time since the NHL 7:30 24 Ini Snrt n 16 InwE Jr 105 6-- 8 By Wade Dennlston sports writer NBA : 4 6-- 7 Pickett’s big night Friday's scores Washington 4 Florida 1 : Atlanta 3 New Jersey 2 NY Islanders 4 Buffalo 2 Columbus 4 Chicago 3 Dallas 3 Minnesota 1 Edmonton 7 Phoenix 2 San Jose 4 Pittsburgh 2 1023 FM Bear Lake TV: ESPN2 In 23-- 2 DDoa 0) play-by-pl- F 32 Spencer Nelson C 4 Nate Harris ' G 15 Cardell Butler G 20 Mark Brown UC Irvine F 40 MattOkoro F 42 Greg Ethingtori C 55 Adam Parada G 10 JeffGloger G 14 Ross Schraeder Saturday — 9:05 pm At the Bran Events Canter tonight In order to accommodate a broadcast by ESPN2 Utah State’s game at UC Irvine won’t tip off until 9:05 pm MST an hour after most of its games on the West Coast “I expect it to be a physical game” USU guard Cardell Butler said “It’s nationally televised so they’re going to be ready to play Sports briefs Utah State F 30 Jason Williams Logan 983 FM in Salt IRVINE Calif — If a start Thursday night at Long Beach State contributed to Utah State’s start against the Niners then the 24th-rankAggies could really be in trouble game-endi- PROBABLE STARTERS ht yr PP9 rpg Jr 68 23 RADIO: KVNU 0 KVFX AM-61- By Jeff Hunter sports writer ' smt the Niners to their seventh straight loss with a 289 run "The second half we did what we’ve done all year to win and that’s defend and rebound and play with some energy” Morrill said after ! that” ' r-' points BiUiy scored 11 first-halhelping the Kings take a 42-4- 0 lead Cavaliers 112 Magic 197 LeBron James scored six of his 30 ' points in overtime and Zydninas lead the 28 to added points vicCleveland Cavaliers to a 1 12-1Orlando over the Friday pight tory - f1 07 : AP photo "jv:’ Magic SeeNBAouB4 Sacramento's Darius Songaila left defends Utah’s Raja Bed on Friday ' |