Show f B4 — This Herald Journal Logan Utah Saturday February 28 2004 for Match Play tribe still Skies clear way —ran "'t By The Associated Press post-mat- finals for thefirst time in the Accenture Match Play Championship Chrysler Classic of lUcson Heath Slocum shot an 64 — his second consecutive bogey-fre- e round — to take a lead in the second round of the Chrysler Classic of Tucson ' Michael Clark carded a second-roun- d 63 and Geoff Ogilvy shot 66 leaving them two shots behind two-sh- ch By rain-curtail- ed ot New Zealand PGA Championship Australian David Diaz shot a 67 to lead the New bogey-fre- e Zealand PGA Championship by one stroke after the second round Chill winds gusting to 30 mph helped produce major changes on the leaderboard but didn't bother Diaz who had five birdies to give total of 137 Jon him a Mills who shot a 71 was second Americans Ryan Armour (66) Scott Sterling (69) Bill Lunde (70) and Australian Lucas Par- - AP photo Tiber Woods lofts his bunkor shot on tho sixth hole durina his defeat of Fredrik Jacobson in the third round of the Accenture Match Ptay Championship ' MC Continued from B1 said of Pickett “When I saw him as a freshman I knew he was a player I can honestly say the kid has probably logged thousands of hours in the gym in just shooting and you can see that by his touch and the fact he uses the glass “If there’s a gym he’s going to You know what though? When you talk to him he talks about the team he won’t talk about himself He’s theulti- mate team player and as a coach you love him to death for it” When asked about his big night Pickett did exactly what Crosbie said he would — direct the attention to his teammates points including 17 straight at " one point) I was just on the receiving end of a lot of great passes from my teammates” Pickett said “I just got a lot of easy looks underneath because ' we executed our offense” While the Mustangs executed their offense well enough to shoot 43 percent from the field their defense was even better Besides Bassett and Pickett players such as Bradey Monson ( 1 1 rebounds five blocks) B J Buttars Eric Hadfield and Mark Watterson all played a major role in holding the Grizzlies to a hor- rific shooting effort from the field (266 percent) Logan missed all 13 of its tries “Our focus as far as will tq win sons (68) shared third place two strokes behind Diaz Rosalesjfc tied for second at this”’ Pickett said “One of the The Grizzlies made a mere five field goals during the first 24 minutes allowing the Mustangs to grab a 30-1- 8 lead heading to the final period “I don’t think we attacked ' (Mountain Crest) like we should have” Logan coach Jeff Brimhall said “That was our No 1 game plan — to attack” The Grizzlies did attack the basket more in the fourth — mak- ing seven field goals and nine free throws en route to 23 points — but they could never put a run together Every time Logan scored the Mustangs answered on the other end Senior point guard Cam Nyman ( 1 6 points) was the only Grizzly to score in double figures Nyman 137 Knight had two eagles on long approach shots for a 66 while Rosales had the best round of the day with a 65 Anika Sorenstam making her 2004 debut stayed in touch with a 70 that left her four back of 135 Stupples’ things great teams do is come and shut down other teams You look back on all the great championship teams like in the NBA the Bulls — they came out and shut people down “Watching film we just decided we’re sick of getting drilled We came out and just decided to play" How did the Grizzlies feel about their shooting woes? “We moved the ball well and ' ’’ got some good looks said Kaden senior Comadena Logan who finished with seven points but didn’t make his first field goal '' until the fourth quarter “It was just a matter of getting the ball to fall through the hoop and it did- n’t” ' single-handed- seven-gam- fourth-quart- er 83-7- : 1 1 62-5- 57-5- She would get two 10s op the beam in the next rotation receiving a standing ovation from the crowd- Match i - Continued from B2 980 scores on bars Aggies with The Aggies bounced back with a stronger outing on vault led by Goeriitz who hit a ' back-to-ba- ck : 985But the Utes were pulling away with a4955 performance on baits as five Utah gymnasts scored 985 or better Vituj recejved one 10 but a 995 from the other judge career-hig- h - ' Continued from B1 ain’t playing 80 gtunes we’re playing 30 games You should be ready every night out and there’s no excuse” Utah State ended up outreboiindirtg the Niners by five while : holding its hosts to just 345 percent shooting Butler who went from the field and 23 points range put up a game-hig- h while die Aggie bench contributed 18 : points its higher total since scoring Nov 25 29 at Weber State on Foul trouble led to some sub-p- ar performances by big men Nate Har-r- is ' (vof-12-fir- m int (six points and two rebounds in ' " “Nate really wasn’t playing too ! good and Ian came in and took his spot and dial’s what the players off the bench have to do” Butler sid “They : have to be ready to come in and play ” ' For the Aggies the consensus is that despite their recent slump the will be ready Anteaters (6--9 1 to play tonight Prior to Thursday's win over Idaho UC Irvine had 3 lost eight of its last nine games but there’s something about the UCI- - - : an 11-- ar He represents what I want our program to be" lead Bucks 106 Grizzlies 104 Keith Van Horn tied his season high with 30 points in his first start for Mil- 89-8- 1 waiikee Van Horn came off the bench in his first: four games after being acquired from New York on Feb 15 but with Joe Smith out with an injured left ankle he got his first start Michael Redd’s free throw shot with 22 seconds left gave the Bucks a 105-10- 4 lead but his second shot hit the front of the rim and Shane Battier grirtibed the reboiind Suns 104 SuperSonks 99 Amare Stoudemire scored 24 points and the Phoenix Suns won two in a row for the first time since mid-Janua- ry Shawn Marion had 18 points and 13 rebounds for the Suns who got two crucial baskets from Howard Eisley in the final three minutes Eisley wound up with 16 points Joe Johnson added 17 including 10 in the final quarter The Suns who have the worst record in the Western Conference (20-4- 0) won for just the seventh time on the road this season They ended an eight-gam- e losing streak earlier this week Clippers 96 Knicks 94 ' Quentin Richardson scored 23 points and Bobby Simmons hit go r with 21 3 seconds ahead ' remaining as the Los Angeles Clippers extended the New York Knicks’ losing streak to five games Eltoii Brand had 19 points and 12 rebounds for the Clippers who had lost ' seven of their previous nine games Stephori Marbury had 29 points andnine assistgjaind Tim Thomas added 22 points for New York Dikembe Mutombo reported in for the first time with 6: 19 left ip the third quarter and New York trailing 74-6- 3 He made a layup and grabbed three rebounds to help close the gap to four Knicks scored the first eight of the fourth quarter to take an points 85-8- 3 lead — their first since the first 19-foo- - : ' quarter V had a big score but the rest of the z The beam scorc of 49 15 was a season team picked it up so the fall didn’t count for the Aggies apd the sixth best all-ti“It was nice to see we didn’t crumble after against the team Liesel Kohler led the Aggies on beam with a bars” Corn said “We dug ourselves a hole but came back' I thought that showed great 9875 while Stacy Stewart and Martin turned ' : in 985 marks Martin’s had the media talking Vcharacter” afterwards She had to perform after Utah’s Other meet notes: Utah’s top Annabeth Eberle watched Friday’s meet due Veronique Lfcclerc had scored a 10 on floor was loud” Martin said “I heard it start to an ankk injury The Utes are hoping to get to get loud and thought‘that's a 10' I know I her back for several events before the postsea- ' son': Utah leads the all-tishouldn’t be thinking about that but I just series with USU 79--3 The last time the Aggies beat the thought they (crowd) were cheering for me A I Utes was in 1979 fought through it and was determined to stay on” 1 nd ' USU rivalry that lends itself to close contests regardless of the situation V:: “Irvine's had their struggles but with the game on national television they’ll have a better crowd than they’d had and thiey’ll be geared up to play " Morrill sahLu And the Irvine team that we saw (in Logan) was plenty capable of beating us so we 11 just have to try and focus on ' doing die best we Can and get our-selves prepared as usual” Utah State beat the Anteaters 8 on Jan 29 but the Aggies led by just three points with three minutes left and die hosts ended up shooting a Season-b345 percent from the' field Butler paced USU with 22 and Harris points and four added 12 points and five rebounds The only UCI player to reach doU- ble figures Mike Efevberha may not see action in tonight’s rematch The sophomore forward who scored 14 points in Logan was suspended indefinitely prior to Thursday’s game against the Vandals for “violation of team and athletic department rules” The Anteaters however got by without their most prolific shooter thanks to a monster night from Ross Schraedcr The sophomore leadership and effort added 14 points ami six rebounds to help the Anteaters pull out the victory Up by 18 points at halftime UQ won when guard Jeff Gloger knocked down si jumper at the buzzer Yada yada: Utah State comes into ahead tonight’s contest a half-gaof Pacific in the Big West standings The Tigers (14-- 1 19-host Cal at die State Northridge (7-- 8 Center has won 43 of UCI Spanos " 'f its last 52 home games and the guard vriio was averaging less than i six points a game put up a career-hig- h Aggies’ last tiuee games at Bren " Events Center (two of them USU 27 points thanks to going from the field frmn long range ' losses) have been decided by a total ) lifie from thefree-duoand of right points : After struggling line the last Senior center Adam Panda who V v from die three games Utah State missed just was benched recently by UQ head two out of its 17 attempts at LBSU coach Pat Douglass for a lack of mid-ran- ge int 57-4- 6-of- w : nd five-gam- : 65-6- - : ‘ minutes) and Spencer Nelson (five points iand six rebounds in 24 minutes) but backup post players Ian Me Vey (seven points four ' rebounds) and Mike Ahmad (seven points seven rebounds) stepped in aiid played wiell in the first arid sec- ond halves respectively ' 15 ' ' While the crowd Was going nuts Goeriitz was in the middle of her floor routine The Aggie freshman didn’t miss a beat scoring a team-hig- h 9925 which matched her best score as an Aggie “I figured there was a 10 being shown” Goeriitz said “I just kept doing my best and hoped I could maybe get a 10” Com was proud of how his tepm finished the meet on beam hitting five of six routines Goeriitz missed her mount or she would have first-rou- five steals as Houston snapped e Portland’s winning streak Francis fed Maurice Thylor in the lane for a basket with 1 :49 to play then hit a jumper with 1 :03 to go for : best five blocks - n-high 78-7- ' -- being traded to Detroit He made just two of 10 shotsand had six points arid six rebounds ' Detroit has won three straight after its first two games with Wallace losing ' Rockets 89 Trail Blazers 85 Steve Francis had 21 points and a seaso- -- four-gam- that teams really don't know what to do with” MC’s Jake Bassett said “It’s a mix of zone and match-u- p man We like to mix it up Bradey caii block anybody down there and so can Brent so wejust kind of let them contain the middle ' and focus more oh making : them shoot outside shots ” ' Pickett' who scored 27' ' points also pulled down 12 rebounds while Monson mus- boards with many of cled the Slangs’ rebounds coming on the offensive end 'Monson also had a game- -' er tried to keep ly grapplen bracket Win their first match If Tyler Dietrich (119) Brady Gamer (140) Brandon Knapp (160) and Justin Bowles (215) are victorious in those bouts they will wrestle for third place in the afternoon Gamer came painfully dose to joining teammate's Adam Beardall (135) and Dustin Olsen (152) in championship bouts but fell to Jerry Cobb of Weiser 2 in the semifinals Dietrich who fell to the No 1 ranked grap-plin his weight class in all classifications and Bowles also made it to the semifinals before falling short Knapp’s road to the consolation semifinals was a bit tougher as the senior rebounded from loss on Thursday to win three a matches straight “I’m so proud of Brandon” Holyoak said As for Beardall and Olsen the No 2 seeds in their respective weight classes they will be gunning for their first state titles Beardall pinned his opponent in the semis while Olsen 4 beat RC Sisson of Buhl was especially happy for Beardall Holyoak ' who has been a four-yevarsity wrestler for the Indians “It’s great I’ve always told the kids wrestling I’m so proud of Adam pays you back” he said 4-- - Dooms NBA effect on Logan Mountain Crest’s Bradey Monson and Brent Pickett compounded the Grizzlies shooting woes by pulling down23 rebounds between them “We have a new defense tldaholStatelwrestlingl Logan in it during the second half by scoring 1 2 points V- game losing streaks Paul Pierce scored 21 points and Brandon Hunter grabbed' 16 rebounds in his second career start to lead Boston past ToronContinued from B1 to James who committed an offensive e The losing streak was foul on Cleveland’s final possession of the Celtics’ longest since they dropped regulation also had 1 1 rebounds as the IQ in a row from Miarch 20 to April 7 Cavaliers won after blowing an 1 8- -' 2000 lead Carlos BoozHornets 89 Pacers 77 point er added 17 points and 16 rebounds Jamal Mashbum scored 22 and " and Jeff Mclnnis had 16 points and 10 Baron Davis 18 and the New Orleans assists e Hornets snapped Indiana’s Timberwolves 91 Warriors 81 streak ' winning ' Kevin Garnett had 24 points nine Austin Croshere’s pulled rebounds and nine assists as the Min- to 0 little four Indiana with a over nesota Timberwolves beat the Golden minutes to go' then Davis took control State Warriors forthe first time this He answered with a 3 of his own season drew a charge on AI Harrington’s Minnesota which has now defeated drive then slipped a pass underneath every other NBA team this season lost to PJ Brown fora dunk putting the ' to the Warriors in both of theirpreyi-ou- s Hornets up 2 with three minutes left Mashbum’s turnaround fade with v meetings' The Wolves took the lead for good 2:16 left finished off the Pacers when Garnett beat Mike Dunleavy for Pistons 105 Hawks 83 an offensive rebound and the ball was Chauncey Billups and Richard Hamilton each had 20 points and four swung to Fred Hoiberg for a That bas-- ' other Detroit Pistons scored in double to put Minnesota up 9 ket keyed a 16-- 4 run that erased a 2 figures i Warriors’ lead Rasheed Wallace didn’t dp much — Celtics 88 Raptors 75 and didn’t have to — against the team In a matchup of teams with seven- he played just one game for before ' compelling wrestling” In order for the Indians to challenge the teams ahead of them Holyoak said it is imper- - Knight and Jen- Anne-Mar- ie nifer ANZ Ladies Masters Playing on a promoter’s invitation England’s Karen Stupples shrugged off difficult afternoon conditions at Royal Pines to shoot 67 to take a two-a stroke lead after the second round of the ANZ Ladies Masters Especially during the first three quarters (Crosbie) kept saying ‘Great teams do this great teams do “Like at Timpanogos (25 Continued from B1 Thins out the Idaho 3A wrestling rankings on idahosportscom are pretty accurate With one day remaining at the 3A state wrestling tournament held in Pocatello the top five tanked schools have separated themselves from the rest of the field — including Preston However the Indians have a little bit of ground to make up if they want to challenge for the crown as they are currently in fifth place (96 points)' Preston is within three points of Shelley (985) and Snake River (98) but might have to run the table to catch Bonners Feny (1165) and Wriser (1125) “It's great it’s coming down to the last day” Tribe coach Jamie Holyoak said “It makes for er ' Jason Timer sports writer 131 among Slocum’s who' completed 36 holes players late starters failed to Seventy-tw- o complete the round when play was suspended in late afternoon Toms in 18 holes Equally impressive is Mickel-so- n whose length and accuracy has proven to be atough combi- nation Mickelson never lost a hole in beating British Open champion Ben Curtis 7 and 6 to tie the tournament record for largest margin of victory Then he overcame a hot start by Chris DiMarco to win 3 and 2 Mickelson reached the quarter- - be in it contention for state title i Tiger Woods and Phil Miclcel-so- n made short work of a long day at the Match Play Championship both needing only 28 holes to win two matches and reach the quarterfinals Woods who narrowly survived the first round never trailed in ' both matches and never even made it to the 15th tee except for interviews He jumped out to a big lead against Tnevor Immelman in the second round then steadied himself amid the wild adventures of Fredrik Jacobson winning both matches 5 and 4 Woods set a tournament record by winning his ninth straight match Next up is Padraig Harrington who outlasted David in -6 7) 11-1- 2) : w free-thro-w r ' |