Show B4 - The Herald Journal Logan Utah Saturday November 29 2003 Australia takes lead in Davos Cun MIIItnl'KNL Todd Wood-ImuIl- v Australia (AIM uni Wavin' Arthurs gave Australia a 1 lead o in iIk I a is Cup tennis final heating Spain's 6-6-- 3 6-- 1 douin Alex and Corretja lopiv bles Saturday The title will he shaded on Sunday vs hen Mark rinlippotissis takes on Juan Carlos Ferrero in the lust reverse singles Ini lowed hy Lleylon Hewitt's niateh w ith Carlos Moya Ilcwitl gave Australia a I 0 lead with a five-swin Friday over Ferrero while Moya heal Philip-pmiss- it in four sets to level the final alter the first The starters — Fitch Cliff Hawkins Erik Daniels Kelenna Aubuike and Chuck Hayes — combined to score 99 points Hawkins finished with 17 points and 1 1 assists while Hayes had 13 points and 13 rebounds Daniels 2-- Feli-viiii- 3 -- scored et '324 3-- sms T lopeplaing No 4 Arizona 77 Corretja : The Australian pair broke Corretja again in the third game of the second set At the end of the set took an injury timeout to have a sire shoul-ilworked on by medical officials but it only delayed the inevitable ns Australia took the niateh easik iii just over 811 minutes ' AVoodbridge's appearance set a record for matches Davis Cup history: It was in the nation's Davis 2dth C'up event for Australia WsKulbridge's hv Adrian Quisl between 28 mark set of the breaking M3 Vand I ir : 0) ‘13‘1 Woodhridge began his Davis Cup career in — 23-0 for Ausiralia and has a record of 26-1- I l!‘l 1 in 6 Bonell Colas' layup on an inbounds pass with 13 sec- onds left — his only points of ' the game — gave No 8 Florida a 78-7- 7 victory over No 4 Arizona in the Tipoff Classic on Friday night : Colas the senior ' starting center for the Gators' (2-was limited to one ' minute in the first half because of foul trouble and ' he missed the only shot he took until making the game-winnon the inbounds pass from Christian Drejer " ' J-' The Wildcats (1-- 1 ) had two ' fs last chances at the win but ' Salim Stoudamire's jumper AP photo from the foul line missed and Spain's Feliciano Lopez center reaches out to return the ball as his doubles partner Alex Corretja stands by at far the Andre Iguodala's tip-in- at ' right during the Davis Cup final doubles match against Australia's Todd Woodridge and Wayne Arthurs ' buzzer was off ' match against Britain then defeated Sweden before when the anthem was piayed The correct anthem Matt Waish had 27 points ' ' a semifinal win over Switzerland was then played and was repeated Saturday without for the Gators Anthony ' Australia has won the Davis Cup 27 times' four a problem Roberson who missed Flori- -' ' behind the leading United States Spain’s only win da's Spain beat Belgium in the first round of this year’s opener as he completed a ' ' Australia 2(KX) then came in defeated to Croatia'and three-game Argentina against competition suspension from ' ' the school had 15 advance to the final Australia won its opening points and : ' Lee 26 min--' limitedto Dayid utes because of leg cramps T-Bi-rds had 13 points and 10 : cr : I ‘ Willie Jenkins and Keyon Boyd each scored 18 points to lead Tennessee Tech ( 2-- 1 ) No 8 Florida 78 in his first Davis Cup match had ' only played one previous doubles match with X4-ve- points while 0) Jiv Arihiiis and Woodhridge playing in their sixth )av is Cup match broke Correjta'x serve in the fourth game of (lie opening set to go up 1 I 17 Azuhuike had 16 ' scored Kentucky (2-more than KM) points in a game only twice last season when the Wildcats finished er in singles doubles and "I was calm and really focussed and I had a lot of confidence in Wayne" Woodhridge said of Saturday's ihalcli riiis y ear: Woodhridge woii his 78th doubles title tin the ATP tour equaling Tom Okker of the Netherlands for i tost career doubles titles since the start of ' the Open F'rain18- ' ' 7 I )n Saturday officials at Rod Laver Arena played j the correct Spanish national anthem aday after they played an outdated one that had Spanish officials fuming Jiian Antonio (ionic-- Spain's Sports-MinisteAngulo waved furiously arid yejled from the stands 3-- 4 I : ' : v ' - Wood leads to win U thump Cougars from threcrptiinl range for a career FRESNCK Calif :(AP) —Kini Smith'-an'Julie WoihT scored 19 points " fiigh Carley Marshall lidded 14 -' points and Stipna Thorburn nine : apK’c'e jeading No 22 Utah to a 84- ' 55 v ictiify Fridiiy night over Western points and nine assists to tic ii career Kentucky in the Fresno Stale Clas- ' high ' The Utes'shot 54 percent from the sic c minwhile Western Kentucky shut ' ' -' field 26 Smith who played only 32 percent: Utah forced 1 9 Western iilcs after gelling into early foil! trouble shot 57 percent making Kentucky turnovers! ' 's Utah ’wiII play the 'winner of led the LJtes 14 She of shots eight ' seven rebounds ' game between Fresno State the tour- - vyled Western- - and L0uisiana-M01iroei- n Tiffimv Piirtcr-Talhe- rt CEDAR CITY Utah fAP) David Palmer scored 14 points as Southern Utah heat Washington State 6 on Friday night ' De Angelo Newsom added 13 points ' ' and grabbed 13 rebounds forihe n Thunderbirds (2-- 1 ) who held (2-scorer Marcus leading ' Moore scoreless on shooting ' '' With (hescore tied at 6 with 13 ' minutes remaining in the first half' Palmer hit a to spark a 0 The Cougars! y Southern Utah run 'finally scored oil a jump shot by '! L 55-3- ' 1 ’ 2) -9 6-- Fri-day- 1 - o' L Wash-ingto- - t V vi i 2 ( ' s 7-- ' rebounds Chris Rodgers had 17 ' ' points for the Wildcats ' Channing Frye added 15 points and 13 rebounds No22 Pittsburgh 83 Albany 54 Carl Krauser scored 16 of Thomas Kelati with 6:0816 play iir the first half 7 The Thunderbipfs hiiiit a 3 halftime lead but managed just five points in the first 1 1 minutes of the-- ' ' second half The Cougars cut the ' lead to eight points but Southern ' Utah scored seven straight points to open up a'43-2- 8 lead with just under six minutes to play" ' 7 Kelatiscored 13 points arid Shami' 6 rebounds for the : Gill had c 29-1- ' in hisCareer-high22(poin- ts ' the second half as No 22 Pittsburgh won its 25th- straight home game Juljus Page scored 16 points Antonio Graves ridded A 11 and Chris Taft-- 0 for Pitt if (44)) which has the fourth- longest home winning streak r in Division L' Levi Levine scored 16 ' points' for Albany )' No 25 NC State 92 Florida A&M 62 - 1 ’ ' : T' Portiand who:were down seven to"' start the fourth quarter trailed the " entire second half until Stoudamire (lit a long jumper with 4:43 left to give v Continued from B2 lead Portland then the Blazers a 5 Ncne had 15 points after missing went on a'9-- 6 run capped by a 3- - ' " ' five gahies with astrairied left groin pointer by Stoudamire' to make it 96- iuid Andre Miller lidded 8 points and 91 with 44:5 seconds left seven assists for Denver Lcnard fin- - ' 7” After a basket by Kidd Stoudamire ' ' -Vl 'j made afme thnfw t() seal the victory ished with 22 piiihts ' -Trad Blazers 97i Nets 93 Qyntel Woods started af small for- Damon Stoudauiirc sciirtsd 28 ptiints ward for Portland in place of Rasheed 0111 Wallace who misseda team shooting und Zach Randolph had 26'poirits aiid ninc rehouhds td help shiKitaround Friday morning after he ' ' Portland riilly to heat Neyy Jersey: told team officials that he overslept ' -' 'Just in Kidd had 27 poinls on He enlered the game to txms at the ' start 6f the second quarter TS'shiiotiilg arid seven assists to lead e road win- the Nets w htise Kings 103 Rockets 74 's' Brad Miller scored a season-be29 Aiiiig streak was snapped NBA Saciamen-- points Friday night helping to extend its winning streak to seven ' " games -' thus seaSacramento 0 at hoirie son has won 16 straight games at Arco Arena Houston has lost nine ' straight inSacrarnerito Miller who shot lTfor--J S afso had seven rebounds and fouF assists Mike' Bibbyand Bobby Jacksqft scored 18 poiriLs whilePejaStojakovic added 11 ' Cutlino Mobley led Houston with 17 points Steve Francis scored 15 arid Yao Ming had 14 points arid eight rebounds Lakers 103 Spurs 87 1 : ’J2-(if- st coiirt" Barry said Seattle had a Continued from ' 21 season-hig- h turnovers Only 14 assists and B1 were ' Mean while the Sonics had the lixiknf a team in disarray as players used one-o- n one 'mmv's ptiinled fingers and slu luted at each other ' ’J tliink we'v'e heeh lixiking lor jjiings to piii bad perfor- - ' mafKes ori But we have to He hexoridlhat We have to come 44-3- 0 Haipririg scored eight points in an 1 4) run that lifted Utah ' lead with 2:02 left to a 72-- 5 : iri the third quarter McMillan pulled all his starters and the Sonics showed some life : 1 1 “If you don't play hard - : and play w ith some energy and intensity wc won't play- - ps the victory “The system Sloan runs and the way he teaches basketball is infectious on their team” Barry said scorers “I think we feel good that we were able to get a win at Weber (Tuesday night) I just hope we don't start getting too full of our- selves" Morrill said "If we get full of ourselves we're gonna get ourselves beat in a huny “I'm not sure that we are but sometimes you lerin the hard ' way” Yaldayada: In Illinois State's only other visit to Logan on March 16 1995 the Redbirds beat the Aggies 7 in overtime in the first round of the NIT As a team this season ISU is shooting 388 percent while its opponents are shooting 423 The Aggies conversely are shrxitjng far better (538 percent) than their exponents ' Continued from B1 Last year at tllinois State Guidry 20 points and scored a team-hig— knocked dow n six most of any opposing player the against the Aggies in 20024)3 from 3- Guidry went point range and scored 24 points in 0 g rout ISC's 23 Nov: but on A&M of Florida the North Carolina State transfer totaled just three points in the 66-5loss at Northern Illih : season-openin- : 87-7- Red-bird- 5 nois Wednesday night S ph imore forw ard Marcus Arnold leads Illinois State in scor- 85 points per game) and rebounding 85 rpgj while shooting ( 1 ing 48 percent from the field Guards Gregg Alexander 30 1 s’ : - 93-8- (364) 1 ar the-fourt- Luke Ridnour who didn’t ' play in the first half made in the first four three miiiutes of the fourth quarter as ' Seattle closed within 77-6- 9 But Harpring and Bell capped a L7-- S run with three to help seal straight lay-u- 1 ppg) and Neil Plank ( 25 ppg) total of four a the Redbirds give double-dig- it Karl Malone reefirded the fourth of his career despite sitting out quarter arid triple-doubl- e you” McMillan said and put the effort out on the : : ' - ' minutes' Mid-Easte- The 1964 Carbon High graduaie spent the past five seasons at Sky View leading the Bobcats 10 a 4 record and tvo state playoff appearances This season Sky View reached the postseason for the fiFst time since 1999 losing to Lone Peak 8 ' Before thar Christensen was Logan’s head coach from 1979-9- 8 where the Grizzlies posted a 1)4-9- 2 record and ' won two consecutive state Christensen 57 will leave his classroom work behind but hasn't ruled out coaching in the future A return to the 'ridelines may again be an option "If my situation is such that lean then I want to (return to coaching)” Christensen said “I'm keeping the door open” : rn : - 41-1- : : to victory over the New York Yan- kees Schilling trying to win Boston’s first Series title since 1918 probably will follow Martinez in what could be ' baseball's most formidable rotation ' and that’s fine with him “How many Cy Youngs has he got three or four? At last count that's three more than I've got He is the No 1 on that staff” Schilling said “I did- -! n't have a problem pitching behind X Randy Johnson in Arizona and I'm going to be equally comfortable pitching behind Pedro Martinez” The Red Sox sent Casey Fossum and righty Brandon Lyon to the Diamondbacks along with minor league pitcher Jorge De La Rosa and a minor leaguer to be named Arizona is trying to cut its payroll from about $94 million to $80 million Schilling is scheduled to earn $12 million in 2004 Schilling had said he would only (1988-89- ) In 197 he was the defensive coordinator for a 12-- 0 championship team ' Christensen started ujp rnnth grade football at Mt Logan Junior High in 1975 and directed it for three seasons before becoming an assistant coach at the high school He earned his bachelor’s and master's degrees from Utah State and taught high school English and physical education titles 17-3- Continued from B1 contract extension guarantees him $125 million in 2005 and $13 million in 2006 It also includes a $13 million option for 2007 that could become guaranteed if Schilling meets sped- Tied performance levels the source said “Curt wasn't out for every last dollar Very far from it He wanted to structure his deal so the Red Sox would be competitive for every year of his contract” Boston general manager Theo Epstein said ‘‘He deserves a lot of credit because that's a rare request coming from a player” Schilling spent 3 12 years in Ariwith Johnson and they zona as c shared the 2001 World Series MVP award after leading the Diamondbacks : 0) -: sv Continued from B1 Scooter Sherrill scored 22 : points and' Julius Hodge added 16 as No 25 North Carolina State improved to 60--6 at home against nonconference oppo- - ' ' rients under eiith-yea- r coach Herb Sendek ' Levi Watkins scored l for the Wolfpack (3-who also '' ' The win was the fifth straight nd improved to 19-- 0 against ' eighth in nine griines for the Lrikers teams from the (13-3- ) and extended their regular-seaAthletic Conference '' ' son honie winning streak to 24 includ-- Terrence Woods scored 12 ing nine this season to tie the Los points to lead the Rattlers ' :' Angeles franchise record - Trade co-ac- ' " 6ne had10 points ! ! rebounds and 10 ' : v assists in 26 minutes Who the' sat O'Neal put Shaquille ' previous two games because of a v ' strained muscle in his right calf had seven pointseight rebounds two assists rind two blocked shots iri 25 : 1 ' - (0-2- : 9-- 87-8- two-gam- 19 Devean George had a season-hig- h Lakers San Antonio as routed the piiihts in his first triple-doub- le since the ' Mai- spring of 1 999 the 4tTyear-ol-d i accept a trade to the Phillies or the New York Yankees but Epstein persuaded him to come to Boston after meeting with him through the holiday ' and joining the Schillings for Thanks- giving dinner “If we didn't sign Curt it probably would have been the worst Thanks- giving of my life” Epstein said “We tried to refuse and Curt said it was a they would be insulted if deal-break- we er didn't go” Schilling had been concerned that d Fenway Park was unfriendly to But was ball he fly pitchers also encouraged by the possibility of playing again for Terry Francona his manager in Philadelphia who is the for the Red Sox job he is expected to be hired next week “As far as the park goes” he said “Pedro made it work so I'm going to make it work” ' right-hande- front-runn- er ' |