Show Section tokHs Inside Pacers deal Heat defeat By The Associated Press With four minutes remaining die Minnesota Umber-wolvfaced a deficit and die prospect of leaving their homecouit down 2 in the Western Conference semifinals Then Sam Cassell made his usual clutch shots and the Sacramento Kings es 10-poi- nt 0-- Blue Sox split with Utah Braves in exhibition B2 i Sports briefs ed Aggies end losing skid Utah State’s softball team snapped a losing streak and started e its own modest winning streak this weekend at UC Riverside The Aggies dropped the first game of a Friday doubleheader with die Highlanders 3 before responding with an 3 victory in the nightcap and adding a 2 win on Saturday 17-ga- two-gam- Cassell scored eight points in the final three minutes Kevin Garnett had 28 points and 11 rebounds and the Tlmberwolves closed with a 16-- 1 run to beat die Kings 94-8- 9 Paget The Herald Journal earn splii: T-wol- ves if Sunday May 9 2004 on Saturday Q vPLAYOFFSI - 4 “If we had lost this one” Cassell said “it would’ve been a long night” Game 3 is Monday night at raucous Arco Arena where Minnesota was the only visitor this season to win twice The Kings though have won right of their last nine playoff games at home and are 138-2- 6 there during die last four regular seasons That’s why winning this game was absolutely critical Tunber-wolvto the chance of winning this series “This was a game we definitely should’ve had but we top-seed- ed es gave it away" said Mike Bibby who went from 69 points in his previous two games to just 10 points in this one Feja Stojakovic had 26 points and seven rebounds for Sacramento which used a 16-- spurt to go up 8 on Doug Christie’s layup with 4: 1 1 left after trailing the majority of the game But die Kings stated rushing their offense and suddenly Christie became their primary option with Bibby Sto- and leading-scorjakovic just watching the disintegration “We had good looks you know?" coarii Rick Add-ma- n said “I thought we could’ve been a little more 88-7- 2 er See NBA on B4 AP photo Sacramento guard Doug Christie (13) strips the bail from Minnesota forward Latreil Sprewel during the third quarter 6-- Sky View alum shines In Canada 8-- 5-- USU erupted for four nins in the second inning and added three more in the fourth en route to its 8-- 3 win USU 13 hits pounded out a season-hig- h including a day by Casey Smith LesfeHigiey wert the distance allowing just sU hits as she improved her record to 9 on Ac year On Saturday Higiey recorded another win as she scattered seven hits in another complete game as USU pounded out 10 hits The R3d©® Folsom leads team to a title 6-1- Aggies plated five runs in the first two innings before UC Riverside scored two in die fourth Quela Henderson Jessica Garnett and Michelle Vlahos all had two hits in the final game of the series on Utah State improved to in die Big West the season and By Shawn Harrison sports editor 9-- 40 5-- 13 Saturday's scores NBA tvnrt'rm Indiana 91 Miami 80 Minnesota 94 Sacramento 89 playoffs 1 AL Toronto 4 Chicago White Sox 2 Boston 9 Kansas City 1 Minnesota 3 Oakland 2 (10) Baltimore 10 Cleveland 7 Texas 16 Detroit 15 (10) NY Yankees 6 Seattle 0 Anaheim 7 Tampa Bay 2 NL Milwaukee 6 NY Mets 4 Cincinnati 5 San Fralndsco 3 Colorado 4 Chicago Cubs 3 San Diego 6 Florida 3 (10) Atlanta 5 Houston 4 (10) Montreal 2 St Louis 0 Los Angeles 4 Pittsburgh 3 Philadelphia 8 Arizona 7 67-6- PCL Salt Lake at Tacoma ppd rain Salt Lake at Tacoma ppd rain 65-5- NHL playoffs 1 Thmpa Bay 3 Philadelphia On television ARENA FOOTBALL I pm NBC — San Jose at Arizona BOXING II am NBC — Golden Gloves at Kansas City Mo GOLF 7:30 am TGC — European PGA Tour The British Masters final round 11 am ESPN — LPGA Michelob Ultra Open at KingsmiH final Round 1 pm CBS — PGA Tour Wachovia Championship final round 3 pm TGC — Champions Tour FedEx Kinko's Classic final round MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 11 am TBS — Houston at Atlanta 11:10 am WPIX — Milwaukee at NY Mets 12:10 pm WGN — Colorado at Chicago Cubs 8 pm ESPN — Philadelphia at Arizona NBA 1:30 pm ABC — Playoffs second round Game 3 San Antonio at LA Lakers 8 pm TNT — Playoffs second round Game 3 Detroit at New Jersey NHL 2 pm ESPN — Playoffs conference finals Game 1 Calgary at San Jose SOCCER 1 pm ESPN2 — Women's national teams US vs Mexico at Albuquerque NM I"" Looks can be deceiving Take Sky View alum Mickey Folsom for example And not just die new look the former Bobcat is sporting Yes those are real tattoos and she has seven of them But that is not what sets her apart The daughter of Greg and Jackie Folsom Is one Of die best female college basketball players in Canada In fact she helped her team — Lethbridge Community College — win die national title back in late March Folsom who was one of nine All- Canadian honorces was named Player of the Game in the championship after scoring 17 points She also was one of three athletes nominated for Canadian College Player of die Year “The girl that got it played for Nova Scotia and we beat there team so that was nice” said Folsom who was visiting her family in Smithfield and working this past week Lethbridge took care of previously undefeated Fraser Valley (Nova Scotia) in the semifinals Then the Kodi-al- u 0 beat fellow Alberta and league opponent Mount Royal (Calgary) for the 9 in Montreal Canadian title “I always have good games against Mount Royal" Folsom said Like the contest earlier in the season when she hit two free throws with three seconds to play to secure the win and the Alberta Province championship “I was pumped” Folsom said “I went 1 1 on nee throws in that game” While Folsom didn’t get the Player of the Year award for all of Canada she was named the Female Athlete of the Year for all female sports in the Alberta Milch MaacaroHerald Journal Sky View graduate Mickey Folsom earned national basketball honors in Canada this past season See FOLSOM on BS No rust for Tampa Lightning take series opener against Flyers TAMPA Fla (AP) — It took the Tampa Bay Lightning just one period to get back into the flow of the playoffs Showing little rust from an eight-da- y layoff between series the Lightning won their eighth straight playoff game Saturday by beating the Philadelphia Flyen 1 in the opener of the 3-- Eastern Conference finals “I think overall if you ask a lot of guys I don’t dunk they felt as good as they thought they might” Tampa Bay's Brad Richards said “But at the same dine as the game went on I think our game kind of calmed down and we played a little bit better” Richards Dave Andreychuk and Chris Ding-ma- n scored and Nikolai Khabibulin stopped 19 shots for the Lightning who beat the Flyas for the fifth straight time this season and improved to 9-- 1 in these playoffs Game 2 is Monday night in Tampa “I’m definitely not discouraged” Philadelphia goal tender Robert Esche said “We didn't come in here by no stretch of the imagination assuming it would go four games and I don't think they did either" One of the biggest questions before the opener was how Tampa Bay would respond EK Preparing to pose Men's Open Middleweight Division be in Monday's edition will Sec TAMPA on B4 f LuoaroHoald Journal Jacob Hoopes poses during the Men's Novice Lightweight division Saturday afternoon during the prejudging phase of the competition The NGA Mountain States Regional was held at Logan High School with 67 people in 13 different classes It lasted until late Saturday night Cache Valley was wel represented with Utah State student Matt Leonhard! winning the A story about the contest |