Standard-Examine- Sunday December 3 2000 7C Sports r SPORTS BRIEFS COLLEGE FOOTBALL Clemens unwavering in :appeal of $50000 fine Perfect Sooners headed to Orange Bowl The Associated Press time he has gotten up to win The Associated Press Oklahoma is KANSAS CITY Mo more than OK The Sooners are perfect and on their way to the Orange Bowl to play for the national championship Josh Heupel threw two touchdown passes and ran for another score as No 1 Oklahoma completed a perfect regular season with a 27-2- 4 victory over No 8 Kansas State in the Big 12 title game on a chilly Saturday night at Arrowhead Stadium The Sooners (12-0- ) the nation’s only major unbeaten team will get a chance for their first national title since 1985 when they play in the Orange Bowl on Jan 3 most likely against defending champion Florida State welterORLEANS - Roger The former from Puerto weight champion Gemens expects his appeal of a Rico scored his 32nd knockout IBF-WB- C NEW $50000 fine for tossing the broken barrel of a bat toward Mike Piazza during the World Series to in early January The pitcher was not ejected for throwing the bat which some interpreted as a continuation of tensions between the two that began earlier in the season when Piazza was struck in the head by a Clemens pitch “As far as I'm concerned this has been done and over with since he was struck in the head and we called to apologize and he didn’t want to accept it” said Clemens who was a special guest Saturday at the PGA Teaching and Coaching Summit in New Orleans Clemens stood by the basis for his appeal saying that the amount of the fine improperly implies that he intended to throw the bat directly at Piazza Clemens and his agent want to know why the fine was so high - the same amount Albert Belle received for his fight with a reporter eleven though league officials have' stated they did not believe henntended to hit Piazza with the broken bat FOOTBALL COLLEGE Brckson to sign contract CORVALLIS Ore - Dennis Erickson who guided Oregon State to its best record ever agreed to a contract extension Saturday that will keep him with the Beavers through 2007 Erickson was Jbe expected to sign the contract later Saturday said Hal Cowan OSU’s sports information director No news conference was scheduled TENNIS: Agassi and Kuerten reach Masters Cup final LISBON Portugal - Gustavo Kuerten rallied to oust defending champion Pete Sampras and will in the finish the year as No world if he can beat Andre Agassi in the final of the Masters Cup In a thrilling seesaw semifinal Kuerten fought back to win 4 7 (5) 3 ending Sampras' chance to win the season-endin- g tournament for a record sixth time In the first semifinal Saturday 3 Agassi beat Marat Safin 3 to reach his second straight final in the event that features the top eight players in the world If Agassi beats Kuerten in today’s' final Safin will finish the yearjNo 1 in the world despite his'defeat 1 6-- 6-- 6-- Freezz fall to Sidekicks in W1SL semifinals DALLAS The Dallas Sidekicks defeated the Utah Freezz 4 late Friday in the World Indoor Soccer League semfinals Dallas will play Monterrey on Dec 9 for the 7-- (11-- WISL title The Freezz got goals from Brock Varoz Rob Baarts Kevin Legg and Sterling Wescott Utah finishes the season with a 0 record and second in last week’s Bowl Championship Series standings and based on computer projections seemed certain to remain that way Sunday when the final rankings are released and the BCS officially announces its bowl matchups “For us to talk about a national championship we had to win this game” Sooners coach Bob Stoops said “So this was more like a regular-seaso- n game and that’s the way we embraced it I’m proud of our guys This win defines our season” Heupel in his final Heisman Trophy three interceppush overcame a season-hig- h tions completing passes for 220 16-1- GOLF: Garcia leads Woods by one in World Challenge THOUSAND OAKS Calif Sergio Garcia closed with a double bogey after hitting into the water on No 18 but still 691 on finished with a Saturday to lead Tiger Woods by one shot in the Williams World Challenge Woods had a 67 to set up a showdown with the Spanish star for the $1 million winner’s prize Garcia was at 198 after three rounds on the Sherwood Country Club course - 24-of-- 44 The Sooners’ defense held the Wildcats to just 239 yards - 185 yards below yards their average “I think our defense may have been the story of the game” Stoops said “It was pretty special You hold them to 239 yards for the day? That's pretty strong” TD pass to Trent Heupel threw a Smith in the first half ran 7 yards for a score in the third quarter and hit Andre Woolfolk with a scoring pass 36 seconds into He and Woods essentially tournament turned the into a duel with Davis Love III at 14 under after a 71 the 17-ya- rd the final period to put the Sooners ahead 12-m- 24-1- 7 Tim Duncan kicked his second field goal with 1:25 left that of the game a only player within close striking range of the pair er Sorenstams increase lead at Women’s World Cup LUMPUR KUALA Malaysia - Swedish sisters An-ni- College football ka and Charlotta Sorenstam 64 to increase shot an their lead to three strokes in the Women's World Cup of Golf The Sorenstams had eight round birdies in the best-ba131 total Ausfor a tralians Karrie Webb and Rachel Hetherington were second Bn ll Navy round LAS VEGAS - Felix Trinidad Jr who couldn't stop Fernando d Vargas with two knockdowns beat him with three knockdowns in the final round of a wild junior middleweight chamfirst-roun- pionship showdown Saturday night Trinidad also was knocked down in the fourth round and was penalized two points for low blows while Vargas was penalized one point for low blows in a fight that had a sellout crowd at Mandalay Bay Event Center roaring Trinidad retained the WBA title and won the IBF championship For Trinidad it was the eighth 30 aumetenshto 41 30T 27-2- No 7 Florida 28 No 18 Auburn 6: At Atlanta Florida is back on top in the Soulheastem Conlerence The No 7 Gators pummeled Aubum lor the second time in seven weeks with Rex Grossman throwing lour touchdown passes m the SEC championship game Emest Graham gave Florida (10-2- ) a lethal ground-ai- r 169 yards and the attack rushing for a career-hig- h y defense came up with three critical Gators' turnovers in the first half Florida won its sixth conference title in 10 years but the first since 1996 when the Gators also claimed the national championship had a successful year just by No 18 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Today1 Programming starting at $21Mmo Over y 225 channels available No monthly contract fRCtl 21 TV $240°° by Subscribing 22 47 Cooper Disc S Satellite Save ChanvMomhe Jim Carrol Stadntm Harfin County Tem Saturday Dec 16 vs Northwestern Ky (13-Georgetown ) Oklahoma State 28 playoffs Montana 34 Richmond 20: At Missoula Mont Drew Miller threw for 48 yards and three touchdowns to lead Montana over Richmond in the Division quarterfinals d Montana (12-1- ) of the Big Sky Conference will lace Appalachian State (10-3- ) at home next week in the semifinals Appalachian State 4 Western Kentucky beat tilth-seedMiller who has been injured for much of the last two months completed 28 ol 41 passes and threw touchdown passes ol 10 yards to Etu Molden and 65 and 20 yards to Jimmy Tarns as Montana won its 12th straight game Sean Gustus rushed for 66 yards including touchRichdown runs ol 2 I and 8 cards lor eighth-seede- d the runner-u- p ol the Atlantic 10 mond (10-3-) At 154-pou- i'j m t Division Northwestern Oklahoma Stale 42 Iowa 7 Playoffs Saturday's quarterfinals 16-tea-m 5633 seconds Navy 30 Army 28: At Baltimore Navy found the ideal way to put an end to Us perlectly awtul season just let Army make more mistakes Brian Broadwater ran for 121 cards and a touch down and also passed lor a score as the Midshipmen avoided a rare winless season Looking for their first win since last year's Army lead Navy game the Midshipmen (1 10) built a late in the third quarter and held on to beat the bumbling Black Knights who committed lice turnovers Navy lost the ball twice touchdown Army (I 10) used two fourth-quarte- r passes by Curtis Zersic to cut the gap to 30-2- 8 with 244 lell but an onside kick tailed and Nave retained possession when the Black Knights were called lor running ind field goal try with I 29 to go to the kicker on a Michael W allace had 59 yards rushing and a touchdown lor Army which capped its worst season since goin 1973 Wallace finished with 1157 yards on ing 0 total in Army history ground third-beThe victory gave Navy two straight wins in the senes for the first time since 1982-8- 3 but Army still holds a -7 lead es Playoffs 'Saturday's semifinals Georgetown Ky 28 Carroll Mont Division after a 66 The US team of Juli Inkster and Meg Mallon also had a 66 moving from ninth place to a share of fourth at 139 The tournament ends Sunday with aggregate stroke play WORLD CUP EVENTS: ute A Sooners-SeminolOrange Bowl creates the possibility for split national champions Florida State is ranked No 3 behind No in both the AP media poll 2 Miami (10-1- ) and the coaches poll It is conceivable that if the Seminoles beat the Sooners and the Hurricanes win their bowl the AP media poll could vote Miami No 1 while the USA coaches poll would be obligated to crown the Seminoles champions Miami 4 on Oct 7 beat Florida State Also No 4 Washington (10-1- ) could be considered if the Huskies who beat the Hurricanes 34-2- 9 this season beat Purdue in the Rose Bowl The BCS standings use the two polls eight computer rankings schedule strength and number of losses to determine the teams for its title game one” NAIA 27 Armv But Aubum never seriously threatened in the re match dooming itself with two fumbles and an inter ceplion before halltime The Tigers will settle for a spot in the Citrus Bowl their first New Year's Day appear ance since 1995 for 238 yards with one intercepGrossman tion has shared placing time with senior Jesse Palmer much ol the season but coach Sieve Spurrier followed through with his plan to start the redshirt freshman and stick with him Palmer was on the field for only two plays Florida shut down Rudi Johnson who came in as the SEC's leading rusher with 1520 yards The jumor managed just 4 7 cards on 1 7 carries only the second time this season he was held under 100 yards 16-ya- Stage Bowl Salem Va Saturday Dec 16 (Time MST) Semifinal winners 10 a m East 1 American 12 Kansas State 24 43 Missouri Western South SEC Championshe Florida 28 Auburn 4 MAC Championship Marshall 19 W Michigan 14 Oklahoma Winona St proved to be the winning points Jonathan Beasley threw a TD pass to Quincy Morgan with six seconds left but the Sooners recovered the onside kick and ran out the clock as fans in the crowd of 79655 tossed oranges onto the field “We’ll enjoy this one for a day or two” Heupel said “It’s been a long season" and a great nde so far 1 think everyone will get to enjoy this one and then we’ll go get another At Saturday's results West UNLV al Hawaii late Midwest sledding World Cup Racine and Davidson completed their two runs in 1 min- Trinidad stops Vargas 1) Oklahoma and Florida State were first 6-- BOXING: in final 39-- 0 er extension at Oregon State 6-- in boosting his record to INDOOR SOCCER: BOOUP tiUniSGeS® 3S'’?37r