’' — y Run fcrtfts roses Kentucky Derby 2000 has pjantyof storylines for today’s race 3E Scoreboard f Standard-Examin- Saturday May 6 2000 er Bingham putting toward 90 Setting goals is important you are Tiger or a weekend golfer ' Delos Bingham of Marriott knows that His goal is to play golf when he’s 90 years old Bingham Executive Sports Editor: With Seattle finally vanquished after Friday’s 96-9- 3 win in Game 5 the Jazz don’t have any time to rest with a Game 1 at Portland on Sunday RliM Northern Utah's top high school performers Friday: Justin Abbott Northridge: Wert with a double two home runs over Clearfield and five RBIs n 1 2--7 Megan Hovey Davis: Went with a double a tnple and five RBIs n 21 8 wn over Clearfield Jenna Howard Northridge: Went with a double a tnple and three RBIs in 7-- 5 loss to Viewmont '" Austin Slaughter Roy: Went with two doubles and two RBIs in 8-- 6 wm over Logan Brittany Stephens Bonneville Threw a two-hittwith four stnkeouts and two walks m 1 0--0 wm over Sky View Courtnie Woemer Bear Riven with three stnkeouts Threw a and two walks m 10-- win over Canyon View n - known to his friends as “Bing” will turn 89 this fall and believes he can continue to play when he’s 90 SMD)H Jazz know they survived “I may just keep playing after that as well 1 don’t hit them very far anymore but I can hit them straight” a dogfight with the never-say-d- SALT LAKE CITY - When the Jazz woke up this morning feeling the aches and pains of Friday’s victory they can feel like they’ve earned something They finally finished off the Seathard-foug- ne 3-- ' “They just kept getting better and better and tougher and tougher to deal with as time went on” Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said of the Sonics “That’s a credit to them” With the entire season riding on the outcome of Friday’s game the Jazz played well and started strong Every time they thought they had the Sonics on the ropes however they tried to deliver a knockout punch instead of staying with what got them there And every time the Sonics bounced right back “That’s what drives Jerry crazy” John Stockton said “We got excited about the lead and tried to force the issue there for awhile and what we were getting out of it were missed 'Bingham and lis bunch played throughout the mild winter wearing stocking caps ' add rubber boots to stay warm Often he’ll walk nine holes and ride ip a cart for the fast shots “That helped them a little and gave them a chance to get back in the game” It happened all game long lead the starting with the Jazz built in the first quarter n Next thing they knew Gary hit back to back to ' second nine f With dedication like that you have to believe Bing will reach his goal eight-poi- Grants for girts - ’Dshman’s Grants for Girls Friday’s Old guys show they’re not done with winning 05 Calling all kids t' Sears and the Women’s NBA will hold their 2000 kid X beat reporter tryouts today at the Sears store at 754 South State in Salt Lake City Youth will read a script and ages be judged on creativity delivery and poise Tryouts are Randy Hollis 8-- Extra Point between ' The winner will attend two LJtah Starzz games and report for the team’s Web site m So Jazz’s cast of veteran being “too old” to win any more After all it was those “old guys” -John Stockton (age 38) Jeff Homacek (37) Karl Malone (36) and Olden Polynice (35) - who made the difference during crunch time as the Jazz slipped past the Seattle SuperSonics in a tense 3 96-9- The North Davis Cougars host the South Ogden in Utah Football League action at 7 tonight at Northridge High School Cost is $3 per person Some of the proceeds will benefit the Northridge High athletic teams May is USTA Tennis Month We note the passing of Weber State Hall of Famer Longtime Ray Freeman luger Gordy Sheer announced his retirement this week "’The Utah Spiders a Woemer fires win in Standard-Examine- J Miller is executive sports editor of the Standard-ExaminHe can be 1 reached at or tmillerffistandardMet Chris er 625-426- right-hand- er no-hitt- er inter-regi- 3-- A on playoffs winning streak the Riding a tournament Bears advance to the quarterfinals Thursday against Judge Memorial at 7 pm at the Weber County 13-ga- 3-- A Fairgrounds’ complex Woemer faced the minimum 15 batters with three strikeouts and two walks CanyonView the team fourth-plac- e from Region 9 hit just one fly ball to the outfield Woemer got the Falcons’ second batter to fly out to right field ‘ Fremont High School freshman Travis Covington makes a return to Bonneville's Johan Bodaski during the No 1 singles championship match of the Region 4 tennis tournament at Ogden High School on Friday Covington won the match in three sets See story 3B TOUCH KESf GUY: m p t u&di A I stall r Behind sophomore 5-- 12 ‘ in Courtnie Woerner’s Friday Bear River blanked Canyon View 10-- 0 in five innings in the state bicycle league is forming The Youth Summer Bicycle League will practice every ' for 1 0O playoff er - A new youth summer 64 no-hitt- n GARLAND No 13 was not the least bit unlucky for the Region 7 champion Bears 5 933-51- inter-regio- Ben Lomond Ogden advance state 3A soccer tournament 6B soccer team made up of numerous Utah collegians will open their season tonight vs the San Francisco Night Hawks Game time is 7 pm 'ftfjuan Diego High SchooL call 3-- BKhCE: women’s f do-or-d- ie for a long time” Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said admiringly of his Big Three of Stockton Malone and Homacek “They’ve came up and played as hard as they can I realize that I think I’m very fortunate to have coached them and they let me stay here “They always come to play hard Sometimes they don’t have what See HOLLIS2B BR stifles Canyon View Plot force Tuesday during June July and - August at the Utah State airpark It’s open to youth For information ages postseason showdown Friday night at the Delta Center Those four Jazz players who qualify as senior citizens by NBA standards nowadays made all the plays both good and bad down the stretch of victory It was as if Friday’s Utah’s fifth man on the floor youngster Bryon Russell (29) was an interested bystander “I’ve been riding these guys around much for all that talk about the Rhino-Raide- rs ' See JAZZ2B Jazz point guard John Stockton drives around Seattle point guard Gary Payton during Delta at Center the game TOO OF THE BEST: Utah wwwoshmanscom ‘ nt Pay-to- information call (800) 877-60ext 8284 or visit Tidbits ht tle SuperSonics in dramatic fashion eking out a 96-9- 3 victory at the Delta Center for a 2 victory in the best-of-- 5 series And the Sonics made them scrap for everything they got ne l:30i-3:30p- staff Standard-Examin- 96-ya- rd ' SuperSonics ie By TOM McEACHIN Bingham said - That’s for sure Bingham recorded a hole-in-oon Dec 27 acing the No 6 hole at Mulligan’s North He used a to get his second career hole-in-oBingham was a manager with American Food Stores and a rural mail carrier before he retired Among his favorite pastimes were handball and fly fishing and gardening ' He won a set of golf clubs when he was SO and taught himself the game by reading magazine articles Now he usually plays three times a week often at Ben Lomond with buddies Wayne Butler and Roy Poll and also with Paul Bott and his son Ron Bingham ‘‘We play whenever it’s a good day” Bingham said fund will award $100000 to girls sports programs' The deadline is June 9 For 625-426- 1 1 A r “Courtnie got a lot of ground balls hit to th infield and the kids just gobbled them up” Bear River coach Calvin Bingham said “The wind was blowing and although it died down a little as the game progressed it was still not particularly comfortable Those wind storms neutralize any kind of advantage that you have” The Bears (15-- 6 overall) had five hits -none forextra bases - drawing five walks ' I f Y and having two batters hit by pitches Of the seven free passes five came around to score “The wind may have bothered their pitcher We took a lot of pitches and it paid off for us” Bingham said Nichole Stokes’ drive to deep center field in the third inning was caught for a out “Without the wind blowing in that ball ends up against the fence or is maybe even over the fence” Bingham said with Jamie Woemer went Hansen having a two-ru- n single and scoring two runs Stokes and Shiloh Christensen both scored two runs “After being in a slump Courtnie is starting to hit the ball” Bingham said “The last 5 games she has started to hit which will really help us “I thought that Courtnie pitched as well today as she has pitched this year I was a little concerned coming into this game because she had five walks in her last start against Morgan” he said “I told Courtnie before the game ‘Whatever you do make them earn what they get and don’t get behind in the count early in die game’ ” fly-ba- ll mid-seas- 4-- American League Boston 5 Tampa Bay 3 NY Yankees 12 Baltimore 10 Kansas City 5 Chi White Sox Toronto 11 Cleveland 10 Detroit 10 Minnesota 8 Texas 17 Oakland 16 Anaheim 6 Seattle 5 National League Pittsburgh 4 Chi Cubs 2 Cincinnati 3 St Louis 2 NY Mets 4 Flonda 1 Atlanta 6 Philadelphia 5 1 Montreal 10 Milwaukee 2 Anzona 5 San Diego 3 Los Angeles 3 Houston 2 San Francisco 5 Colorado 0 ’ Sports shorts Lasorda will head US Olympic team LOS ANGELES -- Come September in Sydney Tommy Lasorda will bleed red white and blue Lasorda the Hall of Fame manager who guided the Los Angeles Dodgers to four NL pennants and two World Series titles on Friday was named manager of the United States’ Olympic baseball team “I’ve managed World Series champions and other great teams but this means more because this time I’ll do so on behalf of my country” said the Lasorda “I think it will cap what I’ve ld done all these years” Lasorda has spent 51 years in the Dodgers’ organization and claims he doesn’t bleed red but Dodger blue Take A Ticket UFL football: Northern Utah Storm vs Riverton Wolfpack at North Davis Riverton 2 pm at ' Cougars vs Rhino-RaideSchool 7 pm Northridge High Auto racing: Rocky Mountain Raceways 6 pm rs ON THE AIR 1 1 am - NFL Europe: at Barcelona Rhein FSN Noon - MLB baseball: Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs WGN 1 :30 pm - NBA playoffs: Philadelphia at Indiana NBC 2 pm - MLS soccer: Dallas at Tampa Bay ESPN2 2:30 pm - Thoroughbred racing: Kentucky Derby ABC 5 pm - MLB baseball: Philadelphia at Atlanta TBS 5:30 pm - NHL playoffs: New Jersey at Toronto ESPN2 6 pm - MLB baseball: -Chicago White Sox at Kansas City WGN - Standard-Examine- staff r and wire services Pine View 10 Morgan 4 At St George the Region 9 runner-u- p Panthers eliminated the Trojans (9-- 5 overall) No other details were available i H i nA J i 4 - 0 0- 0 AxAM 0 4a C '