Show B2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday September 16 2002 ®1 flwQims Minnesota not finished with 2002 yet By The Associated Press AmericanlLeague surThe Minnesota Twins- the vivors baseball couldn't eliminate will be hanging around a little longer than anyone could have imagined The TWins targeted for contraction last November clinched the AL Central on Sunday at Cleveland with a 0 win over the defending champion Cleveland Indians “Bud Sclig couldn’t get rid of us" Jacque Jones said “The White Sox couldn't get rid of us The Cleveland Indians couldn't get rid of us Here we are and we're staying" Kyle Lohse (13-8- ) pitched six shutout innings as the Twins secured their first playoff appearance since 1991 “It’s been a long haul” manager Ron said “It started this winter when they tried to kick us out and take away our team There’s been a lot of buildup here and we’re going to let it all out today" After doing their part by winning the Twins had to put their postgame party plans on hold for about 20 minutes as they waited for the final score of Chicago's game in New York When the second-plac- e White Sox lost 4 at Yankee Stadium in a game called by rain many of the Twins ran into the trainer's room to fetch champagnebottles that had been on ice since Friday Yankees 8 White Sox 4 (6) Alfonso Soriano Jason Giambi and Bemie Williams homered and New York cut its magic number to five by beating Chicago in a game called in the sixth inning after three rain delays small-mark- et 5-- Gar-denhi- re 8-- u ft homer in his to give the White Sox Miguel Olivo hit a first major league a 0 lead New York broke away in the sixth scoring the run on a balk by Mike Porzio (2-three-ru- at-b- at i t : t n w o 3-- tj 1) go-ahe-ad Mariners 6 Athletics 3 Bret Boone and Edgar Martinez each drove in two runs as Seattle finally found some offense to beat Oakland and end a six-galosing streak Martinez hit a two-ru- n homer Mike Cameron added a solo shot and Boone had three hits as the Mariners snapped a scoreless drought and stopped Oakland's home winning streak Eric Chaivez hit lus career-hig- h 33rd home run for Oakland which dropped a half-gam-e behind first-plaAnaheim in the AL West The Angels played a night game against Texas Orioles 8 Red Sox 3 Batista set a Baltimore record for Tony homers by a third baseman and Luis Lopez added a two-ru- n shot to beat Boston Batista’s two-ru-n homer was his 29th as a third baseman this season eclipsing Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson’s record of 28 set in 1964 ' The Orioles won for just the third time in 22 games and pushed the Red Sox closer to elimination from postseason play ft 9 T 12-ga- U Vd&ML ce : $ AP photo Minnesota celebrates its 5-- 0 win over Cleveland to clinch the AL Central Division title Sunday runs on seven hits ' Before the game the Tigers honored longtime broadcaster Ernie Harwell who is retiring after 55 years as a major league announcer 42 : with the Tigers Angels 13 Rangers 4 Troy Glaus hit three homos as Anaheim took sole possession of first place in the AL West for the first time this season and set a club record with its 94th win by beating Texas winning streak come to an end Randy Winn drove in two runs for the Devil Rays who have won just two of their last 13 games Kennedy (8-1got his first win since July 4 a span of seven starts Royals 9 Tigers 3 Joe Randa had three hits and Dee Brown homered as Kansas City beat Detroit came within two Runelvys Hernandez (4-outs of his first complete game allowing three 1) Devil Rays 7 Blue Jays 4 Joe Kennedy allowed just three hits in seven innings as Tampa Bay ended a with a victory over Toronto Eric Hinske hit his 23rd home run for the Blue Jays who saw their season-hig- h ' 4) six-ga- Hoffman saves Padres in win over Giants By I f 1 t I' The Associated Press Trevor Hoffman struck out Barry Bonds and Jeff Kent with the bases loaded in the ninth inning to preserve the San Diego Padres’ 4-- 1 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Sunday Ryan Klesko homered and drove in three runs as San Diego won its first game at Pacific Bell Park in seven tries this season Jake Peavy got the win with kelp from four relievers The Giants wasted a chance to take a two-galead over Los wild-ca- rd NL in the Angeles race The Dodgers lost at Colorado earlier in the day Giants manager Dusty Baker pitching coach Dave Righetti and catcher Benito Santiago were all ejected in the ninth for arguing balls and strikes Righetti was tossed when he APphoto threw an empty bucket from the San Diego refief pitcher Trevor Hoffman left is congratulat- - dugout onto the field ed by Tom Lampkin after Hoffman struck out San Francisco's Diamondbacks 6 Brewers 5 (13) Bariy Bonds and Jeff Kent with the bases loaded Curt Schilling joined Randy J NFL Continued from B1 for the moment at least by passing for 240 yards and no interceptions as Dallas rallied from last week's bitter defeat to expansion Houston' Carter a lightning rod for the season-- Marshall Faulk fueied the Rams’ second-ha- lf comeback with a pair of touchdowns but he was stuffed and fumbled on Michael Strahan recovered at the Rams 40 with 2:53 left Dolphins 21 Colts 13 Ricky Williams ran for 132 yards on 24 carries and caught a touchdown pass then watched the Dol- phins’ defense hold on to win for the fifth straight time in Indianapolis for 187 Jay Fiedler was yards and two touchdowns and he TD for Miami also ran for a (2-- 0) Williams became the first Dolphins rusher to top 100 yards two straight games since Bernie Par-malee- in 1994 had one last chance The Colts (1-when Peyton Manning led the team line in the final to Miami’s seconds but his pass to Qadry Ismail fell incomplete on the last play James had 138 yards nishing on 30 carries breaking Eric Dicker-son- ’s club record with his 25th career 100-yar-d game Saints 35 Packers 20 ' Aaron Brooks outperformed mentor Brett Favre by throwing two touchdown passes and the relentless New Orleans defense led the Saints past Green Bay Brooks who spent the 1999’ sea- son as Green Bayls third-strin- g for 217 quarterback was yards as New Orleans jumped out 1) 16-of-- to an early 21-- 3 lead The Saints (20) allowed 357 total had just yards but the Packers 95 on the ground Green Bay converted just 3 for 13 third downs (1-- n compared with 7 of 12 for foe Saints for 270 yards Favre was and two touchdowns but his streak of 158 straight passes without an interception ended when Damn Smith picked off one in the first quarter Cowboys 21 Titans 13 Quincy Carter quieted his critics 29-of-- 44 !: 1) loss to the Texans perfectly executed a play fake for a touchdown then turned play-actianother well-ru- n into a touchdown pass to Joey Galloway early in the fourth quarter Hie Titans (1-- had been in control the first 212 quarters despite quarterback Steve McNair getting a mild concussion in the second quarter He returned for the third quarter with Tennessee leading 10-- 7 but Dexter Coakley inter- cepted his pass and returned it 52 yards for a touchdown and the Cowboys’ first lead of the season Bears 14 Falcons 13 Brian Urlacher had a sensational game for Chicago recovering a fom-bt- e by Michael Vick sacking the speedy Atlanta quarterback and recording 12 tackles as the Bears improved to 20 for the fust time since 1991 Jim Miller threw a TD pass to David Terrell early in the third quarter and the Bears held on thanks to a missed field goal Vick put the Falcons (0-in position to win driving his team 44 yards to the Chicago 28 But the Falcons couldn’t get a first down field-go- al and Jay Feely’s try was wide left Patriots 44 Jets 7 Tebucky Jones and Victor Green had defensive touchdowns and Tom Brady threw two TD passes for the Patriots who seem to have dispelled all doubts that their Super Bowl win was a fluke Adam Vtnatieri kicked three field won its goals as New England (2-eighth straight regular-seaso- n game So strong was the Patriots’ defense that it held the Jets (1-to one first down until Mott Turk ran 14 yards a fake punt with 4 12 minutes left in the third quarter Vinny Testaverde then hit Santana Moss for 35 yards Buccaneers 25 Ravens 0 Karl Williams returned a punt 56 opening 19-1-0 17-ya- rd on 38-ya- rd 1) 14-ya- rd 2) 45-ya- rd 0) 1) i less tie and joined an exclusive NationalLeague 1) Sosa’s good in doubling their win total from a year ago when they lost their last 15 games Now they’re for die first time since 19 The Lions (0-- dropped their 10th straight road game and appeared just as bad as last year’s team that wait Cardinals 24 Seahawks 13 Thomas Jones ran for a career-hig- h 2-- 0 al past New York With a crowd of 16608 on hand for a “Turn Back the Clock” promotion Javier got all the Vazquez (10-13- ) offense he needed as he allowed four hits in seven innings to win his second straight start after losing seven in a row Phillies 1 Pirates 0 (10) Pat Burrell scored on a field- ing mistake by reliever Scott Sauerbeck in the 10th inning as Philadelphia beat Pittsburgh With one out in the 10th Bur-rell was intentionally walked and went to third on a single by Trims Lee Johnny Estrada then hit a sharp grounder to Sauerbeck (3-who turned and made a bad throw to shortstop Jack Wilson whose throw to first was too late allowing Burrell to score 3) ' - Braves 6 Marlins 4 Javy Lopez had a pinch-h- it grand slam with two outs in the sixth inning and John Smoltz earned his major league-leadin- g 51st save as Atlanta beat Florida Utah St Continued from B1 2) limited the Ravens to six first downs before die fourth quarter and repeatedly frustrated Baltimore quarterback Chris Redman Baltimore (0-- was shut out for the first time since Nov 9 1997 Browns 20 Bengals 7 GusFrerotte proved he’s not ambidextrous and the Browns atoned for the mistakes of their opener by handing Cincinnati its second straight drubbing in Cleveland Late in the second quarter Frerotte was trying to avoid a sack by Cleveland's Orpheus Roye when Frerotte flung the ball with — hand his left — Kenard Lang intercepted and ran 71 yards to set up a touchdown that put the Browns ahead 17-- 0 Linebacker Dwayne Rudd promised fans a great performance to make up for his helmet-throwiblunder a week earlier but he had only one tackle Jaguars 23 Chiefs 16 The Jaguars rallied with two quick touchdowns in the fourth touchquarter including a down pass from Mark Brunell to Patrick Johnson that was the longest pass play in Jacksonville history Johnson’s TD made it 16-- 9 just ' two plays after Kansas City’s Morten Andersen kicked his third field goal to tie it at 9-with 5:59 left in the game ‘ After the Chiefs (1-punted the Jaguars’ Frid Taylor burst through a gaping hole and went 63 yards for the touchdown Taylor who missed almost all of last year with a groin injury had 114 yards bn 20 carries for the rebuilding Jaguars (1-Panthers 31 Lions 7 Rodney Feete passed for 310 yards and a touchdown for Carolina which was happy to get ayicto-r- y against the league’s second-wor- st team from last year The Panthers actually looked 2) non-throwi- ng 4 1) shot four-gam- Cubs 6 Reds 0 1) n (6-- 5) 7) Sammy Sosa snapped a score all three-ru- ot lead- gave Carlos Zambrano (4-his second win since July 15 and the Cubs a e series split of die The homer his 46th gave Sosa his first RBIs since Wednesday Astros 8 Cardinals 0 Wade Miller wort his 11th consecutive decision with a three-hitt- er for his first career v shutout and Lance Berkman drove in four runs as Houston beat Matt Morris and St Louis The victory cut St Louis’ lead id the NL Central to 6 12 games and gave the Astros a split in the four-gam- e series : Expos 10 Mets 1 Matt Cepicky hit his first career grand slam and Orlando Cabrera and Jamey Carroll hit two-ru- n homers to lead Montre Schilling struck out eight to reach 300 for die season He mid Johnson are die first teammates with 300 strikeouts in the same season Rockies 5 Dodgers 4 Tbdd Zeile hit a three-ru- n homer and Brent Butler a two-ru- n shot as Colorado beat Los Angeles The Rockies took three of four in the series from the Dodgers who remained me game behind San Francisco in the NL wildcard race Los Angeles has lost seven of its last nine 79-ya- rd 421-fo- off Scott Sullivan 24-ga- 97-ya- rd (1-- the season with a three-ru- n homer in the eighth inning ing Chicago past Cincinnati Johnson to make strikeout histo- ry and Tony Womack singled home the winning run in the 13th inning to give Arizona a win over Milwaukee Schilling’s bid to become winner baseball's first in six years was spoiled when an error by second baseman Junior Spivey allowed the Brewers to score the tying run in the ninth yards for a touchdown and Derrick Brooks scored on a interception return as Tunpa Bay gave John Gruden his first victory as Buccaneers coach The Bucs dub driving in his 100th RBI of 2--14 173 yards and MarTay Jenkins had a kickoff return in die fourth quarter as die Cardinals rallied for the victory ending Dil-fer- ’s 15-- 0 record as a starter Differ whose last defeat as a starter came with the Ravens against Pittsburgh two years ago was 352 for a career-be- st touchdown and a but he yards slowed down in die second half after leading the Seahawks (0-- to a 10-- 3 lead at the break The Cardinals (1-won die first regular-seaso-n at $430 milgame lion Seahawks Stadium 95-ya- rd 29-of-- 47 2) 1) Chargers 24 Texans 3 If the Houston Texans didn’t look like an expansion team in their opener they sure did by the time Junior Seau and the San Diego Chargers were done with them Seau die perennial Pro Bowl linebacker intercepted rookie ' David Carr to set up one of Curtis Conway’s two touchdowns and defensive end Raylee Johnson recovered Carr’s fumble in die did zone for another score by the Chargers (2-0- ) Can was sacked nine times and for 87 yards Raiders 30 Steders 17 Rich Gannon broke nearly pvexy Raidas passing major single-gam-e record even those from the early days of the AFL by throwing 64 times and Oakland’s defense forced five turnovers as the Raiders beat die winless Steelers Gannon came out throwing for 403 yards and a going touchdown The 43 completions were only two short of Drew Bledsoe’s 1995 NFL record — that in an overtime game — and all but the yardage were Oakland records was just 43-of-- 64 Croft has been scouting the Vikings though attending the game against Southern Utah with USU assistant coach Brent Anderson Prior to watching diem play Croft said she knew Portland State had a higher speed of play than that of Southern Utah “They’re bigger kids and they’ve won a lot of games” she said They are really confident coming into us” And the Vikings should be The shutout against SUU marked the most dominating performance in PSU history with a record seven goals scored Freshman Megan Plinski recorded similar numbers to that of USU’s Turner putting three goals in the net and having one assist for seven points Elated Continued from B1 Jose Puentes had executed a draw perfectly i from nine yards out but the flag brought it back USU settled for a 25 yard Dane Kid-man field goal Back'in the second quarter Aggie wide receiver Kevin Curtis had gotten by the Ben--- 1 gal covering him only to have his jersey tugged on just before the ball arrived Curtis was heading down the sidelines and may have gone me distance had he not been hdd ' That’s a big if but still possible Had he caught the pass and scored the Aggies would have been up 35-- 0 There was no flag on the play and USU punted Idaho State scored on the ensuing possession The bottom line is the Aggies didn’t put the game away like they should have j “We didn’t click like we wanted too” We Dennehysaid “We will take thi win need to be a way more consistent team and control the ball on offense and not allow big 1 plays on defense We still have tilings we can work on in practice” Now tiie Aggies turn their attention to A squad Dennehy called the Iowa (2-team USU will face this year The biggest Hawkeyes are smarting after letting a big rival Iowa lead slip away against State in a 1 loss Saturday - s ‘ -- -- ’ 1) m-sta- te 36-3- |