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Show . THE DAILY HERALD, (www.HatfcTheHefaId.con). Provo. Utah, Friday, March 28, 2003 Page B2 AMBRIEFING TENNIS v Serena WIIHsRis returns to Key Ciscayna title match 11-1- 2, I - KlirU(l8) I- - .i back-to-bac- y. UC-San- tain that." UC-Irvin- Hawaii and BYU are the only e. Utah was e 181-84-- 1, - In the City. THORN SELECTED: Senior Erin Thorn was selected as one of 20 top senior collegiate players to participate Chalin the 2003 WBCA lenge in Atlanta, Ga., during the NCAA Division I Final Four. Thorn, a In the third inning, after guard from Kainoa Obrey extended his Orem, was the lone MWC player team-hig- h hitting streak to 13 selected to the prestigious showwith an RBI double, a case. games, Others named include point BYU player made a snow ,angel and another player wrote ,the guard Ashley McElhiney from letters BYU in the snow, while Vanderbilt, North Carolina's players on both teams playfully Coretta Brown, Iowa State's threw snowballs at each other. Lindsey Wilson and Boston Col- Welcome to spring baseball in lege's Brianne Stepherson. The roster also includes six perimeUtah. Just when everything seemed ter players and five insidepost to be going BYU's way, the first players. If any of the players', of a three-gam- e baseball series named are participating with with Utah was suspended after their team in the Final Four, blizzard made the alternates will be chosen. a Thorn finished her stellar field Franklin Covey BYU career earning three unplayable. citations, three MWC The game will be resumed on First Team honFranklin at at 7 p.m. Friday ors, four consecutive MWC Covey where it was left off honors, including with one out in the top of the third inning, Obrey on second, an MVP accolade for the 2002 championship title,. Thorn set a and BYU leading In MWC play, all games that new league . tournament record are started are finished, eventu- with 76 points in thisv year's tournament to become the all-tially. scorleader in tournament The suspension means the ' And 199 with she's double-headpoints. ing two teams will play a on Saturday beginning at the only player in the league ' tournament history to record noon.games. Obrey wasn't the only Cougar The senior also first three the that happy leaves her mark in BYU's counted. coach Cougar innings Vance Law liked the way the women's basketball history by e school's game was progressing, but he becoming the leader. Her record of nine did 'say Mousser won't pitch on in a is game high for ,,.f. Friday: "He's probably thrown too both; the men's and women's : many pitches," Law said. .Td teamsy She also became the to risk an injury, it's too school's fourth leading scorer hate club of season. I don't know and joins' the 2,000-poia long who we will start now. til get with 2, 061 points. Double-headand The WBCA together with the coaches on April 3, begins with figure it out" BYU was the WBCA High School game followed by the heading iuto this series, and : . room selling for $20. World Series champion Anaheim had the largest increase, its average rising 35.5 percent to $15.97. Minnesota's average went up 22.2 percent to $14.40, Philadelphia's rose 13 percent to $17.24 In its last season at veterans Stadium and Houston's increased 10.1 percent to $20.78. Montreal has the lowest average at $9 U.S., counting only tickets for the Expos' 59 home games at Olympic Stadium, not their 22 games at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Kansas City is 29th at $12.13 and Florida is 28th at $12.78. Seven teams had a decrease, with Tampa Bay's average going down 8.5 percent to $14.49. All-St- ar . , 30-min- an DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER: New York Mets coach Doa Baylor has been diagnosed with cancer in his bone marrow but hopes the chemotherapy treatments wont cause him to miss any games. Tknow what I have to do and I plan to do it," Baylor said Thursday Ts a good time to get done and get behind me. It's treatable, so why not treat it now?.. Baylor, 53, will undergo four days of oral and- ' intravenous chemotherapy beginning Tuesday -t- he day after the Mets open the season against Baylor's former team, me Chicago Cubs -ttreat the mutt-pi- e ' myeloma. The treatment will be repeated once every 28-to-days as initial therapy. There's a fairly high upfront success rate, some- - v where in the vicinity of 60-7- 0 percent,' Dr. John Ollch-ne- y said about the possibility of complete remission. The problem is that there are recurrences." Yankees pitching coa Mel StottJenryre was diagnosed with the same type of cancer in April 2000. Stottiemyre underwent stem cell replacement 4-- 2. o er back-to-ba- ck "-- , V.y. : nt . Ail-St- 9-1- ; 8JO - wit;: ;::l!ud.co CPCHTIK3 CSC23 17ESSTEEISI VJSAR 1 10 aja. I p.av 2 v , Winston Cup qualifying (FOXSN) , NASCAR - Reidvs.AceveJo(ESPN2) BOXING 7Mb ml - Herald NASDAQ-10- 0 , - v ' 7JB. ' KSRR BASE3AU . '. BYUtUtah(K0V0960AM) Eia-Ep- j a Crrai Bgmmgtom COUNTRY Fire Arms Ammunition 'Accessories ' 1400AM) V at , Milwaukee at Utah (KFNZ 1320 AM, a, COLLEGE The men's semi (ESPN2) men's semifinal (ESPN2) NASOAQ-10-0 NBA BASKETBALL 7 Mn-S- t TENNIS ' 1230 pja. t ml 33 SosSk ZisSB Players Championship (ESPN) LPGA Kraft Nabisco CharrponsWp (ESPN2) AUTO RACING a-- or ' : GOLF v er All-Ameri- ca 4, - TELEVISION 7a.aL 7:40 a.n. ar . BASKETBALL I p.m. int ' ON THE AIR r 30-poi- nt all-tim- , .com - a junior college transfer in 2002, is the team's best player this season. 22G-7p- :0 all-arou- "These guys have contributed a ton to our program," Peterson said. "I hope we play well for them." v Darnell Dickson can be reached at or by 344-255- 5 atddicksonheraldextra.com. RIDGELL Continued from Bl ar SWIMMING AND DIVING: At Austin, Texas, senior diver Aaron Russell led the way for the Cougars in the first day of competition at the men's NCAA Championships at the University of Texas. ; Russell, a an left-fie- ld The Red Sox play in the major leagues' smallest ballpark, Fenway Park, which has a capacity of about . 17-1- BYlTs Brock Jacobsen came within a foot of taking the team's home run lead when he hit a fence. . double off the In the second inning, BYU starter Jeff Mousser struck out ' the side. at $23.50. (CBS) NBA, Phoenix at Detroit (ESPN) NBA, Milwaukee at Utah (FOXSN) or Maryland-- ; NCAA, Syracuse-Aubur- n Michigan State (CBS) NBA, Dallas at Portland (ESPN) All-St- first inning Thursday night, 3.2 percent to $18.81. Boston's average increased 6.7 percent according to the Team Marketing Report's annual study, which was released Thursday The New York Yankees are second at $24.86, followed by the New York Mets three-gam- Challenge. All games will be played at the Georgia Tech Alexander Memorial Coliseum, Tip off will be 4 p.m. MDT, 2-- 4. leads the series, but the Utes have are 5 against BYU in games played at Rc the Triple A ballpark in Salt Lake' The Daily Herald SALT LAKE CITY 11-1- 2, BYU all-tim- By NEIL K. WARNER $42.34, and the sport's overall average increased onship match at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion, and the Cougars earned e the national title with a loss that sweep. BYUs only season was in the Marriott Center to Long Beach State. In this week's national statistics, BYU middle; blocker Michael Burke is eighth in blocks (Ul) and ninth in hitting percentage (.448). Rafael Paal is ranked sixth in service ' ace nercentaere (.423). also the marks weekend This final home regular-seaso-n matches for three BYU seniors Paal, Luka Slabe and Jaime Slabe and Mayol were Mayol. a.: nw-- t Trt7TT i memDers uuj. nauun-a- l oidiub team and Paal, championship opener postponed Thorn invited to WBCA game NEW YORK -- The Boston Red Sox have baseball top average ticket price for the sixth straight year at Oklahoma-Butle- ta This week's matches, as well BYU-Uta- h Boston tickets highest NCAA, , , BASEBALL ' - BVU TORT WORTH, Texas Jasoa Keller earned his start of first Busch Series pole and fourth front-rothe season, running a lap of 187.474 mph at Texas Motor Speedway on Thursday , in Saturday's Stanton Barrett will start-secoTexas track after a lap O'Reilly 300 at the 1 12-mil- e ' of 186.916 mph. . tt wiU be the third time this season Keller and Barrett start their Fords on the front row together. Barrett was the polesitter at Las Vegas and Darlington, and Keller qualified second the last three races. Keller's fast lap was nearly six mph slower than Jeff Green! Texas qualifying run of 193.493 mph last April after the track had been resurfaced. This place is fast Last year felt fast and this year feK fast,' said Keller, who finished 13th at Texas last year. S ML post-seaso- i ' ,; is Kellsr wins Busch pete ALSO: Georgia coach Jin Harrick resigned Thursday amid a scandal in the basketball program, then announced he was retiring. "My players have always been important to me, and I did not want the media attention or questions about my status to distract them any more,' the Harrick said in a statement 'I am grateful to the University of Georgia and our fans for their support over the last four years," he said. ... NASCAR driver Jlnnle Johasea did his part to support the U.S. troops Thursday by stuffing care packages during a visit to an Army base. Johnson spent four hours on the base in Fort Meade, Md., assisting the United Service Organization in making 10,000 care packages for troops fighting the war with Iraq. ... New York Mets catcher Mike Piazza's appeal for his five-gasuspension will be heard after Monday's season-openat Shea Stadium. ... At Fort Collins, Colo., Jasal Farrucka took the ball hard to the basket and converted a layup with 7.8 seconds left to give CSU a 62-- 61 victory over Missouri in the WNIT quarterfinals on Thursday night . $ vs.ica4L:..aEHrurE(iM) r- - What BYU men's Tom Peterson coach volleyball T,""""J: Ttf"jn and Saturday, T p.m. ' needs, wants and desires is conIop Basch State leads the I t. : : sistency. X His Cougars are ranked third I oiv . senes 12 6. The Pyramid, Long distinctive home m&, a the host lUUk into this in the country going ' of tf 2003 NCAA metis Final home weekend's matches four In Way. ... f noay n,ght, BrtJ's Black Stu- at ftafftme. Saturday against No. 4 Long Beach State J Sent Unwn wifi perfoim it'tt, the senios will be recognized just tonight and Saturday at 7 p.m., the mwsti and Bie Breakdanee ; but Peterson hopes his team II before Club will perform. Standings, poB on Bl breaks a puzzling trend. Four of BYLTs five losses occurred on the second night against the teams in the Mountain 'Pacific same opponent. In the other Sports Federation that play on k loss, BYU dropped the first nights, mainly match with Pacific before win-- , because of travel costs. The California teams will often play ning the second night "I don't know, we keep talking Wednesday-Frida- y or Thursday-Saturdaabout it with the team," PeterThis season, BYU has split son said. "We dont know exactly what it is, so we are treating all two games with No. 6 Pacific, the symptoms. But one thing No. 15 Barbara, No. 2 I've noticed, even when I was a Hawaii, No. 9 Perm State and club coach, is that ifs very hard No. 7 The to beat a good team two nights Cougars have swept No. 11 in a row. It's very hard to main- Stanford, No, 10 UCLA, No. 8 PROVO AUTQRA&NG BAYLOR top-rank- ed The Dairy Herald KEY BISCAYNE. Fla. From the start, Senna Williams had Km Ctqstars on the defensive, sliding into the splits at the baseline in vain attempts to retrieve overpowering shots. The maneuver made Clijsters look like a cheerleader, and in the end all she could do was join the applause fbrWilliams.Hie workft No. 1 player advanced to the final of the Nasdaq-10- 0 Open and remained unbeaten ' 6-- 2 tn 2003 by winning 6-Ihursdayi will of the winner . Williams' opponent be Saturday semifinal between No. the Jennifer Capriati and No. 12 Chanda Rubto. Rain forced the postponement of that match until today, v Williams defeated Capriati In last year's final. 'If I'm playing my best tennis, I dont think anyone right now can beat me,' Williams said. In men's play, No. 9 Albert Costa was two points from victory when rain forced the suspension of his quarterfinal match against No. 4 Roger Fedenr. Costa erased two match points and rallied to go ahead 7--6 (4), 4-- 6, 6-- 5, with Federer serving at deuce, when a light rain stopped play. The stadium crowd booed its the players left the court. Heavy showers began falling a short time later and continued for several hours, and the last quarterfinal match e between champion Aadre Agassi and No. 19 tames Ayuoul was postponed until today. 34,000. To increase revenue, the team is constructing seats atop the Green Monster in left field. ' The 280 new seats go for $50, with standing as a showdown at are Pepperdine on April n critical to BYUs hopes. The Cougars have already clinched a spot in the MPSF playoffs but have an outside chance at playing host to the event "Expectations have to be high around here Peterson said. "A lot of times, we could be happy to be No. 3, but we're really not satisfied." We know we could be better." Long Beach State (15-8- ) has been a roll lately, winning eight of its past 10 matches and moving up steadily in the national rankings. The 49ers are led by junior opposite hitter, Scott Touzinsky (4.37 kills per game). Setter Tyler Hildebrand leads the country is assists with 14.69 per game. ; "Long Beach has traditionally been great on defense," Peterson said. "You could say they're scrappy, and they like to get in your face a little. It should be a very heated match." BYU and Long Beach State met in the 1999 NCAA champi By DARNELL DICKSON two-tim- second-tea- e m will now be able to add the title of first-teato his list of accomplishments as he managed to qualify for the final round of the men's diving event. Russell is also the 2003 MWC champion in the lmj 3m and platform diving events. "We are feeling pretty good getting Aaron into the finals," said men's swimming coach Tim Powers. Also making strong showings for the Cougars in the diving m an events were senior Justin Beardall and sophomore Scott Randall,. Beardall turned in an e finish, just missing the field of 16 that would have ensured him a second-teafinish. Randall, in his first NCAA appearance, finished in the 25th spot. Also making the trip to Austin was junior Randy BelMston, the MWC champion in the 200 and 400 individual medley. Belliston is the only Cougar swimmer to 18th-plac- m ica qualify for the NCAA Championships and it is also his first r trip to the meet Belliston finished 34th in the 200 IM with a time of 1:49.41. Competition at the NCAA watch the issue simmer the distance with mild concern. Mostly, they just wonder how a scholarship lost its value. "I loved coaching the kids when no one got anything" Michaelis says. "Everybody played for the love of ... But that's not our world now." In our world now, this is a complicated issue that the NCAA should address. Inequalities S conferprompt ences to gripe about the system, and inequalities prompt college athletes to wonder why they're not getting their fair share. But in our world now, it's important to remem-be- r that few are willing to wait for his or her fair share. Athletes are not the only college kids Dareiy scraping ay. it s a big part of the maturation process. A scholar- - it non-BC- ohin to mvr rr nr a iwt nr. payment how, but an investment in a future, in an education. Sometimes we forget Patrick Ridgell can be reached at pridgell heraldextra.com' Wolverines . continues Championships Russell in the finals with tonight of the lm, and again Saturday. WOMEN'S GOLF: At Santa Clarita, Calif., the Cougars finished tied for 13th in the Pioneer Electronics Bruins Classic, just five shots shy of a top 10 finish. BYU improved each round, shootPepper-din- e ing a won the event at 898. Catali-n- a Guacaneme was BYU's low scorer with a 231, tied for 25th. TEAM SCORES: () lewlocn BYU, Washington 1. MpporiiM 898, 2. Southern California 900, 3. ami New Mexico, 917, 5. California 918, 13. (tw) Suit, 949. IYV SCONES: Catalina Guacaneme (25th), Margaret Siboy (28th), Natalia Nemw 252, Nicole ftnrnn DanleW on Amlm host twinbills - OREM It's a quadruple dip for UVSC spring sports fans this weekend, if the, weather cooperates. The UVSC baseball team 3-- 5 (13-1- 1, SWAC) finally gets a home game when it plays host to Southern Idaho (13-today at 1 p.m, and Saturday at noon. The Wolverines softball 11-team (29-1is also at home, taking on North Idaho with today at 1 p.m. and Saturday at noon. 9, 1, (8-1- 5, 3) 7-- 8) 1-- 3) |
