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Show SECTION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 2004 dhsportsOheraldextra.cofn 344-255- 5 COLLEGE FOOTBALL It's time for MWC to make home turf count Mountain West has wanted big teams on its home turf. Now, it'll get it. teams are headed to football stadiums near you. Texas A&M, Washington State, California and (how could we forget?) Notre Dame wiD all be at MWC stadiums for the first full weekend of the college football season. Without further ado, this week's picks. AH times listed are Mountain Daylight Time. p.m.,ESPN) In Salt Lake City, the occasion is being called Utah Day. But wffl be Utah's day, opening is season amid expectations and a hungry opponent? It stiU isnt A&M's dub of coach old, but second-yea- r Dennis Franchione is fully capable of rebuilding a pro1 gram quickly. What a win it would be for his team that went 8 last year. The visitors wont be intimidated even by an expected sellout crowd. They've seen far more hostile fans in Big 12 Conference stadiums. The Jason Franchuk BYU hopes to return favor on, off field MWC Predictions Darnell Dickson DALY HERALD BYU came away from its 2003 trip to South Bend, Ind., with a 33-1-4 loss to Notre Dame. Flayers, coaches, administrators and fans also came away with a lasting impression of how well they were treated. There has been a push by the BYU administration to return the favor when the Irish come to town this weekend. You could do worse than trying to emulate the most storied program in college footbaU history. BYU meets Notre Dame on Saturday, the fifth time the two schools have met on the footbaU field. Notre Dame has won three t Big-nam- e 4-- , Utah vs. Texas A&M (5:30 Tonight But Utah wiU roU after an early case of nerves. Quarterback Alex Smith is too much against a defense that stiU is feeling the effects of giving up 77 points to See FRANCHUK, B4 of the meetings handily and BYU shocked the Irish in South Bend 4 in 1994. Both coaches FALL CAMP are in full "re-spect" mode, telling the media how great their opponents are while planning to exploit every weakness. "The success that BYU has had over the years, it was mentioned this morning that they have done an outstanding job in what they caU their payback games," said Notre Dame coach Tyrone earlier this week. "I think 21-1- it is, if the stats are correct. So I think all of those things lead us to be focused on BYU and not anyone else. We understand that to have a great season, you have to win your first ball game." Since 1999, BYU is 1 in payback games against opponents. . t I J i an ing outstanding program like Notre Dame," said BYU coach Gary Crowton. "We're very anxious to be playing against someone other than ourselves. We've prepared well during the off and we're very focused." In last year's game, BYU had a 6-- 1 1 Will-ingha- m See BYU, B4 INSIDE VALLEY PREPS Mindset over matter Timpview next for Knights IHfff! Jared Lloyd " ' DAILY HERALD No. 3 Lone Peak (1-- plays a n schedule every brutal season. In 2004, the Knights started out on the road at Bountiful, beating the defending 4A Next week the champions, defending 5A champion Hunter Wolverines come to Highland. And tonight, the Knights get No. 2 Timpview 00). This win be a big chaUenge for us," said Knights head coach Monte Morgan. They are very formidable on offense and de" fense. They have great players and very good team speed." ' The Thunderbirds come in having scored 35 and 30 points in their two games. Running back Harvey Unga has gained 212 yards rushing and quarterback Stephen Covey added 342 yards through the air. The two have six rushing touchdowns and Covey has thrown three touchdown passes. Lone Peak counters with a strong defense that gave up 62 non-regio- 7' y mum 7-- " urn l T7T f I m Vf t 111 : See GAME, ii; 4 x a i i Ii a fr " . it B7 TIMPVIEW AT LONE PEAK JOSHUA BROWNDaily Herald Timberwohres goalies Sutton Cherrington (left) and Allana Snowden Today, 7 p.m. At Lone Peak High School I Series tied 4-- at Timpanogos High School Despite accident, Timpanogos goalie ready for action 4 FAST FACTS: Timpview beat Lone last year in Highland. Peak, 34-2-3 ... The game was moved to Thurs- get warmed up during practice Wednesday afternoon ' day because both teams have coaches that played on the 1984 BYU National Championship team, which is having a reunion on Friday night ... Last year's game featurnovers. tured 10 first-haLone Peak had last week off, giving the Knights two weeks to prepare for the Thunderbirds. lf you. I play my best when I have the atti- ing those saves. I want to be with the tude that nothing's going in, so bring it ' team, giving directions." But Cherrington has 80 reasons to not on." be on the field that's how many After playing since her freshman stitches she has in and around her year, and starting the first three games mouth after a car accident on Aug. 21. of this season, Cherrington found herself in a difficult position as the Timber"Saturday night a bunch of friends wohres took the field against Springville and I left a party to go get something to on Aug. 24 on the bench. eat," Cherrington remembered "As we drove down Orem Boulevard, we drove "It's killing me," Cherrington said. "When I see Allana (Snowden) make a through a light; some other kids ran a . red light and hit the driver's side." save, I just want to be in that net, mak Jared Uoyd : DAILY HERALD Timpanogos goalkeeper Sutton Cherrington has only played in the net for a couple of years, but she has discovered the attitude that brings success. "You have to have the mindset that no matter what happens, you have to come back," she said. "You've got to have the attitude that if you score on me, the next time I'm coming harder at The passenger side airbag exploded in Cherrington's face, burning and cutting her. "I don't remember getting hit," she said. "I just remember looking down, playing with a Rubik's Cube, then flashes of white, which was the airbag. Then just blood everywhere. I thought I only had a bloody nose. I was in shock, so I didn't feel anything. I thought I was fine." See GOALKEEPER, B6 PIONEER LEAGUE BASEBALL Casper rocks Angels in regular-seaso- n Casper second '. baseman Jason VanKoote leaps over and: away from Provo'sBUfy Bayer as he A A to complete a double play at Miller Field on Wednesday night The Angels lost their final home game of the season, 11-and now finish regular-seaso- n play on the road at Casper and at Ogden. DAILY HERALD "' For three innings, Provo and Casper looked like mirror images. From then on, they headed in opposite directions as the Rockies beat the Angels on Wednesday, 11-- in the final regular-season home pame at Larry H. Miller Field. When Casper got the third out to end the third inning, the 1 PROVO stats were almost identical. Casper had one more hit and one more error. Provo had one more strikeout and one more walk. Both had one double play. The two teams had even scored in similar fashion. Casper started things of with a single by shortstop Jeff Dragice-vic- h and a double by right fielder Justin 1, i TTTIrlT? EEr 1, . - JEREMY HARMONDaily HeraM ''''""-.-- ' . ' '' r ' - , : , - ' , a sacri- fice grounder by first baseman Mike ' lead. Nelson to take the The Angels also got a grounder to put a run across, in the form of a double play. A walk and an error put runners at first and third with no outs. Second baseman Josh IBlaiic hit a hard ground ball to the shortstop, who started the double pky but allowed the run to score to tie things. But m the next two innings, Provo sent six batters to the plate and came back with six outs. Casper starting pitcher Pat Stanley controlled the plate, throwing for six strong innings, allowing only one run on four hits and striking out seven. The Rockies exploded for seven runs on six hits in the next two innings. Angels starter Nick Green gave up two waBis and single to load the bases with 0 throwstofirst IS Nelson. Dragkevich scored on Jared Uoyd . home finale no outs: An error scored one run and put runners on second and third for center neiaer Mssuru &aKamoto. saKamoto lined a fastball down the right field line base hit and a 1 lead for a two-RThings fell apart for Provo in the fifth and sixth innings. Angels reliever Kelly Shearer, who just arrived in Provo, gave s of an inning up four runs in of work. He gave up three walks, a double and a towering home run by Davies field. over the wall in right-centReliever Casey Mutter came in, allowing one more run on an RBI b n. t by Rockies catcher Ramon Rodriguez before getting the final out of the fifth inning. In the sixth. Mutter pitched well but got no help from his defense. A fielding and a throwing error allowed two more 4-- two-third- er See ANGELS, B5 |