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Show DAILY HERALD- BC Sunday, September 26, 2004 - BASEBALL Awards up for grabs in firial week Steve Wilstein Sports tolumnist spots are still up for si Playoff and so are postsea- - ' 1 Press MARCH) JOSE SANCHEZAssociated follows through on a solo home run off Los Angeles' Odalis Perez as catcher Brent Mayne, middle, and umpire Dan Iassogna watch Friday in San Francisco. San Francisco's Barry Bonds the late innings. And the fans went crazy when Feliz's shot sailed out. Continued from Bl "It basically came down to with two out in the sixth off Tyler Walker made it an eighth and Pedro Feliz crushed Bonds was intentionally it," Dodgers manager, Jim Trawalked in his first two at bats, cy said. "That was the game." The Dodgers played without "including in the third inning first baseman Shawn Green, with the bases empty, then who spent the day observing walked on five pitches in the the Jewish holiday Yom Jiip-pu- r. Green hit a two-ru- n pass in the seventh and homer in Friday night's 2 walked again in the eighth, win. giving the slugger 221 total Robin Ventura, playing in walks this year and 116 intentional. place of Green, doubled in the Bonds had little to say afterfourth and scored on Alex homer in the Cora's two-ru- n ward, but' called Feliz "a great fourth before being lifted for a player." "Two great games, guys, pinch hitter in the eighth. Durham hit his 15th homer that's it," Bonds said. "Two leading off the bottom of the outstanding baseball games. Move on. Let's play tomorfirst, his eighth leadoff homer this season and 33rd of his carow." Orrft EVi-- t"yj) ritfVioA tVio reer, Both starting pitchers got eighth for the win and Ray Durham homered and hit an knocked out early, leaving the RBI double for San Francisco, bullpens in charge. which lost the opener of this Dodgers starter Jose Lima couldn't hold the lead after crucial three-gam- e series 2 Cora's homer. Friday night.- Lima took a ball off his Closer Dust in Hermanson ,thumb, which already had a pitched a perfect ninth. San Francisco loaded the chipped bone it, on Snow's bases in the eighth. Michael groundout in the third, but Tucker led off with a broken-ba- t stayed in after being examined by the team trainer. single, then moved to second on Dustan Mohr's sacrir "Why couldn't the ball just fice. hit me in the mouth? I can alPinch-hitte- r ways go to the dentist tomorRicky Ledee row and get new teeth," Lima drew a walk to said. bring up Durham, who fouled Deivi Cruz and Tucker both off three straight pitches with the count full before hitting a singled to start the fourth. After Mohr struck out, pinch-hitte- r high popup in foul territory Tony Torcato hit a sacricaught by first baseman Hee fice fly to pull San Francisco Seop Choi. J.T. Snow walked, Durham followed within then Feliz followed with the with his second big hit of the winning hit. Most of the sellout crowd of day, an RBI double that ' chased Lima. ' 42,486 was on its feet during Giants at-b- 5-- -- 3-- s 3-- full-cou- 4-- as baseball heads into the final week of the V regular season. Fence-sittin- g voters for the Most Valuable Player, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year V x in each league may well be persuaded by a surge or drop-of- f by candidates in the last days ! mtf especially if it makes a difference in their teams reaching the playoffs. At the moment, the vote here for MVP is San Francisco's Barry Bonds (No. 7) in the National League and the New York Yankees' Gary Sheffield in the American League. For the Cy Young, Houston's Roger DARREN HAUCKAssociated , Clemens (No. 7, though his first Houston Astros' Roger Clemens pitches to the Milwaukee Brewers in the firsi inning of Friday's in the NL) and Minnesota lefthander Johan Santana in the game in Milwaukee. Clemens could receive the Cy Young award Ir'k y (l Press AL For the Rookie of the Year, my choices would be San Diego's Khalil Greene in the NL and Oaldand's Bobby Crosby in the AL. ' None of those picks, except is with a lock Clemens, perhaps other voters and I wouldn't be surprised to see my colleagues in the Baseball Writers Association of America go with other names. Strong cases surely could be made in the NL MVP voting for St. Louis' Scott Rolen, who carried the Cardinals through the first half of the season, and Albert Pujols, who powered them through the second half . Both will finish among the league leaders in batting and RBIs, with Pujols still contending for the home run title. They are the best players on the NL's best team. Working against them is the possibility they may split the vote among those inclined to -vote for a Cardinal. Rolen's absence from the lineup because of injury the last couple of weeks also may hurt his chances, though the Cards were well on their way to clinching the NL Central Division title by thea Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Adrian Beltre is an equally deserving candidate on a possible playoff team. Like Pujols last year, he has close to Triple Crown numbers leading in home runs and near the top in batting average and RBIs. Yet, like Pujols last year, he's still not in Bonds' class. Bonds continues to defy age, comparison and belief. Players at 40 simply do not hit in the .370s (hardly anyone ever does), much less do it with 44 homers. They simply don't post slugging percentages around .830 (no one does) or e percentages over .600 (ditto), as Bonds has so far. Bonds had 702 career homers going into Saturday's game and could surpass Babe Ruth's total of 714 next spring on the way to chasing down Hank Aaron's 755. But history aside, what Bonds has done this season with so few pitches to hit (his walk total stood at a ridiculous 216 going into the weekend) makes him both the most feared batter in baseball and the clear choice to extend his record for MVPs. In the American League, good arguments also could be made for several players. Manny Ramirez's 42 homers and David Ortiz's 40 (going into Saturday's game against New York) helped Boston keep the heat on the Yankees and virtu on-bas- wild-car- d spot. day night's game, he was batIchiro Suzuki of Seattle enting .292 with 23 homers. His numbers may not rate the MVP, tered Saturday with a .375 bat, but his attitude does. ting average and is approachThe voting shouldn't be dose ing George Sisler's record of 257 hits for the St. Louis over the NL Cy Young award. Browns in 1920. But Suzuki's Clemens, 184 with a 2.89 ERA MVP chances are crippled by and 210 strikeouts, has been the main reason the Houston Asthe Mariners' woeful record as tros are still in the wild-car- d the AL West's worst team. It's hunt. Even when he missed a hard to imagine how much bid for his 19th victory Friday worse they would have been without Suzuki. Maybe they, night, he was overpowering, 12 bewould have finished in the mistriking out a season-hignors. fore leaving a scoreless game after 7 3 innings. His effort The best and most consistent paid off when Houston won player on the AL's best team inthelOth. has been the Yankees' The AL voting for Cy Young Sheffield. He signed a $39 mildeal last offseawill be close between Boston's lion, three-yea- r Curt Schilling and Minnesota's son after his contract with Atlanta ran out, and he lived up to Santana, both 20-- It wouldn't his end. He led the Yankees in be a surprise to see Schilling homers (36) and RBIs (119) and win it, given his high profile and his importance to the Red was second in batting (.294) goSox since signing with them ing into Saturday night's game. Derek Jeter probably won't during the offseason. Schilling also has strong numbers to garner too many votes but he should. After a miserable a 3.28 ERA etncl back him up 197 strikeouts. slump early in the season, Jeter was still having trouble Santana, though, has been a little better with a league-lobatting his weight in mid-Ma2.62 ERA and 260 strikeouts. , He dealt with a groin pull after ' More than that, Santana has' that and a broken hand, yet vaftf-abl- e kept battling and getting better, probably been the more member of his team, leadleading the Yankees on the field Twins to a1 and in the clubhouse with his ing the third straight division title. - gritty resolve. Entering Satur ally secure the . 0 w y. low-budg- COLLEGE SPORTS nam o alilBfflMk A til il In M)i UNLV rallies to defeat UVSG THE DAILY teste fJ Odd Dflg)GDfl LAS VEGAS, Nev. The UNLV Rebels barely snuck past Utah Valley State in five games , (27.30, on Saturday at the Cox Pavilion,' rallying after losing the first two games. 25-30- 30-1- 9, 30-2- 2, 15-1- "After we took the first two games, UNLV was a lot more aggressive than we were," said UVSC coach Sam Atoa. "They started to make a run and we weren't willing to step up and match their intensity." Deise Borghetti recorded her of the seafourth double-doubl19 kills son with a team-hig- h and 15 digs. Middle blockers Jessica Endres and Stephanie McFarland tallied 11 and nine kills, respectively. Endres hit an impressive .474 Alina Wajlauer added nine kills and 13 digs. Setter Lacee Koelliker notched her fifth double-double with 43 assists and a It V ROUNDUP HERALD e team-hig- 18 digs. After dominating the match early, UVSC couldn't put away the Rebels. us in the "They just out-hlast three games," Atoa said. UVSCs defense played solid, the Rebels 10-- 9 and forcing UNLV into making 40 attack errors. The difference was UNLV got more chances, it 2004 MODELS ONLY 1 T attacking the ball 44 more times than the Wolverines. Almost every other category was even across the board. The Rebels main force was Maria Aladjova, who recorded 28 kills. a match-hig- h The Wolverines continue e road swing at their Oral Roberts on Wednesday before returning home. I UVSC soccer The UVSC women's soccer team lost a tough 2 decision to the UC Davis Aggies at Wolverine nine-gam- 4-- Field. USVC had plenty of opportunities to stay in the game but struggled to find the back of the net. Both teams had 12 shots on goal "We did some good things but finishing is a problem," said UVSC coach Gabe Smart. "Once we start finishing, the games will go our way. I was pleased that we were getting the opportunities even though we did not finish." The Wolverines scored quick- ly, getting a header from. Ahyssa Wagar off a comer kick in the third minute of play. Nic-ho- le Averett earned the assist. UC Davis quickly tied the game at 1 on a goal from Megan Wall in fifth minute.The Aggies took the lead in the 31st minute on a goal from Lindsey Raymond. Megan Wall recorded the assist by firing a nice. cross pass to Raymond. Just before halftime, ( Stephanie Cosper scored fo Utah Valley to tie the game at 2-' UVSC had seven sfcqts in the first half and five in the , second half. UC Davis ) fired ' . six in each half and scored twice in the final period to earn the win. (2-6-- (3-6- In the 55th minute Annie McAllister drilled a shot from the top of the 18 to give the Aggies a 2 lead. In the final minute, Raymond scored her second goal off a pass from 3-- WalL "We are learning to find consistency," Smart said. "Working on finishing will be a big deal for us this week." Utah Valley host Nevada on Thursday and Idaho State on Oct.2. I BYU women's tennis: BYU won two singles championships in the final day of the BYU Invita-tiona- L Senior Rebecca Pike beat New Mexico's Jennifer Ryba 63 and newcomer Dolly Chang won her flight by topping Lucy Scott from New . 7-- 5, Mexico, 3-- 6-- 6-- 2004 MODELS ONLY (SaL7L?eftQ: OGoiraGOcSj "OUR FAMILY SERVING YOUR FAMILY FOR OVER 42 YEARS" 563 N. Main, Nephi 43623-002- 3 Honda Finance horab om -- 06.97.98.9 Program ALWAYS WEAR A HELMET, EYE PROTECTION AND PROTECTIVE CLOTHING AND PLEASE RESPECT THE ENVIRONMENT. OBEY THE LW AND READ YOt'R OWNER1S MANUAL THOROUGHLY. FOURTRAX RANCHER AT REG fixed APR financing OMMENDED ONLY FOR RIDERS 16 YEARS OR OLDER. PROFESSIONAL RIDER SHOWN ON CLOSED COURSE up to 36 months through American Honda Finance Corporation upon approved credit. Payment example: 36 monthly payments of $30.83 ft each $1000 financed. 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