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Show 0 I A I cs HEUID V PREP ROUNDUP Behind Illictt Nelson's solid pitching, Timpanogos (Meats I (lverton Russ Lyman DAILY HfSALD : ". . d 4-- 3 2-- 2 ill front for juxkI and kept the Bengals wmless on the ear with the victory. After Brighton scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the first, Lone Peak responded with five runs of their own when they got up to bat ) The Knights added two of Banks until the sixth when Jordan Mehlholf singled up tin? middle. Conners entered to pinch run for Mehlhoff and run. scored the "Our pitching for nine games has carried us. If thafs your best part you know you're going to be in games and have chances to win," coach Nelson said befor e commenting on his team's tough week at the plate; "I know we're better hitters. That's six hits in two games, we can hit better than that." Timpanogos improved to on the season while Riverton fell to tetwl to strike out the only batter he faced to end the game Despite Nelson's struggles in Mitch Foster finultv got to the final inning, it was still an rua Gentry Croft finally got out standing st art for the junior. to hit, and that combined with Nelson was virtually unliittable a dominating pitching perforover the first five, giving up only mance by Rhett Nelson, made a bloop single. Nelson used a the difference as No. 1 ranked filthy combination of Timpanogos won yet another f astballs in the high-80- s and close ballgame in picking up a curveballs that disappeared into win over Riverton on Friday the dirt to get eight strikeouts. afternoon in Orem. What makes Nelson's perforWith the game tied and the mance even more impressive is TWolves that it came against 5A's highest struggling scoring team. to score "My breaking ball was workruns, Foster ing well for me and my fastball executed a was popping pretty," Rhett Nelson said. "In between the perfect hit and run into that moves in and a slider the hole on that breaks hard away, hopefully TIMPANOGOS 4 the right side it keeps them Coach Nelson added, "I RIVERTON 3 to advance pinch runner thought he was right on top and in charge the whole game. Even Logan Conners to third. Instead of pinch running for the catcher in the seventh he still had real Foster like he normally does, good stuff." Both teams were Timpanogos coach Kirn Nelson elected to let him run for himself. for most of the game. The two The decision paid off two batteams combined for only one ters later when Foster shocked hit over the first five innings Riverton and attempted to steal that would have gone by very second. Silverwolf catcher Nate quickly if not for a couple of bizarre delays. The first delay Slaymaker threw down, but neither middle inf ielder was there came in the third inning after a to cover and the throw went into Kellen McWhorter bunt went center field, allowing Conners straight down, then came back to score from third to put the and hit his bat a second time. TWolves up After both coaches spoke with "That's Mitch's first and the umpire at length, McWhorter maybe his only stolen base in his was ruled out, but the runners were allowed to advance to seccareer," coach Nelson said with a laugh. "We creatively scored ond and third. The second delay runs." was caused by a surprisingly fast Christian Stewart and Jordan beagle that entered the field and ran around for about 10 minutes Cooper both walked to extend the inning and Gentry Croft enbefore being coaxed to leave. tered to pinch hit with two outs Riverton finally got to Nelson in the sixth when Slaymaker and the bases loaded. Croft also walked to score Foster and put reached on an error to start a two-ruthe TWolves up for good at inning. The two run lead seemed As effective as Nelson was, secure considering how Rhett Riverton starter Tanner Banks Nelson was pitching, however was just as good. Timpanogos' Stewart and McWhorter Riverton fought back in the top of the seventh to score a run and scored the first two runs of the they loaded the bases with two game on passed balls, but the outs before Taylor Lyons en- TWolves didn't get a hit off " ; (4-3- 050 2O0 1 ?U0 0U2 0 8110 482 2BRotmson (IP),'. B) jBi 3B:Mangrum Mangrum Banks. (6), Shipley and Slaymaker: West Jordan Wasatch 14, Delta 5: At Neplii, the Wasps used hot bats in the second and third innings to blow out the visiting Rabbits Tyson Lynn did it all for Juab, pitching a complete game with sixteen strikeouts and goat bat with ing a perfect a grand slam and six R Bl Kip Farrer also went with a homer and three RBI to to get help the Wasps (9-- Nelson, Lyons (7) and Foster. Baseball t Viewmont 14, Spanish Fork 2: At Bountiful, after the top of the first inning, nothing went g Spanish Fork's way in the loss. "Our pitching has been outbread-and-butte- r, t Lone Peak 8, Brighton non-regio- Huber (WJI (WJI.- 3B- - " ; " I North Sanpete 2, Grand 0: At Moab. the visiting Hawks ) scored twice in the fourth inning to get past Grand (3-4- (2-6- North Sanpete Grand 000 200 000 000 29 0 0 3 031 Allen (NS): (MS), win. n ft 4-- v NHL Today 4A5A BOYS BASKETBALL coach's game at Orem, 8 GIRLS BASKETBALL (V). At Salt Lake, the Knights used a big second inning to get in p.m. 4W5A coach's 5 p.m. North Sanpete at game atfliverton, BASEBALL Grand, noon. Northeast Basketball Montreal Ottawa Boston Buffalo Toronto NIT Semifinals Tuesday, April 1 Madison Square Garden At Massachusetts New York vs. Florida Mississippi vs. Ohio State Southeast 1), 5 p.m. 7 p.m. NCAA women's GREENSBORO At Connecticut Rutgers REGIONAL TBA ) ) OKLAHOMA TBA TBA vs. Louisville GfTY REGIONAL Regional Semifinals At The Ford Center Oklahoma City Sunday, March 30 Texas A&M Notre Dame 4: TBA vs. Duke ) vs. Tennessee SPOKANE REGIONAL ) ) ) vs. vanrjeiMt vs. Pittsburgh 31 TBA 5 or 7:30 p.m. 5 or 7:30 p.m I 30 31 33 20 31 100 00 1 ALA 640 2K 1212 0 Lavern and Wayloh. Torres, Black (5) and Keeno WP- - 33 33 34 GA 109 247 175 86 222 220. 8 80 220 221 11 79 186 203 12 74 190 225 L 0T 42 40 42 38 39 28 27 31 30 34 9 Pts 93 10 90 6 90 10 86 6 84 GF GA 214 211 215 213 221 211 203 200 229 246 Pts 104 96 6 90 6 80 7 69 W L 0T GF 47 44 42 21 27 29 35 40 10 8 210 182 195 184 223 194 205 219 220 248 37 31 Thursday's late results San Jose 3, Dallas 2, 0T Los Angeles 4, Phoenix 0 Friday's results Carolina 7, Atlanta Nashville 2, Columbus 0 New Jersey 5, Philadelphia 4, SO ' GA 0 000 8151 Altamont ALA 33 0 -- 1511 Turtle (ALA). Madsen Anderson (ALA), Dunford (ALA), Johnson (ALA), Johnson (ALA), 3B- (ALA) - (ALA), (ALA). Chris Riley Scott Ounlap '. Gavin Coles Richard S, Johnson Michael Bradley Greg Chalmers ' ' LPGA-Safewa- At 146 Champions Championship Scores Tour-Gin- n Friday At Hammock Beach Resort, Ocean Course Palm Coast, Fla. Purse: $2.5 million Yardage: 7,113; Pan 72 First Round Lonnie Nielsen 66 Bernhard Langer 67 Fred Funk 67 David Edwards 68 Gene E. Jones 68 Tim Simpson 69 70- - 68. 138 138 138 139 139 139 139 y International Scores Failed to qualify 5 137 138 138 138 138 138 69- - 69 ;" Casey Wittenberg Fabian Gomez Brendon De Jonge Daniel Summerhays 139 139 Mike Weir - Jim Herman Travis Perkins 138 139 139 - 137 Greg Owen. Bret Gueti Matthew Every Jason Allied Vance Veazey .138 133 136 136 ' Friday Superstition Mountain Golf and Country Club, Prospector Course Superstition Mountain, Ariz. Purse: $1.5 million Yardage: 6,662; Par: 72 Second Round 131 132 Angela Stanford LorenaOchoa JeeYoungLee Annika Sorenstam 134 136 Mlchele Redman Christina Kim Karen Slupples Crist Kerr 136 137 137 138 138 138 138 139 139 '. ' Llndsey Wright Minea Blomqvist InbeePark Suzahn Petlersen BALTIMORE ORIOLES Placed RHP Rocky Dl,. retroactive to March Cherry on the 22. Assigned OF Tike Redman outright to Norfolk " BOSTON RED SOX Assigned RHP Kyle Jackson and RHP Edgar Martinez outright to Pawtucket (IL). Announced LHP Jose Capellan-wareturned by Cincinnati per Rule 5 draft rules and assigned to Florida extended spring Nick Holden of Chilliwack (WHL). MINNESOTA WILDSigned C Colton Gillies. Named Chris Parker NASHVILLE PREDATORS senior vice president of corporate development. PITTSBURGH PENGUINS Returned C Chris Minard to (AHL). SAN JOSE SHARKS Signed F Matt Jones. WASHINGTON CAPITALS Signed CMathieu the AAtryout camp. SHREVEPORT SPORTS Agreed to terms with 0FDH Chad Gambill. SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS Traded RHP for C Matt Jarrett Stawarz to Nashua C Whitney Pierce to Reno Hackney. Traded (GBL) for a player to be named. Perreault. American Hockey League ALBANY RIVER RATS to Reading (ECHLI. League ; program. CLEVELAND INDIANS Released LHP Aaron Futtz. MINNESOTA TWINS Optioned LHP Francisco Liriano to Fort Myers (FSL). '. TAMPA BAY RAYS Claimed OF Nathan Haynes off waivers from the Los Angeles Angels. Placed OF flocco Baldelli on the BROCKTON R0X Agreed to terms with INF Andre Alvarado and INF Dom Ramos. NEW JERSEY JACKALS Agreed to terms with INF Marcus Sanders. OTTAWA RAPIDS Agreed to terms with INF Jose J. EVANSVILLE OTTERS Agreed RHP Rtck Bauer. KALAMAZOO KINGS .Agreed Zac Bowman. to terms to terms , National League Louisville (IL). Assigned INF Andy Phillips to their minor league camp. FLORIDA MARLINS Signed OF Jeff Conine and announced his retirement. Sent OF Reggie HOUSTON ASTROS Abercrombie and RHP Chad Paronto outright to Round Rock (PCL). LOS ANGELES DODGERS Released LHP Mike Myers. Optioned RHP Yhency Brazoban to Jacksonville (SL). Returned RHP Steven NEW YORK METS Register to Colorado. Optioned INF Anderson Hernandez to New Orleans (PCL). PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES Claimed RHP Tim Lahey off waivers from the Chicago Cubs. Assigned RHP J.D. Durbln, INF Ray Olmedo and OF Chris Snelling outright to Lehigh Valley (IL). Agreed to terms with INF Chris Woodward on with with INF league contract. LHP Sean camp. Placed OF to Bakersfield (ECHL). Assigned 0 Jonathan O'Aversa and RW Kyle Rank to Wheeling (ECHL). ECHL Released D Joe BAKERSFIELD CONDORS Gomez; National Basketball Association Signed F Marcus of the season. Soccer J Women's National Basketball Association MINNESOTA LYNX Signed F Tamara Bowie C Chloe Kerr. Major League Soccer CHIVAS USA Traded F John Cunlilfe to San Jose tor M Chris Pozniak. COLUMBUS CREW Signed F Guilherme So. LOS ANGELES GALAXY Signed M Alvarp Pires. Football College National Football League Signed G Milford CAROLINA PANTHERS Brown. CLEVELAND BROWNS McKinney to a OAKLAND RAIDERS Edwards to a SAN FRANCISCO Chris Blight Dustin Signed F Ryan Salvis. JOHNSTOWN CHIEFS Signed F Shawn Houde. Released F Robin VICTORIA SALMON KINGS ... LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS Williams for the remainder Waived F Aaron Williams. and F PENGUINS Frontier League Basketball ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS Traded RHP Dustin Nippert to the Texas Rangers for RHP Jose Marte. ATLANTA BRAVES Claimed 0NF Ruben Gotay off waivers from the N.Y. Mets, Assigned 1B Scott Thorman outright to Richmond (IL). CINCINNATI REDS Optioned LHP Bill Bray to Returned CHICAGO WOLVES Signed 0 Ryan Reid. HERSHEY BEARS Assigned D Sasha Pokulok to South Carolina (ECHL). Returned F Lou Dickenson to Gwinnett (ECHL). LAKE ERIE MONSTERS Assigned 0 Wes 0'Neil to Johnstown (ECHL). MANITOBA MOOSE Returned F Mark Derlago Oe Los Santos. DL PITTSBURGH Burnett to their minor league SportlightAssociated Press EL PASO DIABL0S Traded RHP Garvis Romero to Snreveport lor the 2008 first pick in American League Club AP American Association Major League Baseball Placed a hold on the suspetv sions of Baltimore OF Jay Gibbons and Kansas .City OF Jose Guillen. a Friday Trlomphe Country Broussard, La. Purse: $525,000 Yardage: 7,006; Par 71 Second Round 72 Jay Williamson Tommy Armour MarcoDawson Tim Clark Dean Wilson 2-- 0-- DL. Released RHP Chris Duffy on the Wright and LHP Casey Fossum. SAN DIEGO PADRES Placed OF Jim Edmonds to March 21. DL, retroactive on .the MLB At Le 136 137 137 138 NickWatney Shigeki Maruyama Brian Davis Cameron Beckman. American Leadership 15, Altamont 0: At Spanish Fork, Ashley Lewis went with a double and a home run as ALA (4-blanked Alin Region 14. tamont (04, Sarah Madsen scattered three hits and struck out five to pick up the win on the mound. She also doubled at the plate. Megan Johnson doubled ant tripled for the Eagles, who pounded out 11 hits. ft Jaret Baseball 82 Open Scores Classic Friday At TPC Louisiana Avaondale, La. Purse: $6.2 million Yardage: 7,341; Par: Second Round PeterLonard ... Nationwide-Louisian- Golf h Transactions 69 70 70 ... Bruce Summerhays Washington at Florida, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m. Carolina at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m. Chicago at St. Louis,.6:30 p.m. Edmonton at Calgary, 8 p.m. Briny Balrd 7 8 Minnesota Anaheim Dallas Phoenix Los Angeles 231 Craig Stadler Brad Bryant Keith Fergus Also Ottawa at Dallas at Los Angeles, 2 p.m. ' Montreal at Toronto, 5 p.m. 0T Pts GF GA 6 90 241 237 8 86 228 228 81 208 215 9 8 72 208 268 9 69 217 250 Division W Calgary Colorado Vancouver Edmonton Pacific Division 188 226 Provo (4-- 04) had limited success against West Jordan pitcher Julianne Tialavea, who picked up the complete game victory. Hillcrest 1, Lone Peak 0: At Highland, the Huskies scored a second-hal- f penalty kick by Sean Brough for the only goal of the game and knocked off the Knights. Lone Peak (04-2- ) couldn't find a way to get the ball past Hillcrest keeper Chris Jessen, who picked up the shutout. 20 Altamont game. non-regio- n On this date in 1996, The Vancouver Grizzlies broke the NBA record for consecutive losses in a season with their 21st in a 105-9- 1 loss to the Utah Jazz. Today's games Boston, 11 a.m. PGA-Zuric- Northwest San Jose Regional Semifinals At Spokane Arena Spokane, Wash. Today Maryland Stanford Chicago Columbus St. Louis NEW ORLEANS REGIONAL Oklahoma North Carolina 51 39 36 34 189 0T Pts GF GA 10 98 251 216 8 92 252 236 TO 88 203 213 12 84 245 235 10 80 221 243 36 32 39 30 38 WESTERN CONFERENCE Division W L 0T Pts GF Detroit Nashville vs. Old Dominion Regional Semifinals At New Orleans Anna Today vs. LSU ) State 35 Division W 42 39 L 24 28 28 30 33 Bay Central vs. George Washington (26-- Washington Florida Atlanta Tampa Regional Semifinals Greensboro Coliseum Greensboro, N.C. Sunday, March 30 (34-- Carolina Division W 44 42 39 36 GA 209 a FAST FACT Montreal 4. Buffalo 3, 0T St. Louis 4, Detroit 3, 0T Minnesota 4, Vancouver 0 Colorado 5, Edmonton 4, SO San Jose 3, Anaheim V standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division L W 0T Pts GF 7 97 239 45 26 Pittsburgh 7 93 198 New Jersey 43 28 11 N Y. 91 202 40 26 Rangers 39 28 11 89 237 Philadelphia N Y. Islanders 7 34 37 75 186 West Jordan 7, Provo 5: At IVovo, the Bulldogs couldn't find quite enough offense to get past the Jaguars, falling in ft ft .;. Source: Hockey Softball Boys combines for 10 stolen bases. Senior pitcher Robby Black struck out side in fifth as well as getting two triples and a double, while Tyson Lam-bor- n at the plate went with two RBI and four stolen bases. Scoreboard Prep schedule goals and Tyson Day got the shut exit as Wasatch improved in Region 10. to 'U), Kasey Cook scored the only goal of the first half for the Wasps. But in the second half, Wasatch ajusted to the small size of the field and scored five more goals. Devin King and Mat hew Wheat ley had a goal apiece to go along with Sosa's hat trick. Wheatley, King and Omar Torres each had an assist. 2 five-innin- g -- 264 -- 1412 3 Nelson, Brummett (2). Dutfin (2), Hanks (3) and Lunceford. Hagger and Exon. 2 (V), Ursen (V), Green (V), Rawling 00 0-- (8-2- 1 001 201 17 Hill had RBI singles in the top of the first, when the Dons had three of their six hits. ) 00 1S (D), Chris-tense- 200 292 Wasatch 6, Union 0: At Roosevelt. Victor Saavriad three secon- ft North Sevier 8, Manti 4: At Manti, the Templars simply 101 300 Delta 583 couldn't find a way to slow 034 100 Juab 14174 Wolf star Logan Learning and (J), Sctauten 2 (0); ended up falling to North Se(J), Farrer (j). (J). vier in Region 12 action. ALA 12, Altamont 1: At SpanLearning struck out 12 Manti ish Fork, the Eagles allowed batters in his six innings of work, the first Long Horn batter to plus hit a big triple at the plate. scored two Manti (3-walk and score but then dominated the rest of the contest to runs in the bottom of the first win. to go in front but couldn't hold get the on to the lead. ALA pitcher Jose Torres struck out five Altamont batNorth Sevier 0 890 103 013 ters in the next four innings and Manti 2 4 4 3 200 000 didn't allow the visitors to get (NS), 3BrLeaming (NS), TllunrJ (NS). anyone else past second base. Offensively the Eagles (9-hit the ball well and '. soccer the standing, our but today, we just couldn't pitch well, or else they were just hitting well," said Spanish Fork coach Jim Nelson. "Probably a bit of both, but everything we put up there, they hit hard. And when you can't pitch well, it usually leads to some bad defense, too, and we had some of that, as well. It was one of those games where if it could go wrong, it did. But you have those every now and then." n Tyler Hanks and Kade Spanish Fork Viewmont IX'l-gad- o 3-- five-innin- n 1M (W). Nelson . 3-- win, David Armendariz sewed two goals to pace A1,A in the victory, w hile Tanner Fereierra and Raul added one apiece. d-half , t Juab 351 431 1 14 (2-7- lone Peak Brighton 4--2. 000 002 001 012 the break to get the Region g insurance runs in the fourth and another in the seventh. two-seam- 4-- 2. I West Jordan 17, Wasatch 1: At lleber City, the Wasps couldn't find a way to slow the Jaguar ofli'tise as West Jordan had 20 n hits on its way to the win. The Jaguars scored six runs in the second inning to blow the game 0H'n. Wasatch ) put its only run across the plate in the bottom of the third. 8-- Riverton Timpanogos ALA 4, Wasatch Academy 2 At Mount Pl.eii.sant. the Eagles mounted a huge second halt comeback after trailing 0 at ft Signed contract. Signed contract. DE AUGUST ANA, ILL. director Named Mike Zapolski , Named Don Dover 0L Settl line coach. CHARLOTTE Signed ketball coach, to a offensive Kalimba 49ERS TE Billy Bobby Lutz. men's bascontract extension, througbthe2012-13seaso- Announced the resignation of Mike Divilbiss, women's basketball coach. RHODE ISLAND Named Rob Neviaser defensive line coach, Roy Istvan offensive line coach, and Chris Zona director of player development assistant video coordinator. Extended the contracts of ST. PETER'S IDAHO Bajemfty Hockey Named John Tortoreila National Hockey League USA HOCKEY coach. CAROLINA HURRICANES Activated C Chad LaRose from injured reserve. Placed RW Patrick Eaves on tfte injured COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS Assigned LW Alexandre Picard to Syracuse (AHL). Signed D Stephanie DeWoRe, women's basketball coach, and John Dunne, men's basketball coach, through the 2011 season. GOLF ROUNDUP Stanford holds one-shTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS in20O4. Lee was three back at 10 under, while Annika shot a 67 to join Michele on the tour, Stanford took up where she left off with birdies on her first three holes Friday to goto 13 under. But, playing the back nine first, she had bogeys the 16th, 18th on a three par-5- s and second to fall to 10 under. Stanford rallied with birdies on the third, fifth and seventh to get back to 13 under. She had 12 top-1- 0 finishes in 24 tournaments last year, with her best a tie for third at the MasterCard Classic. "I think I'm just getting warmed up," she said. "... I put myself in the late bloomer category." She will be paired with Ochoa in Saturday's third round. "If there is anything I can do to help have a sponsor next year, let me know," Ochoa said. "And not only me, but all of the players as a group. I think we would all love to be back." ROSS O. FRANKLINAssociated Press Stanford was pleased that she didn't falter too much after her i Zurich Classic At Avondale, La., Angela Stanford watches her tee shot on the 18th hole during 69 to the second round of the Safeway International on Friday. Briny Baird shot a big first round e lead over Peter "After shooting, well, a career take a Lonard and Jay WiUiamson in round for me, you really don't " Mexico's Ochoa felt at home on know what to expect the next ; the Zurich Classic. Redman (68) at 8 under, five off course this desert course. the lead on the 6,662-yar- d Baird, winless on the PGA day," she said. "So I really tried "I just love being here," she to keep the same mind-se- t and at the Superstition Mountain Golf Tour, birdied the final two holes 136 on the said. "For sure we only play once give myself chances and just roll to finish at and Country Club. TPC Louisiana Lonard shot a 70, With the crowd behind her a year in a desert golf course. my putts." and Williamson had a 69. A winner once in seven years and the surroundings familiar, And I just feel comf ortable. It X Defending champion Nick Watney (67) was two strokes back along with Tommy Armour III (68) and Shigeki Maruyama (68). I Ginn Championship: At Palm Coast, Fla., Lonnie Nielsen birdied six of his last 10 holes for a lead 66 and a in the Champion Tour's Ginn Championship. Bernhard Langer and Fred Funk opened with 67s on the Ocean Hammock Golf Club course, and David Edwards and Gene E. Jones had 68s. Ian Woos-nastruggled in his Champions Tour debut, making two double bogeys in a 78. one-stro- : , top-rank- a steady 67. Jee Young lead over charging Ochoa feels good, and it brings me good memories. I love Arizona, and I want to take advantage of that only one opportunity." Ochoa attended the University of Arizona, and she is concerned that Safeway is ending its spon-- , sorship of trie LPGA Tour's lone Arizona event after this year to concentrate its efforts on the tournament it holds in Portland, Ore. The LPGA Tour left Tucson ) SUPERSTITION MOUNTAIN, Ariz. Angela Stanford was clinging to the lead halfway through Safeway International, with friend Lorena Ochoa closing in. Stanford had a on&shot lead through 36 holes of the LPGA Tour tournament Friday under bright surehine with the temperature in the mid 80s in the imposing shadow of the stark Superstition Mountains, some 40 miles east of Phoenix. Stanford followed her course Khinder record and career-bes- t 62 on Thursday with a scram69 on Friday for a bling 13ninder 131 total. Ochoa, the event's defending champion and world's female golfer, was one back at 12 under. She began the day three strokes back and shot ot ' 1 I Andalucia ' Open: At Puerto Banus, Spain, Sweden's Peter Hedblom shot a Sunder 67 for a share of the second-roun- d lead With Australia's Matthew Millar in the Andalucia Open Millar had a 69 to match Hed136 on the Aloha blom at Golf Club course. ;'. |