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Show - Page G2 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Sunday, May 7, 1989 Crown first wins of Silence Triple leg Sunday had. SunHancock, who day Silence with the trainer and with Dr. Earnest Gaillard, also had to buy the horse back at a yearling sale. Whittingham said he thought there was a lack of interest in the colt at the sales because "he was a big, gangly colt." There is no lack of interest in the son of Halo now. Sunday Silence paid $8.20, $3 and $3.60 in earning $574,200 to boost his bankroll to $982,000. The entry of Easy Goer and Awe Inspiring, who finished third, returned $2.60 and $3.40. The entrv had pnne off as a 5 favorite. The previous odds-o- n choice for the Derby was Spectacular Bid, who won in JR. By ED SCHUYLER co-ow- AP Racing Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -Sunday Silence, the colt who couldn't be sold is now the colt who can't be bought and, says his trainer, the next Triple Crown champion. Sunday Silence won the Kentucky Derby on Saturday by beating Easy Goer, who had been touted as a Triple Crown winner, and was being compared to Secretariat. "If ever a horse can go all the" way, this one can," said trainer Charlie after Sunday Silence's victory on the coldest Derby Day in 72 years and the slowest in 30. "He's just learning. He ran a little green today, just in and out a little bit. He'll be another Triple Crown winner, write that down, he will be another Triple Crown winner. The 11th and last Triple Crown winner was Affirmed in 1978, when he was chased to victory in the Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes by Alydar, who is Easy Goer's sire. The upset of Easy Goer came six months after he was beaten on a muddy track at Churchill Downs in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. The track was muddy again on this rainy, m m Whit-tingha- VhT Y i! : 4-- - . 1979. trj? Rll . The rest of the order of finish was Hawkster, Northern Wolf, Irish Actor, Houston, Triple Buck, Shy Tom, Wind Splitter, Flying Continental, Clever Trevor, Faultless Ensign and Western Playboy. Notation was scratched. Sunday Silence's victory was delayed for several minutes when, after the post parade, Triple Buck threw his right front shoe and had to be returned to the paddock for 3 'I M 3tir nun . IS - V 1 ri: V ill s The jockeys on the other - LOUISVILLE (AP) The order of finish in Saturday's 11 5th Kentucky Derby, with place, horse's name, jockey's name and distance: 1. Sunday Silence, Valenzuela, VH lengths Goer. Oay, head 2. s 3. of a Inspiring. Parrel, length 4. Oansil. Snyder, nose 5. Hawkster, Castaneda. half length Wolf. Ladner, halt length 6. 7. Irish Actor, Howard, length 8. Pincay. neck 9. Triple Buck. Santos. 2 lengths Tom. Antley. 10. AP Laserphnto Sunday Silence crosses the finish line Saturday with jockey Patrick Valenzuela to win the Derby. day. Still, the attendance was of 122,653. a "For the last mile, we had clear sailing and had no problems," said Pat Day, who rode Easy Goer. "My horse just didn't seem to handle the race of a length Splitter. Miller length 12. Flying Continentat. Black. 6 lenqths 13. Clever Trevor. Pettlnger, 7 lengths 14. Faultless Ensign, DeCarlo, neck 19. Western Playboy. Romero. Scratched, McCauley. 11. track." Sunday Silence had problems at the break and was shying Wayne Lufcas trained entry. McGaughey trained entry, a- -. away from the crowd, according to jockey Pat Valenzuela, held thur Hancock's Kentucky farm on a muddy track. Sunday SiHancock bought him back lence's winning time was 2:05 because of lack of interest on a muddy track. The colt who posted one win when the driver suffered a and two seconds in three starts heart attack and the van overlast year is unbeaten in four turned on a Texas highway. The colt was nicked and badraces as a Back in March 1987, though, ly shaken and spent two weeks the outlook wasn't nearly as recovering at a horse clinic in Oklahoma City. bright. He has got to be the most He was being vanned back to Ar famous patient that clinic has California from but he was never worse than fourth. Sunday Silence was third, just a length off the lead with of a mile to go and, when the stretch run began, the colt and jockey quickly made their rivals cry "Uncle." In fact, it was 30 years ago when Valenzuela's Uncle Milo won the Derby with Tim Tarn classic in 2:05 for the l1 one-quart- er YORK (AP) Ivan Lendl continued to seeded Michael Chang beat No. 15 Marcelo Filippini of Uruguay 7 dominate Brad Gilbert and deand Jaime fending champion Andre Agassi Yzaga of Peru eliminated Diego overcame a strained back to Perez of Uruguay 7 beat Aaron Krickstein Saturday in the quarterfinals of the TourThe semifinals, which are nament of Champions. scheduled for Sunday, will feaLendl beat Gilbert for the ture Lendl versus Agassi and 15th time without a loss, Chang against Yzaga. The final and Agassi rallied in the has been pushed back a day to final set to down Krickstein Monday because rain washed 3 at the West Side Tennis out play on Friday. Lendl needed only 58 minutes Club in Forest Hills. In other quarterfinals, eighth- - to eliminate Gilbert, ranked Top-seed- ed co-ow- 6-- 4, 6-- (2-7- 6-- 2 ), 6-- (4-7- 6-- 0, ), 6-- 2. 6-- 1, 6-- 0, 6-- 1, 6-- 2-- 6, in the second set. "After he got up 0 in the third set, he probably started thinking a little bit," Agassi said. "'He stopped hitting winners and I got the momentum the world. "The law of averages says he should beat me once or twice, but the way he carries himself on the court suggests to me that he doesn't think he can win," said Lendl, who has lost only 10 games in his first three matches. Krickstein broke Agassi at love in the opening game of the third set and then held for a 0 lead. But Agassi won the next five games despite a stiff back that began bothering him early 17th in 2-- back." Agassi won the first set in 22 minutes, losing only one point his serve and breaking Krickstein twice at love. But on Krickstein took control midway through the second set with his deadly groundstrokes, winning five straight games after Agas 2-- si held to pull within "At the start, I was playing some of the best tennis I've ever played," Agassi said. "But early in the second set, my lower back stiffened up on me. "I couldn't go to my left and that made it hard for me to hit my backhand. For four or five games, I was more concerned about my back than I was about my shots." After losing the opening point at 2 in the second set, Krickstein won 15 consecutive points. 5-- a measure of satisfaction Saturday. ; Tom Chambers scored 13 pf his 25 points in a lopsided third quarter and Majerle 2 as outscored Richmond the Suns routed the Warriors 3 in the opening game of their Western Conference iemifinal playoff series, r- - "Majerle doesn't get the jecognition because he's out there playing defense and getting loose balls," Phoenix coach Cotton Fitzsimmons "said. "Dan doesn't score 20 "points every game, but he's a great player. He and Richmond were teammates on the U.S. Olympic team last so they know each other 22-1- "130-10- sum-jne- r, well." - Richmond, who averaged points during the regular season and 25.7 in Golden 22 State's first-roun- d playoff sweep over Utah, hit just five of 14 field goals in 32 minutes and was held to two points in the second half. Maierle, who missed 28 games this season with mon onucleosis ana naa a career- ihigh 25 points against the I Warriors in a March 23 road sank six of 11 field K";goals saturaay ana nine oi iu -- -- ;:me, free tnrows. ne aiso naa insight rebounds. : i "1 spent tne wnoie summer .with Mitcn. i respeci mm a 3ot and know what he can do." Maierle said. "I tried to F deny him the ball and not let " .mm gci iv c ujui the floor because when he does, he's going to maKe the shot nine out of 10 times. I f -- can't let him get rolling. hard to stop." The Majerle also helped out defensively on Warriors forward Chris Mul-liwho scored just 18 points four in the second half. Mullin averaged 32.7 in the Jazz series. "We just didn't want to allow Mullin and Richmond to get going," Majerle said. "If we can take them out of their game and get going ourselves, we have a great chance. We match up real n, well with Golden f- - "- -. li " " ., J u. ,i. ' -- V 39-2- AP Laserphoto half-tim- Harkness recovers to win WAC 41-2- 8-- 26-1- 1 3. (Continued from Page Gl) DeSilva and his slider, as jie picked up his 13th win of the year. But it was almost his third loss of the season. Heading into the sixth inning, he had not given up an earned run but was facing a deficit. 1- -0 "Yeah, I was thinking about it (losing a game) at times, but I had confidence in the rest of the team. I just figured that no way was anybody going to shut us out," said DeSilva, who struck out 10 and allowed only four hits and no earned runs. The Aztecs didn't shut out the Cougars, so it was SDSU hurler Jim Gibbs, who did a job on the BYU hitters but got the 0 because of Miner's speed. ; "And then another key, I thought, was (catcher) Brad Eagar. San Diego State's game is running, and he and John ' DeSilva shut that down." Aztecs at Eagar nailed tempting to steal in game on and got another in game two. The Aztecs scored their only, run in the fourth. An error, stolen base and bunt single moved the lead-of- f batter t$ third and he scored on a double play. A double and single followed, but DeSilva got a grouiv : der to get out of the inning. were "They stealing our signals," explained DeSilva, who became the first BYU pitcher since Peter Kendrick in 1981 tp pass the 100 strikeout mark in a season. "Once we figured that out and changed signals, it was all right." DeSilva now totals 106 strikeouts in just 88 innings this season. Kendrick had 114 in 148 innings in '81. "I thought John just set the stage for everything that hap', outre-bounde- 107-7- BYU: Miner's bunt and then the: catcher dropping the throw: from short. Of course, that was: best-of-- 66-5- one-quart- er Mc-Ke- on State." 7 Game 2 in the series is Tuesday night at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum before the series moves to Oakland. Calif., for Games 3 and 4. "You just have to forget this one. Put it behind you and prepare for the next game," Warriors coach Don Nelson said. "The Suns outplayed us the whole game. They're a better team than we are and we have to play exceptional to have a chance against them. They took us out of this one early." Phoenix, which swept Denver in three straight games in the first round, d the Warriors 2 while building a e 1 lead, then outscored 2 Golden State in the third period, which ended with the Suns ahead Kevin Johnson, who scored all 15 of his points in the first half, hit two jumpers and a layup during an 0 run that put the Suns ahead to stay at 9 with 3:15 left in the first quarter. and Speed keyed the Cougars. Burt Call led off the sixth with a walk, then speedy Gary Miner laid down a perfect bunt and beat it out. But the throw was wide, so Call went to third and Miner to second. Call scored on a wild pitch. Then, with the infield pulled in to cut off the run at the plate, Miner streaked for home when Paul Cluff bounced one to the shortstop. The throw was again hurried and catcher Kasey dropped it as he attempted to tag Miner. "We finally got a break," Pullins said. "The overthrow ori e, When he does, he's Trevor Northern Wolf and moved to of a mHe third with to go. Valenzuela then put him into overdrive and the colt who had been paying attention to the crowd paid attention to busi-- . ness and the drive home. loss. : Ma-jerl- three-quarte- rs behind Clever 3-- 2. Phoenix rookie outshines G.S. counterpart with 22 Phoenix PHOENIX (AP) Suns rookie guard Dan to a distant runner-u- p Golden State's Mitch Richmond in this year's NBA Rookie of the Year race, got minutes until Triple Buck returned to the track at 5:38. The ' field burst out of the gate at 5:42, nine minutes late. Houston, trained by D. Wayne Lukas, who won last i year with i i ' i uie ruiy tit' winning uoiors, iea through the first mile under Laffit Pincay Jr. Sunday Silence was fourth through the of a mile first a.i Lendl, - Agassi continue tourney domination i'NEW 14 starters dismounted for a few d Dave Harkness of BYU captured his second consecutive Western Athletic Conference singles tennis title by defeating Alan 1 Dils of New Mexico Saturday in Harkness the first set dropped Albuquerque. on a service break in the final game. During the third game of the first set, Harkness After collapsed with the score tied at Harkness was attended to, he finished the set and then came on strong to take the match. Top-seede- 4-- 6, 6-- 2, 6-- 1-- 1. long week of tennis and I think the heat took its toll on me in the first set," said Harkness. "Alan is a tough competitor and he really pressed me." Harkness was not so lucky in doubles play. Teammate Johnny Mattice and Harkness lost their semifinals match to Don Kaliski and Tony Krawietz of Kaliski and Krawietz Air Force, will face Eric Chin and Johan Hogstedt of Utah in the finals. "It's been a 6-- 3, 6-- 7, 7-- 6. pened today," Pullins said. "That great pitching performance was what we needed." i r |