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Show poets jDcutyHmtlfi TUESDAY. OCTOBER 2, SPORTS EDITOR Darnell Dickson win for Colorado Rock on: Wild wild-car-d Arnie Stapleton SECTION 2007 ddicksonheraldextra.com 344-255- i made a delayed safe call, and replays were inconclusive on whether Holliday ' touched the plate with his left hand or J DENVER was blocked by Barrett's left foot. Matt Holliday raced "I don't know. He hit me pretty home on Jamey Carroll's shallow fly ball, capping a stun good," Holliday said. "I got stepped on and banged my chin. I'm all right." ning, three-ru- n rally in the 13th Carroll entered the game as a pinch-runninning against Trevor Hoffman in the seventh inning and stayed and leading the Colorado Rockies over the San Diego Padres in to play third base. He got one hit be8 fore finding himself in position to hit the Monday night for the NL sacrifice fly that won it. wildcard. "I was just trying to get a ball up in Brian Giles. After Scott Hairston's two-ru-n COLORADO Giles' throw home bounced the zone," Carroll said. "Had a guy at homer put the Padres SAN DIEGO in front of catcher Michael third. Matty did a great job. Matty ran ahead in the top of the 13th, JACK DEMPSEYAssociated Press his butt off. I am so happy that we get Colorado came back against baseball's Barrett, who couldn't hold on as Holis mobbed faceColorado's Matt on on." this to then the career saves leader. Holliday, ground, lay by teammates Troy liday swiped plate, opportunity go Tulowitzki (2) and Yorvit Torrealba (8) as Padres catcher Michael The Rockies, who won for the 14th down after cutting his chin with his See ROCKIES, C3 Barrett (4) looks on after Holliday scored the winning run in the 13th. time in 15 games, took the longest one-- headfirst slide. Umpire Tim McClelland game tiebreaker in major league history. They advanced to play Philadelphia in the first round starting Wednesday. Kaz Matsui and Troy Tulowitzki, who had four hits, lined back- doubles off Hoffman, and Holliday making it tripled off the wall in right to tie it. After Todd Helton was intentionally walked, Carroll lined out to right fielder THE ASSOCIATED PRESS tc-ba-ck 8-- 7, 9-- NBA STATE GOLF St Finally MARIO RUIZDaily 2007-0- 8 face-to-fa- ce Herald Timpanogos' Jeff Holmes surveys his putt at the seventh hole during the first day of the state 5A Golf Championships at Soldier Hollow on Monday. Windsends scores high at 5A tournament -- fig) wr - Neil K. Warner .V ')"' DAIJLY HERALD .' If you are wondering why the scores on the first day of the state 5A golf tournament at Sol-idHollow in Midway were high, please allow Timpanogos' Jeff Holmes to explain. "I had a for par. I set the ball down, took the coin away and it started wobbling and my ball rolled down the hill and I had a for par," Holmes said. "I missed that so it should have had a 74. It was hard, you don't play in that kind of wind very often." Gusting winds and rain made Holmes' 75 an exceptional score on Monday . He may have missed the par putt on No. 18, but he did finish the day with the low round of Region 4 with a par, which was good enough to tie for fifth place, five strokes behind Fremont's Jordan Hurzog, who shot a 70.' Fremont took a commanding lead on day one with a team score of 279. The Silverwolves had five players shoot in the 70s. Syracuse is second at 311 followed by Brighton (319), Lone Peak (320), Bingham (326), Northridge (327) and Spanish Fork (331). Spanish Fork's score may have been the biggest surprise of the day. The Region 4 champs came in with the best shot of a Region 4 team to win a 5A title, but the Dons couldn't put it together. Region 4 medalist Garrett Moss triple bogey ed the final hole to finish with a 78. "By about the ninth hole the wind really picked d up. I just had two bad holes on the back. I the last hole," Moss said. "We thought if we golfed well we could place in the top three, but not er four-putte- now." The day sarted out sunny and warm, but quickly progressed to windy, cool and rainy and made See GOLF, C2 DOUGLAS Kirilenko talks with Sloan, has little to say to reporters fore. But he also noted he wasn't going to turn or any over the offense to please Kirilenko other player. SALT LAKE CITY Andrei Kirilenko and , "I'm going to coexistThat's my job," Sloan said. "Some people don't always see it the way, Jerry Sloan sat down Monday for the first time since the disgruntled forward announced they'd like to see it, but my job is to try to he was frustrated with the coach's gruff and help a player become a better player. If he has I want to try to work through those problems, style. demanding Guess who won. problems." Kirilenko is the highest-paiKirilenko had to face reporters after the player on the Jazz and still has four years remaining on the meeting and tried his best to steer the conversation toward training camp, which opens $86 million contract extension he signed in 2004. Just after leading Russia to the Eurotoday in Boise, instead of his request to be traded. pean championship last month, Kirilenko said he wanted to the Jazz to trade him or release If Kirilenko was trying to talk his way out of Utah by upsetting Sloan, it didn't work. The him. Kirilenko said he had grown miserable playcoach sounded downright understanding, saying he was willing to work ing for Sloan and felt like a "robot." with Kirilenko. Usually one of the happiest players on the d "I would do about what it takes to win I team, Kirilenko was uncharacteristically would go out on State Street and give him Monday. He said he stood by his earlier a big hug or whatever you want to go do," statements, but did everything he could not to Sloan said. "He had some things to say, and I repeat them. "I've already said everything. All I can don't have a problem with that." do right now is concentrate on basketball," Sloan is entering his 20th season coaching Kirilenko said. the Jazz and he's seen unhappy players be Doug Alden THE ASSOCIATED PRESS d tight-lippe- Kirilenko also accused the media of overblowing the situation, although he first mentioned his unhappiness in a blog on a Russian Web site and then did a lengthy interview with the newspaper. "We never had a conflict with Jerry. You created (it)," he said. "Sometimes we had misunderstanding, but it's not a conflict." Kirilenko can work his way out of Sloan's or stay in it with how he doghouse works in practice. He also has some mending to do with teammates, who two weeks before training camp got word that Kirilenko had gone public with his frustration. The Jazz are coming off their best season in 10 years, reaching the Western Conference finals in their first playoff appearance since 2003. Most of the team is back this fall and the players didn't want to hear any preseason bickering. One of the mostoutspoken was point guard Deron Williams, who questioned Kirilenko's work ethic after Kirilenko's interview was published in Russia. See JAZZ, C4 NFL BYU FOOTBALL Cougars' bye week comes at a good time Jason Franchuk DAILY The complete HERALD before-afte- r transformation won't be seen until late November, when a full football slate of regular-seaso- n games renders a lot of football players unfamiliar with their new shapes. Just shy of the season's true midway point, it's not a bad time for BYU to take a breather. Linebacker Bryan Kehl, who had arguably his best game in uniform for the Cougars in Saturday's win at New Mexico, said Monday even he's ready to take advantage of the break in the schedule, as his team stands at 2 (2-Mountain West) with its next C. PIZACAssociated Press Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko talks to the media during Utah's media day Monday in Salt Lake City. game not until Oct. 13 at UNLV. "It's a battle, it really is," Kehl said. "Everybody changes during a season. Some guys gain weight. I'm on the side that loses it." Monday's practice didnt look a whole lot different, except for taking just a little less than the typical 60 minutes the team normally participates in to open the work week. It looks like the ideal time for a team to get some rest. For starters, the schedule is split just about in half, and it doesnt hurt that BYU will get to return to action against one of the league's worst teams at least a decent way, in theory, to shake off any rust that Brady lifts Pats past Bengals Joe Kay THE IT ' See PRESS Tom Brady CINCINNATI had three more touchdown passes. Sammy Morris had one of the best games of his ca reer. The New England defense had its way. Expect anything )( .i fc- f Mr If I in four years. An offense energized by the addition of receivers Randy Moss, Donte' Stallworth and Wes Welker showed it can grind it out, too. Especially against a team like who the Bengals (1-3- ), had trouble just getting a defense on the field and counting to 1 1 while les's? they were at it. Moss caught a pair of The Patriots retouchdown passes, and mained one of the Morris ran for 117 yards, NFL's four unbeaten teams Monday night PATRIOTS 34 giving the Patriots more than enough on a night and, so far, the best 13 BENGALS when they didnt need a of the bunch by beat lot. 3 whole Cincinnati the Bengals ing Cincinnati was missing middle with a performance that showed linebackers Ahmad Brooks and their versatility. Caleb Miller, leaving a big hole And, they've only just begun. in one of the league's worst New England ) is off to its best start since 2004, when it won See PATRIOTS, C5 the Super Bowl for the third time 34-1- ' Hb "V- - V MARIO RUIZDaily Herald linebacker Bryan Kehl (41) was named MWC BYU, C4 Defensive Player of the Week. BYU 3-- ASSOCIAfED (4-0- 1 |
