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Show raft D2 THE DAILY HERALD, ftwva, lUfe, Ibeaiay, April By Th Associated I'm having enough trouble right 1W adldlyn ! NOTABLE QUOTE U stows Prats Greg Maddux may be back in a groove, and that's bad news for now with 10 fingers, let alone nine." Cincinnati catcher Joe Oliver, batting .091 ev en before jamming his right thumb on a tag at the plate. GOLF Spring clinks at East Bay Golf Course w ill begin Thursday and Friday. Sessions w ill be conducted at 6 p.m. both days. The cost is $25 session. To register for the two-da- y or for more information, call the 1 pro shop at 373-626- BASEBALL BYU first baseman Tyson Dow dell was named Eastern Division Player of the Week in the WAC. Dow dell, a sophomore, went w ith two home runs last week in three Cougar v ictories, including a big 6 w in over WAC rival New Mexico. DowdeH's RBI single in the sev enth gave BYU its first lead in that game, and his two-ru- n homer in the bottom of the ninth gave BYU the victory e and a lead over the Lobos in the Eastern Division race. Salt Lake's Chris Latham hit a two-ru- n double in the top of the 1th inning Monday night as the Buzz defeated the Calgary Cannons Latham's hit to right field brought home the second and third runs of the inning by the Buzz. All three runs came against reliever Greg Cadaret. Brian Brede walked w ith one out and then, w ith two down, Mitch Simons received an intentional base on balls. Brede and Simons scored on the Latham double. The start time of the Salt Lake Buzz game against Edmonton has been moved up one hour to 6 p.m. Saturday so as not to conflict with the 8:30 p.m. Utah Jazz plavoff game. The Buzz also announced that Minnesota Twins third baseman Tom Quinlan has cleared waivers and accepted an assignment to play with the Buzz. Quinlan plaved with the Buzz last season and w as hitless in four games with the Tw ins this season National League hitters. Maddux pitched his first complete game of the season Monday night, allowing eight hits as the Atlanta Braves beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-- 1. He threw strikes on 77 of 108 pitches, got 17 groundball outs, struck out seven and walked none. "Tonight I located my fastball better and pitched down better than I have," said Maddux (3-1-1 who has w on four straight Cy Young Aw ards. His pitching and the hitting of whose two-ru-n Rvan Klesko h's fosudi M a mw DdlgQifS homer tied him with Florida's Gary Sheffield for the NL lead with nine helped Atlan ta to its sixth win in eight games following a 7 start. "Sometimes one run is ail be (Maddux) needs," said losing who pitcher Tom Candiotti ), ave up four runs and six hits in five innings. "If he gets two or more, he'll lock the door on you." Elsew here in the NL, it was San Diego 5, Florida 3; Montreal 8. Sl Louis 0; Pittsburgh 9, Philadelphia 3; New York 5. Cincinnati 1; Colorado 4, Chicago 2; and Houston 5-- (1-2- 11, San Francisco 8. Padres 5, Martins 3 At Miami. Andy Ashby (3-- 0) 1990. Pittsdown Cincinnati on three hits in hits since Aug. 16. three each by 16 hits, had eight innings for his first major burgh Jeff and King Charlie Hayes. making league win. Wilson ), Brumfield. struck his fourth big league start, Rockies 4, Cubs 2 out five and walked two. Doug At Chicago. Marvin Freeman Henry pitched the ninth for his sectwo-ru-n hit a pitched seven strong innings as Colond save. Jose Vizcaino homer and Lance Johnson had orado beat the Cubs despite Ryne Sandberg's 250th career homer. three singles for the Mets. Astros 11, Giants 8 Pirates 9, Phillies 3 Francisco. Rick Wilkins San At B At Philadelphia, Jacob homer and homered, doubled and singled hit a two-ru- n four runs as twice, driving in two runs and drove in a career-hig- h e scoring three times for Houston. Pittsburgh stopped a Astros also took advantage of The (2-Darwin losing streak. Danny allowed three runs and five hits in five Giants errors. Orlando Miller doubles and two RBIs 6 innings. He also had a two-ru-n added two Astros. the for first double and a single, his and drove in run with a sacrithe fice fly to snap Florida's four-gawinning streak. Scott had a solo homer and an RBI single for San Diego, while Sheffield hit his ninth homer for the Marlins. Expos 8, Cardinals 0 At Montreal. Rheal Cormier and Henry pitched a three-hittRodriguez homered twice and drove in five runs as the Expos won their fourth straight. Cormier struck out nine and walked none in his first career shutout. Mets 5, Reds 1 At New York, Paul Wilson shut pitched a seven-hitt- er (1-1- Liv-ingto- ne rum-Fie- ld er three-gam- 2) (1-- -3 Tribe clubs O's again 7-- first-pitc- h, By The Associated two-gam- Jacobs Field is no friend to the Baltimore Orioles. Many think Cleveland and Baltimore will wind up play ing in the AL championship series. If that's the case, the Indians figure to be confident against the Orioles. Monday night's 3 win made it eight straight for Cleveland against Baltimore at the Jake. "It's difficult when you're alway s behind," Baltimore manager Davey Johnson said after his team's fifth straight loss overall. "It 1 7-- 4. 1 . ''j 6-- You're puts pressure on each less aggressive. We're trying to do too much in certain situations and not playing within ourselves." Clev eland has w on four straight overall and nine of 10. Jim Thome broke a 3 tie with a sixth-innin- g homer off Scott Erickson ( I -- 1 ) on a 0 pitch. "When I get a 0 count. I try to hit the lights. That's my theory." Thome said. In other games. Toronto auted Seattle 16-Chicago beat Texas 12-California beat Detait 6-at-b- 3-- 3-- 3-- BASKETBALL Butch Beard was fired as coach of the New Jersey Nets, just two das after his second straight 30-5- 2 season. Beard almost guaranteed his dismissal two weeks ago. criticizing his bosses and calling his team a bunch of "second-lin- e players" who might never get better. Beard had a three-yea- r contact, the final vear being an option year at the team's discretion. Brendan Maione. his team having finished its inaugural season with a 2 record, was fired as coach of the Toronto Raptors because of differences with general manager Isiah Thomas. Maione was immediately replaced by assistant Darrell Walker, a former teammate of Thomas' who was signed to a three-yea- r contract. Maione was in the first vear of a three-vea- r deal reportedly worth $300,000 annually. Connecticut star Ray Allen is giving up his final vear of eligibility to enter the NBA draft. The guard averaged 23.4 points last season. Kggie McRae, the top returning scorer for the Dixie college men's basketball team, remained in jail Monday afternoon on charges of forcible sexual abuse, burglary and kidnapping. McRae. 21. is accused of fondling a girl and a woman in two separate incidents this spring and was charged Friday w ith four felony counts in 5th Circuit Court. GYMNASTICS Southern Utah State junior Julie Talbot w as named to the GTE Academic team for failwinter women's sports. Talbot, a Timpv iew High graduate, has a GPA of 3.98 in home economics and was the Thundcrbirds' top gymnast this season. She made the Midwest Regionals for the third straicht year. TRACK & FIELD Mountain View's Daniel Arrhe-niu- s won both the shot put and the discus throw at the Weber State Invitational Monday. Arrhenius thr.w the shot with a throw of 12 and threw the discus 166-6- . The Bruins' medley relay team finished second to Bingham, running 3:35.08 to the Miners' state record time of 3:30.09. Mountain View's 1600-metrelay squad was fifth in 3:28.10. Viewmont won that race in 3:22.77. Pleasant d Grove's Dan Parkinson 6-- 8 to place second in that event. Wade Schofleld of Clearfield won at the same height on fewer misses. Lehi's Scott Cummings was fifth in the 800 at :59.65. Dominic Patillo of Judge won at 1:55.1 1. Viewmont won The team title with 62 points. Davis had 53, Bingham 47 and Mountain View 45. er high-jumpe- 1 tji 'lilt -- .M- SXpn Sttntoy Cup Mm I m Bmten Marathon p It (KISN PCI eaaabaM. 870 AM) (PSP) Sun (ESPN) al Cannona ram Banna (USA) t X p m. CoSao tocom (PSP) Pae-110 am. Oymnaatica, aomana champwnaNp (PSP) Podae (PGP) 1pm AanKw champrxv tfckPN) Jpm SmaBoaiaina, (fcSPN) 4am. adi. OoWan laar CnaHnga (PIP) Noon. Press 7, 5. 4. Oakland - - . x . - - r .. - i : Darfy Harakj PboKVMalthaw American Fork's Ryan Hanvey dives back into second base safely as Alta's Jake Ate A hit! A hit! My kingdom for a timely hit. That must be the lament of American Fork coach Kim Nelson after No. 5 Alta edged his 2 in Region Four Cavemen baseball Monday. "We had our chances." Nelson said after the Hawks scored on a wild pitch in the seventh inning to win the game. The Cavemen. Nelson said, left seven men on over the final three innings. They had the bases loaded in one inning and 3-- American Fork had a 5 edge in hits, with Eric Hyde collecting three singles and Ryan Hanvev collecting an RBI dou- men at first and third w ith no out in another. The Hawks Chris Paulsen pitched his way out of trouble in the fifth. Then. Seth Johnson escaped unscathed in the sixth and seventh. American Fork led 0 early, but Jake Shortino's double in the fifth inning tied the score at In the seventh. Shane Heugly walked. He took second on Bart ble. But the Hawks stayed within t, one game of league-leadin- g improving their record to 4-The Cavemen slipped to d Meanwhile, Hillcrest and Orem failed to play for the fourth straight time because of poor field conditions. They will try to play on the Chet Jackson had a double and a home run to lead the Wasps to their v ictory. In a game, Emery edged Lchi Hill-cres- 2-- 2. spli'lis Huskies' diamond Wednesday. In Region 12 No. Juab and Grantsville split a The Cowboys blasted the Wasps 10-- in the opener, but Juab bounced back with a 4 decision in the nightcap. Jason Steadman gave up just e three Juab hits to record the 7-- 2-- 6-- 2. R. Smith 3--2. Mah 3-- 3. 1. back-to-bac- five-gam- 0 go-ahe- ad 12-- (0-1- ). first-gam- victory. fourth-ranke- sacrifice bunt, then advanced to third when Matt Lawson grounded out. He Sharp's dashed home on a wild pitch. 6-- 2. 4-- 1 j scored a run in the seventh inning to edge the Cavemen Shortino misses the tag in the third inning of Monday's Region Four game. The Hawks ffiips lhm0 tPmh; t beat Milwaukee and Boston beat Minnesota New' York beat Kansas City Blue Jays 16, Mariners 7 Joe Carter had a grand slam and five RBIs, and Ed Sprague had two homers and five RBIs at the Kingdome. White Sox 12, Rangers 4 Harold Baines and Robin Ventura hit consecutive homers in the sixth, and Ventura and Danny k Tartabull hit homers in the eighth as visiting Chicago e stopped the Rangers' w inning streak. Angels 6, Tigers 5 Jorge Fabregas hit a homer in the eighth off Mike and Jim Christopher Edmonds and Chili Davis hit two-ru- n homers as California rallied to complete a 0 homestand. Detroit 6-- has lost six in a row. Athletics 6, Brewers 2 Pedro Munoz and Geronimo Berroa each hit tw homers as Oakland stopped visiting Milwau- 5-- 3. o-r- BYU kee's runners fare well at Mi. SAC relays WALNUT. Calif. BYU's Craig Lawson and Courtney Pug-mir- e recorded automatic qualifytimes to highlight the Cougars ing competition in the Mt. San Antonio College Relays over the weekend. Janeth Caizalitin Alder bettered her automatic qualifving mark w ith a 16:04.47 in the 5000-metrun. More importantly, she also qualified to compete in the Olympic Games for her native Ecuador. Law son's 28:53.96 in the men's 10.000 was well under the NCAA qualifying time of 29:05 and placed him third in the BYU record books. Pugmire's time of er 9:16.87 in the women's 3.000 is the third-becollegiate time in the nation this season and is second-bein BYU history. In the field events. Melinda Boice Hale improved her provisional qualifying mark with her first jump this year (6-- 0 12) and Amy Cox improved her provisional mark with a throw of 161-1- 1 in the discus. st st Other notable performances came from Brandon Rhoads. who improved his provisional qualifying mark of 29.37.2 w ith a 29.30 in the 10.000. and freshman Maggie Chan, who won the 1500-meter Mat star signs with Cougars COUGARS: school Rocky Smart of Pleasant Grove has signed a letter of intent to w restle for BYU. High Smart has been a Utah state champion Tor each of his four years in high school and is ranked number two in the nation at 150 pounds. He was undefeated in each of his last two years with the Vikings. In addition to being a wrestling champion. Rocky also starred in football as both a running back and a linebacker. He w as recruited schools including by many Nebraska and Arizona State BYU coach Mark Schultz says Rocky is one of the best wrestlers he has ever signed. "We have taken a giant step forward in our quest for a WAC championship." said Shultz. "We are having one of our best recruiting years ever." The Cougars will return 10 wrestlers from this year's team (hat finished a surprising third at the WAC Championships. (Continued from Page Dl) and think we're pretty competitive w ith the teams in our group." The Cougars also drew the regI ular "Olympic" rotation (vault, bars. bye. beam, floor, bye), which is good, although they open the session on an event and session on a bye. not the to earn top scores. But worrying Catiermole too close the best way that isn't much. "Of course, we'd rather be out there for the final rotation, but other teams have made it into the Super Six watching for the final rotation." he told the Cougar squad prior to a practice session before leaving for Alabama. "If they can. we can too. And I'd rather be on a bye than on the beam with the home team on floor, like we were at Midwest Regionals at Utah. "But otherw ise, it's just like a regular home meet and that's treat for us." Cattermole also had another message for the Cougar squad. "I'm tired of just participating." race with a provisional qualifving mark of 4:25.75. Ashley Monahan came home w ith a win in the 800 with a time of 2:09.48. a personal best for her. Improving personal bests were Sam St. Clair (9.08.6 in the steeplechase). Brandon Rhoads (29:33.7). Jessica Heiner and Caisa Monahan in the 5.000 (17:1 8.89 and 7:5 1 .53 respectively). Melissa Teemant in the 3.000 (9:45.72) and Lori Lundell in the 3.000 (9:46.70). Dawn Tabla finished second in the hammer w ith a throw of 83-- 6 1 1 12 short of the school-recor- d throw she had last week in Provo. he said. "It's time we showed we're not just happy to get there, that we're better than a 10th seed." The Cougars appear poised to do just that after the best year in school history. They have four senior gymnasts Cristen Cosgrave and Elisabeth Crandall. junior Kelli Rose and sophomore Angela Anderson who have scored in competitions. In addition. Crandall is ranked 0th in the nation on beam (an average of 9.881) and 29th on bars (9.856) and also averages in the 9.8s on Former Cougar star Jason Pyrah. who still trains with BYU coach Sherald James, won the international invitational 1,500 with a time of 3:38.66. His time was the fastest in the nation this year and is under 10 seconds from the national record of 3:2977 and qualifies him for the Olympic Trials with a good chance to earn a spot on the team. Another former steepleCougar chaser Mark Johansen. finished third in the international invitational 3000m steeplechase with a time of 8:33.3. also qualifying him for the Olympic Trials. n, ROCKETS: 1 floor, while Anderson is ranked 14th on floor (9.887). Janene Christensen and Denice Pauga both have 9.8 or better averages on vault. Rose averages in the 9.8s on bars, freshman Natalie Emig averages in the 9.8s on bars, beam and floor and Cosgrave does the same on floor. BYU should be at full strength for the meet. Christensen is nursrotator cuff, but ing a partially-tor- n is expected to go on vault and floor. Pauga has missed the last month with a fool injury, but appears ready to vault. Miami Heat. past the Coach Pat Riley always has his team and focused and will try to turn the series into a bruising battle that takes well-prepar- some-thingo- ut of the Bulls. "The important thing is to get 15 wins any way you can," Jordan said. "If we win every game by two or three points, that's OK. If w e win the games by 15 points, that would be a serious statement. But we don't expect that to happen. We want to redeem ourselves for last year." Chicago's strongest competition in the bast should come from Orlando, which has the same nucleus that was better than the Rodman-les- s Bulls last season. The Magic won 60 games this season, three more than last year, and have enough weapons to stay close even Chicago. with any team Indiana could struggle without Reggie Miller in the first round against At'anta. And the winner of the scrios figures to Hew be overmatched in the second round. York-Clevela- 1) two-ru- Penguins topple Cap s By The Associated Press It must be the jerseys. Sure, the Pittsburgh Penguins finally got a great game out of Mario Leinieux in their 1 victory over the Washington Capitals on Monday night. GoalienderTom Barrasso was excellent, too. But give some credit to equipment manager Steve Latin, who suggested the struggling Penguins wear their alternate uniforms in the critical third game of their playoff series. Pittsburgh uonned the flashy apparel and stretched its record to e in the uniforms. In the other games Monday 4-- (Continued from Page Dl) 39-pl- e winning streak. Red Sox 4, Twins 1 Wil Cordero had three hits and drove in three runs, leading visiting Boston to its fourth w in in 19 games this season . Yankees 6, Royals 2 David Cone (3-won despite five lasting just innings, and Tino n Martinez hit a double as the visiting Yankees sent Kansas City to its sixth straight loss. seven-gam- new-styl- night. Florida beat Boston 6-- 2 while PVancouvcr dow ned Colorado 4-Panthers 6, Bruins 2 At Miami. Dave Lowry scored 3. two goals and John Vanbiesbrouck made 37 saves. Ray Sheppard scored a coal and assisted on three others, while Stu Barnes got three assists and Jason Woolley had a goal and assist. Canucks 4, Avalanche 3 At Vancouver, the hosts got unexpected goals from fourth-lin- e players Josef Beranck and Gino Odjick. Beranck played for the first time in the series and fired in the goal before setting up Odjick for the winner. go-ahe- ad |