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Show Page D2 THE D4ILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, Tuesday, October 15, 19 Kansas coach upbeat despite los s of Clips NOTABLE QUOTE "If I am going to get the est penalty in baseball By CRAIG HORST AP Sports Writer harsh- want to do something harsh enough to deserve it. I don't think I did in this case." Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Bill Madlock, on May 12. 1980, about why he was appealing his $5,000 y fine and suspension for allegedly shoving his glove in the face of umpire Gerry Crawford during an arguement. In 1996, Roberto Alomar spit in the face of umpire John Hirschbeck during an argument on the final day of eason e play and received a suspension to be served at the beginning of the 1997 season. I regular-s- five-gam- FOOTBALL Mary Adams of Orem was this week's winner in the Daily Herald Kansas' LAWRENCE, Kan. best player is wearing a heavy black cast on his broken w rist. coach Roy Williams is at ease and smiling. W'illiams, it turns out, is happy about the players that are healthy and isn't that worried that Jacque Vaughn is out for 2 w eeks. Senior center Scot Pollard and Raef LaFrentz bring a powerful inside game, Jerod Haase is a top shooting guard and forward Paul Pierce has the potential io be a big scorer. Ryan Robertson, a sophomore, will fill the spot at the point for Vaughn, who gave serious consid- Jay-haw- 1 eration to entering the NBA draft before deciding to finish his college career. This Kansas team was listed No. 1 for this year by most prognosticates until Vaughn's injury in a pickup game. "We have a tremendously difficult schedule made even more difficult by the fact that Jacque is hurt," Williams said Monday on Media Day. "I think it will make the other guys more determined. There's no system. There's no system that's going to win with five of you guys. We've got some good players. It's not any trick plays. I can assure you of that." Kansas won 29 games last year before missing the Final Four by losing to Syracuse in Dallas. "You don't replace Jacque Vaughn. You try to hide the weaknesses and promote the other areas where you are strong," Williams said. "It doesn't say Jacque Vaughn on the jersey. It says Kansas on the jersey. This is a team." Vaughn, injured when he was knocked down by teammate Billy Thomas, is expected to begin weight and conditioning work soon. It likely will be after the first of the year before he can play. "It's just another obstacle, another challenge I have to get through," said Vaughn, an honor student. "It's a challenge to the ball club. They will all have to get bet ter," added Vaughn, who at one point seemed more concerned that the injury caused him to miss two weeks of school. "I've always said I'm a student of the game and this will give me a chance to see it from the bench. It will give me a chance to be more analytical. This could be a blessing in disguise." Williams said the main difference will be Vaughn's ability to pressure the ball on defense while Robertson, who gained about 20 pounds with offseason weight work, uses his long arms to contest shots. Vaughn has never been a scorer, and Robertson probably is a better shooter. "Jacque can penetrate. Ryan star-- : i shoots better. They get othex do it but better shots, they people in different ways," Williams said". "Ryan shoots better, so when guy$ go down low they can't double up on defense because he can shoot it in." " : ;. r i ' Robertson finds himself in the difficult position of getting his big 'J, chance with a high profile team ' because a friend is injured. "I'm more concerned about I' Jacque," Robertson said. "He's a., friend and a teammate. I wish he was healthy and was practicing " with the team. You are missing . best play-your your er, so that's an int resting chal-.- i, lenge for our team. I have confi- dence in what I can do." Football Contest. She missed one game. Eight other contestants tied for second. She will receive gift certificates from Park's Sportsman and Micro Pro Computers, along with tickets to a BYU basketball game. Brigham Young quarterback Steve Sarkisian, Tulsa defensive end Salifu Abudulai and TCU placekicker Michael Reeder were named Monday as WAC Mountain Division offensive, defensive and special teams players of the week. Fresno State wide receiver Brian Roherson and teammate tackle Bryan Robinson, along with San Diego State kicker Leandrew Childs, earned Pacific Division honors. Despite playing just three quarters, Sarkisian completed 22 of 35 passes for 400 yards and four touchdowns in BYU's 8 win over UNLV. Abudulai, a senior, had eight unassisted tackles and one 4 sack in Tulsa's win over Colorado State. Reeder. a junior, was successful on three of four field goals and one extra point to help 63-2- 20-1- Texas Christian to an l Paso. 18-- 0 win over Texas-E- Quarterback Erik Kramer, side- lined the last three games by two herniated discs in his neck, was placed on injured reserve by the Chicago Bears and told his season was over. After Kramer was injured Sept. 22 at Detroit, doctors told Bears coach Dave Wannstedt the quarterback would miss six weeks. But Kramer responded slowly to treatment. Kramer set team records for passing yardage, touchdowns, completions and attempts in 1995. He struggled before getting hurt this season, completing 73 of 150 passes (48.7 percent) for 781 yards, with three touchdowns and six interceptions. Baltimore Ravens defensive end Rob Burnett, considered the team's top lineman, is lost for the season after an MRI found ligament damage in his right knee. Dan Footman, a defensive tackle who left Sunday night's 26-2- 1 loss at Indianapolis after one play because of a fractured right forearm, underwent surgery and also could be lost for the season. BASKETBALL Utah Jazz center Greg Ostertag, who sprained an ankle last Thursday in the team's first preseason game against Vancouver, will not dress for Wednesday's game against Detroit in the Delta Center. Ostertag will also sit out weekend games at Milwaukee and against Detroit in Nashv ille. COLLEGE Former Big Eight freshman of the year Chauncey Billups and junior guard Howard Frier were suspended for three of Colorado's g first six basketball games for university telephone calling cards. Former basketball team member Leroy Carter also was involved in the misuse, but has been suspended from the team for other reasons. Twelve Colorado football players were suspended for mis-'usiti- misuse before Saturday's game against Oklahoma State. Six missed that game: three will sit out this weekend's game at Kansas: and three were suspended for both games. Along with their suspensions, the phi vers have been ordered to pay for their phone bills, which averaged about S25. calling-car- d BOXING Wilfredo Benitez. a world boxing champion, was in critical condition three days after three-lim- e he was found comatose in his home in San Juan. Puerto Rico. Benitez. 38. who suffers from encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, was taken to an emergency rx)in Friday after his mother found him passed out in bed in his home. He was later transferred to the nearby University Hospital in San Juan for specialized treatment. Benitez won his first world championship at the age of 18. beating defending champion Antonio Cervantes of Colombia to take the junior welterweight title. Orem Hiah stu dent explodes onto wor cycle racin g scene By DOROTHY KNOELL The Daily Herald Assistant Sports Editor Noon. Rugby (EPSN) 1 p m. racing (ESPN) 3 p.m. Daaanation Ejitrana (ESPN) a Jenifer South "I realsuch low expectations ly, really didn't think I'd qualithat she wasfy," she admitted n't exactly prepared to head off to Cairns. Australia, by Sept. 10. "I didn't even have a passport." she noted with a smile. "I had to pay. like, a ton of money d to get it to me. I had to racing get my international license, too, and plane tickets." With help from parents, grandparents, an aunt and others, South was able to get everything ready and head to Cairns in time for the race. She even had the right kind of bike, which wasn't the case when she first started. At Deer Valley,Soulh used her regular cross country mountain bike for the downhill course. Not exactly ideal. At Mammoth, she was able to borrow a downhill bike (which is was last July, I finally bought my first mountain bike and Melanie called and asked if I wanted to do a downhill. So we went to Wolf Mountain and did it and since then, we've been addicted." The two enjoyed the experience at Wolf Mountain enough that they entered an event at Mammoth. Calif., a few weeks later. And in her second downhill mountain bike competition (she'd done mostly cross country racing before). South finished third to earn a berth on the U.S. team that would go to Australia to compete in the World Championships. Preston also finished high, but not quite high enough to earn one of the five berths on the team. However, South had gone into the Aug. 29 Mammoth race with Fed-Exe- lf 1 national competitors. "I had just a few slips, but nothing too serious," she said, going back over the World Championship race. "You really don't think of how fast you're going or that you might crash, you're just so focused. I just wanted to do my best. "I was pretty happy to get through it without falling). I really would have been happy with whatever place I finished, because 1 was so happy just to make the team. But to finish that high was really neat." What's next for the who maintains a 3.5 GPA while also working two jobs (weekends at Deer Valley during the winter e and at Office Max)? "My next step is moving up to senior level and. training, training, training to be a pro," she said. South realizes it will take more than just three races to make it in the seniorpro level. She's looking toward three or four years, or more, of intensive training, to try to make her mark on the pro biking world. She said that most of the training would be "on my own," just working out with Preston and her family, lifting weights, doing a lot of longdistance and sprint workouts and eating riuht. "I definitely intend to go to college, but I'd also like to bike in the spring and summer," she said. "There are races all around the country you can make a living at it. I'd like to focus on cross country next year. I'd still do downhill, but I want to focus on the cross country." With that in mind, she's sending out "resumes" to different biking teams to see if she can get sponsoiship, then she'll try to make it to most, if not all, of the six national races, three of which are World Team qualifiers, around the country. Preston will be competing, too, and they'd love to both make it on the team. 1 part-tim- McCarver rapidly becoming packers: a fixture in World Series TV (Continued from Page Dl) By JOHN NELSON AP Sports Writer When Tim McCarver takes the microphone for Fox on Saturday at Yankee Stadium, he'll be working his seventh straight World Series for his third network with just about eveiy son of a Buck around. You might say that where McCarver is concerned, the Buck stops here. You might say that. In the booth with McCarver. as Fox begins its first World Series, will be Bob Brenly and announcer Joe Buck. son of Hall of Fame announcer Jack Buck. McCarver worked the 1990 and "91 World Series for CBS w ith with the elder Buck. "The appie does not fall far from the tree," McCarver said. That's not to say that McCarver does a double take every time Joe Buck cranks up his home run call. "They're not that similar." he said. "There are similarities, but they are very distinctively different broadcasters." One of the most distinctive of those differences is that Joe Buck actually has some rapport with McCarver. Jack Buck didn't. In those two first vears of CBS' four- play-by-pl- year deal w ith baseball. Jack Buck and McCarver left boot marks all over each other. In Jack Buck's defense, that wasn't hard to do w ith McCarver. who would have been a great 10th grade trigonometry teacher, the way he belabors a point. And in McCarver s defense, that wasn't hard to do with Jack Buck, who's also bored a few to death in his day. "Jack was schooled in radio, and he was the voice of the Cardinals for many years." McCarver said. "Joe grew up in TV. It's hard to believe he is only 27. It seems like he's 50 years old." McCarver. a former St. Louis Cardinals catcher, worked his first World Series as a broadcaster in 1985 with ABC. He also worked with Al Michaels and Jim Palmer for ABC in 1987 and '89. w hen he began his streak of World Series. He did the World Series for There was no CBS from 199()-'9World Series because of the strike in 1994. allowing the streak to continue, and McCarver was back at the mike in 1995 with ABC. which shared the World Series with NBC in the final year of The Baseball Network. 3. Rockies send former top pick back to Colorado Springs DENVER (AP) David Nied. who has been bothered by arm problems each of the past tw o seasons, was one of two players to Triple-by the Colorado Rockies on Monday. Also outrighted to Colorado Springs was Alan Cockrell. an outfielder who made his first major league appearance this season after spending 13 years in the minors. N.ed ai:d Cockrell can become free agents or accept the Triple-assignment and be eligible for the Rule V draft in December. out-right- I er It usually takes years of practice and hard work for someone to reach the upper echelon of a sport. Then there's Orem's Jenifer South. South puts in plenty of hard work on myriad activities, from school to swimming to weight-liftin- g to biking. But for of as years practice...well, it took South exactly two tries at downhill mountain biking to make the U.S. World Team in the junior ladies category. "I bike a lot with my friend, Melanie Preston, and her family." South said, explaining how she went from nowhere to World Team competitor in a few months. "It A 5:30 p.m Bowling (ESPN) 7 p m NHL. Ouan) at AvMnch (PSP) 7 p.m Baaing. Rahman vt Bartxc (USA) p.m. SuparBoxH (ESPN) M 30 p.m. Boating (ESPN) less rigid) from a fellow-racshe'd met at Deer Valley. When she went to return the bike after the race, she carne up with another bike to use in Australia. "When I returned the bike, the guy I borrowed it from was at the Pro Dynamics booth. The guy there wanted to know how I'd done and when I told him I'd qualified, he wanted to know if I would ride for them. So for Australia, I had a downhill bike from them." The Orem High senior spent nine days in Australia, taking in she saw kangasome sights roos, checked out the shops and "went to the beach a lot." "Once, there was a big crocodile on the beach. It was kind of exciting," she said. She also practiced. "1 wrecked a lot," she admitted with a wry smile. "We had four hours a day on the course and it was a really hard one. It was really rocky, lots of roots, ruts and tight switchbacks." When it came time for the actual race, however. South didn't fall at ail, completing the approximatemile course in a ly little over seven minutes, reaching miles per hour. In speeds of 30-3- 5 her debut on the world scene, in just her third downhill race, she finished 7th in a field of 30 inter- Nied was Colorado's first pick the 1992 expansion draft and became the first Rockies pitcher to shutout in throw a complete-gam- e won nine 1994 The but has not won season that games a major league game since. Elbow surgery limited him to two games in 1995, and he went 0-- 2 after being recalled from Class A Salem in the last month of 1996. The Rockies have 37 players on their roster, while Bret y Saberhagen remains on the disabled list. in right-hand- 40-m- 60-da- OUT TAKES: Bob Uecker lost his opportunity to ride the blimp when the Yankees wrapped up the American League pennant in Baltimore Sunday. If the Yankees had come home to finish the series, Uecker would have thumbed a five-horide on the blimp back to New York. Now. he'll have to wait until next year. ... I know why Fox needs a three-ma- n broadcast booth with Tim McCarver. You need one guy to sit on him and the other one to gag him. Don't laugh. There's a glimmer of truth in that. The addition of Brenly to Fox's broadcast team seems to have quieted McCarver a little. Let's see if it lasts w hen he gets really excited. "It forces you to be a bit more succinct." McCarver said. "You hav e to throw your darts in a smaller circle w hen you make your comments. But you adjust. Whether it's two or three, it's the guys you work w ith. If you genuinely like them, it makes it a lot easier." ... In keeping with the season's baseball theme, ABC will show a one-hodocumentary entitled "Hardball: The Story of Doc and Darryl" on Thursday night, and Classic Sports Network has the two-ho"Cut to the Chase" in prime time Friday. Hardball is an ABC News profile of Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry, who both resumed troubled careers this year w ith the Yankees. "Cut to the Chase," meanwhile, concentrates on memorable moments from past World Series, spanning about 30 years in three parts: great pitching, great comebacks and heroic homers. ... Isn't this indicative of the predicament in which baseball finds itself.' Of the major commercials airing during the early part of the baseball playoffs, three of the most prominent had a football theme. game into overtime, and the rest you know. "We can't let this sap our energy," Seifert said. "We'll be heard from again." The victoiy was the third straight for Green Bay and sixth in seven tries this season. More important, it was the Packers' second straight in nine months over the 49eis, and it not Dallas and not proved they the 49ers are the team to beat. For the 49ers, the loss was cruel. They still have not beaten a team with a winning record this season, yet they came this close to tilling the NFL's balance of power in their direction. Still they lost, not so much because the defense didn't overcome Green Bay heck, despite 446 surrendering a season-hig- h yards it kept frustrating Favre with a furious pass rush but because the offense didn't. In the last three periods (including the overtime) ihe 49ers managed 75 BRAVES: (Continued from Page Dl) think that a rule would count for two." No, but it did send the Braves home to Atlanta with renewed series. hope in the best-of-- 7 And no wonder. Four-tim- e Cy Young winner Greg Maddux will try to rebound from his loss in Game 2 when he pitches WednesDonovan day night against Osborne. If Atlanta wins, 1995 World Series MVP Tom Glavine will start Game 7. "I'm glad that I get to pitch again." Maddux said. "You know, you come to the park today getting ready to pitch, but in the back of your mind, you're not." Stotllemyre. working on three days' rest for the first time since July 1995. also felt ready. That was until he gave up hits to nine of the 12 batters he faced before manager Tony La Russa pulled him. 10-ru- n DETMER: (Continued from Page Dl) ; ': men "I missed Mark Seay on a comer route. I wish I had that over again." 7 ;, But overall, Detmer, the 1990 , Heisman Trophy winner who; spent his first four seasons as a backup to Brett Favre in Green..." Bay before signing this offseason ;C with the Eagles, was pleased that '" he made few mistakes and took care of the ball, throwing no inter-'- ; '";; ceptions and not fumbling. "It was a conscious effort not to have any turnovers, not to give" a short field to work with,";. :, Detmer said. "You just remind yourself: 'Don't do anything stu- pid. Don't do anything crazy.'" Rhodes said Detmer wouldjj have had better numbers were itJ not for the fact that Eagles receivers dropped at least seven " catchable passes. "We had some dropped passes and some opportunities we didn'f ? lake advantage of in the passing -.r ", game," Rhodes said. HARMON: (Continued from Page Dl) chief evangelist Rondo Fehlberg. ; On Friday and Saturday, he spent time with two of his closest buddies from a summer team. Dusty Dastrup (Timpview) and Mekeli Wesley (Provo) and !, they just chilled, goofing off. After watching Saturday's, ' game, Burgess, his mother and. father and sister Angela who ; has committed to play for BYU as a 4 junior college transfer had dinner at Roger and Diana-Reid's home in Spanish Fprk. After church meetings Sunday; the Burgess entourage left for home. The soup is on the stove. The bread is in the oven. The Burgess ; watch is all but over. all-st- ar ' 6-- ', ' ; yards, four first downs and threef ; and the field goal, a points by Wilkins, was made possi- - 1 ble only by Marquez Pope's and return to Green Bay's 2: Grbac finished 21 of 39 for 182 yards, two touchdowns and two."; interceptions but couldn't produce, ' anything beyond that Wilkins field goal on the team's last eight series. Rice led their receivers with sevr en catches for 84 yards and his 149th and 150th career touchdowns';. but no other wide receiver had a is and that includes J.J.";'r reception Stokes. Stokes has been blanked in lt' two straight games. , The first half was a barrel cheese for Green Bay. After ; intercepting a pass from Grbac on the 49ers' first series, the Packers", were forced to punt. After drivin-- J to the 49ers' 10 on their secont-J-serie- s d with a catch by" Jackson the key play the Pack-'- "' ers settled for Jacke's field goal. And after intercepting a pass from Grbac again, this time on the- 49ers' third series, the Packers." were forced to kick again this;.'.' time a field goal by Jacke.; er inter-cepti1 ; 50-yar- . 30-ya- 25-ya- "That's the way it goes," Stot:; tlemyre said. "They were fighting' for their lives." I The Braves, a team that began,, the game batting only .213 in this"' year's postseason, got four hits each from Lopez and Mark-LemkLopez scored four runs and Fred McGriff drove in the last, two with a home run. "We got out early and took their crowd out of it," Lemke said-"- I think you have to credit the.' whole offense. The team really came through." The Cardinals had won nine in C row at home in the postseason before the Braves brqtfe loose' Atlanta is trying to become the out of 48 to over- eighth team come a 1 deficit; St. Louis is the1 only club to twice blow such leads; in the 1968 and 1985 World Series: "Before we could escape, they had put up a couple of crooked numbers," La Russa said. "It just' wasn't any fun. That game got', away from us." e. 3-- 4- - POOR |