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Show 20 DESERET NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1973 Salt Lake downs Tucson in Lange drama SPORTS EDITOR n ByQLce Benson Dweret News Sports Writer M W Lake pitcher Dick Lane put a little drama in . Tucson Toros baseball W show eanesday night Tile Salt Lakers and were really never in Lartge trouble as they coasted to a of jun in this curtain-calle- r a three game senes, but Iamje didnt allow anyone to leave early. Salt the;-Ange-ls r Te big persisted in working himself nto IroiiCle periodically, and then would showboat with a fancy fastball to stop Tucson's surgnghl-hande- ing' H Lpnge began making this easy one look hard by walking two; Toros in the first Inning anch allowing a double to Ramon Webster, to give the lead Then visitors a quick he Jeft a couple stranded by forcing two ground ball outs to epd the inning 0 I Utah folds under BYU net pressure e By Ray Grass Deseret News Sports Writer Things didnt go well for the of Utah tennis University team at all. In fact the visiting Uougars from BYU stirred things up a bit too much and, as the frmed cliche goes, the folded like a homemade Ute canbe between now and Saturday' theyd better do some pretty fancy patchm. For Saturday at 2.30 pm. the Utes host the Western Athletic Conference power Arizona on the Ute courts. As for Wednesdays match, Apd the Cougars won handily But, that score really doesn't tell the match. The Cougars, had it all wrapped up and tloa'ing high after thp singles. The BYU phenoms won flve of the six singles matches hat happened to the Utes 6-- V BYU coach Wayne Pearce said he felt it was a combination of two things. Utah played poorly, and we played exceptionally good tennisfact, this was the best tennis Ive seen come from a couple of my players. - Playing in the number one role for Utah was Dave Harmon. But, it was John Bennett who Stole the show. Bennett lost the opening set to Harand it looked like mon, Utah would take number one But, Bennett won the second. then came on to win the on final jn the tie breaker, points to clinch the win At number two it was no contest. Chris DeGraff sent Utah's Bill Benmon on his wav In two very quick sets, HACK CHILLER Do or die in Mayan melee The offensive side of the Angels gave their pitcher all the runs he needed m heir turn m the first Base hits by Winston Llenas, Billy Parker ard Bobby Marcano, a saers fice fly by Curt Motton and walks by Bobby Brooks, Jim Hutto and Mike Minster accounted for three runs Then the generous Lange things under loose control He left at least one runner stranded in every inning but the third, when Toro catcher Tim Hosley got to to him for a solo home-ruclose out Tucson scoring i p nted Kept n The plot got better in the final three innings. With two runners on in the seventh, forced to Webster Lange ground out to bring a Sigh of relief from the partisan party. Then m the eighth, he hurriedly hit a batsman and walked one to set another threat This time a couple of ofnke-oul- s and another ground ball thwarted the rally. And m the ninth, Lange produced the natural ending He put a couple of runners on with a single and base on balls before showing he had more zip than when he started by fanning the last two bat- ters It was Langes third win of the year, against one defeat. He received excellent supporting roles from his back-umen. Angel fielding was better than usual. Only two scattered errors Motton, Parker and Brooks particularly covered the outfield grass well p Dave Hamilton of Tucson evened his pitching record at by suffering the loss He lasted through six innings, allowed all seven Angel hits and six runs 2 I AP Wirephol Phoenix Roadrunner's Bob Mowat moves 'around Salt Lake Golden Eagle defender Tim Jacobs (2) on his way to scoring one of his club's six goals. The Roadrunners won the Lester Patrick Cup title. Adios to Patrick Cup ll The elimination series No tomorrow for Eagles By Brent Checkett Deseret News Sports Writer - PHOENIX, ARIZ Its likely that very few Salt Laka Golden Eagle hockey fans remember thai vvevne Hicks played the first week nf the season for the Eagles in 1970. A lot more Eagle fans, however, will remember Hicks for the way , he played against Salt Lake in the now conclud ed Lester Patrick Cup Playoffs as a Phoenix Road runner. Hicks finished the playoffs in the same manner he played all through them r- - excellent ly He scored two goals and one assist here Wednesday night and along with Andre Hmse, who scored two goals, paced the Roadrunners to a victory before 11,764 happy fans. 6--4 The wm gave the RoadruSait Lake Motton nners something theyve never proved his worth at the plate, had before since joining the homer in the Western Hockey League in belting a two-rufifth, his second of the year. 1967, the Lester Patnck Cup Llenas continued his hitting And the RoaChampionship spree, raising his .381 average drunners grabbed the Cup with a couple of hits in four at with authority, winning four bats Mike Minster carried his straight games in the best of average past 300 with a two seven game series against the for three performance, includEagles ing a double With his three points Wednesday, Hicks wound up Salt Lake welTonight, comes Phoenix into town for a the top playoff series scorer. five game series The Angels He had 16 points m 10 games Six of those games were ) will go with Rick Young on the mound against the against San Diego m the s league leading Giants. lhnse finished as the second Game time is 7.30 p m. at leading scorer in the playoffs Derks Field. with 15. For n (2-0- Was the victory especially sweet to Hicks since he was traded so quickly by the Eagles three years ago before really getting a chance to prove himself I didnt ever, think about that, he said. 1 m not bitter towards Salt Lake in the least. Trades are a part of the game in pro hockey. I wasnt with the Eagles long enough to really get attached. Im just glad I was able to help these guys pointing to hiS Phoenix teammates) by having a good playoff senes. This is my third year with Phoenix, and its the first time we ever got into the finais, iet alone win them. Its great to have the Cup m our dressing room tonight I think we were a little too tight in the first period We wanted to win tonight very badly, and I think we were just trying too hard. Once we got loose in the second period, we were on our way. The Eagles came out flying and looked like anything but a team down in games Salt Lake scored the first two goals and led by two entering the final seconds of the first stanza 0 Even when they fell behind, the Salt Lakers picked, j.I.'.liJ'n fiUUMJUJTil they wanted Despite losing the senes in four straight games, Salt Lake was outscored by a total of six goals. Mistakes hurt us again tonight, but we kept battling. Eagles ; STATE 484-61- 64 OGDEN TEL. 399-982- 4 Mayans, they tell us, started the Tikal temples and; plazas about 500 years A D., kept it going for about after which time they suddenly forsook the area Maybe they had too many single elimination tournaments and spent too many of their sprinters At any rate it was short lived and does not have the revered antiquity of Marathon races, or the Olympic wreaths the Greek Olympiad had 1 We have coaches today who have said they would rath- -, er die than lose to certain other coaches'. They would have been featured fellow's in the Mayan culture that was their1 : fate anyway, whether they it or not. 200-yea- rs, They kept it going strong in the second stanza, scoring pre-state- d r three unanswered against the Al Rol- lins said post game.One thing that really hurt was their goal with only seven seconds left in the third penod. It brought them back to within one and gave them added momentum into the middle period Al Simmons scored aftgr a beautiful pass from the boards by Fred Hilts at 2 54. and Salt Lake was off and lead running with a Eagles Hmse deflected in a shot oy Howie oung on a power play at 2 31, and Hicks scored on a short handed at 8:38 after stealing the puck from a Salt Lake center. Hmse upped the lead to 3 by scoring from a pileup at 17:41 after the Runners had maintained heavy pressure for about 30 seconds. Mayans worried first about skills of the game. Their , perpetuation as athletes depended on it. It was not just! a matter of breaking a contract, cheating by lifting a hand to jigger a foul shooter. For the Mayar natchmaket" it was do or die for old Maya There were no pros or amateurs m those days If' penalties wer as stiff as some say they were, players were categorized by two terms living and dead Living were winners They didnt sign contracts, demand health insurance, a cut of the franchise, sick pay or a lee for ills-,- '' Ron Huston scored for Salt Lake at 2 27 in the final stanza to narrow the gap to They appeared, played the game and half the time, id-- ! legedly disappeared. Some contend there were no death penalties Losers did have another 'hance, some sav memberment 5-- The Phoenicians maintained the one goal margin with close checking and some good saves by goalie Don Caley until 13:52, when they built upon the lead by tettmg the games final goal by John Golfton. 0 Bob Mowat, who scored the game winning goal for the Runners in game two, got the Phoenicians on the score- - ' - The results were final 5-- Hustling Howie Menard got the game's firs goal m short order, as he deflected in a slap shot by Barry 'ummms after only 28 seconds to give Salt Lake a f. Im not old enougn competition the Mayan a nice guy like Robert with coco leaves, palm much of a donation to remember, but one thing about,, way is certain, if they ever found' L. Rice to carpet the contest area fiber of whatever, it wouldnt take Most of the action was m midfield, too If you had a seat for the show it was a good one. -l o vmm SHOP THE ONLY 100 rn Jj COTTONWOOD MALL TEL. 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Each athlete had come to the. championship by senes of eliminations He didnt know foi", sure if the elimination senes was according to our stan-- , dariis-- or otherwise. Losers might have been totally ''iimi-nate- The board on a power play at 7 17, to narrow the gap to but Del Hall connected at close range for the Eagles at 15 52 and their lead was back to two goals, U ith time running out in the wild first penod, an unmolested Hicks blasted a through Ted Tuckers legs at 19.53, to send the Runners to the locker room with the momentum themselves up and came back Z , wetf-groom- mull I I i ill U'J 41 UUTffTTC 1946 SO. semi-final- 6-- At number three Utah was the first m it for a while but after that set at least BYUs Bruce Kleege took over to blitz Andy Webb in the second set to win, Utah's only win came at number four. Kim Farran defeated Jim Robbins, The guide at Tikal. site of the ancient Mayan temples a I parts of Guatemala, Knew was sports editor. He took me to the Mayan ball park It was like mock-uof the Bob Rice Stadium Playing surface fta walls, etc. I -about 12 feet wide by 30 feet long-slaThe game was played with a ball. There were gSls rules, awards for the winners (losers died or were pjin ished m degree according to their losses). The ball was advanced by movement of the head and shoulders only There was no icing the puck, two lane passes. I not ball was per-Like m basketball, footwork with the mitted. You could flap your ears against it The guide had made quite a study of Mayan sports. But this was the only one which involved a ball within a stadium They had other games like balancing the cane rollers, shinny-sticdarts (from bowstrings,) etc. They had a form; of baseball, using bamboo bats to the fruit m jungled north |