Show Standard-Examin- Thursday March 17 1988 er 3C Sports 11 f wn NOME Alaska (AP) — Sirens wailed and hundreds of boisterous fans jammed Nome’s Front Street to cheer Susan Butcher as she coasted to an unprecedented third straight victory in the 1150-mil- e Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Bitterly cold winds raked Nome as the flushed and perspiring Alaskan cruised beneath the h finish at 8:42 pm Wednesday night “It means a lot to me to win three years in a row" the smiling musher said as she hugged her frosty-face- d lead dogs Granite and Tolstoy Butcher finished after 11 days 11 hours and 41 minutes — a record for the race’s longer northern route from Anchorage to Nome Last year her time of 1 1 days 2 hours set a record for the shorter southern route A veteran of 11 Iditarod races Butcher said she was surprised at the lack of competition in the final stretch “I thought this was going to be one of our very most competitive years" she said Experience gained during a training run last month along the windy Bering Sea coast gave Butcher an edge over her closest rival Martin Buser of Big Lake who trailed by 14 hours Wednesday night “What gave me the jump on Martin was that storm we had last night" Butcher said “I knew when I heard we were going to have winds that was the best thing that could happen because I knew mine would pull through ‘What gave me the jump on Martin (Buser) was that storm we had last night i knew when I heand we were going to have winds that was the best thing that could happen because ! knew mine would pull through it' — Susan Butcher log-arc- down to minus 70 degrees She said Buser who was battling for sece Iditarod champion ond place with Rick Swenson of Two Rivers will be a strong contender if he races next year Joe Gamie of Teller ran fourth WednesJoe Redington of Knik day and who organized the first Iditarod in 1973 but has never won the race was fifth Butcher will collect $30000 in prize money the next 19 finishers will split the rest of a $150000 purse The only musher to win three consecutive Iditarods Butcher said she will run again next year “I very much want four" she said “I guess I want five" But she said she does not see herself as invincible “I can definitely be beat I don’t understand why I’m not” One reason is the quality of her dogs said Butcher’s husband Dave Monson who earlier this month won another Alaska sled dog race the 1000-mil- e Yukon Quest The couple run a kennel in the interior Alaska village of Manley “She worked totally at building the best quality dog team for 15 years It’s paying off” Monson said People emptied out of bars and at least one church as Butcher headed into this old goldmining town which senes as a regional hub for western Alaska Nome’s population of 3000 roughly doubled in recent days as more than 60 village basketball teams poured in for an annual tournament Even the reindeer herders picked “Iditarod week" to have a meeting in Nome and most of them were pressing against the snow fence Wednesday night shouting and trying to get a peek at the winner Butcher has won the Iditarod three times finished second twice and finished among the top 10 racers four other times She is the second woman to win the Iditarod Libby Riddles of Teller won the contest in 1985 the same year Butcher was forced to drop out after an angry moose stomped through her team The Iditarod named after an old supply route to the gold mining districts of interior Alaska draws its inspiration from a 1925 relay of diphtheria serum to Nome which was hit hard by an outbreak of the disease The race started March 5 on trucked-i- n snow in downtown Anchorage The temperature fluctuated around freezing the next few g huskies days which strained the four-tim- long-distan- it" Buser’s team she said had balked in light winds earlier along the coast “So I knew he couldn’t make it through a storm” she said Wind and cold brough the wind chill factor Gooden gives up 10 hits 6 runs Philadelphia slips past Mets ce cold-lovin- OGDEN — The Mount Ogden Women’s Golf Association has lung scheduled its cheon and social for Thursday March 24 beginning at noon in the home of Pat Hamilton 5179 Pierce Ave in the Shadow Valley area Any woman interested in joining the association this year is invited to attend Reservations should be made by 8-- 0-- Angels 7 Athletics 6 Stewart Clibum is making the most of his second time around with the California Angels Given a new life with his old team Cliburn enhanced his chances of landing a bullpen job with the Angels by holding Oakland hitless in three innings Wednesday as California pulled out a victory White Sox 13 Orioles 0 sled dog race 1158-mil- e Baseball i V Day and Pat secretary-treasurHamilton and Hammond touma- - gold Golf season-openin- 8--7 ter Angel Gonzalez tied the score n with a single The Twins had gone ahead 2 in the top of the ninth on Brian Harper’s RBI single and Randy Bush’s two-ru-n double end of the Association schedules season opener! Snt Associated Press Dwight Gooden feels a lot better than he has looked in spring training so far But he says that’s par for the course “I don’t know what it is but I don’t like spring training games so much and never did” Gooden said Wednesday after giving up 10 hits and six runs in an 7 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies For the ace of the Mets’ staff it continued a typical run of bad spring training performances He has started three times in exhibition games In the last two weeks and given up 19 hits and 11 runs in 11 innings He is 1 with a 900 ERA so far “There’s a different attitude once the season starts” Gooden said “My overall earned-ru- n average in the spring is probably 10 anyway I don’t know why but I just don’t get into it” Associated Press Susan Butcher poses with her lead dog Granite at the : er I ment The Mount Ogden women have: scheduled their first golf tournament of the season on April 14 with tee I times beginning at 10 am Also the Mount Ogden course’s new clubhouse is currently under construction and is expected to be completed in May en Sunday and are available by calling 6 Nadine Day at or Fran 5 Hammond at Day will serve as association president this year She will be assisted by Ellen Herzog vice president Donna Thred- 479-914- 394-281- two-ru- 4-- Reds 2 Cardinals 1 Rookie Chris Sabo’s homer leading off the seventh gave Cincinnati a victory over St Louis Sabo who had three hits connected for his second spring homer off Scott Terry Astros (ss) 7 Braves 5 n Pat Keedy’s double in n the sixth capped a rally as Houston handed Atlanta its seventh loss in a rowv Houston’s big inning came on five hits and two errors as the Astros overcame a 0 Atlanta lead two-ru- six-ru- 5-- Astros (ss) 4 Royals (ss) 3 Bodine unofficially sets qualifying record turned in during qualifying for DARLINGTON SC (AP) — Geoff Bodine unofficially eclipsed his qualifying record at Darlington Raceway Wednesday as NASCAR drivers continued test runs for next week’s TranSouth the 1986 TranSouth Qualifying for the TranSouth 5 500 will be held March with the race set for March 27 at the 1366-mil- e oval 24-2- 500 Bodine had the best lap of the day at 3080 seconds or 159662 mph That was better than the record speed of 159146 mph he HAFB Darrell Waltrip turned in a fast lap of 159146 during his run Wednesday while Buddy Baker’s best lap was 157615 mph Junior Jazz reach championship SALT LAKE CITY — The Hill Air Force Base Junior Jazz for 1 1th and 12th graders 6 in ripped American Fork a tournament semifinal game Wednesday afternoon at the Salt 54-3- ' The Gerald Young and Billy Hatcher each tripled and scored Long-Wearin- g Sport Tire Year-Roun- d JUST ARRIVED split-squa- Greg Walker paced Chicago’s Royals (ss) 10 attack with a home run 2 and five RBI to lead the White Dodgers Sox to a 13-- 0 victory over the Frank White drove in three Baltimore Orioles runs as the Royals’ split squad The White Sox scored eight ‘routed the Dodgers The Royals broke open a 1 runs in 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