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Trinidad wins WBA super welterweight crown Dallas doesn’t mind Arizona in wintertime LAS VEGAS - Felix Trini- one-side- Reid The welterweight champion from Puerto Rico was knocked- down in the third round Friday night outdoors at Caesars Palace and had trouble IBF-WB- C t - f j er rc:j3 e:::f5 dad Jr got hot in the second half of the fight on a cool desert night and won the WBA super welterweight championship on a d decision over David I Standard-Examin- getting through Reid’s defense Trinidad took control of the fight knocking down Reid in the seventh round ripping a cut over his right eye in die eighth and knocking him down three times in the 11th Trinidad was just too experienced for Reid who lost for the first time in his professional career Trinidad is 37-- 0 with 30 knockouts ! i 15-fig- ht GOLF: catello Idaho on Feb 19 is the only woman vaulter to clear 15 feet indoors She shares the world outdoor record of 15-- 1 with Emma George of Australia By setting the record Dragila earned a $50000 bonus Doral-Ryd- er Open On a day when the Blue Monster was besieged by birdies and records Langham added his name to the books with 63 that gave him a three-strolead and the lowest hisscore in the tory of the tournament A birdie putt on his final hole put Langham at ke 36-ho- le 39-ye- ar 10-fo- ot er 129 shattering the 36-ho- le Doral record of 133 Stephen Ames who almost withdrew when his son was hospitalized with pneu- monia on Wednesday broke the Blue Monster record with a 61 that left him tied bogey-fre- e for second with Shigeki Maruy-am- a (65) Jim Furyk (67) and Vijay Singh (67) Edward Fryatt in danger of missing the cut tied a PGA Tour record with eight consecutive birdies in his round of founder 62 which put him at 137 Eichelberger Vucinich share Toshiba lead NEWPORT BEACH Calif Dave Eichelberger and Roy Vucinich shot 66s on Friday to share the first-roun- d lead in the Toshiba Senior Classic - Larry Nelson and Howard Twitty opened with 67s on the Newport Beach Country Club course Defending champion Gary McCord and 1995 winner George Archer topped an group at 69 eight-play- er Sorenstam leads Takefuji Classic by one stroke KAILUA-KONHawaii -Karrie Webb brings out the best in Annika Sorenstam A Playing in the same group as the LPGA Tour’s hottest player Sorenstam shot her second 68 on Fristraight day to take the lead in the Takefuji Classic d leader Janice Moodie of Scotland was a 137 after stroke back at a 70 Webb completed an round of 70 for a First-roun- 138 total EACSnALL WSU students group organizing tournament trip short-hand- ed Phoenix Coyotes and includes hotel bus transportation and ticket to the tourare being held nament Sign-up-s in the business office of the Union Building The tournament will be held at Eastern Washington Utah women defeat Washington at home SALT LAKE CITY - The University of Utah women’s gymnastics team defeated Washington 196800-19490- 0 on Friday night at the Huntsman Center Deidra Graham won the with a 39525 as No 5 Utah won its 157th straight dual meet at home Friday in Logan No 22 Utah State defeated Texas 5 Woman’s University Aggie standout Kristin nd 195325-18977- with a 39175 s£:::s: Rarity on slopes: US man wins World Cup downhill KVITFJELL Norway - In a rarity in skiing an American man won a World Cup event Daron Rahlves won a down- hill Friday for his first World Cup victory the first in any World Cup discipline by a US man since 1995 The skier from Truckee Calif edged Switzerland’s Didier Cuche by of a second on Olympic course Rahlves’ victory came on the same hill where Tommy Moe won the 1994 Olympic downhill gold medal for the US It was also where Kyle Rasmussen became the last American male winner on the World Cup tour a downhill in 1995 hs AUTO RACING: Rudd feels like rookie again wins Las Vegas pole LAS VEGAS - Two Winston Cup rookies and a driver with lots of experience who feels like a youngster again topped qualifying Friday for the CarsDi-rectco400 m Longtime NASCAR star Ricky Rudd who found new life when he closed down his own team to take a ride with the elite Robert Yates Racing put his No 28 Ford on the pole for Sunday’s race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway His record-settin- lap of g With the victory the Stars lengthened their Pacific Division lead to seven points over the second-plac- e come-from-behi- The Weber State University Students Association has organized a trip for WSU students to the Big Sky Men’s Basketball Tournament on March 1 The cost of the trip is $70 Bloom won the 4--1 172563 mph was good enough to beat out first-yedrivers Scott Pruett and Dale Earnhardt Jr who got around the ar 1 1 d oval at 172381 and 172216 respectively Coyotes who were BRIAN NICHOLSONStandanl-Exarrv- Roenick In the five games the teams PLCTTmu KIS CCUftSE: Jasey Jay Anderson of Canada fries to keep from getting too much air during his winning run in the men’s FIS World Cup snowboard event at Park City on Friday have played this season the home team has never won Phoenix won twice in Dallas and the Stars have won three times at America West Arena t in The Coyotes six games have allowed ucnuj cu? s::av"3rj::::3 First event in US not without controversy By WINA STURGEON Standard-Examin- correspondent PARK CITY - It’s a sport that outdoes hockey with its collisions and injuries but the big complaint Friday about the first World Cup snowboardcross ever held in the US was that the course was too tame To protest the top US rider Seth Wescott 23 boycotted the finals ) Rangers 4 Panthers 2: At New York Mike York had a goal and an assist as New York moved into seventh place in the Eastern Conference playoff race with 67 points one ahead of idle Pittsburgh Adam Graves Alexandre Daigle and John MacLean also scored for the Rangers Mike Richter made 19 saves for his 21st win of the season Ray Whitney and Mark Parrish scored for the Panthers who are only Washone point ahead of second-plac- e ington in the Southeast Division Both teams have 17 games remaining Biackhawks 5 Lightning 1: At Chicago Tony Amonte had two goals and an assist for the Biackhawks in a game that featured a second-perio- d with- out four of their top players including leading scorer Jeremy then-las- d goals in then-las- t eight Carolina two games scored third-perio- four in the third Wednesday night in Phoenix’s 5 victory The Stars outshot Phoenix 0 in the third Roenick was out with the flu defenseman Teppo Numminen had a hip flexor and goalie Sean Burke was sidelined with a groin pull Until Friday Numminen had the longest current streak of consecutive regular-seaso- n games in the NHL at 7-- ferent idea of how you should build a course” he said Martin pointed out that no one was injured either in the qualifying round or in the finals' Canadian Jasey Jay Anderson won the event Mathieu Morency of Canada was second Sweden’s Pontus Stahlkloo was third The top US man was Anton Pogue seventh Sandra Farmand of Germany was the winning woman while Manuela Reigler of Austria was second and Carmen Ranigler of Italy third Julie Zell of Wyoming was sixth and Kate Fletcher of Girdwood Alaska was seventh Gwen Foster of Salt Lake City was ninth The sport is motocross on a snowboard A racecourse consists of jumps berms (called “comers”) and straightaways Each rider gets a timed run and only the fastest qualify for the finals which are run in “heats” of four snowboarders at a time The Several thousand school chilfirst two through the finish go on dren had a good time the other two are eliminated The Park City Mountain ReJudy Stanfield the education director at the Salt Lake Organizsort course built by the FIS (International Ski Federation the ing Committee worked with offigoverning body) was called a cials throughout the state to invite students at elementary “joke” by some of the European racers because it was so easy junior high and high schools on a field trip to watch the event The jumps were small and flat little air was also It “I’m just thrilled that these too allowing narrow not giving riders enough kids had this kind of opportunichances to pass Whoever was ty” Stanfield said out of the starting gate first most Among the enthusiastic stuoften ended up first at the finish dents was Wes Curtis 14 of MoWescott third in the time trironi Middle school in Sanpete als was the top American but County gave up his chance to earn good “I like it when the racers get prize money and World Cup air” he grinned but his classrankings to make his point hav“It was a lot to give up but it mates said that they enjoyed school than more a out of ing day made the point with people at the US Ski and Snowboard Associ- seeing the race The halfpipe World Cup will ation The basic problem is that be held today with qualifications the FIS hasn’t taken snowboardstarting at 10 am and the finals cross seriously” at 1 pm But Ted Martin FIS race director of the snowboard World don’t wish to If minute walk up Cup said the primary objective make the was to have a safe course though to the halfpipe they can take a he admits it could have been free ride on the “people hauler” built better “Some of the feaa big sleigh hauled up the Payday tures could have been a little bit run by a snowcat The ride is bigger But everybody has a dif free fight between Chicago goaltender Steve Passmore and Tampa Bay’s Dan Cloutier Jean-YvLeroux Bryan McCabe and Steve Sullivan also scored for the Biackhawks who have won three of their last four Todd Warmer connected for the Lightning which has lost three straight The goalies tangled with 1:49 left in the middle period after all 10 skaters on the ice bad joined an altercation in the Lightning zone 19-1- Flames 4 Mighty Duels 1: At Calgary Alberta Jarome Iginla extendstreak to 15 games ed his point-scorin- g with two goals as Calgary defeated Anaheim Iginla has 12 goals and 13 assists during the streak which ties him with 360 He hadn’t missed one since 15 1995 when the franchise was in Winnipeg Dec Phoenix has been 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and one Yamaha gear bag Must take delivery by March 31 2000 See dealer for dstarts Offer good on refad satns from January 1 2000 - March 3 2000 CgOOO CLUB HOCKEY WSU edges even closer to ACHA title slightly-banke- SLED DOG RACING: Record 81 teams competing in Iditarod race ANCHORAGE PHOENIX - Aaron Gavey and Jamie Langenbrunner each had a goal and an assist as Dallas scored four goals in a span of the third period Friday night to beat the CCUXCE CCULECE GYMNASTICS: A record day at calm defenseless Doral MIAMI - Franklin Langham felt the still warm air saw the ridiculously low scores and realized that Friday was no time to play it safe in the 54 shots tallying for a tie with Washington Detroit which trailed 2-- 0 after the first penod tied the score when Yzer-ma-n took a pass from Nick as Lidstrom and put a slap shot past Olaf Kotng 52 saves who made a career-hig- h The Capitals scored 16 seconds into the game on a short-hande- d goal by Andrei Nikolishin Washington scored Jeff a on Halpem Vygoal by again acheslav Kozlov scored Detroit's first goal at 12:15 of the second period Prior to Detroit’s 54 shots Nashville had the most shots in a game 52 against San Jose on Oct 14 The Associated Press Alaska TENNIS: -- The pace of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has quickened over the years thanks to innovations in dog breeding and gear and stiffer competition among mushers The winner of the first ’iditarod in 1973 needed 20 ays to cover the 1100-mil-e tra1 from Anchorage to Nome In 1998 1 mushers completed the race in less than half that time and e finisher areven the rived in just over 14 days ' The 28th Iditarod starts today with a record field of 81 mushers competing for a record purse of $525000 The winner will take home $60000 and a pickup truck The field includes six former 1 last-plac- Rafter Woodruff fall in Citrix Championships DELRAY BEACH Fla -Patrick Rafter the Australian star returning from a shoulder injury tumbled out of the Citrix Tennis Championships on Fri2 to day night falling 6 6--1 Paul Goldstein in a quarterfinal match Goldstein will face qualifier Alex Calatrava of Spain a 6--7 2 3 winner over (7) Chris Woodruff 4-- 6-- 6-- 6-- fifth-seed- Australia’s Richard will face sixth-seede- d ed From-ber- g Ste- fan Koubek of Austria in the other semifinal Davenport hands Seles first loss in 2000 Ariz SCOTTSDALE winners including defending ended MonLindsay Davenport of Swingley champion Doug g victoLincoln Mont who finished in ica Seles’ streak the Friday ry beating 9 days 14 hours e Grand Slam champiTRACK & FIELD: in the quarterfinals 4 on the State Farm Women’s of own indoor Tennis Classic Dragila breaks d pole vault record Davenport will play " ATLANTA - Stacy Dragila Russian Anna Koumi-kov- a 2 winner over Ai a smashed her world indoor pole -- season-openin- nine-tim- 6-- 4 6-- sixth-seede- 6--4 vault record Friday night clearing 1 5 feet 1 34 inches at the USA Track and Field Championships in the Georgia Dome Dragila who had set the previous record of 15-- 1 12 at Po- - 6-- Sugiyama today No I Martina Hingis will face No 3 Mary Pierce in the other semifinal - Standard-Examinstaff er and wire services staff Standard-Examin- FISHERS Ind - The Weber State hockey club has earned some national respect Now they want to earn a national title The Wildcats won their third straight game at the Division II American Collegiate Hockey Association National Championships Friday with a 4 decision over Mankato (Minn) 5-- WSU had already earned a spot in the semifinal round to be played this morning against Miami (Ohio) The other game matches host Indiana and Michigan The championship game is set for tonight “The team is confident and they’re finally learning to accept the systems we’ve taught them” WSU assistant coach Kiyoshi Ryujin said “This is the best hockey they’ve played all year” Backup goalie Steve Soto turned away shots that came his way Weber State a No 3 seed in the tournament have perhaps surprised some at the 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