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Show The Salt Lake Tribune SPORTS Friday, May 7, 1999 Knoblauch KO’d As Yankees Rally American THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ’ been a painful loss into a Painful win for the New k Knoblauch was helpedoffthe field and tak- en to a hospital after an eighth-inning collision with Corey Koskie during the Yankees’ 4-3, 10-inning win Thursday. Fortunately for Knoblauch and the Yankees, X. rayson his leg revealed no break and no ligament dam age but simply a badly bruised lowerleft leg “We're just happyit’s not a fracture,” Yankees trainer Gene Monahan said “It didn't look too) pretty) at first. But it'll b o-day evaluation of nie cee play again." 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He allowed k out five and didn't ending doubleplay a batterin his 43-pitch MINNESOTA outing Tampa Bay 16 14 Toronto 1515 Boston ‘13 13500 15 483-6 ae es Minnesota WEST Teas Oakland er (9 Qed) Bors) Ges 9)ere2 sone acon (1) DPBoxon ¢ awon{ 7 Coes) CSO 4 ion 28Aciemor(5 fern14. c iP HR mBBSO foi8) Co-Onemran wo KR 13 6 1230399 6 513 a a “Ng8 9 o4 219 80 Ans 213 4 12 36, A108 (48.078)Fist McKean Second aeebanssi Urrpies—tHome Kaser Young fhwaTschodtoed Fis, Cube Secore, ATHLETICS 3 BLUE JAYS 2 TORONTO — Gil Heredia and Matt Stairs homered as Oakland won its fifth straight game Herediaallowed one run andsix hits, struck out two and walked one. Billy Taylor pitched 12s innings for his 46 125-11 66 L10 Sirk HomeAw: Tl 6 W58976 00 i 1: Ww 5 Seattle 13 Anaheim 13 5-5 Ll 810 55 W177 5-5 0-0 69 00 8 Games Tampa Bay 5, Kansas City 4 nd 3, Toronto2 New York 4, Minnesota 3, 10inni ngs Cleveland’ Seattle 4 Baltimore 4 Chicago 2 Detroit 4, Anaheim 2 Boston Toni ht’s Games Anaheim(Olivares ston (Martinez5 ut Ge pm T cas (Clark emanate 1),5 PampaBay (Witt 3 0) at Cleveland (Gooden1-0) 05 ‘p.m. Baltimore(Mussina 4- at Detroit (Thompson4-2)2) 5:05 pm Seattle (Suzuki 0.0) at N v Yor rk. (lrabu 0-0), 5:35 p. Oakland (Candiotti 3) at Chicago (Parque3-2), a4aa Kansas City(Appiel ) at Mini iesota (Milton a nanonal League Pet GB mi 10 Strk Home Away BLS 83 0.0 New York 17 W277 Philadelphia 14 Montreal 8 Ll 415 Florida 415 27 CENTRAL Houston CLEVELAND 8 MARINERS 4 CLEVELAND — Sandy Alomar hit a two-run homer and Wil Cordero drovein three runs leading Bartolo Colon and Cleveland over Seattle Ken Griffey Jr hit his 10th homer and scoredtwice for Seattle. ie EAST WoL Pet GB LI0 StrkHomeAway Intr NewYork 189 To Beat Twinsin 10 MINNEAPOLIS — hard take-out slide at second base turned whatcould have Bruins Find Holes in Hasek, Win Game 1 MAJOR LEAGUE REPORT —W StrkHome Away _Intr TG W276 104 St Louis Chicago Pittsburgh Milwaukee 15 13 14 13 Cincinnati i $6 L176 W269 wa 1 6-9 116 66 64 10-5 0.0 00 00 5-6 SanFrancisco 17 WEST Ww Ll 95 87 00 Los Angeles 16. Wl 7-5) 97 Colorado u Wl 3-2 8-11 Arizona San Diego k Home Away Intr 15 6 Wl 82 712 0.0 10 0-0 L2 66 441 00 Thursday’s Game Pittsburgh 13, St Louis 3 Tonight's Games 2-1) at Cineinnat Harniseh2-3), 5:05 pun, Houston( Lima 4-1), 6:05 p.m. ymidt 4-1) at St. Low uis (Oliver 2-1 Philadelphia(Sebi New York (Hershise Atlanta (Millwood2-2) at Clement 0-3), 8:05 p.m. Milwaukee (Hogue 02) at SanFra inciseo(Brock 2-2), 8:05p.m Florida (Springer 0-4) at Los Angi 5 (Dreifort 4-1), 8:10pm w—sosawe NPE a TreesaeLee ea kone Second Neck toa 582 O10 104 100-4 secondtoendthe game Tony Fernandez drove in both Toronto runs with a pair of RBI singles ORIOLES 4 REE errs PIRATES 13 CARDINALS3 ST. LOUIS — Freddie Garciabrokeout of a slump w vith three run-scoring sin as Pittsburghbeat St { for its fifth win in six s Fernando Tatis hit his 1ith home run, a two-run shot in the second, to tie Matt Williams for the major league lead 30 tied Williams for the NL RBI lead with WHITE SOX 2 sweep ab rhb DEVIL RAYS 5 ROYALS 4 ST PETERSBURG, Fla — Pinch-runner Kev scored thego-ahead runonan eighth-innin piteh by Jose Santiago and red MeGriff homered again for Tampa Bay asa nar ark ee (alone ieeocant 4 sera FeNave Scone hothon Ped Crd Rain Postpones Another Buzz Game — at lowa DES MOINES lowa Rain wa the victor Thursday night's Salt Lake Buzz clash with the lowa Cubs was postponed The Pacific Coast League game is scheduled to be made upaas part of a double header today pitcher Scott Watkins Sta hoviak is hitting 145with 20 strikeouts in 62 at-bats Quinlan was 5-for-11 against Buzz pitchinginSalt Lake Rath, has been the Salt Lake's most consistent start er. but also has beenthe un luckiest aehas lost his past two despite allowing just ‘e earned runs in en of their past eight mes { Lake has lost three of four games to the Cubs thi ibs have the in double-« Once was against the Buzz The Cubs have lost four of their past six games and are 12-14 overall McNichol, the Cubs scheduled starting piteher innings in Salt Lake's only victory over lowa Former Buss players on the lowa roster are Scott Stahoviak, Tom Quinlan and ea EC a Thu Buzz at lowa, rained out @ Record: 10-14 1 Tonight: Sait Lake (Frank Rodriguez. 2-3, 810; Gary Rath 6-0, 3.27) atlowa (Brian McNichol 2:2, 7.88; Jatod ‘rae (alrrvere wt rae on masta Royale sends S99 bert os Cate ‘4 Ueayaerya Laatgrn ‘ asters Dvn a Juelsgaard, 1-2, 393), 5 pm 15 a er who goes probably will be In hi most a piteh gave ip one cai The move will be made by run and threw Salt | an out first complete game. but lost a trade. a di right release or by placing a 3-0 whenthe Buzz were one pitcher on the seven-day in hit by Mi Pierzynski Juredlist Any trade probably would lead: the Buzz with a 340 aver ge andhas hit safely in involve Rodriguez. The the 15 games he has hard-throwing right-hander has been coveted by the Red played in ever since hewas traded Eddie Williams is 3-for-20 Sox from Boston to Minnesota as 150) in his first seven part of the Rick Aguilera games withthe Buzz in 1995, Lake comes into the dealAnother move in the 2 team ERA works could send reliever second-worst in Travis Miller or Travis Baplist to the majors. with y was suppo ndto ad trip for the fur day. all PCL team must cut their rosters f m 24 to 23 players. The f opened the season with position players 0 the play In another of the Buzz also will ave to make roomfor out fielder Mare Lewis who is rehabbing @ knee injury in Floridi STARS 3 BLUES 0 DALLAS — Brett Hull and Pat Verbeek scored their first goals of the playoffs and Ed Belfourstopped 23 shots as Dallas beat St Louis inthefirst gameof their Western Conference semifinals. Theteams will meet in the second game ofthe best-of-7 seriesin Dallas on S urday night Belfour earned his fifth shutout and 50th career playoff victory by shutting Overcome Slow Start @ Continued from B-1 Hecould not saythe same about ee urged on by -dominated crowd of more than 5,000, they pro ceeded to smotherthe NittanyLions. who hit just .083 for the game. However, the Cougars won the match in the back-and-forth third game. BYU jumped to an early advantage, but s 1 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS obi hb HetereerPa Deoraob Sek ae rmen—Wayne Hannes. Jay Sharrers 7-3 NHL PLAYOFFS secon ROUND WESTERN CONFERENCE Cen EASTERN CONFERENCE ee es bert 0pm ‘Sunday, May9 Prtsbargh at Toronto, 7 pm Deroat Cohrad, 2 nn Pitsborgh atToronto, 7 pa Cobst Det.2‘ee ‘Tuesday, May LL 12 Trt at Ptr 77pm ooscsdv et Da Sunday, May 16 pm Deeat Coad, pf cary Saturday, May 15 Pre aem, 70pm seco 9g, May 18 Combe ak apm Anecesary Toreato at Pasbargh 790pm, i necessary May 20 Wednesday, May 18 Detroit at Colorado,tom necessary Fraburgh at Torn,pm,ees 4 Lous Dalles BostonvxBaalo ‘Tharsday, May 6 Thursday Dallas 3.5% eon, in tin leads series 1.0 y. May 8: Lait alg30pm Bufo at Boon2p 5s, May 12 May 1 Boston at Buff, 730 pm thine ae 138 pm Wednesday, 12 aston at Buta, 7:20 pm. DateL730 Saceie Sanday, May 16 Buffalo al Boston, 2p % tapm it oeesary 5 , May Boston at Buffalo, Tol 8: ty omelet if pecessary urday, May 20 Wednesday, May 19 ‘Buffalo at Boston, TBA, if recesary 9 pm.necessary THL PL. YOFFS Conletence Semifinals WESTERN CONFERENCE Beach EASTERN CONFERENCE Det. Intl Tuesday, Intapts Der "0 a, Ape 30 Detroit Inds? urday, May 1 Detroit 3 Indo mn Houston 4. Long Heath 2. Houston wins series ete et wi ies 31 32 (akMalte ‘ea iin Widnesday, April 28, say, April 27 Chicago2 Manitoba L Orlando 5 wee i Friday, April 30 Thuy. pa 8 Chao 5, Manta’ om Oran3, Metin2 Saturday My Crtado3,tiga’ Ordo wis snes 40 agp.Cabage v0 = it necessary) down the leg-weary Blues whowereinvolvedin anex hausting seven-ganeseries with Phoenix while Dallas w off goalfor the Starsjust 49 secondsinto the second period to makeit a 2-0 lead Hull, who played10 years for St. Loui with the jp the right clneieand unleashed oneof his powerful slap shots which Grant Fuhr saw go between his legs into the net Verbeek, who missed the first-round Edmontonseries because of a knee celebrated his y scoring a first-period goal gars someroomto breathe with a putdown that madeit 11-9, Wilson and Antonetti then combined for three pointsoff of blocks ontheright sideto putit away Thethird gameis decisive in any four-game match said Millar. “Once we wonthethird, wethought we could put them down in the fourth.” Antonetti led BYU (29-1) with 24 kills, while Millar had 20 kills and Mac Wilson recorded 20 blocks. Evenafter the Cougars assumed command. the Nittany Lions didn’t make it eas: PSU’s talented back row kept rally after rally after rally aliv perhapsaccounting for BYU's att ing problems But Penn State could not escapethe inconsistency that has plaguedit all season. What yousaw was pretty typicalof our season id Pavlik. “We showed flashes of being able to play wit onein the country and we showed flashes of playing like a high school on a OSLO, Norway — Niklas Sundstromscored his team: leading fourth goal as de fending champion Sweden held off Latvia 4-3 Thursday to re he quarterfinals o| the World Hockey Champi onships with a perfect re cord Michael Nylander, Samu el Pahlsson and Par Djoos also scored for Sweden which topped the final GroupB standings andwill face Slovakia in the opening game of the quarterfinal roundtoday in Oslo ndthe Cuech Re he only other darts peaall irae g in thefirst round It was difficult game Swedish coach Stephan t seen Latvia play a as they did. And they'vegot a great goal en them to only 19 shots. Our power play was also pretty much OK Daniel and Henrik Sedin the 18-year-old twins who are amongthe most promis: ing players ever in Swedish hockey, madetheir big-time but together but hadlittle ice timeand never madean impact Russia, whieh tied Finland 3-3 in their GroupD finale. his overall game. completeplayer,” s a great, quick hitter, he leads the nation in blocking and he is the BYL record-holder in blocks per game He's probably our best play r ever but we havea very young program team. Brad Miller led the Nittany Lions and the Cxechs meet in to- day's other game in Oslo. Switzerland, which fin ished second. behind the Swedes after blanking win less France 6-0 ¢ jer hursday, starts against Canada at Hamarnear Lille hammer while the United States plays Finland Sundstrom, who accepted an invitation to play in the championships when his New York Rangers missed the NHL playoffs, put the odes up with a power play 5:59 in thefirst pemod. V vale heslav Fanduls tied it 1-1 at 13:47 on er play beforethe§ pow seored three unanswered goals to take a 4-1 lead mid way throughthefinal period Sergejs Cudinovs cut the scoreto 4-2 with aslap shot fromthepoint past Tommy Salo, who was screened. with Latvia one manshort His goal cameonly 52 sec. ondsafter Djoos hadscored Sweden's last goal Sergejs Zoltoks madeit 4 3 at 11:38 for the Latvian who would have nv b i Swedes by at least to reach the quarterfinals via will next play the ationround Onthe same day he was nominated for the NHL's MVPaward, Alexei Yashin scored a hat trick to save Russia fromrelegation Clearly the underdogs going intothe match, the Russians needed a win or a draw with Finlandto guaranteea place inthenext round. Goinginto the gamewith a 2-0record Finlandhad already secured its quarterfinal berth. A loss by twoor moregoals to the Finns would have given Be larusthe secondplaceinthe Group D standings on goal differential, sending the Russians into the relegation round It was such an important match because it decided whether or not we went to id Ya wa Senators captain There was a lot of pressure but the guys re spondedwel Yashin, the only NHLer playing for Russia, beganhis scoring streak against the NHL-packed Finnish squad with a power-play goal at 6:51 of the opening period He doubled the team's score, and hope, finding the back of the net 11:64 lat The powerful Russian counted for the only go in , vmPei, Dl, Vee 1 ing 1228Conny. SU (booking 143 Nertetk Dal sportsmancondo), 15 Pronger, St. interference, 16: PealDae Hl 1 ton 5. slashing), 447, FilesereMeeedene 599, Skdand, Dal carding), 1 Thin Perod9Dlan Miao sh), Penalles—Maelnnins 105 Ture Sobol928, Malas Sirteecing) 1017, Langenbrunner, Dal ppg 16, Vero Da cy 14: eS ig U8: SUL, (slashing, 20 0, Keane Dal ashy Solo fol-St Ls .88-28 Daas Foner ay Operant Lis Oo5 Dall GealesSt Lows, Fubr $3 (8 sto saves) Dallas, Belfour 50 16.928) Referees—Dan Marwuell, Stephen Walkom inesmea—Mike Cvik, BradLazarowich with20 kills. Tim Hoffman and Mazzullo had15 apiece BRIE FLY: Thursday was a good day for Millar and Antonetti all the wayaround. Earlier in the day, the two Cougarseniors were named first team All-Americans, joining UCLA middle blocker Adam Naeve, Lewis outside hitter Victor Rivera, Pepper: dine outsidehitter George Roumain IPFWoutsidehitter Hector Solo, US( setter Donald Suxho, UCLA setter Brandon Taliaferro and Pepperdine outsidehitter Scott Wong. Cougarsetter Hector Lebron was named to the second team. Roumain was named national player of the year. McGown finally acknowledged what manyhave felt for a long time: that Milar is the best volleyball player in BYU history —but witha disclaimer In terms of Sundstrom, Sweden Get Past Latvia of TIGERS 4 DETROIT Bryce Floric wonhis first start of the sea sonand rookie Gabe Kapler hit a two-run homer as De troit edged Anaheim Floric allowed one run andfive hits in five innings 1 Bal Period—5, Baal, Sat Rash? fsastenteySander 2m, Bulriping), 852 asta featHatfalo 1028-90 Boston OpportunitiesBuffalo | of 3 Baston 2 05 cantBalaHeh, $1 21 shots 18 rallied totieit at 9-all then Rich Lambourne gave the Cou- Chicago. ANGELS 2 ° 1 1, Boston, Alison1((va soar 1258 ig),Peal fat cH aos rongS08 oterferae| 1231 Nee, ie iate Volleyball Association BALTIMORE — B.J. Sur hoff hit two solo homers. in: cluding the tiebreaking shot inthe sixthinning, as Balt more completed rare three-game Buttale Cougars pitched 6%s strong innings seventh save, striking out wn Green with a man on Jason Woolley madeit 3-2 when he collected a loose puck just in frontof the left point, whirled and fired it past Dafoe at 9:37 of the third period Bostongotits third home playoff win in four games after entering the postseason with a 1-10 markin its previous 11 home playoff games, Allison, who had 23 regular-season goals, scored when he carried the puck past Richard Smeblik as he crossed the blue line on the right side. The five-footer hit Hasek’s left arm and wentin over his shoulder.It extended Allison'spoint streak to seven games, cludingan assist in each of the six games against Carol khristich madeit 2-0 and Allison made it possible as heskatedbehind thenet and passed to Kyle MeLaren to Haseks left. McLaren then ‘os the crease where hrstich pokedthe puck in. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON — The Boston Bruins insisted that Dominik Hasek was beatable. OnThursday night they beat Buffalo's goaltender enough to win the opener of their second-roundplayoff series against the Sabres, 4-2. Dmitri Khristich scored twice for his first goals of the playoffs as the Sabres, who swept Ottawa4-0 in the opening round, suffered their first postseason loss, human,” Bruins goalie Byron Dafoehad said Wedne le does get oat a Hasekis widely regarded as the NHL's best goalie, but Dafoe, who led the league with 10 shutouts and was third with a 1.99 goalsagainst average,isn't far behind, On Thursday night, he was better. Dafoestopped 28 shots. In his previous game,he got his second shutout of the playoffs as Boston beat Carolina 2.0 on Sunday night to clinch the openingseries 42 Game 2 of the best-of-7 Eastern Conference semifinal is scheduled for Sunday in Boston. ‘The teams tied with 91 points in the regular season, but the Bruins got the sixth seed in the Eastbecause Boston had two more wins. The Sabres, who lost in the Eastern finals last season, had goneeight days between games but that wasn’t enough time for Miroslav Satan, wholed them with 40 goals, to recover from an anKle injury as he missed the game. TheBruins showed no shortageof intensity despite going 1-4 against Buffalo in theregular season. Boston openeda 2-0 lead on goals by JasonAllison on a powerplay at 13:59 ofthe first period and Khristich, who led the team with 29 regular-season goals, at 21 ofthe second. Alexei Zhitnik cut the lead to 2-1 on a powerplay at 18:19 of the period, but Boston restored the twogoal lead when Joe Thornton got his second playoff goal at 19:46, just 16 seconds after Wayne Primeau waspenalized for hooking WORLD HOC the second, completing his hat trick late in the period The Russians st: the third. The Montrire board midway through the final period, with Marko Tuomainen bringing the Finnsto withinoneat 17:04 With just 56 secondsleft in the match, Russ rolle ed a fatal two-minute penal ty for having too many men on the ice As soon as the Finns got the puck into the Russian zone, with about 40 seconds remaining, they pulled goaltender Ari Su lander tacker for the extra at SECONDROUND. Withjust two seconds left Gn WLTOPGA Pu Jere Karalahti scored thety Tram 000 60 ing goal, denying the Rus sade sians the win, and securing ted States oovoes the top spotof the group D GrwpF standings WLTOFGA Pu ooo e080 It's sad because we were eet epi 00000 80 close,” Yashin said. "But ry in the end what counts is niet e000 that wearethrough andthat theguys believein the team in he draw left Finland2-0 Land first inthe group Winner andel als as the § Union, Ru sia has appearedvulnerable inthis tournament, and has relied from the startIntheir first the Russians strug tie against Be. larus, making only its sec ond appearance in this tournament. Yashin scored the opening goal. The 25 year-old then potted two to lift Russia to a 4-1 victory over newcomer Ukraine on Tuesday In the other Group D gamein Hamar, Belarus de feated A-pool newcomers Ukraine 6-1. Belarus fin. ished third, Ukraine must requalify at a special tour nament later this year if they hopeto remain among hockey's A-pool top guns |
