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Show SPORTS Standard-Examiner Manager Oatesall smiles as OrioleskeepSlugfest going with 12 runs Until the Balti more Orioles lose again, the easiest part of manager Johnny Oates’ job will be determining his starting lineup The Orioles have won three straight with the same batting order, scoring 31 runs in the process. The lat est slugfest occurred Friday night, as Leo Gomez elmered and matched his career--high with four RBIs in Baltimore's 12-5 rout ofthe Kansas City Royals. So, Johnny, do you think you'll use the same lineup on Saturday? “Oh, there’s a pretty good chance,” Oates said with a smile. “Why not? Just look at the scoreboard.” Mark McLemore had two hits and scored three runs for the Orioles, whose three straight wins set a season-high. Prior to their recent offensive outburst, Baltimore averaged just 3.4 runs per game in losing 13 ofits first 18 games. raifa- na ng- five tries this season. The loss MAJOR LEAGUES was Cl evela nd’s fourth in a row ing streak. The Twins lost 11-0 at Baltimore on Thursday. Wells (4-0), signed as a free agent on April 3 after clearing waivers with Toronto, allowed four hits in seven innings for the win. The win also moved Sparky Anderson into sixth place on the all-time list of winningest managers. He now has 2,011 triumphs, one more than Leo Durocher. Red Sox 6, Angels 1 Yankees 3, Mariners 0 At New York, Melido Perez shut down Seattle for the second time in a week and Jim Leyritz homered and drove in all three runs for the Yankees. ‘of jenerars did ind 9th vale yme irst 29, yor- was will who ixth The Bulls had an amazing 62-28 advantage in rebounds, and Atlanta coach Bob Weiss said that was the key in the first half. “They shot only 48 percent but pulled away because of the second shots we gave them with our poor performanceoff the boards,” Weiss said. “We were also hurt in rebounding when Kevin Willis got into foul trouble.” Willis, who had only five rebounds and seven points, said “Tonight was just a bad game. The good game will have to come Sunday.” Bulls coach Phil Jackson had no complaints. “It was one of those nights for us where we caught our momentum in the second quarter,” Jackson said. “The rebound advantage helped us, and it was nice to get our starters rested. Michael Jordan had a wonderful game in the first quarter and again in the third. Foul trouble took the continuity out of their game.” Dominique Wilkins, who led the Hawks with 24 telephone interview Friday evening. The tests will determine the amount of cocaine in Waymer’s system. Lantz said doctorsalso will look at Waymer’s heart tissue un, der a microscope. _Waymer, who died Friday at Lake Norman Regional Medical Center in Mooresville, checked into the hospital at 8:20 a.m. and was pronounced dead at 8:40 a.m., said Verna Bennett, a hospital spokes- man. “Dave is gone,” said Greg ga Angeles. “He woke up this morning, and he had his baby boyonhis lap and he just collapsed. His wife points, said, “Our objective is to get one game in Chicago. We got frustrated because we felt we didn’t get the foul calls and, of course, we didn’t rebound well. You have to give them credit. They played a real , Called 911, but just before the paramedics arrived, he was dead of an strong game.” * apparent heart attack.” Cartwright, who averaged 5.6 points in an injuryplagued season, finished with 14, as did Armstrong. Campbell said he talked with Waymer’s wife, Barbara, and the Waymers’ son just had his first ‘- Waymer, whose Mooresville eT A # * home is approximately 20 miles north of Charlotte, played professional football for 14 years, most recently for the Raiders. He played college football at Notre Dame. He was a second-round draft choice of the New Orleans Saints in 1980, and played there for 10 years. Waymer led the San Francisco 49ers with seven interceptions in 1990 and had 48 career interceptions. Meanwhile, at New Orleans, doctors confirmed on Friday that | Jim Finks, president and general | manger of the New OrleansSaints, | has lung cancer. “I don’t know if it’s one lung or ; both, but he will receive chemo- ti, Mark Grace and drove twosacrifi e-game in three runs Ss 2 { 1 cino ctr lOSINE SUCaGs Knicks’ Patrick Ewing exults after forcing turnover against Pacers in NBA playoffs. The Pacers’ George McCloud can only watch. Jazz From 3B | but the Jazz never got close. Finks, 65 and a heavy smoker, had complained of respiratory problemsfor several weeks and entered the hospital on Mondav. In other NFL news Friday: mJay Schroeder, a starter for most of his 10 seasons in the NFL, signed with the Cincinnati Bengals to replace BoomerEsiason as the backup to David Klingler. The 31-year-old Schroeder, who began his career in 1984 with Washington and wastraded to the Los Angeles Raiders in 1988 for All-Pro offensive tackle Jim Lachey, fell out of favor in Los Angeles last season when he completed just 48.6 percent of his passes. Softball In the two teams’ previous meet- ; ing at Ogden’s Fourth Street Com| plex on April 22, Mountain Crest massacred the Scots 18-5. Region 1 Weber 18, Davis 6 At Kaysville, the Warriors whipped the Darts in a five-inning contest plagued by wind andrain. Weber’s Angie Olson ripped two home runs — a two-run blast and a solo shot — and added a basesloaded single to drive in six runs. Bonneville 14, Layton 2 At Layton, the Lakers pelted the lone closed out the period with 3pointers to cut the gap to 71-56, “I just thought we’d give them a little bit better basketball game,” Sloan said. Payton matched a careerplayoff high with 15 points, but was more effective on the defensive end, meeting Stockton in the backcourt much of the night to harass the Jazz offense. “We could have run a lot more, but we did do a good job on the defensive end,” Payton said. The Sonics ended the game with a 52-42 edge in rebounding, includ- they’re going to regroup for Game 2 on Sunday. “They got a lot of offensive rebounds,” said Jeff Malone. “You take that away and it would be a much closer game. ... There are things that can be corrected to give us a much better chance.” Jazz notes: Utah forward Larry Krystkowiak, who missed the last 11 games of the regular season with a foot injury, was not expected to be in uniform, but he dressed for the game and played eight minutes. He was scoreless and had two rebounds. “It felt good to get out there and work up a sweat,” he said, “but | cer- tainly didn't dazzle anyone.” ... The Sonics were caughtin an illegal defensefive times in Friday's game... Utah's 85 points beats their all-time ing 23 offensive rebounds. That a playoff low by three points. ... Kemp's 29 points set a career high for the good starting point for the Jazz if postseason. ... Tawnya Bossyielded five hits — just one for extra bases — struck Vikings’ batter. “This was one of Crista’s better games. Cutting her walks down out three and had two walks. The Lakers’ Kiana Hookano went 3-for-4 with a two-run double and two-run triple, and Boss slammed a three-run homer in Bonneville’s seven-run third inning. Stacie Shimada had an RBI sin- gle; Tiffany Francis was 2-for-3, and Charisse Taylor had sacrifice bunts in both the third and six in- nings to start big innings for the Lakers. Clearfield 5, Viewmont 4 At Bountiful City Park, the Falcons stayed in the hunt for Region 1’s fifth-place spot by clipping the Vikings and sweeping the season series with Viewmont with two Lancers in a rain-delayed game one-run decisions. held up 40 minutes after 2'2 in- Falcons right-hander Crista Miller gave up just five hits. She struck out three, walked three and hit a Bonneville junior right-hander NBA PLAYOFFS Lakers 107, Suns 103 At Phoenix, the Los Angeles Lakers — the only team in this year’s NBA playoffs with a losing record — upset the top-seeded Phoenix Suns in their series opener Friday night. Byron Scott made three free throws down the stretch — the final two with 9.4 seconds left — as the Lakers scored the last nine points to win the game and wipe out the Suns’ homecourt advantage in their bestof-five playoff series. Phoenix finished with the league’s best record at 62-20. Los Angeies was 39-43 in the regular season, including a 5-0 sweep by the Suns. But Sedale Threatt scored 35 points and Scott 22 to recapture the flair of the Showtime teams of the 1980s, who won five NBA titles. Knicks 107, Pacers 104 At NewYork, Patrick Ew “ determined to get the New York Knicks their first NBA championship since 1973, had the final answer for an Indiana team determined to win its first playoff series. Ewing’s 14-foot jumper with 10 seconds left shortcircuited the Pacers’ second-half rally and gave the Knicks the victory Friday ni in the opener between the Eastern Conference’s N¢ and No. 8 seeds. “Patrick had a great, great year and he’s going for it in the playoffs,” Knicks coach Pat Riley said. “I think he feels if things break well for us, he’s going to be part of something he’s going to remember for a long, long time.” “I don’t even remember what play we ran,” Ewing said. “They just gave me the ball andI shot it.” After Ewing’s basket madeit 106-104, he forced Reggie Miller out of bounds with 5.6 seconds left. Ewing then hit 1-of-2 free throws to finish with 25 points, and Miller missed a desperation 3-pointer at the buzzer, ending the Pacers’ chance for a big upset at Madison Square Garden, where the Knicks have won 21 consecutive games. “It’s tough to comethis close and lose,” said Miller, whoscored 14 ofhis 32 points in the fourth quarter and tied an NBAplayoff record with 17 free throws without a miss. The Associated Press The Associated Press | therapy. It could even begin this | weekend,” team spokesman Rusty | Kasmiersky said. | ings _ Zarley ties course record, leads after opening round birthday. y in ped } by last stay. The cause of Waymer’s death won't be determined until further tests are conducted next week at . Chapel Hill, N.C., Lantz said in a Campbell, Waymer’s agent in Los will T in ikas lors “They were concentrating so much on Michael that they forgot about the other guys,” Armstrong said. “Bill and I had some easy shots and helped break the game openin the third quarter.” Controlling the tempo, the boards and the game, the Bulls asserted themselves early as Jordan scored 18 points in the first quarter to put Chicago ahead to NFL a $1 race aS a when they combined for 13 points in a 17-4 run to open the second half that buried the Hawks. said the cause of Waymer’s death has not been determined. An artery supplying Waymer’s heart was narrowed, said Dr. Patrick Lantz, a Forsyth County, N.C., medical examiner. Ors- . — 7, Reds 3 It all went according to plan and the architect, as usual, was Michael Jordan. “We wanted the first win and we wanted toget out of the box quickly,” Jordan said Friday night after scoring 35 points to lead the two-time defending NBA champion Chicago Bulls to a 114-90 victory over the Atlanta Hawks in the opener of their best-of-five playoff series at Chicago. “We did our work early and it turned into a fun game.” Bill Cartwright and B.J. Armstrong added to the fun the blood and urine of Los Angeles his se I home run The Associated Press N.C., although a medical examiner au- hit a sol Bulls take importantfirst step toward a three-peat who ur, erDijest line and said iner At Chicago, Frank Thomas hit a grand slam and drove in five runs as the White Sox trounced Toronto for their fifth straight victory. It was the fourth time Thomas has knocked in five runs in a game, the last coming on June 24, 1991, against Seattle. It was his second career grand slam. At Arlington, Texas, Greg Vaughn’s go-ahead, two-run homer in theeighth inning inning helped Milwaukee beat Texas. Raiders defensive back Dave Waymer, who died Fridayat Charlotte, and ae63, Cardinals 2 Damon Berryhill White Sox 10, Blue Jays 2 At Cleveland, Ruben Sierra and Terry Steinbach each hit three-run homers in the 10th inning for Oakland. The 10th-inning power display gave the A’s also 86. and jen. iner mer in the second inning and a three-run shot in the At Detroit, the Tigers sent Minnesota to its eighth straight loss behind the pitching of David Wells. Minnesota has been outscored 85-19 during its los- Traces of cocaine were found in | in drive in five runs as the a. Valentin hit a two-run ho- Brewers 5, Rangers 4 found in body Yer- Redi Sox beat Cal Athletics 8, Indians 2 of drug our the . Is /orlur- | At Boston, John Valentin, batting .077 entering the game, hit two homers to Tigers 8, Twins 0 Traces 4 “ National League Astros 11, Pirates 2 helped out, and our defense was better today (committing only three errors),” said Clearfield coach Rick Miller. “Crista’s control and our defense were the big keys. Shortstop Susie Hansen had about half of our putouts.” Jodi Smith belted a two-out, run-scoring triple in the first inning, and Mandy Keime added an RBI single in the first. Region 9 Morgan 19, Grantsville 0 At Grantsville, the Trojans (8-1, 12-1 overall) trounced the Cowboys in five innings behind Marie McQuiddy’s one-hitter and clinched at least a tie for their second straight league crown. McQuiddy, a junior right-hander, struck out seven and walked four. For a few brief moments, thoughts of the Senior PGA Tour’sfirst 59 swirled in Kermit Zarley’s mind. Bythe time he finished Friday, Zarley’s numbers were only personally historic. Despite a final-hole bogey, Zarley tied the course record Friday with a 10-under-par 62 that gave him a PRO GOLF ROUNDUP four-shot lead after the opening round of the $700,000 Texas. Seventy-eight players remained on the course Friday trying to complete the second round when tournament officials suspended play for the second time in as many days because of the threat of lightning in the ar- Las Vegas Senior Classic. 2a. It was the best round of Zarley’s 30-year professional career and his finest since he shot another 62 as a 15year-old growing up in Seattle. The round was only one shot off the Senior Tour record of 61, set by Lee Elder in 1985. “I was just in a zone today,” Zarley said. “On the 12th green, I was thinking of 59 and I had some putts for it. I had putts at birdie the next three holes that just missed.” Zarley’s round, which tied the Desert Inn markset by Jack Nicklaus in 1963 and matched by Al Geiberger in 1987, gave him a four-shot lead over Rocky Thompson anda six-shot lead over three others. Defending champion Lee Trevino had six 5s on his back nine en route to a 40 and a 4-over 76 that left him 14 shots off the lead. Houston Open Donnie Hammond finished his rain-delayed first round and then shot a 7-under-par 65 Fridayto take the clubhouse lead in the weather-plagued $1.3 million Houston Open golf tournament at The Woodlands, Heavyrain forced postponement of Thursday’s first round, and Friday’s start was delayed by fog that enveloped The Woodlands Country Club course. Hammond played the final four holes ofhis first round and finished with a 67 and then returned to the first tee and attacked the water-sogged TPC course again. He drilled a 30-foot birdie putt on No. 7 that ca- reened off a ball marker and into the hole. “When things like that happen, you've got to start thinking about winning,” Hammond said. “I’m sure that’s the best first two rounds I’ve had, maybe in any tournament.” Sprint Classic Kristi Albers, winless in eight years on the LPGA Tour, shot a 3-under-par 69 Friday to maintain her lead halfway through the richest LPGA tournament. Marta Figueras-Dotti and Hall of Famer JoAnne Carner each had second-round 65s to hold second and third after 36 holes of $1.2 million Sprint Classic at Tallahassee, Fla. Baseball From 38 rors in a sloppy slugfest. Viewmont’s Chad Kawa hit a two-run single with two outs in the bottom ofthe seventh to score the game-winning run, Senior Brady Manning doubled and scored, and Brandon Kap anu Jeff Ross each tripled to lead the Falcons. Davis 8, Weber 4 At Pleasant View, pinch-hitter Brian Hess went 2-for-2 with four RBIs to lead the Darts past the Warriors in eight innings. Hess hit a two-run double in the top of the sixth to tie the game at Roy at Northridge halted play between the Knights and Royals after 1'2 innings. Ac- At Garland, Mountain Crest’s Steve Webb hit a pair of home runs and Tyler Holland doubled to cording to Northridge coach Dave Hoch, a makeup game will be played Mondayat 4 p.m. lead the Mustangs over the Bears. Bear River's Reggie Anger drove in two runs with a bases-loaded Region 5 Ben Lomond 4, Logan 2 Sky View 15, Ogden 2 At Northridge High School, rain At Ben Lomond High School, the Scots got a solid pitching per- formance from starter Matt Smith to hold off the Grizzlies. Smith picked up the completegame win, working six full innings and striking out seven. 4-4. Later Hess hit a two-run single as part of Davis’ four-run eighth inning. Chad Capener hit a two-run double and left fielder Dewayne Day smacked a bases-loaded single to Shortstop Scott Peppler added score two more runs as part of Ben three doubles for the Darts. Mtn. Crest 9, Bear River 4 Lomond’s four-run third inning. single in the fourth inning. At Ogden High School, the Tigers got an RBI double from first baseman Jordan Livingston and a solo homer from right fielder Erik Yoggerst in a loss to the Bobcats. Region 9 Grantsville 13, Morgan 12 At Grantsville, the Trojans took a 12-7 lead into the seventh inning, only to see the Cowboys rally for SIX runs in their final at-bat. |