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Show SPORTS SECTION DuilyHerold FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2006 SPORTS EDITOR | Damell Dickson - 344-2555 - ddickson@heraldextra.com OQ torino 200s ee As of Thursday Country Total US. hockey hounces back pip Russia 11 Germany "42 US. Canada: 9 g reached for the waterbettle after one save and less than 30 seconds of action. It didn’ttake long for the pressure toease on‘the U.S. goalie and his teammates in a 4-1 victory Thursday night over Kazakhstan. DiPietro, dressed in stars-and- Austria - China’ 6 1g Italy 5 Finland > stripes pads and a mask that bears Sweden France : Netherlands 4 4 4 “Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you playin this event, but at the end of the day,it’s still the same game,” the New York Islanders goaltendersaid. The difference was in the result. The USS.(1-0-1) used three first-peTiod goals to moveinto second place in Group B withthree points, behind Slovakia — the Americans’ next opponentandthe only 2-0 team in the six-squad bunch. It didn’t takelong for the U.S.to shakeoff any remainingjet lag and the disappointmentofits 3-3 tie with Latvia in Wednesday's opener. The ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TyRIN,Italy — Rick DiPietro the imageofthe helicopter his father piloted in the Vietnam War, needed to makeonly II saves in his successful Olympic debut. Americans quickly established dominance over a team thatfielded only two NHLplayers. “I loved how we skated and were in position,” forward Doug Weight said. “Weplayed better as a team. We should've hada lot more goals.” Anything but a victory would have made the chances of advancing to the quarterfinals near impossible as the Americans still have their three toughest matchupsahead of them in a four-day span beginning Saturday. “Against Slovakia, we're going JULIE JACOBSON/AssociatedPress U.S. hockey player Doug Weight celebrates a Team USA goal in thefirst period as Kazakhstan’s Andrey Pchelyakov (23) closes his eyes during a men’s ice hockey matchat the 2006 See OLYMPICS, C7 Turin Winter Olympic Gamesin Turin,Italy, on Thursday. BYU BASKETBALL doesn’t slow Lehi’s Chandler Jared Lloyd DAILY HERALD Basketball players, here's an exciting challenge for you: Play 25 minutes of hard-nosed defense,hit jump shots from various distances, grabatleast half a dozen rebounds andtack ona fewsteals as well. Sounds pretty routine, doesn’t it? Nowtry doing it with one eye. Welcometo the world of Lehi senior forward Breezy Chandler for the Chandler practice (on Jan. 19) and shegot hit in the back of the head with an elbow,” Pioneer head coach Khalil Sikander ex- plained, “She couldstill see at first, but then everything turned black. GEND'S SON eS Eye injury Jason Franchuk DAILY HERALD ustin Ainge remembers being a young boy whenhis father and Charles Barkley started fighting. Well, it wasn't really a scuffle. Moreof an exaggerated, heated argumentas the mouthy Barkley stuck upfor the kid and demanded that Danny buy him a bike for Christmas. “Charles asks me how much it was, andI said $300,” Ainge said. “Andhejust reached into his wallet and pulled out three elsand stuck them in my redie kid-Ainge, grown these days to be a junior ne pun guard at BYU,has had some interesting andprivileged stories to tell of. life lived around professional basketball. But it hasn't been all easy going, as a 3 p.m. game Sat at Wyoming will attest. Aside from playing at Utah, it’s the Cowboys’ Arena-Auditorium where the BYU player with the famous last namehas taken the most grief for his genealogy. “Really, I don't think Austin They've run tests, MRIs, x-rays, See AINGE, C5 everything andtheysay it should be normal. They don’t understand whyhervision hasn't returned.” Chandlersaid the when she c’oses herleft eye (the one thatstill works),all she can seeis black- ness. No movement,nolight, nothing. “It was really scary atfirst,” she said. “They originally told me mysight should be back in four to eight hours. Dayslater,it still wasn't back. The initial shock was probably the hardest part.” Some players might've thrown in the towelbut that’s not Chandler’s style. Only four daysafter the injury, she was back out Site tine wearing silver and p “It was a downerat = but I FILE PHOTOS/Daily Herald BYU's Austin Ainge (13) hangs in the air while underpressure from Wyoming's Justin Williams on Jan.18. 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