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Show pz DAILY Al [BRIEFING “tesa | @ a x 2 ; Mountain View scores three in ninth to down BoxElder Mountain Viewfinally pulled away from Box El- der with three runsinthe ninthinningto post a 4-1 non-region win over Box Elder Saturdayafternoon Marcus Draper led off the ninth inning with a double. He moved overto third when Trent Call beat out time, Federer ae 5 hinfoor the entireire time,” Euro PGA Asian Open ance and sixth this year, while Nadal hopes to extend his unbeaten streak on clay to 42 matches and beat Gillespie camein the fifth inning and pitched four scoreless innings to pick up the win. John Bennett went 2-for-3 and Marcus Draper went Ps : 2-for-3 for the Bruins ew coo ww me =att Box Bloer Schima Carson 3) Suespe5) andcatam, Mi) 3B Mery HORSE RACING today’sfinal at the Monte Carlo Masters,after semifinal wins Saturday. Federer beat 12th-seeded Fernando Gonzalez of Chile 6-2, 64, and Nadal downed Gaston Gaudio of Argentina 5-7, 6-1, 6-1. It will be Federer’'s 12th consecutive final appear- TGC Mei 8) and Wet 28—MacusOpe FIM World Superbike, race 1. 9 am. gives owner possible second undefeated Derby horse SLURTEACHES touted Clausen announces he for Notre Dame SPD SOUTH BEND,Ind. — QuarterbackJimmy Clau- 2007. | 3p.m. Indiana at New Jersey diam. First Round 1:30 pm. = SPD_ || announced Saturdayhe will play for Notre Damein TNT || ABC ‘| =e Clausen, the most highly touted recruit for the f Mere Oy at Gale “Tt every high school quarterback woul want to play under Coach Weis,” he said. Hewasn't considering Notre Dame before Weis arrived. But Clausensaid he was influenced by Weis’ four Super Bowlri “That's whatI’m going tocome here for,totryto get four national championshiprings,” he said. Tampa BayatOttawa__4p.m.__OLN Anaheim____7p.m. Major Soccer m. ann aia 6-2, 3-6, 755 and Craybas beatJulia Schruff 4-6, 6-2,7-5 to put the Americans one win away from placeiin the semifinals. “To be honest, I figured it would probably be 1-1 after today, but tomorrowis another day,” Garrison Craybas saved a match point before winningto give Hewill visit Dr. James Andrews in Birmingham, Ala., » Federer ready to stand and fight against Nadal at Monte Carlo Masters final: At Monte Carlo, Monaco, RogerFedererthinks the key to beating Rafael Nadal cruised to a 73-3 victory over to makethe score 47-3. comeswith being a freshman The only incidents to note in the game where twoyellow or sophomoreona national stagelike this. We've been BYU (17-22, 4-6 MWO) | 7 | S | (16-20) evened up the series | with the Wolverines (13-28) with today's rubber match set for 2 p.m. Kalen Parsons (2-8) suffered the loss for UVSC, while Travis Sutton (4-2) earned the win. Matt Renfree earned his first save after allowing just one hit in 3 2/3 inningsin relief for Nevada, Ryan Jessop will get the start today for UVSC opposite Wolfpack hurler Ryan odriguez. | D BYU softball: At Salt Lake City, Utah put an end to BYU'seight-game winning streak as the Utes swept the Cougars: So and 7-2: at Ute: Field. BYUfalls to81-16 and 84 in MWCplay with the losses. Utah moves intoa second-place conference tie with the victories, D BYU women’sgolf: AtSt. George, BYU put together a solid final round,but it , wasn’t enough to overcome UNLVand New Mexico as e: THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS | HOUSTON — Dwayne De. Rosario took a short pass from | Brad Davis up the middle and kicked the ball through goalkeeper Scott Garlick’s arms in the 84th minuteto give the Houston Dynamoa 2-1 victory over Real Salt Lake on Saturday night. Real's Jeff Cunnningham opened the scoring with a 20yard shot that bounced in off the | left post in the 57th minute, and Dynamodefender Craig Waibel tied it on a header off Brian Mullan’s cornerkickin the 60th minute. , Houston(2-2) improved to 2-0 at homeafter losing twostraight on the road. Real Salt Lake dropped to 031. D.C. United 4, Red Bulls 1; At East Rutherford, N.J., Alecko Eskandarian scored two goals in steadyrain to lead D.C. United toa victory over the Red Bulls. Eskandarian opened the scor- the Cougarsfinished the 2006 ing in the fourth minute and needed a strong outing from its starter after both Cougar Mountain West Conference Championship in third place madeit 2-0 in the 59th for D.C. United (3-0-1). Facundo Erpen starters were chased fromthe at Entrada at Snow Canyon. (71st) and Jamil-Walker(88th) oftimes and we'vehad successin the past, and I have confidence in this group that they will learn from this, that they'll matureas players and we'll giveit another go.” gameearlyin the first games of the series. The loss was picked up by Sam Demel(5-3) for TCU (24-17, 11-2 MWO). “J felt good,” said Wells on his performance. “I was able to change speeds effectively and throwall four pitches for quality strikes.” also scored. Young star Freddy Adu was scoreless for United in the game that attracted a crowd ofonly 8,475 fans at Giants Stadium. Youri Djorkaeff scored in the 86th minute for the Red Bulls (0-1-3). vid Smyth, “but after the first against TCU in the bottom Forthe second consecutive day the Cougars stayed close to UNLV,but couldn't cut into their lead. BYU carded a final round 303 andfinished —_12 strokes behind UNLV and sevenstrokes behind secondplace New Mexico.No.13 UNLVhas now won three consecutive MWC Champion- Columbus 1, Los Angeles 0: At ships, while the Cougars have Los Angeles, the Crew scored a = Boe D UVSCbaseball: At Reno, Nev., Shawn Scobee had a grandslam and five RBI on finished third for the second consecutive year. = S BYU volleyball season ends at hands of Long Beach State, 40-27 andas I recall I scored a couple of touchdowns, obviously notterribly affected by this verbal onslaught. goal in the secondhalf to defeat Los pees - MLSsta di ndings o scree. 0 1 Later, in my professional career, the barbs became moregraphic and personal. With an attempt at disgression, couth, subtility and obliqueness, I will say that references to family members, | | | teammates, coaches, my own adroitness afield, my appearance and eventhe questioning of my | sexuality were not uncommon | and, frankly, were quite vulgar. | Nevertheless, I perservered with | the mantraof my father in mind _|_that beingthat “succes is the best revenge.” That seemed to.be the ultimatein retaliation. * ‘There was an aphorism that my generation and the generation before me was raised on and it °| was this: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will | neverhurt me.” In not dignifying | these antagonists witha retort, | the taunts and vulgarity became a | _non-factor, disappearing c omplete| ly from earshot. It sounds trite and somewhat Pollyannish, but the reality is that unless you give credenceto someoneelse's opinion, what they say cannot possibly matter.Ironically it was Adolph Rupp,the former Kentucky basketball coach (played by Jon Voight in the recent movie ‘Glory Road’) and noted racist who had | a poignant remark regarding this | dynamic:“I have always thought | that Parkenham’s‘Self-Reliance’ | contained a good philosophy: | “By your own soul, learn tolive, Andif men thwart you, take no OC. United 301 3 te ge ae ote eg ee If menhate you, haveno care: Sing your song, dream your dream. Hope your hope, pray your prayer. .. Tosit by and worry about criticism, whichtoo often comes from the misinformed or from those incapable of passing judgment on an individual or a problem is a wasteof time.” Raceis a sensitive issue. | am | cognizant of the tenor of the nation wherethis is concerned andat | the same time pretend no empathy | as to whatit is to be of a minority | group and the difficulties inhertiht asocaton. am abo well awarethat often sports are rtm eeesaid that, it is that the fight SmrasiciiantaEa be a punitive one but one of are well coached.” : f 3 eight blocks.Tyler Hildebrand had five Mere Maton LONG BEACH,Calif. — BYU's season ended Saturday as the Cougarsfell 21-30, 23-30, 30-25, 25-30 to Long Beach State in the quarterfinals of the Mountain Pacific but seemed to gain somelife inGame 3, which they won 30-25. Long Beachtook the momentum right back, however, takinga big lead early in Game 4 and winning 30-25 to seal the victory. whilesetting the 49ers toa Sings —_106) hitting percentage. Long Beach 27 digs and 15.5 team blocks. “I'm very proud of our'team,” Peterson said. “This isn't what we wanted but I Western Conference WoL T Pe GF GA FC Dalts Ze aS ey inom a a upon us as i als tonot cede our agencyto the and who feel compelled to taint us BYU ends its season at 18-9 overall and 148 in the MPSFwhile the 49ers advance to the MPSF semifinals against UC Irvine. “It's not how we wanted to end the season,” BYU coach Tom Peterson said. “Weplayed a very good team that isex- Yosleyder Cala led BYU with20 kills and twoaces, Russell Holmes added sevenkills and a match-high nine blocks and Ivan Perez had nine kills and seven _digs..The Cougars hit .184 (50-29-114) as a team and had 20 digs and 10.0 blocks. sawour players develop both as volleyball players and as people throughout the _season. This is a great group of guys.” With an 18-9 record, BYU ends a run five-consecutive 20-win seasons. The Cougars will return several key players RealSeitiske 0 2 1 1 2 6 NOTE: Three pointsfor victory, one point fore. tional or any other type of slur. If the world could accomplish this, they would indeed beaw metaphor for life. — » Todd Christensen, a former BYU they needed to do to beatus, namely ball control. Congratulafions tothem. They high 26 kills for Long Beach, while Robert Tarr added 12 and Teddy Liles had Victor Batista, Rob Neilson, Taylor Evans, Brian Rowley and Josh Brecheisen. ' SEnye. DAILY HERALD and “Mormon” — let’s just say it is alliterative. In truth, I was somewhatflattered that someone would goto those lengths to divert myattention,but ultimately, it madenodifference. We won heed. to the Sweet Sixteena lot of the eighth as the Cougars wonin come-from-béhind the words “honky,” “cracker” Dynamo’s late goal cards to BYU,one to Zach 20 minutes wesettled into our normal game.” Thirty autumns agoI lined up at fullback for the BYU football team. Ona crisp November day in the course of the game, there was linebacker who evidently thought he could get under my skin. Trashtalking was nothing new, but I rememberdistinctly his rap being peppered with MALSROUNDUP Vosikafor a high tackle and another to Brandon Lambrecht for a punch in the second half. Taylor Kjar, a second-half sub, scored his fourth and finaltry at the end of the match to bring the final score to 73-3. “Westarted off kind of impatiently, we werea little excited” BYU head coach Da- BYU baseball: At Provo, Pattick Wells allowed just four hits while BYU got four runs ' their adopted rule book. gery on Burnett's elbow in 2003. the day as Nevada topped UVSC 115. The win for the Wolfpack Wyomingin the Sweet Sixteen of the USA Rugby championshipslate Friday. Thewinput the Cougars into a matchupwith Cal-Poly San Luis Obispo late Saturday, Cal-Poly San Luis Obispo © defeated Purdue 83-13 to advanceto the Elite Eight and a meeting with BYU. The Cougarsstarted the scoring in the early minutes with try by Ikani Taumeopeau. This was followed with anotherfour tries to close out thefirst half, with Wyoming scoring the onlytheir only Courtesy photo pointsin the match witha pen- BYU's Salesi Sika bowls over a Cowboyopponent on his way alty by Kyle Knutsonto put to scoringhisfirst of three tries on Friday against Wyoming. the score at 29-3 at halftime. a BYU captain and USA Eagle Salesi Sika ended up From Wyoming's standfashion Saturday, 6-4. with three tries on the day, point, their lack of experience Wells (4-4,5.69ERA) was but missed three conversions and depth played large role brilliantin eight innings of to potentially open the door in their defeat. work against the first-place for anotherkickerto takehis “We expected a tough Horned Frogs,endingtheir place with the conversions and match and I knewit was go_nine-game conference winpenalties. In the secondhalf, ing to be an uphill battle,” ning streak. The Cougar BYU continued their try scor- Wyoming head coach Rich southpaw allowed four runs ing barrage with three tries in Cortezsaid. “I think we onfour hits while ae out the first 10 minutes of the half werejittery and I think that five and wi tl denied. The rest of the artic! documented formerracial abuses — including a playerin Brazil who | facesa possible 3-year prison sentence for the exact sameepithet | —as wellas the governing bodies | (FIFA)attemptsto extricate such behavior with a documentation of on Monday. Andrewsperformed ligament replacement sur- Cougar rugby rolls past Wyoming tions pointed toward Amado Guevara of the New York Red Bulls in a gamelast weekin which the two teams played to a 1-1 tie. He al- leged that Guevarareferred to him | as a “monkey,” a chargethatthe New York soccer Re lenerly CLS Burnett goes on DL with elbow injury BYU/UVSC ROUNDUP BERKELEY. Calif. — BYU | BASEBALL TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays placed starter AJ. Burnett on the 15-daydisabled list Saturday with a right elbow injury Burnett left his startegaltst Boston on Friday night after four innings with sorenessin his elbow the United States a 2-0 lead over Germanyin the quarterfinals Saturday. Jackson beat German No. 1 Anna-Lena Groenefeld | the player who made the accusa- Charlie Weis, who helped turn Brady Quinn into a record-setting quarterback, was the biggest factor in. his cone, cca said. The record 17-time champion United States needs to win either of today’s reverse singles or the doubles Cup to advance. “Weknowit’snot overyet,” Craybas said. ETTENHEIM, Germany — Evencaptain Zina Gar- ‘ Garrison was withouttop playersincluding the reo was surprised bythe U.S. performanceat the Williams sisters and Lindsay Davenport, and she ‘ed Cup. kes Jackson wonin her Fed Cup debutandJill picked three Fed Cup rookies,including Jackson. second only to Karl Rove stepping Salt Lake, an African-Jamaican, is Fame,four hours before Notre Dame’s annual spring raded stakes earnings to do so. > Never has an nae sent two undefeated horses to the same Derby, but Gretchen and RoyJacksonwill dojust that should they opt for Showing Upto join their prize colt, Barbaro. ShowingUpis 3-for-3; Barbaro, among the early Derbyfavorites, is 5-for-5. racialslur. “This was on the front page ofa local paper earlier this week, advisors. Andy Williams of Real nounced his decision at the College Football Hall of game. Clausen, whose twoolder brothers, Casey and Rick, played at Tennessee,chose the Irish over Southern fornia and South Carolina. Hesaid Irish coach LESSON | downas one of Pres. Bush's key | Fighting Irish since Ron Powlus arrived in 1993, an- Memphisat Dallas 7:30 p.m. NHLP San Jose at Nashville diam. NBC iaakayaOGsieApa SON”, Al . Sports Federation tournament. cellent at their place. They did the things The Cougarstrailed 20 inthe match _kills, sevendigs,four blocks and 43 aces Norm Hutton hada career- and match- in 2007 but lose the services of seniors « Come ee tae l Goa eg Soa e D.C. United 4, New Yor 1 Colinmeere: : ares Oy at FoanesSpm : ii SLstar alleges a ‘shocking’ | NBA AMA Superbike undefeated horse showing upatthis year’s Kentucky Derbyin Barbaro. Nowtheycould have an unprecedented second: Showing Up. Showing Up, who wonthe Lexington Stakes Sat- ‘oc U.S. takes 2-0 lead over Germany at Fed | | Soe TENNIS CRITIC ee S€f, rated as one ofthe top high schoolfootball ee nation heading into his senior season, LA. Lakers at Phoenix urdayat Keeneland,could makehistory if he heads to the May6 Derby at Churchill Downs — andhis winningsfromthe Lexingtongive him plenty of a COLLEGE FOOTBALL 10am. || race i] Ee LEXINGTON,Ky. — The ownersalready had one NEWS OF RACIAL Federer for the fourth time in five meetings. ABC CBS Major Baseball Chi 5 Chicago Cubs at St. Louis 12:05 p.m. WGN Atlanta at Washington 6pm. ESPN Washington pm. Motorsports ai Cc Showing Up 7am. Champions Legends of Golf_11 a.m. PGAHouston Open ip.m. Jordan Gillespie all the support he needed. Christensen said.ave ie Sects Cant atbexipa tes Oat fo take the physical challengewith him. That's what I won'tdo.” No.1 Federer and second-ranked Nadal meet in a bunt. Matt Draperthen drovein his younger broth- er witha sacrifice fly. Corban Carlson followed with a walk andScott Ford singled in a runto givereliever 2pm. ON THE AIR aia Television Auto To GP2 Championship Senes 4 a.m. SPD Grand of Prix San Marino ifam. 3 Rolex Sports Car Series iiam. at Lindquist Field in Ogden Sunday, April 23, 2006 HERALD tal strength and a re-establishment of core values. The “cold and timid souls” will always be with us, so it tl Tacial, conji and Oakland Raiderstar, lives in Highland. He can be reached at dhsports@heraldextra.com. : |