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Show In~ - . --·--- NAT'L SPORTS - .,, TH£ tJNIVERSIT}'.' JO'{RN'Al • SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY• WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1997 I -· DIGEST DENNIS JOHNSON ORDERED TO STAY AWAY FROM WIFE: Dennis Johnson is accused of grabbing his wife's throat and holding a knife to her face, and the former Boston Celtics star was ,ordered yesterday to leave his house and stay away from her. Police said Johnson's 17-year-old son tried to stop the fight, but Johnson threatened to beat him and the son ran to a neighbor's home for help. Orange County Judge Stan Strickland set a $5,000 bond for Johnson and told him he could go to his house to collect clothes and personal items. " You are to have no contact with the victim until this is all sorted out," the judge said. Johnson posted bonded and left jail yesterday afternoon. No arraignment date was set. Johnson, 43, who played on three NBA championship teams during his 14-year career, was arrested Monday and charged with aggravated assault and domestic violence. His wife was not injured. OWNER OF SALT LAKE BUZZ MAKES INQUIRY ABOUT PUTTING ROOKIE TEAM IN OREM: The owner of the Salt Lake Buzz, Joe Buzas, has made an inquiry about putting a minor league baseball team at Utah Valley State College. Buzas and Utah Jazz forward Karl Malone in the past have said they are looking for a Utah County home for a rookie league franchise. "We're not shying away," said McKay Events Center director Brent Roberts, speaking on behalf of UVSC president Kerry Romesburg. "If they are interested in us, we're interested in them. That's the extent of it right now.... We' re not trying to step on anyone's toes or take away a team from anybody." Buzas' interest in UVSC comes as news to Provo and a group led by businessman Doug Foxley, which has tried for a couple years to place a Pioneer League team in Provo.Though discussions between Buzas and UVSC are only preliminary, the school is beginning to examine the idea of building a stadium on the site of its on-campus baseball field. Buzas claims he has territorial rights to baseball in the county based on the rules of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues. Malone has pledged $350,000 to help Buzas bring a team to the county. CHINESE WOMAN BREAKS 5,000-METER RECORD: A 17-year-old Chinese runner trained by controversial coach Ma Junren smashed the women's world record in the 5.,000 meters by more than five seconds yesterday at China's National Games. Dong Yanmei, a new Ma protege, was timed in 14 minutes, 31.27 seconds, shattering the previous record of 14:36.45 set by Fernanda Ribeiro of Portugal in 1995. Two of Dong's teammates also surpassed the old record - Jiang Bo finishing second in 14:3 1.30 and Liu Shixiang third in 14:32.33. Wang and Qu were among the first members of "Ma's Army" of women runners who turned in record-breaking performances during the early 1990s. Their success again fueled allegations of drug abuse in Chinese sports. Ma says his runners do well because they train at high altitude and are given special herbal tonics to help them recover. PART-TIME JOB. FULL-TIME REWARDS. You need a part-time job, but you'd like to find -something that means more than just a paycheck. In the Army National Guard, you can. For two weeks a year and one weekend a month, you11 discover rewards that last 24 hours a day - all your life. You11 find excitement and you11 know the team spirit of a group of people much like yourself. Start making a difference today, call the Utah Army National Guard. 586-9402 • Florida Marlins Darren Daulton hits a solo home run as Cleveland Indians catcher Sandy Alomar fr. and home plate umpire foe West look on in the fourth inning of Game 3 of the World Series at Cleveland's facobs Field last night. Florida went on to win 14-11 . Florida battles back over Cleveland 17 with the Yankees in the 1950s. Sheffield's RBI double capped a two-run seventh as the Marlins rallied against Cleveland's tough bullpen to tie it at 7. Brian Anderson replaced The Florida Marlins came alive when the Nagy to start the seventh and gave up a leadoff ·Cleveland Indians lost their cool, breaking a single to Counsel!. Mike Jackson relieved with tie by scoring seven runs on a World Series record-tying three errors in the ninth inning to one out and Edgar Renteria hit an RBI single on the first pitch and Sheffield doubled to deep win 14-11 last night for a 2-1 edge. center. Sheffield helped keep it even in the Gary Sheffield hit one of Florida's three bottom half by climbing the right-field wall to homers and drove in five runs in the second rob Thome of extra bases. "I was playing deep highest-scoring game in Series history, behind and that's the only reason I was able to get to the 1993 epic in which Toronto outlasted it. I didn' t want to go from hero to goat," Philadelphia 15-14. The Indians, meanwhile, Sheffield said. "I'm just thankful that the ball played like fish out of water in blowing a 7-3 didn't come out." Jim Eisenreich, in the lineup lead they took into the sixth inning. They as the DH, did his former Phillies teammate rallied to make it close with four runs in the Daulton - one better with a two-run homer bottom of the ninth of Robb Nen. in the sixth that pulled Florida to 7-5. Bobby Bonilla, whose two errors gave The Indians took a 5-3 lead in the fourth, Cleveland its lead, drew a leadoff walk from combining a record-tying four walks by Leiter, Eric Plunk to start the ninth. Darren Daulton followed with a single and Bonilla, hustling on a scratch single and another error by Bonilla. Cleveland hit only one ball out of the infield his injured left hamstring, headed to third. in the inning, and that was a routine fly. Leiter Grissom made an accurate throw, but it had no touch to begin the fourth. He started nicked Bonilla in the right shoulder and out with walks to Sandy Alomar and Thome deflected into a third-base camera bay, and a one-out walk to Grissom loaded the allowing a run to score. With one out, pinchbases. Roberts struck out but, on Lcitcr's hitter Cliff Floyd was intentionally walked. Plunk made a pickoff throw that first baseman seventh full count of the ni ght, he walked Omar Vizquel to force home a run that made Jim Thome mishandled for an error that made it 3-all. Manny Ramirez followed with a threeit 9-7, and second baseman Tony Fernandez misplayed Craig Counsell's grounder to enable hopper that seemed to spin in Bonilla's hand, and he compounded the problem by rushing another run to score. and throwing the ball pa.st first. The play was Sheffield and Bonilla capped the burst with scored a hit and an error, and resulted in two two-run singles. The Indians tied the Series runs. record of three errors set by Los Angeles in Thome hit Cleveland's hardest ball of the 1966, while the Marlins matched the mark of game, a two-run homer in the fifth for a 7-3 the 1936 New York Yankees for the biggest lead. Leiter, blowing on his hand all night, left ninth inning in Series play. Dennis Cook was after 4 2-3 innings. His four walks in fourth the winning pitcher. Plunk took the loss, though relievers Alvin Morman and Jose Mesa tied the Series record last done by Toronto's Todd Stottlemyre in 1993, and he walked six also did not fare well in the ninth. The Indians scored four runs in the ninth on overall. Sheffield showed why every team has worked around him in the postseason, finally a bases loaded sacrifice fly by Fernandez, an getting a good pitch to hit in the first inning RBI-single by Grissom and a two-run double and lining it over the 19-foot wall in left for a by Bip Roberts. solo home run. Grissom was stranded after a leadoff single Florida will be back in Cleveland tonight for in the Cleveland eighth. He has hit in all 15 of game four of the World Series and for game his Series games, giving him the secondfive on Thursday. longest streak in history behind Hank Bauer's By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |