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Show ~ ~-- - - r Ill4} NAT'L SPORTS 11 THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL .• SOUTHERN U,:AH UNIVERSITY• MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1998 ·-~ - ~ - -·-- I - ·01GEST - - - - - - KWAN WINS FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS : Once again, it wasn't her best. This time, it was good enough. Michelle Kwan didn't quite nail everything Saturday night in the free skate in the World Figure Skating Championships. With Tara Lipinski and Lu Chen, the other medalists from' the Olympics, not on hand, Kwan's 1..Mi. . :_:.::cl. :i e~llc.=.e_K_w;..Ja:..;:n...1 performance still swept the judging panel. - - - - - - Kwan won her second world championship in three years with a so so free skate marred by two errors. The 17 -year-old American did display some of the passion she lacked in her long program at Nagano, where she was runnerup to Lipinski. "I had a little nerves, but I was able to pull myself together at the end," she said. It wasn't close to her near-perfect program in the nationals in January. Perhaps Kwan sensed that neither of the Russians who finished behind her, Irina Slutskaya or Maria Butyrskaya, presented much of a challenge. PUCKETT IN CAR ACCIDENT: Fonner Minnesota Twins star Kirby Puckett suffered cuts on his arm and head in a one-vehicle rollover accident yesterday. Puckett, who led the Twins to World Series titles in 1987 and '91, was in stable condition at Fairview-Southdale Hospital in Edina. Puckett was alone in the vehicle when the crash occurred around 1 p.m. on Interstate 35-W near Mounds View. Puckett was forced to retire in 1996 when an early form of glaucoma left him blind in his right eye. DEVIL RAYS WIN FRANCHISE FIRST: For Wilson Alvarez, yesterday's game was about getting the job done for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays - not getting personal satisfaction at the expense of the Chicago White Sox. The $35 million comerstane of the Devil Rays' pitching staff bounced back neatly from a disappointing opening-day performance, and the expansion team matched the best start for a first-year club through six games with a 5-0 victory over the White Sox. Facing his former team for the first time, Alvarez (1-1) allowed only three hits before leaving the game in the seventh inning with a slight bruise on his left hip that is not believed to be serious. In shutting down the White Sox for 6 2-3 innings, he atoned for a loss last Tuesday to Detroit in which he gave up six runs and nine hits in just 2 1-3 innings. McGwire unable to break Mays' record McGwire said. "Ask me about the game. ST. LOUIS (AP) - Mark McGwire knew he There's no reason to ask it." wasn't going to hit a home run in every game. On Saturday, McGwire joined Willie Mays as McGw.ire, who had homered in his first four games, was kept in the ballpark by Kevin Brown the only known players to ho mer in their first four games. Mays did it and San Diego's at age 39 in 1971. pitchers, and the Padres McGwire also tied the rallied for five runs in . league record with the ninth to beat the St. seven home runs in a Louis Cardinals 8-7. six-game stretch, Ken Caminiti hit a dating to last season, two-run homer and joining George Kelly Quilvio Veras drove in (1924), Walker Cooper the go ahead run with a (1947), Mays (1955) and single in San Diego's Graig Nettles (1984 ). ninth-inning comeback, To McGwire, it's all which came after the trivia. Cardinals snapped a tie "McGwire does not with four in the eighth. play this game to hit "This is a steal," said home runs, he plays to Tony Gwynn, whose win baseball games," single started the ninth manager Tony La inning rally. "But we'll Russa said. "If the take it." pitch is not there, he McGwire's home-run .,, walks 100-some times streak was the last thing , ;,: a year. on Cardinals' manager ~ "He doesn't go up Tony La Russa's mind. ~ there saying, 'I'm going "This is a mean loss," 8 to bat 600 times and he said. .,, I'm going to get 600 McGwire missed a ~ swings in.'" chance to become the i= Against Brown, only NL player to St. Louis slugger Mark McGwire tosses his bat McCwire singled to homer in the first five in disgust during yesterday's heartbreaking left in the first and games to start the 8-7 loss to the Padres. struck out in the third. season, going l-for-4 He walked on five with two strikeouts and pitches to load the bases in the fifth, struck out a walk. Not that he was tom up about it. again in the seventh. "You don't need to askthat question," Michigan again wins NCAA hockey title Michigan outshot Boston College 10-3 in the BOSTON (AP) -Fifty years after winning the but the Eagles had more quality overtime, first NCAA hockey title, Michigan is the chances at the net. Jamie O'Leary hit the champion again. crossbar over the sprawling Turco eight Josh Langfeld scored the game-winner 17:5 1 minutes into the overtime and, three minutes into overtime on Saturday night to lead the Wolverines to a 3-2 victory over Boston College later, Jeff Farkas hit a post. Michigan made its best chance count, as it COETZER WINS FAMILY CIRCLE in the NCAA title game and give Michigan a CHAMPIONSHIP: Amanda Coetzer did always seems to in the final. The Wolverines record ninth hockey championship. No other are 9-2 in championship games; they have also what the top seeds couldn,'.t this week school has more than six titles to their school's won two national outlast Irina Spirlea and win the Family name. championships in Circle Championship yesterday.Coetzer Boston College had a football, including caught up with just about every drop shot and record crowd behind it, this year's, two in took the sting out of Spirlea's rocket but Michigan had the baseball and one in forehands, winning 6-3, 6-4 for her first topexperience. The basketball. tier victory on the WTA Tour. "If I h"ad to · Wolverines (32-11-1) Boston College has pick one title that I would want to have my had been to the last never won an NCAA Amanda name on, this would -be the one," said four Final Fours and football, basketball or Coetzer, the No. 4 seed. Coetzer won the title in 1996 .,, baseball title. The - also in overtime. ~ Eagles won the second Mark Kosick scored ~ hockey championship both goals in ~ in 1949 but have not regulation for won one since, losing Michigan, the second ~ in their last two to tie the game with < appearances in the 6: 12 left to and send ~ ~ final game, both down the game into L-~--~~....:::1s....~,c:;;;~_.'"-..._'"'---~-~ theroadin overtime. Marty Turco Michigan won a hard fought battle on the ice Providence, R.I. stopped 27 shots for the over Boston College 3-2 Saturday night. The No team has won win. Wolverines claimed the school's ninth the title in its Scott Clemmensen championship. hometown since stopped 32 shots, and ------------------Boston University at Mike Lephart and · the old Boston Garden in 1972, and the home Kevin Caulfield scored for BC (27-9-5), which crowd couldn't win it for Boston College this lost for the first time in 15 games. time, either. Langfeld, a freshman, took a pass from Chris The tournament set an NCAA attendance Fox and beat Clemmensen, sending the Michigan portion of the crowd into a frenzy and record with the first semifinal and then broke it with each successive game. A full house of Tickets avai lable at the Tuacahn ticket office 800/746 -9 882 the much larger Boston College contingent 18,276 filled the FleetCenter for the final game, or TOM TOM MUSIC s t o r e s streaming for the exits. Boston College players bringing the tournament total to 54,304. laid on the ice, shocked and exhausted. Ogden , Bountiful • Sa~dy • Provo • Cedar ~ity • St. George g |