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Show WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1999 Sports VINCENTS VIEW Powder Puff Returns By Stephen Vincent Editor stvincent77(ti Sports Vincent Admits He is in the Dark When It Comes to Baseball hoimaiI.com One of the finest traditions at Dixie College will be renewed during Homecoming Week, when the freshman and sophomore girls face off in the annual Powder Puff Game. The game will be played Wednesday, Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. at Hansen Stadium. Each class sends out a team of girls who participate in a game of flag football. The rivalry between the two teams can be quite intense. Matt Dotson, the AS DC Mens Activities Vice President, is responsible for organizing the match . Dotson expects a fiercely competitive game. The freshman team won last year and are hoping to go undefeated in the college careers with a win this year as sophomores. While the sophomores will be motivated to finish their college football careers undefeated, the freshmen would love nothing more than to keep them from doing it. Shay Hansen and Janae Swallow scored the touchdowns last year as the Class of 200Qs win over the Class of 99, won 12-The freshman teams have won two out of the last three meetings. Dotson, who doubles as the coach of the sophomore team, is expecting a lot out of his team. We got a tough group of girls this year and they're ready to go out and kick some freshman trash," said Dotson. The freshman team will be coached by J.D. Mauk. 6. Warning: Dont Make Predictions at 2 a.m. Vincent learns the hard way. By Stephen Vincent Sports Editor stvincent77(hotmail On com a Saturday night a few months ago, was up late preparing a Sunday School lesson that I had to give the next day. I was all alone at my house. Just after 2 a.m., I heard a noise that sounded like someone coming down the stairs. 1 just about died. My heart stopped. Literally. I didnt dare breathe, for the obvious reason that the axe murder might get me. A few seconds later, 1 realized that it was just the air conditioner coming on. That was my first clue. A few weeks ago, it was again after 2 a.m., and 1 was lying in bed when I started hearing these voices. Again, I saw my life pass before my eyes. I was going through a very silent panic attack, when I realized it was just the radio with its volume turned down really low. That was my second clue. Last week, 1 got my third and final clue when 1 made' my baseball predictions at 2 a.m. These clues lead to one clear, inevitable conclusion: My brain ceases to function after 2 a.m. Its similar to how the Gremlins go crazy if theyre fed after midnight. I go crazy after 2 a.m., although I dont get violent, I just suffer a serious lack of thought. Never was this more clear than in my baseball predictions which ran in last weeks Sun, which as mentioned were made in the hour my brain gets clouded. Picking the Arizona Diamondbacks to win it all made sense at the time, mainly because it was 2 a.m. stands for The D in Defeat. I realize that now. The upstart New York Mets took it to the Diamondbacks. Edgardo Alfonzo hit a grand slam in the top of the ninth of Game 1 to give the Mets their first win of the series. Todd Pratt then hit a solo shot in the bottom of the tenth inning of Game 4 to eliminate Arizona. And I had to sit there the whole time thinking, what in the name of Sly Emmett Brickey was I thinking? Then I decided the Yankees were the third best team. What did they do last week? Just embarrassed the Texas Rangers, as usual. The Yankees were the only team to sweep d their series. The two teams ahead of them are gone. One of them was the Diamondbacks, the other was the Cleveland Indians. I was dead positive that the Indians were going places this season. Turns out I was a moron. That comes as no surprise to those who know me. If it werent for Florida States Peter Warrick going out and ruining his Heisman Trophy chances this past week by getting himself charged with grand theft, I would be a definite candidate for Moron of the Week. The Indians were looking smoother than butter winning the first two games of the series. But they lost the next three games. In Game 4, they allowed Boston to score 23 runs, a record. They turned around in Game 5 and got shutdown by Pedro Martinez, who came on in relief for innings starter Bret Saberhagen. Martinez pitched six no-hand the BoSox downed Cleveland 12-- to advance to the American League Championship Series where theyll face 1 their old nemesis, the Yankees. So my choices for No. 1, Arizona, and No. 2, Cleveland, were beaten out by my choices for No. 8, New York Mets, and No. 7, the Red Sox, respectively. But it gets worse. The worst prediction I made was picking the Houston Astros to beat the Atlanta Braves. In the only game I saw this season, I saw the Cubs beat the Stros at Wrigley. That should have been evidence enough for me to choose the Braves, because if the Cubs can beat a team, so can Parowan High School. My rationale was simple. I remembered the Braves losing to Philadelphia a team they should have beat in 1993. 1 remembered them losing to the Padres another team they should have beat last year. I remembered them losing in the World Series to Minnesota and Toronto. So I labeled them choke artists. I guess I forgot that the only team that has choked more than the Braves is the Astros. Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell You have a better chance of seeing a ghost are than you do of seeing Biggio or Bagwell getting a hit in the postseason. Which reminds me, I am a league last in seeing ghosts, Bigfoot, and UFOs (although my friend, Hailey Wilkey, promised me way back in March that I would be abducted it hasnt happened). 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