Show : 11 Major Leagues 12 Davis Cup 17 c ThaHeraM Journal Logan Utah Sunday July 19 1998 Insido ' Mi'-- lioMinn - m-c Fierce winds Send scores soaring at British Open SOUTHPORT England (AP) — The raging winds at Royal Birkdale beat up everybody at the British Open At the end of the third round Brian Watts wu the only one still on his feet On a day when none of the world’s best players could break par Watts manv3 that left him aged to salvage a er alone in the lead the only player at even-p210 going into the final round And if creel conditions foat sent Nick Price to an 82 and Tiger Woods to a 77 on Saturday weren’t enough to make Watts crack he’ll face an additional test on Sunday — the pressure of winning Blue Sox veteran Rick Thome stff going strong Page 12 ' ar Sports briofa Buzz nip the Stars SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake's Mike Moruuty scored on a wild pitch in the eighth inning to lift die Buzz to a 1 win over the Las Vegas Stare 2-- Sctiwt!qyfs scores AL ever since yesterday actually' he "I think I handled it pretty well it -- T t r ' Yte?-- Y wu amazing how many people knew my player since Nick Faldo in 1990 to win the Masters and foe British Open in the same year played the tough back nine in 2 under fern 72 His biggest break came on Nol 6 when M 1 y name Obvinuly I fek great But I wasn't uncomfortable with foe situation" See WAITS on PUge 17 Wens: British Open leader AP photo aurvtvee wind i ' 'v Saturday evening brought another close game fKg between Logan and West Jordan but in the end the Valley teams went winleu Logan wu downed 3--4 NCV coach Kelly Reere thought the Sox were well on their way fo a win after they scored four in the top of foe first inning but the Draper rs came back with a five-ru- n inning themselves "Wb expected to win it m we made some bobMes and they made all their plays We had some errors in u MLS all-sta- 1 (30) the field that killed us There's nothing worse than stranding your pitcher out there and that's what we WNBA did" Reese Now York 60 Phoenix 63 1 Detroit 72 Cleveland 57 8 Join wnniMwaM Jouml Draper strung together 12 hits shelling pitchers North Cacha Vafiay baaa nmnar Todd Barr (9) sfides aafsly into aacond bare tha Drapar shortstop keeps hia aya on foa Ryan Everett and Mike Balls and tallying two tuns bal during Pony League action Saturday at Bridgeriand Park in the bottom of the sixth to go up 6 and really put foe pressure on the Sox "We were hoping to win our first game that’s a trig pick before he could get back in NCV responded hi foe top of the seventh as Brady time relief” said Draper coach Greg Adamson afterward Keller smashed a ball off the center field fence for a Two outs Last bats Sox down 7 “These kids are playing well and when we need to oneout double Keller would score on Everett's sinTbdd Barr’s heart visibly skipped a beat when he realwe’ve been aide to make foe big play” gle moments later and foe momentum ized his potential RBI wu no longer there and the The Sox play Ml Olympus (whom they’ve beat once belonged to foe Sox momentum once again swayed to Draper’s side already this year) in the loser's bracket Monday at 10 am But Everett after stealing second wu caught leadBarr grounded out to foe second baseman to end the ing off a step too far and wu sniped on a dandy game See FONY on Page 17 u Houston 75 Sacramento 44 9-- r On television 730 pitcher-to-shoctst- 9-- I ABC — God British Open final round utE pjU-So- CBS — IRL Auto Racing 400k at Dover DeL ! Pep Boys II un ESPN— Tennis Davie Cup quartarflnol round singles match tJ" Belgium vs US 11:06 sjr TBS — Major League Bassbal C8S — OoodwB Games men's basket-ba- l Puerto Rico vs US at New York WGN — Major League BaMbal Cleveland at Chicago White Sox 1 whore game wu groomed in the strong winds of Texas and Oklahoma “I felt a lot of pressure from the get-g- o Tiro of those Sox errors directly resulted in runs the two magical runs Draper needed to drop North Cache 9-- 7 Saturday afternoon at Bridgeriand Park in the Pony League state tournament - f pars and a birdie for a 71 r to day- Pioneer A 11 Five glaring errors will haunt the North Cache Valley Sox until they get to redeem themselves on Mon- 17 Meddne Hat 5 Ogdon 11 Great Fats 3 Helena 9 Butte 7 7 Lethbridge 3 Idaho San Joes 0 Also at 212 was Jim Furyk who closed with SPOni WITOf BOHnga 1 er Shane Frazier PCL Tampa Bay champion Mark O’Meara who finished third at Birkdale in 1991 and Jesper Parnevik the Open runner-u- p in 1994 and last year at Royal Troon Parnevik made a for bogey on No 18 for a 71 “Thu wu all I asked for today another chance" he said Logan North Cache hope to come back through losers' bracket Abuquerque 6 Nashville 4 Tacoma 18 Calgary 5 Edmonton 11 Memphis 0 town 8 Fresno 5 New Orleans 4 Tueoon 3 Vancouver 9 Oklahoma 8 (10) Omaha 5 Colorado Springs 2 Safi Lake 2 Las Vegas 1 New England A Dalasi Miami 3 Loe Angeles 2 SO "You've got to have a lot of patience out there" Right behind at 213 is Justin Rose foe English amateur who may have been the only one who managed a smile during a torturous third round Carried along by cheers of "Go on Justin" by Brits who leaned over the ropes to pat him on foe back Rose wu tied for the lead at even-pa- r through nine holes until his errant tee shots finally caught up with him “I just fob tremendous" said Rose who doesn’t look like he needs to shave yet “It Cache teams stumble at Pony tourney NL DC 4 Chicago Those trying to chase him down — or hope that Watts passes them going the other direction — are two guys who have been there before At two strokes back were Masters ’I NY Meta7 PMadefpNaO Loe Angelee 10 St Louie 8 Houeton 7 San Fmndeco 2 Florida 2 Chicago Cubs 1 Pittsburgh 5 Montreal 2 Sen Diego 2 Cincinnati 1 Milwaukee 7 Atlanta 1 Colorado at Arizona (n) ft tomorrow’ ' Tve never been in the last group of putting him in contention for the first spy major championship much leu the time in a major Watts O’Meara trying to become the first Open" said the said Cleveland 15 Chicago White Sox 9 Minnesota 4 Oakland 3 NY Yankees 10 Toronto 3 Boston 9 Detroit 4 Texas 9 Tampa Bay 8 (10) Seattle 8 Kansas CXy 5 Anaheim 8 Baltimore 3 he presumed his ball wu lost Spectators found it at the last minute but then a fan put foe ball in his pocket O'Meara wu given a five drop and left with a bogey “I like my position" O'Meara said Obviously it’s going to be tough again pjn ABC — at Toronto CART Auto Racing Molaon Indy 2pja CBS — Senior PGA Golf AmerKech Senior Open final round at Long Grove M ESPN — NASCAR Auto Radng Busch Grand National Series Kenwood 300 NBC — LPGA Golf JAL Big Apple Classic Inal round at New RocheSe fiLY 3 pjn ABC — Golf British Open final round part R at 8oirihfxxL England 4d0pjik — ESPN2 Parte Mile-Hig- fume-da- y NHRA Drag Racing By Jeff Hunter sgortowrfter NEW YORK (AP) — Three years ago Lou Del Valle worked for Roy Jones Jr sparring partner On Saturday night in The Theater at Madison Square Garden Del Valle found out Jones is still the boss ua tape) (same-da- y Jones gets knocked Sox Wols keep rolling down but dominates Mopar Jones pounded Del Valle's face lumpy hurt him with body shots and found time to showboat too he won a clear-cuunanimous u t 12-rou- decision But before Del Valle lost the WBA — Major League Baseball Los Angeles at SL Louis men's 400m hur-dtwomen's 800m womens 100m men's 200m women's long jump men's javelin decathlon women's pole vauR and women's aJLeround in gymnastics at New York 8pm ESPN2 — Boxing bantamweights vs Tomas CordoDanny Romero (32-2-va (1330) at Lake Charles La 10:30 pm ESPN — Cycing Tour de Franca stage 8 at France (delayed tape) 0) After Del Valle's brief moment in the spotlight Jones took control again but stopped the showboating Jones had just too much power and too much speed for Del Valle who was paid $730 a week when he sparred with Jones in 1993 On Saturday night Del Valle got $830000 and See JONES on Page 17 inKaysviUe Providence (21-1has now won 11 games in a row and has outscored its opponents 133-3-4 during that streak That's pretty good considering that earlier in the year we were worried about not 0) scoring runs" IVovidence playechnanager Jared Jensen said "Now we’ve scored at least 10 tuns in 11 straight games" The Wolverines Saturday sweep was France (AP) — Defending champion Jan Ullrich regained the overall lead in the Tour de France by winning a time trial Saturday and a lot ofpeople barely noticed Clinch’s victory came amid the tearful departure of cyclists from the Fesrina team which wu thrown out of foe Tour because of a drug scandal “The team’s director doctor and CORREZE as 7 pjn ' ESPN2 — Cycling Tour de Franco stage 8 at France (same-datape) brought the crowd to its feet by knocking Jones down in the eighth round The Wolverines continued their assault on opposing pitchers battering Tara’s Wildcats 13) and 16-- 6 in a doubleheader Saturday afternoon at Davis High School - Missing was last year's runnerup Richard Virenque whs wu among foe nine Festina cyclists who withdrew at the request of foe Tbur de France “It's better we stop the Tour now" said Virenque who cned “From a judicial point of view we could participate but we decided not to continue "I don't know what foe Tbur will do without Festina Festina hu given a lot masseur were being questioned by to foe Tout And today we are excluded for foe image of foe race" police about performance-enhancin- g Tour officials decided to throw the drugs which foe director said wu part rtf Festina's operation team out of foe k Ullrich won foe time trial by race Friday after team director Bruno more than a minute over Americans Roussel admitted the team had supplied 1)rler Hamilton and Bobby JuUch banned substances with medical supervision to improve performances Jacques Chirac foe French president wu at foe finish to congratulate Ullrich Roussel team doctor Erik Ryckaert who wu timed in 1 hour 13 minutes 23 and masseur Wily in under police seconds Overall Ullrich leads by a custody after customs officials found a minute 18 seconds over Bo Hamburger stash of perfarmance-enhacindrags in AP photo ofDcnmaiL Voet's car bearing Festina emtkms American Bobby JuHch rode to a IhinFplace Julkh who races for foe French team Roussel aad team doctor Erik Ryckaert finish Saturday In a fime trial at fie Tour de Cofidis wu third in the same were piaoed under investigaiion for importmj three-wee- top-ranke- 36-mi- le Todays quota "He hits my fastball he hits my Change-u- p he hits my curve ball With the power he has Yellowstone ain’t going to hold him’— Lot Angeles pitcher Brian Bohanon on Mark McGwire after surrendering the St Louis slugger's 4lst homer Friday night — a shot in the first inning of the Cardinals' 1 victgnavjMi Angeles 511-fo- ot 4-- Rawlins Scouts Saturday the Blue Sen (8-- 3 in foe Beehive League 34-- 8 overall) are now two games up with one game to go That gave us foe Beehive state crown" Smithfield manager Richard Hansen said of the twin sweeps That’s what 1 wu hoping would happen” No one had an opportunity to shine urday Sat- at much as Providence pitcher Aaron DinkeL With his future coach from the College rtf Eastern Utah looking on See ROLLING on Page 14 Doping scandals mar the Tour tape) ipjn - ESPN MtUi TBS— Goodwl Games champion he 173-pou- nd light heavyweight title to Jones the Nationals at Denver h WBC also good for the Smithfield Blue Sox who were battling the Wildcats for the Beehive League championship Coupled with their 14-- 0 13-- 1 pounding of the Vt g France He la currently third overal u Hamburger -- COPY kjtfkJfctroi L ing prohibited substances and other counts Chirac called for the "eradication of (doping) networks" and that those who are behind them should be punished “We don't have the right to play with foe health of young sportsmen who get caught up in doping" he said “Doping is above all dishonesty It is cheating and as such must be condemned and punished in foe strongest way" The sad day for cyding came as Americans made an unusually good showing "It’s a dream ft’s great for American cycling” Julkh said “It’s about time" After the retirement of three-tim- e Tour winner Greg LeMond and the Lance Armstrong recovering from can- cer after winning the 1993 world title and two Tour stages US cycling needed a boost It also came from Hamilton who was battling stomach problems foe fint week "I felt strong I just rode steady foe whole way and it worked out” Hamit ton sail Hamilton who rides for the US Postal team is now fifth oven! |