Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday July 14 2000 — age 9 Smithfield Blue Sox base runner Rick Thome slides into second as the ball bounces off his back Hyrum shortstop James Thompson dives to catch the ball Blue Sox edge determined Hornets By WadqPenniston sports writer HYRUM — Even die Hornets best performance of the season wasn’t enough fb get by the Smithfield Blue Sox Thursday night Behind pitcher Alex Hansen’s four-h-it shutout Smithfield was able to notch a close 0 victory over the Hornets at Hyrum City Pa The vie-- : tory kept Hansen perfect on die year 4-- (8-- 0) “What do you do?” Hyrum manager Gary Dunn was left wondering after the game Dunn was pleased with the way his team battled the Blue Sox who had previously thumped the Hornets 19-- 2 the fast time die two teams met in Hyrum (June 29) “I felt like overall this probably was the best game we played this year” Dunn said Injured Still it wasn't enough for die Hornets to get past the overpowering Blue Sox despite a strong outing on die hill by Nate Dunn who allowed eight hits and four earned runs “I threw the best game I’ve thrown in a long time” said Nate Dunn who also struck out five and walked three “(We) just missed it by a couple of hits We gave them a scare” That’s for certain as Smithfield could never really get any good offensive rallies going The Blue Sox did jump out to a 34) lead after the third inning but they could never tally more than two hits in an inning “That’s the most we could do” Smithfield manager Richard Hansen said “When you can’t get more than two hits together in an inning you’re not going to score too many runs” One reason the Blue Sox bats were somewhat quiet was the fact some of their heavy hitters had left early for the team’s doubleheader in Sun ley Idaho on Saturday game “Your pitcher caught that one line drive hard line drive He was able to get a glove on it That was a run right there” But that wasn’t the only time the Hornets saw a scoring opportunity pass diem by Hyrum left a runner stranded on second base in the bottom of the second as well as another in the third In each inning both runners made it to second with less than two outs 'Hailing by three in the bottom of the fourth Hyrum squandered a golden opportunity as Hansen led off the inning with a double to left center But No 5 could advance no further as the next three batten were retired in order including a leaping grab by second baseman Tony Jenks on a Val- “We’re missing the meat of the lineup” said shortstop Rick Thorne who helped picked up the slack with a 2 for 4 night at the plate including a double and two runs scored “But (we) played a good solid game It was a fun game Those are the best games to play — close games” Thome plated Smithfield's first run in the top of the first when he scored on Kenny Clark’s RBI single to left center field oo a 2 offering from Dunn Dunn tried to get the run back in the bottom of the first as he laced a two-osingle just inside the third base line However Hansen got the Blue Sox out of trouble by snagging a hot comebacker off the bat of cleanup hitter Kyler Hansen “You had some players make a couple of good plays to rob us” Gary Dunn fold Richard Hansen after the 2-- ut said Nate Dunn who was 1 for 3 in the game “We hit the ball fairly well He’s a good pitcher you can’t take anything away from that" The Sox added another insurance run in the top of the fifth when Ear Creech led off the inning with a triple off the right field fence The Smith-fiel- d first baseman scored on Clark’s second RBI single of the night In addition to the good pitching from each squad the Blue Sox and Hornets played solid in the field There was just one error by Smithfield “Both teams played (pretty good) defense” Hansen said “That was good” While Smithfield will be playing two on Saturday Hyrum will remain at home for an 8:30 pm contest against Preston The last time those two teams met the Hornets came 1 in a wild away victorious affair at Preston liner from Hornets catcher Colby Vanderbeek “They woe just in the right place at the right time on some of our hits” 12-1- All-Sta- rs V V As sr-rv- tune v ' r j ' :h ' 'Svrrt - 'VV 'A - K- A ’ Griffey hits a pair of dingers in Reds win ' i Press By The Associated Wit7 j Y -- 3) viv-'? r The break did wooden for the health of several injured Four who missed Tuesday night’s Atlanta in came through in their teams’ game victories Thursday night Greg Maddux pitched seven strong innings in Atlanta’s 3 win over Baltimore Ken Griffey Jr homered twice as Cincinnati routed Colorado 13-- 6 Barry Bonds hit his 29th homer in San Francisco’s 2 win against Oakland and Manny Ramirez returned from die disabled list with a home run as Cleveland beat Pittsburgh 3 in lOinningt Showing absolutely no iU effects from a shoulder injury Maddux outpitched Mike Mussina and Bobby Bonilla singled in die tiebreaking run All-Sta- All-Sta- rs All-St- in theseventh inning fpr Atlanta Maddux (11-aUwed mre runs eight hits and two walks to earn his second consecutive win after two straight defeats an 6-- 4-- 4-- “Once the shoulder got loose it stayed loose” Maddux said homers and Griffey hit a pair of two-ru- n 7 Elmer Dessens pitched a career-hig- h tied for the for Cincinnati Griffey innings St 30 with at lead run home major league 1- -3 Louis’ Mark McGwire who also missed the game and was placed on the disabled list Thursday with a sore right knee also got caught in the middle of Dessens (2-a beanball battle hitting Colorado star Larry Walker three innings after Griffey was drilled in die back by Rockies starter Pedro Astacio ) “ff I get a chance to face that pitcher Td rather try to decapitate him” Griffey said speaking in general terms “You don’t like dungs coming at you so they don’t like things coming at them” Griffey who had a sore knee scored four times and recorded his 45th career muMhomer game— his fifth this season Larkin Sean Casey and Ptikey Reese added homers as the Reds extended Colorado's season-wor- st losing streak to eight Bonds who missed six of eight games before break homered leading off the the All-Stfourth against Mark Mulder (5-Giants manager Dusty Baker said Bonds who missed six of eight games before die break is clearly recovering from a slightly fractured right thumb “He said he was still feeling it some” Baker said “but it was a lot better than when he left (for die break)” relieved starter Joe Nathan Russ Ortiz (3-after a scoreless but shaky first inning and allow 1 one unearned run on four hits in six innings Robb Nen pitched the ninth for his 18th save in 23 chances allowing Eric Chavez's 14th homer All-St- ar 8) f i ml j a ¥ Ramirez who missed the All-Stgame because of a strained left hamstring went in his fust game since May 29 when he was ar 1 s AP photo Cincinnati Reds slugger Ken Griffey Jr connects home run in the eighth inning for a two-ru- n vv hurt running to first base against Anaheim “ft was just good to see him out there Then he ends up hitting a home run and that sparked pvC - m 'I jffsgv-- &! 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All-St- ar - - $': - AP photo Atlanta Braves pitcher Greg Maddux delivers inning Thursday a pilch against the Baltimore Orioles during the second us a little bit too” teammate Kenny Lofton said after singling home the winning run in the 10th for Qeveland Ramirez struck out in the first and homered off drive to in die fourth a 419-foin Tbdd Ritchie Ramirez left for a die eighth after a bloop single “We haven’t seen him out there in awhile and I dunk the guys got kind of excited about it” Lofton said Steve Karsay (2-pitched a scoreless 10th for the win Reds IS Rockies 6 Cincinnati handed Colorado just its 10th home Iran at Denver Griffey whose 30 homers tied Mark McGwire for die major league lead also scored four times recording his 43th career multihomer game and his fifth this season Dessens (2-grazed Larry Walker with a pitch in the eighth and both teams emerged from their dugouts but no punches were thrown Rockies manager Buddy Bell was ejected after arguing with umpire Dana DeMuth Bell left-cent- er ot pinch-runn- er 5) 0) felt Walker was hit in retaliation for Colorado starter Pedro Astacio (7-hitting Griffey in the bade in the fifth Padres 2 Mariners 1 Phil Nevin scored from second on shortstop Carlos Guillen’s fielding emu with two outs in the bottom of the 10th at San Diego With two outs Brett Tomko (4-walked Nevin and Bret Boone Wild Gonzalez hit a routine grounder to Guillen who let the ball bounce off the heel of his glove and into center field Tigers 8 Astros 2 Dean Palmer hit three singles as host Detroit beat Houston for the first time in seven meetings Rich Becker hit two doubles and scored three runs for the Tigers who have won seven of 10 and 12 of 18 Houston the worst team in the has lost five (ff seven and 18 majors at 8 of 24 Brian Moehler (6-gave up 11 hits and two runs in his first complete game of the season 6) 3) run-scori- ng 30-3- 3) See BASEBALL on Plage 10 Notre Dame hires hoop coach New Southern Utah AD to stay in Nebraska SOUTH BEND Ind (AP) — Notre Dame didn’t waste any KEARNEY Neb (AP) — TVro days after accepting the job of athletic director at Southern Utah Mike Sumpter changed his mind Thursday and announced he is staying at the University of Nebraska at Kearney Sumpter said an outpouring of support by die university “nude me really proud to be part of this community” and led to him to reverse his decision on the Southern Utah position “This is home” he said “Job opportunities come and go and they're very flatterAt the end of Jie day we made the ing decision with our hearts” Hours later Southern Utah announced the appointment of Thomas E Douple as time in offering Mike Brey the job as its basketball coach and Brey didn’t hesitate in accepting Brey wbo is 2 in five years at Delaware will be introduced as Notre Dame’s new coach at a 6 pm EDT news conference “It was offered to him because he was deemed to be the best fit for Notre Dame” said Fighting Irish spokesman John Heisler Brey replaces Matt Doherty who left liiesday to take over at North Carolina ' Brey met with a committee from Notre Dame on 'Thursday night in Washington He returned home to Newaric Del athletic director: Douple has spent the past year as chairman or die Louisiana State Games Before that he was athletic director at Southeastern Louisiana University from 1990-9- 9 UNK Chancellor Gladys Styles Johnston 99-3- called Sumpter’s decision an “amazing turnabout” “It has been difficult for Mike and his family” Johnston said “We are all very pleased and relieved that be has decided to stay” Sumpter’s appointment at the Division I School in Cedar City Utah was td have taken effective Aug 1 three-memb- ‘ Sumpter joined UNK a Division II school u athletics director in July 1998 ‘ r i i I er where be got a call after midnight and accepted immediately The Wilmington (Del) News Journal reported on its Web site job” Heisler said “Mike Brey do” night in Washington with the was the only person offered the job" Heisler said that Brey and one “This is one you’ve got to other candidate met Thursday Brey told the newspaper which reported he received a Delaware after guiding the Blue Hens to their third consecutive Rev Edward A Malloy Notre Dame’s president Patrick F McCartan chairman of the board of trusteesand Nathan Hatch the university’s provost Heisler would not identify the other can- - season and the didate though Kent was in contract Brey had just signed a seven-ye-ar extension contract 20-victo- ry five-ye- ar at school's first NIT bid Brey 41 is 2 in five years at Delaware Heisler denied reports that Notre Dame had first offered Oregon coach Ernie Kent die position “No one else was offered the 99-3- - r- - Washington to meet with Notre Dame officials The Register-Guar- d Eugene Ore reported that Kail conwas offered a seven-yetract worth about $700000 but turned it down ct ar |