Show B2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday August 16 2002 toDG© ©OaD22ZflD© Logan records just four By Wade Dennlston staff writer In soccer it is extremely difficult to win when your offense manages only four shots over the course of a game It's even more difficult to win when the team you're playing peppers your goal nearly 20 times The Logan girls found that out the hard way Thursday afternoon as Ogden dealt the Grizzlies a 0 loss in both teams’ preseason opener at Hillcrest Elementary School “We just gotta get used to playing together” Logan junior Lindsay Nut-ta- ll said “We gotta connect together more than anything as a team” Grizzlies coach Stacee Flygare agreed “They don't know each other at all” Flygare said “There is no chemistry right now We just are lacking chemistry and hopefully we can get it” The Tigers racked up 17 shots — 12 coming in the second half alone Conversely Ogden goalkeeper Valine Giles had a relatively easy afternoon Of the Mitch MascaroHerald Journal in -- 66 season opener she couldn't quite hang onto the ball and it squirted into the net Despite die loss Flygare sakl it was a better way to “Really they only “We gotta get had one earned god" begin the season than the way used to playing the Grizzlies did in 2001 Flygare said “We had two keeper errors” “Last year we started together" then and went Ogden nearly took the good crappy” lead just before halftime Flygare said “So this year Lindsay Nuttall when a shot by Rachel hopefully we’ll start poor Logan Junior Jensen hit the top of die and get better” Last season Logan began goal and bounded back into play The Tigers couldn’t mop up the with a 2-- 0 home victory over Lone Peak loose ball and Logan averted danger to but ended the campaign with a 4-mark including losing seven of its final keep the score deadlocked at zero liie Grizzlies’ best chance to score eight games came late in the game on a shot by Nut-ta- ll The Tigers scored all of their goals in The junior’s shot was hard and on the second half the ground but Giles made the kick save Shayle Stegen got Ogden on the board to preserve the shutout mark Grizzlies first at the Nuttall said lack of passing was a big Dunn made Cassie starting goalkeeper reason why Logan lacked offensive punch the initial stop on a shot from the right ' “We gotta look for more passing” Nutside The ball squirted free however and said “Our pass has gotta connect betthere clean tall the was to garbage Stegen up ' Three minutes later ter to get up there” Kayti Warner made it 2-- 0 when she blasted one from This was the second straight year about 30 yards out that Dunn never had a Ogden and Logan have met in the preseachance on son Last season the Tigers won on their Summer Toupin capped the scoring for home pitch 0 the Tigers with a goal in die 70th minute Dating back to last season the Grizzlies (0-1- ) have now lost four in a row Toupin shot it from the left side with virtubut will look to end that streak Saturday ally no angle Logan reserve keeper Megan afternoon when they host Hurricane at 2 Johnson appeared to make the save but four shots Giles faced she saved two of them 3-- Logan's She Is is Shaw right dribbles past Ogden's Kayti Warner during the first half of Thursday's game at Hillcrest Elementary shots just - 10 46-min- 3-- Local cyclists Olympic figure skating Gold medalist headlines show do well at Russian skater steep race gets some reps at Ice Center By Mason Nladerhauser Special to The Herald Journal TU W ww By David Cordero staff writer NORTH LOGAN — Jackson Hole Wyo isn’t the kind of place you’d figure to see a former Olympic champion figure skater Logan for that matter isn’t either But over the next couple of weeks Rus-sia's Alexei Urmanov gold medalist in the 1994 Olympic Games will spend most of his time in these two towns As the star of Jackson on Ice which showcases figure skating in an exhibition format Urmanov will participate in eight' performances Called “Ice Extravaganza” six of the shows will take place in Jackson Hole one is scheduled for Aug 23 in Ogden and the George S Eccles Ice Center will host an exhibition on the 24th at 7 pm Members of the cast practiced Wednesday afternoon at the Eccles Ice Center Others expected to perform include Erin Reed a 16- United States Figure Skating Associayear-otion gold medalist Michael Shmerkin 10-ti' Israeli National Champion and three-tim- e Lithuanian of the pair Margarita Olympian e Dorfoiazko and Fovilas Vanagas national champion and four-tim- e Olympians But the main attraction is Urmanov who had an accomplished career as an amateur Five times he was Russia's national champion — not an easy task when you consider every Olympic gold medal winner since the 1950s was either a member of the Russian ' team or the formerSpviet Union He also has been a European Champion and Professional World Champion In 1997 he looked poised to repeat as Olympic titlist winning the European crown just a year before the Nagano Games How' ever at (lie ‘97 World Championships UrmonoV suffered a groin injury during his short program that forced him from defend- - - kl out-spri- nt 10-tim- ' ing his Olympic gold ' El LuceroHerald Journal Alexei Urmanov practices at the Eccles Ice Center Wednesday while Akop Manoukian watches! Urmanov won the gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics A short time afterwards Urmoriov turned professional He's been a part of Jackson on Ice for about two years now and has also delved into coaching He tutors several-skaterages 13 to 14 “1 get other invitations (to skate) like this” Urmonov said “1 go back and forth with s ‘ coaching and performing” So now an unusual but challenging goal awaits him Having won an Olympic gold medal himself would he now aim for the accomplishment of coaching a champion? After careful thought and a laugh Urmonov said “I will try to” Reds get Estes from Mets Talks CINCINNATI (AP) — With their play- off chances slipping away the Cincinnati Reds acquired starter Shawn Estes from - the New York Mets on Thursday for two playfcrs to be ' r ' named The Mets also agreed to pay the remain- dcrof Estes’ contract —j $1524592 — because Ileas ownership won't increase the payrpll Estes 29’ agreed to a $62 mildeal in February lion one-yeThe Reds led the NLCeiitral for 51 days earlier this season but were overtaken by Loujs rm June 18 They traded for starters Ryan Dempster and Briar! Moehler in Julyhut they’ve gone a combined 6 'in 11 starts with an 811 ERA Texas’ Kenny Rogers also vetoed a trade in Jply saying he wanted tq finish thq sea--' son with the Rangers The Reds’ pitching staff has been horrible lately giving up six or more runs nine times in the past l0games A 7-- 2 loss to Arizona on Thursday night dropped the Reds a sea-son-hig- h 5 12 games behind St Louis Cincinnati is in a stretch of 17 straight minor leaguers and two ar 3-- - C ' SALT LAKE CITY — Little Cottonwood Canyon redefines steep The nearly 10 percent grade that climbs 3500 feet in 10 miles put a hurt on more than 3S0 racers But none suffered as much as Logan Race Club (LRC) member John Osguthorpe Sprinting to the finish in 46:35 minutes Osguthorpe won the grueling climb by several bike lengths over Salt Lake’s Eric Jones Not far behind were LRC riders Richard Hatch and Sandy Perrins The race began with a blistering pace set by LRC riders Kirk Eck Marc Yap mid Allan Butler “Johnnie was certainly our guy for the day so anything we could do to fry the legs of the other riders would be to hi advantage” Eck' said And fry they did Just one mile into the canyon the once hefty lead pack of some 100 riders was whittled down to much smaller groups strung out along the unrelenting climb As the road got steeper only a handful of riders managed to stay in the front group Perrins threw down two attacks but couldn’t shake Jones who responded with a surge of his own managing to drop everyone but Osguthorpe “For die next five miles the two of us played a game of cat and mouse launching attacks trying to get die other to take the lead and keep the pace high” Osguthorpe said “I realized I either needed to catch Jones off guard or him to the finish” Jones wasn’t about to be caught off guard With 600 meters to the finish Osguthorpe had no choice but to stand and Stomp on his pedals “I never looked back until I crossed the line and saw Jones behind me Osguthrope said Hatch and Perrins held off another challenger to finish third and fourth respectively “In the past I’ve been more successful in this race if I ride at my own pace rather than as a road race” Hatch said “But this strategy backfired slightly due to my poor position in the rear of the pack heading into the canyon” Once thq steepness of the canyon took its toll on riders Hatch made his way toward the front in his final race of the year Hatch is moving to Wisconsin for graduate school games against playpff contenders and can’t afford to fall any farther back “If we can get through August the sched-ul-e should be in our favor the last month”' general manager Jim Bowden said The Mets decided to trade the left-pader and pay the rest of his salary 'after five straight losses dropped them nine games ' behind Los1 Angeles in the wild card standing “We’re not in quite as good a situation as we were a couple bf weeks ago” Mets general manager SteVe Phillips said “It allowed us to consider a broader avenue of n- v i Estes ik to start on Saturday against Houston bumping Jose'Rijo back in(o this bullpen The Reds put reliever Scott Sullivan on the 13-ddiubled list to open a roster spot for Estes' Estes was 4-- 9 with a 455 ERA for the ' Mets who acquired him in a trade with San Francisco last December His main : problem throughout his career has been control-he avenges roughly one walk for every two innings pitched ay See RACE on B4 are going nowhere NEW YORK (AP)— After three day s of bargaining produced disagreements rather than a deal baseball players were all ' ' but certain to set fan Aug 30 strike date when their executive board reconvenes Friday : The board had been to ' set a strike date Mondayready when it iriet in Chicago hit delayed after management officials suggested a few more days of bargaining ' without a looming strike date lead to progress might But owners then moved little on the key economic issue of a ' V ll luxury tax on Steams leaving the union on track to call for baseball's ninth work stoppage since 1972 “It wasn’t good today They made another proposal that was fruity meaningless” said y Atlanta’s Tom Glavine the National League player repre- - MB : sentative: “I dunk we’re basical- ly sitting back waiting for diem to give us a serious offer” After meeting twice Thursday the sides didn’t even bother to schedule a bargaining session for Friday and people aligned with both management and the union described die sides as far apart Negotiators on both sides : refosedcommenL ‘Tve gone from as optimistic as I can be to as pessimistic as J can be” said Braves player rep-resentative Mike Remlingqc “It’s back to just a'flat out ‘ refusal to move” y The "union's board scheduled a telephone conference call for Friday morning and the union was likely to announce the dead-- ' line later in the day "I got a gut feeling they’R because they haven’t gotten anywhere die last three days which to me was somewhat surpris-ingHouston player representative Gregg Zaun said i” - i : high-payro- v I probably set a date tomorrow 'A ! - : Since the first labor contract ' that included free agfcncy in 1976 : owners have attempted to slowi f salaries Reading to five work stoppages in five negotiations Management’s desire for pqroll I restraint remains the key obstacle to a labor contract to replace the ' dole that expired last Nov 7 'Owners originally proposed a 50 percent tax on the portions of payrolls ove $98 milUon then moved up their threshold last weekend to $100 million Since ' Monday’s meeting management has moved up onfy to $102 million according to a player and two player agents who spoke on the condition diey not be identified a |