| Show Section 0)© TVO Monday September 16 2002 Pagel The Herald Journal Ags victorious Insido but not elated By Shawn Harrison sports editor It wasn’t exactly the finish the Aggies wanted Saturday night at Romney Stadium but they will take die W ' Utah State (1-jumped on visiting Idaho State in the first 18 minutes of their football game building a 28--0 lead It looked like a blowout of major proportions But it ended up 2) Twins can finally celebrate B2 after clinching title Sports briefs 38-3- Sorenstam wins third straight LPGA event PORTLAND Ore (AP) — Annika Sorenstam won her eighth LPGAlbur title of die year Sunday dosing with a 68 to hold off Kate Golden by a stroke in the Safeway Qassic The Swedish star has 10 worldwide victories this year winning three straight events entering the Solheim ‘ Cup matches in Minnesota She won the Compaq Open in Sweden on Aug 18 and returned to the tour last wedc to win the Williams Championship She made an 11 -- foot birdie putt lead on the 18th to take a two-stroova Golden who went on to make birdie putt a Sorenstam earned $150000 for her 39di LPGA Tour victory to break her tour record with own single-seas$211991 in 17 events She set the record last year with $2105868 in 26 events when she also won eight times and became the first female player to shoot a 59 in oflfcial competition Sorenstam who had a course- record 62 on Saturday to take a three-strolead into the final round finished with a 199 total at die Columbia Edgewater Country Club ke 10-fo- ot on er ke er Vernon calls it career CALGARY Albeita (AP) Mike Vernon who backstopped die Calgary Flames and Detroit Red Wings to Stanley Cup titles retired NHL career Friday after a ar The goalie went with Calgary Detroit Sari Jose and Florida He also had 27 career shutouts with a 298 goals-again- st average Vernon a Calgary native led the Flames to die 1989 Stanley Cup and won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP in 1997 when the Red Wings won the championship 19-ye- 385-273-- 92 “I have a lot of great memories that I can look back on” Vernon said in a statement ‘‘Winning the Stanley Cup with Calgary and then again with Detroit were obviously career highlights” Sunday's scores NFL Chicago 14 Atlanta 13 Miami 21 Indianapolis 13 Dallas 21 Tennessee 13 Carolina 31 Detroit 7 New England 44 NY Jets 7 New Orleans 35 Green Bay 20 Cleveland 20 Cincinnati 7 Jacksonville 23 Kansas City 16 Tampa Bay 25 Baltimore 0 Arizona 24 Seattle 13 NY Giants 26 St Louis 21 San Diego 24 Houston 3 Buffalo 45 Minnesota 39 OT Denver 24 San Francisco 14 Oakland 30 Pittsburgh 17 AL Baltimore 8 Boston 3 Tampa Bay 7 Toronto 4 Minnesota 5 Cleveland 0 NY Yankees 8 Chi White Sox 4 (6) Kansas City 9 Detroit 3 Seattle 6 Oakland 3 Anaheim 13 Texas 4 " NL Atlanta 6 Florida 4 Chicago Cubs 6 Gndnnati 0 Montreal 10 NY Meta 1 Philadelphia 1 Pittsburgh 0 (10) Houston 8 St Louis 0 Colorado 5 Los Angeles 4 Arizona 6 Milwaukee 5 (13) San Diego 4 San Francisco 1 On tolovisioh MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 5 pm TBS tlanta at Florida NFL 7 pm ABC — Philadelphia being a nailbiter Tim Aggies held on for a much 3 more thrilling than wanted win For the average football fan the two teams made it plenty entertaining with long touchdown passes and runs one defensive score and a combined five interceptions For the USU coaching staff and players it wasn’t that fun to watch a big lead shrink to a measly five points “It’s amazing how the little things in ' Bills edge Vikings in ' -- - V M C KXg-r v -- : y i V rN k LucaraHeraJd Journal A host of Idaho State defensive backs chase after Aggie wide receiver Kevin Curtis as he makes his way to the end zone on the first play of Saturday's game Eti up some big plays including one where I didn't get deep enough” Glasper did pick off a pass setting up one of USU’s first quarter scores The Aggies intercepted four Bengal passes on the night The four USU da in the 1996 season finale There were some penalties and' missed penalties that kept die Aggies from putting the game away ATD was called back in the fourth quarter on an illegal motion penalty Quarterback interceptions were the most since picking off six passes against Neva See ELATED on B2 to take h V I r By The Associated Press Denver appears ready to reclaim its status as one of the NFL’s elite teams led by a punishing defense that has contained two supposed Super Bowl contenders Mike Anderson rushed for 95 yards and caught a touchdown pass and Brian Griese threw two TD passes as the Broncos beat the punchless 49ers 4 Sunday at San Francisco Olandis Gary rushed for 61 yards and a TD as Denver (2-followed up a surprising 6 win over St Louis in its opener with a dominant defensive performance against San Francisco r T J- : - 74 f i f ' - ’) - ' a b “V A By Julia Ann staff writer : - I 1 Vyr ' ' v (3-1-- s jv W A 24-1- - ' ' : V ‘ S' ed a 0) ‘ 23-1- (1-- w six 1) i''1 mg TheAggies soundly defeated the Thunderbirds 6-- 1 Friday at Bell Field The following day Portland Stale 2) came in and took care of SUUdispoairig of them 7-- 0 ' So J today occr USU will play possibly its most evenly-matchgame thus fa as it takes on Portland State 1 pm at Bell Field “I think Portland State will be moe of a challenge coming up” said Utah State coach Jen Kennedy Croft following the win ova SUU “It’s going to be a different game definitely a higher intensity level” Because of the tournament format the Aggies received an extra day of rest allowing an additional practice Aggie Heather Arnell said practicing on Sunday allows the team to keep focusing on their game She said she thinks a key to a USUvictory though will be competing mentally and physically fa 90 minutes The Aggies will look to Arnell who scored two goals against SUU and teammate Brigid Turner who put three goals in the net Friday to lead the team against the Vikings In 1999 Turner assumed the role recording the lot trick PSU Arnell scored three goals' last season against UC Riva-sid-e (2-1-- 1) r i Groashana Southern Utah was die pawn in the Utah State hosted round-robi- n tournament h s i' V1' p4 W&hhik 7 t tj on PSU -- "i Denver held the 49ers to 261 yards — 67 on a meaningless final drive Fans booed their team heartily in foe second half and thousands headed for the exits early “That’s me of the most complete games we’ve played' in a while” linebacker Ian Gold said "They got frustrated because we were stopping everything they did” The Broncos who have missed the playoffs in two of the past three seasons handed the 49ers just their second loss in the last 10 games “We just stunk it up all across die board” said Terrell Owens who caught five passes but had just one in the first three quarters “Everybody messed up” Griese who was almost benched for Steve Beueriein last week was unimaginative but efficient ini completing 14 of 19 passes for 119 yards He threw a scoring pass to Anderson in 'MGS ’L Vi ""i' l vf I ' " fa AP photo Denver Broncos running back Mike Anderson runs past San Francisco 49ers linebacker Jamie Winbom in the third quarter Sunday Anderson rushed lor 95 yards and a touchdown the third as Denver ova- came a slow start on offense with 24 straight points ova the final three quartos San Francisco quarterback for Jeff Garcia was 205 yank but he fumbled once and threw a key inta-ceptio- n in the fourth Bills 45 Vikings 39 OT Overtime was much kinder to Drew Bledsoe and the Buffalo Bills this week as Peerless Price took a pass from Bledsoe and streaked untouched for a rd touchdown to beat Minnesota Bledsoe had not only the bat passing day of his career but the best of any Bills quarterback eva He was 35 of 49 fa 463 yards surpassing the franchise 27-of-- 36 48-ya- mark of 419 set by Joe Ferguson in 1983 time games for just the second time in their history Giants 26 Rams 21 Mike Hollis tied it as time expired in regulation with a Kerry Collins couldn’t field miss and the Rams fell to 2 for the first time since goal that tut the crossbar and bounced ova That answered 1998 the yea before they Moe Williams’ TD began their sudden rise to the top of the NFC run that put tire Vikings up with 26 seconds left 6 Collins completed 14 of — the fourth lead change of his first 15 passes as the the fourth quarter built a Giants second-quartBledsoe had three TD lead and held on to beat die defending passes two of them to Price who had 13 catches for 185 conference champions St Louis’ offense has proyards Rookie Josh Reed had 1 10 catches 37 points in two games duced for eight yards Jason Sehom retumedan The Bills who lost 1 to tiie New York Jets last interception 31 yards for a week when Chad Morton touchdown for his fourth carerc returned the opening kickoff defensive TD and fifth overall in OT fa a touchdown over See NFL on B2 played carea-lon-g 0-- 54-ya- rd 39-3- (1-- nt 1) er 37-3- a “I don’t know how much they’ve changed since then" Tumasaidiof Monday’s oppo- nent “I think ourteam don betta not knowing much about the team we’re playing against and just focusing on our game” See UTAH ST on B2 back-to-ba- ck Mountain Crest just ran out of time By Wade Dennlston staff writer If only high school football1 games were scheduled instead of 48 fa 49 minutes rd Heck 48:30 would have beat enough time fa the Mountain Crest Mustangs on Friday die 13th against the Skyline Eagles Mountain Crest’s upset bid fell short when Cody Smith's game-tyin-g field goal sailed wide right as time expired allowing Skyline to eek out 7 a victory in Salt Lake City and snap the Slangs’ win streak' The Mustangs who had trailed 20-- 3 f hard-foug- ht late in tiie third quarta got the ball back on their own line with 1:50 20-1- togointhe epic contest Following two incompletions anda sack quarterback Ryan Zimmerman tilings looked hairyfor Mountain Orest situation as it faced a fourth-and-1- 4 But Zimmerman showed all the poise in the wald as he avoided several would-b- e tacklers before hitting Carl Blad a 28-ya-rd gain and a a fa first down Three more completions in a'row and suddenly the Mustangs were inside the Eagles’ 30 with less than a minute remaining Zimmerman’s keeper for anotha first down would prove to be the final yards Mountain Crest’s offense would gain as he moved the ball to the 20 "With time not on the Mustangs’ side Zimmerman had to kill the dock by spiking the ball on one play much-neede- d ( a then threw an incomplete pass the 5 on anotha before giving way to Smith’s field-gotry You had die sense if Mountain Crest was given anotha minute at al SZ 4 w :l --- v X "' overtime X a ’ ( Utah St 10-ga- at Washington football end up being so huge” Aggie head coach Mick Dennehy said “We just didn’t close it like we wantfootball Aggie ed too” “In some ways this is a bull crap win” said USU defensive tackle Jorge Tapia who scooped up a fumble in the first quarter and ran 15 yards for a touchdown "It shouldn’t have been close We let down in the second and third quarter” Tapia has a point After building a 21-- 0 lead at the end of the first quarto: Idaho State outscored USU 27-1- 4 in the second and third quartos The final period wasn't real pretty either for the hosts but they did kick a field goal and made two defensive stands “We took a few plays off and let them get back in the game” Aggie safety Jamar Glasper said “We gave r I most on the dock it would have found the end zone How could the Mustangs have not? ' They were moving the ball at will on in the second half Skyline especially Mountain Crest’s offense (fid struggle mightily in the first 24 minutes line getting inside the Eagles’ three times into the red Zone twice yd settling for a Smith field goal The Mustangs had just 83 yards of total offense in the first half while Skyline had 187 The scoreboard read: Eagles 14 Mustangs 3 at inta-missibut it probably should have 30-ya- rd on been just a four-poi- nt lead See TIME on B4 S3525S2S 3 i U'ii'fi-rM- ii T" ‘ |
