Show B2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday May 2 2004 West Side wallops Cougars on the road at Bonneville 14th Preston straight win picks up second game 13-- 0 “We hit the ball By Jeff Hunter sports writer real well” Bingham understated “We had a lot of good hits And we batted DAYTON — The first three batters Firth sent to the plate during Saturday’s doubleheader reached base on a pair of singles and a double Throw in a West Side error and the Pirates were down 0 before they even recorded an out “I was kind of wondering what was going on” WS coach Stan Bingham well 3-- recalled The Cougars would soon be asking the same question Firth ended up recording just two more basehits the rest of the day while West Side outscored their guests 38-- 0 over just five The first game of the doubleheader was called after innings via the mercy rule with the Pirates up 23-- 3 and thanks to a single run in the bottom of the third West Side took the ' 4) at-ba- ts alf ' left-hande- d” The entire team swung from the other side of the plate its third time through the lineup in the first game and its second time through in the later contest When you scored 22 consider that West Side (17-runs in the fust inning of the opener and 13 in the inaugural inning of the nightcap the Bucs clearly weren't the same team when they went southpaw but they were still a tough out “That was fun today” WS pitcher Tenielle Becks tead declared “We didn't extra-basehi- ts seven-gam- 9-- Brant StavanaHerald Journal! See WALLOPS on B4 West Side's Darcie Olson attempts to avoid being hit by an errant pitch! during the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader against Firth j fiw tiDM IftrasGXDXlD Setback to underestimate ‘em We came out ready to play” Beckstead picked up the win in the second game while Darcie Olson benefited from an incredible amount of run support in Game 1 Olson Tammy UigaeseAndrea Richards and Bo Coburn all contributed in the opener and the Pirates’ cause was also aided by nine Firth emus and a slew of walks and hit batters “They’re improving: they’re getting better” Bingham said of this Cougars “They’re a better ballclub than they were last year” e winAfter having their streak snapped Friday night with a ning 7 loss to West Jefferson the Pirates started a new streak with another monster effort in the first inning of the nightcap Sugar-Sale-m costs Tribe shot at title By Wade Denniston sports writer at According to Hansen one ' of die biggest mental gaffes PRESTON — It seemed as if the Indians and Wood River Wolverines were destined to meet Saturday afternoon in the championship game of the First Annual Tony Hansen Memorial Baseball Tournament The Sugar-SaleDiggers threw a monkey wrench into ' that scenario however' his team had against Sugar- Salem was in die bottom of USU’s losing skid the seventh After Kevin Huntsman led off the frame by tripling to right off the Tribe ‘s Russell Madsen Hansen took out his starter and replaced him with Kelly Rawlings The first batter Rawlings faced was Judd Johnson who hadn’t hit a ball out of die ral- infield in his previous lied from two runs ' against MadPreston sen down in the bottom baseball But on a of the seventh pitch from Rawlings against Preston which was a curve capped by Kelvin ball Johnson knotted Blast’s suicide the game at squeeze bunt that with a two-ru- n scored Dan Adair for homer that hit the the winning run to 1st gams scoreboard in left defeat tire Indians 4 Digger 5 field and advance to the Indians 4 “Why are we championship out of 2nd gams the Pool A bracket throwing a curve Indians 13 ball?” Hansen asked “If you’re going to Cougars 7 “I make a change for coach for very long one simple reason — do this and you’re I wanted heat They were at where have situations to going the part of their batting order it doesn’t always go the way ' you want it” said Preston (the hitters) where I felt couldn’t hit heat They’d coach Mike Hansen whose they seen curve ball changeup all team went on to capture third place in the tourney with a 13-- 7 day" Rawlings then walked victory over the South FreAdair who advanced to secmont Cougars “Yeah the ond on a sacrifice bunt by script didn’t work out but we Jason Hughes then took third only haVe us to blame on a wild pitch setting up “I didn't think we came sui— Blaser's same old ready to play cide squeeze same old That's what we deal with with this group in partic“(The los-- ) was way frusular We have to get out of that trating because I know we can mode because where we play a whole lot better than we did” Preston center fielder lost that game was (our) mental (errors)” Cody Spradlin said “We were didn't do so just dead the whole game 1 know we could have given well in the title game against Wood River good competWood River — the defending ition”' 3A state champions The The Indians (15-6- ) certainly Wolverines made quick work of USU Athletic Media Relations Freshman rightfielder Lauren Guzman went with an RBI in Utah State’s 2 loss to UC Santa Barbara in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader at Goteta Calif The Aggies managed just one hit in Game 2 falling to the Gauchos 0 "V The two losses extended' USU’s losing streak to 15 games as it fell to it( overall and in the Big West Santa Barbara mean-while improved to 6 and 8-- - m at-ba- ts : 2-- 1- -2 : 5-- ! 7--37 3-- 11 27-2- 9-- 4 j : first-inni- ng : m IT “i-- A defending pion Chick-fil-- A cham- “Hopefully I'll do well' Song said “He been around Sin-gley- t ce See AGGIES on B4 action at HP Classic NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The sun finally came out at the HP Classic on Saturday and Danny Ellis made the most of it Ellis played the last nine holes of the first round he began on Thursday going 5 under on them for a 63 He then shot a 66 for a two-da-y total of 129 and a lead in the $51 million tournament iences” She certainly seems to be relishing the idea of growing up in public Song showed up Saturday wearing a shirt that had “I'm one-sh- ot 12221 LPGA and Excited” emblazoned across the front Her hat carried the logo “Birthday Girl” After finishing her second straight round without a bogey she lit the candles on a chocolate cake sent by her 18 agent Before blowing them out See AREE on B5 ’s Bad weather halts the lead quite a few times not just on the LPGA Tour but in amateur golf Hopefully I can fall back on those exper- Song paused and smiled “Anybody know what I’m going to wish for?” If she hangs on for another Brant StevensHerald Journal Preston players celebrate Cody Spradlin's homer in the top of the fourth inning during the third-plaFremont South afternoon game against Saturday Spradlin totaled six RBIs in the 13-- 7 victory n Aree hangs onto lead on birthday STOCKBRIDGE Ga (AP) — Aree Song celebrated her : 18th birthday by hanging on to the lead To earn a place in history all the teenager has to do is hold off Annika Sorenstam and everyone else on a daunting leaderboard at the Chick-fil-Charity Championship 70 Song shot a in the third round Saturday giving herself a chance to become the youngest winner in LPGA Tour history It won't be easy Sorenstam the world's No 1 player is just two strokes behind heading into the final round at Eagle's Landing Country Club south of Atlanta So are Grace Park w ho won the first major of the year and Se Ri Pak the S ' two-ru- See PRESTON on B4 ng ' andedly the Diggers pounding them 12-- 0 in just 4 12 innings of play Game 1 proved to be all Gauchos as they opened up a j quick 0 lead in die first i inning The charge was lead by UCSB pitcher Lindsey Herrin who hit a record-tyin- g three-ru- n home run off Leslie Higley The home run was Herrin’s ninth of the season j ' tying UCSB’s single --season record The Aggies came within two after they plated two runs in the top of the fifth inning capped by a Lauren Guzman RBI single to centerfield that scored Jessica Garnett Santa Barbara added four more runs in the sixth including freshman Kendra seventh home run of the season to give the game 4-- single-h- Sugar-Sale- :f- : ! -7 game-winni- ' reaches 15 games m Sugar-Sale- UCSB AP photo South Korea’s Ares Song walks off ths 18th green d after finishing play in the Chick-fil-Charity Championship Saturday afternoon in Stockbridge Ga third-roun- A Masters champion Phil Mickelson in his first tournament since winning the green jacket at Augusta was three shots back “I just made some putts all day and I drove it well” Ellis said about his first lead in his 61 tournaments on the PGA Tour “And I made a nice chip-i- n on 18 so that was nice” Ellis was one of the lucky players d at the tournament — he actually completed two rounds The first round was delayed by bad weather and then postponed because of darkness A heavy daylong rein weather-plague- Friday prevented play That put 75 golfers including Ellis out at 7 am Saturday to complete the first round Second-roun- d play began at 8:15 am A large system of severe weather approaching the area and the threat of lightning caused play to be suspended at 4:29 pm Saturday A little more than an hour later play was postponed again with 77 players still on the course “After looking at the system and the way it was moving we determined that it would be better not to send the players out again” said rules official Tony Wallin Weather permitting the second round was to be finished early Sunday The cut would then be made with the third round expected to begin about 10:30 am Officials hoped to complete the third round Sunday and play the fourth round Monday “Our regulations tell us our first See CLASSIC ooBS |