Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday October 27 2003t I KhatinicfA I I ttnl MfnDfrlKTinxQie H II II J J r: - ' ' s‘‘ II lanl V ' " " ' II II bF I II " 's RflAinurllfltv iraicfto1VI c cfflimtt W bAI II w I I II III V-H H fcwl H - " SAN DDEGQ (AP) — ITie NFL n “I just can’t see us turning around and going to our stadium and playing moved Monday night’s Chargers- - ' ": Dolphins game from San Diego to Monday night football" he said V Tempe Ariz because of wildfire die l' “There’s too much devastation going ' '' on for that Toomuch V-San Diego area “I think the league did the right Commissioner Paul Thgliabuc said in a statement Sunday night that die thing Tb turn around and run out of the ' city of San tunnel St Qualcomm with all the things Diego advised the league it could not play the game in Qualgoing on it wasn't right for me” comm Stadium Monday night’s game was to be a The sky throughout the county was homecoming for linebacker Junior Seau who played his first 13 seasons choked with smoke and ash from in San Diego before being traded to fires that burned diree the Dolphins this year more than 264000 acres killed 13 “Moving the game is very disap- people and burned nearly 850 homes pointing to everyone” Seau said by Sunday evening The state’s San “but obviously for die safety of fire eastern in largest Diego nine least deaths caused at County everyone it is probably the best decision to make right now Mayor Dick Murphy urged the “Our prayers are with the San NFL to either postpone or move the ' Diego residents and everyone that is game and TagUabue complied affected by it” Chargers general manager AJ - Smidi said he also told die Tickets to the game on the campus die league be played in San of Arizona State University will be game shouldn’t ' free but people will be asked to Diego make a donation to the San Diego :T John Madden was die exception — : he was taking his bus to Arizona 1 Wildfire Relief Rind- : V It would be the first “Monday 7 “People can come through get dieir ticket and then make a dona- Night Football” game this season not and the shown in tion” Cardinals vice president and network would have fewer cameras general counsel Michael Bidwill available said “I would just encourage every“I’m sure die viewer really won’t one in the Phoenix are to come out notice anything different ABC and support this spokesman Mark Mandel said “Many of us visit San Diego Qualcomm Stadium’s parking kit ' Obviously it’s a neighboring comturned into a major evacuation was some dud’s real probgot munity lems We can all raise a little bit of center as readmits from several sur-- rounding neighborhoods woe money and try to help out our friends over in San Diego” ordered out of dieir homes by authorities NFL network telecasts v Chargers ticket holders will get in the San Diego were full refunds for the game the team area for coverage of the fires said Trucks were driving some of the The Dolphins left Miami on Sun-- 1 ABC’s equipment for “Monday day morning aware that the San six telecast the Football’’ hours Diego airport could be closed when Night from San Diego to Tempe Those they arrived But the airport reopened involved with the broadcast were driby the time they reached California They left their equipment on the ving to Burbank where they were chartered plane held their scheduled scheduled to fly to Tempe Analyst : : pre-empt- ed - : 1 'Y-' ! wro 'The high-definiti- on fast-movi- ng i night in a San Diego hotel and were scheduled! to leave early Monday morning for Tempe - - The Associated Press stings as planned Sunday i f By B3 r " game of football is sec- ondary right now and I hate to see it : ' happen to my hometown or any hometown” Seau said The NFL moved a game between the Patriots and 49ers from Candle- stick Park in San Francisco to in Palo Alto Calif on Oct £2 1989 after the Bay Area : earthquake damaged Candlestick In 1992 the league rescheduled ' V the season opener between New England and Miami from Sept 6 to Oct 18 because of damage from1 ' Hurricane Andrew This will be the fourth Monday night game at Sun Devil Stadium The last one was in 1999 when 49ers quarterback Steve Young’s career was ended on a hit by Aeneas Williams of Arizona' - 1 i Joe Sakic hit the crossbar on another Chris Drury was known for scor- shot v his in four seasons clutch ing goals Biron also toppled over like a with Colorado He did it to his for-domino midway through the third mer teammates this time ' after squeezing a shot by Alex Tin- Drury scared with 2:23 left and Martin Biron stopped 32 shots as die - guay between his pads then blocked from close range by Hejduk Buffalo Sabres beat the Avalanche on a power play Sunday 'nighL Dan Hinote hit the right post with Drury skated in alone across the blue line after Jean-PierDumont V five minutes left at the end of the ' power play squeezed a puck along die boards it then beat Phil Sauve to the glove Tf you don’t score on a come seems to find to side firom the right circle for his sec- away always back” Colorado coach Tony Granato ond goal this season said “And that’s what happened “He got another big one scoring the game winner” Colorado’s Milan ' again tonight” Buffalo’s Ales Kotalik opened the Hejduk said “It’s just theway it ' ' two minutes into the second scoring goes:”' A solid player in the regular season period redirecting Rory Fitzpatrick’s shot from the left circle past Sauve with die Avalanche Drury always ' on a power play for his third of the v' seemed to nck up a head of steam season once the playoffs started He had 85 goals in 253 regular-seaso-n games : ? Blackhawlts 1 Mighty Ducks 11 but is still fourth on Colorado’s firm- - - : Joffrey Lupul scored on a power chise list with 26 in 80 playoff play widi 7:10 left in the third period and Martin Gerber made 25 saves to games But even with his 1 1 playoff game help Anaheim tie Chicago Michael Leighton made 31 saves winners the Avalanche traded him to for the Blackhawks who had only Calgary before last season in a five- four shots in the second period player deal that sent defenseman Derek Morris to Colorado Drury against Anaheim Ducks defenseman Todd Simpson had 23 goals and 30 assists with the Flames but was traded Buffalo accidentally knocked the puck into his own net at 7:08 of the second before this season It’s been a perfect fit period Kyle Calder was credited rebuilt Sabres the with the goal has Drury given Canucks 3 Coyotes 3 some needed scoring punch leading ' the team with nine points and a : Krystofer Kolanos scored on a seven-gam- e career-hig- h wraparound with 1:14 left in the points third period lifting Phoenix into a tie streak with Vancouver “We targeted him as a guy that Markus Naslund put the Canucks score big goals in clutch situations” Buffalo coach Lindy Ruff said up 2 on a partial breakaway 8:51 into the third period But Kolanos was a big goal for us in this road trip” took a pass from Branko Radivojevic Dumont added an empty-n- et goal - behind the net and tucked the puck with 58 seconds left his second to past Dan Cloutier before he could cover his right post for the push Buffalo over 500 (5-TVevor Linden and Ed Jovanovski first time this season The Sabres have won three straight and finished also scored and Cloutier stopped 18 six-gashots as the Canucks failed to win a franchise-lon- g road trip ' 4-- 2 for the first time in five home games Shane Doan had a goal and an “This is a heck of a trip for us” said and Radoslav Suchy also assist Drury advan- Colorado had a two-ma- n scored for the Coyotes who picked tage for 1:05 early in the third peri- up a road point for the second od but couldn't get past Biron He straight night after a 4-- 4 tie in Saq made three tough saves in traffic and Jose on Saturday re ' : : K ' : fM r ' v ' 3-- “That : 7 4) v : - i i chip shot from about 30 yards just missed the mark On the other hand the Highlander “D” was Net flat-foot- ed ' Continued from B1 on a Aggies Harris’s swerving from 25 yards out would just miss the right comer of the goal Thanks to solid defense by the two teams the rest of the way die Aggies were unable to pick up any ground against leagueleading Cal Poly “They always say defense wins championships and you could tell that by both of our teams being at the top of the standings” Calms said “I think that just kind of proved it today” However the Aggies (4-1--2 left-foot- er 10-5-- 2) and High- landers (4-2--1 had some shaky moments on 10-5-- 3) defense in the first half UC Riverside was inches away from taking a lead in die 8th minute 0 when Vanessa Chanez headed a Kelly Hurley cor- ner kick into die crossbar The Highlanders would also come close again late in the half when Hurley’s Clegg-to-Sier- ra Smith combination play Smith’s uncontested shot on a cross from Clegg went wide left though In the second half things started to get a little testy as the teams scrapped for every loose ball Both squads picked up a yellow card after the half Tt started to get pretty chippy throughout the game so it was probably one of our most physical games so far” USU senior defender Shay lee Wilson said It also took Utah State a little while to get going offensively but once it did the Aggies would outshoot the Highlanders 11-- 4 from the second half on USU only enjoyed a 7 advantage in that category in the 8-- first stanza “We just had to get a little bit smarter with how we were using our energy” Cairns said Unfortunately for USU most of the shots were not AP photo Colorado Avalanche goalie Philippe Sauve makes on frame against a UCR team playing with five defenders Poggio was also up to the task snaring three dangerous Aggie corner kicks in heavy traffic One of the reasons Utah was able to create more scoring opportunities in the game’s final 65 min- utes was its ability to defend with three backline players as opposed to UCR’s five Cairns said “Our defenders are fantas- tic and they allow us to play die style of play that we do” she said “If we didn’t have three great defenders then we would have less people in the attack And because they are very solid it allows us to take some chances in the attacking third that we normally wouldn't be able to take” Farewell to four Aggie seniors Sunday’s match marked the last home one for USU Wilson Tracy Clegg and Kami Kelley disappointing com- ing away (in my last home game) with the tie but at the same time at least we got the tie” Wilson said Continued from B1 a save on a shot by the Buffalo Sabres the Indians came into the game as one of the top teams in the league in forcing turnovers — not giving up the ball Through seven games ASU had thrown just seven interceptions The Indian defense had given Texas A&M a scare “Arkansas State is a darn good The coach didn’t go into detail but it was easy to see that all es were clicking Six interceptions a fumble recovery a touchdown and a big football team in terms of their goose egg on the scoreboard for personnel mid what they do on the opponent was turned in by defense” Dennehy said “They the defense On offense the 'don’t make a lot of mistakes Aggies had their second best Offensively they are a team just like North Texas in a lot of outing in terms of total offense (366 yards) scored six times regards I think our guys did a and didn’t let two turnovers get great job of being around the them off track Special teams football making plays on did nothing to hurt the team and defense and getting the ball back in fact came up with a blocked i for us ’ six to punt contained the Indians on “Obviously get picks a returns and on the lone kickoff week would be a littleyoo much return for the game Joe Killpack to ask But I tell you it sure was nice” gained 39 yards Tt is just so nice to see the The six interceptions were the look on the kids faces after they most by a USU team since pickput one together like they are ing off six against Louisiana-Lafayetin the 1993 season capable of doing” Dennehy said Did he see this coming? opener Six different Aggies came "I get a sense it is going to up with picks in Terrance Washbut week I’m a dumb pen every ington Mike Rosencnuis CorIrishman and we have a tenden-“Itnelius Lamb Joe Lindsay Reggie Willson and Robert Watts cy to be the eternal optimists” “Coach (David) Kotulski put Dennehy replied “I felt like it was just a matter of time” together a good game plan” While some may think Washington said of the Aggies Arkansas State was a push over defensive coordinator “He put us phas-Sta- te te hap-senio- ’s rs the first period in the right position and made the right calls” Washington started the interception parade early in the game and returned it 26 yards few the Aggies second score of the day The offense scored 21 points in the opening quarter and had built a 35-- 0 lead by halftime Tt was nice today that when we shot ourselves in the foot we said ‘what the heck’ and went on to the next play” said quarterback Travis Cox who passed for 260 yards and three touchdowns “ We need to keep it going” Saturday’s game was tire first shutout win USU has had in since 1995 ' Tt doesn't get any better than a shutout” Lindsay said “- - It’s hard to believe because there have been good defenses That’s a good accomplishment to have We have to feed off this and go into next week” USU will try and cany that momentum into next Saturday when Middle Tennessee (2-- 1 comes calling at Romney Stadium The Blue Raiders were picked to finish third in the Sun Belt and blew out the Aggies last year in Murfreesboro 8 Middle Tennessee is coming off a 8 home loss to North Texas 2-- 6) 45-2- 33-2- t V I in 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