Show Section ' Av'vVvi'r ' '"n 11' - ' ' ' ' ’ 'f 1' - ' - ' '' ' - t - ‘V k ' 2m ir$ Inside '?: r V 2004 m4?: rfs'S v ( - V HERALD JOURNAL ALL-VALL- june t ' - ' — ———-“-""--7— r“ : t f V Tuesday 1 ' je- 2004: “d'Jv 7:VyV's J ' '‘I' -- t o v'- ' 'v y V!5'b v i s Page! - The Herald Journal SOCCER TEAM EY 'V JzT " ' - bp He’s talented relentless comes through in the clutch and was the best player on the best team ' J vVAVt jn the 4A classification One more thing: he was an easy choice for The Herald Journal Soccer Player of the Year Sky View’s Eric Anderson wowed players coaches and spectators with his skill His high quantity of goals — 16 by far the most in Cache Valley — are surpassed by their qualityr-'- : V Take the three postseason goals:' '' Bountiful junior’s quarterfinal : Neil Essig sends a free-k- ick in front of the box Anderson makes a run of jibout IS yards leaps in the air and 0 places the ball preciselywheretiie goalkeeper Hess Sharp shined for SVU baseball - NikHess (Mountain Crest) and Nate Sharp (SkyView) two former prep baseball standouts from Cache Valley: recently helped lead Southern Virginia University's baseball team to a third- place place finish at die USCAA j: National Baseball Tournament held in 5 ?v' St Petersburg Fla' May3-- 7 j- is? ::®This was the most successful : -- 6-y- - f4Sson ever for the Knights - By David Cordero sports writer Sports briefs v : Anderson helped lead Slty Vievy to a state championship Coach rewarded for hanging in there B2 : T -- Sea--ij i$n’ who won searon'’ a catcher was just few times last Sharp 'recognized' :M the all:tournament team '! fcn SVU began the tournament with $' ’& Vv: two straight victories 1 over pthird-seede-d Apprentice College and d wtJh&Q over Keystone ? 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Crests Daye Aardsma shut out the Stingers in the ninth inning for his third save y Cody Ransom led Fresno with “ two hits and three runs batted in had three hits and and Craig Kuzinic ' " Cjione'RBI' - - ong summer n ew P sen i:n plA ' AllWalot of haM work son said a- !i think my parents forgot they had f son during the NBA playoffs 'ienously-Anit- summer’: ir- - Crest KnoWl0S MFKendon Sky Vi6W regular ' w’n's pcrfonnaiK-- c waned He recognized it so Mountain Crest MF Adam Miller " did Geddes but Anderson wasn't sure how tdv:A'jp iv Rgy Velazquez Logan DavidsoWMouniteiin Crests Matt JF£ :r-- ' Friday's scores : S1tA'CrleSiUmer' $ 1 a dCT-- ApnusuggBianasns : f ' See SOCCER on B2 : i ' ' 2 S UT Drake Fonua e : Sky View Los Angeles 96 Minnesota 90 Stanley Cup Finals 0 O Tampa Bay 1 Calgary : K Boston 4 ’' ' Detroit 8 Kansas City 4 : Tampa Bay 7 Minnesota 3 Seattle 6 Toronto 2 : Baltimore-1- ' LOS ANGELES (AP)— This was' why Karl Malone aiid Gary Payton signed on: The chance to - Atlanta 8 Montreal 2 NY Mets 5 Philadelphia 3 Chicago Cubs 3 Houston 1 Cincinnati 9 Florida 7 ' Los Angeles 3 Milwaukee 2 St Louis 8 Pittsburgh 3 San Francisco 8 Arizona 4 Colorado 7 San Diego 1 h" 1 TO 0 Salt Lake 9 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 5:30 pm TBS — Montreal at Atlanta 8 pm WGN — Chicago White Sox at Oakland NBA pm ESPN — Playoffs Eastern Confer- ence final Game 6 Indiana at Detroit TENNIS 6 am ESPN2 — French Open women's quarterfinals at Paris (same-da- y tape) 10 am ESPN — French Open quarterfinals at Paris (same-da- y tape) -- HESS 1 Bryant-score- 96-9- On television 6 CALGARY Alberta (AP)—: Nikolai Khabibulin has never had a bigger save — he may have saved the Tampa Bay Lightning's run to the Stanley Cup ' : Khabibulin was again at his best when the Lightning are in trouble staying undefeated following a loss in carrying Tampa Bay to a series-tyin- g play for a championship with the two guys who know all about it Shaquille O'Neal had 25 points and rebounds and Kobe 20 points in a 0 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 6 of the Western Conference finals Monday night '‘This is (he reason I came over here” said Malone who will play for his first title 1 PCL Fresno Khabibulin’s shutout ties series at 2 ' in his 19th season “I love being a part of this team We’ve had a lot of struggles but that's part of the reason you play You've got to have a struggle to get to where you want to go” Kareem Rush came from nowhere to hit six ? winters for the Lakers who rallied in the fourth quarter for a win befitting their tumultuous season They overcame Kevin Garnett their constant bickering with the referees and O'Neal's horrific free thfow shooting to w in the series Their fourth trip to the championship round in five seasons w ill begin Sunday Detroit leading the Eastern Conference finals 2 will visit Los best-of-sev- en 3-- -0 victory over the Calgary Flames in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup - AP photo Kobe Bryant drives to the basket during the fourth quarter Monday Angeles if the Pistons finish off the Indiana Pdcen on Tuesday night “It's tough to do” Bryant said “Four trips to the finals — it's remarkable We're scry fortunate' The Lakers improved to 0 at Staples Center in the postseason but Garnett and the Timberwolves spent most of the game on the verge of an improbable upset 9-- See LAKERS on B4 final Monday night ' Brad Richards scored during a two- -' man advantage irf the opening three minutes his fourth goal following a Lightning loss Khabibulin made the goal stand up by tying Calgary s Miikka Kiprusoff with his fifth playoff shutout this spring He had 29 saves Richards' 10th goal of the postseason was his seventh game-- inner breaking the record he previously shared w ith Joe Sakic ( 1996) and Joe Nieuwendyk (1999) The Lightoverall and 8-- 0 in ning are 30-0-- 2 the playoffs when Richard scores The Lightning would have been in desperate straits- if they had gone game-winni- w i iiMw as only the Toronto Maple : Leafs in 1942 overcame that disad-- 1 It in the final didn't help they vantage were without two key regulars! for: ward Ruslan Fedotcnko and defensemen Pavel Kubina who were injured dow n : in ' 3- -j Calgary's 0 ietdry Saturday “There w as a lot of desperation' ' especially w ith a ample of key players out” defenseman Jassen Cuilimore said “During our video session today it was 'Let's get the what-if- s out of our vocabulary and make sure that we got it done'" ' Khabibulin and the are 3-- - Lightning going 6- 0 after a loss w hilc out scoring their opponents 1 5 They also kept alternating wins and losses something they've done since splitting the first tw o games of the Eastern Conference final against Philadelphia “When you lose a game you get desperate'' the Lightning's Martin St Louis said "We take every game like it's a must-wiii- " Even without the injured Fedotcnko who has 10 playoff goals and Kubina who plays an average of 22 minutes Tampa Bay at their best when cornered 8-- See STRIKE on B4 : I |