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Show DAILY HERALD D2 (S V Z2r U TUESDAY Giris Soccer T0DAY Pioneer League Orem at Missoula S pm 960 AM Orem Tim Dahjberg at Mtn. View 4 p.m. Baseball . for sure, Henin said. My level is good. Yan, ranked 169th from China, was the first qualifier to reach the semifinals at' the tournament in 11 years. It was a very, very nice week," the Owtz get 15 hits to down Helena HELENA. Mont. The Orem Owtz got off to a hot start, scoring nine runs in the first three innings, and went on to beat Helena 102 Saturday night in Pioneer League action. The Owb opened the top of the first with five straight hits. Then, after the next Orem batter was hit by a pitch, Orem got another single, en route to a five-ru- n said. Henin wffl face No. 2 seed Jelena Jankovk of Serd Tatiana Golovin of bia, who defeated France, 5-- 93, 6--2 in the late semifinaL Henin has 12th-seede- won aU six meetings against Jankovic, the most cent in the French Open semifinals. outburst. Hector EstreBa (singleX Gordie Grookowi-(single) and Jeremy Moore (double) drove in one run apiece, and Chrirtopher Garda's single plated two more. In the third , Gronkowski led off with a solo homer, and Garda added a tworun shot. Rian Hairy's RBI single rounded out a four-ruinning for the Owlz. . re- GAMES U SOCCER Blanco carries Firepast RSL . COMING; Manco scored SALT LAKE CITY his first Major League Soccer goal in the 43rd minute, and the Chicago Fire beat Real Salt Lake n Sports FfcEP 2-- 0 . SALT LAKE OTY The SpringviOe High girls Tournavolleyball team went 9--0 at the East-West ment on Friday and Saturday at West High School emerging as the tournament champion. QXside hitters Unduy Barter and Samantha Swmion led die Red Devils. Host West finished second at Ben Lomond was third at in the lOteam tournament. 7-- :: OVER In . MASON, Ohio Royer Fedarer moved within a victory of his 50th career title by beating Ueyton Hewitt 63, 6-- (7), (1) in the semifinals of the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters on Saturday. Federer, who won this event in 2005, wiU face James Hake today. Blake beat Nikolay Davyden2 ko 6-in the late semifinal match. Federer is 60 against Blake. A win would make him the fiftivyoungest player to win 50 titles, at 26 years, 11 days. Bjorn Borg won his 50th at 23 years, 7 months. Blake, who has never lost to Davydenko in six matches, has improved with each match this week, after having to withdraw from the event in Mon- treal last week with a pulled stomach muscle. He capped the seventh game of the second set with a 132 mph ace, and broke Davydenko in the next game with a cross-cour- t smash for match point. The championship match today will pair two players who ran into problems last week. Blake had to match with Hewitt; withdraw from his second-rounFederer thought he had played well all week and was just unlucky on Sunday. "I missed 50 list week by three or four points, Federer said of his loss in the Rogers Cup finals to Novak Djokovk. Maybe IH get a little bit closer this week, It was the second straight match in which the player in the world was pressed to three 6--2 sets. He beat Nicolas Aknagro 6-on Friday. It was quite a fight. It was a good match, I thought, Federer said of his 20th match with Hewitt. I think it was the best match Ive played this week." ' L d . I Heflin readies final at Rogers Cup: At Toronto, Jus--. tine Hetiin is feeling good about herself again. The player in the world ended the sur- ' prising run of qualifier Ym Zl 6-- 6--0 in the Rogers Cup semifinals Saturday. ' Henin, in her first appearance since being elimi--. nated in the semifinals at Wimbledon, is using the ' Rogers Cup as a final tuneup for the U.S. Open and perhaps some redemption for her pointing performance at the All England Club. . "The confidence is bade after Wimbledon, thats ; top-rank- . top-rank- . : . . two-a-da- . 3-- 6, 3, FQXBOROUGH, Mass. Vinny Testaverde re-signed with the New England Patriots on Saturday for his 21st NFL season. The move was expected once the Patriots com- y pleted practice sessions last week. The quarterback signed with New England last Nov. 14 and played in three regular-seaso- n games, including the finale in which he extended his streak to 20 seasons with at least one touchdown pass. The Patriots also released safety ArtraR Hawkins, cornerback Gemara Williams and linebacker Kyle Biisingcr. Testaverde, the top overall pick in the 1987 draft by Tampa Bay after winning the Heisman Trophy at Miami, also has piayed for Cleveland, Baltimore, the New York Jets and Dallas. He provides an experienced backup to Tom Brady. The Patriots other quarterback, Matt Cassd, has thrown just 32 passes in two seasons with the team after playing sparingly as a backup at Southern California. Brady, Cassei and Matt Gutierrez, rookie free exhibition loss, agent, played in New England's to the Tennessee Titans onFriday night. . . . 'Ki.viv. so easy. ' ; Thaes a new work order in international sports, as any- - V : ' . U.S. Olympic officials boldly 27-2- 4 " set a goal of winning 100 medals and ended up leading all countries with 103. No one is making any such predic-tions for Beijing. Quite the opposite, in fact, Expectations are being low- - .. ered to the point where you. get the idea team officims v would be happy if the athletes just make it to Beijing an time and find their rooms in the Olympic village. Not really, of course. But just a few weeks qgoUSOC chairman Peter Uerroth and chief executive Jim Scherr used the year-awav, anniversary of the start of the games to talk mostly . about how they hope the r competition is drug free so ,; --all that athletes are cotnpet- r ing on a level playing field. : As for the U.S. chances? Its no secret were under- dogs," Scherr said. "They're Mowing us out of the water in the gold medal race." ", Schor was a little more optimistic in a telephone interview, talking about . continued strength in swim- ming, gymnastics and track and field, while at the same . time acknowledging the U.S. team wiU have serious holes - -in a lot of minor sports. But -its clear U.S. officials un-- - ' derstand that Olympic domi-,-,; nance is a thing of file past. , And dominant it haa been. The has won the medal count in the last three Sum-me- r Olympics, and since 1896- it has won 2,194 medals, more than double the old Soviet 'X Union, which is second overall with 1,010 medals. , -- . . nli) t I. y W - t a jj - , " , . one who watched the not-so- dreamy UJS. basketball teams'' stumble in recent years can.' attest to. Nowhere will it be ' more on display than in smog- -' gy Beijing, where the home team is the early favorite in.. medal count and even sec-ond place isnt assured for tlx visiting Americans.- ; Three years ago in Athens, r. 'V. basketball between them, gymnasts were in California doing what gymnasts do and boxers were punching each other in Houston for the right to repre-- ; sent the red, white and blue. ; : A year from now, some V;, 575 of Americas best will be in Beijing trying to do what American athletes usually .; do in the Summer Olympics dominate the medid countl Only this time it wont be : : Testaverde returns for 21st season 6-- . V'-- ' NFL Fri-da- y, ' . 7-- 6 7 L , . 6) Federer outlasts Hewitt Blake wins Bejjing, hundreds of of cars were off the streets a sure sign the Olympics are nearing. Athletes do have to breathe, after aU, and the Chinese were experimenting with ways to cut the thick smog tint chokes the city. In the US., prqnrations abo were under way. Kobe and LeBron were in Vegas trying to figure out how to split one f,. 2-- TENNIS U.S.:-DOMINAN- . Saturday night. .... Matt Pickens made four saves to earn his third straight shutout, and seventh of the season. Pickens also didn't allow a goal in Chicago's previous meeta scoreless tie in May. ing with RSL Blanco, who joined the Fire (63-5- ) last month from Mexico's dub America, took a pass from Ivan Guerrero just outside the penalty box and the ball into the upper right corner of the goaL j Paulo Wandiope headed in a corner kick from The Fire Blanco in the 78th minute to make it are unbeaten in three' games and in five of seven: ' Real Salt Lake failed In trying to win con- secutive games for the first time this season, Pickens got help from defender Bakary Soumara, who blocked two consecutive shots by RSL'S Fabian. ' Espbidola in the 76th minute while Pickens was away from the goal Springville wins opening tournament - H 2007 Sunday, August U.S. team struggles with ! l3 i !S J -- yj ' ff ii 1 i ! Andrew Bagnato xJ . . irk.. . 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Big-ga- j WIESS it's a good ; thing Tram USA wasn't playing Brazil or Argenfoa on Sahnxlay, The Americans had trouble shooting against zone defenses in splitting a scrimmage with the UJS. select team, comprised of younger NBA players. The senior team won tne first and second quarters and lost the third and fourth, the last in overtime, We're not shooting real well, coming Sunday, September 16th : IATCD las Vegas . : i' THC ASSOC . . coach Mike Krzyzewski said. I ... Indeed, the Americans in.i I vf e consistent shooting, in last a problem year's world i championships, cropped up f4 again. Kobe Bryant and Anthony each missed in the final 10 seconds of overtime. Though it was only a scrimmage in a high school gym, the shooting woes brought back : memories of last summers w world championships in Japan. s The U.S. shot 32 percent from beyond the arc in losing to Greece in the semifinals a defeat that forced than to jday in the FIBA Americas qualify- ing tournament this summer. ' But Krzyzewski warned long-rang- ' . Ccm-me- lo . against reading too much into Team USA's struggles four days before it opens the FIBA Americas. The UJS. needs to reach the finals to qualify for the 2008 Olympics. I dont think you make anything of any one thing," ' Krzyzewski sd. "Its all a . process. " TThe main thing is, we're' playing really good defense. We have really good players. And were going to use those first few games in the tournament to develop a rotation." 'On Saturday, the senior . team started Bryant, Anthony, LeBron James, Amare Stou-- . demire and Jason Kidd. But Krzyzewski said that wouldn't necessarily be his starting five in the upcoming tournament. "I think the three guys you conk) say would start every game would be Garmelo, Kobe and LeBron," Krzyzewski said. "And then we would lode at other people. The main thing is just so they can develop a feel of playing with one another." 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