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THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2004
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NEW ORLEANS (AP)
Connecticut's championship
sweep is complete
Led by the incomparable Diana
Taurast. the UConn women deliv
ered an encore to the title won by
the men's team, beating
Tennessee 70-61 for their third
straight championship.
The victory by the women
their third straight and fourth in
five years came after UConn
beat Georgia Tech in the men's
championship game Monday
night, making Connecticut the
first Division I school to sweep
both titles.
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TORONTO (AP) Detroit
Tigers designated hitter Dmitri
Young is expected to miss up to
six weeks after breaking his nght
leg in a 7-3 win over the Toronto
Blue Jays.
Young broke a bone in his
lower leg when he dropped to the
field in a failed effort to avoid a
tag by second baseman Orlando
Hudson in the first inning. Young
appeared to be in severe pain,
but was able to put weight on the
leg as he was helped off.
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ATLANTA (AP) The New
York Mets picked up the option on
Steve Trachsel s contract, guar
anteeing the nght-hander $5 mil
lion in 2005, and added another
option year for 2006 that could
earn him $7 million.
Trachsel was 16-10 with a 3.78
ERA in 33 starts for the Mets last
year. With incentives, he could
make as much as sl9 million
from 2004-06.
Capitals twin NHL lottery
WASHINGTON (AP) The
Washington Capitals won the
NHL's draft lottery.
The Capitals, coming off their
worst season in 26 years, gained
this year's No. 1 overall pick at
the lottery in New York.
Pittsburgh will chose second,
Chicago third, Columbus fourth
and Phoenix fifth.
The draft is June 26-27 in
Raleigh, N.C.
Canada twins championship
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP)
Canada won its eighth women s
world hockey championship,
beating the United States 2-0.
Hayley Wickenheiser and
Delaney Collins scored for
Canada, which has beaten the
United States in all eight finals
since the tournament began in
1990. Canada has lost only one
game in tournament history,
falling 3-1 to the Americans on
Saturday
Rnl Madrid ousted from ptay
(AP) Real Madrid was oust
ed from the European Champions
Cup with a 3-1 loss to AS Monaco
in the quarterfinals, and Arsenal
was eliminated with a 2-1 loss to
London rival Chelsea.
Monaco overcame a 4-2 deficit
from the first leg of the home-and
home. total goals senes, tying the
aggregate score and advancing
to the semifinals because it
scored more away goals.
Arsenal, which is unbeaten in
30 English Premier League
games and holds a four-point
lead over second-place Chelsea,
allowed two second-half goals for
a 3-2 aggregate loss
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SOUTH BEND. Ind. (AP)
Former BYU coach LaVell
Edwards and Penn State star
Lydell Mitchell were among 14
players and coaches selected to
the College Football Hall of
Fame.
Former coach George Welsh
also will be inducted along with
punter Ray Guy of Southern
Mississippi, defensive back Jack
Tatum of Ohio State, running
back Bob P. Anderson of Army,
nose guard Tony Casillas of
Oklahoma, linebacker Frank
Emanuel of Tennessee, guard
linebacker Wayne Harris of
Arkansas, quarterback Joe Kapp
of California, tight end James
Mandich of Michigan, quarter
back Andre Ware of Houston,
defensive tackle Tracy Rocker of
Auburn and tight end Charles
Young of Southern California.
They will be inducted duhng an
awards dinner in New York on
Dec. 7, and will be officially
enshnned at the Hall in South
Bend during ceremonies in
August 2005.
AMELIA ISLAND. Fla. (AP)
Martina Navratilova lost her first
singles appearance m the United
States in more than 10 years,
failing to Milagroe Sequera 1 -6.6-
3, 6-2 at the Bausch A Lomb
Championships
The 47-year-o*d Navratilova,
impreeerve m the first set, loet the
last four games of the second and
loet her serve twice to fall behind
3-0 In ttie third.
Afterward, she received a
•landtag ovation.
She had not played singles in
Me country sines 1994.
WIMMING
Warner Robins High School
swim team 2004 awards
banquet. Monday
I Most Improved Award girl:
Meagan Hams, boy: Riaz Salehbhai
I “The Extra Lap" Award girl:
Jessica Hall; boy: Ryan Skillen
I "O' Great Demon Award girls:
Bridget Mailley; boy: Travis Hams
I Stale awards: Ben Culpepper,
Thomas Capehart, Skillen,
Salehbhai, Chnstian Falldine and
managers: Travis Harris. Avinash
Parekh, Wilson Wilhoit and Thomas
Dunbar
I Scholar athlete Salehbhai
I Other honor graduates Skillen
and Wilson Wilhoit
I Coaches award girt: Amanda
Minter; boy: Skillen
I MVP Golden Goggle Award girt:
Maya Uddin; boy: Culpepper
I Senior awards Travis Harns,
Thomas Dunbar, Wilson Wilhoit,
Salehbhai. all one year. Parekh,
Falldine. three years; Skillen, four
years
Coach’s comer: This was the high
est scoring and most trophies
earned for any team we have
coached before." said Warner
Robins head swim coach Barb
Hawkins "We are proud of all of the
swimmers.
‘lt is especially rewarding to see so
many swimmers who have been
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| ENNIS
Tuesday, at Warner Robins
Recreation Department
Warner Robins girls 4,
Northslde 1
No. 1 singles WR Ashley bent
defeated NS Callie Burchman 10-3
No. 2 singles WR Sydney Talton
defeated NS Casey Bowden 10-1
No. 3 singles WR Breanna
Slater defeated NS Sierra Wright
10-1
No. 1 doubles WR Melody
Vogel/Mane Hyman defeated NS
Jennifer Roberts/Jessica McMillian
10-8
No. 2 doubles NS April
Hartzog/Brandy Studstill defeated
WR Maya Uddin/Carrie Gentry 10-0
Record: WR 9-1 overall, 6-1 in
Region 2-AAAAA
Warner Robins boys 5,
Northslde 0
No. 1 singles WR Ryan Skillen
defeated NS Jason Pannell 10-1
No. 2 singles WR Avinash
Parekh defeated John Tran 10-1
No. 3 singles Vann Jarrell
defeated NS Peter Tran 10-3
No. 1 doubles WR Riaz
Salehbhai/Andrew Cochran defeat
ed NS Aaron O' Dea/James River
10-3
No. 2 doubles WR Cameron
Slater/Chnstian Falldine defeated
NS Shawn Balnbridge/Josh
Hamburg 11-9
Record: WR 9-1 overall. 6-1 in
Region 2-AAAAA
Monday, at Warner Robins
Recreation Department
Houston County boys 4,
Northslde 1
Singles:
I HC Michael O'Connor defeated
NS Jason Pannell 10-4
I HC Josh Milam defeated NS John
Tran 10-7
I NS Ben Shepherd defeated HC
Peter Tran in tiebreaker 10-11 (5-7)
I HC Jesse Caldwell/Noah Calar
defeated NS Jonathon Holifield 10-1
I HC Rex PardueA/ictor Wongk
defeated NS Shawn
Bainbndge/Josh Hamburg 10-4
Houston County girls 3,
Northslde 2
I NS Callie Burcham defeated HC
Sarah Dunn 10-7
I HC Beth Johnson defeated NS
Casey Bowden 10-3
I HC Anna McCarthy defeated NS
Sierra Wright 10-0
I HC Tiana Reshard/Rebecca Witt
defeated Jessica McMillan/Jennifer
Roberts 10-2
I NS April Hartzog/Brandy Studstill
defeated Candice Hall and Morgan
Cannon 10-6
Christian-like
Warner Robins and Northside
met on the tennis courts at the
Warner Robins Recreation
Department and in Region 2-
AAAAA action Tuesday. The
winner: Warner Robins by a
landslide. The loss for Northside
was its second in two days to a
county rival. For results, see
Comer Room above.
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MONCRIEF
From page IB
crest of honor Atlanta, not
Kotex or any of a variety
of favorites catalogued with
in my two good brain cells,
the stimuli would have done
likewise gone off the
chart.
In this case it was not a
feminine product (although I
probably could’ve found a
use within the realm of
sports ... I’ll bet they’re good
for straightening out the fin
ger holes on your mitt when
the leather gets out of align
ment ...).
It was a talking Mtyor
Leugue Baseball bottle open
er.
Now never mind the fact I
haven’t had a bottled alco
holic beverage with a top on
it since being a young GI
and even then, I seem to
remember something called
a twist-off top my first
thought in a mindless Homer
Simpson kind of way was:
“cool!”
Don’t believe me? Just lis
ten (as 1 touch the metal rim
to another piece of metal):
“Fly ball deep left center.
Grissom on the run. Yes! Yes!
Yes! The Atlanta Braves have
given you a championship
(crowd roar). Listen to this
crowd (several more seconds
of crowd roar the whole
thing was a replay of a taped
radio telecast). There’s a
mob scene on the field. The
Atlanta Braves have brought
the first championship to
Atlanta.”
See. Told you. Stop drool
ing.
The problem is, now what?
Now that I’ve played it for
every family member in my
household, what do I do with
it?
Show it off to my church
brothers?
Sunday School teacher:
“And Jesus said ...”
“... Fly ball deep left center
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Take it to the movies?
Rocky XXVIII: “Yo (gasp,
cough ... wheez) ... Adrian
“... Fly ball deep left center
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Take it with me when I
cover an actual game?
The Demons need one
more out to beat Stockbridge
in this Region 2-AAAAA
game.
“... Fly ball deep left center
n
Hmmm ... maybe ...
EDGES
From page 1B
Dublin up 2-1 and that was
enough.
Perry had tied the game in
its half of the first.
Lead-off hitter Josh Stewart
singled. He moved to second
when Dublin’s Taylor Cox
threw a curve into the dirt.
Stewart advanced to third
on Yarbrough’s grounder.
With two outs, Tyler La whom
smacked a ground-rule double
over the left field fence to
score Stewart.
Still, the Panthers struck
out 14 times. Every inning
but the second and fifth ended
in a Perry strike out.
In what has become a famil
iar liturgy, Gentry said, “You
can’t win with 14 or 15 strike
outs.”
“The key was Taylor Cox,”
said Dublin coach John
Strickland. “Taylor aimed us
today.”
He had a lot of help from
the Perry batting order.
“Our strength the past four
or five games has been our
bunting,” Gentry said. “We
just couldn’t bunt today.”
Worst*, they couldn’t put the
ball in play with two outs, two
strikes and runners in scoring
position.
In the first, Perry had run
ners on first and third, two
outs, a K ends the inning. In
the third, a Panther was on
second and one out, two Ks
followed.
To add to the tale of woe,
Perry’s Lawhom reached first
hut the next batter couldn’t
lay down a bunt and fouled
Char-Broiled
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THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
The point is now I’ve got
this neat little gadget and I
don’t know what to do with
it (no, I will not send it to
you). Granted I received it
free but I’m not above paying
the $8.95 the accompanying
letter said would be charged
once it hit the market.
And in fact, had I seen it on
the store shelf to start with
drool (sold in other
words).
But then what?
I’ll tell you. It's Bitting at
home on my desk, collectihg
dust, while looking around at
all the other sports-related
trinkets bought over the
years (and probably think
ing: “cool” ... while drool
ing).
Why does that cause me
concern?
Because I like millions
of others have become a
patsy. And “no honey, that’s
not an admission to every
thing you’ve been telling me
all along (even though it
sounds like it ... man must
have at least one shred of
dignity don’t you know).”
Big business has condi
tioned us and everybody
else in-between has done its
part to act like this.
Ask yourself why this
Seattle-based company and a
zillion others don’t have its
crack staffs working on a
cure for cancer or solving
world hunger. (And by the
way, did I mention the prod
uct itself was Made in
China?)
Why? Because there arc
fools like me who make them
rich peddling dime store
plastic.
“Another sucker: price
less,” they’re thinking.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m
all about free enterprise. But
having the freedom to make
junk is what makes us great.
Actually making it isn’t.
So, from now on, I’ve
learned my lesson. No cheap
trick will ever turn my head
again (“No honey, that was
n’t a confession, either.”).
From now on, if it has no
practical use, I have no ...
“Hey, whoa. You should see
what I just received in the
mail. A catalog with an ad for
glow in the dark golf balls.”
“According to this, they
light up after you hit them
and then stay lit for five
whole minutes.”
“Now this is something ...”
Dr 001...
the third strike attempt for a
K in the scorebook.
Philip Rice was the courtesy
runner for Lawhom and went
to second on Kyle McCanless’
single.
He was forced at third
because Maurice Jones
grounded into a fielder’s
choice. That put McCanless
on second and Jones at first
with two outs.
Jones stole third but it was
for naught because the Perry
hitter looked at a called third
strike.
Notes: Yarbrough started for
Perry against West Laurens last
Fnday but had to leave after the
first inning because of a sore arm.
He lasted one and a third innings
against Dublin before giving way to
Josh Stewart
Stewart didn't let an Insh hitter
beyond first from the third inning
on
■ Dublin is 9-4. 7-0 in the 4-
AAA Perry is 8-7, 5-3 in the
region.
We went from tied for second to
sole possession of fourth with this
loss,” Gentry said.
SCOREBOARD
DUBLIN 2, PERRY 1
DN: 110 000 0 - 2 5 2
PY: 100 000 0 - 1 72
WP: Taylor Cox. LP: Doug
Yarbrough (4-2). Leading hitters:
(D) Brett Mitchell 1-1; (P) Kyle
McCanless 2-3. Records: (D) 9-4,
7-0 in 4-AAA: (P) 8-7. 5-3.
PERRY 4, WEST LAURENS 3
(Friday)
PY 003 001 0 - 4 7 4
WL 011 000 1 -3 7 4
WP Kyle McCanless (3-1).
Leading hitters: Josh Stewart 2-4,
Doug Yarbrough 2-4 2B
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