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♦ TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 2006
Cal State Fullerton shocks Georgia Tech; N.C. blanks Clemson
By The Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. - Pinch-hit
ter Con.' Vanderhook’s go-ahead,
two-run single keyed Cal State
Fullerton’s ninth-inning comeback
as the Titans eliminated Georgia
Tech.
With Georgia Tech leading 5-4
and an out away from sending
Cal State Fullerton home, Blake
Davis singled, Brett Pill doubled
and Danny Dorn was intention
ally walked by closer Matt Wieters
(1-3).
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A Houston County players steals second Friday at Warner Robins.
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own power and was taken
to a hospital for a precau
tionary exam.
MAVERICKS 5. BEARS 2
Chase Brown, who is play
ing for NIKE Baseball this
summer, made an appear
ance with his high school
team Saturday when
Houston County faced the
Mavericks. Coach Andy
Gentry used Brown only
in the batting order in the
leadoff spot. Brown started
the game with a double and
scored on Thompson’s sacri
fice fly.
The Bears didn’t have
many other offensive high
lights, scoring the second
and final run in the top of
the second. On hits bv Philip
Knauer and Tufts plus a
Maverick error, Houston
led 2-0. The inning ended,
though, when the Bears
struck out twice and popped
up with two runners in scor
ing position.
Blake Mullis, an incom
ing freshman to the Houston
County baseball program,
pitched three shutout
innings before running into
trouble in the fourth. The
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the run scored safely on
Macon’s play at the plate,
Butterick wound up on sec
ond base.
Beatty called for another
suicide squeeze. Though the
batter missed the baseball
and the Mavericks had a
rundown between third and
home, Warner Robins had
another run as the visiting
catcher dropped the ball.
Poole drove in the third run
on a groundout. He picked
up a second RBI with a hit in
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Vanderhook, the nephew of
Titans third-base coach Rick
Vanderhook, came up as a pinch
hitter and slapped Wieters’ first
pitch up the middle. Shortstop
Michael Fisher couldn’t handle the.
slow-bouncing ball, which took a
bad bounce and rolled away from
him as two runs scored and sent
the exuberant Titans out of their
dugout in celebration.
Brandon Tripp followed with an
RBI single that fell in front of left
fielder Jeff Kindel, making it 7-5.
Mavericks scored the tying
runs on two walks, two wild
pitches, a hit and an error
on a bunt.
With one out, Macon tried
another bunt that went over
Mullis head. The pitcher
made a grab for the ball and
dropped it, but had time for
a force play at second base.
Mullis issued a third walk
in the inning, but Beitler
at catcher threw that run
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A Jones County player steals second.
the fourth.
Warner Robins scored eight
times in all in the fourth.
Gore singled in two runs,
Willis gave its team its third
run on a groundout, and
Caleb Green singled for an
RBI.
Sutton was perfect on two
more groundball chances at
third base in the top of the
fifth.
• This in from Hawaii. In
his first game away from the
American mainland, Warner
Robins’ Jordan Beatty went
2-for-3 - including a double
in his first at-bat - for Team
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with two outs in the eighth, got
three more outs for the victory.
NORTH CAROLINA 2. CLEMSON 0
Robert Woodard threw a three
hitter to help North Carolina beat
top-seeded Clemson 2-0 in the
College World Series on Sunday
night.
Clemson (53-15), which had
come from behind to win its previ
ous four games, was shut out for
the first time since a 10-0 loss to
ner out trying to advance
when a pitch got away but
bounced back strong off the
backstop.
The Mavericks went down
in order in the fifth, but
scored all three winning runs
in the sixth on three hits,
two walks and an error.
The only big Bear hits the
rest of the game were dou
bles by Payne in the fourth
and Thompson in the fifth.
Classic on Saturday. Beatty
was batting second in the
lineup with fellow Warner
Robins Demon Matt Hvizdzak
hitting third. Georgia lost the
game and was slated to play
Team Hawaii later that day.
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SPORTS
The 'reckless' Phil Mickelson returns
By JIM UTKE
AP Sports Writer
MAMARONECK, NY.
- His million-dollar talent
was undermined one more
time by a temperament that
wasn’t worth a dime.
Remember the Phil
Mickelson who waited for
the critical moment in the
biggest tournaments to try
shot after reckless shot,
seemingly for no other rea
son than to prove it could
be done?
Well, he’s back.
“1 still am in shock I did
that,” Mickelson said after
making a double bogey 6
on the final hole to lose the
U.S. Open on Sunday. “I just
can’t believe that I did that.
I am such an idiot.”
He’ll get no argument on
that.
Over Mickelson’s shoul
der, no more than a wedge
shot away, the shadows
began creeping across the
18th green at Winged Foot.
There, Aussie Geoff Ogilvy
held up the gleaming silver
trophy and watched the last
bit of light glisten off its
surface.
He seemed to be trying to
catch his reflection in it, per
haps to see on which cheek
good fortune had planted
that big, fat, wet kiss.
“I think I was the benefi
ciary of a little bit of char
ity,” Ogilvy said. “I think I
got lucky.”
His luck, beyonc} holing a
chip shot at the 17th for an
improbable par, was playing
against the old Phil, the one
who said “I just can’t believe
I did that” three more times
during an interview that
lasted barely five minutes.
Until Mickelson broke
an 0-for-42 slump in the
majors by waltzing off with
the green jacket at the 2004
Masters, his arrival marked
one of the subplots at each of
golfs big four tournaments.
Mickelson would come into
the interview room after a
practice round and treat the
session like an exercise in
psychoanalysis.
As the drought length
ened, Mickelson vowed to
continue playing aggressive
ly one time, then the next
time to play conservative
ly. The time after that, he
promised to forget the past,
and the time after that to
feed off it. He was tagged the
Greg Norman of his genera
tion, a golfer whose ability
to find new ways of snatch
ing defeat from the jaws of
victory was matched only by
the inventiveness of his lat
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East Carolina in February 2005.
That’s a span of 131 games.
Reid Fronk and Josh Horton had
consecutive doubles in the third
inning to provide the only offense
that the Tar Heels would need.
North Carolina (52-13) won
its first two games at the CWS
for the first time in five visits to
Omaha and now is in command
of Bracket 1. The Tar Heels play
Wednesday against the winner of a
Tuesday elimination game between
Clemson and Cal State Fullerton.
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est alibi.
All that changed in
Norman’s case after he blew
a six-shot lead on the final
day of the 1996 Masters. He
beat himself up so thorough
ly afterwards that report
ers who were there hard
ly felt the need to pile on.
Mickelson tried to borrow
that page from Norman’s
book, too. But he didn’t stick
around long enough to give
a full accounting, fielding
a few questions outside the
clubhouse before heading
for the parking lot.
“This one hurts more than
any tournament because I
had it won,” he said. “I came
out here a week or two ago
in the evenings, just spend
ing the evenings working on
the last four holes, thinking
that I would just need to
make four pars, that there’s
a good chance if 1 can just
make four pars on Sunday
I could do it. I made a good
par on 15, bogeyed 16 and
doubled 18.
“So it hurts because I had
it in my grasp and just let it
go,” he added. “As opposed
to somebody making a long
putt or what have you.”
The Mickelson who arrived
at Winged Foot had us fooled.
Just as he had for his two
Masters wins and last sum
mer’s PGA Championship,
he came armed with spread
sheets and graphs from his
past performances in the
majors. Then he carried on
about how he tailored the
technology in his bag to fit
each course, like some kind
of pop-up ad for the golf
manufacturing business.
He carried two drivers at
Augusta and four wedges
here - it all sounded so up
to-the-minute.
But the real difference was
supposed to be Mickelson’s
maturity, the way he tem
pered those go-for-broke
impulses with real informa-
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One win sends North Carolina to
the best-of-three championship
series beginning Saturday.
Woodard (7-1) threw his second
shutout in five starts and the first
at the CWS since Fullerton’s Jason
Windsor blanked South Carolina
on June 19, 2004.
North Carolina’s one burst of
sustained offense produced the only
runs against an otherwise effective
Stephen Faris (9-3), who scattered
seven hits, walked one and struck
out five in eight innings.
tion. Short-game guru Dave
Pelz, one of his coaches,
explained it this way to Golf
World magazine recently:
“Phil Mickelson the man
isn’t any different. He (still)
likes to challenge the odds
and do things that are dif
ficult to do. Now, he’s bas
ing his decisions on accu
rate statistics. We have
gone through a number of
steps that provide him with
enough information to know
what his chances are.”
He had all of those stats in
his head when he pulled out
the driver on 450-yard, par-4
18th. He had hit exactly two
of the 13 previous fairways
with it, none of them on the
back nine.
“I didn’t have a 3-wood,”
he said. “I carried only a 4-
wood. I felt like if I hit 4-wood
and missed the fairway. I’d
be too far back to ... be able
to chase one down there. I
just tried to go to that little
bread-and-butter carve slice,
like I used at Augusta and
some other holes, and over
cut that, too.”
§o he tried it again on his
next shot, this time from a
bare lie alongside a pavilion
with a 3-iron in his hands,
and overcut that, too. It hit a
tree and sliced all of 25 yards
off his task. He put the shot
after that into a bunker and,
needing to get down in two
to force a playoff, took three
more to finally put the ball
in the hole.
“It was right there and
I let it go,” Mickelson said
one final time. “I just can’t
believe I did that.”
Believe it. The old Phil
certainly would.
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