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Tuesday, September 3, 2013 SPORTS GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE WWW.GREATFALLSTRIBUNE.COM For tips or corrections: Call Sports Editor Scott Mansch at 791-1481 or 800-438-6600; Fax: 791-6588; Email: tribsportsgreatfallstribune.com. ONLINE EXTRA: For the latest sports videos and photo galleries, see www.gftrib.com. Cats 3rd, Griz 13th in latest TSN poll six tackles, including four behind the line of scrimmage, and also contributed a sack, a forced fumble, two pass breakups and two quarterback hurries. Daly also threw a key block on Craig Ashworth's 57-yard interception return for a touchdown. Adams passed for a career-high 411 yards and four touchdowns and rushed for 107 yards and two scores as Eastern Washington shocked Oregon State.

His 518 yards of total offense set a record at OSU's reser Stadium. His 2-yard touchdown run with 18 seconds left won the game. Cook kicked three field goals, including the game-winners as time expired, as Southern Utah edged FBS opponent South Alabama. which knocked off FBS nationally ranked Oregon State, are 1-2 in this week's poll. Sam Houston State and Towson are ranked fourth and fifth, respectively.

The Big Sky is also represented in this week's TSN poll by No. 12 Cal Poly and No. 22 Northern Arizona. Meanwhile, in the FCS Coaches' Poll, the top four looks the same as the TSN poll. Central Arkansas is No.

5 in the Coaches' poll. Montana is ranked No. 18 by the coaches. Caly Poly is No. 10 and N.

Arizona is No. 24. The Montana Grizzlies have a bye this weekend, while the Montana State Bobcats will travel to Dallas to take on FBS opponent SMU. That game will start at 6:05 p.m. Mountain Time.

It will not be televised, except by computer network ESPN3. Also this week in the Big Sky, Sacramento State is at Arizona State on Thursday. On Saturday, Weber State is at Utah, Portland State is at Cal, Western Oregon is at Eastern Washington, S. Dakota State is at North Dakota, Fort Lewis at at S. Utah, UC Davis is at Nevada and Cal Poly is at Fresno State.

This week's Big Sky football players of the week, sponsored by Root Sports, are Montana State defensive end Brad Daly, Eastern Washington quarterback Vernon Adams, and Southern Utah kicker Colton Cook. Daly, a senior from Helena Capital, played only about half the game as the Bobcats easily dispatched Monmouth. The 240-pounder had By Tribune Staff The Montana State Bobcats fell a notch to No. 3 and the Montana Grizzlies rose several spots to No. 13 in this week's The Sports Network Football Championship Subdivision poll.

The Bobcats cruised past lightly regarded FCS Independent Monmouth 42-24, while the Grizzlies drilled then-No. 12 Appalachian State 30-6 last week in season openers. Montana State was No. 2 and Montana was No. 20 in the preseason poll.

Two-time defending FCS national champion North Dakota State, which won its opener at Football Bowl Subdivision foe Kansas State, and Big Sky Conference contender Eastern Washington, Montana Jordan Harper, a former CMR star, catches a touchdown pass Saturday night in Missoula, ap All-around hopes spur Hollenbeck Kruse, Davis win at White Sulphur Springs By Tribune Staff WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS Hank Hollenbeck of Molt is chasing a Montana Pro Rodeo Circuit all-around championship, and he did plenty to aid that effort over the weekend at the White Sulphur Springs Labor Day Rodeo. Hollenbeck won the steer wrestling and placed in the tie-down roping to earn more than $1,000 at the rodeo, which concluded Monday. Other winners in White Sulphur included Great Falls saddle bronc star Jesse Kruse, the 2009 world champion. Kruse, whose bid to earn another National Finals Rodeo berth took a serious hit when he was forced to miss the entire month of July with a broken leg, has been riding especially well of late. The former CM.

Russell High and University of Montana cowboy leads the MPRC standings in the bronc riding. Also earning first-place checks were Jessy Davis of Power (bareback), Bode Scott of Shepherd (tie-down roping) and Dakota Louis of Browning (bull riding). Davis was also a winner over the weekend at a PRCA event in Plains. Also prevailing at the Sanders County Fair and Rodeo were the NFR team roping tandem of Cut Bank's Dus-tin Bird and partner Paul Eaves. Clay Gruel of Sand Coulee won the saddle bronc riding, meanwhile.

And at Dillon, Helena's Chase Erickson (bareback) and Belgrade's Beau Clark (steer wrestling) were among the winners. The Dillon event, called Montana's Biggest Weekend Rodeo, concluded on Sunday. The Montana Pro Rodeo Circuit season is now over for the 2013 season. The top 12 money-winners in each event over the course of the summer qualify for the Montana Pro Rodeo Circuit Finals, slated Jan. 10-12 at Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls.

Jacob Sanchez of Great Falls won the Logan Hurlberg Pitcher of the Year Award in the Pioneer League, tribune file photolarry beckner PIONEER ALL-STARS Morris honored; Great Falls pitcher Sanchez wins Hurlbert Award the outfielder was hitting .256 with 12 doubles, 2 triples, 11 homers and 31 RBIs. Helena's Michael Ratterree was named winner of the Ralph Nelles MVP Award. Through Saturday, the 22-year-old Ratterree was the league with 12 homers, 54 RBIs and a .618 slugging percentage in 58 games. He also ranked in the top five in average (.320, fifth), hits (73, fifth) OPS (1.018, second) and doubles (20, second). Tony Diggs Ratterree's skipper in Helena was named the Manager of the Year after leading the Brewers to a North Division first-half title.

Also named to the All-Star team catcher Zane Evans of Idaho Falls, first baseman Daniel Palka of Missoula, second baseman Carlos Garcia of Idaho Falls, third baseman Cal Towey and shortstop Jose Rondon of Orem. Outfielders Rai-mel Tapia of Grand Junction and Jacob Scavuzzo of Ogden were also honored. Other pitchers named to the All-Star team are Patrick Conroy of Idaho Falls, Jonathan Van Eaton or Orem, Devin Burke of Grand Junction and Ben Lively of Billings. Meanwhile, Zach Voight homered and knocked in four runs, but the Great Falls Voyagers dropped a 7-6 decision to Missoula Monday night. Tyler Shryock had three hits for the Voyagers of manager Pete Rose who have already clinched a spot in the upcoming Pioneer playoffs.

Great Falls will play host to a Northern Division first-round playoff game Monday night at Centene Stadium. The best-of -three series shifts to Helena Sept. 10 and, if necessary, Sept. 11. By Tribune Staff Great Falls righthander Jake Sanchez, who last week was named co-winner of the Voyagers' Most Valuable Pitcher award, has been named to the Pioneer League All-Star Team.

Sanchez was also named the winner of the Logan Hurlburt Pitcher of the Year Award in the Pioneer, an honor named after the late former longtime general manager of the Great Falls Baseball Club. Sanchez, who was joined on the All-Star team by Jacob Morris, led the league with a 3.09 ERA, a 1.06 WHIP and 72 strikeouts over 13 starts (75 23 innings). The 24-year-old walked only 12 batters in that span. He is 5-3 this summer. Morris, a former Arkansas standout, was named as a DH.

Through Monday, Boxer Morrison dies at age 44 The Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. Tommy Morrison, a former heavyweight champion who once boxed in Great Falls and later gained fame for his role in the movie "Rocky has died. He was 44. Morrison died Sunday night at a Nebraska hospital, said Tony Holden, his longtime promoter and close friend. The family would not disclose the cause of death.

Roger Federer ousted in fourth round No. 19 seed Robredo of Spain pulls off a major upset in round of 16 On Jan. 24, 1989, Great Falls native and U.S. Olympic boxer Todd Foster made his professional debut at Four Seasons Arena before a sellout crowd. Morrison, who was distantly related to John Wayne, fought on the undercard and in his fourth Morrison ap hands several feet wide.

No longer the dominant presence he once was, Federer lost in the round of 16 at Flushing Meadows for the first time in a decade, surprisingly beaten 7-6 (3), 6-3, 6-4 by 19th-seeded Tommy Robredo of Spain on Monday night. "I kind of self-destructed, which is very disappointing," said Federer, who made 43 unforced errors and managed to convert only 2 of 16 break points. "It was a frustrating performance." Only the latest in a series. See TENNIS, 2S The Associated Press NEW YORK Right from the start, Roger Federer looked very little like, well, the Roger Federer who routinely reached the final weekend at Grand Slam tournaments. In the opening game of his fourth-round match at the U.S.

Open, the owner of 17 major titles got passed at the net twice, sailed a backhand long, then missed two forehands to get broken. In the second game, the man who has spent more weeks ranked No. 1 than anyone else dumped a backhand into the net, then shanked two other back pro fight won a first-round knockout. In 1993, Morrison beat George Foreman to win the WBO heavyweight title, only to lose it to unheralded Michael Bentt in a defeat that scuttled a showdown with Lennox Lewis. Morrison would fight Lewis a couple of years later, getting knocked out in the sixth round in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Morrison, nicknamed "The Duke," never reached the status of such contemporaries as Mike Tyson and Evander Holyf ield, but it was surely a full career. He was a prodigious puncher whose bid to fight in the 1988 Seoul Olympics ended at the See MORRISON, 2S '-'I Tommy Robredo of Spain celebrates after beating Roger Federer Monday night, ap.