Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 11

Journal and Courier Tuesday May 30 2000 Sports B3 'Sts KNICKS 3 thwarts comeback Continued from Page B1 Caudill DdlVO BCUU vvt VC gut sumc pretty gritty kids They play "3luCrS 0US16Q Carlisle North White today Angela rancis was 3 for 3 including a two run homer in the fifth Jen nifer Duffy also had a two run home run in the third Erin Barbour had two dou bles for rontier (16 13) Jalen Rose who managed just three points in the first half but finished with 18 He remains optimistic about In chances to recover from this lost weekend in New York still feel like going to win this he said feel like the better team disappointed be cause any time you get a 2 0 lead and the No 1 seed in the conference you expect to find ways to win on the other Bird also tried to take a positive outlook worked so hard all year to get homecourt ad vantage and we lose two games in New he said we are going back horned We use that as a cush ion but we are going back home Hopefully we can play They better if they want to get to the finals Benton Central (22 9) had an easy tuneup for Twin Lakes thanks to the hitting of Beth Schwartz andTiffani Carlile who were a combined 6 for 7 with six runs scored from second base to give the Mavericks the lead for good the one that comes through for Bates said of Caudill hitting Rebounding doomed Indi ana with a 41 32 Knicks edge Rik Smits all 7 foot 4 of him had one rebound in 32 minutes Miller none in 46 Rose three in 45 Miller had 24 points Rose 18 shots killed Miller said out 14 and tossed a iwo hit ter to give the visiting Mavs (16 11) the split Richard also had two dou bles and Jon Emerick had two hits for the Mavs Steven Davis (7 4) lost the opener despite tossing a five hitter with 13 strikeouts Baseball CONNERSVILLE 3 0 McCUTCHEON 1 9 from the outside Johnson unattended too many times as Indiana tried to rotate on defense from double teams was 5 for 5 from 3 point ranged Ward was 4 of 6 To gether they carved the heart out of rally When Indiana closed to within 77 76 on a Miller 3 pointer at 6:51 there was Johnson from the comer tak ing a deflected pass after a New York miss and coolly hit ting a 3 pointer to douse the fire He hit another two min utes later Ward another two minutes after that That sort of thing can dis hearten a team fighting to take back a game could see it in their Houston said The Pacers whose defense completely fell apart early to trail 57 40 at halftime can only hope that Conseco ield house will restore what they lost in a miserable weekend in Madison Square Garden think glad to be going Sprewell said Pacers respond too late to tirade Carmel jumped out to a 4 0 lead af ter two innings and elimi nated Harrison 5 0 The Raiders who finished 16 10 had three errors in the first three innings and finished with five in the game get behind a we can play a against Indiana in the play little coach Larry Bird offs the past two years with said out Ewing 1 he Pacers can take some solace from what it has been like against New York this year The home team is 8 0 in regular season and the playoffs But the evidence also sug gests the Pacers were in trou ble the moment Ewing limped out New York is 5 1 By rank OliverJournal and Courier TRAPPED: Twin Jessica Bragg tags out West whose double broke up Kimm no hit bid was caught Jeannine Mellish during a fourth inning rundown Mellish after taking a big turn around second base neiaer Anarea Lowom had one of my better Bridge admitted saying a mouthful Just ask the Red Devils got a really good riseball and I knew the only way I could hit it was to move RANKORT 16 9 DELPHI 2 11 Andy Mc Neany went 4 for 5 with a pair of RBI doubles to give Delphi a split at rankfort Cooper Lacy went 2 for 3 with an RBI for the Oracles (12 13) Scott Spitznagle was ular season loss and will face 2 for 5 with three RBIs Luke Seward hit a three run homer during a 10 run second in Game 1 for rankfort 18 9) Softball NORTH WHITE 10 CENTRAL CATHOLIC 6 Summor bases loaded double in the fourth sparked North White (19 9) in the Pioneer Sectional CARROLL 12 RONTIER 7 The Cougars (9 16) avenged a reg we do pretty Bates said Clark jammed her thumb two weeks ago and is getting back to 100 percent just healing Bates said was a little tentative at the beginning because she was afraid it would bother her but it did Her confidence was builds team like Raiders coach Dick McKinnis said No 3 in the state for a good Dana Campbell is one rea son why the Greyhounds are considered one of the best Class 3A teams in the state The right handed Campbell allowed three hits and struckout nine to lead Carmel into a semifinal matchup against Logansport McKinnis said the defensive woes prevented the Raiders from being in the game bugged us all year long especially against bet ter he Said whatever reason not solid defensively against the better teams and we should be We tried very hard to shore up our defense but it hits and that kept us The Mavericks had two errors in the first inning that led to only run was typical of our Mc Cutch eo coach Jim ing as the game went Second half surge I overcome I lackluster start I By Hal Bock I The Associated Press NEW YORK Reggie Miller knew this go ing to be easy His Pacers marched into Madison Square Garden halfway to their first berth in the NBA inals after beating the New York Knicks twice at home And two games later where they still are With a chance to put a stranglehold on the Knicks Indiana came up well short of that goal losing on Saturday and then again Monday Now they head back home with the best of seven series re duced to a best of three and the Knicks with all the mo mentum is a team that went to the NBA inals last year knocked us out and were Miller said of the Knicks do that if they know how to play By no means nothing comes The Pacers dug themselves a 17 point hole in the first half and nearly climbed out of it narrowing the Knicks lead to one in the fourth quarter before losing 91 89 The comeback hardly sat isfied Miller who led the Pac ers with 24 points but made just nme of 23 shots hard for me to take anything from a he said played harder got up into them in the third and fourth quarters got to start that way We need a de fensive effort for 48 minutes not just a The Pacers were terrible in the first 24 minutes out rebounded outshot and out hustled They took a halftime tongue lashing from coach Larry Bird and played much better after that Bird said there was no '3 7A WL Twin ace subdues Red Devils with riseball Continued from Page B1 Stacker who managed two single by Heather Bloem and singles off Bridge But Bridge bore down was really good today striking out Kim Woods and Her best pitch is her risebalL Shannon LaHaie and getting she throws it a lot good Lindsey Coddington to pop at it She pretty much has it out in foul territory to left perfected Right when you get fielder Andrea Loworn your hands to swing at it it rises and you miss it Twin Lakes which man aged 12 hits (all singles) off Mellish scored the only runs it needed in the third Lowom opened the inning two RBIs with an infield single and Twin Lakes coach Ron up in the box to try to get it with one out the Indians Deno has a simple approach before the ball said loaded the bases on another to his dominance of 1 the Red Devils a throwing error on a sacri really talk about fice bunt Natalie ishel he said just go into it drove in the first run like any other game We with a single to right and knew we were going to have Tara Rasmussen brought to play hard like we have all home another with a sacn year long coached five drove in two the best team we ve had the fifth ishel who leads the Indians with a 439 bat ting average was 2 for 4 with By Thd Associated Press NEW YORK STATE MIND: Pacers guard Reggie Miller and coach Larry Bird watch the final seconds tick away Monday mystery about what had happened early was all he said play defense in the first quarter: We had our usual start that we have every once in a while They were hitting shots and they were just ripping us apart Second half we decided to de fend We forgot to So with the lack adaisical start for a team in position to take control of the series? Bird said that was nothing new for the Pacers have had problems all year in the first he said We feel if we can keep it even in the first quarter that probably going to win the ballgame A lot of times we bury a hole for our selves Sometimes we get out and sometimes we Much of the sec ond half spurt was fueled by Carlisle tripped Sprewell during the third quarter He said he gestured to Sprewell during the game attempting to apol ogize He added that he spoke with Sprewell after the game clearing things up thousand is a Carlisle said players are valuable They are what the league is all about so I understand Sprewell trip costs assistant $10000 By The Associated Press NEW YORK Indiana Pacers assistant coach Rick Carlisle was fined $10000 for deliberately tripping Latrell Sprewell of the New York Knicks during Game 3 of the Eastern Con ference playoffs sorry that it ever Carlisle said Mon day embarrassed that it Pitching clutch hitting advance Mavs By Mike Carmin I Journal and Courier ISHERS Mc Cutcheon softball team has experienced an up and down season evident by their 14 15 record: There were plen ty of ups and downs in Mon 2 1 victory over No blesville McCutcheon committed four errors but came out on top thanks to the pitching of Sarah Clark and the hitting of Heather Caudill Clark al Rates said tmt snma lowed lour hits and an un i earned run while Caudill hard make a few mistakes Third ranked I I Al 1 1 1 I 1 11 77 drove oom runs wnn a out cney aian give up double and a single fifth inning sin this game we gle scored Michelle Lytle let the errors get us down like we have throughout the said Caudill a soph omore catcher stayed in the game and got some Homers lift No 1 Benton Central past Jeff Staff reports Class 3 A No 1 Benton Cen tral improved to 27 0 Monday with a 5 2 winover Lafayette Jeff at Loeb Stadium Wolloi nn4 Weigle homered for the Bi Clayton Richard (5 2) struck son Waller (9 0) scattered eight hits' Outduling Jim Olds (7 2) who struck out nine two run homer gave BQ a 3 0 lead in the third Adam Niswonger led off the Jeff sixth with a home run which capped a 4 for 4 day for the 18 7 Bronchos a Wh Ve3REI9BBmHHH9 I O' I 7 'i 4 i 77 Ma Montoya leaves behind Indy 500 masterpiece By Mike Harris a job as test driver for the if I get a chance Hl come The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS There is race car politics and then there is the artistry of Juan Montoya in a race car While his victory in the In dianapolis 500 can be seen as a win for CART in its rivalry with the Indy Racing League overwhelming per formance validated his grow ing reputation as one of the great drivers No Indy winner has led more laps than Montoya since Al Unser was out front for 190 trips around the 2'z mile track in 1970 the first of his four victories here Nobody should be sur prised by ability though The 24 year old Colombian has come a long way in a hurry He emerged in 1997 in the European ormula 3000 se ries winning three races placing second in the cham pionship and taking rookie honors The next season Mon toya won the title and earned Williams ormula One team On the recommendation of rank Williams the team owner Chip Ganassi hired Montoya to replace reigning CART champion Alex Zanar di who left for ormula One after the 1998 season Seven poles and seven wins later Montoya was the top CART rookie and the champion of that series Eddie Cheever who raced in ormula One and CART before becoming an owner driver in the IRL said is a phenomenal talent will not be very long be fore we see Montoya winning ormula One races and be able to say he raced at Neither Ganassi nor Mon toya would confirm or deny reports the driver will move to ormula One next season possibly with Williams But the 2000 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year hinted as much Monday when reply ing to a question about his fu ture at Indy said Still he leaves no doubt he enjoyed the Indy experience come out here and win this race is just Montoya said crowd is so awesome the place is so big and every body knows about the Indy 500 never seen my father so ex cited as he was (Sunday But Montoya is trying to remain composed amid all the acclaim year I won the rook ie of the year and CART he said I won the Indy 500 These things are so big that they get in your head above you Things that size you never get to realize them I think other people Ganassi was hesitant to praise Montoya kid is an a great tal Ganassi said uses his head and got amaz ing ability to feel what the car is doing and make it do what he wants There many like By The Associated Press CUT GRASS TOO: Indy winner Juan Montoya clowns around on a lawn tractor during traditional photo session Lf kaHjimMOesi Iwi ioniwirr 111! III! Mikisii I A'A' feBpgjMaMWyfafc 9 rench Open frustrates Sampras once again By Steve Wilstein The Associated Press PARIS Head down shoulders slumped legs heavy Pete Sampras shuffled away from the rench Open as he has year after year frustrated disappointed yet doggedly vowing to try again for as long as he plays This is where Sampras goes each spring in search of a personal validation proof that he can win on clay and capture the Grand Slam ti tle that keeps getting away Each year he leaves early the victim of more punishment The beating came this time in the first round Mon day against Mark Philippoussis 4 6 7 5 7 6 (4) 4 6 8 6 and it was all the more painful to the No 2 seeded Sampras because he played so well in defeat and because he knows that at 28 time is running out on him sitting here very dis appointed about what hap Sampras said dose match Could have gone either In 11 appearances at the rench Sampras has lost in the first round twice the sec ond round four times and the third round once He reached the quarters three times and the semifinals once certainly gotten the breaks at this event over the Sampras said year hopefully get those The No 1 Marti na Hingis also seeking her fust rench Open title beat Sabine Appelmans 6 0 6 4 in the open ing match on Center Court No 15 Jennifer Capriati suffered her fourth consecutive defeat since late March losing to abi ola Zuluaga 6 3 7 5 No 3 Monica Seles seeking her fourth rench Open title beat Silvija Talaja 6 2 6 2 Two other Americans oust ed seeded players Meghann Shaughnessy upset No 12 Julie Halard Decugis of rance 7 5 6 4 and Jan Michael Gambill beat No 8 Nicolas Kiefer 6 3 7 5 6 1 The No 4 Yevgeny Kafelnikov blew a big lead but still edged Ivan Ljubicic 6 4 6 4 3 6 3 6 6 4 7'' I 1.