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Friday, January 30, 2009 Keeping Kubel: Twins sign designated hitter to two-year deal Page 2D Telfair continues 0 tn imnrnw W1ri for Wolves 3 Page5D WWW.BISMARCKTRIBUNE.COM Section a II II fill If If I i i 4 Hanstad gets hot Blue Jays win the big one Siper sophomore Jamestown 58, Mandan 47 really big game, winning 58-47 at Mandan. Both teams were ranked in the state Class A poll. More importantly, the Braves, state champions the past six seasons, lost for the first time in 63 home games. The Braves return to action tonight, playing host to winless Williston at 7:45. Mandan's top-ranked boys take on No.

2 Williston at 6 p.m. Morgan Dale, Jamestown's 5-foot-11 senior all-stater, said Thursday's victory wasn't just another torched the Century Patriots for 34 points in a 70-63 win in West Region action. Hanstad shot 13 of 19 from the field and 6 of 1 1 from the free-throw line. He also dished out five assists. "I definitely have to work a lot harder," said Hanstad, a 6-foot-3 sophomore.

"I have cuts and bruises all over me. It's definitely what I need. It has made me better. I made a couple of jump shots (early) and that allowed me to penetrate." The No. 2-ranked Century girls survived for a 50-40 Braves home win streak comes to end By STEVE THOMAS Bismarck Tribune Jamestown's girls basketball team was having fun hunting upland game.

The Blue Jays had won seven straight games, all against unranked teams. On Thursday, however, the Jays brought down some carries Midgets past the Patriots By CINDY PETERSON Bismarck Tribune Dickinson guard Joe Hanstad admitted that it's starting to become more of a challenge to score points in Class A boys basketball. He fooled those at the Linette Olson gym on Thursday. Hanstad, who is the defensive focal point of the Midgets' opponents, Dickinson boys 70, Century 63 Century girls 50, Dickinson 40 victory over the unranked Dickinson girls in the first game of a doubleheader. In addition to Hanstad's 34, Joe Emmerich added 15 points.

Jarl Abrahamson scored seven and dished out 11 assists. Continued on 4D night on the court. "It was a big game. We were fourth and they were fifth. Plus we'd never won here," said Morgan Dale, Jamestown's 5-foot-11 senior all-stater.

Continued on 4D Romaniuk rolling Skip is perfect iwoimig to so bog ta fern UP NEXT WHAT: USCA Challenge Round, winners advance to nationalsOlympic Trials WHEN: Today through Sunday WHERE: VFW Sports Center national championships and Olympic Trials next month in Denver. Six other teams have already qualified by winning their regions. "We're happy with the way we're sitting," Romaniuk said. "We're playing really well right now. We focused the last couple weeks.

We got a little bit of a kick in the pants a couple of weeks ago in the first round of the playdowns." Usually it's Roma-niuk's team that's doing the kicking. He won a Manitoba junior championship in 1989 and was second in 1990. After moving to Washington he joined up with the Lar-way rink which is also vying for a spot at nationals this week. With them, Romaniuk helped win national titles in 2001 and 2002. They placed sixth at the World Championships in 2001.

Although he has had much success in the sport, Romaniuk said he likes the social aspects at least as much. Continued on 4D after flue games By LOU BABIARZ Tribune Sports Editor Curling is a relatively exotic sport in the states, but it's anything but for our neighbors to the north. Greg Romaniuk, who is competing in the U.S. Curling Association Challenge at the VFW Sports Center this week, said curling is basically as Canadian as the maple leaf. "I grew up in Winnipeg, in Canada, so it's kind of a common sport there," Romaniuk said.

"A lot of people do it. You either play hockey or you curl, maybe you do both. So I picked curling and happen to be OK at it, so I kind of stuck with it." Romaniuk chose wisely. The 37-year-old mechanical engineer, who now resides in Snohomish, Wash, is a two-time U.S. national champion and has put himself in position to make a run at a third title.

The Romaniuk rink is 5-0 through the first two days of the round-robin competition. Ten teams are competing with four advancing to the combined MIKE McCLEARYTribune Bismarck's Tyler Richter takes a shot against Minot goalie Darren Medler on Thursday. Richter scored two goals. Demons' Richter, Hochhalter, Anderson lead way Bismarck 4, Minot 2 IF 17s "I spent the whole day sanitizing all our gear," Peluso said with a laugh. "It's been a long day." Bolstered by three power plays, including 1:39 of 5-on-3 time, the Magicians had the better of the chances in the first period.

But Lawrence Dvorak kept Minot at bay, making a couple of tough stops on Bryce Schmitt, and the first period was scoreless. While killing off that last penalty, which extended into the second period, Bismarck gained the upper hand. Tyler Peterson poked a loose puck ahead to Patrick Continued on 4D The victory puts Bismarck (16-1-0, 11-1-0-0) squarely in the driver's seat for a second straight West Region regular-season title. "I'll credit them for rebounding after their first loss," Bismarck coach Mike Peluso said. "That's tough to do, I don't care what level you're at.

You always want to run the table. It was a good thing for us to kind of rewind everything and start from the beginning." Given the Demons' lack of health, it was fitting that Richter, who is battling mononucleosis, led Bis- By LOU BABIARZ Tribune Sports Editor The Bismarck boys hockey team was sick and tired and injured coming into Thursday's game West Region showdown against Minot. But the Demons found the perfect remedy for all that ailed them. "Redemption," senior forward Tyler Richter said. "We had a lot of redemption after losing to Williston on Monday." The Demons atoned for their first loss of the season by gutting out a 4-2 win over the Magicians.

marck's attack with two goals. Linemate Jared Hochhalter whose status, like Richter's, was a game-time decision also contributed a goal and an assist. Other Demons were battling an assortment of ailments, including defense-man Nick Romanick, who was out with mono. TOM STROMMETribune Disher rink skip Craig Disher, of Rolla, is 3-1 and tied for third place. Know Your Strengths: Former NFLer Phil Olsen lends a hand i 7.

human capabilities and now bv helping senior lead- I wired," he Thunderbirds is on each stu- human capabilities and now by helping senior A brother of Merlin enjoys helping leadership and coaches develop models for success, and then students find what they are best at said. Olsen was introduced to United Tribes through the work of leg-e a Louisiana State coach and North dent understanding his or her own strengths, then finding out what majors are good fits, and ultimately identifying what vocations would allow that student the best shot at success. "We're looking at the development of academic majors and connecting students to careers," Olsen said. In order to have a successful and healthy athletic team, Olsen has identified Continued on 4D matching talents with tasks. Many of Olsen's clients are in the corporate world, including Johnson Johnson, but he also does a lot of work with student athletes.

His firm has clients all over the world and his work is translated in 14 different languages. "I've always been fascinated with people what makes them tick and what makes them successful," Olsen said. "I'm doing that put people in positions to be successful." Olsen's work focuses on the uniqueness of each individual and how everyone is wired differently. He helps coaches and leaders understand how to communicate with each individual with whom they work. "Coaches need to communicate with each person in the way that person is Olsen By TIM LEER Bismarck Tribune A dog barks because he's a dog, not to become a dog.

A person's nature is more powerful than logic. In other words, each of us needs to understand who we are as a first step in the process of finding success in athletics and in life. These and many other words of wisdom were offered to a group of coaches and athletes at the United Tribes Technical College on Thursday evening by former NFL player Phil Olsen. Phil, the younger brother of Hall of Famer Merlin Olsen, is the president of Know Your Strengths, a firm that specializes in assessing Dakota native, Dale Brown, who was Olsen's freshman basketball coach at Utah State in 1966. Olsen's focus while working with the TRIVIA The UCLA men's basketball team had an 88-game winning streak.

Who did the Bruins beat to start the streak? ANSWER IN MORNING KICKOFF ON PAGE 2D SPEAKING "If he comes to camp thinking he's a lock for our bullpen, he'll probably be in Rochester (AAA) after our first cuts. If he pitches the way he did in September, he has a good chance of making our club." Minnesota Twins general manager Bill Smith on left-hander Jose Mijares COMING SATURDAY Class A basketball: Williston at Mandan; NAHL: Albert Lea at Bobcats; Curling continues.