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first-place Fort Worth. Sunday I'' J. IIIR3 Saturday, July 30, 2005 Sports Editor Sam Aselstine 546-6170, sports alpasotimes.com www.elpasotimes.com HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBUlin SPORTS DIGEST Former Riverside star reinstated by LSU BIRMINGHAM, Ala. LSU head football coach Les Miles This is the second of 28 installments from the El Paso Times ranking area high school football teams. The city's No.

1 team will be revealed Aug. 25, when Franklin begins the local schedule against Las Cruces. said Friday reserve fullback Shawn Jordan has rejoined the team. Jordan was suspended in May after his arrest for allegedly attempting to Jordan HORIZON SCORPIONS ssiiiniiifpi Titans notice of ex-Miner transport anabolic steroids across the U.S. border from Juarez.

Miles said Jordan has been disciplined by himself and the team. "He's back on board, doing the right things," the Tigers' first-year coach said. "We reviewed that situation very thoroughly. We looked at his background and really feel like it's an isolated incident and not one that will repeat itself." Future Miner update: UTEP incoming freshman Ste-fon Jackson led Global Games Select in scoring for the second consecutive game with 21 points in a 95-73 loss to Slovenia on Friday at the Global Games in Frisco, Texas. Jackson finished 9-for-16 from the field and 3-for-3 from the line, while pulling down one rebound.

Through five games in the tournament, Jackson is averaging 13.4 points while shooting 58 percent (25-43) from the floor and 76 percent (13-17) from the free-throw line. Global Games Select (2-3) will play its final game of the tournament this afternoon. Boxer acquitted: World champion boxer Floyd By Matthew Aguilar All 32 teams of the National Foot ball League began their quest for Super Bowl XL this week. And mm 4 mm i with each passing day, the op portunity for free agents like El Paso native Robert mmm mmmm By Darren Hunt El Paso Times There's hope on the Hori-zoa The first senior class and an intense offseason weight-lifting program has Horizon High School players and coaches believing they're better than their No. 27 ranking in the 2005 El Paso Times preseason football poll.

The Scorpions finished 1-9 and winless (0-8) in District 2-4A playing a varsity schedule for the first time a year ago. But second-year coach Robert Morales said this week that things are looking up at the school. "There's only one way for us to go," Morales said when told of his team's ranking. "We were just really, really young and inexperienced last year. These kids have never had a weight program and we feel like we've had a great offseasoa" Although Morales will have seniors at his disposal for the first time, it's a relatively small group with just 15.

Morales has better numbers throughout the program, however, expecting 140 to show up for two-a-days next month, including 40 varsity players. That has him setting goals high. "Realistically, we're hoping to come out with a winning record this year," Morales said, "and hopefully get to the playoffs. We feel like we can be competitive in our district." Horizon will look toward junior quarterback Franky Baquera and junior tailback Israel Delgado on offense. Junior defensive end Anthony Macias, senior defensive tackle Greg Aguilar and senior outside linebacker Edgar Estrada (5-8, 180), last year's leading tackier with 110 stops, will attempt to get things squared away on defense.

Darren Hunt may be reached at elpasotimes.com Rodriguez to make a roster m. mm mw mm becomes less realistic. Yes, Rodriguez has performed well since arriv li mm r. mmw ing at Tennessee Titans practice headquarters in Mayweather Jr. was acquitted Friday of hitting and kicking his former girlfriend during a 2003 argument outside a Las Vegas nightclub.

'LA IBtf Tennessee 8 Robert ak Rodriguez Mayweather Nashville this past spring. But this is the NFL the pinnacle of pigskin and there still is a long road in front of the former UTEP and Montwood High School standout. A road he got back on with the Titans' first training camp workout Friday in Nashville. There always is a chance, however. Especially when you consider Rodriguez's work ethic, his football instincts, and his intelligence.

"He's done a nice job," said Tennessee's assistant head coachlinebackers coach, Dave McGinnis, the former head coach of the Arizona Cardinals who has coached, among others, Hall-of-Famer Mike Singletary. "But there is a huge learning curve. I've seen it from all Mayweather, who holds the WBC 140-pound title, was charged with one count of battery constituting domestic violence and would have faced a minimum of one year in prison if convicted. Hit Man's return: Thomas Hearns (59-5-1, 46 KOs) begins his comeback tonight at age 46 after a five-year absence from the ring, where he was a six-time world champion. Hearns will fight John Long (19-6-2, 10 KOs) in a cruiser-weight bout tonight at Cobo Arena in Detroit, and son Ronald Hearns (6-0, 4 KOs) will take on Donald Adams (1-1, 1 KO) in a middleweight fight.

Times wire, staff reports aspects, and (the difficulty) never changes for a first-year guy." Rankings updated daily Please see Tough 3C Photos by Sanford Myers The Tennesseean PDL SOCCER: EL PASO 2 CENTRAL FLORIDA 1 Tricky Anthony course keeps golfers on toes sK Hi Ht mm Try i ip ifi i Patriots give large crowd playoff win By Lenny Jurado El Paso Times The El Paso Patriots needed extra bleachers for their first-ever home playoff match Friday, and they made sure not to let their crowd leave disappointed. Led by one of the league's best offensive units, the Patriots notched an uneven 2-1 victory against Central Florida to earn their first playoff victory in the Premier Development League. The win at Patriots Stadium advanced El Paso (12-3-2) to today's Southern Conference finals against Laredo (10-7-0), which upset Southeast Conference champ Cocoa Expos (11-4-2) earlier in the evening. "Our team is again on the right track," Patriots head coach Jesus Manuel Enriquez said. "We had an excellent game, and I think that if we play the same way we did (Friday), we'll win." Indeed, the Patriots appeared the aggressor Friday despite a size disadvantage.

Players like Miguel Irrosa had the Kraze (8-7-2) reeling, and the forward was a key contributor on both scores. The first came in the 31st minute. I.arrosa connected with a WNBA Phoenix 69 Minnesota 65 Indiana 62 Washington 58 Seattle 79 Charlotte 68 Sacramento 79 Los Angeles 59 CENTRAL LEAGUE El Paso 4 Fort Worth 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 8 Minnesota 5 LA. Angels 4 N.Y. Yankees 1 Texas 4 Toronto 1 Tampa Bay 6 Kansas City 3 Chicago White Sox 7 Baltimore 2 Oakland 8 Detroit 4 Cleveland 10 Seattle 5 NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago Cubs 4 Arizona 3 Philadelphia 5 Colorado 3 Atlanta 2 Pittsburgh 1 Florida 4 Washington 3 Houston 5 N.Y.

Mets 2 San Francisco 7 Milwaukee 6 Cincinnati 8 San Diego 3 L.A. Dodgers 7 St. Louis 5 dpasotimes.com Read more on local sports, including high schools and community sporting events Talk about sports at the Times' discussion forum Yasmin A. Aboytes El Paso Times The Patriots' Laurenco Andrade, left, battled for the ball Friday with Central Florida's David Benn, center. By Matthew Aguilar El Paso Times When patrons of the Anthony Country Club finish the nine holes, the word most often used to describe the course is tricky.

"The greens are real small and. if you miss the pins five feet to the left or five feet to the right, you're off the green and you're going to have a difficult chip shot," local golfer Armando Martinez said. "And the greens are real firm, so you've got to play for it to roll to release and if you don't, you're past it. "It's so tricky." Martinez managed to beat the course and match-play opponent Bobby Walker Friday in the 60th annual Anthony Country Club Invitational. But even Martinez admits you never know what the next day holds on an unpredictable course like Anthony.

Championship flights tee off again at 1:30 p.m. today. Tournament chairman Jim Welshimer said the course's unpredictability is one of the draws of the Anthony Invitational. "It's a very short course 5,800 yards, which compares to 6,500 to 7,000 everywhere else," he said. "Our course is a lot narrower.

It's a Bermuda grass course, which means the ball rests down in the rough. They arc very firm, small greens. It's hard to get the club on the ball to where it stops next to the hole. It rolls a lot and the fairways are very narrow. And you have a lot of trees in the rough." Welshimer said the scores over the last two days are typical of the tourney.

"The high qualifier (Thursday) was 4 over par," he said. "The medalist was 2 under par. There's a six stroke spread for 15 players. That's pretty tight." Martinez said he made the putts he had to make Friday. "I'm not making those extra ones, but I'm making enough putts to keep me in there." he said.

"There were times when he could'vc gotten back to one down, two down. But I made the putt to stay three, four up. He didn't beat me one hole today." Martinez hopes his good luck stays the same on what Welshimer says is a "thinking course." "The person I have to play (Brian Schuster) (is strong), but, hey, that's golf," he said. Matthew Aguilar may be reached at majilar(delpasotimesxom; 546 6166. streaking Julio Frias, who split two defenders and beat the goalkeeper for an early lead.

Larrosa came through again in the 56th minute. "I was able to advance through two defenders, and after I cleared them I pretty much did the same thing as the first one," Larossa said through an interpreter. This time it was Laurenco Andrade on the end of Larrosa's pass, and he made it 2-0 by flanking the goal then launching a shot past the goalkeeper, who had come out to contest him. The Kraze's lone goal came in the 90th minute on a penalty kick by Danny Robertson. El Paso returns to Patriots Stadium at 8:30 p.m.

today to take on I.arcdo, which it already has defeated three times this season by a combined score of 13-2. Said Enriquez after Friday's match, "1 like the support El Paso showed for us and that they were very into the game, from the first minute to the very end, and we'd be very pleased if they came out (today)." Lenny Jurado may be reached at 546-6167..