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ei Spokane, Wash. Coeur dAlene, Idaho Sunday, July 28, 2002 Page C5 SPORTS Tour Armstrong was motivated Brown achieves Columbia Cup qualifying goal AT A GLANCE Tour de France Saturdays Stage: An individual time trial of 3 1 miles from Regnie-Durette to Macon in central France. Winner: Three-time defending Tour champion Lance Armstrong, In 1 hour, 3 minutes, 50 seconds. Ralmondas Rumsas of Lithuania finished second, 53 seconds behind. It was the 15th Tour stage victory of Armstrong's career and stretched his lead in the overall standings by more than 2 minutes to 7:17 with one stage left How others fared: Joseba Beloki of Spain, whos second in the overall standings, finished ninth Saturday, 2:11 behind.

Todays stage: Today's 20th and final stage is 89 VS miles from Melun to the Champs Elysees in Paris. Its traditionally a leisurely, ceremonial ride. remaining check points and could only maintain his initial 1:18 advantage over Beloki. Time trial bikes have two sets of handlebars. One set is used for turns, to climb, start and stop.

The other set is needed to steer the bike when the riders are in an aerodynamic tuck position on the straighter sections of the course. Rumsas estimated that the mishap with his handlebars accounted for only 30 seconds of his 53-second deficit to Armstrong. The handlebars werent an issue with Lance, Rumsas said. Lance was too strong. As Rumsas crossed the finish line, he had tears in his eyes, knowing that bad luck probably had kept him from overtaking Beloki.

to cheer on Armstrong, who will end the day one victory short of tying Miguel Indurains record of five consecutive Tour championships. Armstrong will become the first American rider to win the Tour four times. Only two other riders Frances Jacques Anquetil and Belgiums Eddy Merckx have won four straight Tours. On Saturday, thousands lined the 31-mile route from Regnie-Durette to Macon. At every time check, the street was so crowded that Armstrong and others barely had enough room to squeeze through.

One by one, the riders jetted down the starting ramp onto the course. Because Armstrong was No. 1 in the overall standings, he was the last of the 153 riders to start the stage. Barring a crash, Armstrongs overall lead entering Saturdays stage was too sizeable for any rider to challenge realistically. But second place was up for grabs.

And Rumsas, who at age 30 is riding in his first Tour, made a significant run for a higher spot on the podium. The Lithuanian needed to make up 2:18 on Beloki to move from third to second. He led the field after the first time check, which came at the Continued from Cl Armstrong also kept wondering what happened to him that day, knowing that he felt uncomfortable on the bike. It was important to do a good ride today, to do my best, said Armstrong, whose average speed Saturday was 29.1 miles per hour for the stage. I wasnt totally convinced I could.

I was disappointed in that first time trial. And then I kept reading, Oh, hes lost his skills in the time trial. But I wasnt out for any sort of vengeance. Whether he was out for it or not, Armstrong certainly took his revenge Saturday against the Spanish riders for their earlier comments. Spains Igor Gonzalez de Galdea-no, who in the first 10 days of the Tour announced that he and other title contenders had caught up to Armstrong, finished 1:42 behind Armstrong in Saturdays time trial.

Today, once the cyclists arrive in the famed City of Lights, they will "take 10 laps of roughly 3.5 miles each around the Champs Elysees, Paris famed boulevard. More than 100,000 people are expected to line the street top of a 900-foot climb. But the to tighten them, but only at an odd, handlebars on Rumsas bike came lopsided angle. He then lost time to unscrewed at that point. He was able Armstrong at each of the three Associated Press KENNEWICK Nate Brown, driver of E-Lam Plus, got his wish Saturday, when he turned a qualifying lap of 162.666 mph in preparation for todays Budweiser Columbia Cup unlimited hydroplane race.

Brown averaged 159.599 mph around the 2.5-mile oval course on Friday and said he hoped he could shave at least half a second off his time on the second day of qualifying races. Other boats that qualified for the first heat today include Jack-Sons Sports Bar, Mike Hanson, 156.393; Auburn Chevrolet American Pride, Greg Hopp, 154.051; LLumar Window Film, Jimmy King, 152.178; Miss Fairweather Masonry, Terry Troxell, 147.766; and Vacationville.com, Mitch Evans, who did not run a qualifying lap on Saturday. Boats in the second heat include Miss Budweiser, Dave Villwock, 158.895; Trendwest, Mark Tate, 155.803; EMCOR, Mike Weber, 153.518; Oh Boy! Oberto, Steve David, 150.235rand Silver Dollar Casino, Ken Muscatel, 143.104 mph. Five other heats will take place before the final heat at 4:10 p.m. QSsnniMi) TngfrmTT) --iigwAxYrtiSi i Soccer Shadow play sluggishly 1 1 1 1 i Jj I I 1 1 it Jl I iti) i 1 tX O5TD06 i "4 i 1 ahv z7J 17' tf'f -C'lJifjtt tC Continued from Cl Southwest Conference No.

1 Chico Rooks, 1-0. Cascade (10-9) will play the Seahorses (12-7) today at p.m. at Albi Stadium. Saturday nights crowd, announced at 1,276, saw its hopes of seeing the Shadow in the finals dashed at the 58th-minute mark when Matt Evans scored from 35 yards out. Fourteen minutes later, Ben Bingham tacked on an insurance goal, with Jason Hotchkin assisting, We came out nervous to play the 1 game, Shadow coach Stuart Saunders said.

We just werent into the 1 1 game and then we let it get away from I us i' The Seahorses, a second-year team affiliated with the Christian Missionary Athletes International, were one step quicker all night, despite being i first-timers to AlbiS artificial turf. i They finished with 13 shots on goal to Spokanes five. i It was as if wed never played on Astroturf, Saunders said. We never took control. In the scoreless first half, the Seahorses took four shots to just one for Spokane, by Nick Ascolese in the 30th minute.

The Shadows best chance came 7 minutes into the second half. After Jason Kuska made some nice moves near the sideline, Elliot Fauske received the ball from about 12 yards out. He fired at an open net, but the opportunity was dashed when the shot sailed wide. Southern Californias Evans found I the back of the net on his rocket shot 8 minutes later. The play was set up off a bad clearing pass by a Spokane defender.

Evans, who played college soccer at Azusa Pacific, got the ball from 35 yards out and fired a shot that nicked the hands of a diving Mike McCarthy before landing in the corner of the far post. Bingham made the score 2-0 on a I shot that caught McCarthy leaning, i The goal was set up from about 10 yards out. We didnt have better players, we just worked a little harder tonight, Evans said. A Cascade 1, Chico 0 Patrick Dakas goal at the 48th-tninute was enough for the Surge as they held on to upset the Rooks (13-5-1). 9 Daka, a quick-footed forward who (ilays his college soccer at West gaptist College in Salem, received a cross ball by Juan Pablo Galavis on the 18-yard mark.

He trapped the ball, made a pretty spin jnove and fired a shot straight on from 13 yards out that sailed past Chico keeper Brandon Hearron. I still struggle on the turf, said Daka, whos team took six shots on goal to the Rooks 11. The ball is too fast for me. Although the Rooks, formerly a Division 3-Pro team, outshot Cascade, they also had their share of difficulties on the green carpet. It was the first time the Northern California team played on an artificial surface this season.

The Surge had three previous matches on turf, all at Albi Stadium. After Daka gave the Surge a lead, Chicos best chance to tie the game came at the 66th minute on Joe Munozs clean shot on goal. But keeper Phil Haines kept the Surge ahead when he batted the ball over the crossbar. The Rooks outshot the Surge 11-6. Haines was credited with I five saves and Hearron had one.

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