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til Tuesday May 14 ine bacramento Bee BASE3ALL PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE GOLF PGA MONEY LEADERS' PACIFIC CONFERENCE Southern Division German still works hard WATER POLO HIGH SCHOOL BOYS Senior All-Star Oami NORTH 13 SOUTH 11 Scorers: N-Kinsel 5 Strong 5 Llbonatl 1 Horrocks 1 Schlegle I S-Avrett 4 Wernar 2 Truman 2 Heberts 1 Birtak 1 Seivert 1 HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS Senior All-Star Gama SOUTH I NORTHS Scorers: S-Kelley 3 Versage 2 Eberts 2 Stevens N-Ingram 2 Zick 1 Hayes 1 Plait 1 Cat Scratches Major-league moment: In his first Triple-A appearance Sky Sox shortstop Brian Keck went 2 for 4 with an RBI and a stolen base Minor-league malady: It was an unpleasant night for Sacramento reliever Ismael Villegas The righthander went 3Vj and allowed six runs on seven hits and walked five The skinny: Entering game the Sky Sox had allowed 1 0 or more runs in nine of their last 1 1 games -Allison Otto Monday's games Colorado Springs 10 River Cats 3 Portland at Tacoma ppd rain Las Vegas 9 Iowa 5 Omaha 6 Tucson 0 Nashville 2 New Orleans 1 Fresno 6 Oklahoma 3 Calgary 12 Memphis 3 Salt Lake 9 Edmonton 7 1 0 Innings HOCKEY NHL CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Seat ol seven) EASTERN CONFERENCE Carolina defeated Montreal 4-2 Gams 1 -Carolina 2 Montreal 0 Game 2-Montreal 4 Carolina 1 Game 3-Montreal 2 Carolina 1 OT Game 4-Carolina 4 Montreal 3 OT Game 5-Carolina 5 Montreal 1 Game 6-Carolma 8 Montreal 2 HURRICANE8 8 CANAOIENS 2 Carolina 8 0 Montreal 10 1-2 First Period -1 Carolina Cole 5 (Brlnd'Amour Battaglia) :25 2 Carolina Cole 8 (Battaglia) 3:33 3 Carolina Hill 2 (Kapanen Bnnd'Amour) 7:55 lpp)4 Carolina Vasicek 2 (Cole) 14:58 5 Carolina KAdams 1 (Daniels Malik) 18:15 6 Montreal Quintal 1 (Perreault Gilmour) 19:49 Second Period -7 Carolina Battaglia 5 (Francis Brlnd'Amour) 5:57 (pp) 8 Carolina Hill 3 (O'Neill Kapanen) 12:17 (pp) 9 Carolina O'Neill 2 19:52 Third Period -10 Montreal Audette 6 (Oulntal) 5:44 (pp) Shots on goal -Carolina 13-13-6-32 Montreal 12-11-10 33 Power-play Opportunities Carolina 3 ol 4 Montreal 1 ot 5 Goalies Carolina Irbe 5-2 (33 shots-31 saves) Montreal Theodore 6-6 (1 3-8) Fiset (0:00 second 19-16) Theodore (18:21 third 0-0) Ottawa and Toronto tied 3-1 Game t-Ottawa 5 Toronto 0 Game 2-Toronlo 3 Ottawa 2 30T Game 3-Ottawa 3 Toronto 2 Game 4-Toronto 2 Ottawa 1 Game 5-Ottawa 4 Toronto 2 Game6-Toronto40ttawa3 Today-Ottawa at Toronto 4 pm WESTERN CONFERENCE Detroit deleated St Louts 4-1 Game1-Detroit2StLouisO Game 3-St Louis 6 Detroit 1 Game4-Detroit4StLouis3 Game 5-DetroiM St Louis 0 San Jose and Colorado tied 3-1 Game 1-San Jose 6 Colorado 3 Game2-Colorado8SanJose2 Game 3-San Jose 6 Colorado 4 Game 4-Colorado 4 San Jose 1 Game 5-San Jose 5 Colorado 3 Game 6-Colorado 2 San Jose 1 OT Wednesday-San Jose at Colorado 6:30 pm AVALANCHE 2 SHARKS 1 Colorado 0 10 1-2 San Joss 0100-1 Second Period -1 San Jose Ragnarsson 1 (Sundstrom Ricci) 15:17 2 Colorado Rein-precht 5 (Skoula) 1 5:41 Penalties Ragnarsson SJ (holding) 6:23 Forsberg Col (roughing) 6:23 Damphousse SJ (slashing) 10:59 Marchment SJ (holding) 16:32 Overtime 3 Colorado Forsberg 6 (Sakic Hejduk) 2:47 Shots on goal-Colorado 8-7-13-1-29 San Jose 9-7-5-1 22 Power-play Opportunities Colorado 0 ol 3 San Jose 0 of 2 Goalies Colorado Roy 7-6 (22 shots-21 saves) San Jose Nabokov 7-4 (29-27) A -17496 (17496) COLORADO SPRINGS 10 River Cats 3 COLLEGE MEN Baseball America Top 26 Now German just wants to think about the present said Germin who has a 271 batting average this season hard here for my team and waiting until they give me an And while that opportunity seems a long way away he argues with his bat Much like his childhood hero Rickey Henderson German is smooth on the base paths Last year he stole 17 bases for the Cats and is currently tied with teammate Jose Flores for a team-high five stolen bases Meanwhile Germin hopes to never again get caught in the in-tercultural crosswires have to work hard and prepare for things to go German said Levrault leaves early River Cats starter Allen Levrault left game after two-thirds of an inning with a sore right elbow He threw just 11 pitches surrendering three runs on one hit and two walks Levrault whose right shoulder was sore during spring training said that his elbow had been bothering him for several days "I know going Levrault said it was just killing me right when I started throwing (in the bullpen) not the same pitcher Levrault whose record fell to 2-2 said he is scheduled to visit a doctor in Oakland on Thursday McKay takes the mound After going through five relievers the River Cats sent catcher Cody McKay to the mound Using a knuckleball McKay pitched one inning allowing one hit and striking out third baseman Ryan Owens The second baseman is making the most of his stay in the minor leagues By Allison Otto SPECIAL TO THE BEE COLORADO SPRINGS Colo -Esteban German still grimaces slightly when he is reminded of the misplaced birth certificate While his teammates toiled under the Arizona sun during spring training some jockeying for the few positions available on the squad German spent 24 days in his Dominican Republic home trying to find the document lost by his mother He needed the certificate in order to obtain a visa Along with the lost time Ger-mln also lost his chance to land a job in Oakland and was instead dispatched to the Triple-A River Cats lost a good said German who had one hit in 10-3 loss to the Colorado Springs Sky Sox on Monday night before 2843 fans at Sky Sox Stadium problem was resolved but another opportunity like that present German caught the attention of the when he was called up to Sacramento last July He hit 373 with four home runs and 14 RBls Many thought he would certainly challenge for the starting second-base job That all ended with the lost birth certificate in February By the time mother In-ocencia found the document jumbled amidst a bag of old papers she swore she had searched before it was too late Motor Sports NHRA LEADERS Top Fuel-1 Larry Dixon 71 8 2 Kenny Bernstein 556 3 Cory McClenathan 486 4 Tony Schumacher 444 5 Doug Kalitta 383 6 David Grubnic 349 7 Doug Herbert 309 8 Darrell Russell 304 9 Rhonda Hartman-Smith 269 10 John Smith 258 Funny Car-1 John Force 552 2 Gary Den-sham 471 3 Whit Bazemore 459 4 Del Worsham 424 5 Tony Pedregon 407 6 Tommy Johnson Jr 382 7 Ron Capps 354 8 Scotty Cannon 335 9 Gary Scelzi 301 10 Johnny Gray 299 Pro Stock-1 Warren Johnson 51 9 2 Jim Yates 472 3 Darrell Alderman 423 4 Ron Krisher 414 5 George Marnell 392 6 Mike Edwards 385 7 Kurt Johnson 366 8 Jeg Coughlin and Bruce Allen 326 1 0 Greg Anderson 314 Pro Stock Motorcycle-1 Angelle Savoie 292 2 Craig Treble 283 3 Man Hines 210 4 Shawn Gann 209 5 Antron Brown 168 6 Mike Berry 159 7 Steve Johnson Geno Scali and Reggie Showers 157 10 John Smith 116 IRL MONEY LEADERS 1 Sam Hornish Jr $362450 2 Gil de Fer-ran $301350 3 Helio Castroneves $288350 4 Felipe Giaflone $205650 5 Scon Sharp $201200 6 Al Unser Jr $199600 7 Jaques Lazier $194750 6 Jeff Ward $1 871 00 9 Laurent Redon $1 85850 10 Billy Boat $158700 11 Tomas Scheck-ter $149300 12 Eliseo Salazar $147400 13 Robby McGehee $145300 14 Airton Dare $142450 15 Buddy Lazier $134700 16 Anthony Lazzaro $123550 17 Rick Treadway $123100 18 George Mack $121100 19 Alex Barron $116100 20 Eddie Cheever Jr $94000 CART MONEY LEADERS 1 Cristiano da Matta $133250 2 Dario Franchini $127500 3 Bruno Junqueira $126750 4 Michael AndreRi $126000 5 Alex Tagliani $101750 6 Michel Jourdain $95000 7 Jimmy Vasser $81 500 8 Max Pa-pis $78750: 9 Christian Fittipaldi $77500 10 Patrick Carpentier $68500 11 Kenny Brack $57750 12 Toranosuke Takagi $57500 13 Oriol Servia $56750 14 Scott Dixon $53750: 15 Paul Tracy $53500 16 Adrian Fernandez $52250 1 7 Shinji Nakano $42750 18 Mario Dominguez $39250 19 Townsend Bell $35500 20 Tony Kanaan $34500 WINSTON CUP MONEYLEADERS 1 Ward Burton $23331 81 2 Sterling Marlin $1 762574 3 Tony Stewart $1 693289 4 Elliott Sadler $1644834 5 Jell Gordon $1622433 6 Mark Martin $1476875 7 Matt Kenseth $1372567 8 Kurt Busch $1363676 9 Ricky Rudd $1335433 10 Bobby Labonte $1292903 11 Dale Earnhardt Jr $1256609 12 Rusty Wallace $1224115 13 Dale Jarrell $1208075 14 Jett Burton $1200916 15 Bill Elliott $1120747 16 Ryan Newman $1105373 17 Michael Waltrip $1084700 18 Kevin Har-vick $1075465 19 Terry Labonte $1 065990 20 John Andretti $9381 48 WP-Bost 1 A-2843 Happy ending Larry Sutton ended the night on an up note With two outs in the top of the ninth Sutton jacked a solo shot deep over the right-field fence HIGH SCHOOL BOYS Sac-Joaquln Section Ptayofl DIVISION I North At American River Collage Saturday's llrst-round gamed Delta 1 Elk Grove vs CAL 3 El Camino 1 0 am Metro 2 McClatchy vs CAL 2 Del Campo 1:15 pm CAL 1 Davis vs MEL 4 Fairfield 4:30 pm Metro 1 Jesuit vs Delta 2 Woodland 7:30 pm DIVISION II Al Sacramento City College Wednesday's llrst-round games SVC FI Christian Brothers vs SFL 2 Placer 5 pm VOL 1 Merrill West vs CVC 2 Foothill 8 pm Thursday's llrst-round games SFL 1 Rocklin vs VOL 12 Sierra 5 pm CVCfl Rio Linda vs SVC 2 Folsom 8pm DIVISION III At Zupo Field In Lodi Saturday's llrst-round games MLL 2 Bret Harte vs GEL-E 3 Golden Sierra 9am GEL-E 2 San Juan vs GEL-W 3 DixonMarysvilie noon GEL-W 2 River City vs TVL 3 Ripon Christian 3 pm TVL 2 Ripon vs MLL f3 Linden 6 pm GEL-W 11 Vanden TVL 1 Patterson MLL 1 Amador and GEL-E fl Union Mine have byes VALLEY CHRISTIAN 10 FREEDOM CHRISTIAN 0 Freedom Chr 000 000 0 2 6 Valley Chr 023 401 10 9 1 Abercrombie Chattin (5) and Chattin Abercrombie (5) Moss Elmore (3) Lugo (4) Scott (5) and Stowers Top hitters: FC-Hobbes 2B VC-Stacy 3x3 2B Mejia 2x3 3B 2 RBI Gar-rettson 2x4 Stowers 2x2 HR 3 RBI Scott 2B Hurricanes oust Canadiens VOLLEYBALL HIGH SCHOOL BOYS El Camino del Rio Americano 14-16 15-1 1 15-1215-13 it 4-0 with 5:02 left in the period after another Montreal miscue Cole intercepted a blind pass by Craig Rivet in the neutral zone and was stopped by Theodore but Vasicek easily backhanded the rebound home Then Kevyn Adams deked Rivet and scored at 18:15 to make it 5-0 Et cetera Ken Hitchcock fired by Dallas less than three years after leading the Stars to a Stanley Cup championship met with Philadelphia Flyers general manager Bob Clarke and team chairman Ed Snider and will continue his interview today The Flyers denied reports that a deal had already been made Bill Barber was fired two weeks ago after the Flyers were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs for the fourth time in five years Center Kris Vernarsky was traded to the Boston Bruins from the Toronto Maple Leafs for defenseman Richard Jackman ASSOCIATED PRESS MONTREAL Flash from the BBC: Carolina Conquers Cana-diensl Rookie Erik Cole the in BBC line that includes Rod and Bates Battaglia scored twice in the first 3:33 Monday night and the Hurricanes blitzed Montreal with five first-period goals and breezed to an 8-2 victory to win their best-of-seven Stanley Cup playoff series 4-2 It was the first win in six playoff meetings against the storied Canadiens for the franchise which entered the NHL in 1979 as the Hartford Whalers and moved to North Carolina five years ago After blowing a 3-0 third-period lead at the Molson Centre and losing 4-3 in overtime Thursday night the Canadiens were humbled 5-1 at Carolina on Sunday rendering this hockey-mad city into a somber mood Mon- NHL ROUNDUP day night many of their fans left before the first period was over Cole scored twice before Montreal took its first shot His first goal and fifth of the playoffs -only 25 seconds in easily beat Montreal goalie Jose Theodore after the netminder deflected goalmouth pass but was unable to control it in the crease Cole made it 2-0 again from in front this time off a setup by Battaglia after Theodore and Montreal defenseman Patrice Brisbois misplayed the puck All series Montreal had no answer for the BBC line which combined to score 1 1 of 21 goals and finished Game 6 with three goals and six assists Sean Hill made it 3-0 at 7:55 on a Carolina power play with a huge assist from Chad Kilger Josef Vasicek made SOCCER MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER Western Division CGA AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP At Alta Sierra CC Charlie Duty Sacramento 68 Bob Niger El Dorado Hills 68 Brian Jones Chico 68 Bill Hurwitz Sacramento 69 First alternate-Jelf Holtman Folsom 69 Second alternate-Scott Gordon Fair Oaks 70 SOUTH SACRAMENTO WOMEN'S CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP 36 holes at Bing Maloney Championship Flight: Low Net-Vee Gracida 134 First Flight: Peggy Dodds 139 Marie Walker 142 Janice Louie 142 Nytee Young 142 Second Flight: Betty Hutchings 141 Toshi Yamada 1 43 Aki Shumada 1 52 Evelyn Jacobs 153 Third Flight: Janice Slipe 141 Jan Wootten 141 Fumi Oshita 152 Elsie Manzer 153 Lorraine Kubochi 153 Fourth Flight: Eiko tmai 139 Jan Boyer 144 Carol Tahara 1 50 Belsey Scheuermann 151 HOLES IN ONE Lauren Johansen 1 1 9-yard 1 7th hole at Diablo Grande B-iron Stephanie Trenck 1 09-yard 1 8th hole at the Village Course (Hawaii) 5-iron Marty Lee 107-yard seventh hole at Bing Maloney Executive Nine sand wedge Charles llhrhammer 105-yard first hole at Bing Maloney Executive Nine 5-iron TENNIS WTA MASTER SERIES In Rome Women'i llrst-round singlet Magdalena Maleeva Bulgaria del Martina Sucha Slovakia 6-0 7-6 (4) Magui Serna Spam det Maria Elena Camerln Italy 6-3 6-4 Virginia Ruano Pascual Spain del Angeles Montolio Spain 7-6 (4) 6-3 Mary Pierce France det Marie-Gaiane Mikaelian Switzerland 6-3 5-7 6-4 Anna Kourqikova Russia del Marta Marrero Spain 6-3 6-3 Asa Svens-son Sweden del Meghann Shaughnessy (10) United States 6-3 6-3 Nathalie Dechy France del Cnstina Torrens Valero Spain 6-3 6-4 Tatiana Panova (1 6) Russia del Jennifer Hopkins United States 4-6 6-4 6-0 Iroda Tulyaganova (14) Uzbekistan del Tathiana Garbin Italy 6-3 6-2 Julia Vakulenko Ukraine del Emmanuelle Gagliardi Switzerland 7-5 6-0 Maja Malevzic Slovenia del Clarisa Fernandez Argentina 4-6 6-1 7-6 (7) Rita Grande Italy del Klara Koukalova Czech Republic 2-6 6-4 6-1 Women'sflrst-round doubles Tamarine Tanasugam Thailand and Elena Tatarkova Ukraine del Kim Granl South Allies and Abigail Spears United States 7-5 3-6 6-3 Silvia Farina Elia Italy and Barbara Schett (8) Austria del Maria Emilia Salem! Argentina and Irina Selyutina Kazakstan 6-4 6-1 Nathalie Dechy France and Meilen Tu United States del Nicole Arendt United States and Liezel Huber (5) South Africa 6-2 6-4 Conchita Martinez Spain and Patricia Tarabini7) Argentina del Surma de Beer and Nannie de Villiers South Africa 6-2 6-4 ATP MASTER SERIES In Hamburg Germany Men's tint-round singles Bjorn Phau Germany det Albert Portas Spain 6-4 6-2 Fernando Gonzalez Chile del Christian Vinck Germany 7-5 6-4 Alberto Martin Spam del David Nalbandian Argentina 6-4 6-3 Guillermo Canas (15) Argentina del Xavier Malisse Belgium 7-5 1-6 6-0 Julien Boulter France del Albert Mon-tanes Spam 7-6(2) 6-4 Juan Ignacio Chela Argentina del Mark Philippoussis Australia 6-4 6-4 Lleyton Hewitt (1 Australia del Philipp Kohlschreiber Germany 7-5 6-4 Stefan Koubek Austria del Anthony Dupuis France 7-5 6-1 Alex Corretja Spain del Yevgeny Kafelnikov (4) Russia 6-1 6-2 Max Mirnyi Belarus del Pete Sampras (12) United States 6-3 6-4 Tim Henman (5) Britain del Nicolas Escude France 6-4 6-2 Younes El Aynaoui (16) Morocco del Fabrics Santoro France 7-6 (3) 6-3 Carlos Moya Spain del Mikhail Youzhny Russia 6-3 2-6 6-4 Wayne Ferreira South Alnca del Olivier Rochus Belgium 4-6 7-6(0) 6-4 SjengSchalken Netherlands del Michel Kratochvil Switzerland 6-4 6-4 Albert Costa Spam det Juan Carlos Fer-rero (3) Spain 2-6 6-3 6-4 Men'i llrst-round doublet Thomas Johansson Sweden and Mark Philippoussis Australia del Guillermo Canas Argentina and Marat Safin Russia 7-6 (9) 6-4 Jonas Bjorkman Sweden and Todd Wood-bridge (4) Australia del Simon Aspelin Sweden and Jell Tarango United States 6-3 6-3 David Adams South Africa and Michael Kohl-mann Germany del Petr Pala and Pavel Vizner (7) Czech Republic 6-4 6-2 Mahesh Bhupathi India and Jan-Michael Gambill United States del Bob and Mike Bryan (5) United States 3-6 6-2 10-7 tiebreak Mark Knowles Bahamas and Daniel Nestor (2) Canada del Tommy Haas and Rainer Schuettler Germany 7-6 (3) 6-4 HIGH SCHOOL BOYS 8ac-Joaquln Section Division I semifinals JESUIT! LINCOLN-STOCKTOND Jesuit first Smgles-Brunner del Oechel 6-3 6-1 Livingston del Kahl 6-0 6-1 McCollum del Cossette 6-2 6-0 Salfold del Amundson 4-6 7-5 6-3: Rooney del Borradi 6-1 6-1 Dawson del Wu 6-0 6-3 Doubles-Glass-Anderson del Styers-Ang 6-0 6-1 Jarka-Pop-pen del Bricka-Cook 6-1 6-1 Parks-Hastings del Crockett-lrwin 2-6 7-6 (7-5)s 7-6 (7-4) BOXING WBC RATINGS Heavyweight (over 1 90 pounds) Champion: Lennox Lewis Britain 1 Mike Tyson 2 Vitaly Klitschko Ukraine 3 Hasim Rahman 4 Evander Holylield 5 Oliver McCall 6 Juan Carlos Gomez Cuba 7 David Tua New Zealand 6 Fres Oquendo 9 Chris Byrd 10 Jameel McCline Crulseiwelght (190 pounds) Champion: Vacant 1 Wayne Braithwaite Guyana 2 Vincenzo Cantatore Italy 3 0 Neil Bell 4 Alexander Gurov Ukraine 5 Carlos Cruzat Chile 6 Louis Azille Dominican Republic 7 Dale Brown Canada 8 Sebastian Rothman South Africa 9 Michael Nunn 10 James Toney Light Heavyweight (175 pounds) Champion: Roy Jones 1 Clinton Woods Bntam 2 Yawe Davis Italy 3 Antonio Tarver 4 Mads Larsen Denmark 5 Eric Harding 6 Julio Gonzalez Mexico 7 Reggie Johnson 8 Lou Del Valle 9 Jorge Castro Argentina 10 Montell Griffin Super Middleweight (168 pounds) Champion: Eric Lucas Canada 1 Markus Beyer Germany 2 David Starie Britain 3 Thomas Tate 4 Danilo Haussler Germany 5 Mikkel Kessler Denmark 6 Za-farou Ballogou Togo 7 Antwun Echols 8 Glenn Catley Britain 9 Dingaan Thobela South Alrica10 Omar Sheika Middleweight (160 pounds) Champion: Bernard Hopkins 1 Erland Betare France 2 Felix Trinidad Puerto Rico 3 Cristian Sanavia Italy 4 Tito Mendoza Panama 5 Naotaka Hozuml Japan 6 Antonio Perugmo Italy 7 Raymond Joval Holland 8 Morrade Hakkar France 9 Robert Allen 10 Raul Marquez Super Welterweight (154 pounds) Champion: Oscar de la Hoya 1 Roman Karmazin Russia 2 Francisco Caslillejo Spam 3 Fitz Vanderpool Trinidad Tobago 4 Bronco McKart 5 Nader Hamden Australia 6 Akira Ohigashi Japan 7 Ma-madou Thiam France 8 Steve Roberts Britain 9 Wayne Alexander Britain 1 0 Angel Hernandez Mexico Welterweight (147 pounds) Champion: Vernon Forrest 1 Shane Mosley 2 Jose Luis Cruz Mexico 3 Carlos Baldomir Argentina 4 Thomas Dam-gaard Denmark 5 Danny Perez 6 Hercules Kyvelos Canada 7 Manuel Gomez Mexico 8 Rafael Pineda Colombia 9 RevSantillan Philippines 10 Michael Trabant Germany Super Lightweight (140 pounds) Champion: Konstantin Tszyu Australia 1 Gianluca Branco Italy 2 Arturo Gatti Canada 3 Richard Hatton Britain 4 Eamonn Magee Britain 5 Ben Tackie Ghana 6 James Leija 7 Oktay Urkal Turkey-Germany 8 Omar Weis Argentina 9 Hector Camacho Jr lOMasakazu Satake Japan Lightweight (135 pounds) Champion: Floyd Mayweather 1 Jose Luis Castillo Mexico 2 Steve Johnston 3 Juan Lazcano 4 Stefano Zoft Italy 5 Carlos Gerena Puerto Rico 6 Raul Balbi Argentina 7 Julien Lorcy France 8 Vic-tonano Damian Sosa Dominican Republic 9 Colin Dunne Britain 10 Sandro Casamonica Italy Super Featherweight (130 pounds) Champion: vacant 1 Sirimongkol Singmanassuk Thai 2 Kengo Nagashima Japan 3 Jesus Chavez Mexico 4 Randy Suico Philippines 5 Phillip Ndou South Africa 6 Carlos Hernandez El Salvador 7 Aleiandro Gonzalez Mexico 8 Joel Casamayor Cuba 9 Jorge Barrios Argentina 10 Affit Djelti France Featherweight (126 pounds) Champion: Erik Morales Mexico 1 Injin Chi South Korea 2 Juan Manuel Marquez Mexico 3 Michael Brodie Britain 4 Takashi Koshimoto Japan 5 Manuel Calvo Spam 6 Robbie Peden Australia 7 Nassem Hamed Britain 8 Anthony Tshehla South Africa 9 Scott Hamson Britain 10 Guty Espa-das Mexico Super Bantamweight (122 pounds) Champion: Willie Jorrin 1 Israel Vazquez Mexico 2 OscarLarios Mexico 3 Kiattisakchocchoi Thailand 4 Paul Ayala 5 Salim Medkoune France 6 Nadel Hussein Australia 7 Yongjin Cho South Korea 6 Manabu Fukushima Japan 9 Kozo Ishii Japan10 Jyunichi Watanabe Japan Bantamweight (118 pounds) Champion: Veeraphol Nakhonluang Thailand 1 Toshlakl Nishioka Japan 2 Genaro Garcia Mexico 3 Ratael Marquez Mexico 4 Jess Maca Philippines 5 Diego Morales Mexico 6 Spend Abazi Denmark 7 Noel Wilders Britain 8 Abner Cordero Philippines 9 Ricardo Vargas Mexico 10 Hugo Dianzo Mexico Super Flyweight (115 pounds) Champion: Masamon Tokuyama Japan 1 Gerry Penalosa Philippines 2 Dimitri Kirilov Russia 3 Reynaldo Hurtado Colombia 4 Luis Bolano Colombia 5 San Sor Ploenjit Thailand 6 Malcolm Tunacao Philippines 7 Katsushige Kawashima Japan 8 Jose Angel Beranza Mexico 9 Mauncio Pastrana Colombia 10 Sot Sot Veeraphol Thailand Flyweight (112 pounds) Champion: Pongsaklek Woniongkam Thailand 1 Alexander Mahmutov Russia 2 Hide-nobu Honda Japan 3 Hiroshi Nakano Japan 4 Wande Chor Chareon Thailand 5 Masaki Nakanuma Japan 6 Hussein Hussein Australia 7 Randy Mangubat 8 Masibulele Makep-ula South Africa 9 Gerson Guerrero Mexico 1 0 Everardo Morales Mexico light Flyweight (100 pounds) Champion: Yosam Choi South Korea 1 Melchor Cob Castro Mexico 2 Juanito Rubillar Philippines 3 Agustin Luna Mexico 4 Jesus Martinez Mexico 5 Bebis Mendoza Colombia Eric Ortiz Mexico 7 Tatsuo Ha-yashida Japan 8 John Molina Colombia 9 Wendy! Janiota Philippines 1 0 Rodrigo Gaffd da Mexico Saturday's games Colorado at Dallas 4 pm MetroStars at DC United 6:30 pm Earthquakes at Columbus 7:30 pm Los Angeles at Kansas City 8 pm Sunday's gams Chicago at NewEngland 4:30 pm HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS Sac-Joaquln Section PlayoNs (All gamea begin at 3:30 pm unless noted) DIVISION I Today's quarterfinal games CAL 41 Davis (21-1-3) vs Delta 2 Sheldon (14-3-3) American River College 6 pm Delta 1 Elk Grove (1 4-4-3) vs OAL 3 Bella Vista (18-2-3) American River College 8 pm SJAA 42 Lodi (15-8-3) at CCC 41 Beyer (23-0-3) MEL 43 Will Wood (14-3-4) at MEL 41 Armiio (22-1-3) DIVISION II Thursday's semifinal games Al Granite Bay High School VOL 41 Sierra (22-2-4) vs SVC 41 Ponde-rosa (15-2-2) 6 pm SFL 41 Granite Bay (18-2-2) vs SVC 42 Folsom (15-4-3) 8 pm DIVISION III Monday's llrsl-round game TVL 42 Hughson (19-2-1) at GEL East 41 Union Mine (14-3-3) 5 pm Thursday's semifinal games MLL 41 Summerville (20-4-1) vs Union Mine-Hughson winner MLL 42 Bret Harte (12-5-3) at TVL 41 Hil-mar (21-5-1) DIVISION IV Today's hrsl-round gamea CVCL 42 Forest Lake Christian (17-4-0) at SL 41 Central Catholic (20-1-1) SL 42 Mariposa (13-6-2) at CVCL 41 Sacramento Country Day (1 3-1 -1 4:30 pm Sharks: Roy rebounds well from Game 3 CONTINUED FROM C3 Western Conference finals Patrick Roy who has struggled during the series stopped 21 San Jose shots He has allowed a surprising 18 goals during the series against the Sharks Nabokov stopped 27 shots Saturday Colorado dropped Game 5 in Denver when the Sharks scored three times in the third period for a 5-3 win and a chance to eliminate the Avalanche on home ice But the Avalanche has been on the brink of elimination before In the Stanley Cup finals against the New Jersey Devils last year Colorado lost Game 5 at home to trail 3-2 in the series The Avalanche rebounded with a shutout of the Devils before winning the Stanley Cup at home Since 1996 Patrick Roy has rebounded big-time after allowing five or more goals in a playoff game 9-0 with three shutouts and the Avalanche have outscored opponents 45-8 Defense was dominant on both sides With Adam Foote in the box for tripping Scott Thornton the Sharks peppered Roy with shots Forward Mike Ricci charged into a crowd of Avalanche players to get to a loose puck somersaulting over the group but Roy stopped the shot Nabokov deftly deflected hard shot from the right circle with just under four minutes left in the period Sakic has given the Sharks trouble throughout the series with three goals in the past two games and 10 points overall The Avalanche went on a power play at 10:59 in the second period when Vincent Damphousse was penalized for slashing but could not get past Nabokov With just under six minutes to go San Jose defenseman Marcus Ragnarsson looked surprised when his hard shot from the left circle got past Roy It was first goal in 40 playoff appearances But 24 seconds later Steven Reinprecht took the puck circled around the net and beat Nabokov from the right side to even it at 1-1 Both teams had their chances in the tense third period' Damphousse and Sharks captain Owen Nolan skated in on Roy alone but shot went just wide of the goal On the other side Rob shot dribbled across the crease past Nabokov but defenseman Scott Hannan skated in to make a spectacular save The earthquake hit later in the third and shook the rafters of the arena It was centered near Gilroy south of San Jose and had a preliminary magnitude of 52 SOFTBALL HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS Sac-Joaquln Section Playolta DIVISION I At Sacramento Soltball Complex Saturday's first-round games Delta 1 Sheldon vs CCC 3 Grace Davis 10 am MEL Will Wood vs Metro Johnson 10 am CAL dl El Camino vs SJAA 2 Bear Creek 10 am CCC 1 Ceres vs MEL 43 Vacaville 1 0 am Metro 1 St Francis vs Delta 43 Woodland noon SJAA 41 Tokay vs CAL 42 Casa Roble noon Delta 42 Elk Grove vs CCC 42 Merced noon MEL 41 Fairfield vs CAL 43 Del Campo noon DIVISION II At Sacramento Softball Complex Saturday's llrst-round games SVC 41 Cordova vs SFL 42 Del OroRoseville 2 pm VOL 41 East Union vs CVC 42 FoothillLor-etto 2 pm SFL 41 RosevilleDel Oro vs VOL 42 Merrill West 2 pm CVC 41 Rio Linda vs SVC 42 Ponderosa 2 pm DIVISION Ilf Al Lodi Softball Complex Saturday's llrst-round games MLL 42 Calaveras vs GEL-E 43 Colfax 10 am GEL-E 42 Union Mine vs GEL-W 43 River City 10 am GEL-W 42 Lincoln vs TVL 43 HilmarEsca-kjn2prn TVL 42 PattersonHughson vs MU 43 Amador 2 pm GEL-W 41 VandenTVL41 PattersonHughson MLL 41 Brookside Christian and GEL-E 41 Golden Sierra have byes DIVISION IV At Lodi Soflball Complex Saturday's Hrsl-nund games MVL41vsSVa43noon SL 41 Oresbmba vs SVCL 42 noon Sva 41 Victory Christian vs SL 43 Modesto Christian 4 pm MVL42vs SL42LeGrand 4 pm RIVER CITY DIXONS Dixon 000 D21 2D 1 13 2 RhrarCIty 202 DID 01 I Hunter and Hanes Ogilvie and Verduzco Top hitters: D-Malgieni 5x5 2B 3B rtJR 2 RBI Pftendez 2x4: PautH 3x4 RC-OspVne 2x4 2 RBI Verduzco 2x3 20 30 KotS HR Cycling GIRO O'lTALIA RACE 1296 mites second leg fn Liege lalglum 1 Stefano Garzelli Italy 5 hours 25 minutes 1 2 seconds 2 Francesco Casagrande Italy same time 3 Jens Heppner Germany same time 4 Davide Rebellin Italy same time 5 Tyler Hamilton United States same time 6 Michael Boogerd Netherlands same time 7 Rik Verbrugghe Belgium same time 8 Cadet Evans Australia three seconds behind 9 Mykhaylo Khalilov Ukraine same time 10 Juan Carlos Dominguez Spam same time 11 Frabrizio Guidi Italy same time 12 Dario Frigo Italy same hme 1 3 Michele Scar-poni Italy same time 14 Franco Pellizzotti Italy same time 15 Andrea Noe Italy same time Also: 104 Guido Trend United States 3 minutes 1 second behind Standings after two stages: 1 Garzelli 11 hours 10 minutes 45 seconds 2 Guidi 13 seconds behind 3 Verbrugghe 19 4 Dominguez 21 5 Matthias Kessler Germany 27 6 Casagrande 31 7 Khalilov 33 8 Matthias Buxhofer Austria 34 9 Evans 37 10 Frigo 41 11 Andrea Noe Italy 43 12 Grischa Niermann Germany 44 13 Daniel De PaoH Italy 45 14 Serhiy Honchar Ukraine 47 15 Wladimir Belli Italy same hme 16 Isaac Galvez Lopez Spain 48 Also: 1 9 Hamilton 52 Thousands of reasons to update your resume The Region's Resource for JQB1 SACBEECLASSIFIED The depth of The Sacramento Bee The power of sactfccom.