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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11,2012
4 • Altus Times
Sports
Ibanez hits
See BULLDOGS | 5
Sporting events
Thursday
Cross Country
Friday
ton swinging with runners their closer in the ninth.
four starts.
Armstrong doping report includes 200 pages, 26 witnesses
See ARMSTRONG | 5
Eddie Pells
AP National Writer
for A-Rod,
homers twice
start the bottom of the ninth
inning. Josh Donaldson then
hammered a double off the
wall in left-center field, mov-
ing Reddick to third. Seth
4:30 p.m. - Altus High boys and girls host Altus
meet at city soccer fields north of town
Football
7 p.m. - Altus High Bulldogs vs. Oklahoma City
Southeast, at C.B Speegle Stadium at Capitol Hill
High School.
7:30 p.m. - Hollis Tigers at Thomas
7:30 p.m. - Mangum Tigers host Hobart
6 p.m. - Tipton Tigers host Hobart JV
7:30 p.m. Duke Tigers at Cement
Bulldogs look for district win at OKC Southeast
It’s that time of the year people has told his players this week ev- face a multiple gun offense and a
starting talking playoffs in high ery goal that has been set as far defense that lines up with varia-
school football. as the playoffs are concerned is tions of a 4-4.
For the Altus High School Bull- there. It’s a balanced offense and the
Jack Hayden/Altus Times
Altus High's Diquon Woodhouse goes up for a pass in the Bulldogs game with Del City last Friday. Altus will play at Okla-
homa City Southeast tomorrow night.
the season in Double A, ar- nings, breezed through four in the eighth on Quintin
rived in Oakland in June and innings on 46 pitches. He Berry’s run-scoring single to
didn't lose until September, struck out the side in the stretch their lead to two and
But he struggled in his last fifth, getting Cliff Penning- put the game in the hands of
dogs it's time to get rolling. The “There are more district games big weapon is wide receiver/tight
Bulldogs are 1-5 on the season and ahead of us than they are behind end Tavon Kramer (6-3, 225, Sr.),
1-2 in district play. If Altus enter- us,” Stone said. “We have to make a cousin of Altus running back
tains any shot at getting into the that a priority. It has to be on our Diquon Woodhouse. Tyrone Har-
playoffs they will probably have to minds.” rison (6-3, 185, Sr.) also gives
win three of their four remaining It has been a frustrating year for quarterback Micah Hunter a good
tor games to make that a possibil- the Bulldogs and Stone said it all target. The running game revolves
ity. gets back to execution. around Raymond Douglass who
It starts Friday against Oklaho- “We’re making execution mis- Stone termed “a hard runner.”
ma City Southeast. Kick off will be takes that is week one type of All three are two-way perform-
at 7 p.m. at C.B Speegle Stadium stuff,” Stone said. “It’s not a ers. Harris is the big play guy
on the campus of Oklahoma City scheme problem, not an athletic on defense from the corner back
Capitol Hill High School. The problem, not a coaching problem, position.”He runs like a gazelle,”
following games include Lawton it’s a focus problem. If we’re in this Stone said.
MacArthur, Ardmore and Capitol (focusing), I can guarantee you, Southeast (2-4, 1-2) has been
Hill. we will be in the playoffs.”
. Altus High Head Coach Chad In Southeast, the Bulldogs will
tions — the hotel rooms riders transformed It presents as matter-of-fact reality that capie, Tyler Hamilton and Floyd Landis,
into makeshift blood-transfusion centers, winning and doping went hand-in-hand in In a letter sent to USADA attorneys
the way Armstrong’s former wife rolled cycling and that Armstrong was the focal Tuesday, Armstrong’s attorney, Tim Her-
They came from computer records, cortisone pills into foil and handed them point of a big operation, running teams that man, dismissed any evidence provided by
books, media reports and, maybe most ou( to the cyclists. were the best at getting it done without get- Landis and Hamilton, saying the riders are
significantly, the people Lance Armstrong The report, released Wednesday, depicts ting caught. Armstrong won the Tour as “serial perjurers and have told diametrical-
used to train alongside and celebrate with, what USADA chief Travis Tygart called leader of the U.S. Postal Service team from ly contradictory stories under oath.”
The people he used to call his friends. "the most sophisticated, professionalized 1999-2004 and again in 2005 with the Dis- Aware of the criticism his agency has
Hit with a lifetime ban and the loss of an(] successful doping program that sport covery Channel as the primary sponsor. faced from Armstrong and his legion of fol-
all seven of his Tour de France titles. Arm- ^as ever seen." USADA said the path Armstrong chose lowers, Tygart insisted his group handled
strong challenged the U.S. Anti-Doping Armstrong’s attorney called it a “one- to pursue his goals “ran far outside the this case under the same rules as any other
Agency to give him the names of all his sided hatchet job." rules." Armstrong was given the chance to take his
accusers. The agency obliged, listing 26, Either way, it serves up the most detailed, It accuses him of depending on perfor- case to arbitration and declined, choosing
including 11 former teammates. unflinching portrayal yet of Armstrong as a mance-enhancing drugs to fuel his victo- in August to accept the sanctions instead,
Armstrong said he wanted to see the man who would pay virtually any price — ries and “more ruthlessly, to expect and to Tygart noted.
hard evidence that he was a doper, and financially, emotionally and physically — to require that his teammates” do the same. “We focused solely on finding the truth
USADA gave him that, too, in the form of win the seven Tour de France titles that the Among the 11 former teammates who tes-
a 200-page tome filled with vivid recollec- anti-doping agency has ordered taken away, tified against Armstrong are George Hin-
Matt Kawahara
The Sacramento Bee (MCT)
OAKLAND, Calif. -
The sea of green and gold
swelled, clamoring for more
to the story that it cheered
without trying to explain.
Written off before the sea-
son began, the Athletics had
won 14 games at home in
their final at-bat this year,
raging against finality that
didn’t come on their terms.
They didit and'three outs On Wednesday night, series for Detroit, nights, laced a double to
from plavoff elimination the Crisp shot a Valverde pitch The third such hit fol- right-center to score Crisp.
Athletics rallied against De- into right field, and with lowed shortly, and loudly. Drew tried for third, and
troit Tigers closer Jose Val- Smith tearing around third Griffin left an 0-2 fastball Infante’s relay of Jackson’s
verde for a 4-3 win in Game base for home, the ball rolled over the plate to Prince throw from center reached
4 of the American League under Avisail Garcia’s glove. Fielder, who crushed it to the bag well ahead.
Division Series on Wednes- Smith slid across with the right field, leaving no pos- The hit knocked Scherzer
day night to make this a one- tying run, the A’s exploded sibility of it being brought out of the game. The out was
game series. It will lie Jarrod onto the field, and there back a la Crisp the night be- costly. Instead of a runner
Parker of the A’s against would be another day in this fore. Instead, Reddick barely on second and no outs, the
Detroit 's Justin Verlander improbable season, looked up as it sailed into A’s had nobody on and one
on Thursday night with a Needing a win, the A’s the seats, down, and after Brandon
trip to the American League sent rookie AJ. Griffin to Scherzer, a big right-hand- Moss drew a two-out walk,
Championship Series on the the mound to oppose De- er who led all A.L. pitchers Reddick's fly ball died at the
line troit’s 16-game winner, Max this season by striking out warning track in center.
Howie Rumberg
AP Sports Writer
NEW YORK — Down by a run in an all-even AL di-
vision series, Joe Girardi approached Alex Rodriguez and
told baseball’s highest-paid player he was going to pinch hit
forhim.
Bold move, benching one of the game’s great sluggers.
“1 just had a gut feeling,” the Yankees manager said. T
just went to him and I said, ‘You’re scuffling a little bit
right now, we have got a low-ball hitter and we’ve got a
shorter porch in right field then left field obviously — Raul
(Ibanez) has been a good pinch hitter for us, and I’m just
going to take a shot.’”
The audacious decision worked.
Ibanez homered in the ninth, then again in the 12th, ral-
lying New York to a stunning 3-2 victory over the Baltimore
Orioles on Wednesday night for a 2-1 lead in their best-of-
five series.
The slumping Rodriguez offered no complaint, telling Gi-
rardi: “Joe, you gotta do exactly what you gotta do."
Injured saves leader Mariano Rivera went to Rodriguez in
the dugout after seeing Ibanez head for the on-deck circle.
“I told Alex not to worry, that Raul was going to hit a
home run," Rivera said.
And Rivera was right next to A-Rod when Ibanez lined
Jim Johnson’s 1-0 pitch into the right field stands. Rodri-
guez threw his arms into the air and then exchanged high-
fives with Rivera When Ibanez returned to the bench, Ro-
driguez was the first player to greet him.
“There was no one happier than me, one of the best per-
formances I have ever seen,” Rodriguez said.
Yankees fans had been howling this week for Girardi to
drop Rodriguez out of the No. 3 spot in the batting order.
But Girardi was reluctant to move his fading slugger down
in the lineup.
Until he took him all the way out.
“You have to make some decisions sometimes that are
tough decisions. I just had a gut feeling," Girardi said.
Rodriguez has 647 career home runs — he’s chasing the
record of 762 by Barry Bonds — and is making $29 million
this year. But was just 1 for 12 with no RBIs and seven
strikeouts in this series when Girardi pulled him.
“It kind of caught me off-guard, hitting for a guy who’s
half-a-billionaire," Orioles center fielder Adam Jones said. :
It was the first time Rodriguez had ever been pinch hit :
for in a postseason game, according to STATS LLC.
“Sometimes you’ve got to do what your gut tells you, and
my gut told me to make the move,” Girardi said. “I still have •
the utmost respect for A and I still think he's a great player,
he’s just going through a little tough time right now.”
Ibanez remained in the game and connected on the first
pitch from Brian Matusz in the 12th. He became the first
player to homer twice in a postseason game in which he
didn’t start, STATS said.
Phil Hughes will try to clinch it for the Yankees on Thurs-
day night in Game 4. Joe Saunders will start for Baltimore.
The Orioles had won 16 straight extra-inning games, and
had been 76-0 when leading after seven, before the Yankees
stung them.
“It was a great experience. We do it as a team. We stay
after it,” Ibanez said. “I’m blessed to come up and have the
opportunity like that. We do it together. It’s about a team
At hlictics rally to s ct up sh OW Cl own The brash young Orioles appeared poised to move with-
4 *" * eV D 1 in a win of their first trip to the AL championship series
Smith laced a ball into the While the A’s were try- on first and third to end the since 1997 before the Yankees comeback.
gap in right center field, and ing to figure out how to hit inning. banez hit a pitch into theiseats in the ninth, setting
suddenly, the score was tied Scherzer’s mid-90s fastball But as Scherzer’s night a raucous 1
and the announced crowd of and biting slider, striking lengthened, his fastball ap- Ibanez “ didn’t know who he was hitting for and
36,305 came alive. out eight times through hve pearedI to lose steam. Lead- was a bit startled when Eduardo Nunez told him.
George Kottaras popped innings, the Tigers built a ing off the sixth, Crisp "Alex is one f the best hitters {all time and he still is.h
out and Cliff Pennington 2-0lead against Griffin. battled for 10 pitches before Ibanez said. I mean, s one of the greatest players in the
struck out looking to bring AlexAviladoubled down hitting a one-hopper that history of the game. So for a minute I just thought some-
Coco Cnsp to the plate, the right-field hne in the bounced off Fielders glove thing was going on, I didn’t know what was happening and
Crisp’s dropped fly ball in third, and Omar Infante sac- for a two-base error. Crisp then I just tried to put it behind me and get a good pitch
Game 2 led to two runs in a rificed him to third. Austin then scampered to third on10 PU18 8009 Pllcn
loss. He robbed Prince Field- Jackson lined a single to left a wild pitch. See YANKEES | 5
er of a home run in Game 3 to score Avila, only the sec- Stephen Drew, play-
to preserve a shutout win. ond run-scoring hit in the ing stellar defense for two -
osh Reddick singled to Scherzer. Griffin, 24, started 11.1 batters every nine in- The Tigers added a run
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