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as OSU slips into 5th place
“The good was even bad to
Weight room Malone takes MVP, wishes it were championship trophy
But to Baffert’s thinking,
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Menifee doesn't quite enter in-
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Altus - Lankford and Hines. Iowa Park
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Simpson. W - Lankford. L - Offield. 2B -
Long (Altus). Adams 2 (Iowa Park). HR -
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Leading hitters (Altus) - Hines, 2-4, HR. 4
RBI; Long, 2-3, 2B, 2 RBI. (Iowa Park) -
Adams, 2-4,2 2B; Smith, 2-4.
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Altus - Tackett and Lankford. Iowa Park
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Leading hitters (Altus) - Stokes, 1-3, 2B;
Hines, 1-2; Lankford, 1-3.
boys, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; High come
school boys, 5:30 p.m. to 8 Crown winner. “This is the
p.m. best filly in the country
Parents who have any against the best colt in the
questions about the Summer country. It’s like a heavy-
Pride program should contact weight fight."
Altus Athletic Director Jim The presence of Silverbul-
Holloway at 481-2162. letday adds a dimension to
CHASKA, Minn. (AP)Na- of defending champion UNLV. der par.
tional Golf Course is coming First-day leader Oklahoma The U.S. Open-style
out on top so far in the NCAA State slipped into a tie for course, with rough that start
men's championship. fifth, seven shots back. ed at 2 1 /2 inches and won t
Defending champion Last year, in Albuquerque, be cut, got even harder Thurs-
James McLean of Minnesota N.M., 13 teams finished the day when the wind whipped
took one look at the team championship under par, led up, wreaking havoc on drives
leader board on Thursday and by UNLV's 34-under. and drying the greens, abru-
laughed that it was all black, Only six golfers broke par tal double whammy,
all over par. Thursday, led by Luke Donald
of Northwestern, whose 68
“Remember least year? The gave him a 3-under-par 141 day," said Minnesota senior
whole board was red,” and the lead at the halfway Bill Thompson, who had a 78
McLeansaid. mark. after an opening 71. The
Altus Times photo by Tina Fowble No team finished under par Donald and just two others, greens were way faster than
Colby Tackett sinales in the bottom of the seventh inning to ignite a 7-run rally that at the 36-hole cut. Clemson Arizona's Derek Gillespie and yesterday. It was like putting
lifted the Altus AA Mudcats to a 9.8 victory over Iowa Park in the first game ofThurs- was the “"“ Water or East Trennchute “
day night's American Legion baseball doubleheader at Kiwanis Park. The Mudcats layout. That’s one stroke state, both two strokes back, over the trees and it can go
swept the twinbill with a 3-1 win in the nightcap.__ahead of BYU and three ahead entered today’s Round 3 un- anywhere.”
strength; 2) strength builds
builds winning attitudes; and Triple Crown and more at stake in Belmont
4winningcattitudes build NEW YORK (AP) — The way the race that didn't exist in a S5 million bonus from Visa,
The goal of the summer Bob Baffert sees it, there’s any of the 25 Belmonts with a Silverbulletday looks to be a
pride program is to improve more than the Triple Crown Triple Crown at stake. For the worthy opponent having
strength, quickness, explosive on the line in Saturday’s $1 first time, a filly is in the field overwhelmed the filly ranks
power, speed, agility, and ulti- million Belmont Stakes. as a potential spoiler, and not by winning her last eight
mately develop every partici- More than the Triple only is she in, but shes the
pant into a better athlete. Crown? third choice at 4-1 behind fa-
Summer Pride hours; "You’ve been missing the vored Charismatic at 2-1 and
(every Monday, Wednesday, boat," said Baffert, who sends Derby and Preakness runner-
Friday) are; High school boys, out his star filly Silverbullet- up Menifee, 7-2 in the morn-
6:30 a.m. to 9 a.m.; High day against Kentucky Derby ingline.
The 35-year-old Utah Jazz easily be second within two year in 1986. bers. Malone received 827
forward had another banner years. But Malone almost always points and 44 first-place votes
individual year that was “Of course you’d give all of came through for the Jazz to Mourning’s 773 points and
marred by setbacks in other this up for a championship, during the regular season, 36 first-place votes,
areas, especially his failure to but that’s not possible,” he when they tied San Antonio
win the NBA title that has said Thursday. “1 just have to for the league’s best record,
eluded him throughout his be happy with doing the best He led Utah in scoring for the
14-year career. job 1 possibly can for my team 13th straight year and contin-
He knows that failure will and for myself. That’s what I ued tobe the Jazz’s focal point
define his career as much as really have to play for." on both offense and defense,
the two MVP trophies, 11 All- Malone averaged 23.8 Malone edged fellow big
Star selections, two Olympic points in 1999, his lowest men Alonzo Mourning of Mia-
gold medals and his eventual since 1986-87, his second mi and Tim Duncan of San
place among the league’s ca- year in the league. His re- Antonio in the voting by 118
reer scoring leaders. He is bounding average was down North American media mem-
currently fourth, and could to 9.4, lowest since his rookie
Hines shines as Mudcats sweep Iowa Park
’ JOE DON ROYAL inning Hunter Stokes walked walked to load the bases. on the mound to gain the to take a throw and tag the walks in picking up the com
By JOE DON RO ----------become Altus' first Hines stepped to the plate pitching victory for Altus. He runner out at first base. plete-game victory
Times SportS Writer baserunner of the game, and ripped a fastball far over gave up six hits, struck out The score remained tied at mound. Miciat improved
barumean singled to move the left field fence to bring Al- three and walked Just two bat- 1-1 until the bottom of the The AA Mudcats impres d
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run rally in the bottom of the Long s dou ble to ' and three times to win. with a home run and 4 rb1s, center field. Hines then looped Midwest City Tournament on
seventh inning to sink Iowa takingthe srone second in- Ti Long walked and Kris and Long, who was 2-for-3 a single into center field that June 4. The tourney will con-
Park 9-8 in the first game of P repeat of the first. Lankford singled to give the with a double and two runs looked as if ft might be elude on June 6.
Thursday s doubleheader at nine was MERP scored three Mudcats runners at first and batted in. caught. That caused Stokes to
Kiwanis Park. Hines then sin- on two hits and two third. Polk singled to right to The Mudcats found them- hesitate at second base before
gled to break a 1-1 tie in the errors to take a 6-2 score Long and make the selves trailing once again ear- he took off for home. Stokes
bottom of the sixth inning of lead after one and one-half in- score 8-7. Designated hitter ly in the second game. The then got rolling and managed
the nightcap to help the Mud- f , Landon Brooks laid down a Heat used a walk and a pair of to reach the plate just ahead
cats to a 3-1 victory and a The score remained at 6-2 suicide squeeze bunt to start singles to go ahead 1-0 in the of the ball,
sweep over the Heat. until the top of the seventh, the play that would score the top of the second. Long hit a ball to deep cen-
The opening game of the The Heat used a two-run dou- tying and winning runs. Altus tied the game in the ter field that was dropped al-
evening started off poorly for Mason Adams to a(]d - Lankford scored from third bottom of the inning. Hines lowing Hines to score from
Altus. The first two batters for . “ d to be two in- base as the Iowa Park pitcher walked and scored on Lank- second base to make the score
Iowa Park reached base on in- suranceruns that increased fielded the bunt and threw to ford's RBI single to left field. 3-1, Mudcats,
field singles, and the Heat marein to 8-2 first. Polk never slowed in his Chaz Polk turned in a good Altus pitcher Cody Tackett
proceeded to score three times .The never say-die Mudcats sprint from second base. He defensive play for the Mudcats retired Iowa Park without a
on the scratch hits and two had different ideas Colby slid into home ahead of the in the top of the fifth. With an run one more time in the top
errors. .Tackett singled to keep the Al- throw from first to complete Iowa Park runner caught in a of the seventh to wrap up the
Trailing 3-0 the Mudcats hopes alive with one out. the huge rally and give the rundown between first and doubleheader sweep. Tackett
came back with two runs of Danie Murray reached base Mudcats a 9-8 victory, second, Polk racedin from his allowed eight hits, struck out
their own in the bottom of the on error arid Stokes Lankford went the distance right field position just in time three and gave up just two
NCAA men's golf
Wind wreaks havoc on field
4 ALTUS TIMES, Friday, June 4,1999
open for all SALT LAKE CITY (AP) —
. . Karl Malone felt a need to de-
Altus athletes fend his second Most Valuable
Player award.
The Altus Schools Athletic
Department will sponsor "I know my points were
“Summer Pride" for all up- down and my rebounds were
coming junior high and high down, but the people who vot-
school athletes. This weight ed looked at more than just
training and conditioning pro- that," said Malone, who also
gram for athletes of every received the award in 1997.
sport is conducted by certified "This is an award for the
high school coaches, whole player, for the defensive
The philosophy of the player and for the team leader,
weight training program is: 1) It’s not just the numbers that
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