dailydaily newsnews 6 The Goodland Daily News / Monday, September 17, 2001 sports Rockies ready to resume Cowgirls finish sixth DENVER (AP) — Baseball teams Neagle has had four bullpen sessions chances of the Rockies (62-80) finish- have expressed concern about whether since going six innings on Sept. 4 in a ing .500 are slight at best. will be able to throw strikes victory over Los Angeles. “Other than the fact they have to do and whether hitters will be able to re- First baseman Todd Helton agreed. it for themselves, there are a lot of Rainouts gain their timing after missing a week ‘‘There is too much going on to worry people watching that are paying good of games following Tuesday’s terror- about it. We ought to be glad we are just money to see us do things good or bad.” ist attacks. playing.’’ “I hope we play well and I hope they plague tennis Manager Buddy Bell and some of Helton said it might take only a few don’t,” Bell said. “Effort has never The Cowgirls tennis team finished the don’t see that as at-bats to get back his full timing. But been a concern of mine with this team. sixth out of eight teams at the Colby a problem. then, he said the time away might have Unfortunately, you never know how it Varsity Tennis Tournament on Sat- “I have been through it a couple of already helped. is going to turn out.” urday in a meet shortened by rain. times, be it the playoffs because I was ‘‘I hadn’t had timing before the lay- “These guys still have a job to do, Besides Goodland, teams compet- the odd man out with the Atlanta off,” said Helton, 3-for-11 in the three they know what is expected of them ing were Colby, Garden City, Ness Braves or a year ago with the New York games leading up to the stoppage of and going halfway just isn’t going to City, Norton, Phillipsburg, Trego Yankees,” said Denny Neagle, play. “I was really struggling before the cut it,” Bell said. County and Tribune. Colorado’s scheduled starter for Mon- incident and my body probably wasn’t Bell reaffirmed that third baseman The Goodland girls racked up 16 day night against . feeling the best its felt in a while.” Jeff Cirillo, who has been sidelined tournament points amid very tough “You do whatever you can, be it extra Bell said the fact the layoff happened with back spasms, will play Monday competition. bullpen sessions and then you don’t over five months into the season re- night. In the No. 1 doubles, Jessica think about it.” moved any concerns of rustiness. “Other than maybe a little stiffness, Vignery and Jennifer Mentzer de- The Rockies held a two-hour work- “If this was March 5 or March 6 and I don’t think there is any problem at feated a double pair from Norton 6- out Sunday at Coors Field, where they then you have a layoff, it might have all,” Bell said. 0 to win seventh place. They finished will resume their season Monday night taken longer,” Bell said. “In this case, Fans attending Monday’s game will with a 1-3 record. against the Arizona Diamondbacks. I think we are going to be OK.” face new security measures at Coors Abby Sheopner and Shannon “For me, once you get through the “Getting to face Randy Johnson and Field. No coolers or hard-sided con- Showalter finished 1 1/2-2 1/2 and first inning, everything is fine,” Neagle can do more to your tim- tainers will be permitted in the ball- 2 1/2-1 1/2 respectively in singles said. “Besides, with all that is going on ing than this layoff,” Bell said. park, all bags will be subject to a thor- play. in this country, whether I might walk Bell has equally little concern about ough search at the turnstiles, and there Scheopner defeated a Ness City someone or not is not one of the big- the effort the Rockies will give the rest will be no re-entry into the stadium player 6-2 and tied with a girl from gest things on our minds. of the season. With 20 games left, the after the initial entrance. Trego County (WaKeeney) for fifth and sixth place. Showalter defeated Amanda Wal- ters of Trego County 6-3 and Alexa Puppet maker has global producers Riffel of Phillipsburg 6-2 and tied PUPPET, from Page 1 grasses that look and feel real. pack and ship the puppets, translators with a Tribune player for third and Bishop says she has had success with and 235 people to sew the puppets. fourth. from Goodland, Oberlin, Gem, Tri- the factories in China because it costs At the factory in Goodland, Bishop Ashley Engel and Leslie Knitig bune and St. Francis who have their less for them to produce the puppets said, she is joined by her husband finished with a 1 1/2-2 1/2 record. own businesses. than to have them produced in the U.S. Harry part-time and one full-time em- They defeated a doubles duo from The group meets for lunch once a and the workers do a good job. ployee, Lucille Fenner, who does some Ness City 6-1 and tied with Colby for month, she said, and has an engineer to The people at the factories stand of the sewing and mending and can do fourth and fifth in the medal round. keep the women focused and help them behind their work, she said, and if they almost anything that needs to be done. Rain shortened the medal round with their web sites, dealing with em- make a mistake they don’t argue about Fenner has been in the hospital after and has shortened or postponed four ployees and other business issues. The it, but just fix it. They do an amazing having a heart attack, though, and out of six meets the Cowgirls have five women are all in creative fields, job of packing too, she said, not wast- Bishop says she has been missed. had so far this fall. Bishop said, and benefit from the en- ing any space and compiling detailed One thing she likes about having the Goodland will host a junior var- gineer helping them to channel their paperwork so that no problems have puppets produced in China, Bishop sity meet Tuesday at Steever and energy. come up clearing customs. said, is that she doesn’t have to worry Gulick parks. The girls will go to The other women manufacture Her global producers employ bro- about whether or not someone shows WaKeeney for a varsity meet at 8 Abby Scheopner served up some hardball at the tennis tournament sculptures, she said, and make Native kers to take care of the paperwork for up to work. a.m. Saturday. in Colby on Saturday. Photo by Jay Kelley/The Colby Free Press American masks, crafts, greeting shipment, Bishop said, people to ob- That, she said, is someone else’s cards, food products and preserve tain containers for packing, people to problem. County likes grant proposal Sports resume after a silent pause COUNTY, from Page 1 day, Goodwin said, board member Ron Schilling had volunteered to represent By Jim Litke fields, park district soccer pitches and It feels like months since we’ve seen shot at a 20th win. The will-he-or- getting the money is at least six the school board in an effort to develop AP Sports Writer softball diamonds, shirts and skins in the best matched against the best in won’t-he saga of Michael Jor-dan’s weeks.” the position. Nobody won. YMCA gyms — were just that. Games. anything. It’s been all of a week. Time return to basketball seemed at an In a related area, Schyler Goodwin, Goodwin asked the commissioners Nobody lost. “If kids can’t have fun out here on a will tell how dearly we still cling to end. A flick of the remote control of the Goodland Development Corp. if they were still interested and if one No big-name coaches got fired. night like this,” security officer Jesse these rituals. transported you to Denver, where the and Bankwest, told the commissioners of them would agree to represent the No pro ballplayers blew out ACLs. Chavez said Friday, watching a high Last weekend, there were 50 sport- Broncos and New York Giants and he had talked to both the city and the county. The commissioners agreed No home runs were hit or touch- school football game in suburban Chi- ing events available on local TV in New the unveiling of yet one more space- school district about a grant writer po- they were interested, and Commis- downs scored. There was no need cago, “that would be too bad. York. This weekend, there was none. age stadium yielded more than the sition to serve all three governments. sioner Kevin Rasure volunteered to be for box scores or football summa- ‘‘They had their homecoming pa- Last Sunday, Barry Bonds hit three usual pageantry. At the school board meeting on Mon- the representative. ries in the newspaper. rade canceled because of the situation. home runs to whet our appetites, then By Tuesday morning, dramas of a During the weekend, stadiums We want to make sure they enjoy this he and the surging San Francisco Gi- much more costly and terrible nature across the country were as quiet as time in their lives. Whatever it takes,’’ ants headed for Houston and the short commandeered the airwaves. The cathedrals. Sports still had a role to he added, ‘‘we’ll make them secure.” home- porches in Enron Field. Giants returned to New York won- fill, and it did that in an admirable, The real test, of course, begins today. Monday night, we sweated out a rain dering how they were going to pick subdued fashion. The games that Baseball is scheduled to take the pad- delay in New York to see whether age- up the shattered pieces of a routine did go on — at high school football lock off the stadium gates in six cities. less would get to his work week. All Boyd’s Bears baseball scoreboard On Sale!

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