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dailydaily newsnews 6 The Goodland Daily News / Wednesday, July 11, 2001 sports Taking a break... Hill wins second straight race By Lester Bolen Shannon finished fourth in the main 3. 33, Williams 5. 17R, Rhea The Goodland Daily News event. 4. 11, Shannon 6. 86, Beakley Ron Hill of Sharon Springs needed Jarrod Smades of Goodland won his 5. 57, Kuntz 7. 11B, Justin Russell a little luck the last time he raced at heat in the bomber division and fin- 6. S5, Snethen Sherman County Speedway, using a ished second overall. 7. 5, Damon Modified Heat No. 1 well-timed caution flag to take the lead The next races at Sherman County 8. 31, West 1. 34H, Doug Holzmeister, Colby and win the stock car prize. This week, Speedway will be at 6:30 p.m. on Sat- 9. 13, Cloyd 2. 37, Jeff Tubbs, Colby he decided to take his fate into his own urday, July 21, and 6:30 p.m. on Sat- 10. 13X, Stegman 3. 23X, Jeff Hartwell, Colby hands. urday, Aug. 18, for the Bill Gray Me- 11. 99, Waterman 4. 21, John Icke, Colby After falling back to third place dur- morial. 12. 8, Munoz 5. 76, Mike Shaw, Brighton ing the race on June 16 and quickly Bomber Heat No. 1 13. 44A, Bauer 6. 101, Jim Beaman, Littleton falling farther behind the leader, Hill 1. 11, Shannon, Atwood 14. 111, Giesenagen 7. 383, Milo Lippelman, Oberlin pulled even with the front runners and 2. 25, Jeremy Blackwell, Quinter Heat No. 2 then, on a thrilling last lap, passed them 3. 13, Lynny Cloyd, Sharon Springs Stock Hbeat #1 1. 2D, Dwayne Dechant, Lamar all to take the flag. 4. 44A, Doug Bauer, Lamar 1. 41, Hill, Sharon Springs 2. 3, Brad Coen, Wiley Saturday, Hill dominated the stock 5. 57, Andrew Kuntz, Quinter 2. 55, Wheat Lippelmann, Colby 3. 21 Darren Deloach, Lamar car division, winning his heat, and for 6. 13X, Keith Stegman, Lamar 3. 11B, Justin Russell, Imperial 4. 9 Monty Nordyke, Holly the second time in a row won both the 7. 99, Scott Waterman, Colby Heat No. 2 5. 3G, Gary Dechant, North Glenn cash dash and the main event. Heat No. 2 1. 71+, Delbert Russell, Imperial 6. 49C, Michael Daut, Watkins In the modified division, Dwayne 1. 43J, Smades, Goodland 2. 8FR, Ryan Wark, Colby Cash Dash: 34H, Holzmeister Decant of Lamar just missed winning 2. 33, Wayne Williams, Wiley 3. 86, Justin Beakley, Lamar his second consecutive main event. He 3. 8, Angel Munoz, Lamar 4. 17R, Casey Rhea, Sharon Springs Main lost a close race to Doug Holzmeister 4. 5, Shawn Damon, Joes Cash Dash: 41, Hill 1. 34H, Holzmeister Goodland’s Aaron Gittinger talked to first base coach Sid Unruh after of Colby. Holzmeister also won the 5. S5, Allen Snethen, Colby 2. 2D, Dwayne Dechant hitting a line drive off of the Benkelman pitcher’s shin. Keith Vazquez cash dash. 6. 111, Mike Giesenhagen, Colby Main 3. 37, Tubbs took advantage of the injury time-out to rest on second. The Good- In the bomber division, Jeremy Cash Dash: 11, Shannon 1. 41, Hill 4. 3, Coen land American Legion team won 16-0 behind a stellar pitching per- Blackwell of Quinter upset Michael Main 2. 55, Lippelman 5. 3G, Gary Dechant formance by Landon West. Photo by Lester Bolen/The Goodland Daily News Shannon of Atwood after Shannon had 1. 25, Blackwell 3. 8FR, Wark 6. 9, Nordyke won both his heat and the cash dash. 2. 43J, Smades 4. 71+, Delbert Russell 7. 76, Shaw Royals, sports briefs City may name Ripken hits homer, wins game for AL SEATTLE (AP) — On the night Musial as the oldest player to homer in Ripken’s No. 8 was on the bag. Jeter, part of the new breed of short- Chiefs seek road for Helton when all of baseball gathered to honor an All-Star game. Ripken also became “It’s been a great run,” Ripken told stops who have carried on Ripken’s him, Cal Ripken delivered his own All- the first AL player to twice win the All- the fans. lineage, and Ordonez homered off Jon KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Star sendoff. Star MVP trophy, his other coming in Two years ago, in baseball’s last All- Lieber in the sixth. upgrades The University of Tennessee has Ripken upstaged Ichiro Suzuki, 1991 when he also homered. Star lovefest, Ripken and Gwynn sup- Ryan Klesko hit a sacrifice fly in the streets named after its football Barry Bonds and every other big name After stepping out of the batter’s box ported Ted Williams when he threw the sixth for the NL’s run. coach, two former quarterbacks, in the ballpark, hitting a home run and and waving his helmet to acknowledge first ball at Fenway Park. Notes: At 38, Clemens was the old- KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — a women’s basketball player and winning the MVP award in his final a standing ovation, Ripken hit Chan Ho A fitting farewell, for sure, for est pitcher to start for the AL since Lamar Hunt’s Kansas City Chiefs are her coach. How about a baseball one of the most profitable franchises in All-Star appearance to lead the Ameri- Park’s first pitch of the third inning Ripken. Early Wynn, who was 39 in 1959. player? can League over the Nationals 4-1 over the left-field fence. Many credit him for saving baseball In an NL lineup change announced the most successful sports league in the Mayor Victor Ashe proposes Tuesday night. “I swung and made good contact and after a strike wiped out the 1994 World prior to the game, Luis Gonzalez country. He says he’d be willing to naming part of the street that runs write a personal check for as much as What began as a trip down memory the ball went out of the ballpark and I Series, highlighted by him going on to moved to center field and Sammy Sosa behind Lindsey Nelson Stadium lane — Ripken started at shortstop, at felt like I was flying around the bases,” break Lou Gehrig’s consecutive games shifted to right. $30 million to help renovate Arrow- after Todd Helton, last year’s Alex Rodriguez’s suggestion — Ripken said. record. Gonzalez beat Sosa in the annual head Stadium. Major League Player of the Year. David Glass’ Kansas City Royals are wound up with him taking a glorious Tony Gwynn, who will retire with His brown hair now turned gray, home run derby the night before by a The Colorado Rockies first trip around the bases. Ripken after this season, applauded Ripken played in his 18th All-Star score of 6-2. money-draining, small-market losers baseman is a Knoxville native and “It’s just been a great deal of fun my from the opposing dugout and NL game and spent the final innings Next year’s All-Star game will be at at a time when baseball’s entire eco- was a star baseball player and nomic structure is under review. whole career. The All-Star games, I’ve pitcher Curt Schilling, replaced as the watching with his son. Miller Park in Milwaukee, followed backup quarterback at Tennessee. been able to go to a whole lot of them, starter earlier in the day by Randy Ripken’s first All-Star game came in by Comiskey Park in Chicago (2003) Very understandably, Glass is play- “Beginning next season, when but this is by far the most special,” Johnson, caught the moment on his 1983, when Johnny Bench and Carl and Enron Field in Houston (2004). ing his cards close to the vest in the a player hits a homer over left continuing debate over how, when and Ripken said. camcorder. Yastrzemski played for the last time. There were a record four rookies at field, ... it will land on Todd Helton His homer easily was the most thrill- Ever the reluctant hero, Ripken had Gwynn, added as an honorary mem- this year’s game — Suzuki, Albert where to upgrade this town’s two ma- Drive,” Ashe said Tuesday. ing moment in a game that saw Roger to be coaxed out of the dugout by the ber, did not get to hit. Pujols, Ben Sheets and Jimmy Rollins. jor sports venues. Todd Helton Drive would begin Should expensive improvements be Clemens finally face Mike Piazza. sellout crowd of 47,364 at Safeco The eight-time NL batting champion Johnson’s fourth All-Star start was after the intersection of streets There was no drama there, though Field. from San Diego said he was more than one short of the record shared by Lefty made to Kauffman and Arrowhead sta- named after former player someone was later hit by the shattered Even a freight train running on the content to follow the festivities from Gomez, Robin Roberts and Don diums? Should the city concentrate on Chamique Holdsclaw and coach building a new baseball stadium down- barrel of a bat — NL honorary manager tracks beyond the center-field wall the dugout. Drysdale. Pat Summitt. Tommy Lasorda. seemed to sound a tribute to baseball’s Freddy Garcia, one of a record eight The NL won the All-Star game in town and trying to revitalize that mori- The Metropolitan Planning Derek Jeter and Magglio Ordonez old blue eyes — a two-horn blast right Seattle players who appeared in the Seattle, 7-6 in 1979 at the Kingdome. bund district? If a new baseball sta- Commission will consider the dium goes up, would Hunt and the connected for consecutive home runs after the Baltimore third baseman game, was the winning pitcher and Lee Mazzilli hit a pinch-homer in the measure this month, and then the as the AL won its fifth in a row.