INSIDE High schools C-3 Baseball C-4 c Pro basketball C-7 THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN Hockey C-10 Tennis C-li Sunday Golf C-12 MAY 14, 2000 Martinez no longer second best win titles Saturday. Los Alam- Elk's pace. Los Alamos junior Brad Skidmore Nick Martinez of > He improves his personal os senior Magdalena Sandoval, was third. Pojoaque crosses best by 3 seconds in winning the winner Friday of the 3,200, TRACK&FIELD "I was feeling kind of shaky because I hadn't the finish line to won the 1,600 while teammate been running well the last couple of days," win the Class AAA 1,600; trio of area athletes also Christina Gonzales successful- Martinez said. "It was ail mental today boys 1,600 meters ly defended her title in the because my legs felt terrible. Sometimes you Saturday. Also win gold at state meets triple jump, and in the process just make them move." taking gold medals set a new state record. Halfway through the race, Skidmore moved at the AAA and By DON JONES In the AAAA championship ^^ into the lead. Down the backstretch, Albu- AAAA state meets The New Mexican meet, held in conjunction with querque Academy's Ismail Kassam took over. were Magdalena the AAA meet at Friends of The University of At that point Martinez was in seventh, but he Sandoval and Field, Santa Fe High senior Matt moved up to third with 400 to go. He took the Christina Gonzales ALBUQUERQUE — Pojoaque senior Nick Gonzales won the 3,200. A day earlier he was lead 250 meters from the finish. • of Los Alamos and Martinez entered the 1,600 meters Saturday in champion in the 1,600. "I knew then that I was gone," said Martinez, Santa Fe High's the Class AAA State Championship Meet with Martinez, in winning the 1,600, improved his who placed third Friday in the 3,200. "No one Matt Gonzales. the second-fastest time of all the competitors. personal best from 4:30.34 to 4:27.18. Kirtland was going to beat me. Not today." Craig Fritz He finished the race as the champion. Central junior Chad Dawson was second in the The New Mexican Martinez was one of four area athletes to race, finishing more than a second off the Please see TRACK, Page C-3 Day's delay Triumph amid tragedy costly to McCurdy > Bobcats lose suspended game but rally to grab third place at state

By TOMMY TRUJILLO The New Mexican

ALBUQUERQUE — It was a third- place trophy with a second-rate feel. McCurdy School accepted it with excitement equal to popping up to the catcher. Third place wasn't what the Bobcats had in mind. On Friday, McCurdy left the field with a 4-2 lead in a suspended semifinal game against Eunice in the New Mexico Class A-AA State Baseball Tournament. But early BASEBALL Saturday morning, the refreshed Cardinals used a five-run sixth inning to beat the Bob- cats 8-5, sending McCurdy to the conso- lation game. McCurdy took its frustrations out on Jal — which played like it had finished its season Friday — winning 11-0 in a five-inning game that immediately fol- lowed the suspended game. Some consolation. "We'll leave with our heads high knowing that if the circumstances would've been better, we're the best team in the tournament," McCurdy head coach Brian Ainsworth said. "Something needs to be done about the Ptiolo by Craig Fritz/The New Mexican format. You can't put a team in position Julie Frfe gives Los Alamos High School teammate Rebecca Mammon a lift after they won the A-AAA doubles championship against Taos. to compete for a state title — especially a small school — and take it away from them by moving the game to the next day. "This hurt the team. The NMAA (New Mexico Activities Association) took a Los Alamos girls are tops in state chance to compete for a title away from us." By PANCHO MORRIS who captured the singles, Thanks to a game suspended due to The New Mexican doubles and team champi- darkness at Lobo Field on Thursday — TENNIS onship Saturday at the New the field does not have lights — Friday's Mexico Class A-AAA State four-game schedule didn't begin until ALBUQUERQUE — Hugs replaced heart- 2000 Tennis Tournament. the Thursday game was continued on break, smiles replaced sorrows, triumph ' "This is for Los Alamos," Friday morning. McCurdy and Eunice replaced tragedy and history replaced the i II said Bonner, a blonde-haired, were the last teams scheduled to play horror of seeing your town in flames, your blue-eyed human backboard, on Friday. Their game was supposed to friends flee, your family evacuate. dedicating her title to the start at 3:30 p.m., but didn't begin until In what was an unforgettable week for the town that was badly scarred 6:30 and was suspended due to darkness town of Los Alamos and its neighbor White by the . just before 8 p.m. Rock, Saturday was a day like none other for Bonner is the first individual singles cham- The game resumed in the top of the the Los Alamos High School girls tennis pion for girls in LAHS history, an accom- fifth at 8 a.m. Saturday. McCurdy added team. plishment that took patience, precision and a a run in the fifth to lead 5-2. But Eunice Forced to leave almost everything behind, plan of attack she followed from the first answered with a run in its part of the the Hilltoppers lived for the present and ground stroke. fifth, then sent 10 men to the plate in made a never-before memory for them- Picking on the backhand of Lynsie Ericks- the five-run fifth. Friday starter Jon selves, their high school, their town. son of like a fifth- Cordova returned to the mound on Sat- When Julie Fife and Rebecca Hammon fol- grade bully picking on a frightened second- urday, but lasted just one inning, and lowed freshman sensation Elisa Bonner onto grader, Bonner induced 50 unforced errors couldn't record an out in the sixth the state-championship victory platform, the Ellsa Bonner of Los Alamos powers a forehand en route to winning her trifecta was complete for the Hilltoppers, Please see TRIUMPH, Page C-3 A-AAA singles title match against Lynsie Ericksson. Please see McCURDY, Page C-3 Sixers stay alive; Miller, Geiger ejected hard fouls. It's just unfortunate The Pacers scored the next 15 The Associated Press how it happened." points after the fight. The Sixers Inside After Geiger knocked Miller c'ame back, but Indiana had a PHILADELPHIA — The Indi- I Heat vs. to the floor late in the third quar- chance at the end. Travis Best ana Pacers excelled without Reg- Pacers: Is it ter, Geiger's second flagrant missed two long jumpers in the gie Miller for more than a quar- basketball foul. Miller retaliated. He final seconds, including a 3- ter. Now they, might have to play or wrestling? rushed Geiger and took a swipe pointer as time expired that Philadelphia's without him for an entire game. Page C-7 at the 7-footer's face, connecting could have ended the series. Matt Geiger Miller and Philadelphia's Matt with a left hand. No NBA team has ever won a takes a shot Geiger were ejected with 1:19 The Sixers led 79-61 at the series after falling behind 3-0, from Indiana's left in the third quarter of the time of the ejections. Both play- but Allen Iverson feels it's a mat- Reggie Miller, 76ers' 92-90 victory over Indiana ing an 18-point dericit and taking ers left the building before the ter of time. center, as Dale in Game 4 Saturday. Both are a five-point lead without Miller, game ended and weren't avail- "Somebody's got to do it some- Davis, left, and subject to suspensions for the then losing down the stretch. able for comment. day. It might as well be us," Iver- Mark Jackson next game Monday. "I hope Reggie is allowed to "I do think they were cheap son said. "We have another shot. try to separate Indiana still leads 3-1 in the play," Sixers coach Larry Brown shots, but at the same time, We live to see tomorrow. It the two. best-of-seven Eastern Confer- said. "I respect Reggie for what 'that's playoff basketball," Indi- would have been easy to fold and Philadelphia ence semifinals after overcom- he did, We talked about giving ana guard Jalen Rose said. go on vacation, but we battled." Daily News

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