dailydaily newsnews sports The Goodland Daily News / Wednesday, June 20, 2001 7 Rising Chiefs’ star will play in Slice of Life By Lester Bolen early 1980’s who is considered one of the best Hicks was signed as an undrafted free agent by The added weight helped Hicks get to the golf memorabilia and also includes many The Goodland Daily News athletes ever to play on the Broncos line. the Chiefs before the 1998 season. quarterback and the result was a career high 14 autographed items and a trip to a football team The Northwest Kansas Area Medical Foun- For the first time in the tournament’s 12 year He was the only undrafted free agent to make sacks, the most by a Chief since Neil Smith training camp. Tickets to the auction can be dation hosts the Slice of Life golf tournament history there will be a current player in atten- the team’s opening day roster that season and recorded 15 in 1993. Hicks also added 44 tack- purchased for $20 at the Goodland Regional to benefit the Goodland Regional Medical dance, ’ star defensive end played in one game, registering two tackles. In les despite playing in only 13 games and start- Medical Center, Mr. Jim’s His Shop in Good- Center and every year numerous celebrities Eric Hicks. his second season in the league Hicks started ing 11. land, or at Sugar Hills. grace the tournament with their presence to aid Hicks led the Chiefs last season with a team all 16 games for the team and recorded 28 tack- The 6’6 Hicks is a native of Erie, PA and was The ticket price includes a beverage ticket, in the fund raising. high 14 sacks, joining the late , les and four sacks. He also scored his only signed by Maryland out of high school. Hicks food, and the opportunity to bid on items. This year the tournament will host former Neil Smith, and Art Still as the only Chiefs to touchdown of his career in 1999, a 44-yard has been praised by the media and the coaches On Sunday the golf tournament will start Broncos and Chiefs players such as Rick record 14 or more sacks in a season. He is a ris- recovery against the Minnesota Vi- for his ability to not only rush the quarterback with a shotgun start at 9:30 a.m.. There will be Upchurch, an record ing star in the National Football League and is kings. but also for his ability to stop the . 138 golfers in attendance and the top 12 teams holder for the Broncos, Greg Boyd, a defensive viewed as one of the best all around ends in the Hick’s third season was his year to shine. The Slice of Life weekend begins at 5:30 will receive a cash prize. tackle for the Patriots and Broncos and also a game. After entering into the league as a 261 pound p.m. on Saturday with a charity auction at the In the tournament’s 11 year history nearly former professional wrestler, and Dave Hicks road to the Chiefs wasn’t an easy one rookie Hicks worked hard in the off-season and Sugar Hills Country Club. The auction will $140,000 has been raised on behalf of the hos- Studdard, a Broncos offensive tackle in the though. After attending Maryland University bulked up to 285 pounds. feature NFL, NASCAR, , hockey, and pital. Royals lose to White Sox sports briefs Warming up.... CHICAGO (AP) — When the Chi- things, they come in bunches. I know I kept a scoring chance going in the Trainer denied cago White Sox acquired Royce have enough pop to get it out of the eighth with an infield . Clayton to improve their defense at ballpark.” “The last one, the dribbler I was able stay of suspension shortstop, they didn’t realize it would “I got behind (the pitch) and got the to leg out, felt better than the (),” LOS ANGELES (AP) — The take so long for him to get his bat go- ball up, but not where I wanted it,” Clayton said. “That’s a sign of things chairman of the California Horse ing. Suppan said. “He got good wood on it to come. That definitely wasn’t hap- Racing Board denied a request to Clayton homered for the first time in and it went.” pening earlier.” stay the 60-day suspension of nearly a year, and James Baldwin won Clayton got a standing ovation as he pitched the ninth for trainer Bob Baffert for a positive for the first time in five weeks as the rounded the bases and was loudly his 15th save in 16 tries. drug test on one of his horses 13 White Sox beat the Kansas City Roy- cheered in subsequent at-bats. The White Sox have won 11 of 12 months ago. als 5-3 Tuesday night. “It’s kind of weird,” Clayton said. games at Comiskey Park and 18 of 24 Baffert’s suspension is sched- Clayton’s three-run homer off Jeff “I’ve grown used to the boos. But I overall. uled to run June 25 to Aug. 23. He Suppan (3-6) was his first since last appreciate it, no doubt. I’m just trying Mike Sweeney his 15th homer, trained Point Given to victories in July 14, when he was with the Texas to help out for a pennant race. That’s his second in as many nights for the this year’s Preakness and Belmont Rangers. He went 115 games and 379 when the best comes out in me.” Royals, who have lost three straight stakes. at-bats without a . Baldwin (3-4), winless in his previ- after winning a season-best five in a The suspension stems from the “They say it evens out, and it’s got a ous seven starts since May 13, allowed row. positive test on Nautical Look af- lot of evening out to do,” said Clayton, three runs, five hits and four walks in Notes: White Sox CF Chris Single- ter the filly won at Hollywood who is hitting .162. “There’s only so 6 2-3 innings. ton made a nice diving catch of Park in May 2000. A post-race much skill you can rely on. You have After Raul Ibanez tied the game at 3 Jermaine Dye’s line drive to the gap in urine test was positive for mor- to have some luck, too. Luck’s about in the fourth with a two-run homer off the fourth. ... The White Sox recalled phine, a drug that can’t be in a to turn my way.” Baldwin, Clayton came up in the bot- C Mark Johnson before the game and horse’s system on race day. With two men on and the White Sox tom half with another opportunity. started him behind the plate. ... White trailing 1-0 in the second, Clayton lined With runners at the corners, he de- Sox LF made his first Former KU recruit a 2-2 pitch from Suppan over the wall livered again, hitting a two-out RBI career start and got his first major in left, giving Chicago a 3-1 lead. double inside the first-base bag to give league hit off Tony Cogan in the sev- charged with rape Kellen Davis, Sharon Springs, warmed up with Bailey Fischer, “It’s been quite a drought,” Clayton the White Sox a 4-3 lead. enth. ... Sweeney is 11-for-19 (.579) Sharon Springs, before football camp today. Former Denver Bronco said. “I don’t know what happened. “That was a big hit for us,” manager with four homers and eight RBIs FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Utah players, Rick Upchurch, Greg Boyd and Wade Manning are lead- The first half of last year, I had 13 and Jerry Manuel said. against the White Sox this season. ... Jazz rookie DeShawn Stevenson ing the camp for Rare Breed camps. Upchurch and Boyd will both ended up with 14. It’s one of those Clayton was retired in the sixth, but Clayton’s four RBIs are a season high. has been charged with statutory be in attendance at this weekend’s Slice of Life golf tournament at rape for having sex with a 14-year- the Sugar Hills Country Club in Goodland. old girl, a prosecutor said. Photo by Lester Bolen/The Goodland Daily News Stevenson, a 6-foot-5 guard who went from high school di- Rockies fall in Houston 6-4 rectly to the NBA last year, was HOUSTON (AP) — Rookie Roy perfect ninth, with two , for “The third inning is what killed me,” charged last week in Fresno Supe- rior Court. Giant’s slugger hits 37th Oswalt has developed a strategy for his 14th save in 15 chances. Chacon said. “I hit a guy, then gave up pitching in hitter-friendly Enron Park, Wagner was also impressed with a walk and a bloop single before the The 20-year-old Stevenson, a SAN DIEGO (AP) — Bonds hit a high, arcing shot to right- and perhaps the veterans on the Hous- Oswalt. double. That double was the story of Fresno native who went to Wash- hit his 37th home run Tuesday night to center field that hit off the front of an ington Union H.S. in nearby ton Astros should consider it. “He pitches like a veteran. I can’t tell the game.” tie the record for most homers before advertising sign that hangs just above “I try to get them to hit it toward the he’s a rookie. I’m a nervous wreck After allowing a first-inning single, Easton, faces up to three years in the All-Star break. the fence middle of the park because I know we when I’m out there. For him, it seems Oswalt retired 10 straight before Todd state prison if convicted. Bonds’ shot on a 2-1 pitch from Bonds remains on the quickest home Stevenson originally signed have a short porch in left,” Oswalt said like just another day at the park,” Helton hit his 25th homer in the fifth. Adam Eaton in the fifth inning tied the run pace in history, hitting his 37th in after pitching 6 2-3 strong innings Wagner said. Berkman’s RBI double made it 5-1 with Kansas University out of record for homers before the All-Star 70 games. McGwire hit 37 in 81 games Tuesday night. Lance Berkman drove in two runs in the bottom half. high school but backed out of his break set by Reggie Jackson in 1969 in ’98, the year he set the single-sea- commitment to enter the NBA Before leaving with a bruised right and Moises Alou hit his 12th homer of The Rockies loaded the bases in the and tied by Mark McGwire in 1998. son record with 70. forearm, Oswalt helped the Astros beat the year for the Astros. seventh and scored on Petrick’s line draft. the 6-4. Shawn Chacon (4-4) gave up five drive off Oswalt’s forearm. Reliever Oswalt (5-1) allowed three runs and runs and seven hits in seven innings. Jay Powell allowed a walk to load the Cardinals three hits, striking out eight. He left in On June 7 against Houston, Chacon bases again, and Juan Pierre’s single the seventh after being hit by Ben struck out 13 in eight innings at Coors drove in Jeff Cirillo to make it 5-3. continues climb Petrick’s line drive. X-rays were nega- Field and lost a 2-1 decision. Cirillo’s RBI single in the eighth ST. LOUIS (AP) — Rick tive. “Every time we get something go- closed it to 5-4. Ankiel’s next stop on his climb Oswalt has a 1.03 ERA in five games ing, something stops us. We can’t con- An error by Cirillo gave the Astros back from wildness is the St. at Enron Park. The remainder of the tinue to play like this,” Rockies man- an insurance run in the eighth inning. Louis Cardinals’ rookie league staff has a combined 5.10 ERA at ager Buddy Bell said. “We may need Notes: Biggio had his 18-game hit- affiliate. home. to make a change here and there.” ting streak snapped. ... Biggio got hit After spending about three “I try to make them hit the ball on the Houston scored first when Alou by a pitch for the 12th time this season, weeks at the team’s extended ground. I’ve always been real aggres- homered on the first pitch of the sec- second in the NL. He leads active ma- in Jupiter, Fla., sive and I try to stay aggressive here,” ond inning. jor leaguers with 181 HBPs. ... Ankiel was sent to Johnson City, Oswalt added. In the third, Berkman’s broken-bat Colorado’s Neifi Perez extended his Tenn., on Tuesday, just in time for “I pitch the same on the road, but single drove in from sec- career-best hitting streak to 17 games, the season opener. here the crowd gets behind me and ond after Biggio was hit by a pitch and longest on the team this year ... Helton Ankiel was 1-2 with a 7.13 ERA Head Start gives me a lift. It’s fun to pitch here.” Jeff Bagwell walked. Biggio scored on has an 11-game hitting streak. ... in six starts for St. Louis, walking Oswalt earned the respect of a passed ball by Petrick before Rich- Oswalt is 3-0 with a no-decision in four 25 in 24 innings. Family Literacy/Transportation Manager Colorado’s . ard Hidalgo hit an RBI double to make starts. “He was outstanding. He hides the it 4-0. The Northwest Kansas Educational Service Center ball well and he throws the ball 93 is accepting applications for a Family Literacy/Trans- (mph), and the best part is that 65 mile NEW HOURS: portation Manager. This is an 11-month position, 40 per hour curve ball,” Walker said. “It’s ENJOY his change in velocity that is going to TONIGHT Bar: 4 to Close hours per week, Monday thru Friday. Main office will make him and outstanding pitcher.” AT THE Appetizers: 5 to 11 be located in Oakley with travel to surrounding Head Billy Wagner, activated from the dis- MOVIES Dinner: 6 to 11 Start sites. 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