dailydaily newsnews 8 The Goodland Daily News / Tuesday, April 30, 2002 sports Goodland kids It’s not always work, work, work Royals run in Oakley dismissed Five youths from Goodland com- Results were: peted in the Oakley Booster Track By Doug Tucker Meet on Saturday. Primary boys (8 and under): The Associated Press Three of them, Michelle Smith, Nick Nathaniel Smith, 7, third, 50-meter Tony Muser sounded as if his dis- Smith and Dustin Pennington, placed dash, 10.51 seconds missal as manager of the Kansas City second in at least one of their events. Midget girls (11 to 12): Michelle Royals made perfect sense. The meet, put together by the Oak- Smith, 11, second, discus, 49-8 3/4 ; The losingest manager in Royals ley track booster club, draws 300-400 third, shot put 26-11 1/2. history was informed of the decision in kids from the area each year. Anyone Youth boys (13 to 14): Nick Smith, a meeting in Detroit with general man- 14-years old or younger could com- 12, second high jump, 4-0; second, ager Allard Baird early Tuesday. pete, except for those already on a jun- long jump, 10-9 1/2; third, shot put 27- The firing came after the Royals (8- ior high track team. 7 1/2; third, discus, results not avail- 15) beat the Tigers 4-0 Monday night. Competitors are put into age divi- able; Dustin Pennington, 12, second, Muser was in the final year of his con- sions based on their birthday. If a com- 400-meter dash 1:22.09; second 200- tract. petitor is 12, but will turn 13 this year, meter dash, 39.21; fourth, long jump 9- “Everybody understands the cir- they are put in the youth (13 to 14) di- 11 1/2; Dustin Zelfer, 12, fourth, 100- cumstances, the mood of our fans,” vision. meters, 18.58; fifth long jump, 9-7. Muser told The Associated Press by telephone just minutes after talking with Baird. “They need a change,” he said. “It’s Rockies adjust staff just a part of this business. Managers are hired to be fired. I understand it, and DENVER (AP) — Alan Cockrell last year. life goes on. The most important thing was selected to replace as “Alan knows our players, knows our is the success of the organization.” the hitting coach system and he can step in and help the Muser, 317-431 (.424) since taking Monday, the same day third base coach ballclub right away,” Hurdle said. over midway through the 1997 season, Rich Donnelly resigned. A former outfielder, Cockrell played became the fourth manager fired in the No replacement was named for 13 seasons of , season’s opening month. Donnelly, who’s resignation was effec- making his major-league debut with Since 1900, there had never been tive immediately. the Rockies in 1996. more than two managers fired in the Hurdle replaced the fired Buddy Donnelly, 55, joined the Rockies season’s first month before this year, Bell as Rockies manager on Friday. before the 1999 season after serving as according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The 39-year-old Cockrell joined the the third base coach for the Florida Phil Garner was let go by Detroit on Rockies in 1998 as a scout. Marlins under . April 9, Milwaukee fired Davey Lopes He was a manager of minor-league Donnelly has spent 36 years in pro- Shandel Simon and Nicolette Clancy, seventh graders at Grant Junior High (left) grabbed a baton from on April 18 and Colorado got rid of teams and became the franchise’s mi- fessional baseball as a player, coach Chelsea Grey, an eighth grader, while goofing off at the end of track practice Monday at the Goodland last Friday. All four teams nor-league roving hitting coordinator and manager. High School track. The next junior high track meet will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Hoxie. have seen large attendance drops. The Photo by Doug Stephens/The Goodland Daily News Royals are down about 4,500 a game through 14 home dates. baseball scoreboard Boston fired Joe Kerrigan during . By The Associated Press (Lieber 3-0) at San Diego (Jones Muser, who was ejected in the third 2-1), 8:05 p.m. Avs goalie leads team to win inning Monday night, did not learn of East Division Cincinnati (Hamilton 1-1) at Los Angeles (Nomo his dismissal until he got back to his W L Pct GB 2-3), 8:10 p.m. DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Roy won his third straight Game 7 face San Jose in the second round be- Montreal 15 10 .600 — AMERICAN LEAGUE Avalanche have a distinct advantage and extended his record of playoff ginning Wednesday night in Denver. hotel room about midnight and called New York 15 10 .600 — East Division when a series reaches Game 7: Patrick shutouts to 21. He stopped 11 shots in The series was eerily similar to last Baird. Florida 12 13 .480 3 W L Pct GB Roy, the man who blocks the net and the second period, and the crowd year’s conference semifinals. The “It was very, very emotional. It was Atlanta 12 14 .462 3 1/2 Boston 15 7 .682 — very difficult for Allard,” Muser said. Philadelphia 8 18 .308 7 1/2 New York 16 10 .615 1 leads them to victory. chanted “Roy! Roy!” after his save on Kings also rallied from a 3-1 deficit last Central Division Baltimore 12 13 .480 4 1/2 Roy proved again why he’s consid- a power play midway through the third year before losing in Game 7. “I respect Allard Baird as much as I W L Pct GB Tampa Bay 9 14 .391 6 1/2 ered the best big-game goalie in the period. Last year, the Avalanche struggled respect any man I’ve ever met in base- Cincinnati 15 9 .625 — Toronto 8 15 .348 7 1/2 NHL, stopping 23 shots as the Ava- “It’s all about emotions in the play- on offense before coming alive in ball.” Pittsburgh 14 9 .609 1/2 Central Division With the Royals off to another poor St. Louis 12 13 .480 3 1/2 W L Pct GB lanche beat the Los Angeles Kings 4- offs,” defenseman Adam Foote said. Game 7. This year, they scored three Houston 11 13 .458 4 Chicago 15 10 .600 — 0 Monday night to win their first-round “And when it’s up and down, he’s al- goals in four games before breaking start, Muser faced a torrent of criticism Chicago 8 15 .348 6 1/2 Minnesota 15 11 .577 1/2 series 4-3. ways in control.” through in the final game. from fans and media. A 2-7 homestand Milwaukee 7 18 .280 8 1/2 Cleveland 13 12 .520 2 “I think we played with great ur- Chris Drury, Alex Tanguay, Steven Last year, Los Angeles goalie Felix that ended with a three-game sweep by West Division Kansas City 8 15 .348 6 Baltimore on Sunday gave the Royals W L Pct GB Detroit 7 17 .292 7 1/2 gency and that was key,” said Roy, who Reinprecht and Foote scored for Colo- Potvin had consecutive shutouts to Arizona 16 9 .640 — West Division has won the Stanley Cup four times, rado. force a Game 7, then gave up three a league-worst 4-10 home record. Los Angeles 16 9 .640 — W L Pct GB including last year. The victory puts Colorado in the goals in the third period of a 5-1 loss in “It’s a business, very competitive,” San Francisco 15 10 .600 1 Seattle 18 7 .720 — “To beat the Kings we have to play conference semifinals for the fourth the final game. This year, he stopped Muser said. “These things happen. I’m San Diego 13 12 .520 3 Oakland 15 10 .600 3 not ashamed. I did the best I could pos- Colorado 9 16 .360 7 Anaheim 10 14 .417 7 1/2 our best game. We were all excited. We straight year and sixth time in seven 103 of 106 shots in Games 3 through 6 Texas 9 15 .375 8 1/2 all loved our chance to win that game.” seasons in Denver. The Avalanche will this year. sibly do, and life goes on.” Sunday’s Games Pittsburgh 3, San Diego 2, 1st game Sunday’s Games San Diego 7, Pittsburgh 2, 2nd game Tampa Bay at Boston, ppd., rain Houston 7, Atlanta 1 Detroit 5, Minnesota 4 Arizona 5, Florida 4 Baltimore 13, Kansas City 0 Olympic hearing held The 19th Annual Los Angeles 5, Chicago Cubs 4, 1st game Anaheim 8, Toronto 5, 14 innings LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Los Angeles 4, Chicago Cubs 1, 2nd game Oakland 10, 0 Cinquanta said Monday he hopes the N.Y. Mets 9, Milwaukee 6 N.Y. Yankees 4, Seattle 3 The International Skating Union held hearings will prevent further scandals Atwood Early Rod Run San Francisco 5, Cincinnati 4 Texas 2, Cleveland 1 a nine-hour hearing into the Olympic and help reform the sport. Montreal 5, St. Louis 2 Monday’s Games figure skating scandal Monday, with “We want to resolve the grave mat- Colorado 4, Philadelphia 2 Baltimore 5, Boston 3 the French judge at the center of the Drag Races & Dances Monday’s Game Kansas City 4, Detroit 0 ter of Salt Lake City once and for all,” San Francisco 8, Philadelphia 5 Minnesota 3, Tampa Bay 2 dispute complaining she was the vic- he told The Associated Press. “But we May 17, 18, 19 Today’s Games Today’s Games tim of an “organized massacre.” also think the consequences of the Montreal (Vazquez 0-1) at Houston (Oswalt 3-0), Baltimore (Maduro 1-2) at Boston (Oliver 2-1), A lawyer described the opening ses- hearing can have a positive effect for 6:05 p.m. 4:05 p.m. sion of the two-day, closed-door hear- Atlanta (Maddux 2-1) at Milwaukee (Figueroa 0- Texas (Rogers 2-0) at Toronto (Prokopec 1-2), the whole sport.” Call Dave Brown 1), 6:05 p.m. 5:05 p.m. ings as “intense.” Cinquanta said he expects the coun- Florida (Burnett 3-2) at St. Louis (Kile 1-0), 6:10 Anaheim (Ortiz 1-3) at Cleveland (Sabathia 2-2), Judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne and cil to deliver its verdict by Tuesday at (785) 626-3728 (Home) p.m. 5:05 p.m. French skating boss Didier Gailhaguet evening. Until then, all parties in the (785) 626-4470 (Cell) Pittsburgh (D.Williams 2-2) at Colorado Oakland (Zito 1-1) at N.Y. Yankees (D.Wells 3-0), were called before the council to an- (Hampton 0-3), 7:05 p.m. 5:05 p.m. case were asked to observe a confiden- For Registration Information N.Y. Mets (Leiter 2-1) at Arizona (Helling 3-2), 7:35 Kansas City (George 0-1) at Detroit (Sparks 1- swer charges they manipulated the re- tiality agreement. p.m. 2), 5:05 p.m. sult of the pairs competition at the Salt “It’s going very professionally, very Chicago Cubs (Clement 1-2) at San Diego Tampa Bay (Rupe 3-1) at Minnesota (Lohse 1-1), Lake City Games. respectfully,” Cinquanta said. (Lawrence 3-1), 8:05 p.m. 6:05 p.m. Le Gougne was suspended indefi- Cincinnati (Reitsma 0-0) at Los Angeles (Brown Seattle (Pineiro 1-0) at Chicago White Sox (Wright 1-1), 8:10 p.m. 2-2), 6:05 p.m. nitely by the ISU for alleged miscon- Philadelphia (Padilla 2-2) at San Francisco Wednesday’s Games duct after initially declaring she was (L.Hernandez 4-1), 8:15 p.m. Kansas City (Reichert 0-3) at Detroit instructed by Gailhaguet to vote for the Wednesday’s Games (Greisinger 0-0), 12:05 p.m. victorious Russian pair ahead of the Philadelphia (Adams 0-3) at San Francisco (Ortiz Baltimore (Douglass 0-0) at Boston (P.Martinez 2-1), 1:35 p.m. 3-0), 4:05 p.m. Canadians, who were later awarded Atlanta (Glavine 4-1) at Milwaukee (Quevedo 1- Texas (Burba 1-0) at Toronto (Halladay 1-0), 5:05 duplicate gold medals. 2), 6:05 p.m. p.m. Le Gougne retracted the accusation Montreal (Armas Jr. 3-2) at Houston (Reynolds 2- Anaheim (Washburn 2-2) at Cleveland (Drese 2- against Gailhaguet, saying she was in 3), 6:05 p.m. 2), 5:05 p.m. Florida (Dempster 0-2) at St. Louis (T.Smith 0-0), Oakland (Hiljus 2-1) at N.Y. 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