FREE PRESS SSSPORTSPORTS Page 8 Colby Free Press Monday, June 19, 2006 Heat takes lead in NBA finals MIAMI (AP) — Draped in white Arena, hosting its final game of the paper streamers that rained down season, erupted in cheers and some from the ceiling, the Miami Heat chaos. hugged and danced their way off the “We can smell it,” Wade said. floor following a win to remember. “Dallas plays well at home but we Not far away, the Dallas Maver- are a confident bunch so we’ll see icks and their feisty owner were what happens.” kicking, screaming and fighting As the Heat were celebrating the mad. biggest win in franchise history, These NBA finals certainly Dallas owner Mark Cuban stormed haven’t been lacking for any drama. onto the floor, complaining about a And they’re not over yet, either. non-call against Wade a few other Dwyane Wade scored 43 points, plays in the final seconds. the last on a free throw with 1.9 sec- Cuban, wearing a blue jersey onds left in overtime after Dallas’ bearing the name of suspended Dal- Josh Howard asked for an untimely las reserve Jerry Stackhouse, stood timeout, and the Heat won their with his hands on his hips in disbe- third straight game in this homey lief as the Mavericks headed to the and heated series, 101-100 over the locker room to begin getting ready Mavericks on Sunday for a 3-2 lead. for Game 6. Wade’s latest virtuoso perfor- All the Mavericks were hot, mance — he’s averaging 40.3 especically Dirk Nowitzki, who points in the past three games — first punted the ball into the stands sent the evenly matched teams to and then kicked a stationary bike in Dallas for Game 6 on Tuesday a hallway before turning his anger TISHA COX/Colby Free Press night. Game 7, if necessary, will be on anything in his way. “We got embarrassed here,” Jaron Cox took aim during while trap shooting at the Colby Trap sored by the Kansas Division of Wildlife and Parks. Two more Thursday night. Nowitzki said. “They suspended Club range Sunday. The day was also one of three planned shoot- events will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 16 and Sunday, Aug. When the Mavericks’ final shot one of our players, so obviously we ing days for youth, women and inexperienced shooters spon- 20. — because of Howard’s error, all they could manage was a half-court were pretty mad. We responded. We heave by Devin Harris — went over were in the game. We had our the backboard, AmericanAirlines chances.” Hurricanes try to avoid giant collapse RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The all finale. Game 7 is Monday night Carolina Hurricanes staggered in Raleigh. home Sunday, trying to figure out The Hurricanes have history on how it has gone so wrong, so their side, if not as much bounce in quickly. their skates. When the finals go to A few of them stopped by the Game 7, the home team is 11-2. The locker room, where they could have 1971 Montreal Canadiens were the been sipping champagne from the last road team to capture the cup in Stanley Cup a few days ago. Now, a decisive game. their equipment was being sorted Just as the Oilers fed off the en- out for one more game, one more thusiasm of their fans Saturday chance to avoid a mammoth col- night in Alberta, Carolina is count- lapse. ing on its crowd to be a major fac- “I think we’re all embarrassed by tor on Tobacco Road. the way we played,” defenseman “They’ve been a huge boost to us DODGE Glen Wesley said. all year,” said rookie goalie Cam One timely goal away from cap- Ward, one of the few Hurricanes turing the cup in Game 5, the Hur- who’s played well throughout the ricanes find themselves very much series. “We’ve got to use that to our on the defensive heading to Game advantage.” 7 against the resurgent Edmonton Edmonton looked right on the Oilers, who suddenly seem much mark when it claimed to be wearing fresher, a step or two quicker and a down a Carolina lineup filled with lot more determined. key 30-something players such as “I know we’ve been the underdog Wesley (37), Rod Brind’Amour 4x14 in most people’s minds,” Oilers (35), Bret Hedican (35) and Ray center Shawn Horcoff said. “But we Whitney (34). really believe we can get this thing Led by feisty, hit-anything-in-red done.” Raffi Torres, the younger Oilers are Only one team has squandered a much like a boxer who just wants to 3-1 lead in the finals. Sixty-four get an aging fighter into the later years ago, Detroit actually won the rounds, then finish him off. first three games against Toronto, “We feel like we’ve got them to then lost the next four. the point where we can push them place 85% in The 1942 Red Wings also are one over the edge,” Edmonton left wing of three teams that jumped out to a Ethan Moreau said. 2-0 lead and didn’t win the cup. Carolina coach Peter Laviolette The Hurricanes put themselves in even seemed to concede as much, at position to join those infamous least for one night. He wondered teams with a 4-3 overtime loss at why his team appeared so slow and home — on a short-handed goal, no out of sync in Game 6. less — and a dismal 4-0 defeat at “We were pretty lousy in all as- Edmonton on Saturday night that pects,” he said. “We didn’t have evened the series at three games energy in our legs, in our skating, all GSN apiece. the things that have been trademark Now, it’s on to the winner-take- for us all season long.” SportsBriefs MAMARONECK, N.Y. (AP) — because of a growth hormone defi- Phil Mickelson’s bid for a third con- ciency. printed ad secutive major ended with a shock- Segui, who spent 15 years in the ing collapse Sunday when he majors and retired in 2004, said on bungled his way to a double bogey ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” on on the final hole, giving the U.S. Sunday that he continues to use Open to Geoff Ogilvy. HGH legally. The winning shot in this test of He said he first started using the survival at Winged Foot was hormone after the deficiency was Ogilvy’s 6-foot par putt that he fig- found when he went for blood work ured was only good for second before surgery during his playing place. career. over earlier The memory will be Mickelson The 39-year-old first baseman on the 72nd hole, one minute on the said Grimsley came to him this past verge of joining Tiger Woods as the offseason, seeking advice about only players over the last 50 years HGH and how it might help him with three straight majors, the next recover from major arm surgery. minute looking like the Mickelson AUTO RACING of old with a reckless attempt to get BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) — out of trouble. Kasey Kahne won from the pole Ogilvy closed with a 2-over 72 in again, helped this time by a timely this a.m. the highest-scoring U.S. Open since caution flag and a downpour that 1974 at Winged Foot. He became ended Sunday’s NASCAR Nextel the first Australian to win the U.S. Cup race 71 laps early. Open since David Graham in 1981. PRO FOOTBALL BASEBALL TORONTO (AP) — After gain- NEW YORK (AP) — Former ing 8 yards in the first half, former major leaguer David Segui said he Dolphins running back Ricky Wil- used HGH and was among the play- liams finished his CFL debut with ers mentioned by ex-teammate Ja- 97 yards on 18 carries in the Toronto son Grimsley to federal investiga- Argonauts’ 27-17 win over the tors. Segui added that he used the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Satur- drug with a doctor’s prescription day..