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dailydaily newsnews sports The Goodland Daily News / Monday, June 24, 2002 7 Five swimmers place in Burlington Cardinals win game, One Goodland swimmer won a gold medal at a meet in Burlington and three earned silver. honor dead teammate Daron Roeder, who graduated from CHICAGO (AP) — On a night ning the game,’’ he said. Goodland High School this year, won when Darryl Kile was supposed to ‘‘I thought we did it. ...He was a the 100-yard backstroke, and Jordan be on the mound, the St. Louis Car- teammate. He’s going to be missed Bedore, Hannah Blake and Daniel dinals mourned their lost teammate every day, probably for the rest of Blake finished second in their events and honored him at the same time our lives.” on Saturday, June 15. just by taking the field. Kile, just 33, was found dead Sat- Of the 13 swimmers Goodland sent “It was tough. Darryl is such a big urday afternoon in his Chicago ho- to the meet, five placed, earning 49 part. When he doesn’t play, he is on tel room. Dr. Edmund Donoghue, points for the team. Goodland placed the bench,” Cardinals manager Tony the Cook County Medical Exam- seventh out of 10 teams for the second La Russa said. iner, said Sunday that initial find- time in a row. Their first meet was June Whitney Dautel, an eighth grader, practiced her freestyle technique with the Goodland swim team last week. “We missed him. He says things ings of an autopsy showed he had 8 in Holyoke, Colo. She participated in a swim meet in Burlington on June 15. Photo by Doug Stephens/The Goodland Daily News during the game. It was very diffi- ’’80-to-90 percent narrowing of two With fewer than 20 members, cult. It’s going to be difficult. It of the three branches of the coronary Goodland is the second smallest in the yard freestyle with 16.89 seconds, als. Roeder earned his first-place yard freestyle in 1:01.94 for fourth. should be difficult because he was artery.” He said the blockage was 10-man league. placed third in the 100-yard freestyle medal in the 100-yard backstroke in Bedore placed second in the 50-yard very special.” the “likely cause of death.” The squad competed in Oberlin on with 1 minute 30.15 seconds and 1:15.57. He finished the 100-yard but- freestyle in 25.84. Kile’s familiar No. 57 was every- The loss of Kile, a tough team Saturday, and will be in Oakley this earned fifth in the 100-yard individual terfly in 1:20.71 for third, and earned In the 11-12 mixed freestyle relay, where at Wrigley Field. On the leader who never spent a day on the Saturday. There are six meets in the medley with 1:44.5. fourth in the 50-yard freestyle with Amber Webster, Chelsey Horney, R.J. umps’ hats. On the message board in disabled list during a career that be- season, ending with the league tourna- For the boys’ 9-10 division, Erik 26.84. Phifer and Halli Stone placed fifth with center field. In the St. Louis dugout gan in 1991, staggered a team al- ment starting Saturday, July 12, in Roeder swam the 100-yard freestyle in Daniel Blake earned two silver med- 2:50.22. The same swimmers earned where two of his jerseys hung by the ready aching from the death last Colby. 1:40.25 for third, and the 25-yard back- als. His first was by finishing the 100- fifth in the medley relay with 3:28.14. runway door. On the Cardinals’ shirt week of longtime broadcaster Jack Results from Burlington: stroke in 23.5 for fifth. yard breaststroke in 1:19.81, and the Other swimmers were Taryn sleeves. Buck. In the 9-10 girls’ division, Hannah Three boys competed in the 15-18 second in the 200-yard individual med- Bedore, Randy Cochran, Tamara West And, most certainly, on his team- No Cardinals players were avail- Blake earned a silver medal in the 25- division, all earning at least silver med- ley with 2:51.93. He swam the 100- and Whitney Dautel. mates’ minds. Their emotional bur- able for comment after Sunday’s den obvious, the Cardinals lacked game. the concentration Sunday night that At a team meeting after baseball scores helped them take over first place in Saturday’s game was postponed, By The Associated Press the NL Central, losing 8-3 to the the Cardinals voted unanimously to NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago Cubs. play Sunday night. They took the East Division The Cardinals committed two er- field with the support of Kile’s W L Pct GB rors and appeared to be going widow, who told the team at a me- Atlanta 46 29 .613 — Montreal 40 34 .541 5 1/2 through the motions, one day after morial service Sunday that her hus- Florida 39 35 .527 6 1/2 Kile’s shocking death. band would have wanted them to New York 38 36 .514 7 1/2 “We gave it everything. ... If we play. Philadelphia 31 41 .431 13 1/2 hadn’t played, we would have had Jason Simontacchi (5-1) took the Central Division W L Pct GB huge regrets,” La Russa said. “We mound, trying to become the first St. St. Louis 40 32 .556 — came out and tried our best and we Louis rookie starter since Allen Cincinnati 38 35 .521 2 1/2 got beat. Watson in 1993 to win his first six Houston 32 42 .432 9 ‘‘It is very possible that everyone decisions. He lasted only four in- Pittsburgh 32 42 .432 9 Chicago 31 41 .431 9 has a place for Darryl and can still nings, while the Cubs got strong Milwaukee 26 49 .347 15 1/2 concentrate on competing and win- pitching from Kerry Wood. West Division W L Pct GB Los Angeles 46 28 .622 — Arizona 45 29 .608 1 Retired catcher shares pain San Francisco 41 32 .562 4 1/2 Colorado 37 38 .493 9 1/2 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jerry as it would turn out, his only season San Diego 32 43 .427 14 1/2 Narron could imagine how Jason with the Yankees. Simontacchi must’ve felt as he pre- “Thurman was a leader on our Interleague Games Saturday pared to pitch for the St. Louis Car- club,” Narron said before Sunday’s St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, ppd., player death dinals on Sunday night. game against Pittsburgh. “Every- Los Angeles 5, Boston 4 The grief. The sense of loss. The body looked up to him and every- N.Y. Yankees 1, San Diego 0 same I’d-rather-be-any place-in- body was close to him. It was like Baltimore 4, San Francisco 2 Texas 3, Pittsburgh 2 the-world-but-here sensation in the losing somebody in your family.” Anaheim 8, Milwaukee 2 pit of his stomach. Munson, a former AL Most Valu- Florida 5, Detroit 4 Just as Simontacchi was to take able Player and one of the game’s Cleveland 5, Montreal 4 the mound as the Cardinals’ starter biggest stars at the time, was killed Atlanta 15, Chicago White Sox 2 Minnesota 4, Philadelphia 1, 11 innings on the day after Darryl Kile died, on an off-day while piloting a pri- Oakland 10, Cincinnati 3 Rockies beat Devil Rays in 11th Narron took over for the late vate jet he had recently purchased. Kansas City 5, N.Y. Mets 1 Thurman Munson the day after the Narron, then a 23-year-old rookie Houston 3, Seattle 2, 12 innings star Yankees catcher died in 1979. catcher, remembers where he was Colorado 6, Tampa Bay 5, 11 innings Toronto 6, Arizona 3 Team learned before game that former teammate died Even 23 years later, Narron — when he heard the news and, no Sunday now the Texas Rangers’ manager — doubt, the uneasiness he surely felt Atlanta 9, Chicago White Sox 1 DENVER (AP) — Todd in the 11th to get the victory. breaking Fred McGriff’s record of 31 finds it difficult to talk about one of when he realized he would replace N.Y. Mets 5, Kansas City 4 Hollandsworth ended an emotional Colorado’s Larry Walker fought set in 2000. the most gut-wrenching moments in Munson in the Yankees’ lineup the Oakland 5, Cincinnati 1 day for Colorado with a single in the back tears before the game as he talked Colorado’s Gary Bennett had a ca- Texas 10, Pittsburgh 4 his eight-year playing career — and, following day. Montreal 7, Cleveland 2 11th inning as the Rockies beat the about Kile, but shook it off to finish reer-high four hits. Minnesota 5, Philadelphia 1 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 6-5 Saturday with three hits, including his 16th Colorado went up 3-1 in the fifth on Anaheim 5, Milwaukee 2 night. homer. He also extended his hitting consecutive homers by Butler, Walker Seattle 10, Houston 5 The Rockies were shaken before the streak to 11 games. and Helton. It was the fifth time Colo- Royals lose to the Mets Colorado 6, Tampa Bay 5 game after learning former teammate Walker had five straight hits in two rado had hit three straight homers in an Detroit 3, Florida 2 NEW YORK (AP) — Roger Cedeno on first and third. Valentin walked on Baltimore 3, San Francisco 1 Darryl Kile had been found dead in a games before flying out to the warning inning and first since Walker, Andres Los Angeles 9, Boston 6 Chicago hotel earlier in the day.