FREE PRESS SSSPORTSPORTS Page 10 Colby Free Press Friday, August 11, 2006 Royals total 10 extra-base hits against Red Sox KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — streak since 2004. Andrew Sisco (1-2) got the win two at-bats and extended his career- Curt Schilling tied the AL record by Boston began the day a season- with one inning of relief. Ambiorix best hitting streak to 25 games, sec- allowing 10 extra-base hits, and the high three games behind New York Burgos got his 18th save in 28 ond only to Chase Utley’s 35-gamer Kansas City Royals rallied for three in the AL East. chances. in the majors this year. He is hitting runs in the eighth inning to beat the Schilling (14-5) led 4-2 going Wily Mo Pena hit a three-run .402 during the streak. Boston Red Sox 5-4 Thursday night into the eighth but failed to become homer in the seventh for a 4-2 Bos- Mark Grudzielanek made a high- for a surprising three-game sweep. the majors’ first 15-game winner. ton lead. Kevin Youkilis doubled light reel play on Alex Cora’s soft Schilling gave up nine doubles Mike Sweeney and Mark Teahen leading off, Mike Lowell singled fly into right-center in the fifth. and a home run, matching the mark hit consecutive doubles to make it and Pena hit a 429-foot home run off Stretching with his back to the in- set by Washington’s Dale Gear in 4-3. Emil Brown walked and Sand- Runelvys Hernandez’s 0-2 pitch. field, Grudzielanek got the ball in 1901 and equaled by Cleveland’s ers tied it with his double. Doug Mirabelli, in his first at-bat his glove, but then it popped out into Luis Tiant in 1969. Ryan Shealy’s infield single, the since missing four games with an the air. Reggie Sanders doubled three only hit by the Royals that did not ankle injury, homered leading off While doing a hard bellyflop onto times as the Royals, with the worst go for extra bases, pushed across the the third for a 1-0 lead for the Red the turf, the second baseman record in the majors, sent the Red go-ahead run and finished Sox. grabbed it with his bare hand and Sox to their first five-game losing Schilling. Manny Ramirez singled his first held on. Chiefs find and sign a healthy quarterback RIVER FALLS, Wis. (AP) — The Chiefs suddenly found them- Croyle has been practicing only in Smoker spent the past two sea- The Kansas City Chiefs, riddled by selves in the market for a backup running drills while he works his sons with the Philadelphia Eagles nagging injuries in the offensive quarterback for Saturday’s exhibi- way back from a shoulder injury, and the St. Louis Rams, who chose backfield, agreed to terms of a two- tion opener against the Houston which would have left only starter him in the sixth round of the 2004 year contract with former Michigan Texans after Damon Huard Trent Green and Canadian Football NFL draft. State quarterback Jeff Smoker. sprained a foot earlier this week. League star Casey Printers avail- Terms of the deal, announced Third-round draft pick Brodie able to take snaps. Thursday, were not disclosed. Colby Free Press file photo LEAGUE BOWLING COLBY CINEMA Colby High School Lady Eagle Lissa Mazanec set the ball & ARCADE over the net during a 2005 match. 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(AP) — Former Florida Marlins first-round draft pick Jeff Allison was hospital- ized after a friend found him uncon- scious on a bathroom floor, sur- Full Color rounded by what police said was heroin paraphernalia. A police report obtained by The Boston Globe cited heroin injection as the cause for the 21-year-old right-hander’s condition. Allison was found Monday with a bag with heroin paraphernalia on the floor of 5x12 the bathroom, the paper reported. Allison was taken with the 16th overall pick in the 2003 amateur draft and signed for $1.85 million after going 9-0 with a perfect ERA in his senior year at Peabody High School. He missed the 2004 season be- place 85% in cause of an addiction to OxyContin, a failed drug test for marijuana and a heroin overdose. MILWAUKEE (AP) — Chicago Cubs manager Dusty Baker will tes- tify in the Mitchell investigation into steroid use in baseball, and said he assumed he was called because GSN of his relationships with Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa. PRO FOOTBALL PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ben Roethlisberger will start the Steelers’ exhibition game at Ari- zona on Saturday, two months to the day that he broke his jaw and nose and sustained other facial injuries in a serious motorcycle accident in Pittsburgh. CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Rookie running back LenDale White got into a brawl with a team- mate at the Tennessee Titans train- ing camp. The rookie out of Southern Cali- fornia started clashing with the de- fense on a running play. He was walking back toward the huddle when bumped. White walked back, and safety Donnie Nickey pushed back at the rookie with his helmet. A recording by a television cameraman picked up linebacker Keith Bulluck yelling that White had spit in Nickey’s face..
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