Rivera, Yankees
cool off Red Sox
win ALCS opener
Volleyball: Four Pac-10 teams fall in polls
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the Pacific-10 Conference. Mason has
recorded consecutive double digit to
tals in kills in all five league matches.
Kelly Russell, last season’s kills
leader for the Ducks, is averaging
only 2.41 kills per game over the
last five matches. The junior outside
hitter has 174 kills on the season
and has played in 51 of 52 games
this year.
Libero Katie O’Neil holds an aver
age of 4.55 digs per game, good for
fourth in the conference. O’Neil’s
career average was 2.25 coming into
this season. The senior posted a ca
reer-best 27 digs against Arizona
State. She sits in sixth among Pac-10
active career leaders in digs with
792 behind Allison Lawrence (797)
of Oregon State.
The Ogonna factor
Stanford’s Ogonna Nnamani was
named the Pac-10 Player of the Week
for the second time in four weeks and
the fourth time in her career.
The senior outside hitter has 1,955
career kills, the most among active
players in the conference, and third
on the all-time list. She surpassed Lo
gan Tom’s career mark of 1,939 ca
reer kills to become Stanford’s all
time leader in kills.
Nnamani finished the Cardinal’s
road trip last week with a combined
total of 60 kills (7.50 per game)
against No. 2 USC and No. 10 UCLA.
She tallied 24 kills and nine digs
in a 3-1 loss to USC. Nnamani then
posted a career-high 36 kills and hit
at a .385 clip against UCLA. Her 14
digs in that match gave her a dou
ble-double, her sixth of the season.
She has accrued a team-best 328
kills this season.
Sophomore outside hitter Kristin
Richards leads the Cardinal with nine
double-doubles, which is second in
the Pac-10.
She also leads the team with 3.76
digs per game and 21 solo blocks.
Richards is second on the Stanford
squad with 227 kills, averaging 3.91
per game.
Up and down
Four of the five Pac-10 teams
ranked in the most recent USA To
day/CSTV Top 25 poll have lost
some footing.
Washington, for the second
straight week, is perched atop the list.
The Huskies received 63 of a possible
65 first-place votes; No. 3 Hawaii was
given the other two. No. 6 USC fell
from the second spot after losing to
California last weekend.
No. 11 UCLA and No. 22 Arizona
each moved down on the list. No.
12 Stanford moved up from No. 14 ,
with No. 13 California jumping four
spots from No. 17.
Despite arriving late from a funeral in Panama,
closer Mariano Rivera cfuieted Boston's comeback
BY RONALD BLUM
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Mariano Rivera
showed up just in time to save the
New York Yankees.
Shortly after jetting back from a
funeral for relatives in Panama,
baseball’s greatest closer stopped
the surging Boston Red Sox, who
had cut an eight-run deficit to one.
Rivera got Kevin Millar to pop
out to strand the tying run at third
base in the eighth inning, then fin
ished out a thrilling 10-7 win for
the Yankees in Tuesday night’s
opener of the American League
Championship Series.
Hideki Matsui tied an ALCS
record with five RBIs, four off Curt
Schilling. Mike Mussina was per
fect through six innings before
Mark Bellhorn doubled on a drive
that hit the left-field wall on a hop
with one out in the seventh and
Bernie Williams drove in three
runs, including a two-run double
in the eighth that gave Rivera
some breathing room.
For much of the night it seemed
like a laugher, with the Yankees
ahead 6-0 by the third and 8-0 in
the sixth. But after Bellhorn’s hit on
Mussina’s 86th pitch, the stubbly
faced pitcher’s huge curveball
quickly became hittable.
Millar hit a two-run double with
two outs and scored on a single by
That Nixon. Tanyon Sturtze relieved
and Jason Varitek hit a two-run
homer on his third pitch, pulling
the Red Sox to 8-5.
David Ortiz made it 8-7 with a
two-run triple in the eighth off Tom
Gordon, who would have been the
Yankees’ closer had Rivera not been
back and ready. Ortiz’s drive to left
center bounced off the glove of Mat
sui near the top of the wall, and the
crowd got up to welcome Rivera,
perhaps the biggest factor in New
York’s six AL pennants and four
World Series titles since 1996.
He had returned to his native
country Sunday after two relatives
were electrocuted in the swimming
pool of his home, and arrived back at
the ballpark in the second inning af
ter a private plane arranged by the
Yankees took him to Teterboro Air
port in New Jersey.
Given a huge ovation by the sell
out crowd of 56,135, he fell behind
2-1 to Millar, who popped the next
pitch to shortstop Derek Jeter be
hind second base.
Williams doubled in the bottom
half off Mike Timlin, a ball that
soared over Manny Ramirez in left.
Varitek and Orlando Cabrera
singled with one out in the ninth,
bringing up Bill Mueller, whose
two-run homer off Rivera beat the
Yankees at Fenway Park on July 24.
Mueller hit a comebacker that
Rivera turned into a game-ending
double play, and the Yankees came
on the field, a few of them hugging
the reliever who earned his 31st
postseason save.
Pedro Martinez pitches for the Red
Sox on Wednesday night against Jon
Lieber. Martinez is sure to be remind
ed by fans of his remark last month
that the Yankees are his “daddy.”
Mussina, assuming the ace role on
a rotation that's struggled, ended
New York's streak of losses in four
straight playoff openers, striking out
eight and allowing four runs and four
hits in 6 2/3 innings.
."
Erik R. Bishoff | Photographer
Outside hitter Kelly Russell is third in kills for Oregon with 174 this season. Russell has
only landed 41 of them throughout five Pac-10 Conference matches.
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