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Democrats from page 1
A Tiger-like victory for Furyk at Doral
Jefferson High
School fans,
alumni and the
student body
class showed
up to give their
team support
yesterday when
the Democrats
took on Dallas
and defeated
them 94 to 65
scorers. 6 ’8" c e n te r Jo n T innon
dom inated inside, cleaning up the
rare Jefferson m isses and finishing
with 18.
T in n o n w as th e g a m e ’s h ig h
rebounderw ith lO w hileJarrelladded
9.
Point guard Brandon Brooks had 9 o f
Jefferson’s w hopping 27 assists on
the night.
Je ff Dunn scored 18 points and Brad
Bahler added 14 and 7 assists for the
Dragons, who will play a consolation
m atch against M ountain V iew on
W ednesday m orning at 9:00 am.
Toronto 109, Portland 90
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The T oronto Raptors show ed the
Portland Trail Blazers they are more
than the V ince C arter Show.
C arter scored 35 points and Doug
Christieadded 26 as the Raptors roared
to a 1 0 9 -9 0 v ic to r y o v e r th e
» sh o rth an d e d T rail B lazers, w ho
suddenly are struggling.
C arter and Christie led a long-range
assault by Toronto, w hich shot 65
percent( 13-of-20) from 3-point range.
C arter w as 4-of-5 and Christie 5-of-9
from behind the arc and even 6-11
K evin W illis got into the act, m aking
his first in three years.
“T hey put a 3-point truck on us,”
Portland coach M ike D unleavy said.
“They hit 13-of-203sandw hilem aybe
w e d idn’t honor them enough, they
really m ade big shots.”
“This w as a very satisfactory w in,”
said T oronto coach Butch Carter,
w hose team im proved to 14-14 on the
road with its fourth straight win away
from home. “ Portland is an NBA team
and we w ere playing in their building.
W e’ re going to work hard to keep this
thing going.”
V in c e C a r te r w a s h is u su a l
scintillating self, m aking 12-of-23
shots, m any o f them against Scottie
Pippen, one o f the top defensive
players in the NBA. Christie was 9-of-
16 from the field and also I it up a foul-
plagued Pippen in the fourth quarter.
“W hen w e com e into people’s arenas,
w e ju st w ant to w in,” V ince C arter
Business
from page 1
Portland has continued its tw o-year
attem pt to close the business. “ It is
difficult to understand w hy the C ity
is still pursuing the nuisance suit
after tw o years,” said Jam es W inters,
President o f parent com pany
United Energy Inc. “Ifth e C ity ’s goal
w as to get rid o f the previous ow ner
and im prove the neighborhood, that
goal was achieved tw o years ago
w hen U nited G as & Food took over.
It’s hard to believe that there w ould
be one m ore vacant com er on M LK ”
W inters stated that the B usiness
received no grant or loan funds from
th e C ity to p u r c h a s e o r m a k e
im provem ents to the station and
convenience store. “ W e financed the
business ourselves,” said W inters.
With annual revenues of$70.0 million
an d 350 em p lo y e e s natio n w id e.
United Energy Inc. is O regon’s largest
A frican A m erican ow ned business,
a c c o r d in g to B la c k E n te rp ris e
M agazine.
W inters said the although he and his
a tto r n e y h a v e m e t w ith a
representative o f the M ayor’s office,
he has been w aiting since N ovem ber
to receive a response. “T he ball is in
the C ity ’s court, ‘ said W inters. I
guess this is not a big priority for
them."
Form ore inform ation Contact: James
W inters
United Energy, Inc. 287-4000
said. “It’s w hat the team does, not me.
W e had good team defense and w e ’re
a big team and w e wanted to limit their
second-half shots. W e’re starting to
understand how to w in gam es.”
T o ro n to u sed a 1 3 -0 su rg ein th eth ird
quarter to take control and repelled a
half-hearted rally by Portland in the
final period, pulling aw ay dow n the
stretch as the Rose G arden crow d o f
20,516 serenaded the hom e team with
boos.
The Trail Blazers took winning streaks
o f 11 gam es overall and 16 gam es at
hom e into last T uesday’s show dow n
w ith the Los A ngeles Lakers. But
they lost to relinquish first place in
the Pacific D ivision for the first tim e
in a m onth and now are three gam es
back.
“ W e g o t a g o o d o ld -fa s h io n e d
w h u p p in ’,” T railB lazers forw ard
D etlef S ch rem p f said. “N obody
expected it but th a t’s the w ay it was.
They w ere hitting 3s. W e d id n ’t get
loose balls, they got all the loose
balls. Everything bounced their w ay
and they couldn’t m ake shots.”
PIL
1ST TEAM ALL LEAGUE
31
Benson
6’5”
Jefferson
15
6'6"
Jefferson
3
6'0”
11
Jefferson
6V
22
Wilson
6'3"
32
Lincoln
6'5"
•Robert Day
Antone Jarrell
Brandon Brooks
Aaron Miles
Chris Rodgers
Kasey Adler
COACH OF THE YEAR
12
12
12
11
10
12
A ssociated Pnywi
Jim Furyk can chalk up his incredible
com eback Sunday to Tiger Woods.
Standing on the 12th tee, six shots
behind Franklin Langham with
seven holes to play in the Doral-
Ryder O pen, Furyk recalled the
thrilling turnaround a month ago
when he was paired with Woods in
the final round at Pebble Beach.
W oods was seven strokes down
with seven holes to play. Furyk had
a ringside seat to an unimaginable
victory as W oods put on an eagle-
birdie-par-birdie finish and Matt
Gogel stum bled dow n the stretch.
“If you had told me Tiger would win
that tournam ent, I w ould have
laughed at you,” he said.
On Sunday, it was Furyk who had
the last laugh.
W ith five birdies on his last seven
holes, he closed with a 7-under 65 to
win D oral by tw o strokes over
Langham.
“ I told m y se lf he (W oods) won that
event because he believed that he
could,” Furyk said. “Ifl didn’t believe
I could still win, then it definitely
w o u ld n ’t h av e h ap p en ed today.
May be I learned something from that.”
Furyk d id n ’t hole a w edge from the
fairw ay for eagle, or punch the air
with a m assive uppercut with every
birdie. H e sim ply never counted
h im se lf out, telling caddie M ike
Cow an he needed a 30 on the back
nine to have a chance.
T h at’s ju st w hat he delivered on the
tam e B lue Monster.
“U nder that pressure, that’s the best
nine holes I’ve played on tour,” Furyk
said.
N ick Price m ade a 10-foot birdie putt
on the 18th hole for a 67 that left him
alone in third at 270, one stroke ahead
o f David Duval (66) and Shigeki
M aruyam a (69), who secured his
position in the top 50 and an invitation
Jim Furyk
to the Masters.
“I should feel fortunate right now ,”
said Furyk, who earned $540,000.
H is 2 3 - u n d e r 265 tie d th e
tournam ent record set in 1993 by
Greg Norman.
Langham staggered o ff the course
w ith a harsh lesson
Tennis-Rain forces cancellation o f
Hingis-Davenport final
R euters
A second day o f unlikely rain in the
desert resort tow n o f S cottsdale
forced cancellation o f the final o f the
State Farm W om en’s Tennis Classic,
w hich w as to feature a show dow n o f
the w o rld ’s top two players.
Sunday ’ s final between world number
one M artina H ingis and second-
ranked A ustralian O pen cham pion
L in d s a y D a v e n p o rt h ad to be
postponed by the surprising weather.
But
sh o w ers
an d
is o la te d
thunderstorm s w hich continued to
fall on M onday forced tournam ent
o ffic ia ls to d ec la re the finale a
washout. T he doubles final also was
cancelled.
“To have the num ber one and two
player in the world is a dream final,”
tournam ent director PeterTatum said.
“O bviously the weather is something
you ca n ’t control.”
H ingis and D avenport will share the
finalists’ prize money, taking $43,500
each, and w ill split the w inner’s
ranking points.
This marked the first W T A Tour event
to have its final cancelled since the
1997 W im b le d o n tu n e -u p in
Eastbourne, England, was rained out.
In 1998, a pre-Wimbledon tournament
in B irm in g h a m , E n g la n d , w as
cancelled after com pletion o f the
singles quarter-finals.
“ It’s disappointing because I cam e
through such a tough draw and I w as
playing w ell,” said Davenport, w ho
had d efe ate d J e n n ife r C a p ria ti,
M onica Seles and A nna K oum ikova
to set up her final with Hingis.
“ I t ’s to u g h n o t to h a v e th e
opportunity to w in another title,”
added the big-hitting Californian.
D avenport had w on the last four
m e etin g s w ith h e r S w iss riv al,
including ending H ingis’s three-year
reign as A ustralian O pen champion
w ith a straight sets w in over the top
seed in the final in Melbourne.
Marshall Haskins - Jefferson
PLAYER OF THE YEAR - Brandon Brooks - Jefferson
John Tinnon
Hakim Hason
Jamal Cooke
Chris Stephens
Michael Lee
Britton Smith
2ND TEAM ALL LEAGUE
42
Jefferson
6'8"
32
Benson
6'1"
14
Franklin
6'0
32
Madison
6V
23
Jefferson
6'3"
30
Madison
6'3"
12
12
12
10
11
12
HONORABLE MENTION
21
Benson
6V
44
Benson
67"
23
Cleveland
5’10”
22
Cleveland
6'0"
11
Cleveland
6'2"
11
Franklin
6'4"
50
Grant
6’4”
22
Grant
6'2"
24
Jefferson
6'0"
20
Lincoln
6'0"
12
Marshall
6'2"
Roosevelt
6'0"
10
Roosevelt
5'11”
15
Wilson
6’0”
32
Wilson
6'5"
12
10
12
12
12
11
11
12
12
10
11
12
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12
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Dele Sobomehin
Martin “Jr” Moore
Andre Goodlow
Colby Conner
Sam Jakola
Ervin Sims
Adam Whitehead
Robert Curtis
John Lee Jr.
Chris Strachan
Jeremiah Howard
Andre Barber
Richard Perez
Jamie Linder
Shelton Bennett
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Silver Pierce
Alayna Vincent
Jenny Shetters
Lindsay Hill
Kristin Abah
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42
25
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14
23
33
20
32
Nisha Dizer
Alicia Scoggin
Cicely Oaks
Ericka Klein
Latasha Frison
Anne TaHam
SCHOOL
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1ST TEAM ALL LEAGUE
Wilson
6’1.5"
Lingoin
57”
Lincoln
60”
Wilson
6'3"
Grant
5’10”
Jefferson
5'9”
2ND TEAM A^LLEAGUE
5'4"
Benson
5'5”
Franklin
Grant
5’6”
Marshall
57”
Jefferson
5'8"
6'0
Lincoln
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