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Portland Observer's 4A all-state basketball
Class 4A Girls All-State team
Player o f the Year: Kara
Braxton, Westview
Coach o f the Year: Mark
Neffendorf, Westview
F irs t Team
Kara Braxton
Westview
6'5" Jr.
Betsy Boardman
Beaverton
6’ 1" Sr.
Hollye Holbrook
Oreg. City
6’3" Sr.
Brooklyn Lorenzen Cr. Valley
5*5" Sr.
Sarah Hedgepeth Springfield
6’0" Sr.
Second Team
Jackie Woods
Ashland
6’0" Jr.
Jaci McCormack
Lake Oswego
5-10" Sr.
Andrea Armstrong North Bend
6 ’2" Sr.
Camille Woodfield La Grande
5 ’ 11" Sr.
Stephanie Burnham Wilson
6 ’2" Sr.
T h ird Team
Carrie Buckner
Cr. Valley 5’8"
Sr.
Chelsea Wagner
Springfield
5 ’ 10" Jr.
Corrine Wong
Clackamas
5 ’9“ Sr.
Jenn Chesney
Newberg
6 ’0"
Sr.
Da’ Love Woods
St. M ary’s
5’4" Sr.
H o n o ra b le M e n tio n
Am y Denson
So.
B uffy Hummed
5 ’6” Sr.
Kate Story
6 ’0" Sr.
Heidi Buehler
Sr.
Sarah Keeler
Sr.
Sarah Pool
So.
Jenny Pippa
Jenny Shetters
Angie Wells
Kayla Steen
Crater
Class 4A Boys All-State team
Player o f the Year:
Brooks,
Coach o f the Year:
Haskins,
First Team
Ian Elseth
Grants Pass 6’ 7"
Jr.
Aaron Miles
Jefferson
6 ’ I"
Jr.
Joey McCollum
West Linn
5 ’ 10” Sr.
Michael Lee
Jefferson
6’2”
Sr.
Marshal Hartman Westview
6’6" So.
B ill Swancutt
Sprague
6 ’4"
Jr.
Michael Kuebler South Salem 6’3" Sr.
Bryce Loftin
Beaverton
6’ 1" Sr.
Nick Rouhier
Eagle Point 5’ 11" Sr.
Brad Bahler
Dallas
5’ 10" Sr.
Lake Oswego
Crater
5'6"
6 ’3"
5’6"
Ashland
5’4" Sr.
Wilson
6’3" Sr.
Westview
5’ 11" Jr.
St. M ary’s 5’7" Sr.
Third Team
Crook County
6’6" Sr.
Mitch Meeuwsen Forest Grove
6’3" Sr.
M ike McGrain
Jesuit
6’ 3"
Jr.
Brett Elliott
Lake Oswego
6’4" Sr.
David Brautigam Tualatin
6 ’6" Sr.
H o n o ra b le M e n tio n
6’0”
Pendleton
South Eugene 6 ’4“
Sr.
Brandon Brooks Jefferson
6’0"
Sr.
Brian Michaelson Jesuit
6’4"
Sr.
Robert Day
Benson
6’ 5"
Sr.
Salim Stoudamire Lake Oswego
6’ 1" Jr.
Second Team
Jon Tinnon
Jefferson
6 ’8"
Sr.
Shilo Rowland
McNary
6*5"
Sr.
Colby Summer
Mtn. View
6’6" Sr.
Brandon G ill
Gresham
5'10"
Sr.
Anton Jarrell
Jefferson
6 '6 ”
Sr.
Jared Abell
Oregon City
Tigard
Brandon
Jefferson
Marshall
Jefferson
Blake Stepp
Portland Observer's class 4A boys Coach
o f the Year, Marshall Haskins
Portland Observer's Class 4A boys Player
o f the Year, Brandon Brooks.
Always on Sunday: Woods is close to lead
A ssociated P u r«
Start counting.
I iger W oods’ winning streak on the PGA Tour is at one
after a powerful performance in the Bay Hill Invitational. He
never trailed during the final 36 holes, didn’t make a bogey
tor the last 34 holes and breezed to a four-shot victory over
Davis Love III.
Whether he gets as high as six consecutive victories — or
beyond — is unlikely. But that’s not the streak that best
defines his dominance.
The depth on the PGA T our is such that any number o f 140
players is capable o f winning every week. So why is it
Woods seems to be the only player in the hunt every
Sunday?
“He’s playing everybody’s ‘A ’ game every w eek,” Love
said Sunday after his third loss to Woods in as many head-
to-head showdowns since November.
“Ernie Els could have just as easily shot 18 under here if
he’d have played well,” Love added. “I might go and shoot
15 under next week and win. But he’s been doing it week
after week after week after week. I think that’s the
difference.”
In his last 16 tournaments, Woods has won 10 times. The
reason behind such a staggering statistic is the number o f
times he puts himself into position.
Consider what Woods has done the past year, which
covers 18 stroke-play events on the PGA Tour:
He has finished out o f the top 10 only twice.
He has not finished lower than 18th.
He has had at least a share o f the 54-hole lead in half those
tournaments.
His worst deficit going into the final round was eight
strokes back in the Nelson Classic. Even there, he was tied
for the lead on the back nine Saturday before dropping a
couple o f shots and then taking quadruple-bogey 7 on the
17th hole at Las Colinas.
“T hat’s where you always want to be, and that’s one o f the
reason why I changed my golf swing in ’97, is that I felt like
I couldn’t be in contention every time I teed it up with the
swing I used to have,” Woods said. “Now, it’s a little
different.
Tiger Woods played the final 34 holes at Bay Hill
without a bogey
“I feel like if I go out there and play my game, and play
smart, then I figure my golf swing can be a little more
consistent,” he said. “My bad shots aren’t that bad.
My good shots are always going to be pretty good,
but it’s the bad ones that are the key to shooting good,
solid numbers.”
Woods has failed to break par only 15 times in his last
72 rounds dating to The Players Championship last
year. His worst round is 3 over— the Players on a rock-
hard day at Sawgrass, the Masters in the final round
and three times in the British Open at Carnoustie, the
wickedest links course in the world.
De La Hoya given WBC belt Deion getting close to playing form
A ssociated P ress
O scar De La Hoya plans to work on
his New Year’s resolution when he
fights unbeaten Shane Mosley.
The only loss o f his career actually
was a blessing in disguise, De La
Hoya said.
He built an early lead against Felix
Trinidad in their fight last September,
but De La Hoya danced and didn’t
throw enough punches in the later
rounds, allowing to Trinidad to win
the decision.
“At 12:01 o f the new century, I
thought, ‘ Hey, what were you doing?
Wake up and smell the coffee and
fight the way you used to fight,” ’ De
La Hoya said. “I’m going to stick to
my game plan, just keep going straight
ahead.”
In his only fight this year, De La Hoya
knocked out Derrell Coley in the
seventh round o f their Feb. 26 bout in
NewYork.
De La Hoya and Mosley were at a
news conference Monday at Staples
Center, where their June 17 bout will
be held.
De La Hoya was presented the WBC
welterweight championship belt the
sanctioning body reclaimed from
Trinidad, but De La Hoya isn’t ready
to consider it his just yet.
“O nJune 17, this belt goes along with
the title,” De La Hoya said. “The best
man will win it.”
When Trinidad moved up to super
welterweight and did not defend his
147-pound title, the WBC stripped
him o f the belt.
Mauricio Sulaiman, son o f WBC
president Jose Sulaiman, presented
the belt to De La Hoya.
Smiling, De La Hoya and Mosley
staged a playful tug-of-war over the
belt.
“I’m ready to go on and take the WBC
belt away from Oscar,” said Mosley,
34-0, with 32 knockouts. “That belt
right there is mine.”
De La Hoya is a product o f East Los
Angeles, and now lives in Whittier.
Mosley lives in Pomona, and the two
natives o f the Los Angeles area have
fought before, meeting in the junior
Golden Gloves several times when
they were around 10 or 11 years old.
No one seems to know how many
times they were matched as youths,
alth o u g h one lo n g tim e boxing
observer said Mosley beat De La
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Hoya each time.
De La Hoya, 27, said he had no
recollection o f the bouts.
Mosley, whose $4.5 million plus a
percentage o f pay-per-view will be
his largest paycheck, thanked De La
Hoya.
“A lot o f people said he w ouldn’t
fight me, that he would move up or
something,” Mosley, 28, said. “But
he proved he wanted to take this
fight, and I thank him for that.”
De La Hoya, 32-1 with 26 knockouts,
will get $8 million plus a percentage
from TV.
California’s 5 percent tax on boxing
and wrestling shows would mean a
bill o f $400,000 for a sel lout crowd o f
20,000 at the arena, in addition to
$240,000 for the city tax. Staples
officials are seeking a state tax cap o f
$50,000 on the fight, such as the cap
in place in New York.
“Nothing has happened on that yet,
but we are w orking w ith (state
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V illa ra ig o s a ,” S ta p le s C e n te r
president Tim Leiweke said.
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Deion Sanders is ready to show what
he’s got.
After hobbling through the first few
w eeks o f sp rin g tra in in g , the
outfielder is ready to start playing
games and show the Cincinnati Reds
where he stands after two years away
from baseball.
He played in an intrasquad game over
the weekend and surprised general
m anager Jim Bow den w ith his
progress from arthroscopic knee
surgery in January.
“It was very impressive for his first
timeout,” Bowden said. “Obviously,
he swung the bat extremely well.
Obviously, he isn’t running like he
normally can, but he’s a lot closer
than where I thought he’d be.”
Sanders hasn't played baseball since
he left the Reds in 1997 to play
comerback full time for the Dallas
C ow boys.
He
signed
a
nonguaranteed minor league contract
with the Reds and is trying to win a
spot on the opening day roster.
“H e’s got a way to go, but he has
three weeks to get there,” Bowden
said. “He has a chance to create some
problems for us, which is a good kind
o f problem for us to have.”