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Blazers looking for a different
Jazz team to show up
A ssociat ed P ress
The Portland Trail Blazers are
expecting the real Utah Jazz to arrive
any time now. Jerry Sloan says what
you see is what you get. “This is who
we are,” the Utah Jazz coach said
Monday, surveying the damage after
Sunday’s 94-75 loss to the Blazers in
G am e 1 o f their best-o f-sev en
Western Conference semifinals. “I’d
like to say w e’re a different team,”
Sloan added. “I’d like to say ,' Well, all
o f a sudden Michael Jordan is going
to show up and play for us (in Game
2 Tuesday),’ but that isn’t the way it
works. We just have to go with who
we are and see what happens.”
The Jazz trailed by only four points
entering the final quarter Sunday but
missed nine o f their first 10 shots and
were outscored 29-14 in the period.
Whether the short recovery time after
the first round was to blame, or it was
Portland’s strong defense in the fourth
quarter, the Jazz looked nothing like
the proud team th at m ade the
conference finals five times since 1992.
“We felt like they were going to come
out and deli ver the first blow and play
with a lot o f energy and intensity,”
Portland’s Scottie Pippen said before
practice Monday. “But they were not
the same team. ... We can expect a
totally different team to come out
(Tuesday) night.” Pippen had a
terrific game, scoring 20 points and
exploiting a mismatch against Jazz
guard Jeff Homacek. The 6-foot-8
Brian Grant made Karl Malone and the Jazz pay on only two o f his 10
field-goal attempts, but his 10 rebounds and hustle more than made up
fo r his shooting. Associated Press.
Pippen scored 13 points in the second
half, most o f them while he was being
defended by the 6-4 H ornacek.
H om acek, who also had trouble
guarding Steve Smith in the high post,
said he expects to stay on Pippen. But
Sloan criticized his team for standing
around and not helping Homacek. “I
think everybody in America knew
that they were going to post us up,
except four other guys watching,”
Sloan said. “Yeah, they made some
shots, but their offensive rebounds
kill you too. When you stand and
watch and then you don’t rebound,
what are you supposed to do? Start
switching players around? No, I don’t
do that. H omacek’s a pretty good
player. I have no less confidence in
him.”
U .S . tu n e s u p , 4 to O C a n a d a
A ssociated T ress
April Heinrichs liked what she saw
Sunday in the U.S. w om en’s soccer
team.
Creativity. Aggression. Playmaking.
These attributes, as much as the 4-0
victory over Canada in front o f 7,659
at Civic Stadium, pleased the U.S.
coach, who must decide in the coming
months which 18 players will defend
the Olympic gold medal in Sydney,
Australia.
The United States won the Nike U.S.
W o m en ’s Cup for th e seventh
consecutive tim e by outscoring
opponents 12-0. It dictated the pace
Friday against fleet Mexico and
outgrappled physical Canada on
Sunday.
Friday was a goal-scoring highlight
film on a cold, damp night. Sunday
saw the U.S. team press in the first
half without result, then break the
Canadian defense in the second half
under a sunny May sky.
“We found that this team really can
play and there’s a creative flair that I
hadn’t seen,” said Heinrichs, whose
team is coming off an intense two-
week Olympic residence camp. “Now
we need to get back to blue-collar
work.”
New Canadian coach Even Pellerud
knows al 1 about the U.S. team ’s style.
As coach o f Norway, Pellerud beat
the U nited States seven times.
W ithout N orw ay’s scoring flair,
Canada settled into a defensive stance
rough enough at times for Heinrichs
to call it “mean-spirited.”
“He doesn’t have the depth we
have,” Heinrichs said. “ He doesn’t
have the panache this team has. So he
uses what he has.”
The tournament was part o f the
process that started at training camp
and will continue during matches in
A ustralia, the United States and
Europe. Heinrichs must announce an
Olympic team by Aug. 15, one month
before the opening o f the Games, but
is expected to announce it in mid- to
late July.
The United States outshot Canada
32-9, but it wasn’t until Portland’s
S han n o n M acM illan lobbed a
crossing pass to Julie Foudy for a
header in the 46th minute that the
Americans scored.
“The first half, we weredisconnected,”
midfielder Kristine Lilly said “We
had som e great ch an ces. It is
frustrating, but you also have to know
I
it’s going to happen.”
Lilly, 28, was honored before the game
for making her 200th international
appearance — a milestone no other
player has reached in international
soccer.
The U.S. Soccer Federation gave Lilly
a white-gold necklace, decorated with
a CC and a diamond. Her sponsor,-
Adidas, gave Lilly a special pair of
gold-colored soccer shoes with “200”
on the heels that she w ore for
Sunday’s game only. And teammates
gave her a bracelet.
“They made me cry before the game,”
said Lilly, whose parents traveled
from Connecticut to watch their
daughter make history.
Despite the offensive frustration in
the first half, the United States
dominated on both ends o f the field.
“The Mexico game, we dictated the
pace,” said MacMillan, a former
University o f Portland star who was
named player o f the tournament for
her two goals and two assists. “We
controlled those passes. Today, there
comes a time when the passes don’t
work. You have to dig your heels in
and just wear them down.
“Soccer can be a very stingy game.
W ecanplayateam and beat them 10-
0 and, the next day, play them 0-0.”
Canada ran its offense through 16-
year-old phenom enon C hristina
Sinclair and captain Amy Walsh, but
it rarely threatened. Siri Mullinixhad
three saves for the United States.
The Canadians compensated with a
defensive wall and aggressive play.
“I think we showed great rhythm,
great timing,” U.S. defender Brandi
Chastain said. “Canada was very
physical. And they were not going to
back down from that.”
Foudy’s goal opened the door for the
U.S. team, which last faced — and
defeated — Canada last June in a
sendoff to the W omen’s World Cup
and the championship.
Cindy Parlow came o ff the bench to
score in the 75th minute on a header
off Lilly’s pass.
Portland’sTifTeny Milbrett, selected
the player o f the game, gave her team
a3-0lead when she gathered Parlow's
shot off the crossbar and high-kicked
it past goalkeeper Karina I eBanc.
Reserve forward Christie Welsh
scored the final goal in the 85th minute,
leaping high to lob a bouncing ball
over LeBanc’s hands.
“1 knew we weren't playing likeTearn
USA,” Milbrett said. “Yet w ew on4-
0. We knew we could win pretty or
ugly.”
Franco wins PGA event on second playoffhole
A ssociated P ress
It is party time in Paraguay again.
Carlos Franco gave his countrymen
reason to celebrate by settling down
on the second playoffhole Sunday
and repeating as champion at the
$3.5 million Compaq Classic in New
Orleans.
“This is very sweet, very sweet for
me, very sweet for my country, very
sweet for everyone,” Franco said.
“I know everyone in my country
was watching on television and
being very nervous. But now it’s
OK.”
Franco survived a bogey on the
first playoffhole, then made a three-
foot putt for par on the second to
beat Blaine McCallister and win
$612,000.
“The trophy is very nice,” Franco
said. “It’s for my wife. I like the
m o n e y .” T he 18th hole w as
M cC allister’s undoing in both
regulation and the playoff. “I played
some good golf today,” McCallister
said. “It’s disappointing to end like I
did. I mean, it feels like I just bled all
over the place out there.”
McCallister had a one-stroke lead
over Franco after 17 holes, but found
the front bunker at 18 and missed a 12-
foot putt for par. Franco saved par
with a five-footer, leaving both players
with closing 4-under-par 68s.
The playoff started on No. 18 and
Franco hit into a fairway bunker off
the tee. His third shot went to the
fringe o f the green and he went about
five feet past the hole and made a
bogey 5. McCallister was on in two
and had about a 30-footer for birdie,
but he missed that and a four-footer
for par.
On the second playoffhole, the par-
4 16th, McCallister hit into a bunker
off the tee and then into a greenside
bunker which he couldn’t get out of.
His fourth shot went through the
green. Franco’s second shot also
went into a greenside bunker, but he
hit within three feet and made the
putt.
French Open: Colin Montgomerie
won his first title o f the season,
mak ing two eagles on the back nine
en route to a two-stroke victory in
the $1.08 million French Open in
Versailles. The Scotsman closed
with a 4-under 68 for a 16-under 272
total. Jonathan Lomas o f England
was runner-up at 274.
LPGA: Laura Davies shot a 2-over
72 but held on for a two-stroke
victory over Dottie Pepper in the
Philips Invitational in Austin, Texas.
The Briton finished at 5-under275
to win her second event of the year
and the 60th o f her international
career.
Davies won $ 127,500 for her 19th
victory in 12 years on the LPGA
Tour. She needs three more points
toqualify for the LPGA Hall ofFame.
Pepper started the day seven
strokes off the lead but closed with
•67.
Webb wins: Karrie Webb shot a 1 -
over 73 in swirling winds and scored
her sixth victory o f the season.
First-time Derby trainer puts bad luck
of 1992 behind him
Neil Drysdale waited eight years to
walk a horse to the paddock on the
first Saturday in May.
And when he did, Fusaichi Pegasus
gave him acareer-defining moment in
a most memorable week.
Drysdale won the 126th Kentucky
Derby with a frisky colt whose playful
personality is just the opposite o f the
serious-minded trainer.
“I’m just so delighted for the horse,”
Drysdale said in his clipped British
accent. “H e's very talented and I’m
very proud o f him.”
W
Fusaichi Pegasus was Drysdale’s first
Derby starter in a career that began
with handling show horses in the
1970s.
Drysdale, who is the epitome o f
British reserve, broke up the Bob
Baftert-D. Wayne Lukas stranglehold
in the Derby. He is the first trainer
other than Baffert or Lukas to win
since 1994.
Bad luck kept Drysdale from saddling
his first Derby horse in 1992.
A.P. Indy turned up with a bruised
foot on Derby Day, forcing Drysdale
to scratch him. The injury also kept
A.P. Indy out o f the Preakness. But
the colt came back to win the Belmont
and was voted horse o f the year,
giving Drysdale some consolation.
He certainly didn't need any here.
The 1 '/2-length victory Saturday by
the Japanese-owned horse, whose
tongue-twister o f a name often leads
Drysdale to call him “the colt,”
completed a dream week for the trainer.
Drysdale was elected to racing’s Hall
ofFam e on Tuesday. Lukas followed
the same path last year, getting into
the hall days before Charismatic won
the Derby.
“ It’s a very humbling week and very
rewarding,” he said.
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