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Wednesday • April 17,'
THE 1996 NHL PLAYOFFS
Opening Night: Gretzky great again, Montreal
works overtime. Flyers roll past Tampa Bay
Gretzky s three assists
sparked St. Louis, 3-1
The Lightning had a Damphousse s OT goal Two goals in 25 seconds
playoff debut to forget gave Montreal the win put Colorado over the top
TORONTO (AP) — Wayne Gretzky,
making his first playoff appearance in
three years, assisted on all three St.
Louis goals Monday night to lead the
Blues to a 3-1 win over the Toronto
Maple Leafs in the opening game of their
playoff series.
Gretzky, traded to the Blues earlier
this season from the Los Angeles Kings,
set up goals by Brett Hull, Shayne Cor
son and Steve
Leach as the
Blues took a 1-0
lead in the best-
of-seven series.
Game 2 will
be played Thurs
day night before
the series shifts
to St. Louis for
Games 3 and 4.
Mats Sundin was the only Toronto
player to beat St. Louis goalie Grant
Fuhr, who made 33 saves.
With the score tied 1-1 in the third pe
riod, Gretzky sent a pass from behind
Toronto’s net through the legs of de
fenseman Mathieu Schneider. The puck
deflected into the middle to the Leafs’
zone to Hull, who put a wrist shot past
goalie Felix Potvin at 11:13.
Leach then beat Potvin from the faceoff
circle at 12:32 to give the Blues a 3-1 lead.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Eric Lindros
and Pat Falloon each had a goal and two
assists as the Philadelphia Flyers made
Tampa Bay’s playoff debut one to forget,
beating the Lightning 7-3 to take the first
game in a best-of-7 playoff series Tuesday.
While Philadelphia goalie Ron Hextall
didn’t see a lot of early action, the Flyers
chased Tampa Bay goalie Daren Puppa af
ter assuming a 4-0 lead on 14 shots early in
the second period.
Trailing 6-0
with eight minutes
left in the second
period, the Light
ning, playing the
first playoff game
in their four-year
history, made it
respectable with
goals by Jason Wiemer, Mikael Andersson
and John Cullen.
The Flyers’ first line of Lindros, John
LeClair and Dale Hawerchuk each scored,
but Philadelphia also picked up goals
from Joel Otto, Rod Brind’Amour and
Trent Klatt while outshooting the Light
ning 32-17.
Philadelphia pressed Tampa Bay’s inex
perienced defense from the start and was
able to keep play in the Lightning end for
most of the first period. The result was a 3-
0 lead seven minutes into the game.
NEW YORK (AP) — Vincent Damp-
housse’s second goal of the game at 5:04 of
overtime Tuesday night gave the Montre
al Canadiens a 3-2 victory over the New
York Rangers in the opener of their first-
round playoff series.
Damphousse took a drop pass from
Benoit Brunet at the blue line, skated
down the right side and beat Mike Richter
from the right circle with the Canadiens’
only shot of overtime.
The shot broke
up a brilliant
goaltending duel
between Richter
and the Canadi
ens’ Joceyln
Thibault, who
made 43 saves.
Richter made 29,
many of them
from close range.
The victory gave the Canadiens a 1-0
lead in the best-of-7 Eastern Conference
series, which continues with Game 2 in
New York on Thursday night.
The Rangers took a 1-0 lead at 7:17 of
the first on a power-play goal by Adam
Graves, who scored on a rebound. Rangers
captain Mark Messier, returning to action
after missing the last five games of the
season with a rib injury, had an assist on
the play.
DENVER (AP) — Joe Sakic and Valeri
Kamensky scored goals 25 seconds apart
in the second period, and Peter Forsberg
added two goals and two assists Tuesday
night as the Colorado Avalanche opened
the Western Conference playoffs with a 5-
2 win over the Vancouver Canucks.
The Avalanche scored four goals in the
second period en route to winning the first
NHL playoff game in Denver since 1978.
Claude Lemieux had three assists for
the Avalanche.
Patrick Roy
stopped 29 saves to
win his 71st play
off game.
Russ Courtnall
and Esa Tikkanen
scored for the
Canucks.
Kirk McLean,
the Canucks’ starting goalie was replaced
after Kamensky’s goal by Corey Hirsch.
The teams exchanged first period goals
with Courtnall giving the Canucks a 1-0
lead at 11:30. Trevor Linden picked up a
loose puck inside the Canucks’ zone and
found Courtnall at center ice. He skated
into the Colorado zone and flipped the
puck over Roy’s left shoulder.
Colorado tied the game at 16:52 on Fors-
berg’s first goal. He picked up the puck be
hind the Vancouver net and put it in.
McCray
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your top maximum speed andbeii"
able to maintain it.”
McCray said although he com
peted in both events in high school
it is different when you are playii|
Division I college sports.
“In college football, the seasoc
does not end until January, anj
then the track season starts around
the third week of January.”
McCray said playing two sport
definitely keeps him very busy.
“You are always competitive and
it gives you an edge,” McCray saii
‘You are never bored.”
McCray has not had the samt
amount of training as other athlete
in the nation. However, he is confi
dent he will be ready for the nation
al championship meet in two weeks
“The next two weeks are ven
important,” McCray said. “Wears
coming on to crunch time.”
Among McCray’s accomplish
ments are a national indoor team
championship and a 4X400 meter
relay championship in 1994.
Nelson said there are both pra
and cons to being a two-sport athlete.
“You get the mental toughness
from football,” Nelson said. “Butthe
time football takes away is a defid
However, you have to have talent ani
speed to be a wide receiver andtai
helps with your speed.”
McCray qualified for the Olympit
Trials in 1992, but in joining the foot
ball team, he had to miss them. Ho*-
ever this year, McCray plans one®
peting in the trials, no matter what
“I am not going to miss this op
portunity,” McCray said. “Onl;
some people can dream about com
peting for a spot to represent your
country in the Olympics.”
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“I think that
pi aying both
helps me to
stay in mM.
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and
keeps
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com
pete.” '
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ham
said
“They ba
sically ju
keep me
ing something
The two sports
do keep Nottingham
busy, but Nelson said that
the two sports are differ
ent enough to add variety
to what could become a
monotonous schedule.
“They are two very dif
ferent sports.” Nel
son said. “Bas
ketball is a
.earn sport
where
there are
five guys
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out
there
relying
on each
other.
Track
is more
individ
ual; it all
do-
relies on
y° u to set
points for
team. It’s
self-rewarding to
know you’ve done it
on your own.”
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given enough opportunity,
she could probably qualify for
the NCAA Nationals in the
heptathalon.”
When asked if competing for
two sports was too much to han
dle, Sykora did not have much to
say except for the fact that she
has little time to concentrate on
her studies.
“Of course it is going to be
strenuous and hard,” Sykora said.
“I do it though, because I love to
play volleyball and contribute to
the team effort, but I also like the
individuality of track.
“Sportswise, I can handle
things, but I find myself be
hind other students who can
spend more time following
their degree plan.”
Overall, coaches in both of
Sykora’s sports agree that she
has a lot of talent to offer to
A&M athletics.
Both foresee a bright future
for her filled with personal
bests and highs, and peg her as
being a huge contributor to
team achievements in seasons
to come.
“I hope to
do whatever I
Jones
can for both
teams,” Syko
ra said. “So
far, I feel that
I have a lot to
do as far as
improve-
ments are
concerned,
and that I
have yet to
begin to ac-
Sykora
complish all of the things I had
planned when the year started.”
When asked which sport she
liked the best, Sykora said that
she gets a lot out of both, but
hopes that some day at least
one of the sports will afford her
the opportunity to earn a Big 12
championship ring.
Continued from Page 12
attest to.
“It takes a lot of time,” Jones
said. “You’re almost always tired,
then you have that test or paper
you have to do, and you have to
keep on going to keep up with all
that school work. It kind of piles on
to your troubles.”
To say Jones has been a bit busy
lately is an understatement. With
football spring training in full swing
up until last week, Jones found
himself swamped in a sea of sports.
“It was kind of hard at first be
cause I was working with first
group (in football) and had to work
more reps, so I was sore,” Jones
said. “It was hard to concentrate on
one sport or the other.”
With spring training behind,
Nelson said Jones is primed for the
track season’s final month.
“He’s been slow coming around
in that he had spring training to go
through and that took a little bit s'
his focus,” Nelson said. “He's
through with that, and I think tk:
he’s going to get a lot better in the
next month leading up to the
Southwest Conference Champi
onships.”
Despite dealing with the pres
sure of trying to succeed in t*e
sports, Jones said his top priorities
lie elsewhere.
“I want to do good for the teffi
and represent the school, but most
of my goals are in academics'
Jones said. “I came to college toge:
a degree and that’s the mainthk
to focus on.”
Nelson believes Jones can oil!
improve as time passes.
“He has a lot of talent, it’s jut;
matter of mixing the football talc
with the track talent and seeiii
how that develops,” Nelson
“Probably as the years go by, hei
become more accustomed to
through both football and trad
and that’s really going to help us.
“It’s a whole knew experientf
for him.”
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