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Page 3 • Monday, June 23,
Lewis holds on for
controversial win
LEWIS
By Tim Dahlberg
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — His night
in the ring was long since over,
and Lennox Lewis and his people
were still working hard. Vitali
Klitschko was tough enough, but
now there was some serious
explaining to do.
Lewis was still the heavy
weight champion, but that and
another $10 million or so in his
bank account were the only
things he
could feel
good about
Saturday
night.
No matter
how hard the
Lewis camp
tried to spin it,
a couple of
truths were
evident after
the bloody brawl that ended pre
maturely at the Staples Center.
One, Lewis was lucky to keep
his heavyweight title against a
surprisingly effective and tough
Klitschko.
Two, perhaps at the age of 37
Lewis should take notice of his
increasingly wobbly legs and
weak chin and finally decide it
might be a good time to hang up
the gloves.
“There isn’t anything else for
me to prove,” Lewis said. “I’m
going to go back, talk to my col
leagues, look at the tape and
decide from there.”
What he sees on the tape may
frighten him.
Klitschko, who , many
believed wasn’t even the best
fighter in his family, rocked
Lewis early and often before the
ring doctor finally stopped the
fight after six rounds because of
had cuts to Klitschko’s left eye.
Klitschko’s style may have
been amateurish and stilted, but
the 6-foot-7 Ukrainian hit Lewis
with almost every left hand he
threw and had the champion
exhausted and baffled.
The judges thought Klitschko
was getting the better of Lewis in
what at times was a wild and
bloody brawl. So did the enthusi
astic crowd of 15,939, which
cheered wildly at every punch the
challenger landed.
That’s why it was hard to lis
ten as Lewis conceded afterward
that he won only three of the six
rounds but was somehow robbed
by the referee himself because he
was deprived of a knockout he
was sure was coming.
“I really wish the referee
wouldn’t have stopped the fight. I
wanted to knock him out for
real,” Lewis said.
He wasn’t the only one wish
ing. Klitschko wished ring doctor
Paul Wallace hadn’t looked at his
eye after the sixth round and told
the referee to wave the fight to a
close.
Wallace, in a somewhat con
voluted explanation, said
Klitschko’s eyelid was closing in
such a way that the fighter had to
turn his head to see him. The
explanation may have been lost
in the translation in the comer,
but soon Klitschko was rushing
around the ring shouting “No, no,
no.”
“1 see everything, I don’t
know why he stopped the fight,”
Klitschko said. “I know if the
doctor doesn’t stop the fight I win
the fight because I want to be
world champion.”
Indeed, the heart Klitschko
didn’t show when he quit after
the ninth round because of an
injured shoulder against Chris
Byrd was in plentiful evidence
against Lewis. He took hard lefts
and uppercuts from the champion
without flinching, and was lead
ing 58-56 on all three ringside
scorecards when the fight was
ended.
Had the fight continued, it
seemed like either fighter could
easily end it with one or two big
punches.
“I controlled the fight,”
Klitschko said. “But it was not so
easy to fight Lennox. He’s
good.”
One look at Klitschko’s face
See Lewis on page 4
Stanford evens CWS
series, 1-1
PHOTO COURTESY OF NCAA SPORTS
Rice’s Austin Davis runs into Stanford first baseman Brian Hall, who attempted to catch a wild
throw in the 10th inning of Game 1 on Saturday. Rice scored the winning run on the play.
By Eric Olson
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OMAHA, Neb. — In his 27 years as
Stanford’s head coach, Mark Marquess has
groomed some of the game’s top pitchers.
John Hudgins separated himself from the
rest with his third win of the College World
Series as the Cardinal evened the best-of-
three championship series with an 8-3 victory
over Rice on Sunday.
“This game was all about John Hudgins,”
said Marquess, at the CWS for the 13th time.
“We’ve had some great pitchers at Stanford,
but I don’t think any of the pitchers from any
of the teams I’ve brought here has accom
plished what John has accomplished during
these 10 days. I don’t know whether it can be
matched. Pressure games. Short rest. Just a
phenomenal job.”
Stanford (51-17) and Rice (57-12) will
play for the national championship Monday.
“Stanford was the better team today,” said
Owls coach Wayne Graham, who was ejected
after 5 1-2 innings for arguing a called third
strike on Paul Janish. “We have to come back
and play better.”
Hudgins (14-3) became the eighth pitcher
to win three games in the tournament, and the
first since Wichita State’s Greg Brummett in
1989. He also became one of 10 pitchers to
win four CWS games in their careers.
Hudgins, who beat South Carolina in
Stanford’s CWS opener and Cal State
Fullerton on Wednesday, held Rice to three
runs on 10 hits in seven-plus innings. He
walked three and struck out five.
In 24 CWS innings, the junior right-hander
has allowed five earned runs, walked six and
struck out 15.
Hudgins said his arm didn’t feel live
against Rice, but he made do.
“For me, not being a real power pitcher,
even if I don’t have my best stuff. I’m still
going to be able to spot, and that’s how I win
anyway,” Hudgins said. “I wasn’t going to
blow anyone away anyway.”
Stanford’s Sam Fuld homered leading off
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the bottom of the first inning to tie Texas’
Keith Moreland for most career CWS hits,
with 23.
Fuld, playing in his third CWS, said the
record isn’t important now.
“I’m sure later I’ll appreciate it,” he said.
“All it means is I’m hitting and I’m helping
the team win, and that’s all that matters right
now.”
The Cardinal added two more runs in the
third against starter Wade Townsend (11-2)
when Brian Hall scored from third on
Townsend’s wild pitch, and Tobin Swope
scored on Carlos Quentin’s RBI single.
Rice got within 3-1 in the fourth when
Quentin lost track of Matt Ueckert’s fly ball in
right field. The ball dropped between Quentin
and center fielder Fuld, allowing Craig
Stansberry to score from second.
Stanford, helped by Rice first baseman
Vincent Sinisi’s two rare errors, built its lead
to 8-1 in the seventh.
The Cardinal loaded the bases when Sinisi
fielded Brian Hall’s bunt and threw wildly to
second baseman Jed Lowrie, who was cover
ing first. Townsend walked Swope to force in
a run, and Fuld reached when Sinisi mishan
dled his grounder, bringing in another run.
Sinisi, who hadn’t made an error all sea
son, made one in Saturday night’s loss and
two more Sunday.
Then Ash, who hit the first two homers of
his career in his previous two games, hit a
two-run double to right-center.
Josh Baker relieved Townsend, and
Quentin hit a sacrifice fly for Stanford’s final
run. Townsend allowed eight runs — five
earned — and eight hits in six innings.
Hudgins left in the eighth after walking
Stansberry and giving up Enrique Cruz’s dou
ble and Ueckert’s two-run single that pulled
Rice within 8-3.
Hudgins threw a total of 350 pitches in 10 .
days.
Reliever Kodiak Quick threw two wild
pitches while walking Janish, then gave way
to David O’Hagan, who got Justin Ruchti to
hit into a double play. Ueckert, who was on
third, came home on the play but was sent
back after second base umpire Joe Burleson
ruled that Janish interfered with Swope as the
shortstop made the relay throw to first.
Home-plate umpire Tony Maners ejected
Graham after the coach disputed a called third
strike against Janish.
“I didn’t think we suffered mentally,” Rice
second baseman Enrique Cruz said, “but the
wheels did fall off and nothing really went
right for us after that.”
The victory was Stanford’s fifth straight
after a second-round loss to Cal State
Fullerton.
Williams
sisters make charge towards Wimbledon finals
By Howard Fedrich
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WIMBLEDON, England — Pete
Sampras is out. So is the curtsy.
The men are considering setting up
alternative tournaments if the Grand
Slams don’t fork over more money. The
women are launching a new marketing
campaign.
Change is in the air at tennis’ most
tradition-laden event.
There is one constant, though, as
Wimbledon opens Monday: Serena and
Venus Williams are counting on going
far this fortnight.
“You’ve got to give the Williams sis
ters credit for what they’ve done for the
women’s game,” tournament referee
Alan Mills said. “They’ve brought it to
new heights.”
Serena Williams can be forgiven if
she’s already looking ahead to the semi
finals at the grass-court major. That’s
when she could face Justine Henin-
Hardenne, the Belgian who ended
Williams’ 33-match Grand Slam win
ning streak at the French Open.
That loss was dis
concerting to
Williams for several
reasons.
It ended her bid for
a calendar-year Slam.
Her play was poor for
stretches. The crowd
cheered when she
s. williams faulted. And she felt
Henin-Hardenne
breached good sportsmanship by not
acknowledging a timeout called as
Williams missed a serve.
“I thought I was playing well, but
looking back, I didn’t play well,”
Williams said, “so it’s actually encourag
ing to know that players really are strug
gling and fighting — and cheating” to try
to beat her.
She wiped away tears at the post
match news conference in Paris and
vowed to “be a little stronger next time.”
Well, next time against the Belgian could
arrive July 3.
“Obviously it hurt, and I’ve been very
tough on myself since that defeat,” the
top-ranked Williams said. “I’ve been
working really hard with my dad, and
I’m really determined.”
She begins defending her Wimbledon
title Tuesday against Jill Craybas, an
American ranked 66th. In a preserved
tradition, the honor ‘of opening Centre
Court goes to reigning men’s champion
Lleyton Hewitt, who will face qualifier
Ivo Karlovic on Monday. Andy Roddick
— whose booming serve and new coach
(Brad Gilbert) helped win his first grass-
court title at Queen’s Club — Kim
Clijsters, Lindsay Davenport and
Chanda Rubin also play Monday.
Venus Williams, the 2000-01 champi
on, plays Slovakian qualifier Stanislava
Hrozenska on Court
2, the so-called
“Graveyard of
Champions” and site
of Sampras’ second-
round loss to George
Basil last year.
For the first time
since 1988,
Wimbledon will go on
without Sampras, a
seven-time champion who hasn’t played
since beating Andre Agassi for the U.S.
Open title.
“You don’t win a tournament again
and again without there being some meat
v. WILLIAMS
to the bone. ... If you’ve done that a few
times, there’s a heck of a chance that the
environment itself really lends to your
game in a certain way that makes you
pretty dam tough to beat,” Agassi said.
“Pete at Wimbledon is a great example. ”
Sampras’ withdrawal was one of sev
eral, including fellow past champion
Goran Ivanisevic, Marat Safin, Monica
Seles and Amelie Mauresmo.
Of the women hoping to challenge
the Williams family’s three-year hold on
the championship, each has a shortcom
ing.
Henin-Hardenne fell during a match
Saturday, injuring her left (non-racket)
hand. Clijsters never won a major.
Jennifer Capriati hasn’t won a title in 17
months. Davenport has a toe injury.
See Wimbledon on page 4
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