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The Battalion Page 3 • Monday, July 14, 2003
’Stros end first half atop NL central
PHOTO COURTESY OF MLB.COM
Houston Astros pitcher Tim Redding is greeted in the dugout after hitting a dou
ble and scoring a run in the sith inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates Sunday in
Houston. Redding earned his sixth win of the season with the 5-2 win.
HOUSTON (AP) — Tim
Redding was already tired in the
third inning. Once he got out of his
toughest jam, he had plenty left to
beat the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Redding pitched shutout ball
into the seventh inning and Lance
Berkman homered, leading the
Houston Astros over Pittsburgh
5-2 Sunday.
The Pirates loaded the bases in
the third for Aram is Ramirez on a
pair of hits and a walk.
“My heart was racing then and I
was taking real short breaths,”
Redding said. “I couldn’t calm
myself down.
“(Catcher) Brad (Ausmus) came
out and asked how I was feeling
and I said, T am tired.’ I felt I had
hit a wall. But I was fortunate
enough to get Ramirez to fly out
and I was able to pull things back
together after that.”
Redding (6-8) scattered five hits
in winning his second straight start
following a four-game losing
streak. He struck out five and
walked one as the Astros held onto
the NL Central lead heading into
the All-Star break.
“I didn’t feel very good warm-
NATIONAL LEAGUE
CENTRAL STANDINGS]
W L PCT. GB
Houston 50 44 .532
St. Louis 49 45 .521 1.0
Chicago 47 46 .505 2.5
Cincinnati 43 50 .462 6.5
Pittsburgh 41 50 .451 7.5
Milwaukee 37 56 |.398 12.5
RUBEN DELUNA • THE BATTALION
ing up in the bullpen before the
game,” Redding said. “But I’ve
learned that even when you don’t
feel good in the bullpen, you can
still come out smelling like roses
when you go in the game. I felt fine
when I was on the mound.”
Houston manager Jimy
Williams took Redding out after he
gave up a leadoff single to Randall
Simon in the seventh on his 96th
pitch of the game.
“To me, he had done his job at
that point,” Williams said. “He had
just gotten through running the
bases (after a sixth-inning double)
and he had nearly 100 pitches. He
has pitched back-to-back strong
games for us and the bullpen has
come in and done its job.”
Brad Lidge pitched a scoreless
seventh, and Octavio Dotel gave
up a two-run homer to Ramirez in
the eighth. Billy Wagner got three
straight outs for his 25th save in
28 chances.
The Pirates were impressed by
Redding.
“He threw real good today,”
Jason Kendall said. “He kept the
ball down and stayed in there.
When you keep the ball down (in
Minute Maid Park), you’re going
to do all right.
“He used all of his pitches, but
nothing really stood out. He just
used the right pitch when he need
ed to. He mixed them all in there
and changed locations. When you
do that you win.”
Josh Fogg (5-4) went only two
innings and gave up three runs on
five hits and two walks.
“Josh didn’t have any command
today,” manager Lloyd McClendon
said. “He fell behind a lot of hitters
and he left the ball up. He just did
n’t have it today. We would have
liked to have won today. It was a
chance to take two of three and
they are a very good team at home.
But today their pitcher just pitched
a little better than ours and they
executed.”
Fogg ran into control problems
in the first inning, walking Jeff
Bagwell and Berkman and hitting
Richard Hidalgo and Morgan
Ensberg with pitches in consecu
tive at-bats. The latter drove in the
first run, and the Astros made it 2-
0 on Craig Biggie’s RBI single in
the second.
Berkman’s 17th home run lead
ing off the third tied him with
Bagwell and Ensberg for the team
lead.
Hidalgo helped protect the 3-0
lead in the fourth when he threw
out Randall Simon trying to stretch
a single into a double with a long
throw from the right-field corner. It
was Hidalgo’s 12th assist of the
season, second among major
league outfielders to Jose Cruz Jr.’s
13 for San Francisco.
Simon was playing his first
game after serving a three-game
suspension for hitting a Milwaukee
Brewers’ sausage mascot with his
bat last Wednesday.
Bagwell had an RBI single in
the fourth, and Geoff Blum added a
run-scoring single in the sixth.
Ohio State star
RB questioned
about exam
By Jonathan Drew
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State’s athletic
department will investigate a report that star
Maurice Clarett received special assistance to help
him pass a class before the Fiesta Bowl.
In a story Sunday in The New
York Times, an associate profes
sor said Clarett was allowed to
take two oral exams for the
African-American and African
studies class after he walked out
of the fall midterm.
It wasn’t clear whether uni
versity or NCAA rules were bro
ken. The associate professor, clarett
Paulette Pierce, said she has
taken similar steps with students who are not ath
letes.
“We recognize that the spotlight will always be
on the national champion,” university president
Karen Holbrook said at a news conference Sunday.
“Being in the spotlight makes it even more impor
tant for us to respond quickly and appropriately to
these allegations.”
Calls place by The Associated Press to the home
of Clarett’s mother in Warren went unanswered
Sunday. The Times said he did not respond to its
requests for an interview.
Athletic director Andy Geiger said he was not
aware of any NCAA violations, and that Clarett —
then a freshman on the Buckeyes’ national champi
onship team — was not given preferential treatment.
“There are no special considerations for student-
athletes,” Geiger said Sunday.
Holbrook said Geiger and incoming interim
provost Barbara Snyder will lead the investigation,
which will examine athletes’ athletic performance,
tutors who work with the program and the relation
ship between athletes and faculty members. No time
frame was set.
Clarett finished high school a semester early and
enrolled at Ohio State in January 2002.
Despite numerous injuries, he set Ohio State
freshman records with 1,237 yards rushing and 16
touchdowns last season as the Buckeyes beat Miami
31-24 in double-overtime for the national title:
Kenny Perry wins third
event in four PGA starts
By Arnie Stapleton
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MILWAUKEE — Kenny
Perry isn’t about to analyze the
t hottest streak of his career.
’I, “I don’t
know why all
of a sudden
I’m winning
- golf tourna
ments,” Perry
said after his
victory
Sunday at the
Greater
Milwaukee
Open, his
third win in four starts. “It’s
just my time, and I believe in
my heart I’m going to win.”
Perry sank a three-foot birdie
putt for a one-stroke victory over
Steve Allan and Heath Slocum at
the GMO.
He won the Colonial and
Memorial tournaments and fin
ished third at the U.S. Open
before taking three weeks off
leading up to the GMO at Brown
Deer Park, where he shot a 4-
under-par 66 Sunday for a 12-
under 268 total.
Brett Quigley finished in
fourth, two strokes back.
Allan, Slocum and Quigley all
were vying for their first PGA
Tour victory.
i “I had nothing to lose and
I those guys are fighting to win
! their first,” said Perry, a seven-
; time winner on Tour who sur
passed $13 million in career
winnings.
Perry had to rally after his
one-shot lead over Allan turned
into a three-stroke deficit over a
16-minute span thanks to a bogey
on the 12th hole and a double
bogey on No. 13.
Over the final four holes,
Perry, who began the day with a
one-stroke lead over six golfers,
including Allan, had three birdies
and a par and Allan shot three
pars and a bogey.
Allan was on the practice
range hoping for a playoff when
he watched on a big screen as
Perry hit his iron shot into thick
rough 20 feet past the hole on 18
and then chipped to within three
feet of the hole.
“When I saw the chip, I pretty
much expected him to make it,”
Allan said. “He’s a good putter.”
Slocum, who had already
birdied 18, also knew there
would be no playoff.
“He’d been putting well all
day,” Slocum said. “I expected
him to make it.”
Perry felt great about his
chances.
“I blasted out of that stuff and
I had a 3-footer straight uphill to
win,” he said. “What kind of putt
would you like to win the golf
tournament but straight in under
the hole uphill?”
Perry birdied No. 17 after
seeing that Allan had bogeyed
the hole.
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Armstrong takes lead in ‘Tour de Lance’
By John Leicester
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
L’ALPE D’HUEZ, France — Lance
Armstrong took the overall leader’s yellow
jersey for the first time in the Tour de France,
but he showed signs that he may not be the
dominant force of years past.
The four-time champion struggled up the
legendary ascent to the Alpine ski resort of
L’Alpe d’Huez — a grueling climb he mas
tered just two years ago — and finished third
in the eighth stage of the Tour.
“If you’d asked me a month ago: ’Are you
going to suffer like that on L’Alpe d’Huez?’
I would have said, ’No way!”’ Armstrong
said Sunday. “It was a hard day.”
He did, however, complete the stage close
enough to the winner, Iban Mayo of Spain, to
take the overall lead in the race.
“I’m perhaps not as strong as the other
years,” said Armstrong, who usually leaves
rivals in his wake in the punishing moun
tains. “Let’s hope that things get better and
not worse.”
In overall standings, Spain’s Joseba
Beloki, the 2002 Tour runner-up, is second,
40 seconds back; Mayo trails Armstrong by
l minute, 10 seconds.
“A dream has become reality,” Mayo said
after winning Sunday’s stage. “L’Alpe
d’Huez is a mythical stage.”
Armstrong didn’t respond Sunday when
Mayo broke away dramatically from the
champion and other riders up the 8.5-mile
climb, with its 21 hairpin bends.
Peaking at 6,105 feet, L’Alpe d’Huez is a
renown part of the Tour’s 100-year history.
In 2001, Armstrong toyed with his rivals,
making them think he was exhausted, before
powering up the mountain to win.
Sunday’s race was different.
“I didn’t have the greatest sensations or
the greatest legs today — no bluffing,” said
Armstrong, who is trying to match Miguel
Indurain’s record of five straight titles.
With Mayo racing ahead, Armstrong was
left to battle moves by Beloki and American
Tyler Hamilton, who riding with a broken
collarbone, the result of a crash on the Tour’s
second day.
The sensational to-and-fro dogfight
between Beloki and Armstrong carried them
up the mountain, to the delight of tens of
thousands of cheering fans who lined the
narrow, twisting route.
“I decided to just let Mayo go and limit
my losses and cover Beloki because he’s
close on the classification — and that
worked out OK,” Armstrong said.
The 135-mile stage from Sallanches
included the Col du Gabbier, which towers
8,728 feet. Armstrong said he could tell
going up the huge climb that he wasn’t hav
ing a great day.
“It was a really hard stage from the start,”
he said. “The whole pack attacked.”
Armstrong finished the stage 2 minutes,
12 seconds behind Mayo. Alexandre
Vinokourov of Team Telekom was second, 1
minute and 45 seconds behind Mayo.
“The attack by Beloki was very strong,”
Armstrong said. “The attack by Mayo wasn’t
too serious because he was a bit behind in the
standings.”
Mayo said he expects Armstrong will
watch him closely now.
“He will try and control me more and
won’t let me go,” he said. “The Tour is very
long with some difficult stages, so I will take
it day by day.”
Armstrong blamed teammate Manuel
Beltran for some of his difficulties at L’Alpe
d’Huez. Beltran, a newcomer to the U.S.
Postal Service squad, powered into the climb
at top speed, hoping to help Armstrong shake
TOUR DE FRANCE 2003
Armstrong takes overall lead
Although Lance Armstrong finished third behind Iban Mayo of
Spain in his ride on the grueling Alpine climb of the Tour de
France, it was good enough to secure him the leader's yellow
jersey, the first time he has worn it in the race.
Eighth Stage (Sallanches to L’Alpe d’Huez)
1
Iban Mayo (Spain) 5 hours, 57 minutes, 30 seconds
2 A. Vinokourov (Kazakhstan)
1 min. 45 sec. behind
3
Lance Armstrong (U.S.)
2 min. 12 sec. behind
4
Francisco Mancebo (Spain)
Same time
5 Haimar Zubeldia (Spain)
Overall standing
Same time
1
Lance Armstrong (U.S.)
35 hrs. 12 min. 50 seconds
2
Joseba Beloki (Spain)
40 seconds behind
3
Iban Mayo (Spain)
1 min. 10 seconds behind
4
A. Vinokourov (Kazakhstan)
1 min. 17 seconds behind
5
Francisco Mancebo (Spain)
1 min. 37 seconds behind
6
Tyler Hamilton (U.S.)
1 min. 52 seconds behind
7
Roberto Heras (Spain)
1 min. 58 seconds behind
8
Jan Ullrich (Germany
2 min. 10 seconds behind
9
Ivan Basso (Italy)
2 min. 25 seconds behind
10
Jorg Jaksche (Germany)
3 min. 19 seconds behind
SOURCE: Associated Press
off his rivals. But Armstrong said the
Spaniard went too fast.
“A fast tempo is a good thing but that was
supersonic and that’s not a good thing,” he
said. “Obviously we’re going to talk about
that tonight. It won’t happen again.”
The 1997 champion, Jan Ullrich, was left
behind on the dizzying climb. He finished
13th, 1 minute and 24 seconds off
Armstrong’s pace, and is eighth overall.
But Armstrong still considers him a
threat.
“It was important to get distance from Jan
Ullrich. That’s the good news of the day,” he
said. But “I still think he’s one of the most
dangerous riders in the race. Jan typically
gets better as the Tour goes on and this Tour
has a long way to go and I won’t forget that.”
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