By JERRy SNOWE-J Sports Editor

MARVINMatt Risher’s brilliant soc-

cer career isn’t over.A 6-3 scorer, Risher was MVP

of the 3A tournament after lead-ing Marvin Ridge High to the boys state title five months ago.

He has signed a scholarship to play for Division I Marshall Uni-versity, a Confer-ence USA school in Huntington, W.Va.

Risher, who scored the game-winning goal in the state title game in sudden death overtime, selected Marshall over High Point University.

“I chose Mar-shall because of the coach,” said Risher, referring to Thunder-ing Herd head coach Bob Gray. “He’s a real nice guy. He treated me like his son from day one.”

When Risher took an offi-cial visit to Marshall in early March, he made up his mind.

“I was sitting down there eating lunch with the coaches,” Risher recalled. “It’s like a family envi-ronment. They were talking about the team’s goals for next season, and how if I came here, what my role would be in that. And that’s when I knew I wanted to play for these coaches at Marshall.”

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By JASON dEBRUyNStaff Writer

WAXHAWThe Marvin Ridge High defense

suffocated Weddington’s attack as the Mavericks beat the War-riors 1-0 on a rain-soaked pitch to advance to the 3A state semifinals in girls soccer on Saturday.

“We were focused,” Marvin Ridge coach Ray Fumo said. “When we just play smart defense, we rarely give the other team a chance to get a good shot.”

The Maverick defense especial-ly tightened in the second half, when it played with a one-goal lead and used a messy field to its advantage.

In the entire second half, Wed-dington could not muster a single quality scoring opportunity. It had no shots on goal and had only two total shots, neither of which threatened the Maverick goal frame.

“Today our girls just really wanted it,” Fumo said.

Throughout the first half, the Warriors beat the Mavericks in total possession and put three of their four shots on goal. In the 15th minute, the Warriors had a good scoring chance off a long free kick and in the 24th minute,

Marvin Ridge goalkeeper Amy Schmitt mishandled a long-dis-tance shot. In both cases, how-ever, Weddington did not have an attacker in position to score and Schmitt cleaned up any rebound opportunity.

Starting at about the 30-min-ute mark, the Mavericks began to take control. In the span of 10 minutes, Marvin Ridge cre-ated five of its six quality scoring chances.

Senior forward Ashley Ara-gona drilled a point-blank shot off the crossbar, senior speedster Toni Lashley got off a shot from just outside the penalty box and senior midfielder Amanda Clark had a clean look at goal. Wedding-ton sophomore goalkeeper Taylor Hurwitz made three goal-saving stops in that stretch.

With seven minutes in the first half, Marvin Ridge broke through with the only goal of the game. Standing at about the penalty spot in traffic, Clark headed the ball off a Marissa Hartert cross. Clark el-evated with Weddington defenders in front and behind her, and head-ed the ball downward, under Hur-witz’s outstretched arms and past two other Weddington defenders.

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from staff reports

GREENSBOROSun Valley High scored

one point at the 4A state track and field meet on Sat-urday at N.C. A&T.

Sun Valley senior Andre McManus placed eighth in the 100-meter dash in a time of 11.27 seconds, well off his season-best time of 10.54.

Mar-Keo Jones, a junior at Knightdale High, won the 100 in a time of 10.86.

McManus also qualified for states in the 200, but his time of 23.07 was not fast enough to make the finals.

In addition to McManus, Sun Valley was represent-ed by Quanisha Williams on the girls side.

Williams reached the state meet as a sophomore in the 400-meter dash. She was disqualified in preli-menaries.

Vance’s boys won the state with 60 points, and Wakefield’s girls won it all with 48 points.

NOTE: McManus recent-ly told The Enquirer-Jour-nal he has been released from his letter-of-intent to play football at Wingate University. McManus said he still plans to play col-lege football.

Sports

SUNDAYRichard Petty and Junior Johnson are among five being inducted into the Hall of Fame today. NASCAR’s first class, which also includes Dale Earnhardt, is being honored today in Charlotte.

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16-year-old contending

Jordan Spieth, just 16 years old, became the first high school golfer to make a PGA cut on Friday, then followed up with a 67 on Saturday. Spieth is six shots off the lead heading into today’s final round.

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May 23, 2010 The Enquirer-Journal Sports Editor Jerry Snow

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Photo by Darcy Duncan

Piedmont senior Lance Gower (19) was 1-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI, helping the Pan-thers reach the state quarterfinals in baseball for the first time since 2003.

E-J staff photo by Rick Crider

Twins sisters Amanda (right) and Alyssa Clark (17) celebrate Amanda’s game-winning goal as team-mate Kaitlyn Sulser (2) joins in during Saturday’s 1-0 win over Weddington. Marvin Ridge is now 22-0.

Spartans’ McManus places 8th at 4A meet

By ERIc RApEE-J Correspondent

UNIONVILLEOne breakaway was

the only difference in the match, and enough to put a first-year school in the semifinals of the state playoffs.

Sarah Wilson scored on a perfect give-and-go that

involved Leah Drawdy, who earned the assist in Cuthbertson High’s 1-0 road win over Piedmont in the third round of the 2A girls soccer playoffs on Saturday.

The game winner came with 17:05 left in the match, and the Cavs had to hold off a barrage of

shots by the Panthers to claim victory.

The Panthers dominat-ed possession and had the most shots on goal, but never could score.

It was never more evi-dent that the Cavs seemed to have fate on their side when Piedmont’s Jade Montogomery had a head-

er go off the bottom side of the crossbar with less than five minutes left in the game.

It was one of two at-tempts by the Panthers that went off the cross or side bar in the last 10 min-utes of the game.

The Panthers couldn’t find a way past Cavs keep-

er Jane Sosinski, who stopped eight of the 10 shots that were on frame for Piedmont.

The Cavs had eight shots on goal for the game.

“I’m kind of speech-less right now,” said Cavs coach Nelson Garner. “I’m so proud of these girls.

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RISHER

GARNER

ELWOOD

Mavs makestate semis

Wilson scores game-winner to put Cavs in 2A semifinal

Eliminate archrival WHS, 1-0

panthers reach quarters

Track Boys soccer

By dAVId EXUME-J Correspondent

UNIONVILLEIt took over 24 hours and two different lo-

cations for Piedmont High to defeat Cuthb-ertson, 5-0, in a surreal third-round 2A state tournament baseball game Saturday.

The fourth meeting this season between the two Rocky River Confer-ence foes began at Cuthbertson High on Friday, but was suspended due to heavy rain in the top of the fourth in-ning with third-seeded Piedmont (21-8) leading, 2-0.

Play was scheduled to resume on Saturday at Cuthbertson until a heavy rainstorm moved through Waxhaw. The game finally started back at 6 p.m. on

Saturday in Unionville.“My head is just spinning,” said Pied-

mont pitcher Brad Elwood, who allowed just one hit over seven innings and notched six

strikeouts. “We just pulled together and with all the rain, we didn’t even think we’d be able to get to play and we brought it back home and got the job done.”

Piedmont now advances to the quarterfinals Tuesday, where they will face the winner of East Ruther-ford and West Stanly.

After Cuthbertson surrendered home field advantage, the game re-sumed under the lights at Piedmont in the top of the fourth with two outs

and Lance Gower at bat.See pANTHERS / Page 4B

Mavs’ Risher headed to Marshall onscholarship

Elwood throws one-hitter in Piedmont’s 5-0 win over Cavs

2B / Sunday, May 23, 2010 The Enquirer-Journal

AMERICAN LEAGUEFriday’s GamesBaltimore 5, Washington 3Philadelphia 5, Boston 1Cincinnati 7, Cleveland 4N.Y. Yankees 2, N.Y. Mets 1Texas 2, Chicago Cubs 1Houston 2, Tampa Bay 1Kansas City 9, Colorado 2Chicago White Sox 8, Florida 0Minnesota 15, Milwaukee 3St. Louis 9, L.A. Angels 5Arizona 8, Toronto 6Oakland 6, San Francisco 1L.A. Dodgers 4, Detroit 1Seattle 15, San Diego 8Saturday’s GamesChicago White Sox 4, Florida 1L.A. Angels 10, St. Louis 7Washington 7, Baltimore 6Oakland 1, San Francisco 0Colorado 3, Kansas City 0Minnesota 8, Milwaukee 7, 12 inningsCincinnati at Cleveland, lateTampa Bay at Houston, lateBoston at Philadelphia, lateChicago Cubs at Texas, lateDetroit at L.A. Dodgers, lateN.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, lateToronto at Arizona, lateSan Diego at Seattle, lateToday’s GamesCincinnati (H.Bailey 1-2) at Cleveland

(D.Huff 1-6), 1:05 p.m.Baltimore (Millwood 0-4) at

Washington (Lannan 1-2), 1:35 p.m.Boston (Wakefield 0-2) at Philadelphia

(Halladay 6-2), 1:35 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Silva 5-0) at Texas (C.

Wilson 3-1), 2:05 p.m.Florida (Jo.Johnson 4-1) at Chicago

White Sox (F.Garcia 3-2), 2:05 p.m.Tampa Bay (Price 6-1) at Houston

(Norris 2-5), 2:05 p.m.Colorado (Cook 1-3) at Kansas City

(Greinke 1-4), 2:10 p.m.Milwaukee (M.Parra 0-2) at Minnesota

(Pavano 4-4), 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Jer.Weaver 4-2) at St. Louis (Carpenter 5-1), 2:15 p.m.

San Francisco (J.Sanchez 2-3) at Oakland (Sheets 2-3), 4:05 p.m.

Detroit (Porcello 3-4) at L.A. Dodgers (Kuroda 5-1), 4:10 p.m.

San Diego (Latos 3-3) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 2-3), 4:10 p.m.

Toronto (Marcum 3-1) at Arizona (Buckner 0-1), 4:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 4-2) at N.Y. Mets (J.Santana 3-2), 8:05 p.m.

Monday’s GamesChicago White Sox at Cleveland, 7:05

p.m.Boston at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.Toronto at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUEFriday’s GamesAtlanta 7, Pittsburgh 0Baltimore 5, Washington 3Philadelphia 5, Boston 1Cincinnati 7, Cleveland 4N.Y. Yankees 2, N.Y. Mets 1Texas 2, Chicago Cubs 1Houston 2, Tampa Bay 1Kansas City 9, Colorado 2Chicago White Sox 8, Florida 0Minnesota 15, Milwaukee 3St. Louis 9, L.A. Angels 5Arizona 8, Toronto 6Oakland 6, San Francisco 1L.A. Dodgers 4, Detroit 1Seattle 15, San Diego 8Saturday’s GamesChicago White Sox 4, Florida 1L.A. Angels 10, St. Louis 7Washington 7, Baltimore 6Oakland 1, San Francisco 0Colorado 3, Kansas City 0Minnesota 8, Milwaukee 7, 12 inningsAtlanta at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.Cincinnati at Cleveland, lateTampa Bay at Houston, lateBoston at Philadelphia, lateChicago Cubs at Texas, lateDetroit at L.A. Dodgers, late

N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, lateToronto at Arizona, lateSan Diego at Seattle, lateToday’s GamesCincinnati (H.Bailey 1-2) at Cleveland

(D.Huff 1-6), 1:05 p.m.Atlanta (Medlen 1-1) at Pittsburgh

(Duke 3-4), 1:35 p.m.Baltimore (Millwood 0-4) at

Washington (Lannan 1-2), 1:35 p.m.Boston (Wakefield 0-2) at Philadelphia

(Halladay 6-2), 1:35 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Silva 5-0) at Texas (C.

Wilson 3-1), 2:05 p.m.Florida (Jo.Johnson 4-1) at Chicago

White Sox (F.Garcia 3-2), 2:05 p.m.Tampa Bay (Price 6-1) at Houston

(Norris 2-5), 2:05 p.m.Colorado (Cook 1-3) at Kansas City

(Greinke 1-4), 2:10 p.m.Milwaukee (M.Parra 0-2) at Minnesota

(Pavano 4-4), 2:10 p.m.L.A. Angels (Jer.Weaver 4-2) at St.

Louis (Carpenter 5-1), 2:15 p.m.San Francisco (J.Sanchez 2-3) at

Oakland (Sheets 2-3), 4:05 p.m.Detroit (Porcello 3-4) at L.A. Dodgers

(Kuroda 5-1), 4:10 p.m.San Diego (Latos 3-3) at Seattle (F.

Hernandez 2-3), 4:10 p.m.Toronto (Marcum 3-1) at Arizona

(Buckner 0-1), 4:10 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 4-2) at N.Y.

Mets (J.Santana 3-2), 8:05 p.m.Monday’s GamePittsburgh at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.

Major League LeadersAMERICAN LEAGUE

BATTING—Morneau, Minnesota, .370; ISuzuki, Seattle, .345; Guerrero, Texas, .340; Mauer, Minnesota, .336; Cano, New York, .335; AJackson, Detroit, .333; MiCabrera, Detroit, .331.

RUNS—Youkilis, Boston, 34; Gardner, New York, 33; Longoria, Tampa Bay, 32; Span, Minnesota, 32; Crawford, Tampa Bay, 31; AJackson, Detroit, 31; BAbreu, Los Angeles, 30; JBautista, Toronto, 30; Damon, Detroit, 30.

RBI—MiCabrera, Detroit, 38; Longoria, Tampa Bay, 37; Guerrero, Texas, 36; JBautista, Toronto, 34; KMorales, Los Angeles, 33; Morneau, Minnesota, 32; ARodriguez, New York, 32; VWells, Toronto, 32.

HITS—ISuzuki, Seattle, 60; AJackson, Detroit, 58; Butler, Kansas City, 56; Cano, New York, 55; Guerrero, Texas, 55; MYoung, Texas, 55; Morneau, Minnesota, 54.

DOUBLES—AleGonzalez, Toronto, 16; BAbreu, Los Angeles, 14; MiCabrera, Detroit, 14; Hunter, Los Angeles, 14; FLewis, Toronto, 14; Pedroia, Boston, 14; VWells, Toronto, 14.

TRIPLES—Crawford, Tampa Bay, 4; AJackson, Detroit, 3; AdJones, Baltimore, 3; Maier, Kansas City, 3; Span, Minnesota, 3; 18 tied at 2.

HOME RUNS—Konerko, Chicago, 14; JBautista, Toronto, 13; Wigginton, Baltimore, 13; JGuillen, Kansas City, 11; Morneau, Minnesota, 11; VWells, Toronto, 11; AleGonzalez, Toronto, 10.

STOLEN BASES—Pierre, Chicago, 18; Andrus, Texas, 17; Gardner, New York, 17; RDavis, Oakland, 15; Podsednik, Kansas City, 14; Rios, Chicago, 13; BUpton, Tampa Bay, 13.

PITCHING—Price, Tampa Bay, 6-1; 11 tied at 5.

STRIKEOUTS—JShields, Tampa Bay, 66; RRomero, Toronto, 64; Lester, Boston, 63; JerWeaver, Los Angeles, 60; Morrow, Toronto, 59; CLewis, Texas, 58; Garza, Tampa Bay, 54.

SAVES—NFeliz, Texas, 12; Gregg, Toronto, 12; Valverde, Detroit, 11; RSoriano, Tampa Bay, 11; Soria, Kansas City, 10; Papelbon, Boston, 10; Rauch, Minnesota, 10.

NATIONAL LEAGUEBATTING—Ethier, Los Angeles, .392;

Guzman, Washington, .343; Braun, Milwaukee, .338; Werth, Philadelphia, .329; Byrd, Chicago, .323; AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, .321; ASoriano, Chicago, .321.

RUNS—Kemp, Los Angeles, 36; Braun, Milwaukee, 34; Utley, Philadelphia, 34; Reynolds, Arizona, 31; Uggla, Florida, 31; Prado, Atlanta, 30; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 30; Werth, Philadelphia, 30.

RBI—Ethier, Los Angeles, 38; McGehee, Milwaukee, 37; Reynolds, Arizona, 35; Heyward, Atlanta, 33; Victorino, Philadelphia, 33; Werth, Philadelphia, 33; Cantu, Florida, 32; Howard, Philadelphia, 32.

HITS—Prado, Atlanta, 56; Braun, Milwaukee, 54; Theriot, Chicago, 54;

Byrd, Chicago, 53; Howard, Philadelphia, 53; AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, 51; Polanco, Philadelphia, 51.

DOUBLES—Werth, Philadelphia, 21; Byrd, Chicago, 16; ASoriano, Chicago, 15; AdLaRoche, Arizona, 14; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 14; Cantu, Florida, 13; Holliday, St. Louis, 13; BPhillips, Cincinnati, 13; Prado, Atlanta, 13; Pujols, St. Louis, 13.

TRIPLES—AEscobar, Milwaukee, 5; Morgan, Washington, 5; Victorino, Philadelphia, 5; Bay, New York, 4; SDrew, Arizona, 4; Venable, San Diego, 4; 5 tied at 3.

HOME RUNS—KJohnson, Arizona, 12; Ethier, Los Angeles, 11; Reynolds, Arizona, 11; Uggla, Florida, 11; Barajas, New York, 10; Utley, Philadelphia, 10; Votto, Cincinnati, 10.

STOLEN BASES—Bourn, Houston, 15; AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, 12; Venable, San Diego, 12; Braun, Milwaukee, 9; Headley, San Diego, 9; JosReyes, New York, 9; Stubbs, Cincinnati, 9.

PITCHING—Jimenez, Colorado, 8-1; Clippard, Washington, 7-3; Wainwright, St. Louis, 6-2; Zito, San Francisco, 6-2; Halladay, Philadelphia, 6-2; 12 tied at 5.

STRIKEOUTS—Lincecum, San Francisco, 75; Haren, Arizona, 70; JoJohnson, Florida, 63; Gallardo, Milwaukee, 61; Hamels, Philadelphia, 60; Oswalt, Houston, 60; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 59.

SAVES—Capps, Washington, 16; Cordero, Cincinnati, 14; HBell, San Diego, 11; Franklin, St. Louis, 10; Lindstrom, Houston, 10; BrWilson, San Francisco, 10; Nunez, Florida, 9; Dotel, Pittsburgh, 9; Broxton, Los Angeles, 9.

Golf

PGA Tour

HP Byron Nelson Championship ScoresSaturdayAt TPC Four Seasons ResortIrving, TexasPurse: $6.5 millionYardage: 7,166; Par: 70Third RoundJason Day 66-65-67 — 198Blake Adams 66-64-70 — 200Jeff Overton 67-65-69 — 201Mark Hensby 68-71-64 — 203Kenny Perry 70-67-66 — 203Tom Pernice, Jr. 69-68-66 — 203Arjun Atwal 69-71-64 — 204Heath Slocum 69-70-65 — 204Jordan Spieth 68-69-67 — 204Corey Pavin 68-67-69 — 204Sean O’Hair 70-65-69 — 204D.A. Points 68-66-70 — 204Gary Woodland 71-69-65 — 205Steve Elkington 66-66-73 — 205Cam Beckman 69-61-75 — 205Matt Weibring 71-68-67 — 206Johnson Wagner 70-69-67 — 206Alex Cejka 72-66-68 — 206Scott Verplank 70-65-71 — 206Shaun Micheel 68-66-72 — 206Marc Leishman 67-67-72 — 206Jay Williamson 67-67-72 — 206Brett Wetterich 70-70-67 — 207Justin Leonard 72-67-68 — 207Jeev Milkha Singh 72-67-68 — 207Jarrod Lyle 66-70-71 — 207Dustin Johnson 67-68-72 — 207Robert Garrigus 69-65-73 — 207Y.E. Yang 70-69-69 — 208Spencer Levin 71-67-70 — 208J.J. Henry 69-69-70 — 208Michael Sim 66-72-70 — 208James Nitties 68-69-71 — 208Harrison Frazar 70-67-71 — 208Rory Sabbatini 68-67-73 — 208Chris Riley 71-64-73 — 208Ben Crane 70-64-74 — 208Brian Gay 72-68-69 — 209Chris Smith 69-70-70 — 209Hunter Mahan 66-72-71 — 209Stewart Cink 70-68-71 — 209Brandt Jobe 68-69-72 — 209Joe Durant 66-69-74 — 209Briny Baird 68-71-71 — 210Greg Owen 67-70-73 — 210Paul Stankowski 70-70-71 — 211J.B. Holmes 73-67-71 — 211Yuta Ikeda 73-64-74 — 211Parker McLachlin 67-70-74 — 211Jeff Gove 70-67-74 — 211Kevin Streelman 71-68-73 — 212

Garth Mulroy 69-69-74 — 212Chez Reavie 74-64-74 — 212Pat Perez 71-66-75 — 212Rod Pampling 69-68-75 — 212Jimmy Walker 71-69-73 — 213John Merrick 70-70-73 — 213Tim Herron 72-68-73 — 213Martin Laird 72-67-74 — 213Bryce Molder 71-68-74 — 213Nathan Green 67-70-76 — 213B. Delahoussaye 69-71-74 — 214Ryuji Imada 70-69-75 — 214James Driscoll 69-70-75 — 214Alex Prugh 67-69-78 — 214Jerod Turner 70-70-75 — 215Vance Veazey 71-68-77 — 216Lee Janzen 71-69-77 — 217Mathew Goggin 70-66-81 — 217Josh Teater 70-70-79 — 219Jason Schultz 69-68-82 — 219

Auto racing

NASCAR-Sprint Cup

Sprint Showdown ResultsSaturdayAt Charlotte Motor SpeedwayConcordLap length: 1.5 miles(Start position in parentheses)1. (20) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 40

laps, 120.4 rating.2. (5) Greg Biffle, Ford, 40, 133.6.3. (17) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 40,

113.5.4. (12) Paul Menard, Ford, 40, 106.6.5. (19) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 40,

91.9.6. (1) David Ragan, Ford, 40, 120.7. (3) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 40, 89.2.8. (8) AJ Allmendinger, Ford, 40, 105.1.9. (24) Travis Kvapil, Ford, 40, 66.4.10. (26) Carl Edwards, Ford, 40, 70.8.11. (16) Elliott Sadler, Ford, 40, 74.9.12. (7) Bill Elliott, Ford, 40, 69.13. (6) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 40, 68.7.14. (18) Scott Speed, Toyota, 40, 59.1.15. (10) Robby Gordon, Toyota, 40, 57.2.16. (2) Max Papis, Toyota, 40, 62.5.17. (23) J.J. Yeley, Dodge, 40, 47.4.18. (4) Kevin Conway, Ford, 40, 44.19. (28) Derrike Cope, Dodge, 40, 40.20. (15) Norm Benning, Chevrolet, 40,

36.1.21. (22) Robert Richardson Jr., Dodge,

39, 33.9.22. (13) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 38,

46.7.23. (9) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, acci-

dent, 34, 67.9.24. (29) David Gilliland, Ford, acci-

dent, 21, 47.9.25. (27) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, sus-

pension, 18, 32.2.26. (11) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, acci-

dent, 16, 78.27. (14) Juan Pablo Montoya,

Chevrolet, accident, 16, 73.2.28. (21) Todd Bodine, Toyota, transmis-

sion, 13, 32.3.29. (25) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, electri-

cal, 7, 26.4.

Race StatisticsAverage Speed of Race Winner:

146.897 mph.Time of Race: 0 hours, 24 minutes, 33

seconds.Margin of Victory: 1.395 seconds.Caution Flags: 2 for 4 laps.Lead Changes: 2 among 3 drivers.Lap Leaders: D.Ragan 1-20; G.Biffle

21-32; M.Truex Jr. 33-40.Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led,

Laps Led): D.Ragan, 1 time for 20 laps; G.Biffle, 1 time for 12 laps; M.Truex Jr., 1 time for 8 laps.

Top 12 in Points: 1. K.Harvick, 1,768; 2. Ky.Busch, 1,699; 3. M.Kenseth, 1,642; 4. J.Johnson, 1,637; 5. D.Hamlin, 1,618; 6. J.Gordon, 1,605; 7. G.Biffle, 1,581; 8. J.Burton, 1,569; 9. Ku.Busch, 1,531; 10. C.Edwards, 1,487; 11. M.Martin, 1,475; 12. M.Truex Jr., 1,434.

NASCAR Driver Rating FormulaA maximum of 150 points can be

attained in a race.The formula combines the following

categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish.

Indianapolis 500 Qualifying

SaturdayAt Indianapolis Motor Speedway

At IndianapolisWith rank, car number in parenthe-

ses, driver, chassis-engine, time and speed in parentheses:

1. (3) Helio Castroneves, Dallara-Honda, 2:37.9154 (227.970)

2. (12) Will Power, Dallara-Honda, 2:38.1876 (227.578)

3. (10T) Dario Franchitti, Dallara-Honda, 2:38.5970 (226.990)

4. (6) Ryan Briscoe, Dallara-Honda, 2:38.9027 (226.554)

5. (77) Alex Tagliani, Dallara-Honda, 2:39.0178 (226.390)

6. (9) Scott Dixon, Dallara-Honda, 2:39.1277 (226.233)

7. (30) Graham Rahal, Dallara-Honda, 2:39.6319 (225.519)

8. (20) Ed Carpenter, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.3514 (224.507)

9. (06) Hideki Mutoh, Dallara-Honda, 2:41.0831 (223.487)

10. (99) Townsend Bell, Dallara-Honda, 2:39.9313 (225.097)

11. (22) Justin Wilson, Dallara-Honda, 2:39.9647 (225.050)

12. (2) Raphael Matos, Dallara-Honda, 2:39.9798 (225.028)

13. (32) Mario Moraes, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.0794 (224.888)

14. (21) Davey Hamilton, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.1053 (224.852)

15. (24) Mike Conway, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.2969 (224.583)

16. (26) Marco Andretti, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.3030 (224.575)

17. (37) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.3227 (224.547)

18. (4) Dan Wheldon, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.3821 (224.464)

19. (8T) E.J. Viso, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.4424 (224.380)

20. (23) Tomas Scheckter, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.5270 (224.261)

21. (25) Ana Beatriz, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.5402 (224.243)

22. (78) Simona de Silvestro, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.5511 (224.228)

23. (7) Danica Patrick, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.5584 (224.217)

24.(36) Bertrand Baguette, Dallara-Honda, 2:40.5785 (224.189)

Transactions

Saturday’s Sports TransactionsBASEBALL

American LeagueBOSTON RED SOX—Activated OF

Jacoby Ellsbury from the 15-day DL. Designated OF Jonathan Van Every for assignment.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Placed DH Eric Chavez on the 15-day DL. Activated 2B Mark Ellis from the 15-day DL.

National LeaguePHILADELPHIA PHILLIES—Placed

SS Jimmy Rollins on the 15-day DL. Selected the contract of INF Wilson Valdez from Lehigh Valley (IL).

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS—Placed RHP Brad Penny on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP P.J. Walters from Memphis (PCL).

SAN DIEGO PADRES—Recalled RHP Luis Perdomo from Portland (PCL). Optioned LHP Cesar Ramos to Portland.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS—Activated SS Edgar Renteria from the 15-day DL. Optioned INF Ryan Rohlinger to Fresno (PCL).

International LeagueLEHIGH VALLEY IRON PIGS—

Optioned RHP John Ennis to Reading (EL).

Eastern LeagueREADING PHILLIES—Recalled C

Torre Langley from Lakewood (SAL).

Atlantic LeagueCAMDEN RIVERSHARKS—

Announced they sold the contract of C Rene Rivera to the New York Yankees, who assigned him to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

Frontier LeagueKALAMAZOO KINGS—Activated

SS Jeff Helps from the suspended list.

BASKETBALLNational Basketball AssociationNBA—Fined Dallas owner Mark

Cuban $100,000 and Phoenix presi-dent and director of basketball operations Steve Kerr $10,000 for public comments made in viola-tion of the NBA’s anti-tampering rules.

Scoreboard

AMERICAN LEAGUE

East Division

W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayTampa Bay 25 11 .694 — — 6-4 W-1 10-7 15-4New York 24 12 .667 1 — 6-4 W-2 12-2 12-10Toronto 22 16 .579 4 3 7-3 W-3 9-10 13-6Boston 19 17 .528 6 5 7-3 W-1 12-11 7-6Baltimore 12 24 .333 13 12 5-5 W-3 7-9 5-15

Central Division

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CHARLOTTE (AP) — The movers and shakers in NASCAR gathered this week at a gala to honor the five inductees into the new Hall of Fame.

Richard Petty and Junior Johnson, the only two living members of the inaugural class, reminisced with old friends. Richard Childress shared tales of his good friend, the late Dale Earn-hardt, while Earnhardt’s wid-ow, Teresa, stayed out of the spotlight but politely accept-ed congratulatory greetings.

The big moment came during the cocktail hour, when the family of Raymond Parks escorted the pioneer through the massive foyer. Two weeks shy of his 96th birthday, Parks is confined to a wheelchair and silently nodded to the frequent well-wishers who gathered to say hello to the top-hat clad owner of the car Red Byron drove to NASCAR’s inau-gural 1949 championship.

Nobody, including Parks, wants to miss this first celebration of NASCAR’s rich and colorful history. The $195 million Hall of Fame opened May 11, and its first class will be inducted Sunday in what’s expected to be an emotional event.

The first class comprises NASCAR founder Bill France Sr., his son, Bill France Jr., seven-time series champions Petty and Earnhardt, and moonshine runner-turned-racing pioneer Johnson.

“The five choices that the voting panel made, they could not have made a better choice of anyone,” said team owner Childress, who will speak in Sunday’s

ceremony for Earnhardt.That’s not necessarily the

unanimous decision, though.The inaugural class was

selected last October by a 50-member panel, which spent two-plus hours in what’s been described as a spirited closed-door debate over the 25 nominees. With only five initial slots available to men considered pioneers for their contributions in es-tablishing NASCAR and then transforming it from a Southern series and into a national sport, the voting mem-bers had to make difficult decisions.

There were some who felt that the two Frances must be included in the inaugural class. France Sr. for forming the National Asso-ciation of Stock Car Racing in 1947, and France Jr., for the three decades he spent at the helm of America’s top motorsports series.

Others felt the inclusion of France Jr. could hold off a year, and that the inaugural class would be better served without two administrators from the ruling family.

It made for a suspenseful announcement later that day, when current NASCAR chairman Brian France an-nounced the inductees to a packed room at the Charlotte Convention Center. He re-ceived five envelopes from an independent accounting firm, and announced his grandfa-ther as the first inductee.

Petty, NASCAR’s all-time wins leader was the second name announced. The room

then went silent in anticipa-tion of the third selection, which went to France Jr.

Three-time champion Da-vid Pearson, whose 105 victo-ries rank him second only to Petty on the all-time wins list, watched from the audience.

“When I seen the two Frances was in, I knew I didn’t have a chance,” Pear-son said moments after the ceremony ended. “The same people don’t like everybody.”

The exclusion of the “Silver Fox” dumbfounded Petty, who was not in the room that day for the announcement. When he came in after the ceremo-ny, he had to ask who the other four inductees were.

“Anybody that won 105 rac-es and didn’t make the cut — somebody ain’t adding right,” Petty said of his top rival, adding that Pearson would have been his first pick.

Because this is NASCAR’s first foray into officially recognizing its pioneers, the list of qualified candi-dates is too long to get hung up on the omission of one driver in the first class.

“It’s hard to argue the wor-thiness of the five men select-ed for the inaugural induc-tion class,” said Dustin Long, president of the National Motorsports Press Asso-ciation and a member of the voting committee. “All made significant contributions to NASCAR. In my mind, there were six true candidates for the five spots. I chose David Pearson on my ballot be-cause I felt the Hall of Fame

was as much for the fans as anybody and that Pearson resonated with the fan.”

The debate has abated somewhat over the last seven months, as attention has turned to the actual open-ing of the Hall and Sunday’s ceremony. The opening’s ap-proach has been accompanied by an outpouring of tributes, including a touching “story-telling” session that high-lighted Thursday night’s gala.

Longtime industry veter-ans drew rousing laughter with tales that recounted Earnhardt’s anger over once getting denied a hotel room, Petty taking his time to board a waiting plane so he could sign for every child chasing him for an autograph, France Jr. beginning the present-day practice of summoning out-of-line drivers to the NASCAR hauler, Johnson being asked for a favor from a local sheriff willing to overlook the truckload of moonshine he was hauling.

Petty and Johnson have been soaking up the adora-tion as they’ve participated in numerous events lead-ing up to Sunday.

“I’m going from one thing to another,” Johnson said. “I’m not (standing) still in everyday life and work I’ve got going on. NASCAR’s Hall of Fame has been about all of my time. That’s a good thing, not a bad thing. It’s the greatest thing besides my family that’s come along that I could ever have to happen.

“I’m going to ride it as long as I can and as long as it’s here, I’m going to try to do my best to do what it needs. When it needs something, I’m going to give it to them.”

NASCAR inducting its first classPetty, Johnson, Earnhardt and the Frances will be honored as Hall of Famers today

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Johnson a fan of France Sr., but not so much with Bill Jr.CONCORD (AP) — Junior

Johnson was a moonshiner who outran government tax collec-tors in souped up cars. He not only is one of the pioneers of NASCAR, he served some time in prison for his bootlegging.

You can imagine Johnson has sometimes had trouble with authority, which elicits some chuckles since Johnson is part of the first Hall of Fame class that includes NASCAR’s first two rulers, the late Bill France Sr. and Bill France Jr.

On Saturday, a day before his induction, Johnson insisted he “never had a cross word with Bill Sr.” and praised him for do-ing “whatever was best for rac-ing.”

As for France’s son, who even-tually took over NASCAR, John-son’s view is a bit different.

“His head was as hard as a piece of cement,” Johnson said. “I had a lot of big arguments with him over safety stuff. He was a ruler, there’s no question about it.”

Johnson, who was pardoned in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan for his moonshine con-viction, was honored by driver Ryan Newman with a logo on his car during Saturday’s All-Star race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

The 78-year-old Johnson won 50 races before becoming an accomplished car owner. He’s credited with being the first to

use drafting in races and cre-ating other technological ad-vances — even if Bill France Jr. often tried to squash his ideas.

VICKERS ANXIETY: Brian Vickers is out for the season be-cause of blood clots, and his fel-low drivers are eager to learn what caused them.

Vickers announced on Friday he’ll miss at least six months because he’s on blood thinners after doctors discovered the clots last week in his lungs and left leg.

“All of us should be (con-cerned) because if it is some-thing that has to do with trav-eling and flying and anything that is contributed to the race

cars, how are seats are molded, anything like that,” Jeff Gor-don said. “If it is racing related or lifestyle related, then I want to know about it because I don’t want it to happen to me. I’m very interested to find out.”

Gordon was one of many driv-ers to reach out to the 26-year-old Vickers, who won at Cali-fornia last year and had three top-10 finishes this season.

“It’s pretty scary,” Kyle Busch said. “You could be living a normal life and all of a sud-den, boom, you feel a pain your chest, you go to the hospital and you’ve got clots.”

Vickers has vowed to return in 2011. “I know it’s a tough thing he’s going through, and I can’t

imagine getting that news if that was me,” Gordon said. “I know how much racing means to him.

BURNOUT BAD BOY: They changed the rules of the burn-out competition before the All-Star race after Kyle Busch was disqualified last year for hitting cones that marked the boundar-ies.

This time, hitting the cones helped with scoring.

Trouble was, Busch was dis-qualified again — this time for hitting the wall.

“He never plays by the rules,” fiancee Samantha Sarcinella said. Joey Logano was voted the winner by a panel of celeb-rity judges.

Truex winsShowdownEarns spot in $1 million All-Star race, along with Biffle, Edwards

CONCORD (AP) — Martin Truex Jr. won the Sprint Show-down to race his way into the $1 million All-Star race.

Greg Biffle finished sec-ond to claim the other trans-fer spot into Saturday night’s main event. Carl Edwards also moved into the All-Star race by winning the fan vote.

Truex twice before used the preliminary race to make his way into the All-Star race. He advanced by winning the fan vote in 2005, and by winning the qualifier in 2007.

“In 2007, I think it was really big for us,” he said. “It kind of cat-apulted our season.”

Truex won his only career Cup race two weeks later at Dover, and gained momentum through the summer to earn his only ap-pearance in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.

“Hopefully this will kind of be the same start for us as a team,” said Truex, who is in his first season driving a Toyota for Michael Waltrip Racing.

This will be Truex’s fourth ap-pearance in the All-Star race, and his best finish was 10th in 2007.

The Showdown was for all drivers not already qualified to compete in the All-Star race. It featured 29 drivers racing for two spots, with a third eligible to gain entry by fan voting.

Over 1 million fans voted for their favorite driver, and Edwards promised to put on a show as thanks for his selec-tion.

“Man, I’m going to drive like an idiot out there,” Edwards said.

The Showdown was divided into two 20-lap segments, and the first was marred by an acci-dent between Juan Pablo Mon-

toya and Regan Smith.Montoya, who had

the fastest lap before Friday night’s qualify-ing was rained out with four drivers remaining, blamed Smith for the accident. He also noted that they would not have been racing around each other if the field had been set by qualifying

and not a blind draw. He went from first to 14th on the start-ing grid, while Smith started 11th.

“That’s what happens when you start by a lottery and not by performance,” said Montoya, “and he doesn’t have any.”

Smith didn’t think he did anything wrong.

“I don’t know, I haven’t seen a replay,” he said. “The replay in my head says that he wasn’t clear and he was trying to take some space that wasn’t his. In an event like this, you aren’t go-ing to give that up. I’m sure he has a different opinion.”

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Helio Cas-troneves put his foot down Saturday and proved he’s still the one to beat at Indy.

The defending 500 champion and three-time race winner wrapped up a wild qualification day by topping 228 mph on two of his four laps, aver-aging 227.970 mph to win his fourth career Indianapolis 500 pole. Nobody, including Castroneves, had touched 227.9 in practice even on one lap.

Fans were so shocked by the burst of speed that they gave Castroneves standing ovations after his second, third and fourth laps.

“This place, you’ve got to expect the unexpected, my friend. That was a great result,” said Castroneves, who becomes the favorite as he goes for a record-tying fourth Indy win. “I was ready. I didn’t want to keep wait-ing and see all the times. I wanted to go for it.”

The other eight drivers in the new pole “shootout” were relegated to taking aim at the No. 2 spot.

Castroneves tied A.J. Foyt and Rex Mays with his fourth Indy pole and will be joined on the front row by Penske teammate Will Power and Target Chip Ganassi driver Dario Franchitti. Australia’s Power av-eraged 227.578 and will start from the middle of Row 1. Scotland’s Franchitti averaged 226.990 and will start from the outside of the first row in the 11-row, 33-car field.

It was about the only part of quali-fying that went as expected.

The day was marred by three crashes including one that took out pole contender Tony Kanaan, the 2004 IndyCar Series champ. Kanaan, a Brazilian like Castroneves, never got a second qualifying attempt Sat-urday. Danica Patrick’s struggles continued, too.

The series’ glamour girl qualified 23rd at 224.217 and will start behind two other women — Brazil’s Ana Be-atriz and Switzerland’s Simona de Silvestro, who were 21st and 22nd, respectively and Patrick was nearly in danger of being bumped out of the field.

Race organizers filled the first 24 starting spots Saturday. Worse yet, Patrick criticized her team for the qualifying setup during an interview on the public address system and then was booed by the crowd.

“Shoot, I say one confident thing out there and everybody boos me. I’m blown away,” said Patrick, who never started worse than 10th in five previous Indy starts. “These people, I mean, I don’t know, maybe they all booed me before. I would think that some of them cheered for me before, and I’m not a different driver than I was five years ago.”

CavsContinued from Page 1B They never quit battling.

On paper, we probably shouldn’t have been able to keep up with this team. It hurts and it’s sad that a team had to lose here to-day.”

Garner was the coach of the Panthers just one year ago.

Now his young team, ranked seventh in the state with no seniors, is headed to the state semifinals to face state powerhouse For-bush.

Cuthbertson, which fin-ished second in the Rocky River Conference standings behind league champion Piedmont, improved its re-cord to 19-4-1 on the season.

Piedmont, ranked sixth in the 2A state poll by euro-sportscoreboard.com, fin-ished the year 20-3.

The Union County rivals split two meetings in the regular season.

MavsContinued from Page 1B

In the second half, Marvin Ridge used the sloppy field to its advantage and pulled most everyone back on de-fense. During some defensive corners and free kicks, the Mavericks had all 11 play-ers in their defensive box.

Even while on the attack, Fumo held back as many as six or seven players at midfield and sent only

Lashley and sophomore forward Ali Dove to pester the Weddington defenders.

The Warriors could not possess the ball long enough to muster an offensive drive, stringing five or more passes together only twice in the sec-ond half. Mostly, the Warriors were content to play the ball over the top of the Maverick defense and hope its forwards could create a scoring chance, which never happened.

“The playing condi-tions were not good to-day,” Fumo admitted. “That played a part.”

Defensively, Marvin Ridge paid special attention to Weddington’s leading scorer Lee Page. Fumo assigned senior defender Alyssa Clark (the goal scorer’s twin sister) to mark Page for the entire game.

Page, a Wake Forest signee, never got a quality chance on goal, and had to settle for outside shots or long passes throughout the entire game.

Marvin Ridge will play at home against Hickory in the semifinals either Tues-day or Wednesday of next week, according to Fumo.

E-J staff photo by Rick Crider

Rain gushed at times during Saturday’s state quarterfinal match, making conditions barely playable. TRUEX

E-J staff photo by Ed Cottingham

Cuthbertson’s Sarah Wilson scored the game-win-ning goal to put her team in the state semifinals.

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RisherContinued from Page 1B

Risher had 26 goals and 16 as-sists as a senior, after scoring 35 goals his junior year. He made all-state after both seasons.

Gray told Risher he could see the field immediately as an attack-ing midfielder, and reiterated it publicly through HuntingtonNews.Net shortly after he signed.

“Matt is a very versatile player,” Gray told the Web site. “He plays at a very high level and we ex-pect him to compete for a start-ing position right away.”

Gray was named Conference USA coach of the year in 2009 after his team finished 6-2 in the league. The Herd placed second in the standings and lost to C-USA champion Tulsa (3-0) in the tournament finals.

Marshall was picked to fin-ish eighth in the conference.

Gray has proven he will play fresh-men when it counts. In a tournament semifinal win over nationally-ranked UAB, the Herd got by on penalty kicks, 4-3. All four were made by freshmen.

Just weeks away from his gradu-ation, Risher is looking forward to his college expierence.

“I can’t wait to get to Marshall,” Risher said. “It’s always been a goal of mine, to be a D-I soccer player. I’ve wanted it since I was a little kid. I’m very excited.”

Risher has helped Marvin Ridge become one of the top athletic pro-

grams in the state. In addition to the boys soccer title, Marvin Ridge won the state in boys track last May.

Now the MR girls soccer team is undefeated and ranked No. 1 in the state. They defeated archrival Wed-dington for the third time on Satur-day to reach the state semifinals.

Ray Fumo, who has been coach-ing soccer since 1977, had lost in four previous trips to the state championship game (boys and girls combined) before Risher’s heroics.

Risher was pleased he could be a part of Fumo’s first title.

“He has a passion for the game and he loves his players,” Risher said of Fumo. “There are times you can’t stand Fumo, but at the end of the day, you know he helps you get where you want to go.”

Marvin Ridge benefits from hav-ing a lot of athletes who concen-trate on one sport year-round.

“It’s a very competitive atmosphere,” Risher said. “There’s a lot of healthy rivalries. We’ve been going back and forth with the girls (soccer team) all year about whose had the better season. But I’m pulling for them.

“Fumo went all those years with-out winning a state championship, and now it looks like he’s going to double up in the same year. I think they’ll do it. That will be a great ac-complishment for coach Fumo.”

Risher, who was a key reserve for Fumo as a freshman at Weddington High before Marvin Ridge opened, has a lot to be proud about as well.

His decisive goal in the state championship game immortal-

izes Risher on some level.“We still talk about it a lot, especially

us seniors,” Risher said of the state title

run. “We talk about how close the state championship game was, and stuff like that. It was a great experience for us.”

16-year-old ‘confident’ heading into final round at NelsonIRVING, Texas (AP) — Mak-

ing the cut at the Byron Nel-son Championship never was the goal for Jordan Spieth. The 16-year-old insists he’s here to win.

The high school junior shot a 3-under 67 Saturday, his best round yet. That dropped him to 6-under 204 for the tournament, giving him a legitimate chance to win his PGA Tour debut. He is tied for seventh, sixth shots behind leader Jason Day.

“I know the pins are going to be the toughest pins I’ve ever experienced in my life, but if I’m confident,” Spieth said. “I’m going to start firing because I got nothing to lose, nothing to hold back, might as well try and make a run.”

Spieth on Friday became the sixth-youngest player to make a cut. The best finish for some-one so young was Italy’s Matteo Manassero, tying for 13th at the 2009 British Open.

Spieth (pronounced SPEE-th) is from Dallas and won a state high school title last week. On Saturday, he was playing before his largest gallery yet — after all, school was out, so more of his pals could be there.

Playing partner Tom Per-nice Jr. shot a 66 to move to 203. When the round ended, they shook hands and the 50-year-old Pernice offered some words of wisdom.

“He’s a wonderful young man,” said Pernice, who has two daughters Spieth’s age.

“He’s got a lot of exuberance and excitement in him.”

S p i e t h opened with a birdie. He then had a rare wild stretch on the third through sixth holes: bogey, birdie, birdie, bogey. He got back to making pars with the occasion-al birdie mixed in — such as No. 16, where he made a great sand save Friday.

Spieth gave back a stroke with a bogey on the par-3 17th. His tee shot went past the green and his chip didn’t roll as far as he’d hoped. He missed the par

putt, tapped it in and walked off the green muttering, “So unnecessary!”

The frustration might have lingered on the final tee — his shot went into the rough on the first fairway. The ball had to clear a bunch of trees to a hole surrounded by sand, with wa-ter in the vicinity, too. The shot was so perfectly on line that Spieth spun his club and stifled a smile.

The ball actually landed in one of those bunkers, but he softly rolled it within 8 feet. He made the par-saving putt, gave a few fist pumps and walked off thinking about what could hap-pen Sunday.

“It was nice to finish getting a putt to drop,” he said. “Hope-

fully I can make a run at it to-morrow.”

Pernice noted that the ex-citement Spieth is generating proves “you don’t need Tiger and Phil always to have a great event.”

Woods just happens to be the last high school player in this tournament, back in 1993. He shot 77-72 and missed the cut as a 17-year-old, then came back four years later and became the event’s youngest winner.

Even if he doesn’t, Spieth has plenty of other events to look forward to — a sponsor’s ex-emption into the Memphis PGA Tour stop in June, and in July he’s got a title to defend at the U.S. Junior Amateur Champi-onship.

Photo by Darcy Duncan

Cuthbertson junior Peter Hendel had a banner year, which is one of the reasons the first-year school posted a 23-4 record and reached the third round of the 2A playoffs.

E-J file photo

Matt Risher, right, was swarmed by teammates after scoring the game-winning goal in sudden death to give Marvin Ridge the state title in boys soccer last December. Risher, who has signed with Marshall University, had 26 goals and 16 assists as a senior.

Lakers bring momentum into Phoenix for Game 3PHOENIX (AP) — Los An-

geles Lakers fans were chant-ing “Bring on Boston!” before Game 1 of the Western Confer-ence finals was over, and they picked up the volume near the finish of Game 2.

There are, however, at least two games to be played in Phoenix before what so many see as a foregone conclusion, a third straight trip to the NBA finals for Kobe & Co.

“Hopefully we can carry the momentum over from the way we’ve been playing at home,” Lamar Odom said Saturday be-fore the Lakers boarded their short flight to the desert for Game 3 Sunday night. “I don’t see why not.”

The Lakers seemed ready for

a more difficult challenge.“We understand how tough

it’s going to be in Phoenix,” Pau Gasol said. “The pace and energy they’re going to bring is going to be hard to match, but we have to understand who we are and play to our capabili-ties.”

Who the Lakers are has been readily ap-parent to anyone pay-ing attention — a big, gifted group of athletes whose offense has been unstoppable against the smaller Suns.

Los Angeles scored 128 and 124 points to go up 2-0 in the series and brings an eight-game playoff winning streak

to Phoenix, where the Suns hope playing at home will help slow down the defending NBA champions.

Nothing else has worked.

Phoenix coach Alvin Gentry can understand Kobe Bryant and Gasol having big games. He is a bit confounded that everybody else the Lak-ers turn to has had them as well, be it Odom, Ron Artest, Jordan Farmar or Shannon Brown.

“It’s almost like be-ing a dike, you stick a finger in one hole and water comes out of another one,” Gentry said. “We’ve just got to find a way to have a whole lot of fingers,

I guess.”Much was made of Phoenix’s

bench going into the series, but Farmar has come in for the Lakers and made 8-of-11 shots, including 5-of-6 3-pointers.

When the Suns were able to rev up their offense by going with a small lineup in Game 3, Los Angeles eventually took advantage of its mismatches inside.

Gasol has been at his best, averaging 25 points while shooting 66 percent from the field. Odom had 19 points and 19 rebounds in Game 1, leading Phoenix’s Amare Stoudemire to pronounce it “a lucky game.” Odom followed with 17 points and 11 boards in Game 2.

Stoudemire has calmly an-

swered the critics all week, saying he was defending the way his coaches told him to and adding that he doesn’t ex-pect the Suns to double-team Bryant as much in Game 3.

Perhaps a return home will help the Suns’ perimeter shoot-ing, particularly Channing Frye, who went 1 of 13 in Los Angeles, 1 of 9 on 3-pointers. Frye has shot 50 percent on 3s at home in the playoffs (13 of 26), compared with 22 percent (8 of 35) on the road.

“I think he definitely will shoot it better at home,” Gen-try said. “It’s just one of those deals where he feels more comfortable in this building. You know, if he makes shots it changes everything.”

SPEITH

PiedmontContinued from Page 1B

Scotty McClain was in scoring posi-tion as he had doubled before the game was halted Friday. With Preston Mor-rison pitching in relief of starter Pe-ter Hendel, Gower scored McClain for a 3-0 lead, after reaching on an infield throwing error to first.

Piedmont ended a Cuthbertson threat in the bottom of the fourth. Af-ter Morrison reached on a liner to cen-ter, Elwood retired the Cavs 1-2-3.

After Patric King walked and Will Ray singled, Morrison balked in the fifth to put runners on second and third with one out. Flow called a suicide squeeze and King stole home for the fourth run. Ray was allowed to score af-ter Cuthbertson catcher John Mangum was called for interference.

It was more than enough run sup-port for Elwood, who endured a 24-hour delay to complete his gem.

“Elwood kept the ball low and just did a great, great job under some very unique circumstances,” Piedmont coach Milt Flow said. “I told the guys to just go out and play and that good things would happen, and they did.”

The inning continued as Will Dorton took first on the interference and Ross Rushing got on with an infield single. Morrison got out of it by striking out McClain for the second out and then getting Gower to ground out to first.

The Panthers scored in the top of the first when King plated Elwood with a single to left. Elwood, a junior who has committed to play baseball for the Charlotte 49ers, doubled earlier in the inning.

Piedmont got its second run in the third when freshman Colby Barnette singled to short and Gower scored on a throwing error. Gower singled to lead off the inning, and after Elwood flied

out to left, Kendall Hooks singled to put two aboard.

Barnett moved to second on the throwing error and Hooks moved to third, but King and Ray went down swinging to end the threat.

Barnette made two great catches playing right field. His first was a div-ing catch in the fourth, and he flipped over the fence in foul territory for his second spectacular catch in the fifth. Barnette’s other impressive play of the game was a double play that ended the sixth. After making the catch, Barnette threw out fellow freshman Andrew Hendel at first.

“I’ve never seen a freshman come up as big as that by diving over the fence to catch a ball,” said Flow. “That (double play) was a big play, too. Sometimes a young kid will overthrow it, but he didn’t and had a big night defensively.”

Flow rallied roughly 35 volunteers to get the field ready for the game. Over three hours of intense manual labor was required to remove excess water from the field.

“This wouldn’t have been possible without all the help we had to get this field ready,” said Flow. “I just can’t thank them all enough for all their help.”

Cavs coach Travis Little was obvious-ly disappointed, but was also beaming about his first-year team that went 23-4 without a senior class.

“A lot of people didn’t expect us to go 23-4 as such a young team and I think we surprised a lot of them,” Little said. “With the exception of losing today, I couldn’t be more happier for the guys.”

As disappointed as staff ace and leading hitter Peter Hendel was after the loss, the junior is determined that Cuthbertson will return and play even better in the RRC in 2011.

“We exceed some of our expectations, but not all of them,” said Hendel. “We’ll be better next year and we’ll be bigger and stronger.”

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