Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 19, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weve got sports sports on to c5 sports scorecard i nil Vancouver 5 Anaheim 4 Dallas 5 Colorado 4 Carolina 2 Detroit 6 i Ihl Manitoba 3 Aba lakers 95 Indiana 101 Minnesota 91 Milwaukee 100 Utah 111 Seattle 104 Denver 98 Atlanta 3 Chicago 1 Ottawa 1 Minnesota 3 islanders 1 san Jose 4 Utah 2 so Orlando 90 Sacramento 95 Cleveland 76 Detroit 96 clippers 96 Golden state 99 new Jersey 84 i mob exhibition Detroit 7 Tampa Bay 9 Baltimore 1 Minnesota 7 Houston 2 Boston 8 Atlanta 7 Cleveland 4 Florida 6 Oakland is 4 Chicago cubs 6 Colorado 7 Anaheim 7 san Diego 9 Oakland is 4 Toronto 6 Pittsburgh 6 Texas 0 Cincinnati 2 Philadelphia 1 Yankees is 7 la is 1 Kansas City 2 Louis 4 Yankees is 3 Arizona is 3 Seattle 2 Milwaukee 2 White sox 5 Francisco 8 Arizona is 3 i Brief Canadian rink on a Roll in Utah Utah gushes rink broke of pets close game by scoring two eighth and three in the ninth to beat Ger Many 115 in draw of the world Juniol Curling record to tied with Denmark for second place in the stand the United states continued to Lead the Way at 40 after beating France Canada was Idle in the draw later yes action Canadas women skipped by Suzanne Gaudet of was Idle yesterday and remained the Only undefeated rink at they play Norway Irwin wins 30 san Hale Irwin became the senior pea Tours career Victory Leader winning the Siebel classic for his 30th title on the 50andover Cir who broke a tie with Lee Trevino for the Victory shot a seven underpay 65 to finish five strokes ahead of Tom Watson and Allen with an Eagle on the par5 fourth Hole and five birdies in the Iriri finished with a 10under 206 Watson opened the 54hole event with a disappointing but steadily gained ground with 67s on both saturday and yester More sports briefs c2 March 2001 sports the contenders Canadian pair sensations Sale and Pelletier Gold medal favourites by Laurie Nealin the Gold and Silver medals marking their National triumphs at Winnipeg Arena safely tucked away at Canadas figure skat ing stars arrived in Vancouver primed for the 2001 world championships that begin the 12member Canadian led by Shaelynn Bourne and Victor Jamie Sale and David Pelleio Jennifer Robinson and Emanuel and the tenacious three time world Champ Elvis have a legitimate shot at claiming three of the 12 medals up for grabs this Only pair sensations Sale and can be considered Gold medal despite their less than perfect performances at the Winnipeg the couple is on a winning Roll with february victories Over the worlds 2 team Xue Shen and Longbo of and russian 1998 and 99 world champions Elena Berezh Naya and Anton the rus sians were forced out of the 2000 worlds by her positive doping attributed to a cold the Canadian pair had been touted As potential Gold medallists last Troj but Sale unravelled in the final and they settled medal threats Stojko and Bourne and Kraatz Are Canadas other medal threats but they will be hard pressed to overtake the european medal lists for top who treated Winnipeg fans to one of the worlds Best performances this season to Nab his first Canadian would be tagged As medal if not for his frustratingly inconsistent his female will be looking to crack the top five after her breakthrough eight place rank ing last who won Canadas Only prize a Silver medal at the 2000 told the free press that he is confident of a podium finish next which also Hap pens to be his 29th the fires and i feel on top of Stojko following a pre Competition practice Over the i love to the 46 men Lead off what promises to be one of the most unpredictable world championships in recent memory with their qualifying round the pairs Short program goes out skated with All four reigning world champions having been out skated by their archrival in major competitions in next weeks Battle for supremacy will be dra american Michelle Kwan was Defeated by russian Irina Slutskaya twice this while russian Alexei Yagudin has succumbed three times to his countryman Evgeni French ice dancers Marina Nissina and Gwendal Peiz Erat were bettered by Italy Barbara Fusar poli and Maurizio Margaglio at the european while russian pair Maria Petrova and Alexei Tikhonov have been beaten by everyone in the worlds to six including Sale and in both the mens and women there Are at least seven athletes who could finish on the even in the notoriously predictable ice dance none of the top six couples is taking anything for Grant Canadas two time olympic Silver medallist Brian who helped choreograph Stokos yet unseen but much hyped Gladiator its going to be a worlds that you dont want to its pre olympic everyone going to be at the top of their plus youve got an event in Canada where the fans Are crazy about Good i dont think they can be engraving any names on medals right other it has been dance even dance is up in the Orser continued please see contenders c2 Alexei Russia Evgeni Russia Elvis Canada Todd Timothy Chengliang China Takeshi Japan Evgeni Lushenko Michelle Irina Russia Maria Russia Sarah Japan pairs Jamie Canada Elena Russia Xue China Sarah France Marina Russia ice dance Marina France Barbara Fusar Italy Irina Russia Margarita Lithuania Shaelynn Bourne and Victor Canada c1 classified c8 deaths c7 editor Buzz Currie 6977285 Moose bag Utah in shootout Squeaker puts Peg Back on top in West by Tim Campbell the offensive torture that usually takes place when the Manitoba Moose and Utah grizzlies get together might Lead to White knuckle tight but its like fingernails on the blackboard or tin foil in your Mouth if youre one of the com and so it went for yet another meeting last night at the Arena and the Moose got a measure of revenge for their 21 loss in suburban Salt Lake City saturday night by outlast ing the grizzlies in a 32 shootout Rusty Fitzgerald scored the Only goal of the penalty shot round mandated by the beating grizzlies goalie Mike Bales after 11 skaters before him All failed to that phone you May have heard ringing in the press Box Dur ing the shootout was not Ihl president Doug Moss ordering the two teams to Stop abusing the most knowledgeable fans in the its been like this for so said grizzlies Bob when we its like a big the grizzlies dont have the fewest shootout wins in the league this but they Are and counting last years Are 818 in the last two that a slightly worse percentage than the who Are 68 this season and 1122 in two three years ago when i was in we had certain players who could score a lot and we won 80 per cent of those Bourne this its been a Long time since weve had a comfortable win of any the Point put Utah to within three Points of the last playoff spot in the Western by getting two last the Moose moved Back into sole Possession of first place in the West after the Houston areas were beaten at Home by grand desperate were getting to be but we realize whats going on around Moose Randy Carlyle were playing teams that Are trying to catch so the importance of these games is with such scoring difficulties the Moose got three Points out of their three game weekend by scoring four goals Carlyle was asked if its difficult to keep his wits about him during so Many close my wits its not so much for me As it is for the he we just have to Transfer the Confidence to the play Tell them to relax and shoot the the one thing weve done More than any thing is miss the net on clearcut oppor a Power play shot by Brett Hauer in the third period got the Moose to another Dandy last night and helped them snap a six game wingless then it was goalie Ken reggets and he bumped his personal circus round record to 23 by denying six straight i think i won the first one and the rest of them have been borderline disasters Wreggit Sal Jeff Salajko helped me with that the other you goalies picking up things during i sure didst want this game to go to a but you can Only do your the same two teams play again wednesday at the 17 marys Road 9589400 Intel Celoron 733 Mhz upgrade 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