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for 37-yard touchdown, giving NMMI its first lead of the year and one they would never give back. “I think that was the biggest thing for us,” Montoya said. “We still had to fight and everything, but you should have heard the kids in the locker room. They knew they could get this one. “That was the first time all year that we had been in halftime with the lead, so it was big. The kids were excited. It was a great play. It was a big momentum swing.” NMMI took a 13-6 lead into the break and then broke open the game on the first drive of the second half. Wallace engineered a seven-play, 63-yard drive that he capped with a 1yard scoring run that put the Colts up 20-7. Jal could never find an answer after that. The Pan-
Preps
Friday’s Scores By The Associated Press PREP FOOTBALL Albuquerque Academy 89, Taos 40 Aztec 28, Durango, Colo. 17 Bayfield, Colo. 40, Miyamura 28 Belen 21, Moriarty 12 Canutillo, Texas 21, Gadsden 6 Carlsbad 28, Mayfield 21 Cleveland 63, Onate 7 Clovis Christian 46, Elida 6 Crownpoint 48, Ramah 30 Dora 51, Vaughn 0 Dulce 50, Questa 6 Eunice 54, Iraan, Texas 47 Farmington 41, Los Alamos 0 Fort Sumner 26, Capitan 20 Gateway Christian 30, Logan 26 Goddard 34, Canyon, Texas 28 Grants 44, Piedra Vista 18 Hobbs 43, Roswell 28 Hondo 73, Roy 23 Hope Christian 55, Zuni 0 Hot Springs 56, Ruidoso 38 Laguna-Acoma 55, Thoreau 0 Lordsburg 41, Cobre 0 Los Lunas 49, Bloomfield 0 Lovington 38, Anthony, Texas 6 Lubbock Roosevelt, Texas 48, Clayton 0 Manzano 42, Artesia 22 Menaul 52, Floyd 0 Mountainair 20, Tatum 6 NMMI 20, Jal 6 Pojoaque 50, Espanola Valley 0 Portales 32, Texico 28 Santa Rosa 46, Robertson 20 Silver 41, Tularosa 6 Socorro 50, Raton 6 Tucumcari 40, West Las Vegas 8 West Mesa 42, Cibola 28
Baseball
Major League Baseball At A Glance All Times Mountain By The Associated Press American League East Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .W L New York . . . . . . . . . .87 56 Boston . . . . . . . . . . . .85 59 Tampa Bay . . . . . . . . .79 64 Toronto . . . . . . . . . . . .72 73 Baltimore . . . . . . . . . .58 85 Central Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .W L Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . .82 62 Chicago . . . . . . . . . . .72 71 Cleveland . . . . . . . . . .71 71 Kansas City . . . . . . . .60 86 Minnesota . . . . . . . . .59 85 West Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .W L Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . .82 63 Los Angeles . . . . . . . .79 65 Oakland . . . . . . . . . . .65 79 Seattle . . . . . . . . . . . .61 83
Pct GB .608 — .590 2 1⁄2 .552 8 .497 16 .406 29
Pct GB .569 — .503 9 1⁄2 .500 10 .411 23 .410 23
Pct GB .566 — .549 2 1⁄2 1 .451 16 ⁄2 .424 20 1⁄2
Thursday’s Games Baltimore 5, N.Y. Yankees 4, 10 innings Toronto 7, Boston 4 Chicago White Sox 8, Cleveland 1 Seattle 4, Kansas City 1 Friday’s Games Detroit 8, Minnesota 4 Baltimore 2, Toronto 0 Tampa Bay 7, Boston 2 Texas 13, Oakland 4 Cleveland 8, Chicago White Sox 4 L.A. Angels 2, N.Y. Yankees 1 Seattle 7, Kansas City 3 Saturday’s Games Baltimore (VandenHurk 0-0) at Toronto (H.Alvarez 1-2), 11:07 a.m. Cleveland (Carmona 6-14) at Chicago White Sox (Humber 9-8), 2:10 p.m. Minnesota (Swarzak 3-6) at Detroit (Scherzer 14-8), 2:10 p.m.
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14-0 until the end of the third quarter when Dexter’s Israel Gonzalez tackled Hagerman’s punter in the endzone for a safety
thers turned it over on downs on the first play of the fourth quarter and didn’t get it again until the game was almost over. NMMI salted away most of the quarter with a long, time-consuming march that ate nearly nine and a half minutes off the game clock. Jal turned it over two plays after getting it back and NMMI set up in the victory formation after running one play to secure the win. “When I told (Wallace) to get in victory formation, he just looked at me and said ‘What’s that?’” a laughing Montoya said about getting to call for the victory formation for the first time in his tenure as the Colt coach. Wallace, who had his hand in on all three Colt touchdowns, finished the game with 148 yards on 33 carries and 87 yards on 4of-10 passing. Strong led the Colt defense, which limited Jal to 199 total yards, with 17 tackles, including 3.5 sacks. Oakland (Cahill 10-13) at Texas (Ogando 12-7), 2:10 p.m. Boston (Weiland 0-1) at Tampa Bay (Hellickson 12-10), 5:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 19-7) at L.A. Angels (Haren 14-8), 7:05 p.m. Kansas City (F.Paulino 2-6) at Seattle (Pineda 9-9), 8:10 p.m. Sunday’s Games Minnesota at Detroit, 11:05 a.m. Baltimore at Toronto, 11:07 a.m. Boston at Tampa Bay, 11:40 a.m. Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 12:10 p.m. Oakland at Texas, 1:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at L.A. Angels, 1:35 p.m. Kansas City at Seattle, 2:10 p.m. Monday’s Games Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m. Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m. L.A. Angels at Oakland, 8:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.
National League East Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .W Philadelphia . . . . . . . .93 Atlanta . . . . . . . . . . . .84 New York . . . . . . . . . .71 Washington . . . . . . . .66 Florida . . . . . . . . . . . .64 Central Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .W Milwaukee . . . . . . . . .85 St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . .77 Cincinnati . . . . . . . . . .71 Pittsburgh . . . . . . . . .66 Chicago . . . . . . . . . . .62 Houston . . . . . . . . . . .48 West Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .W Arizona . . . . . . . . . . .84 San Francisco . . . . . .75 Los Angeles . . . . . . . .71 Colorado . . . . . . . . . .67 San Diego . . . . . . . . .62
L 48 61 73 76 79 L 61 67 73 78 82 96
L 61 69 72 77 83
Pct GB .660 — .579 11 .493 23 1⁄2 .465 27 1⁄2 .448 30 Pct .582 .535 .493 .458 .431 .333
GB — 7 13 18 22 36
Pct GB .579 — .521 8 1⁄2 .497 12 .465 16 1⁄2 .428 22
Thursday’s Games L.A. Dodgers 7, Washington 4, 1st game Atlanta 6, N.Y. Mets 5, 1st game L.A. Dodgers at Washington, 2nd game, ppd., rain Atlanta 5, N.Y. Mets 1, 2nd game Philadelphia 7, Milwaukee 2 Arizona 4, San Diego 1 Friday’s Games Florida 13, Pittsburgh 4 Washington 4, Houston 3, 11 innings N.Y. Mets 5, Chicago Cubs 4 Philadelphia 5, Milwaukee 3 St. Louis 4, Atlanta 3, 10 innings Cincinnati 4, Colorado 1 Arizona 3, San Diego 2 L.A. Dodgers 2, San Francisco 1 Saturday’s Games Chicago Cubs (R.Wells 7-4) at N.Y. Mets (Capuano 10-12), 11:10 a.m. Cincinnati (Arroyo 8-11) at Colorado (White 1-1), 2:10 p.m. Florida (Ani.Sanchez 7-7) at Pittsburgh (Locke 0-0), 5:05 p.m. Houston (W.Rodriguez 10-10) at Washington (Lannan 9-11), 5:05 p.m. Philadelphia (Cl.Lee 16-7) at Milwaukee (Wolf 12-9), 5:10 p.m. Atlanta (D.Lowe 9-13) at St. Louis (J.Garcia 11-7), 5:15 p.m. San Diego (Stauffer 8-12) at Arizona (Miley 3-1), 6:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Kuroda 11-15) at San Francisco (Vogelsong 10-6), 7:05 p.m. Sunday’s Games Florida at Pittsburgh, 11:35 a.m. Houston at Washington, 11:35 a.m. Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 12:10 p.m. Atlanta at St. Louis, 12:15 p.m. Cincinnati at Colorado, 1:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m. San Diego at Arizona, 2:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs at N.Y. Mets, 6:05 p.m. Monday’s Games St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m. Florida at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m. Washington at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.
that made the score 16-0. Dexter tacked on an insurance touchdown in the fourth quarter. Sandoval said that the win was good for his team. “Our kids have done nothing but work since
SPORTS SHORTS 14TH ANNUAL LADIES FALL CLASSIC IS SEPT. 9
The 14th annual Ladies Fall Classic Invitational golf tournament will be held on Friday, Sept. 9, at 9 a.m. at Roswell Country Club. The entry fee is $170 per two-person team. Entry fee includes green fees, cart fees and lunch at the awards luncheon. To reserve a tee time for the practice round on Sept. 8, call the country club at 6222050. For more information, or to register, call Andi Smith at 622-5200 or e-mail asmith@aslaccounting.com.
TOUR DE OCHO MILLAS CYCLING EVENT IS SEPT. 17
The inaugural Tour de Ocho Millas will be held on Saturday, Sept. 17, at Bottomless Lakes State Park. All proceeds from the event benefit Reflections & Recovery, a local organization dedicated to helping
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receiving on just four catches. He also had a 73-yard kick retur n to start the second half to set up a Goddard touchdown. David Anaya finished with 60 yards receiving and 78 yards rushing.
Gateway Chr. 30, Logan 26 LOGAN — Gateway Christian moved to 2-1 on the season with a road victory over Logan on Friday. The Warriors fell behind 12-0 and after trailed for most of the second half. With about two minutes left, they took the lead for good.
Boys soccer NMMI 2, Carlsbad 0 NMMI’s Jorge Garza scored on a penalty kick and Gerardo Estrella
found the back of the net of f an assist by Diego Islas-Parada as NMMI picked up a win in its first game at the Coyote Classic on Friday. NMMI coach John Barbour said that his team played well. “They played really well,” he said. “It was nice to keep a clean sheet. Our defense played well and our goalkeeper (Andres Islas-Parada) had a great game. Everybody played very well.” NMMI will play at 11 a.m. today.
Goddard 7, Ruidoso 1 Goddard's Jose Briseno and Efrain Morales each scored three goals as the Rockets picked up a win in their first game of the Coyote Classic on Friday. Andres Thompson scored Goddard's other goal. Goddard assistant coach T im Lucas said
SCOREBOARD
Philadelphia at Houston, 6:05 p.m. Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m. San Diego at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.
Football
National Football League At A Glance By The Associated Press All Times Mountain AMERICAN CONFERENCE East . . . . . . . . . . . . . .W L T Pct Buffalo . . . . . . . . .0 0 0 .000 Miami . . . . . . . . .0 0 0 .000 New England . . .0 0 0 .000 N.Y. Jets . . . . . . .0 0 0 .000 South . . . . . . . . . . . . . .W L T Pct Houston . . . . . . .0 0 0 .000 Indianapolis . . . . .0 0 0 .000 Jacksonville . . . .0 0 0 .000 Tennessee . . . . .0 0 0 .000 North . . . . . . . . . . . . . .W L T Pct Baltimore . . . . . . .0 0 0 .000 Cincinnati . . . . . .0 0 0 .000 Cleveland . . . . . .0 0 0 .000 Pittsburgh . . . . . .0 0 0 .000 West . . . . . . . . . . . . . .W L T Pct Denver . . . . . . . .0 0 0 .000 Kansas City . . . .0 0 0 .000 Oakland . . . . . . .0 0 0 .000 San Diego . . . . . .0 0 0 .000
NATIONAL CONFERENCE East . . . . . . . . . . . . . .W L T Pct Dallas . . . . . . . . .0 0 0 .000 N.Y. Giants . . . . .0 0 0 .000 Philadelphia . . . .0 0 0 .000 Washington . . . . .0 0 0 .000 South . . . . . . . . . . . . . .W L T Pct Atlanta . . . . . . . . .0 0 0 .000 Carolina . . . . . . .0 0 0 .000 Tampa Bay . . . . .0 0 0 .000 New Orleans . . . .0 1 0 .000 North . . . . . . . . . . . . . .W L T Pct Green Bay . . . . .1 0 0 1.000 Chicago . . . . . . . .0 0 0 .000 Detroit . . . . . . . . .0 0 0 .000 Minnesota . . . . . .0 0 0 .000 West . . . . . . . . . . . . . .W L T Pct Arizona . . . . . . . .0 0 0 .000 San Francisco . . .0 0 0 .000 Seattle . . . . . . . . .0 0 0 .000 St. Louis . . . . . . .0 0 0 .000
PF PA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
PF PA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
PF PA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
PF PA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PF PA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
PF PA 0 0 0 0 0 0 34 42
PF PA 42 34 0 0 0 0 0 0
PF PA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thursday’s Games Green Bay 42, New Orleans 34 Sunday’s Games Atlanta at Chicago, 11 a.m. Buffalo at Kansas City, 11 a.m. Indianapolis at Houston, 11 a.m. Philadelphia at St. Louis, 11 a.m. Detroit at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m. Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 11 a.m. Tennessee at Jacksonville, 11 a.m. Cincinnati at Cleveland, 11 a.m. N.Y. Giants at Washington, 2:15 p.m. Minnesota at San Diego, 2:15 p.m. Seattle at San Francisco, 2:15 p.m. Carolina at Arizona, 2:15 p.m. Dallas at N.Y. Jets, 6:20 p.m. Monday’s Games New England at Miami, 5 p.m. Oakland at Denver, 8:15 p.m.
Jets VP was Giuliani’s press secretary during 9/11
NEW YORK (AP) — Matt Higgins does-
I’ve been here,” he said. “We have 40 great kids out there and they do a great job. The biggest thing is that they get a chance to feel good about all the hard work we put in.” l.foster@roswell-record.com
individuals live free of addictions. To register, or for more information, visit the event website at tourdeochomillas.com.
CHARITY GOLF TOURNEY IS SEPT. 17 AT SPRING RIVER
Wells Fargo and the Roswell Regional Hospital will hold their ninth annual charity golf tournament to benefit the United Way of Chaves County on Saturday, Sept. 17, at Spring River Golf Course. The tournament starts at 8 a.m. and is a four-person scramble. There is a minimum team handicap of 45 and only one person can have a handicap of less than 10. The entry fee is $400 per team, which includes green fees, carts, range balls, two mulligans per player, breakfast, lunch, dinner and more. Interested parties can pick up entry forms at Spring River Golf Course and must be returned no later than noon on Sept. 14. For more information, call 622-4150.
Roswell Daily Record that he was pleased with the win. "All in all, we played very well," he said. "We worked this week on keeping things simple. I think it paid off tonight. We moved the ball around well tonight and we came out with the victory so we are pleased with that." Levi Morales had two assists, while Tristan Collar, Efrain Morales, Matt Ogas, Devin Hubbard and Briseno had an assist each for Goddard. Roswell 4, Silver City 0 Four different Roswell players scored as the Coyotes cruised to a victory in their first game of the Coyote Classic on Friday. Leonel Jurado, Christian Lopez, Diego Aceves and Fernando Sanchez all scored goals for Roswell. Coyote coach James Vernon said that his team played well against Silver
City.
H.S. Volleyball Zia Classic The Roswell girls volleyball team placed fifth after pool play at the Zia Classic on Friday, while Goddard finished seventh. Bracket play starts today at 9 a.m. No other infor mation was available at press time.
College volleyball NMMI SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — NMMI went 2-1 at the first day of the Scottsdale Classic on Friday. In their first game of the day the Broncos beat Arizona Western 14-25, 25-13, 15-9. In its second matchup, NMMI lost in two games to Eastern Arizona and in the final match of the day they beat Pima Community College 25-18, 25-13.
n’t watch the 9⁄11 television specials. Never has, and probably never will. The memories are all too clear for the Jets’ executive vice president of business operations. At the time of the terrorist attacks, he was New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s press secretary, and helping manage the crisis was part of his daily routine. “There are a lot of images that, to this day, don’t make a lot of sense,” Higgins said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I don’t think they ever will make any sense. They come back and then you put them back in their place until they come out again at this time of year.” It has been nearly 10 years since that September morning, when Higgins and so many others lost friends and family members. Having been there and lived through it all, Higgins has been working tirelessly to try to put together “an appropriate” night of commemorative events during the Jets’ season opener Sunday night against the Dallas Cowboys. The night will include a halftime performance by Five For Fighting’s John Ondrasik, whose song “Superman (It’s Not Easy)” and its lyrics about heroes became an anthem for many during that time. “We all felt a tremendous responsibility,” Higgins said. “We felt the need to do justice to the occasion. I think that’s our No. 1 priority. I think I feel that more than any other emotions right now, but it was, of course, just a terribly sad, sad day.” Higgins was driving through the Midtown Tunnel on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. After the second plane struck, Higgins pulled up to City Hall and tried to quickly organize a press conference for Giuliani just a few blocks from the site. It wasn’t long before Higgins and two other staff members realized they were in a dangerous spot. So, they dropped their equipment and headed back to City Hall. “That’s when the first tower collapsed,” the 36-year-old Higgins recalled. “We all met up at a fire station — the mayor, fire commissioner and police commissioner — and I remember them being on the phone talking to the vice president talking about needing air cover in New York. No one had a full
sense of what was going on at the time.” Within a few hours, Higgins was setting up what became Giuliani’s first formal press conference at a nearby police academy. No one watching it knew where it was being held, and that was part of the plan. “There was a clock tower in the background and a non-descript wall,” Higgins said. “You’re in the fog of war during that time period and you’re not sure to what extent we were under attack.” Once things became clearer, Higgins was there as Giuliani kept in touch with the people of the city around the clock and tried to assure them that the government was still up and working. “It was all him,” Higgins said. “He was really operating on instinct.” A few days later, Higgins was working with the Secret Service and White House staff to plan President George W. Bush’s visit to the site. At one point, he realized he was walking by the spot he had originally started to set up Giuliani’s press conference and wondered if any equipment had made it. “About a couple of hundred feet away, I saw this black box,” Higgins said. “Sure enough, it was our mote box, covered with debris and crushed, but I turned it on, and it still worked. I couldn’t believe it.” He brought it back with him to the police academy that night and huddled everyone together to check it out. Higgins kept the box with him for five years, and it’s now part of the 9⁄11 Memorial and Museum. “It’s pretty amazing, really,” he said. A big part of Higgins’ job in the weeks following the attacks was arranging for foreign leaders and representatives — such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Mexico’s Felipe Calderon — to visit the World Trade Center site. “Almost every day, we were pulling in by boat and seeing the site again,” Higgins said. “The magnitude of the tragedy is almost incomprehensible even when you try to recall it now. I went to the site with presidents from all over the world, but I spent a lot of that time in a haze.” Not to mention the fact Higgins was in his second-to-last semester at the Fordham University School of Law. He finished up, though, by somehow balancing tragedy and textbooks. Giuliani’s office was directly affected by the attacks. His top aide, Beth Hatton, lost her husband Terry, who was a captain for the FDNY’s Rescue Company 1. Higgins soon went to work for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the agency
charged with rebuilding the site and met many family members of victims during his two years there. He even considers some of them friends now, such as Paula Grant Berry, a mother of three whose husband, David, died that day. “That time was just so painful for so many people,” Higgins said. In 2004, Higgins was hired by Jets owner Woody Johnson as vice president of strategic planning and promoted to his current position three years later. The two had met in passing three years earlier, when Higgins and Giuliani were at the Jets’ first game after the attacks. “He’s a natural leader,” said Johnson, a board member for the 911 Memorial Foundation. “He processes information well and is willing to take any information, any intel, and synthesize that in a coherent way. And, believe me, I know that was tough to do back then.”
TV SportsWatch By The Associated Press All times Mountain Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts. Saturday, Sept. 10 AUTO RACING 6 a.m. SPEED — Formula One, qualifying for Italian Grand Prix, at Monza, Italy 7:30 p.m. ABC — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, Wonderful Pistachios 400, at Richmond, Va. BASKETBALL 1 a.m. ESPN2 — FIBA, Americas Tournament, semifinal, Brazil vs. Dominican Republic, at Mar del Plata, Argentina (delayed tape) BOXING 2:45 p.m. HBO — Champion Vitali Klitschko (42-2-0) vs. Tomasz Adamek (44-1-0), for WBC heavyweight title, at Wroclaw, Poland 8:30 p.m. HBO — Featherweights, Yuriorkis Gamboa (20-0-0) vs. Daniel Ponce de Leon (41-3-0), at Atlantic City, N.J. COLLEGE FOOTBALL
10 a.m. ESPN — Oregon St. at Wisconsin ESPN2 — FAU at Michigan St. FSN — Iowa at Iowa St. 1:30 p.m. ABC — National coverage, Alabama at Penn St. ESPN2 — Cincinnati at Tennessee FSN — Virginia Tech at East Carolina FX — Nevada at Oregon VERSUS — TCU at Air Force 2:30 p.m. ESPN — South Carolina at Georgia 5 p.m. ESPN2 — BYU at Texas FSN — UTEP at SMU 5:30 p.m. VERSUS — Utah at Southern Cal 6 p.m. ESPN — Notre Dame at Michigan EXTREME SPORTS 2:30 p.m. NBC — Dew Tour, Toyota Challenge, at Salt Lake City GOLF 5 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, KLM Open, third round, at Hil-
versum, Netherlands 1 p.m. TGC — LPGA, NW Arkansas Championship, second round, at Rogers, Ark. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 2 p.m. FOX — Regional coverage, Minnesota at Detroit, Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, OR Oakland at Texas 7 p.m. MLB — Regional coverage, N.Y. Yankees at L.A. Angels OR San Diego at Arizona (6 p.m. start) MOTORSPORTS 5 p.m. SPEED — AMA Pro Motocross 250, at Pala, Calif. 6 p.m. SPEED — AMA Pro Motocross 450, at Pala, Calif. SOCCER 7:55 a.m. ESPN2 — Premier League, Chelsea at Sunderland TENNIS 10 a.m. CBS — U.S. Open, men’s semifinals, at New York 6 p.m. CBS — U.S. Open, women’s semifinals, at New York
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FIRST TEE AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM STARTS SEPT. 19
The First Tee of the Pecos Valley will begin new classes for its after-school program on Sept. 19. The program is open to kids, ages 7-17. The cost for the program is $100 and golf clubs are not required to participate. For more information, call 623-4444.
GUNS AND HOSES SET FOR SEPT. 19 AT GODDARD
The annual Guns and Hoses and Alumni volleyball games will be held on Monday, Sept. 19, at Goddard High School. The Alumni game is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. and the Guns and Hoses game will follow at 7 p.m. Alumni from Goddard and Roswell interested in playing should contact Sheri Gibson at 840-8180.
Transactions
Friday’s Sports Transactions By The Associated Press BASEBALL MLB—Suspended Toronto Blue Jays minor league OF Melvin Garcia for 50 games after testing positive for an amphetamine, a performance-enhancing substance, in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. American League BOSTON RED SOX—Recalled RHP Scott Atchison from Pawtucket (IL). CHICAGO WHITE SOX—Placed INF-OF Brent Lillibridge on the 15-day DL. CLEVELAND INDIANS—Recalled INF Matt LaPorta from Columbus (IL). MINNESOTA TWINS—Fired Rochester (IL) manager Tom Nieto and hitting coach Floyd Rayford. National League COLORADO ROCLIES—Recalled INF Chris Nelson from Colorado Springs (PCL). Activated RHP Edgmer Escalona from the 15-day DL. NEW YORK METS—Recalled RHP Dale Thayer from Buffalo (IL). BASKETBALL National Basketball Association PHOENIX SUNS—Announced the resignation of president and chief executive Rick Welts, effective Sept. 15.
TOBOSA GOLF TOURNEY IS SEPT. 24
The Tobosa “Go For The Gold” golf tournament will be held on Saturday, Sept. 24, at Spring River Golf Course. The tournament is a three-person scramble based on points per handicap. The cost of the tournament is $75 per player or $225 per team. Individual golfers are encouraged to register. The tournament fee includes drinks, lunch, range balls, green and cart fees, three mulligans per team and more. Proceeds from the tournament will be used to reequip the Los Pasitos Day Care Center. For more information, call 973-4032 or 622-9506.
FIRST TEE SEEKING VOLUNTEERS
The First Tee of the Pecos Valley is currently seeking volunteers. Golf experience is not required to be a volunteer. For more information, call 623-4444.