B2 Thursday, October 7, 2010
SPORTS
Roswell Daily Record
PIGSKIN PROGNOSTICATIONS
O U R P A N E L O F E X P E R T S P I C K S TH E W I N N E R S O F T H I S W E E K ’ S A R EA F O O T B A L L G A M E S Kevin J. Keller
Lawrence Foster
Sports Editor
Game
Sports Reporter
Lake Arthur at Elida Artesia at Clovis Tucumcari at Dexter Gateway Christian at Springer Carlsbad at Goddard Tularosa at Hagerman NMMI HS at Estancia Roswell at Moriarty Hondo Valley at Valley Christian Mesa CC at NMMI JC
Last week’s record Overall record to date
Athletes
Continued from Page B1
NMMI cross country coach Jan Olesinski of O’Brien. She is undecided on her future education plans.
Gustavo Sierra
Sierra is a 17-year -old junior at Roswell High School, where he is a member of the school’s cross country, track & field and
Debut
Continued from Page B1
runner, walking Jay Bruce on a full count with two outs in the fifth, and struck out eight. “This is what you come
Local
Rockets, Bobcats again top football polls
The New Mexico High School Coaches Association released its sixth set of weekly football and volleyballs polls on Wednesday and, again, all eight area football teams are ranked in the top 10. Goddard and Hagerman remained atop their respective classifications, with Goddard topping 4A with 165 points and 12 first-place votes and Hagerman the unanimous No. 1 in 1A with 80 points and eight first-place votes.
LOCAL BRIEFS ESLL ELECTION SET FOR OCT. 7
The EastSide Little League will hold its annual board of directors election on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Roswell Boys & Girls Club gymnasium. For more information, call 9101252 or 914-2508.
TOBOSA GOLF TOURNEY TO BE HELD OCT. 16
Tobosa Developmental Services will host its fourth annual Go For The Gold golf tournament on Saturday, Oct. 16, at Spring River Golf Course. The format is a three-person scramble based on points per handicap. The cost is $75 per player or $225 per team. The fee includes drinks and lunch, range balls, green fees, mulligans, door and proximity prizes and prizes and awards for the top five placers. For more information, call Joe Madrid at 973-4032 or Carlton Blewett at 622-9506.
TV SPORTSWATCH
By The Associated Press All times Mountain Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Thursday, Oct. 7 AUTO RACING 11 p.m. SPEED — For mula One, practice for Japanese Grand Prix, at Suzuka, Japan COLLEGE FOOTBALL 5:30 p.m. ESPN — Nebraska at Kansas St. GOLF 6:30 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, first round, at St. Andrews and Carnoustie, Scotland 11 a.m. TGC — Champions Tour, Senior Players Championship, first round, at Potomac, Md. 1 p.m. TGC — PGA Tour, The McGladrey Classic, first round, at Sea Island, Ga. 4:30 p.m. TGC — Navistar LPGA Classic, first round, at Prattville, Ala. (same-day tape)
Keller
Lake Arthur Artesia Tucumcari Gateway Chr. Goddard Tularosa Estancia Roswell Hondo Valley NMMI JC
6-3 40-14
basketball teams. He is a previous recipient of the middle school sports scholar award, the David Mestas award and the first in sophomore class award. He also assists at the Landaverde cattle ranch. “Gustavo exhibits the trait of responsibility by always pushing himself to be better,” said Roswell cross country coach Jack Batson. “In addition to cross country, he also here for,” Halladay said. “It’s a good team, they know how to win. ... It’s been a great year, a fun year, we obviously have a ways to go.” With a sellout crowd standing in the ninth and chanting “Let’s Go, Doc!” Roswell is up one spot, to ninth, in the 4A poll this week, while NMMI and Dexter are ranked eighth and 10th, respectively, in the 2A poll. Gateway Christian is fourth in the 8-Man poll and Lake Arthur and Valley Christian are third and seventh, respectively, in the 6-Man poll. In the volleyball polls, Roswell is No. 7 in the 4A poll, Goddard is No. 8 in the 4A poll, Dexter is No. 10 in the 2A poll and Hagerman is No. 9 in the 1A poll. Valley Christian and Lake Arthur are ranked No. 11 and No. 17, respectively, in the B poll.
Baseball
Cruz, Molina homer to support Lee against Rays
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Cliff Lee, postseason ace for hire. Picking up where he left off during in a dazzling October run a year ago, Lee shut down the Tampa Bay Rays while outpitching David Price and leading the Texas Rangers to a 5-1 victory Wednesday in the opening game of the AL playoffs. “I like pitching on a big stage,” Lee said. “Just pitching in the big leagues alone is an honor, but when you get an opportunity to make it to the postseason that’s what it’s all about. That’s what you play all year for. I enjoy it, and I try to have fun with it.” These days, no pitcher is doing it better. Lee matched a postseason best with 10 strikeouts while allowing five hits — just two after escaping a bases-loaded jam in the first inning. During one dominating stretch, he retired 16 of 17 batters before giving up Ben Zobrist’s homer in the seventh. “It’s not time to sit here and pat myself on the back. We’ve got a lot of work to do,” Lee said. “I feel good about helping us get off to a good start, and hopefully I can continue to do the same. That’s what I expect to do.” Game 2 is Thursday with left-hander C.J. Wilson taking the mound for Texas against right-hander James Shields, who hasn’t won since Aug. 29. Lee improved to 5-0 in six career postseason starts. He went 4-0 with a 1.56 ERA in five starts for the Philadelphia Phillies in 2009, including 2-0 with a 2.81 ERA against the New York Yankees in the World Series. The 32-year-old lefty lost to the Rays three times during the regular season, however the AL East champions were no match for the 2008 AL Cy Young Award winner this time. The Rangers, in the playoffs for the first time in 11 years, stopped a nine-game postseason losing streak that began in 1996. Nelson Cruz and Bengie Molina homered
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 12:30 p.m. TBS — Playoffs, American League Division Series, Game 2, Texas at Tampa Bay 4 p.m. TBS — Playoffs, American League Division Series, Game 2, N.Y. Yankees at Minnesota 7:30 p.m. TBS — Playoffs, National League Division Series, Game 1, Atlanta at San Francisco NBA BASKETBALL 12:30 p.m. ESPN2 — Exhibition, L.A. Lakers at FC Barcelona NHL HOCKEY 10 a.m. VERSUS — Carolina vs. Minnesota, at Helsinki 5 p.m. VERSUS — Philadelphia at Pittsburgh 8 p.m. VERSUS — Chicago at Colorado SOCCER 6 p.m. ESPN2 — MLS, Los Angeles at Philadelphia
Cla Avery
Character Counts!
Foster
Lake Arthur Artesia Tucumcari Gateway Chr. Goddard Hagerman NMMI HS Roswell Valley Chr. NMMI JC
8-1 38-16
Carl Lucas
Avery
KEND broadcaster
Elida Artesia Tucumcari Gateway Chr. Goddard Hagerman Estancia Roswell Valley Chr. NMMI JC
8-1 37-17
pushes himself in the classroom to be the best student he can be. Gustavo sets a goal and then works extremely hard to achieve that goal. “He has achieved many of the goals and he will achieve many more.” He plans to attend The University of New Mexico and study engineering.
Joshua Starkey
Starkey is a 14-year-old
Halladay got a loud ovation when he jogged to the mound to start the inning. Ramon Her nandez popped out to second baseman Chase Utley for the first out. Pinch-hitter Miguel Cairo then fouled out to third baseman Wil-
Lucas
Lake Arthur Artesia Tucumcari Gateway Chr. Goddard Hagerman NMMI HS Roswell Valley Chr. NMMI JC
8-1 35-19
freshman at Hager man High School and competes on the Bobcats’ cross country and track & field teams. According to Hagerman cross country coach Jarred Hestand, Starkey “never complains” and is a leader “by showing the younger ones the ropes.” Hestand also noted that he “has several years to excel.” He plans to attend Air son Valdez. Halladay then retired Brandon Phillips on a tapper in front of the plate to end it. Catcher Carlos Ruiz pounced on the ball, getting down on his knee as the ball rolled near Phillips’ bat, and made a strong
SCOREBOARD
for the AL West champions. Darren O’Day and Darren Oliver pitched the eighth, and rookie Neftali Feliz worked out of a ninth-inning jam by striking out the final two batters. Price, a 19-game winner, allowed five runs and nine hits in 6 2⁄3 innings. He struck eight and, like Lee, walked none. Tampa Bay had opportunities against Lee early, but failed to score after Jason Bartlett, Carl Crawford and Evan Longoria singled to load the bases in the first. After giving up a leadoff double to Zobrist in the second, Lee retired 12 batters in a row in front of a sellout crowd of 35,474. Jeff Francoeur hit a run-scoring double and scored on Molina’s single in the second. Cruz added a 438-foot homer to straightaway center in the third. Molina connected in the fourth, and Vladimir Guerrero’s double off the center-field wall on a 3-0 pitch gave Lee a five-run cushion in the fifth. Cruz’s homer also came on a 3-0 pitch. —————
Yanks rally to beat Twins, 6-4
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Mark Teixeira hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer in the seventh inning to rally the New York Yankees over the Minnesota Twins 6-4 Wednesday night in Game 1 of the AL division series. Yankees ace CC Sabathia labored, but
Rockets
Continued from Page B1
and Brandon Mendoza at quarterback. “I don’t think you stop it, I think you just work on trying to contain it as best you can and hope for the best,” Jernigan said about a Carlsbad offense that is averaging nearly 30 points per game. “Carlsbad has got a lot of talent, there’s a lot of speed on the field on offense. “It’s not like you just have to stop (Galindo), everything else keeps you from focusing on him. That’s how it’s designed. I don’t know that you really stop just
reliever David Robertson fanned Jim Thome in a key spot and Mariano Rivera got the final four outs to close another win for the defending World Series champions. The Yankees rallied from a 3-0 deficit against Francisco Liriano and improved to 10-2 against the Twins in the postseason since 2003. The Twins played their first outdoor postseason game in Minnesota since 1970. They were hoping a move from the shabby Metrodome outdoors to gorgeous Target Field would turn their fortunes around, but it was more of the same against the Yankees.
Transactions
Wednesday’s Sports Transactions By The Associated Press BASEBALL American League TEXAS RANGERS — Designated RHP Rich Harden for assignment. Claimed RHP Ryan Tucker off waivers from Florida. National League FLORIDA MARLINS — Assigned LHP Taylor Tankersley, RHP Tim Wood, INF Hector Luna and C Mike Rivera outright to New Orleans (PCL). MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Extended their player development contract with Huntsville
one of them, you just have to stay on it.” Few teams have had success containing Galiindo this year. The 5foot-9, 175-pound junior has run for at least 100 yards in five of the team’s six games this year and has at least 190 all-purpose yards in four of the six. On the year, he has 884 yards and eight TDs on the ground and 241 yards and five TDs receiving. Mendoza (5-11, 175) hasn’t been inconsistent at times this season. He’s completing nearly 61 percent of his passes, but has as many interceptions as he does touchdowns — 11. kjkeller@roswell-record.com
Joe Carpenter
KEND broadcaster
Carpenter
Lake Arthur Clovis Tucumcari Gateway Chr. Goddard Tularosa Estancia Roswell Hondo Valley NMMI JC
7-2 41-13
Geoff Gunn
Gunn
Lake Arthur Clovis Tucumcari Gateway Chr. Goddard Tularosa NMMI HS Roswell Hondo Valley NMMI JC
6-3 31-23
Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Ealiza Villanueva
A 14-year-old freshman, Villanueva is a member of the Roswell High School cross country team and also plans on playing softball and competing on the Coyote track & field team. She has won several medals for running and placed in the Hershey’s run.
NMMI SID
Consensus
Lake Arthur 5-1 Artesia 4-2 Tucumcari 6-0 Gateway Chr. 6-0 Goddard 6-0 Tied 3-3 Tied 3-3 Roswell 6-0 Tied 3-3 NMMI JC 6-0
6-0-3 32-13-9
“Ealiza shows the trait of trustworthiness by looking at the workouts,” said Roswell cross country coach Jack Batson. “She says that she will do what is necessary to complete the workout in the required time. She pushes herself to do her best.” She plans to become a massage therapist, but is undecided on where she plans to further her education.
throw for the final out. Halladay became the fifth pitcher to throw two no-hitters in the same year. He joined Nolan Ryan (1973), Virgil T rucks (1952), Allie Reynolds (1951) and Johnny Vander Meer (1938).
They are prohibitive favorites in this best-of-five against the NL Central champion Reds, who are making their first postseason appearance since 1995. Game 2 is Friday at Philadelphia.
(SL) through the 2012 season. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Exercised their 2011 contract option on 1B Albert Pujols. Announced the 2011 contract vesting option for LHP Trever Miller has been met. SAN DIEGO PADRES — Claimed INF Jarrett Hoffpauir off waivers from Toronto. Designated C Chris Stewart for assignment. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHICAGO BULLS — Waived F Chris Richard. MILWAUKEE BUCKS — Waived F Keith Gallon. NEW JERSEY NETS — Waived G Eddie Gill. FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Signed RB Andre Anderson from their practice squad. Released TE Joe Klopfenstein from injured reserve. Signed DE Ra’Shon Harris to their practice squad. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Waived DB Derrick Roberson. DETROIT LIONS — Claimed OT Jamon Meredith off waivers from Buffalo. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Signed QB Keith Null to their practice squad. Waived DT Kommonyan Quaye. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Traded DE Jayme
Mitchell to Cleveland for an undisclosed 2012 draft pick. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Traded WR Randy Moss to Minnesota for an undisclosed draft pick. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed RB Javarris James and RB Keiland Williams to their practice squad. Released LB Mike Balogun from their practice squad. Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Released LB Bernard Hicks. Signed DB Johnny Sears and DE Remond Willis to the practice roster. COLLEGE AKRON — Named Charles Thomas men’s assistant basketball coach. ALBANY, N.Y. — Named Katie Rowan women’s assistant lacrosse coach. LIPSCOMB — Named Jamie Aid women’s assistant tennis coach. LONG BEACH STATE — Named Lauren Kawahara women’s basketball director of operations. MICHIGAN — Promoted David Ablauf to associate athletic director for media and public relations, Kristin Orlowski to chief talent officer, Lisa Savoury and Brian Townsend to assistant sport administrators and moved Bruce Madej to associate athletic director for special projects.
Battle
Continued from Page B1
sets and is run by multithreat quarterback Levi Silva. Silva can hurt defenses with both his ar ms and legs. He has thrown for 1,341 yards and 21 TDs and ran for 809 yards and 10 TDs. “If you put too many people in the secondary to stop the pass, (Silva) will tuck it and run,” Montoya said. “If you load the box, he will find his big receivers. He is just a great all-around athlete. It’s a pick your poison type deal. Do you want him to throw and beat you, or do you want him to run and beat you?” Montoya’s poison of choice is to make Silva a runner. “Running eats up the clock and makes the
1315 North Virginia ia 622-1511 Call for Details
game go quicker,” he said. “We’re going to try to see if we can make him run the ball. When he does pass, we need to corral him and not let him scramble. He does a good job of scrambling and finding the open receiver. The more we can keep that clock running, we can control the tempo. ” Montoya’s first goal is to win, but he sees this game as a win-win situation for his team. “We go out to win every game,” he said. “That is the first thing on our mind. Again, you want to play these teams tough. I can only see positives coming out of this game, as long as our kids play hard. We expect to win and expect to come out with positive things. I see a win-win for our kids as long as they come out to play.” l.foster@roswell-record.com