4B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2005
NHL
St. Louis gets victory in the final seconds
Blues avoid overtime against Ducks
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS — Doug Weight scored with 56 seconds left in regulation Wednesday night to give the St. Louis Blues a 3-2 victory over the Anaheim Mighty Ducks.
The game appeared headed for overtime when the Mighty Ducks' Teemu Selanne scored a power-play goal at 18:44 to tie the game 2-2. But Weight tipped Eric Brewer's wrist shot from just inside the blue line past Anaheim's Ilya Bryzgalov to give the Blues the lead.
Bryzgalov was playing because starting goalie Jean-Sebastien Gigure had to leave the game with a groin strain at 16:55 of the second period. Bryzgalov allowed two goals on 14 shots. Gigure was 2-2-1 with a 3.13 goals against average and played all but 15 minutes of
Anaheim's first five games.
Dean Mammond and Christian Backman also scored for St. Louis, and Patrick Lalime made 28 saves. Sandis Ozolinsh had the other goal for Anaheim.
The Blues finished 2-3 on their five-game homestand. St. Louis will play in Nashville on Thursday, the Blues' first road game since they opened the season in Detroit on Oct. 5.
Anaheim's Andy McDonald was called for hooking at the two-minute mark of the third period, and the Blues took advantage when McAmmond deflected Eric Weinrich's shot from the point by Bryzgalov at 3:44 to give the Blues their first lead.
Ozolinsh, who had missed the previous two games with the flu, scored 7:56 into the game. With the teams playing 4-on-4, Rob Niedermayer got the puck in the left circle and dropped it to Ozolinsh who beat Lalime with a one-timer from the top of the right circle.
Backman got the equalizer with a power-play goal at 7:05 of the second period when his slap shot from just inside the blue
The Blues finished 2-3 on their five-game homestand. St. Louis will play Nashville today, the Blues' first road game since they opened the season in Detroit on Oct. 5.
line made it through a crowd and past Giguere.
Notes — Teemu Selanne, who re-joined Anaheim this offseason after spending time with San Jose and Colorado, played in his 400th game with the Mighty Ducks. Petr Cajanek picked up an assist on McAmmond's goal, giving him seven points in six games. Anaheim's Sergei Fedorov missed his third straight game with a groin strain.
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Eric Brewer of the St.
Louis Blues celebrates after scoring against Anaheim Mighty Ducks goalie Ilya Bryzgalov, of Russia, during the third period Wednesday, in St. Louis. The Blues won 3-2.
Track. assistant basketball coaches at Barton face charges
NICAA ATHLETICS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WICHITA — The track coach and a former assistant basketball coach at Barton County Community College were indicted Wednesday as part of an investigation into the school's athletic program.
Coaches at the school have been accused of getting athletes grants they were not qualified to receive and campus jobs that paid them for work they did not perform; of helping the athletes with correspondence courses and tests; and of sending false academic credentials to other
schools on the athletes' behalf.
Track coach Lyles Lashley and former assistant basketball coach Shane Hawkins — now an assistant at his alma mater, Southern Illinois University in Carbondale — became the fourth and fifth sports officials from the school to be indicted
during the investigation, U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren said.
Both were charged with lying to a federal grand jury. That is the only charge against Hawkins, who served as a Barton County assistant from 1999-2001, according to the Southern Illinois University men's basketball
Lashley is also charged with one count of embezzlement with student assistance pro-
media guide. There, Hawkins handled recruiting, worked with the team's outside shooters and "monitored the academic progress of student athletes," the media guide says.
grams, one count of theft from a program receiving federal funds and four counts of mail fraud.
Barton County Community College's interim president, Stephen Maier, was out of town Wednesday. The college had no statement, spokesman Michael Dawes said.
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