6B • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
TUESDAY. APRIL 1.2003
Giants, Phillies among victorious teams on opening day
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Giants 5, Padres 2
SAN DIEGO - Benito Santiago and J.T. Snow homered in the ninth inning, and the San Francisco Giants opened the season with a 5-2 win over the San Diego Padres on Monday.
Until Santiago and Snow connected off rookie Clay Condrey, the Giants had just four hits off two Padres pitchers. They got five hits in the ninth to give Felipe Alou a victory in his first game as San Francisco's manager.
Santiago opened the ninth by hitting a 1-0 pitch to left-center, putting the Giants ahead 3-2. Snow hit the next pitch from Candrey over the fence in right-center.
San Francisco's Barry Bonds, who won a record fifth MVP last year, was 0-for-3 with two intentional walks and two strikeouts.
Felix Rodriguez pitched a perfect eighth for the win while Tim Worrell worked the ninth for the save.
four hits and walked two in one inning for the loss.
Condev allowed three runs on
Phillies 8, Marlins 5
MIAMI - Upgraded in a winter spending spree, the Philadelphia Phillies looked like much better ballclub on opening day. The team they beat looked like the same old Florida Marlins.
Philadelphia took advantage of Florida to win 8-5 Monday.
Kevin Millwood allowed three runs _ two earned _ and four hits in six-plus innings.
Josh Beckett lasted just 2 2-3 innings. Errors by third baseman Mike Lowell and second baseman Luis Castillo led to five unearned runs in the third, and Ivan Rodriguez let in another run on a passed ball.
The Marlins trailed by eight runs before Rodriguez hit a two-run homer in the sixth.
The Marlins scored in the seventh on a throwing error by David Bell at third, and pinch-hitter Brian Banks tripled and scored on a groundout in the eighth to
make it 8-5. Jose Mesa pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for the save.
Cardinals11, Brewers9
ST LOUIS - The St. Louis Cardinals are looking forward to a full season with Scott Rolen.
Rolen capped a six-run rally in the eighth inning with a three-run homer as the Cardinals overcame an shaky start by Matt Morris, beating the Brewers 11-9 Monday.
St. Louis trailed 4-0 and 7-5 before rallying.
Kerry Robinson hit a go-ahead single in the eighth on a drag bunt off loser Mike DeJean. Rolen hit a long home run to left for an 11-7 lead.
Richie Ssexson made it close with a two-run homer in the ninth against Cal Eldred. Steve Kline got two outs for the save.
Milwaukee led 7-5 in the eighth before pinch-hitter Orlando Palmeiro's RBI triple on Luis Vizcaino's first pitch. Fernando Vina then tied it with a run-scoring double on the first pitch from DeLean.
Eddie Perez homered in the eighth off winner Russ Springer.
Expos 10. Braves 2
ATLANTA - Baseball's road warriors started with a win, appropriately on the road.
The Montreal Expos sent Greg Maddux to his first opening-day loss, defeating the Atlanta Braves 10-2 Monday behind Jeff Liefer's four RBIs and Orlando Cabrera's two-run homer.
Tony Armas Jr., in his first opening-day start, allowed one run and five hits in six innings to get the win.
Maddux gave up four runs in the first inning. He lasted seven innings, giving up five runs four earned and nine hits.
Endy Chavez opened with a triple and scored on a sacrifice fly by Jose Vidro. Rookie Ron Calloway doubled for his first major league hit Brad Wilkerson hit an RBI single and Cabrera's homer made it 4-0.
Atlanta scored in the sixth on a triple by Rafael Furcal and sacrifice fly by newcomer Robert Ficke
Dodgers 8. Diamondbacks 0
PHOENIX - Hideo Nomopitched a four-hitter and the Los Angeles Dodgers handed Randy Johnson his first opening-day loss, beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-0 Monday.
Brian Jordan had a home run and three RBIs. Paul Lo Duca had a two-out single off Johnson in the seventh, and Shawn Green had a pair of doubles.
Nomo struck out seven and walked one.
Jordan had a two-out RBI single off Johnson in the first inning, and a two-out, two-run homer on his first pitch from the Big Unit in the sixth. Bret Prinz, who relieved Johnson, collapsed to the ground with a pulled right glove while pitching to Nomo with two outs in the eighth.
Johnson allowed five runs, three earned, on nine hits in 62-3 innings. He struck out five, walked two and hit a batter.
Orioles 6, Indians 5, 13 innings
BALTIMORE - It was a strange
AMERICAN LEAGUE
opening day at Camden Yards.
Gary Matthews Jr. singled home the winningrun with two outs in the 13th inning, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Cleveland Indians 6-5 Monday.
Prior to the first pitch, a video tribute and a moment of silence were held for former Orioles pitcher Dave McNally, who died over the winter, and Steve Bechler, who died of heatstroke at spring training.
Cleveland scored three runs in the third inning with the aid of a routine fly ball that Jay Gibbons lost between huge snowflakes that swirled around the stadium.
The umpires then halted play.
Ellis Burks was given an RBI single on the play. Then, after a 13-minute delay, Karim Garcia hit a sacrifice fly to make it 3-1.
Both teams scored in the 12th. Omar Vizquel hit an RBI single for the Indians, and Baltimore tied it when Matthews singled and scored on a passed ball by Josh Bard.
Ford, Texas want to end with more than just Final Four berth
-The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Right?
AUSTIN, Texas- At a school with little basketball tradition, the Texas Longhorns should be content just to reach the Final Four.
Don't try telling that to T.J. Ford, coach Rick Barnes and the rest of the crew in burnt orange. They've got far loftier goals.
When Ford hugged Barnes after the Longhorns' victory over Michigan State in the South Regional final, the coach quickly
reminded his star point guard that the team's goal is a national title
"We've got more work to do," Barnes told him.
semifinal.
Texas is the only No.1 seed in the Final Four, and the Longhorns like their chances in New Orleans. The other No.1s, Oklahoma, which reached the Final Four last season, and traditional powers Kentucky and Arizona are gone.
The Longhorns (26-6) play Syracuse (28-5) in the national semifinals on Saturday. Kansas faces Marquette in the other
Making its first Final Four appearance in 56 years, the Longhorns are generating a buzz in a city where football is king.
"We haven't won anything yet," Ford said. "This is a great feeling, but I'd rather cut down a net in New Orleans and put it on a national championship trophy."
Barnes has wanted to take a team to the Final Four ever since 1981, when he was an assistant at George Mason and watched the games in Philadelphia. Until this season, he had never been past
the round of 16 as a head coach.
"I told myself then that when I became a head coach, the one thing I wanted to do for my team was to them to a Final Four so they could experience and feel it," Barnes said. "Once you get there and experience that feeling, they will never question anything you tell them or get them to do in terms of getting there."
Texas was last in the Final Four in 1946, when the NCAA Tournament field had just eight teams. The Longhorns reached the regional finals in 1990.
Barnes has steadily built expectations for postseason success. Texas won the Big 12 in his first season, and made the tournament in five seasons under Barnes.
The Longhorns have been focused on getting to the Final Four since losing to Oregon in the regional semifinals last season
Victories over North Carolina Asheville and Purdue in the first two rounds allowed Texas to advance to play in San Antonio, fueling criticism that the NCAA set up the Longhorns to succeed
by putting them so close to home.
Texas had been ranked in the top 10 all season, but finished second to Kansas in the Big 12 and got bumped early from the conference tournament.
The crowds in the Alamodome were a definite advantage — more than 60,000, most of them wearing orange, came to watch and fill the arena with chants of "Texas Fight!"
The Longhorns didn't sell out any of their home games during the regular season.
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