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By Kent Larsen

Sports: Additional Mormon Golfer, Baseball Players Identified

NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- Mormon News subscribers have identified one additional pro golfer and several additional pro baseball players that are Mormon, bringing the total number of known active Mormons on the PGA tour to seven and the number in Major League Baseball to seven, with two additional players that have appeared in the majors but are now in the minor leagues.

In baseball's first week, none of the Mormon players had particularly strong weeks. Among the two position players, both Wally Joyner and Jeff Kent hit home runs, but barely cleared .200 batting averages for the week, Kent in 20 at bats, Joyner in 9. Among pitchers, starting pitcher Shawn Estes struggled in a 4-inning outing, giving up 7 runs and 9 hits to the Los Angeles Dodgers, while Omar Olivares fared better for the Pirates, giving up 3 earned runs in 6 innings. Both pitchers were credited with losses. Relief pitchers Kyle Farnsworth and Mike Feters fared better, Farnsworth giving up 2 hits in 1 2/3rds innings while Fetters gave up just 1 hit in 2 innings.

Meanwhile, in basketball, Shawn Bradley, Mark Madsen and Scot Pollard all had strong weeks, with Madsen, particularly strong, scoring 12 points in the 36 minutes he played and hitting more than 60% of his attempts. Travis Knight was relegated to the bench again this past week.

In golf, US Amateur Champion and LDS Church member Jeff Quinney played in this past weekend's Masters Tournament, but was cut after two rounds. Two other Mormons entered the prestigious event. Paul Azinger, recently identified as Mormon by a subscriber, tied for 15th, while Mike Weir tied for 27th.

Baseball

Major League Baseball

Position Players:

Brian Bean	Catcher	Chicago Cubs
[Playing in Minors for Iowa Cubs]

McKay Christensen	Center Field	Chicago White Sox
[Playing in Minors for Charlotte]

Wally Joyner

First Base

Anaheim Angels

	G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	Avg
This Week	4	9	2	2	1	2	0	1	.222
Year to date	4	9	2	2	1	2	0	1	.222

Jeff Kent

Second Base

San Francisco Giants

	G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	Avg
This Week	6	20	3	4	1	4	3	4	.200
Year to date	6	20	3	4	1	4	3	4	.200

Pitchers:

Shawn Estes

Starting Pitcher

San Francisco Giants

	G	W-L	S	ERA	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
This Week	1	0-1	0	15.75	4.0	9	7	7	2	4
Year to date	1	0-1	0	15.75	4.0	9	7	7	2	4

Kyle Farnsworth

Relief Pitcher

Chicago Cubs

	G	W-L	S	ERA	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
This Week	2	0-0	0	0.00	1.7	2	0	0	3	3
Year to date	2	0-0	0	0.00	1.7	2	0	0	3	3

Mike Fetters

Relief Pitcher

Los Angeles Dodgers

	G	W-L	S	ERA	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
This Week	2	0-0	0	0.00	2.0	1	0	0	0	3
Year to date	2	0-0	0	0.00	2.0	1	0	0	0	3

Omar Olivares

Starting Pitcher

Pittsburg Pirates

	G	W-L	S	ERA	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
This Week	1	0-1	0	4.50	6.0	5	4	3	0	5
Year to date	1	0-1	0	4.50	6.0	5	4	3	0	5

Garret Stephenson	Starting Pitcher	St Louis Cardinals
[Currently on the Disabled List]

	G	W-L	S	ERA	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
This Week	1	0-1	0	4.50	6.0	5	4	3	0	5
Year to date	1	0-1	0	4.50	6.0	5	4	3	0	5

Basketball

NBA

Shawn Bradley

Center

Dallas Mavericks

	G	Min	FG/FGA	Reb	Pts	Ppg	Pp60min
This Week	3	54	7/ 14	21	19	6.3	21.1
Year to date	76	1852	205/414	557	539	7.1	17.5

Travis Knight

Center

New York Knicks

	G	Min	FG/FGA	Reb	Pts	Ppg	Pp60min
This Week	0	0	0/ 0	0	0	0.0	0.0
Year to date	38	225	8/ 45	44	25	0.7	6.7

Mark Madsen

Forward

Los Angeles Lakers

	G	Min	FG/FGA	Reb	Pts	Ppg	Pp60min
This Week	4	36	5/ 8	8	12	3.0	20.0
Year to date	66	585	48/ 97	140	123	1.9	12.6

Scot Pollard

Forward

Sacramento Kings

	G	Min	FG/FGA	Reb	Pts	Ppg	Pp60min
This Week	4	94	11/ 23	28	28	7.0	17.9
Year to date	70	1493	168/370	417	450	6.4	18.1

Mark Pope

Center

Milwaukee Bucs

	G	Min	FG/FGA	Reb	Pts	Ppg	Pp60min
This Week	4	66	4/ 9	12	10	2.5	9.1
Year to date	59	874	58/130	142	143	2.4	9.8

WNBA

The WNBA's season begins May 28.

Football

NFL

The NFL season has ended.

CFL

Wide receiver Ben Cahoon of the Montreal Alouettes is LDS, but I don't yet have a source for statistics on him.

XFL

Offensive Line Eric Bateman - Las Vegas Outlaws Juan Johnson - San Francisco Demons

[No statistics available]

We have also identified the following possible Mormon players and would appreciate if anyone can confirm either that they are or are not Mormon. Letting us know if any other player is Mormon is also appreciated.

Blaine Berger - Las Vegas Outlaws - Played for Utah, from Idaho Falls Richard O'Donnell - San Francisco Demons - Played for Weber State

Golf

PGA Tour

Jay Don Blake	Event	Results
This Week:	Idle
Year to date:		Entered 11 events, made cut 8 times, earned $215,523.66

Keith Clearwater	Event	Results
This Week:	Idle
Year to date:		Entered 5 events, made cut 0 times, earned $0

Dan Forsman	Event	Results
This Week:	Idle
Year to date:		Entered 6 events, made cut 5 times, earned $68,492.16

Mike Reid	Event	Results
This Week:	Idle
Year to date:		Entered 2 events, made cut 1 times, earned $15,566.66

Mike Weir	Event	Results
This Week:	Masters Tournament	T27	74-69-72-72	earned $40,600
Year to date:		Entered 9 events, made cut 8 times, earned $1,255,540

Richard Zokol	Event	Results
This Week:	Idle
Year to date:		Entered 4 events, made cut 3 times, earned $15,330.00

Senior PGA Tour

Billy Casper	Event	Results
This Week:	Idle
Year to date:		Entered 1 events, earned $6,568.50

Johnny Miller	Event	Results
This Week:	Idle
Year to date:

Bruce Summerhays	Event	Results
This Week:	Idle
Year to date:		Entered 8 events, earned $160,115.00

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