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By Kent Larsen

Sports: Clearwater Finally Makes a Cut, Knight Out of Playoffs

NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- After a dryspell that lasted four months, LDS golfer Keith Clearwater finally made a cut this past week, and earned his first PGA money of the season. Clearwater had entered eight events before finally making it into the money rounds in the COMPAQ Classic, ending this past weekend's match tied for 34th and earning nearly $19,000. Fellow PGA golfer's Jay Don Blake and Mike Weir, who had the best performances among Mormon golfers to date, both trailed Clearwater, Weir tieing for 61st, while Blake was cut.

In baseball, Wally Joyner has finally started hitting, connecting for 9 hits in 18 at bats for a .500 average for the week. Prior to last week, he was just 8 for 48 (.167). But in spite of the gush of hits, Joyner didn't manage to bat in a single runner. Among pitchers the standouts are relief pitchers Kyle Farnsworth and Mike Fetters, both of whom went through the week pitching three innings or more without giving up any runs. Their efforts leave Fetters with an extremely low 0.90 ERA over 10 inning and Farnsworth with a 1.59 ERA over 17 innings.

Meanwhile, the basketball season ended for the New York Knick's Travis Knight as the team was eliminated from the playoffs just as Knight finally got to play in one of the team's playoff games -- for just one minute. The other four players' teams all remain in the playoffs, but both Milwaukee's Mark Pope and the Laker's Mark Madsen seeing basically no playing time.

In the WUSA, the Carolina Courage's Maren Hendershot started and played in her second game of the season as the Courage lost their third game to the New York Power.

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	6	18	6	9	0	0	1	1	.500
Year to date	25	66	10	17	2	6	5	11	.258

Jeff Kent

Second Base

San Francisco Giants

	G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	Avg
This Week	6	25	2	8	1	8	3	5	.320
Year to date	30	113	12	30	5	23	9	21	.265

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	3.86	7.0	5	4	3	2	3
Year to date	6	2-2	0	4.11	35.0	34	17	16	17	29

Kyle Farnsworth

Relief Pitcher

Chicago Cubs

	G	W-L	S	ERA	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
This Week	4	0-0	0	0.00	3.3	2	0	0	2	7
Year to date	16	0-0	0	1.59	17.0	17	3	3	7	26

Mike Fetters

Relief Pitcher

Los Angeles Dodgers

	G	W-L	S	ERA	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
This Week	3	0-0	0	0.00	3.0	1	1	0	2	2
Year to date	10	0-0	0	0.90	10.0	3	2	1	3	11

Omar Olivares

Starting Pitcher

Pittsburg Pirates

	G	W-L	S	ERA	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
This Week	1	1-0	0	3.86	7.0	3	3	3	5	2
Year to date	6	2-3	0	5.45	33.0	29	21	20	13	22

Garret Stephenson	Starting Pitcher	St Louis Cardinals
[On the Disabled List - out for the season]

Basketball

NBA

Shawn Bradley

Center

Dallas Mavericks

	G	Min	FG/FGA	Reb	Pts	Ppg	Pp60min
This Week	3	89	6/ 11	24	12	4.0	8.1
Year to date	88	2167	231/469	655	612	6.9	16.9

Travis Knight

Center

New York Knicks

	G	Min	FG/FGA	Reb	Pts	Ppg	Pp60min
This Week	1	1	0/ 0	0	0	0.0	0.0
Year to date	46	257	10/ 53	53	29	0.6	6.8

Mark Madsen

Forward

Los Angeles Lakers

	G	Min	FG/FGA	Reb	Pts	Ppg	Pp60min
This Week	1	1	0/ 0	1	0	0.0	0.0
Year to date	74	652	55/117	155	137	1.8	12.6

Scot Pollard

Forward

Sacramento Kings

	G	Min	FG/FGA	Reb	Pts	Ppg	Pp60min
This Week	2	45	5/ 11	27	15	7.5	20.0
Year to date	81	1719	201/429	505	532	6.6	18.6

Mark Pope

Center

Milwaukee Bucs

	G	Min	FG/FGA	Reb	Pts	Ppg	Pp60min
This Week	0	0	0/ 0	0	0	0.0	0.0
Year to date	66	984	66/145	159	159	2.4	9.7

WNBA

The WNBA's season begins May 28. We are working on identifying Mormon players.

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.

Hockey

NHL

The NHL's regular season has ended, and the only Mormon player we know is not on a team playing in the playoffs.

Golf

PGA Tour

Jay Don Blake	Event	Results
This Week:	Compaq Classic	Cut	72-73
Year to date:		Entered 13 events, made cut 9 times, earned $222,418.66

Keith Clearwater	Event	Results
This Week:	Compaq Classic	T34	65-70-72-72	earned $18,933.33
Year to date:		Entered 8 events, made cut 1 times, earned $18,933.33

Dan Forsman	Event	Results
This Week:	Idle
Year to date:		Entered 8 events, made cut 5 times, earned $68,492.16

Mike Reid	Event	Results
This Week:	Idle
Year to date:		Entered 3 events, made cut 1 times, earned $15,566.66

Mike Weir	Event	Results
This Week:	Compaq Classic	T61	68-74-74-68	earned $8,560.00
Year to date:		Entered 10 events, made cut 9 times, earned $1,264,100

Richard Zokol	Event	Results
This Week:	Buy.com Carolina Classic	T12	70-71-69-69	earned $8,550
Year to date:		Entered 7 events, made cut 6 times, earned $30,349.28

Senior PGA Tour

Billy Casper	Event	Results
This Week:	Idle
Year to date:		Entered 2 events, earned $6,568.50

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

Bruce Summerhays	Event	Results
This Week:	The Home Depot Invitational	T45	69-76-71	earned $4,420
Year to date:		Entered 12 events, earned $222,460.34

Soccer

WUSA

Maren Hendershot

Carolina Courage

	GP	GS	Min	G	A	Pts	Sht	SOG	FC
This Week:	1	1	57	0	0	0	0	0	1
Year to date:	2	2	147	0	0	0	3	1	4

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