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By Kent Larsen
Sports: Sports Interlude -- Only Baseball and Golf in Season
NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- With the end of the WNBA and WUSA, only baseball and
golf are in season, as we wait for the beginning of the professional
football season and, later, hockey and basketball. But the San Francisco
Giant's Jeff Kent had an off week, most Mormon pitchers were worse than
usual, and three of the four Mormons playing in the PGA's Reno-Tahoe Open
were cut.
Jeff Kent hit just .231 for the week, letting his season batting average
drop below .300 again. But Kent did manage to hit two home runs during the
week, leaving him with 18 for the year. Among starting pitchers, the best
performance came from Roy Halliday, who gave up just one earned run over six
innings against the Minnesota Twins. The Giant's Shawn Estes, on the other
hand, had a disastrous three-inning outing against the Montreal Expos,
giving up six runs in just three innings. Mike Fetters and Kyle Farnsworth
led relief pitchers, with Farnsworth recording a 2.25 ERA over four innings,
while Fetters blanked his opponents in 1 1/3rd innings during the week.
On the PGA Tour, four Mormon golfers, Jay Don Blake, Keith Clearwater, Dan
Forsman and Mike Reid all entered the Reno-Tahoe Open, but only Forsman made
the cut. However, he went on to tie for seventh in the tournament, his best
performance of the year, and second top-ten finish. The rest of the Mormon
golfers were idle during the week.
[If the listings below aren't clear, try looking at them with a mono-spaced
font, such as courier - Ed.]
Baseball
Major League Baseball
Position Players:
Jeff Kent 2B San Francisco Giants
G AB R H HR RBI BB SO Avg
This Week 6 26 3 6 2 3 1 7 0.231
YTD 127 482 68 143 18 84 52 75 0.297
Pitchers:
(MH) Shawn Estes SP San Francisco Giants
G W-L S ERA IP H R ER BB SO
This Week 1 0-1 0 18.00 3.0 6 6 6 3 1
YTD 24 8-8 0 3.96 145.3 136 71 64 76 94
Kyle Farnsworth RP Chicago Cubs
G W-L S ERA IP H R ER BB SO
This Week 3 0-0 0 2.25 4.0 5 1 1 0 5
YTD 61 3-3 0 2.49 65.0 47 18 18 23 89
Mike Fetters RP Pittsburgh Pirates
G W-L S ERA IP H R ER BB SO
This Week 2 0-0 2 0.00 1.3 0 0 0 2 1
YTD 43 2-1 5 5.65 36.7 40 26 23 18 30
Roy Halladay RP Toronto Blue Jays
G W-L S ERA IP H R ER BB SO
This Week 1 1-0 0 1.50 6.0 4 2 1 2 5
YTD 10 2-1 0 4.22 59.7 63 30 28 20 51
Jason M. Johnson SP Baltimore Orioles
G W-L S ERA IP H R ER BB SO
This Week 1 0-1 0 5.00 9.0 10 5 5 4 3
YTD 26 10-9 0 3.43 162.7 154 82 62 55 91
* Omar Olivares RP Pittsburgh Pirates
G W-L S ERA IP H R ER BB SO
This Week 3 1-0 0 3.86 4.7 2 2 2 2 2
YTD 37 6-7 0 6.38 103.0 112 78 73 39 64
(MH) Garret Stephenson SP St Louis Cardinals
[On the Disabled List - out for the season]
(MH) Dave Veres RP St Louis Cardinals
G W-L S ERA IP H R ER BB SO
This Week 2 0-0 0 9.00 2.0 1 2 2 1 1
YTD 62 3-2 15 3.28 57.7 48 23 21 25 51
Basketball
NBA
The NBA's season preseason games begin October 5th. Regular season begins October 30th.
WNBA
* Kristen Rasmussen Forward Miami Sol
G GS Min FG/FGA Reb Pts Ppg Pp60min
This Week 1 0 4 0/ 0 0 1 1.0 15.0
YTD 31 3 439 31/ 91 86 76 2.5 10.4
(MH) Natalie Williams Forward Utah Starzz
G GS Min FG/FGA Reb Pts Ppg Pp60min
This Week Season Ended
YTD 34 34 1121 179/365 324 460 13.5 24.6
Football
NFL
The NFL season begins September 9th. Exibition games for the NFL began several weeks ago. We expect to start our coverage of Mormons in the NFL next week.
CFL
The CFL season began June 20th. We still have identified only two
Mormon players!
Wide receiver Ben Cahoon of the Montreal Alouettes is LDS, and Mormon
News subscribers Diane Merten and Deryle Lonsdale have verified that
Winnipeg Blue Bombers Linebacker Sefa O'Reilly is LDS.
While we are compiling a list of Mormon players in the CFL, that
league doesn't make available player by player statistics.
We have also identified the following possible Mormon players, based
on the 2001 Rosters:
Chris Ellison, Saskatchewan Rough Rid -- BYU
Curtis Marsh, Saskatchewan Rough Rid -- Utah
Omaar Morgan, Saskatchewan Rough Rid -- BYU
Rob Hitchcock, Hamilton Tiger-Cats -- Weber State
Trevor Shaw, Hamilton Tiger-Cats -- Weber State
Kevin Alexander, Montreal Alouettes -- Utah State
Darnell Arceneaux, Montreal Alouettes -- Utah
Anthony Calvillo, Montreal Alouettes -- Utah State
Josh Cochran, Montreal Alouettes -- Utah
Neal Fort, Montreal Alouettes -- BYU
Chad Folk, Toronto Argonauts -- Utah
Profail Greer, Toronto Argonauts -- Utah State
Errol Martin, Toronto Argonauts -- Utah
Morgan Welch, Toronto Argonauts -- Weber State
Brandon Dyson, Winnipeg Blue Bombers -- Utah State
Moe Elewonibi, Winnipeg Blue Bombers -- BYU
Hockey
NHL
The NHL's preseason games begin September 15th. Regular season games begin October 3rd.
The only Mormon player we know of is Aaron Garvey, who plays for the
Minnesota Wild.
Golf
PGA Tour
Jay Don Blake
This Week: Reno-Tahoe Open Cut 70-74
YTD: Entered 24 events, made cut 15 times, earned $349,494.19
Keith Clearwater
This Week: Reno-Tahoe Open Cut 77-74
YTD: Entered 16 events, made cut 5 times, earned $52,986.33
Dan Forsman
This Week: Reno-Tahoe Open T7 71-68-68-69 $93,500.00
YTD: Entered 19 events, made cut 13 times, earned $326,644.03
Mike Reid
This Week: Reno-Tahoe Open Cut 75-72
YTD: Entered 9 events, made cut 3 times, earned $27,912.66
* Richard Zokol
This Week: Idle
YTD: Entered 13 events, made cut 11 times, earned $139,831.62
Senior PGA Tour
Billy Casper
This Week: Idle
Year to date: Entered 3 events, earned $6,568.50
Johnny Miller
This Week: Idle
Year to date: Idle
Bruce Summerhays
This Week: Idle
YTD: Entered Events Entered: 26 events, earned $633,609.06
Soccer
WUSA
Maren Hendershot Forward Carolina Courage
GP GS Min G A Pts Sht SOG FC
This Week Season Ended
YTD 13 3 336 0 0 0 7 3 8
* Mormon News has enough information to make it likely that this
athlete is either Mormon or has Mormon heritage. But we have so
far been unable to confirm this suspicion.
(MH) - Mormon Heritage - This athlete is either an inactive LDS
Church member, or has Mormon heritage.
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