European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 36 stars and stripes june 2007 Eric do Irvine first baseman Taylor Holiday attempts to tag Oregon states Mike Lissman on Oregon state won eliminating Oregon state ends Irvine run Rice play for title Chance by Oskar Garcia the associated press Oregon state Pitcher Daniel Turpen relaxed be fore the biggest game of his sea son by going coach Pat Casey said he would have Given the Junior a harder time about spending the Day in the Sun had he not thrown eight innings of one run Ball against us Irvine to bring the beavers one step closer to a repeat i got no control Over these Casey relaxed and Oregon state paved its Way to the title round As it did last but this time without All the beat ing Irvine 71 on wednesday its like night and said Darwin who had three hits and two last year it took something it took some special some special play i think that this year All 25 of us truly believe we can make it that might not have been the Case a Short time when the beavers 4718 were mired in pac10 having been embarrassed at Home by Arizona state in what Casey has called the seasons biggest i was i didst i didst eat but i was Able to make sure that they understood that i Felt that we were going to turn the thing Casey i dont know what the Odds were three weeks but i bet theres some Guys that Are pretty Happy they bet on the the Only remaining National seeds in the cos have one game to prove they should face the de fending champs starting Satur North Carolina 5614 evened the score with 2 Rice 5613 on forcing an elimination game thursday North Carolinas pitchers have been Stellar the last two games after some shaky starts this Post the tar heels held the two hottest hitting teams in the cos Rice and Louisville to just one run Robert Woodard came off the shortest Start of his career to shut Down the owls for six plus innings leading the tar heels to a 61 Rob Wooten and Andrew Carignan finished for the tar who handed the owls their first loss in 10 Rice had 29 runs and 33 hits in its first two cos one of which was a 144 Victory Over the tar heels on Dustin Ackley broke open the game with a three run Homer to help the tar the 2006 National even the score with the there the 3 team in the so beating us twice in a Row be an rices Joe Savery at this you cant look at it As underdogs or that sort of we just have to go As much As we want to talk about experience that Bene fits they have at least equal sex and they made it a step farther last the two highest ranked teams left fighting for the title have each won 56 games this the team that wins thursday night will Fin ish with the most victories in the country this Rice coach Wayne Graham said the pressure on both teams is the they came Here to win the National and so did Graham they have to win a game to get into the championship and so do tureens Outing was the third straight Strong performance by an Oregon state not allow ing a hit after the fourth Joe Paterson pitched a perfect Mitch Canham hit a two run Homer and John Wallace added a run scoring triple for the Bea who scored four unearned runs in the third it was a disappointing finish for Irvine a team that turned Heads Here by winning consecutive extra inning games against Cal state Fullerton and Arizona state in their last Bryan Petersen cried and wiped his Jersey with his face As he Shook hands with his Oregon state As exciting As it was to play on the grandest stage in College base its a pretty devastating feel ing right now to know we have to take these uniforms second baseman Cody Cipriano a sports writer Eric Olson contributed to this rangers owner Hicks suspects slugger Gonzalez used steroids the associated press Texas Texas rangers owner Tom Hicks suspects that two time Al map Juan Gonzalez May have used Ste i have no knowledge that Juan used his number of injuries and Early retirement just makes me Hicks wrote in an email to the associated press on in any we paid him Mil lion for very few Hicks was responding to questions about a television interview in which he was asked about Deci Sions he regretted since owning the then mentioned the of injured outfielder and Ste Juan Gonzalez for million after he came off Proba we just gave that Money Hicks said in the inter aired june 10 on Tkv Tiv in Dallas fort Gonzalez had three extended stays on the disabled list when he returned to the rangers for the 2002 and 2003 sidelined by a torn ligament in his right thumb and a right calf he played in Only 152 of 324 hitting with 32 homers and 105 that kind of rhetoric does not deserve a because its so said Gonzalezs Al Jose who played with Gonzalez and the rangers in 199294 before Hicks owned the has admitted using Ste Canseco claimed in his 2005 Book that he used steroids with also in the 35yearold Gonzalez played his final game when he Tore his Ham string As a member of the Cleve land indians who had 434 Home was the Al map in 1996 and 1998 for he was the Centrepiece of a nine player Trade that sent him to Detroit after the 1999 season following the rangers third Al West title in four after Only one season with the tigers and a year in Gonzalez signed a two year free agent Deal to re turn to the team that had originally signed him As a 16yearold free agent out of puerto Back problems limited Gonza Lez to 33 games in 2004 after a million Deal with Kansas Giambi near agreement on participation in mob probe new a thurs Day lawyers neared an agreement that would Lead to a meeting Between Jason Giambi and steroids investigator George attorneys for major league baseball and the players Union negotiated for a third straight Day wednesday to work out a Deal that would Lead to Giambi becom ing the first Active player known to speak with Mitchells Sev eral people familiar with the talks they spoke on condition of anonymity because no statements were several people said it was prob Able an agreement on rules for a Giam Imitchell meeting would be reached Giambi was quoted last month by Usa today As seeming to admit to steroids use several years ago and met five Days later with management lawyers to Dis cuss those mariners sign two from China Seattle the Seattle Mari ners signed two chinese players two Days after the new York Yankees said they were the first major league team to sign players from China with the approval of that country baseball infielder outfielder Yubing Jia and Catcher Wei Mem Bers of the Beijing tigers in the China baseball league and of Chi Nas National baseball signed minor league they will report to Seattle sum Mer league team in Australia when not fulfilling National team commitments this Schilling headed to do Atlanta Boston red sox starter Curt Schilling is headed to the disabled list because of sore Ness in his right though an exam found no major Schilling will be placed on the 15day do when the red sox get to san Diego on Friday for the Start of a weekend he had returned to Boston for treatment after losing to the Atlanta braves his first Start without a strike out since the Good news for Schilling an Fri exam found no major but the right hander received a cortisone shot in his ail ing which he attributed to i have not Felt right this Schilling said in a weekly radio dodgers Schmidt out for year Toronto Jason Schmidt had season ending shoulder sur Gery on wednesday and the los Angeles dodgers right hander is not expected to return until Spring training next we knew he haunt been throwing general manager Ned Colletti its been a con Cern for a few obviously its a Well just have to figure out How to make it who signed a Mil three year contract As a free agent during the went 14 with a Era in six Juan Gonzalez with All due he Hast thrown Colletti its not As if he was on his Way to a by Young season and suddenly we lost we need to fill the innings and we need to fill them with Quality dodgers Trainer Stan Conte said Schmidt had surgery to re pair an inflamed a torn Brum and a frayed biceps in his right both the la Brum tear and the frayed Tendon were Conte said theres no Way to Tell when Schmidt suffered the injun Colletti insisted there was no sign of any damage when the dodgers inspected Schmidt in the of season before making their contract As designate of Bradley for assignment the Oak land athletics designated outfielder Milton Bradley for assignment cutting ties with a player who was expected to play an important role on the team this Bradley had been on the disabled list three times this year and was frustrated that the team waited two extra Days to activate him this week because of uncertainty about third baseman Eric Chavez asked tuesday How he was feel Bradley Curtly in healthy and on the Bradley was activated from the do the following Day and went ofor3 with a the As have 10 Days to Trade or release because he has More than three years of major league service Brad Ley can refuse an assignment to the minor its an unfortunate said Bradley Sam Levinson Milton is healthy and looking Forward to helping some club win Many games this sea phone messages left with As general manager Billy Beane and manager Bob Geren were not immediately returned the team was travelling to new York to prepare for a three game weekend series against the
