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TFCA at Jackpot, Nev., 7:30 pm.

Castleford JV at M.V. Christian, 7:30 pm.

Comm. School at Bliss, 7:30 p.m.

Camas County at Shoshone, 7:30 pm.

Richfield at Carcy, 7:30 pjn. Hansen at Hagera an, 7:30 p.m. Mlnico at Madison, 730 pm.

High school girls basketball

SA Region III Dlitrict Four-Fi ve-Slx Tournament Minico at Pocatcllo, 7:30 p.m. Idaho FaUs at Highland. 7:30 j>jn.

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TODAY’S SCHEDULE

’ 'Burley at Jerome, 7 pm.

3A Dtetrłct Four Tournament Kimberly at Filer, 7 p.m. Gooding at Dedo, 7 pm.

Buhl ot Wood Rivcr, 7 p.m.

JV Tournament, at Dcclo HS Dedo vs. Filer, 4:15 pm.

Buhl vs. Gooding, 530 pm.

2A Distrkt Four Tournament Glenns Ferry at Vallcy, 7:30 p.m.

JV Tournament Glenns Fcrry/Vallcy winner at Wcndcll,6p.m. •

High school wrestllng

Minico at Cen nory, 7 pm.

Buhl at Burley Duals, 7 pm.

High school bowling

Minico at Hansen, 4 pm. Gooding «t Twin Fills, 4 pm.

Inbrief

Academlc State Ćhamps announced

BOISE - Four area high schools were named as State a ca-demie charopions in their dassift-cations of boys and girls basketball and wrestling, it was announced Monday by the Idaho High School Activlties Assodation.

In girls basketball, Jerome won the Class 4A divisions with d team mark of 3.8S in a 4.0 grade point average. Murtaugh won 1A with 3.74. Timberline won 5A with a 3.84 mark while Shelley j took 3A with a 3.84 average and * Finh2A with 389.

In boys hoops, Valley High School took 2A with a 3.62 grade point average. Highland took 5A with a 3.64 overage while Century won 4A with a 3.65 mark. Shelley took 3A with a 3.54 average while Coundl won 1A with a 332 average.

In wrestling, Buhl is tops ln Class 3A with a 327 grade point auerage. Class SA went to Idaho FaUs, 3.17; 4A. Madison, 3.63 and Firth ln 2Ą-1A combined, 335.

^— ' *7laques for each team will be {' jfesented at the State champi-♦-d&shJp toumaments.

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Richfield.eliminates Ketchum, 37-29

Northside Conference Tournament

By Korin Kall TlmeaWewa Witter

• SHOSHONE - The goal was to hołd Raysa Parker, and the Dietrich Blue Devils to “around 40 points."

With Parker hobbled by a sore ankle, the Blue Devils finished with 42, not enough to catch Shoshone, which defeated the defending Class 1A State runners-, 45-42, to claim the champi-

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onship-of the girls Northside Conference Tournament at Shoshone High School Monday.

The win carried with ii an auto-matic-berth to the-Girls Real Dalry Shoot Out in Nampa on Feb. 19-22. The Indians (18-5) also take the Ho. 1 seed from the Northside to the one-day, 1A District Four Tournament back at Shoshone on Feb. 12. Dietrich (21-3) faces a must-win gamę with Richfield on Wednesday, with the

stater

Richfield (11-10) advanced to the sccond-place gamę by knock-ing off The Community School, 37-29, in o rematch of the first round. This tiroe, the Cutthroats (9-9) couldn't overccme the Tigers as they did the first- tirae when they rallied from nine back." Candace Famworth led all scor-ers with 10 points for Richfield.

It was the first triumph in three meetings for Shoshone over its Lincoln County rivals, who had cruised through the conference regular season 12-0.

Sophomore Amanda Gulliford

its to lead

Shoshone, which arfded 13 points from feisty point guard Meghan Sorensen.

“A lot of them were just faliing -lucky shots," Gulliford said.

Sorensen came up ciuich from the free throw linę late, sinldng 3 of-6 in the finał S2.rscćonds.'

Amid a crowd of wcli-wishers after the coniest, Indians coach Tim Chapman said he thought free throws could dedde the out-come.

“When we came in here I wrote on the board, ‘Free throws win games.’ We*re not a great

U.S. women shine at Worlds

Yanks win silver, bronze in Super G

By Erica Bulman

Asaoctatad Pm* wrttar_

ST. MOR1TZ, Swńzerland -Suddenly, the prediedon of a soli-tary medal seems tamę. The U3. women have won two already at the world championthips, ond sense morę on the way.

"It’s amazing," Kirsten Clark said. “We’re definitely off to a great start."

Clark won the silver medal Monday in the super giant slalom on the second day of the worlds, finishing 0.02 seconds behind Michaela Dorfmeister of Austrio. Clark‘s teammate, Jonna Mendes, won the silver, 0.1S seconds behind Dorfmeister.

Dorfmeister was timed in 1 minutę, 27748 seconds on the Engiadina course for her second world title. She won the downhill two years ago.

Brcaking Inro tears, she klssed the snów, her skis and her fist and pur.ched the air.

“Łuck was on my side today," Dorfmeister said. “Lam a bit stunned. 1 was very emotional tod3y."

The performance by the U.S. women was all the morę surpris-ing considering they had not had a top-three result in the Super G this season on the World Cup Circuit.

“I can*t say it was expccted. lt’s awesome to stand on the podium," soid Clark, of Raymond, Moine. "I definitely think there are morę podiums on the women’s side."

The womcn‘s suctcss comes a day after American Bodę Miller shared the silver in a Super G.

Apart from the United States and Austria, no other nation has won a medal at the worlds. Austria has two gold and one sil-ver, the Amcricans two silvcr and one bronze.

Entering the championships, U.S. Alpine director Jesse Hunt said the team was aiming for three medals in the men’s evcnts and one in the women’s.

“Bodę came back to our hotel kind of showing off his medal," said Clark, grinning. “It definite-ly gove us momentum to see Bodę do so well. It generated a

Amartcan Krłsttn Cf*ri< cornpetes In tha womtfl’0 Super 0 at the World Alpine SM Championihlps In St. Morttz, Swltzertand Monday. Clark took aacond and Jonna Mar.de* thlrd In a sgrpriilngly atrong ihowlng by tba U.S. women.

lot of energy and enthusiasm."

In other U.S. results, Caroline Lalive went off course and failed to finish a race for the ninth scraight ńme at the Olympics or worlds, and Julia Moncuso came in 21sL

Mendes said the women on the team now believe theyYe capablc of topthrec finishes.

“I think a couple morę medals isn‘t out of reoch," said Mendes, of Heavenly, Calif. “Wc’re shoot-ing for morę.”

Before Monday, Clark’s best Super G results this season were fourth-place finishes in Aspen, Colo., and Lakę Louise, Alberta. Mendes was cighth in Cortina d’Ampczzo, Italy.

. At the Salt Lakę City Olympics last wintec. the United States won just two silvers, with Miller placing second in the combined and giant slalom.

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Jonna Monde* of the United State* r*»cta after ikUng to th« bronze medal In the wonen’1 Saper 0 at the Wortd Alpine SkJ Chemplcn»hlp* on Monday.

Sister guides Dale Jr.’s deals

By lenna Fryer Aaaoclatad Pm* wrttar

MOORESYILLE, N.C. -After monthj of pondering the contraa offer, Dale E&mhardt Jr. dedded he needed some adrice.

He didn’t cali a lawyer, on accountant or an agent.

Instead, he took the paperwork to his sister, Kelley, and let her łuuh out a deaL

If it*s business, pleasure or per-sonaL Ecmhardfs 30-year-old sister is the first person the NAS CAR superstar tums to.

“Dale Jr. was always littler dian everybody - shy, got picked on a lot at school - and I was ' always the caretaker for eny-thing he needed," she said. “He bomźwed lunch money from me.

I did his chores when he wasn*t in the mood to do them and would have gotten in trouble. I was -dwayithe mother hen.- —------

It ftarted when they were chil-dren of tn absent father, living with their, mother ln Yirglnia. Kelley, two years older than her brother, ilwmlpoked after hlm.

^— EventuaTIy7 they moved to North Carolina to be with their

Mity Camhantt *t*y* buty t* brothar Dal# Eombtrdt Jr.'* builnes* nunagir.

father, the late Dale Earnhardt, but were split up when Dale Jr. went to boarding *chool and Kelley went to college. •

.The tjme apart wa» good for the little brother - “he etaited to become hi* own p«r*on" - but not so good for their father.

After years of focusing most of his time on his racing career, Earnhardt dedded he wanted to

reconnect with his chil dren. He begged Kelley to leave school in Wumingron, N.C., promising her she could live by herself and even start her own racing career.

"He was Just starting to become a lot morę family-orient-jed,jjtd_weJysuifiXM_MLlQjet.

each other,” she said. "He sent Piease see SISTER. Page W

Meghan Sorensen stepped in there and kind of sealed it for us," he said. “No one capccted us to beat Dietrich this year. 1 think our girls Just wanted it a little bit morę."

Sorensen said in their first two meetings, Shoshone ployed .thetr^ rivals close both times, giving the young Indians confidencc for Mooda/s matchup.

“We got doscr cvcry time we played them... we knew we could beat them," she said. “We just had total faith in ourscKes." -

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CSI

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baseball

Schedule

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TWIN FALLS - The first sign of spring has arrivcd. And we’re not talking about some Peruuylvania groundhog.

The College of Southern Idaho baseball team storn it season next weekend with an eight-day road trip fcaturing two games in St.

Gcorge, Utah Feb. 1S-16 fol-lowed by a fi ve-gamc stand in Phocnix dur-ing the week,

concluding_

Sunday, Feb.

23 in Henderson, Nev. with three games, including last vear’s top Region 18 team. Dixie State College.

And-by then, the Colden-Eagles will 11 nonconferencc games under tHeir beks as they prepare for Scenie West Athletic Conference play starting March 14 at the Community College of Southern Nevada.

The EaRles’ hoir.e opener is at V p.m. March 1 against the Prairic Baseball Acadcmy for a doublchcadcr with another at 11 a.m. Sunday. March 2. Those four games start a ninc-game homestand that takes CSI up to cdnfcrencc play the following weekend,

CSI travels to Region 18 tournament champion Salt Lakę Community College April 4 and hosts regular season champion Dixie State College, the team that climinatcd the Eaglcs last spring, the following weekend.

The Eaglcs finished 41-16 overall last season and 30-10 in the SWAC, taking second.

The regular and conference scasons conclude with a four-gamę stand against Colorado Northwestern Community College April 2326.

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Florida moves to No. 1 spot for the first time

Th# A**ocl»t#d Pm*_

GA1NESVILLE, Fla. - The Gators finally madę it.

The team that spent its forma-tive years being coached by assistants from the football Staff and playing in a dingy, dimly lit gym madę it to No. 1 in the AP poll Monday for the first time in its 88-ycar history.

"I think we madę it by a process of elimination," Florida coach Billy Donovan said.

The Gators (18-2,    7-0

Southeastern Conference) jumped from fourth to first after a week in which the three teams ahead of them - Arizona, Pittsburgh and Texas - all lost, while they won twice to stretch their winning streak to 14 games.

Lest they get too cxcited, Florida's first gamę as a top-ranked team comes Tuesday at No. 6 Kentucky in o gamę that j*ilLdadd»the4eaderin-thc East.

“The key is to bc humble,'

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Donovan said, “or this could be the shortest-lived stay at No. 1 in the history of college basketball."

Either way, it has beon a long time coming.

Before 1980, Florida played in the o!d Ailigator Allcy, a dusty little gym that seated 7,000. The Gators likcd to schcdule games for midday, hoping to gain an advantagc from the sunlight shining through the Windows and temporarily blinding oppos-ing playcrs.

It wasn:t-until_1960.that Florida emerged from the dark ages and hired o full-time basketball coach, Norm Sloan. Before that, the Gators normally found their coach by scarchirig their roster of assistants from the football team, or by picking

educanon faculty.

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