I Monday, Aug. 2,201' Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati 7:05 p.m., FSN New York (NL) vs. Atlanta 7 p.m., ESPN Evans spotted driv ing over 120 MPH A video released by the California Highway Patrol shows Evans speeding past vehicles on Interstate 80 in his purple Mercedes. CHP officers say he was driving 120 to 130 miles per hour. The video of the 20-year-old NBA Rookie of the Year was shot from a plane on Memorial Day week end. After being stopped by police, Evans was arrested at gunpoint. Authorities say the video offers evidence that Evans may have been racing anoth er vehicle. Blackhawks’ Niemi gets $2.75 million Goalie Antti Niemi has been awarded a $2.75 million salary for next season, an arbitrator’s decision that could force the Stanley Cup champion Blackhawks to make another tough decision about their roster. Niemi earned $826,875 last season as a rookie. He played all but one period of Chicago’s postseason run to the title, going 16-6 with a 2.63 goals against average, .910 save percentage and two shutouts. Chicago has two days to decide whether to accept or walk away from the arbitra tor's decision. The team also could decide to trade Niemi. Jets CB Revis skips conditioning test Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis skipped a conditioning test hours before players are to report to training camp. Revis is to make $1 million in the fourth year of his six year rookie deal, but he wants to be the league’s highest paid cornerback. Oakland's Nnamdi Asomugha holds that distinction, signing a three year, $45.3 million extension last offseason. Support for Big Ben shows no discretion Ben Roethlisberger said he likely would have cried had Steelers fans booed him Saturday when he came out for practice. They cheered him instead. Big Ben’s well documented activities off the field, which got him a six-game suspen sion from the NFL deserve no applause. Steelers fans take pride in being regarded as some of the most knowledgable in the league. They didn’t show it this weekend. While supporting a home town player is always a good thing, given what Big Ben is accused of, it would have been nice to see a silent treatment from the Steelers faithful. Make Ben earn back that adulation, don’t just give it to him. While he says he learned his lesson, make him sweat it out a little bit first. Q: How many touchdowns did Chad Ochocinco have last season? Friday’s answer: Titans head coach Jeff Fisher is the NFLs longest tenured coach. Spikes rally late, win in 10 By Jake Kaplan COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER With the bases loaded and two out in the tenth inning, Matt Curry stepped to the plate with a chance to give the State College Spikes their first lead of SPIKES the game. The Spikes first ... baseman deliv ered, singling to the shortstop to state College score third base- man Andy Vazquez from third. Curry and the Auburn Spikes completed their comeback in the tenth inning, beating the Auburn Doubledays 7- 6 Sunday night at Ealcon Park in Phils salvage rubber match By the Associated Press WASHINGTON Polanco and Jayson Werth each drove in a run in the 11th inning, Philadelphia Phillies avoid a ”"LB series sweep with a 6-4 win over the Washington Na tionals on Sunday. The Phillies lost Philadelphia the first two games of the series to the last-place Nation als but managed to avoid their first Washington sweep against Washington. Wilson Valdez led off the 11th with a bunt single against Collin Balester (0-1) and was sacrificed to second by pinch-hitter Roy Oswalt, the ace pitcher acquired Thursday in a trade with Houston. Valdez went to third on a fly ball by Jimmy Rollins and scored on Polanco's third hit, a single to center. Werth followed with an RBI dou ble. Jose Contreras (6-3) pitched a scoreless 10th inning for the win. Brad Lidge, who allowed a game ending, three-run homer to Ryan Zimmerman on Saturday night, worked the 11th for his 11th save in 15 opportunities. The Phillies came into Washington with an eight-game winning streak. They won the finale, but still left battered and bruised. First baseman Ryan Howard left with a sprained left ankle in the first inning and left fielder Raul Ibanez missed the game with a sore left wrist. Two Offensive /m^VGOUNTDOWN {SAddem, Series Note: This is the fifth in an eight-part series taking a look at each position heading into fall camp, which starts Aug. 5. By Brendan Monahan COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER The main theme for the offen sive line through spring practice and the summer has been coming together as a unit, but that may be hard to do if no one has a fixed position. “We’ve all been working togeth er, incorporating the guys who went No. 2 in spring, putting them in with the ones,” said offensive lineman Quinn Barham at Lift for Life. “Ones with the twos, shuffling it up so we all get together, but noth ing’s set.” Nothing has changed on the offensive line since spring. As of now, Quinn Barham is at left tackle with DeOn’tae Pannell at left guard. Doug Klopacz fills the cen ter position, and right guard Stefen Wisniewski and tackle Lou Eliades round out the first team. Johnnie Troutman will compete with Pannell at left guard as pre season practice begins. Pannell started the final three games at left guard last season, but he also made four starts at right tackle. He also could see some first- Auburn, N.Y The Spikes (22-21) scored five runs in the eighth and one in the ninth before Curry knocked in the game-winning run in the tenth. Vazquez laid down a one-out bunt for an infield single in the tenth before advancing to second on a wild pitch by Shawn Griffith, Auburn’s fifth pitcher of the con test. Griffith walked the bases loaded and then got right fielder Adalberto Santos to pop out before Curry delivered his clutch single. In the bottom half of the frame, Spikes reliever Jhonathan Ramos hurled the second of his two shutout innings to secure State College’s two-game sweep of the last-place Doubledays (15-28), now losers of six-straight games. Through seven innings, the State College Spikes were down other mainstays from the two-time NL champs, Chase Utley (sprained right thumb) and Shane Victorino (abdominal strain), are on the dis abled list. Placido Philadelphia took a 2-0 lead in the first off John Lannan. With two outs, Werth doubled and Howard was hit by a pitch. Ben Francisco singled to right and, after Werth scored, Howard scram bled back to second and twisted his ankle. He had to be helped off the field and was replaced by Cody Ransom, who scored on Domonic Brown's single. Howard, in an 0-for-14 slump, sat out his first game of the season on Saturday night. Lannan, who is 0-7 against the Phillies, was recalled from Double- A Harrisburg to start in place of injured rookie Steven Strasburg. The left-hander allowed two runs and seven hits in five innings. He was 2-5 before being sent down on June 21. Washington tied the score at 2 in the fourth. Cole Hamels hit Roger Bemadina with a pitch to start the innings and lan Desmond doubled Bernadina to third. With one out, Zimmerman doubled to right to score two runs. Adam Dunn hit a two-run homer off Hamels in the sixth to give Washington a 4-2 lead. Before the home run, Dunn was 1 for 17 against Hamels. Hamels has won just once in his last nine starts. He allowed four runs and six hits in seven innings and tied his season high with 10 strikeouts. He did not walk a batter. line still shuffling, nothing set team reps at center if the coaches are comfortable with senior Doug Klopacz. coach Joe Paterno rri „, n ~. said he liked FOOT BALL Klopacz at center, and during Lift for Life, he said he expects to stay there. The decision to put Klopacz with the first team prompted Wisniewski’s move one spot to the right guard. At Lift for Life, both Wisniewski and Barham thought the offensive line still had plenty of work to do before the season starts. The Stefen Wisniewski (61) blocks for Evan Royster against Ohio State last season at Beaver Stadium. she runs and had mustered only four hits against the Doubledays pitching. In the eighth, however, State College left fielder Pat Irvine drove home Santos with an RBI single. Designated hitter Chase Lyles hit a two-run triple before Matt Skirving hit an RBI double and Vazquez hit a sacrifice fly to cut the score to 6-5. An RBI double to center field by Irvine in the ninth sent the game to extra innings. The Doubledays got to Spikes starting pitcher Zack Dodson right out of the gate. In the first inning, Auburn third baseman Matthew Nuzzo tripled before catcher Carlos Perez singled him home. Designated hitter Stephen McQuail helped the Doubledays put a crooked number on the Cole Hamels winds up for a pitch Sunday in Washington “I think everything is coming along pretty good. I think we’re bonding as a team.” offensive linemen have the respon- been running, watching film and sibility of protecting a first-year getting together outside of football quarterback, which makes their together. jobs more crucial. “I think everything is coming Barham said all the quarter- along pretty good,” Klopacz said at backs have been working with the Lift for Life, first-team offensive line, including “I think we’re bonding as a freshmen Paul Jones and Robert team.” Bolden. To bond and jel, the line has To e-mail reporter: bjmsl46@psu.edu The Daily Collegian board, hitting a two-run home run with two out, making it 3-0 after one frame. Dodson blanked Auburn with 1, 2,3, innings in the second and third before the Doubledays added three runs to their lead in the fourth. Ramos got the win but that would not have been possible with out the performances by Sandobal Septimo and r frent Stevenson. Septimo threw a scoreless fifth inning before Stevenson shutout the Doubledays for three innings, allowing just one hit. The Spikes play the first of a two-game set against the Jamestown Jammers at 7:05 tonight at Russell Diethrick Park in Jamestown, N.Y To e-mail reporter: jyksl42@psu.edu Doug Klopacz Penn State center Drew Angerer/AP Collegian file photo
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