The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 12, 1978, Image 13

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 12, 1978, Image 13

Newspaper Page TextTHE BATTALION Page 13 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1978 re the sports take two game lead in Series United Press International P° wer ANGELES — Now, having toe Na " sm oked” away by rookie Boh he site « h in the ninth inning of Wed- im Elec l iv night’s gripping second game ■ World Series, the New York le cente 1 >es can understand the frustra- e W 'U E« be Boston Red Sox must have trucks I; ? r °j ecti; vas a finish ironically reminis- be allow I ,f (he Yankees’ 5-4 playoff win ctof |( le !l : he Red Sox 10 days ago. Jti Dodgers, behind the "Pen- tustbetilp ower ” of Ron Cey’s three-run to majo! were holding a precarious Lj going into the ninth inning, cuttingj I h j (heir relief ace, Terry d is-is. ;;; to get the last three Yankee I and what looked to be the It part of the order coming to I field soi F r duledfoi I Manager Bob Lemon had | ut of spare infielders so he l^Hn’t pinch-lit for his light- thecuttiij Ljhortstop Bucky Dent. So e this yeug re major Dent singled to start things off. Roy White’s bouncer back to the mound moved Dent into scoring position at second. However, the next batter was Paul Blair and Lemon had no one to hit for him either. So Blair walked. And Dodger Manager Tommy Lasorda walked too, to the mound. He wanted Welch, the 20-year-old right-hander who became a profes sional only a little over a year ago. Welch got the right-handed hit ting Thurman Munson on a liner to right — then came Reggie Jackson, who had driven in all their previous three runs on a two-run double in the third and an infield out in the seventh. A strike, a ball, three straight fouls, another ball, another foul, another ball and finally a majestic swing and a miss. Bedlam. Tommy just gave me the ball and told me to throw strikes,” said Welch. “I wanted to go after them and make them hit my best pitch, that’s why I threw all fastballs.” Jackson, who threw his bat against the dugout wall in disgust after his strikeout, was asked later if he felt a little like Yastrzemski in the Yankee-Red Sox playoff game. “No,” he answered tersely and then added, “I was upset about something but I’m not gonna talk about it. He did an outstanding job. He put the pitches where he wanted them. I just got beat, that’s all.” Although trailing now two games to nothing with at least two question able starters from here on out. Lemon remained unflappable in the face of yet one more uphill battle. “When I took over the club, I had two months to get things going,” said Lemon, “this time I’ve got only a couple of days. But I felt Catfish (Yankee starter Jim Hunter) pitched very well. He had things under con trol except when Cey got to him.” Hunter went six innings for the Yankees, giving up all seven hits and four runs. “If any team can come back from a two-game deficit we can,” said Hunter. “We’ve done it all year. There is no reason to panic. You either do it or you don’t. Guidry can get us back on the right track Friday, then we can go from there.” Up until Cey’s homer, Hunter looked like a winner. The Dodger third baseman hit a 2-0 pitch into the seats in leftcenter field over the 385- foot mark. “It was a slider that I didn’t get far enough away from him,” said Hunter. Cey, who singled home the first Dodger run in the fourth, got to Hunter two innings later when, after "inference notes ;|AgS challenge rushing record area u e closest t /ears--l! Station. tunity [« jointly fe said Rif 'an and e needfei e plant ^tWest Conference football of- portimihw are ^ ttin « schizophrenic he conuMw 8 ’ w ‘ iat w’*' 1 tr y> n g to de- Univetsl r , ' let ^ er to set rus hing or pas- ”lecords. [as set the SWC team rushing j |of 3,745 yards in 1970, but A&M is giving it a strong run 588 yards through the first lames. That Longhorn team ;ed 374.5 yards per game and ggies are at 397 per game into their final seven starts. I /(if Pltn there’s passing, where SMU 1.^0 [quite up to the record pace by 6 Rice team — but closing 76 Owls passed for 303.4 game and after a busy day at igline in Saturday’s 35-35 tie ipheric s )hjo State, SMU is gaining at eof280 passing yards a game, only are the Aggies ahead of st rushing season ever posted SWC they’re gaining at a rate ould top the total offense re ts on thet Arkansas averaged 445.3 yards 1, while the Aggies are gain- ;r sutnmao 485.7 yards a game. individaully, an Aggie and a 1977 repo !g are challenging the lead- rm weati is Dickey had another out- igday in the Aggies’ 38-9 vic- _er Texas Tech to open up a dden « 1 g ame g ap over Houston’s tt King in individual rushing. , now third in the nation in is gaining 148.5 yards per e 'ght yards a try and is scor- uchdown every seventh time dies the ball. s Mike Ford grabbed the lead with one of the top days in SWC passing his- ords 36 completions are the most ever by a conference ■a a game, being bettered V another SMU soph another Ohio State team, Hixson hitting 37 against the es in 1968. s 57 attempts also ties for i m p s t in SWC annals and , P ass >ng yards he gained is a best. [wise, Texas A&M held onto in five of the six team offen- defensive categories. In 11°pacing the conference in rushing offense, the Aggies otal defense (160.2 yards a rushing defense (79.7) and | defense (80.5 yards). The u ( * unse has yielded one flU ' n ^ plays run by four ,* 0 °k individual leads in both a 20.7 completions per ln total offense at 280 r ev k e Smith, Baylor’s trans- ihes'aMfi held ? eC ° nd in both | 16 completions a game singles by Davey Lopes and Reggie Smith, he slammed a 2-0 pitch over the wall in left-center. "With two outs and two on, I was just looking for something I felt I could hit hard,” explained Cey. “But when I hit it, I knew it was out. “We’re not looking ahead,” Cey emphasized following his four RBI performance. “Now we will concen trate on the game at hand and the one ahead of us is Game 3. “The Yankees have a good ball club. They fought from behind all year long. I don’t believe that just because you’ve won the first two games you have a lock on the Series. ” Cey was heavy in his praise of Hunter. “Hunter is an outstanding person and a player,” he stressed. “As far as I’m concerned, he’s the same pitcher who pitched for the Oakland A s in 1974.” Bill North, who will start in center field in place of Rick Monday at New York Friday night against Yankee lefthander Ron Guidry, said out loud what everyone was thinking. “We did what had to be done in Los Angeles,” he smiled. “If they had won one game here, they would have done what they wanted. Now we can afford to lose one in New York and they can’t.” For the 15th time this year, the Yankees will be calling on Guidry, their 25-game winning mealticket, to come to their rescue after a defeat. The Dodgers will counter with vete ran right-hander Don Sutton. World Series Schedule Los Angeles 11, New York 5 Los Angeles 4, New York 3 Friday—Los Angeles at New York, 7:30 p.m. Saturday—Los Angeles at New York, 2:30 p. m. Sunday— x-Los Angeles at New York, 3:30 p. m. Tuesday— x-New York at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday— x-New York at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m. x-if necessary MIRANDA'S MIXED DRINKS ROCK 'N ROLL MUSIC DANCING HAPPY HOUR 1-6 MON.-FRI. (MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL) 309 University (Next to the Dixie Chicken) lappens a ge, they ientists i warminj her in the terparts on and 206 yards. Texas Tech freshman Maury Buford opened the widest lead in the individual categories, getting off a 75-yard punt and averaging 47 yards on nine kicks. Buford now holds a 46.1 average on 31 kicks while runner-up Russell Erxleben of Texas, the 1976 NCAA champion, fell to a 42.4 average. Conference quips: With one third of the home games played (15 down, 31 to go). Southwest Conference football attendance is almost 25 per cent ahead of the record pace it set in 1976. Saturday’s four home games, including the Texas-Okla- homa game in the Cotton Bowl, drew 217,583 for a capacity of 227,000 seats. That put the average attendance for the 15 home games at 48,792, which is 24.3 percent ahead of the record average attendance of 39,240 set two years ago. Also in danger of falling is the total atten dance mark of 2,076,682 set last year in 53 home games, as Satur day’s crowds pushed the total through 15 games to 731,889. Not only is Baylor off to the most frustrating start in SWC history with four straight losses by a total of 14 points, it also stands as the four closest losses in a row by any SWC team ever. The 1959 Texas Aggies and the '62 SMU Mustangs both lost their last four games by a total of 16 points and the ‘72 Aggies lost four straight by 18, but no SWC team has ever come near dropping their first four by such a low combined score as have the ‘78 Bears. TCU is the nearest with its first four games in '39 being decided by 20 points, but that team dropped its first three by seven total points and lost its fourth by 13. Baylor’s biggest defeat this year was the six-pointer to Ohio State. If you noticed here last week that SMU sophomore Mike Ford had al ready gained more yards passing than Davey O’Brien did in his entire collegiate career, you might also be interested in knowing that Curtis Dickey’s 2,298 rushing yards less than half-way through his junior year puts him ahead of the career totals of such notables as Donny Anderson, Kyle Rote and John David Crow. And, if you’re not feel ing old enough, yet, he’s just 55 yards shy of Steve Worster’s career total. Mike Ford, the runner? Yes, the SMU quarteback’s 36 completions in the 35-35 tie with Ohio State were the second most in a game in SWC history (SMU’s Chuck Hixson completed 37 his sophomore year against Ohio State), but consider Ford’s running game against the Buckeyes: Ron Meyer says Ford cal led six quarterback running plays, scored touchdowns on three of them, made crucial first downs on two more, and ran over the tying two-pointer on the last. TCU’s Craig Richardson has caught 23 passes in two and a half games — he didn’t have one thrown toward him against Oregon or in the second half against Penn State — making him one of the busiest re ceivers among SWC running backs. Top receiver among running backs in SWC history was Rice’s James Sykes, who caught 76 in 1976 — just four off the SWC record posted by SMU’s Jerry Levias in 1968. WHEN YOU BUY A CALCULATOR, THINK ABOUT WHO’S GOING TO TAKE CARE OF IT. 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