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Texas A&M Battalion Sports Thursday, July 14, 1983AThe Battalion/Page 9 ew face, old arm oost hot Astros past Montreal, 9-4 K United Press International ■ HOUSTON — George ; Bjorkman said he was satis- • fled just to be catching for i Astros pitcher Nolan Ryan jBid his first major league |:home run was a bonus. K Bjorkman — who drove in i five runs with a three-run ; homer, a single and a squeeze Hint — was playing in just his • third major-league game in T- Houston’s 9-4 triumph over He Montreal Expos Wednes- I ni s ht - I “I am so grateful to Bob I Rllis and the Houston Astros ; for giving me a chance to play ■H the big leagues,” he said. ! “By far this game is the biggest pHrill of my baseball career. ■ “Just getting to catch Nolan t Hvan was enough, but hit my i first major league home run Just made it a great night,” Hid Bjorkman, a new arrival ■ Horn the Tucson, Ariz., Paci fic Coast League club. B Ryan, 9-1, has not lost since - lApril 22 and the 8-game win- Brendj s t rea k is a personal re cord for the veteran right- Hnder. In eight innings, it is opei|R yan yielded five hits, walked i a hobbyjthree and struck out five. Bill r equipiffi Dawley pitched the ninth. I Ryan felt he could have [done better. ■ “I didn’t feel I had my real “"Hod stuff tonight, but the [club scored a lot of runs for Re and I was able to stay around for eight innings,” he Tid. Montreal pitcher Gary [arter remained optimistic. “I feel we are a much better am than what we have appellate«| s h own so far,” he said. “For- :i Rogers *1 tunate ly not many other met thekfP 31 ™ in our division have had irt saidit"! 3 rea i hot streak. We have 79 pie mattei j ecked' 1 lied with a disregard Houston’s Jose Cruz got a two-run triple in the third games left, almost half a sea son to improve and show ev erybody we are the team to beat. The Astros sent nine men to the plate in the third, scor ing five runs and chasing Montreal starter Charlie Lea, 6-6. The big hit in the inning was a two-run triple by Jose Cruz. Bjorkman produced his first RBI of the game with a perfect squeeze and Ray Knight also drove in a run with a single. The fifth run came on Phil Garner’s fiel der’s choice grounder. The Expos had taken a 1-0 lead in the third when Chris Speier lined a triple and scored on Lea’s single. Mon treal added runs in the fifth and sixth on solo home runs by Tim Wallach and Andre Dawson. Speier added an RBI single in the ninth. Houston iced the game in the seventh. Major leagues American League division races sticky after 3 big sweeps United Press International Despite impressive series sweeps by three American League teams, the division races look as cluttered as ever. At Chicago, Harold Baines snapped a 1-1 tie with an RBI double in the seventh inning and Lamarr Hoyt scattered seven hits Wednesday night to help the White Sox complete a three-game series sweep with a 5-1 triumph over the Cleveland Indians. At Baltimore, Cal Ripken hit his second career grand slam to power the Orioles to a 6-2 vic tory over the Oakland A’s and a sweep of their three-game set. At Detroit, John Grubb’s RBI single ignited a six-run sixth that broke open a tight pitching duel and helped the Figers complete a three-game thrashing of Cali fornia with a 7-1 victory over the Angels. The sweeps left the White Sox in second place in the AL West, a half-game behind first-place Texas, while Baltimore and De troit are tied for second in the East, two games behind Toronto. The Tigers outburst came at the expense of Bruce Kison, 8-3, who entered the sixth inning with a four-hitter. Detroit’s Dan Petry, 8-6, captured his first vic tory at Tiger Stadium in nearly eight weeks. In other AL games, Seattle downed Boston 6-4, Milwaukee topped Texas 6-2, Minnesota tripped New York 6-1 and Kan sas City edged Toronto 5-4. In the National League, it was Pittsburgh 7, San Francisco 6; Atlanta 5, Philadelphia 2; Cin cinnati 3, New York 1; San Diego 5, Chicago 4; St. Louis 6, Los Angeles 5. BREWERS 6, RANGERS 2 — At Arlington, Texas, Bob McClure notched his fifth straight victory and Ted Sim mons drove in two runs with a double and a single to pace Mil waukee. The Rangers have lost six of their last seven. MARINERS 6, RED SOX 4 — At Boston, Rick Nelson ho- mered and drove in a pair of runs and Spike Owen slammed his first major-league home run to lead Seattle. Jim Beattie, 8-5, picked up the victory while Bill Caudill registered the final two outs for his 17th save. TWINS 6, YANKEES 1 — At Minneapolis, Tom Brunansky went 4-for-4 and Ken Schrom E itched 8 2-3 strong innings to :ad the Twins and spoil the re turn of Ron Guidry. Guidry, 10- 5, was making his first appear ance since June 22, when he was sidelined with back spasms. ROYALS 5, BLUE JAYS 4 — At Kansas City, Mo., George Brett collected three hits, in cluding one to ignite a three-run inning, helping the Royals snap Toronto’s five-game winning streak. Jim Sundberg and Texas drop sixth of last seven. Territorial rule said helpful USFL’s top 2 boast locals United Press International DENVER — Give the Michi gan Panthers and Philadelphia Stars credit for knowing the ter ritory — especially their own ter ritory. One of the bylaws that sets the United States Football League apart from the estab lished National Football League is the territorial assignment of schools. Before a football had ever been snapped in the USFL’s in augural season, the Stars were awarded Penn State, North Carolina, Temple and Delaware as their territorial schools while the Panthers were assigned Michigan, Michigan State, Cen tral Michigan, Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan. The USFL gave each of its 12 teams 26 selections from its ter ritorial schools and also the rights to all players from those schools who had been drafted by the NFL in the previous 13 years. Michigan and Philadelphia, the two participants in the USFL’s inaugural champion ship game Sunday, were ob viously two of the teams that best capitalized on their territories. The Panthers have 10 players on their roster from their territorial schools, including five starters, while the Stars have 13 such players, including seven star ters. But in addition to quantity from the territorial schools, the two USFL finalists boast quality. Former Penn State quarter back Chuck Fusina and former North Carolina running back Kelvin Bryant combined for bet ter than 80 percent of the Phi ladelphia offense this season. Fusina finished as the No. 5 pas ser in the league with 2,718 yards while Bryant finished as the No. 2 rusher with 1,442 yards. “The territorials have been a very, very good thing for our league,” Philadelphia General Manager Carl Peterson said. “Of course, I’m very biased. But we needed player identification in this league and that’s a quick way to do it. “Everyone in Philadelphia knows the Penn State players. Take Chuck Fusina, for inst ance. Public relations-wise, it was a great move for us. Fusina finished as the runnerup for the Heisman Trophy (1978) while he was at Penn State.” Philadelphia’s other starters as a result of their territorial assignments are wide receiver Scott Fitzkee, defensive end Frank Case and defensive tackle Dave Opfar of Penn State; line backer John Bunting of North Carolina and guard Rich Garza of Temple. Michigan’s territorial talent includes its leading receiver (tight end Mike Cobb of Michi gan State), its leading tackier (linebacker Ray Bentley of Cen tral Michigan), its leading scorer (place-kicker Novo Bojovic of Central Michigan) and its most exciting player (Hanker Anthony Carter, an All-America at Michigan). “If we didn’t have his rights, I think Anthony Carter may have gone to the NFL,” Michigan General Manager Jim Spavital said. “And if he went to San Diego, for instance, he’d have been only one of 45 players to the average fan out there. But he’s No. 1 here in Michigan. People followed him during his brilliant career at Michigan and they follow him now. He puts a lot of fans in seats for us.” Michigan’s other territorial starters are offensive tackle Chris Godfrey of Michigan and cornerback Clarence Chapman of Eastern Michigan. 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