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Sports
Smith helps Cards
‘Wiz’ by Dodgers
with late homerun
Associated Press
ST. LOUIS — Ozzie Smith, the
least likelv man in the St. Louis
lineup, homered with one out in the
ninth inning to give the Cardinals a
S-2 victory over Los Angeles in the
pivotal fifth game of the National
League playof fs Monday.
With the victory, the Cardinals
swept the three games in their home
park and took a 3-2 lead as the best-
of-seven series heads back to Los-
Angeles.
The homer came on a 1-2 pitch
f rom Tom Niedenfuer and was the
first that the switch-hitting Smith has
hit batting left-handed in 2,968 ca
reer at-bats. He had only six homers
this season.
After an off day, the series re
sumes Wednesday afternoon at
Dodger Stadium. In a rematch of
Game 2, won by the Dodgers 8-2,
Los Angeles will start right-hander
Orel Hershiser against the Cardi-
nals’ Joaquin Andujar.
Before Smith’s dramatic homer
Monday, the two teams had played a
2-2 tie after Bill Madlock’s two-run
home run for the Dodgers in the
fourth inning.
In and out of trouble. Dodger
left-hander Fernando Valenzuela fi
nally left after throwing 132 pitches
through eight innings, and Nieden
fuer, who saved Game 1 for Valen
zuela, came in to pitch.
He got W'illie McGee to foul out to
third and ran the count to a ball and
two strikes on Smith before the
slightly built shortstop launched one
into the second deck in right field,
bringing his teammates rushing onto
the field and eliciting a huge ovation
from the 33,708 at Busch Stadium.
Tommy Herr gave the Cardinals
their only two other runs in the
game with a two-run double in the
first inning, and Madlock evened it
up in the fourth. It w-as the most clo
sely contested game of the series. In
fact, it was the only game decided af
ter the sixth inning and only the sec
ond game of the playof fs decided af
ter the third.
The winning pitcher was Cardinal
bullpen ace Jeff Lahti, the fourth St.
Lotus pitcher of the day, who retired
-the Dodgers in order in the ninth.
Valenzuela pitched eight innings,
giving up four hits and two runs
with seven strikeouts and eight
walks. The walks established an NL
alavof f record, surpassing the six al-
owed in 1974 bv Pittsburgh’s Bruce
Kison and in Game 3 of this series by
the Dodgers’ Bob Welch.
The Cardinals played their sec
ond straight game of the series with
out left fielder Vince Coleman,
whose left leg was injured Sunday
when he was partially trapped under
the machine that tolls the tat p onto
the field.
“I wouldn’t wish what happened
to me on my worst enemy," said Co
leman, whose only real injuries were
scrapes and bruises. He could play
Wednesday in Los Angeles.
Cardinals right-hander Bob
Forsch, a spot starter this year, lasted
only 3 1/3 innings before he was re
lieved by left-hander Ken Dayley af
ter giving up the tying runs in the
fourth inning. The 35-year-old
Forsch is the senior member of the
Cardinals, having been with the club
since 1974.
Cards Manager Whitey Herzog
elected to go with Forsch on Monday
instead of bringing back Andujar on
three day’s rest. Andujar was inef
fective in losing Game 2 in Los An
geles, going 4 1/3 innings and giving
up six runs on eight hits.
In Game 1, Valenzuela had to
pitch his way out of minor trouble in
the first two innings. I his time, he
was only half as lucky. And this time,
the trouble was of his own doing, the
result of wildness.
Valenzuela walked Willie McGee
on a 3-2 pitch to start the first in
ning. McGee checked his swing just
in time to avoid striking out, and the
next batter. Smith, walked on four
pitches. Valenzuela then threw a
strike to Herr before the Cards’ RBI
leader pulled a ground double down
the left-field line.
McGee scored easily and Smith
ran through the “stop” sign of third-
base coach Hal Lanier to score as Pe
dro Guerrero’s throw from left field
sailed over the head of catcher Mike
Scioscia. Valenzuela backed up the
See Cards Win, page 9
Aggies muddle to blase win
Photo bvjriHWtAKELY
Texas A&M middle blocker Sherri Brinkman teamwork to dig this ball Monday afternoon. The
(right) and setter Chris Zogata (left) use a little Aggies defeated Hofstra 15-5, 15-9, 15-8.
By CHAREAN WILLIAMS
Assistant Spoi ls Editor
Aside from being a win, it
wasn't an\ thing special.
The No. 17 T exas A&M volley
ball team slopped its way to an
other easv victory Monday af
ternoon in C’>. Rollie While
Coliseum, defeating Hofstra 15-
5, 13-9 and 15-8.
"It was just sort of blah," A&M
Coach Terry Condon said.
“T here really wasn’t that much to
it. I wish we could have been
more tlashv and run more plays.”
T he Aggies' “blahs" came f rom
playing a Top 10 team that could
dig. block and spike anything, to
playing a Bottom 10 team that
served underhanded and could
hit only junk balls.
“The way they played affected
us a bunch," A&M middle
blocker Stacey Smith said. "We
didn't know they were so radical.
It was like playing beach ball.
We’re just not used to playing
that kind of ball."
The Aggies, now 14-3, were
still riding emotionally high, after
upsetting No. 9 Purdue last Fri
day, yvhen they had to take the
floor against the Flying Dutchwo
men.
Flying Who?
"It (Hofstra) was a totally dif
ferent team," Condon said. “It’s a
different caliber of play. You al-
yvavs have a big letdown after a
big yvin. They had heard Hofstra
yvasn’t that good, so they didn’t
prepare mentally to play.”
The Aggies' poor serving game
shows just hoyv mentally out of
the match they yvere.
“Those are mental mistakes,”
Condon said. “We just aren’t con
centrating. We yveren't into the
match.”
All added up, the Ags had 14
serving errors.
“Is that all,” asked A&M out
side hitter Stacey Gildner. “I
thought we had more than that.”
The Flying Dutchwomen
couldn’t serve either, and yvhen
they did, it was underhanded.
They could bump, block and dink
but that yvas about the extent of
their game.
It was just kind of slow paced
out there," Cildnet said. "It s
hard to play like that after you’ve
played a fast paced team. It's
hard to get back into it. They only
hit (spiked) a couple of times.
When they did. they put it dow n.”
I he Aggies put a few down
themselves.
A&M middle bloc ket Sherri
Brinkman led the Ags with a .705
hitting percentage and 13 kills.
Gildner had 10 kills while* hitting
.473 and Smith hit .285 yvith 10
kills.
"It just yvasn’t a good day,”
Gildner said. "It was like going
through practice yvhen you
don’t really yvant to.”
I Tie Aggies are going to ha\ e
to want to play better because the
level of competition won’t make
them play any belter for ayvhile.
It’s Rice tonight at 7:30. a team
that lost to I lofstra.
"But Rite yvill play a lot belter
against us." Smith said. “Eve
ryone’s always up for A&M.
Fhey’d love to l>eat us. It’s a con
ference game and yve can’t slack
up at all. You never know what’s
up. It might be just like Sam
(Houston State, who upset the
Aggies in the first match of the
year)."
Condon thinks the Hofstra
match may have cleared the
"blahs."
"May Ik* it yvas good to play this
bad uxlay." Condon said. “We'll
lx* a lot better prepared to plav
against Rice. It's a conference
game. We’ll be alright. I’m not
worried.”
AGGIE NOTES:
Alter Rice, A&M will play its
third consec utive match when its
hosts Texas Southern Wednesday
night at 7:30. . . . Outside hitter
Michelle Whitwell had a "perfect
day” Monday, going three-for*
three in kills. . . . Laura Hoppe
Kelli Kellen and Dena Zaleskyare
celebrating birthdays this week...
. Cal-Poly SLO, unranked in the
NCAA poll but ranked No. 7 in
the fachikara poll, should be
moving up this week with wins
over UCLA and Pacific.
Freshmen & Sophomores!
Whaf s the matter:
You Chicken?
Everybody does it!
Freshmen afld Sophomores
have one mor e wee k to get
their yearbook pictures taken.
October 14-18
The Studio is located above
Campus Photo Center at
Northgate.
No pictures will be taken at the Pavilion this year.