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Monday, October 21, 1985/The Battalion/Page 7 Sports Bears show Aggies they’re 100% Cotton Cards win Game 2 in K.C., 4-2 St. Louis takes 2-0 lead in World Series Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Terry Pendleton turned from defensive hero to offensive hero Sunday night with a three-run double in the ninth inning that gave St. Louis a 4-2 victory over the Kan sas City Royals and a 2-0 lead in baseball’s 82nd World Series. Pendleton’s two-out double capped a four-run inning off Royals’ left-hander Charlie Lei- brandt, who carried a two-hitter into the inning. It put the Cardinals in com manding position to win their sec ond Senes in four years. Thirty-five times, teams have won the first two games in a Se ries, and 27 times, they have gone on to win. Game 3 will match Cardinals right-hander Joaquin Andujar, 21-12 during the season but largely ineffective the past month, against the Royals’ ace, 21-year-old right-hander Bret Sa- berhagen, 2()-(i. _ Willie McGee started the rally I with a double down the lef t field I line, only the third hit off Lei- ■ brandt. But McGee had to wait at I second while Ozzie Smith I grounded out and Tommy Herr I flew out to shallow right. ■ Jack Clark, whose two-out, three-run homer in the ninth in ning beat the Los Angeles Dodg ers on Wednesday and gave the I Cardinals the National League ■ pennant, took three balls before I he finally found one he could hit. I He pulled it into left field be- I tween third and shortstop, scor- I ing McGee with the first run of ■ the night for St. Louis. Tito Landrum followed with a I hloop double just fair down the I right field line, sending Clark to third, and Ceasar Cedeno was See Series, page 8 By BRANDON BERRY Sports Writer The green and gold motto located directly beneath the press box in Baylor Stadium said, “This Is Bear Country.” The Baylor defense believed it. BIJ quarterbacks Cody Carlson and Lorn Muecke believed it. And, in the final moments of the Beats’ 20-15 victory over Texas A&M, the of fi cials believed it. “You have to congratulate Bay- lot," A&M Coach Jackie Sherrill said. “1 hey played very well. They hung in there when they fell behind and came back and won the game.” But this game was lost in as many ways as it was won. Lite Aggies were penalized four times for 40 yards, threw three inter ceptions and lost two tumbles. 1 he record-setting A&M offense, which led the Southwest Conference with an average of 400 yards per game, sputtered through the first three quarters, coughed its way to three points at the beginning of the fourth quarter and died from ne glect in the closing moments of the game. “We didn’t produce,” A&M of fen sive guard Doug Williams said. “We can’t kick field goals. We have to score touchdowns.” In recent weeks, that statement could have been pertaining to the in consistencies in the A&M kicking game. If the offense didn’t score touchdowns, the offense didn’t score. However, junior kicker Eric Franklin enjoyed his most produc tive game of the season by hitting all three of his field goal attempts. The problem with Franklin’s ac curacy Saturday night was that the Aggies had no other functional weapons. A&M quarterback Kevin Murray suffered through his worst statistical performance in an Aggie uniform. He completed only 13 of 35 passes for 132 yards and was intercepted three times. Craig Stump, who replaced Mur ray with 2:35 remaining in the third quarter, fared almost as poorly* against the Bears as his predecessor, misfiring on all three of his pass at tempts. In fact, the only touchdown on (he Ags side of the ledger came on a 40-yard interception return by A&M safety Kip Con ington. Despite all the duds in the usually “fire( racket y” A&M of f ense, t he Ag gies actuallv took a 15-14 lead with 13 minutes remaining in the game on a 40 yard Franklin f ield goal. Lite score consummated a 57 yard drive, highlighted by a 16 yard scramble by Stump on third down and nine. But then the Bears began a 75 yard, 16 play odyssey that .wound through the Aggie defense and ended on the scoreboard over seven minutes later. Baylor converted two third downs on the drive, one of which was of “Mission Impossible” yardage, and scored the go-ahead I D on a fourth- down-and-inches play. But facing an earlier third down and 25, it seemed Ralph Stockemer, the Bears' short yardage running specialist who scored the game-win ner, would have been sitting safely on the bench with the rest of the Baylor offense, contemplating what should have been a Terry Siler field goal. Someone forgot to tell the B J’s Muecke, however. Baylor’s senior signal-caller passed complete down the right sideline to wingback Glen Pruitt, who had worked his way open be hind Corrington. Six plays later, the Bears were in the end/one aw/lhe driver’s seat. "1 hat was a big turning point in the game,” Corrington said, “but Baylor made the big plays and it was a hell of a big break for them. But you kind of make your own breaks.” BU’s Carlson said, “I know this sounds corny, but even when we needed 25 yards, we knew that somehow we would get it. A team of destiny makes its own breaks and that’s what you saw tonight.” Some of the other breaks that went the Baylor’s way included a questionable pass interference call in the first quarter, a Jimmie Hawkins fumbled punt in the third quarter and a Roger Vick fumble on the Bears’ 3-yard-line, when it appeared the Aggies were finally ready to cross the goal line instead of the goal posts. Miraculously, the Aggies could have actually made the Baylor road a little bumpier in the closing mo ments, but the most controversial call in a game of controversial calls came on a roughing-the-kicker pen alty against A&M with less than two minutes left. A&M’s Matt Gurley raced through the Baylor line and at tempted to block Buzzy Sawyer’s punt, but instead fell into Sawyer’s leg. The Aggies claimed Gurley was blocked into the kicker by a Baylor player, but the Bears received a first down and were able to run out the dock without running any more plays. And the Bears knew they were out of the woods and able to start talking Cotton Bowl. “We can’t hide it anymore,” Teaff said. “We’ve got the kind of team that will rise to the occasion. We’re a long ways yet, but this is one step closer than we were last week when we defeated SMU.” Sherrill reduced the game to its most essential elements. “The big plays — they made them and we didn’t,” Sherrill said, “we just didn’t throw and catch the ball and that’s something you have to do in a game like this. We finally got it going in the third quarter but our olfense didn’t do anything to take the pres sure off our defense. “We will bounce back from this and hopefully be ready to play next week.” And the Bears? “We’re a hundred percent Cot ton,” taunted a Baylor player to the Aggies after the game. “ ’Cause we believe.” And that seems to be doing the trick — in “Bear Country,” at least. 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