Thursday, October 16, 1986/The Battalion/Page 7
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Red Sox maul
Angels, clinch
berth in series
Clemens, Rice pave way
in Game 7 win for Red Sox
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston
Red Sox, with pitching ace Roger
Clemens leading the way, thrashed
the California Angels 8-1 Wednes
day night to win Game 7 of the
American League playoffs and a trip
to the World Series.
Boston completed its comeback
from a 3-1 deficit in the series in sur
prisingly easy fashion and put a
crushing end to the season for the
Angels.
Clemens’ four-hit pitching into
the seventh inning and a towering
three-run homer by Jim Rice helped
deny California the first pennant in
its 26-year history, and also re
routed Mauch’s plans for his first
World Series in 25 years of manag
ing.
The Red Sox, aided by two crucial
errors, knocked out John Candelaria
in the fourth in taking a 7-0 lead.
They then cruised into their World
Series showdown with the New York
Mets, who won the National League
pennant earlier in the day by beating
Houston in six games. Game 1 will
be Saturday night in New York.
Mauch, whose team had been
within one strike of the
championship on Sunday, had said
after losing Game 6 that the decisive
game would show which team knew
how to win when it had to — and it
did, as another one of his teams col
lapsed under pressure.
Clemens found the groove early
in the 56-degree night and was
never in serious trouble, striking out
three while walking just one.
Clemens gave up a leadoff single
to Ruppert Jones in the seventh and
was relieved by Calvin Schiraldi.
Clemens walked off the field to a
thunderous ovation and chants of
“Roger, Roger.” Schiraldi allowed an
RBI double to Doug DeCinces with
two out. But he struck out the side in
the ninth.
The Angels, meanwhile, kept up a
pattern of misplays that belied their
experience-laden team. Miscues by
shortstop Dick Schofield and center
fielder Gary Pettis made the first
seven runs unearned and gave Cali
fornia eight errors in the series, ty
ing for the most ever by one club in a
playoff series.
Marty Barrett, Boston’s second
baseman was voted the series most
valuable player. He went ll-for-31
in the series with five runs batted in
and his 11 hits tied a playoff record.
Jones gave the eager crowd of
33,001 a scare when he hit Clemens’
first pitch of the game to the warn
ing track in center field, where Dave
Henderson caught it.
Clemens then settled in and, de
spite not throwing as hard as he
usually does, went on to win for the
first time in five starts, ending his
longest winless streak of the year.
Rice, just 4-for-27 in the series,
led off the second with a grounder
to the hole that Schofield fielded but
overthrew into Boston’s dugout for a
two-base error. With Boston reliev
ers waving towels in the bullpen to
stir up the crowd, a single by Don
Baylor and a walk to Evans loaded
the bases, and Rich Gedman’s RBI
groundout advanced the runners.
With two outs, Wade Boggs, who
led the majors with a .357 average
but was only 6-for-26 in the series to
that point, hit a liner up the middle
that caromed off the second-base
bag and flew into short right field
for a two-run single that made it 3-0.
No. 8 Longhorns fend off Aggies
By Danny Myers
Sports Writer
The 20th-ranked Texas A&M volleyball
team dropped its record to 15-5 and 3-1 in
Southwest Conference play with a hard-
fought loss to the University of Texas 14-
16, 13-15, 16-14, 9-15 Wednesday night in
G. Rollie White Coliseum.
“They knew (we) were in a match,”
A&M Head Coach A1 Givens said.
“It could have very easily been 3-1 the
other way. It seehis like they just got all of
the rolls!”
The first game was close the whole way.
The Aggies were behind throughout
most of the game, but managed to tie the
score at 14-14. However, they weren’t able
to hold on as the Longhorns took the first
game by winning the last two points.
Game two looked much like the first
one, with UT winning 15-13.
And the Aggies looked like they would
go down in straight games when they were
down 7-13, and later 10-14, in the third
game.
But the season-high crowd of 2,078
came to life and the Aggies fended off four
match points and won the game 16-14.
The Longhorns must have taken the lost
game and the crowd harassment person
ally as they roared to a 9-1 lead in the
fourth game.
A&M came back within striking distance
by cutting UT’s lead to 10-7, but the
comeback in the third game may have
drained them as they fell in the final
game 9-15.
“(The Longhorns) are too good of a
team to spot seven or eight points a game,”
Givens said.
“They’re definitely a good team, that’s
why they’re ranked eighth, but they defi
nitely didn’t manhandle us either,” he said.
“I feel good about our performance, but
you’re never satisfied with a loss.”
Aggie outside hitter Cheri Steensma
said the team was upset about the loss.
“We’re down because we lost and we
know we could’ve beaten them,” she said.
“We beat ourselves. We thought we
could come back, we’re used to coming
from behind.”
Texas Volleyball Head Coach Mick Ha
ley said the Aggies played excellently.
“They have one of the best defenses
we’ve seen this year,” he said. “They just
kept digging.”
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A&M’s Yvonne Van Brandt reacts to her
play as she hits the volleyball during the
Photo by
Aggies’ loss to No. 8 Texas in G.
White Coliseum Wednesday night.
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