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Cards nip Giants 1-0 to remain alive
ST. LOUIS (AP) — John Tudor,
Todd Worrell and Ken Dayley shut
down the San Francisco Giants on
six hits Tuesday night and a fluke
triple in the second inning set up the
only run as the St. Louis Cardinals
held on for a 1-0 victory, forcing the
National League playoffs to a deci
sive seventh game.
Tudor worked around six hits
and two walks in TVs innings. Wor
rell came on to finish the eighth and
struck out Will Clark leading off the
ninth. When pinch-hitter Harry
Spilman was announced, Cardinals
Manager Whitey Herzog brought in
left-hander Ken Dayley and put
Worrell in right field.
Dayley struck out pinch-hitter
Chris Speier and got Jose Uribe on a
grounder as the Cardinals avoided
elimination.
A noisy crowd of 55,331 also got
into the action, throwing a cowbell
and a drink at Giants left fielder Jef
frey Leonard. The game was
stopped twice while umpires and se
curity officials sought to find those
tormenting Leonard, who made de
rogatory remarks about St. Louis
fans last week.
Standout defensive plays by cen
ter fielder Willie McGee and third
baseman Terry Pendleton frustrated
the Giants, thwarting their first trip
to the World Series since 1962.
The Giants’ defense made one
mistake, and it was right fielder
Candy Maldonado’s slip on a line
drive by Tony Pena leading off the
second that cost them the game.
Maldonado sunk to his knees, hav
ing possibly lost the ball in the lights,
and it sailed over his head for a
triple. Jose Oquendo followed with a
fly ball to Maldonado in medium
right, and Pena ran around catcher
Bob Melvin’s tag to score.
Game 7, the first time the NL
playoffs have gone the limit, will be
held tonight. Danny Cox, the loser
in Game 4 for St. Louis, will oppose
Atlee Hammaker, who got a no-deci-
sion in the third game.
Tudor and Dave Dravecky, who
shut out St. Louis on two hits in
Game 2, dueled for most of the cool,
clear night. Tudor, frequently in
trouble but never caught, struck out
six and threw 118 pitches.
Dravecky may have been even bet
ter, allowing only five hits. He struck
out a season-high eight and walked
none.
The Giants put the leadoff man
on base in four innings against Tu
dor, yet never got a runner past sec
ond base.
In the second, Clark walked with
one out and Bob Melvin followed
with the first of his three singles.
Uribe then lined a drive to deep left-
center, but McGee raced into the al
ley and backhanded the ball on the
Lady Ags
face 'Horns
on the road
The Texas A&M volleyball
team will be seeking its first
Southwest Conference win of the
year when it takes on the Univer
sity of Texas tonight at 7:30 at the
Frank Erwin Center in Austin.
The Lady Aggies, 9-14 overall
and 0-2 in SWC play, will face a
tough challenge in the 9-6 Lady
Longhorns, who are ranked 10th
in the NCAA Top 20 poll and
have a SWC mark of 2-0 with
wins over Baylor and Texas
Tech.
“Texas is tough to beat in Aus
tin,” A&M Coach A1 Givens said.
“We’re going in with the attitude
that this is the situation we need
in order to get back on the win
ning track. Traditionally, A&M-
UT matches have been dogfights
and there’s nothing for sure
when these two teams meet.”
After meeting Texas, the Lady
Aggies will head to Waco for a
match with Baylor Friday night at
7:00. A&M will return home to G.
Rollie White Coliseum Oct. 20 to
tangle with the Fighting Irish of
Notre Dame.
Flutie returns home; Bears trade
Heisman winner to New England
FOXBORO, Mass. (AP) — Doug
Flutie, still seeking professional suc
cess after 2V4 rough years on the
road, returned to his roots and root
ers on Tuesday when the New En
gland Patriots obtained him from
the Chicago Bears.
Fans who cheered the Heisman
Trophy-winning quarterback at Bos
ton College may welcome him back,
but there is no guarantee his path
will be smooth.
Flutie intends to cross the picket
line during the National Football
League strike and, despite less than
a week of practice, he was named
Tuesday by Coach Raymond Berry
as the starter Sunday against the
Houston Oilers.
Once the strike is over, Flutie will
have to squeeze into an already
crowded Patriots quarterback corps.
None of those potential problems
were enough to shatter Flutie’s
dream of coming back home. That
became a reality when the Bears
traded him for an undisclosed draft
choice.
Flutie, a long-time resident of Na
tick, Mass., said he was sympathetic
with the strike and New England is
the only team he would have agreed
to play for during the walkout.
“There was a lot of agonizing,”
Flutie said. “I didn’t want to come in
under a strike situation and be pre
sumed to come in and take some
body’s job. . . . The only way I can
explain it is this is my only opportu
nity (to return to New England.)”
He said he didn’t think it was right
for players to cross picket lines, “but
in my situation I think it was a move
I had to make” to get a chance to
play in the NFL.
The Patriots, who passed up seve
ral chances to pick Flutie in the 1985
NFL draft, were eager to find a
quarterback who could produce bet
ter than Bob Bleier, their starter in
the two replacement games.
“We need to improve our quar
terback play,” Berry said. “Our aim
is to win. We will continue to try and
upgrade our team any way we can at
any position and at any time.”
Amid indications that post-strike
rosters will be increased from 45 to
49 players. Berry said the Patriots in
tend to keep four quarterbacks.
They already have Tony Eason,
Steve Grogan and Tom Ramsey.
and an interception in those con
tests.
Other than a hefty salary, Flutie
hasn’t had many breaks since the
1984 season, when at Boston College
he set numerous school passing re
cords and dazzled crowds with his
scrambling ability.
Flutie led the Eagles to a 45-28
Cotton Bowl victory over Houston
on Jan. 1, 1985, then was rushed
into the United States Football
League as the quarterback for the
New Jersey Generals and as a hope
of reviving that troubled league. He
broke his collarbone in the ninth
game and missed the rest of the sea
son.
The Los Angeles Rams took him
in the 11th round of the 1985 NFL
draft but he never played for them.
They traded him on Oct. 14, 1986,
to Chicago.
New England, 2-2, has split its two
games with replacement players.
Bleier, who played Division I-AA
ball at Richmond and was the last
quarterback cut in this year’s train
ing camp, has completed 14 of 39
^ards,
passes for 181 yards, a touchdown
He played in four regular-season
games last year, starting only the fi
nale when he threw two touchdown
passes in a victory over Dallas. But
he completed just 11 of 31 passes in
a first-round playoff loss to Wash
ington.
In the Bears’ training camp last
summer he was one of five quar
terbacks competing for jobs.
Ducks grace AP poll for first time in 17 years
From the Associated Press
Oregon Coach Rich Brooks,
whose Ducks made the Associated
Press college football poll Tuesday
for the first time in 17 years, admits
even he couldn’t have predicted the
early success of his young and inex
perienced team.
“I’m not shocked, but I am sur
prised,” Brooks said of the No. 16
Ducks. “We couldn’t have gotten to
4-1 if we didn’t believe we could do
it. But to predict that was impossi
ble.”
Oklahoma, Nebraska and Miami
remained in the top three positions
for the third consecutive week, while
Notre Dame dropped out of the Top
Ten.
The Ducks, 4-1 after successive
victories over perennial Pac-10 pow
ers Washington and Southern Cal,
have surprised everyone. They are
preparing to battle No. 9 UCLA for
the conference lead Saturday in Pa
sadena, Calif.
Oregon last appeared in the AP
poll of Nov. 9, 1970, when it was 6-3
and ranked No. 19. There were few
clues that the Ducks, who last year
were 3-5 in Pac-10 play last year and
5-6 overall, would be Pac-10 con
tenders this season.
Oregon began this season with an
untested and young quarterback,
redshirt freshman Bill Musgrave, re
placing Chris Miller, a first-round
NFL draft pick.
Nebraska crushed Kansas 54-2
and received seven first-place ballots
and 1,122 points. The other six first-
place votes went to Miami, which
beat Maryland 46-16 and earned
1,111 points.
Musgrave responded beyond ev
eryone’s expectations, completing 85
of 130 passes in his first five colle
giate games for 1,176 yards, 11
touchdowns and only three intercep
tions.
Oklahoma remained No. 1 in the
AP poll after defeating Texas 44-9.
The Sooners received 47 of 60 first-
place votes and 1,184 of a possible
1,200 points from the AP’s nation
wide panel of sports writers and
sportscasters.
Notre Dame, ranked No. 4 last
week, fell to 11th place after it was
upset by Pitt 30-22.
Meanwhile, Florida State ham
mered Southern Mississippi 61-10 to
go from sixth place back to fourth
with 935 points. Auburn remmained
No. 5 with 934 points following a 48-
15 decision over Vanderbilt.
LSU went from seventh to sixth
with 901 points by defeating Georgia
26-23, while Clemson moved up
from eighth to seventh with 880
points after beating Virginia 38-21.
Tennessee was idle but improved
from 10th place to eighth with 752
points, while idle UCLA improved
from 11th to ninth with 713 points.
Ohio State, No. 9 last week, lost to
Indiana 31-10 and dropped to No.
17.
Defending national champion
Penn State broke into the Top 10 for
the first time this season after beat
ing Rutgers 35-21.
The Second Ten is Notre Dame,
Oklahoma State, Syracuse, Florida,
Arkansas, Oregon, Ohio State,
Georgia, Michigan State and In
diana.
Last week it was UCLA, Michigan,
Arizona State, Penn State, Alabama,
Georgia, Syracuse, Florida, Okla
homa State and Arkansas.
Michigan fell to Michigan State
17-11, Arizona State lost to Wash
ington 27-14 and Alabama was upset
by Memphis State 13-10.
Michigan State entered the Top
Twenty after a three-week absence
and Indiana made the rankings for
the first time since the final 1979
poll. The Hoosiers had not beaten
Ohio State in 31 contests.
Sampson nears accord with Rockets owner
HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston
Rockets, with one Twin Tower al
ready signed to a long-term contract,
were scheduled to meet Tuesday
with Ralph Sampson to discuss a six-
year, $12 million contract
that the Rockets would re-sign the 7-
4 forward.
Sampson came to Houston over
the weekend and met with owner
Charlie Thomas. Sampson’s agent,
Gene Perry, arrived Monday to meet
with General Manager Ray Patter-
Patterson has said since Sampson
became a free agent after last season
“We’ve said all along that Ralph is
a vital part of our ballclub,” Patter
son said. “I look forward to meeting
with Gene.”
The Portland Trail Blazers have
offered Sampson a six-year, $12 mil
lion contract, while co-Twin Tower
Akeem Olajuwon signed a guar
anteed contract prior to last season
that will pay him $2 million annually
through 1998.
Sampson and starting forward
Rodney McCray are the only un
signed Rockets. The two have
missed the first five days of Rockets
preseason workouts.
McCray is represented by Howard
Slusher, who said he hadn’t heard
from Patterson.
“He hasn’t called,” Slusher said. “I
have three secretaries and I return
all my calls. The last time I talked to
Mr. Patterson, he said he would get
back with me. Well, I’m still waiting.”
Sampson missed 39 games last
season with injuries after missing
only three games in the previous
three seasons.
McCray reportedly is seeking a $1
million per year contract and the
Rockets are offering $700,000 an
nually.
Slusher would not confirm the
figures.
“But if you’re asking me a hypo
thetical question — do I consider
$300,000 a big difference — then
the answer is yes,” Slusher said.
The Rockets open their exhibition
season Friday night in The Summit
against the Boston Celtics.
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