Tuesday, October 9,1990
The Battalion
Page 9
Browns sneak up on Broncs
in final minutes to win 30-29
DENVER (AP) — Bernie Kosar drove the Cleveland
Browns to 10 points in the final 3:21 as the Cleveland
Browns came back from a nine-point deficit to beat
Denver 30-29 on Jerry Kuaric’s 30-field goal as time ex
pired.
After Denver had taken advantage of Cleveland
turnovers to score 10 points earlier in the fourth quar
ter to erase a 20-19 Browns lead, Kosar rallied Cleve
land. He hit a 24-yard pass to Vernon Joines on fourth-
and-2 from midfield, then threw his third touchdown
pass of the game, a 24-yarder to Brian Brennan with
3:21 to play.
Then, on the final drive which started with 2:04 left,
Kosar completed passes of 15 yards to Joines, 20 to
Reggie Langhorne and 15 to Brennan on a third-and-8
play to set up the winning field goal.
. Kosar completed 24 of 38 passes for 318 yards.
The win broke a three-game losing streak for the
Browns (2-3) and achieved a measure of revenge for
the team that lost to the Broncos three times in the last
four years in the AFC title game. In fact, Cleveland had
lost 11 of its last 12 to Denver.
Denver, which had five turnovers in a loss to Buffalo
last week, is also 2-3.
Mark Jackson scored on a 16-yard reverse and David
Treadwell kicked a 25-yard field goal as Denver took a
29-20 lead.
Until the late rally, it appeared that Denver would
win by the margin of a second-quarter safety, achieved
when Denver’s Simon Fletcher blocked a punt through
the Browns’ end zone. It was the third score against the
Browns on a punt block in two weeks. They gave up two
touchdowns on them last week in Kansas City.
Cleveland overcame that setback to lead 20-19 on two
Kozar touchdown passes and a 5-yard run by Eric Met
calf.
McWilliams
says Texas
must win
AUSTIN (AP) — Playing well
against Oklahoma doesn’t cut it
with Texas fans — the Longhorns
must win, Texas coach David Mc
Williams said Monday.
“Most of them expect this to be
a win-or-lose type game, because
it’s pretty much a grudge game,”
McWilliams said. “I think it’s one
you don’t want to play good in,
you’d like to win it. ... It’s special.”
In an 84-game series that be
gan in 1900, Texas has won 48,
Oklahoma 32, and there have
been four ties.
The 85th Texas-Oklahoma
meeting Saturday at the Cotton
Bowl in Dallas also will be the
45th consecutive sellout, which
now numbers 75,587.
Oklahoma is 5-0, Texas 2-1.
ESPN will televise the game,
with kickoff at 3 p.m. CDT.
Texas had lost four straight in
the series until edging Oklahoma
last year, 28-24, and McWilliams
said that could be a boost this Sat
urday.
“I don’t think there’s any ques
tion that ... you feel better about
going in knowing that, ‘Hey, we
played against them last year and
beat them, and basically it’s our
same guys going in’ — it’s got to
help, it’s got to help,” he told his
weekly news conference.
But he said the game is unique
in that “it doesn’t seem to matter
a whole lot what happened the
year before or what happened
earlier in the season or anything
else.”
McWilliams said the Sooners
are a “lot more explosive offen
sively” this season, and has a
strong veteran defense.
But he added, “I’ve never gone
into an Oklahoma game that I
didn’t feel like we had a chance to
win the football game, regardless
of what else had happened.
“This year, I think we’re going
in much better. We’re a better
football team, doing things a lot
better, and more experienced
football team.”
A big difference, and possible
Oklahoma advantage, is that it is
the Sooners’ sixth game. It’s only
the fourth for Texas, which has
had two open dates.
Don’t even try it, boys
Athletics’ attitude may
be warning to Red Sox
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A day
before the American League play
offs started, some Boston pitchers
went to a batting cage buried be
neath the Fenway Park bleachers to
take a few swings.
They wanted to brush up on their
hitting — or, in some cases, try it for
the first time — so they’d be ready to
bunt or whatever in the World Se
ries.
On their way, they walked past a
group of Oakland pitchers. The
Athletics didn’t say much, but their
stares did: Don’t bother, boys.
In actions and in words, these
Athletics seldom fail to get their
message across.
Fast forward to Game 1. Oakland
trailed 1-0 in the seventh inning, but
had a runner on first base, pinch hit
ter Jamie Quirk at the plate and
Rickey Henderson on deck.
Henderson hears everything the
crowd yells at him, and often talks
back. It’s how he relaxes, the way he
§ ets ready to make things happen.
o when a couple of guys in the
third-base box seats began razzing
him, Henderson stopped adjusting
his neon-green batting gloves and
turned around.
“It’s just a matter of time,” he said,
smiling.
Quirk singled, Henderson hit a ty
ing sacrifice fly and Oakland was on
its way. By the ninth, it was 7-1 when
Henderson walked to the plate with
the bases loaded and two outs.
Wait, one last piece of business be
fore leaving the artificial turf square
that serves as the on-deck area at
Fenway. He looked back at the same
seats, some of them now empty.
“It’s time,” he said, and then hit a
two-run single.
On to the aftermath of Game 2, a
4-1 victory Sunday night that put the
World Series champions in a famil
iar position — on track for another
sweep. Both teams are talking about
fun, in different ways.
“This is a winning team,” Willie
McGee said in the bustling Oakland
clubhouse. “I’ve played on winning
teams from the Little League on,
and there’s something about them
where they’re all pulling together.
It’s just fun to play on a team like
that.”
Across the way, in the quiet Red
Sox locker room, reliever Larry An
dersen presents another perspective.
“Let’s go out and have fun,” he
said. “If we get swept, everybody will
say, ‘See, I told you so.’ If we win,
then it’s a bonus.”
Cowboys celebrate season
IRVING (AP) — The Dallas
Cowboys were celebrating on
Monday their 100 percent im
provement over the 1989 season.
The Cowboys’ 14-10 victory
over Tampa Bay not only
doubled their victory total from
coach Jimmy Johnson’s NFL de
but last year, but uncovered the
heir apparent to the likes of Tony
Dorsett and Herschel Walker.
Emmitt Smith, a rookie first-
round draft pick from Florida,
E aid dividends on the $1 million
onus money he got from the
Cowboys.
“Emmitt made some great
runs,” said quarterback Troy Aik-
man. “It’s difficult to win just
throwing the football. Now with
Emmitt we have a balanced of
fense.”
Smith scored the game-win
ning touchdown in the fourth
quarter on a 14-yard run and
gained 121 yards on 23 carries. It
was the most yards rushing by a
Dallas running back since Walker
gained 134 against Cleveland in
1988.
Smith missed all of training
camp and had been slow to round
into form.
“I had a feeling Emmitt was
about to break loose and he did,”
Johnson said. “He’s a big-time
back who is only going to con
tinue to get better.”
Dallas only had one 100-yard
rushing game last year. It came
from Paul Palmer.
Poll
Continued from page 7
which didn’t play last week, was sec
ond with 14 first-place votes and
1,384 points.
Once-beaten Miami jumped six
spots to No. 3 with six first-place
votes and 1,324 points. Rounding
out the Top 10 are Oklahoma, Ten
nessee, Auburn, Nebraska, Notre
Dame, Florida and Florida State.
The No. 8 ranking is the lowest
for Notre Dame in two years.
Eight teams received first-place
votes, the most since 1985. Nebraska
received two, while Oklahoma, Ten
nessee, Florida and No. 12 Houston
each got one. All of those teams are
unbeaten, although Tennessee has
two ties and Auburn one.
Michigan’s ranking could also be
good news for Michigan State, which
plays the Wolverines on Saturday at
Ann Arbor. The last two times the
Wolverines were ranked first, they
lost their next game.
Mr I Up tCO
Team(Lst.Wk.)
1. Michigan(3)
2. Virginia(4)
3. Miami, Fla.(9)
4. Oklahoma(7)
5. Tennessee(6)
6. Auburn(5)
7. Nebraska(8)
8. Notre Dame(1)
9. Florida(IO)
10. Florida St. (2)
11. lllinois(13)
12. Houston<13)
13. Brigham Young(11)
14. Co[orado(12)
15. Clemson(16)
16. Southern Cal(15)
17. Washington(17)
18. Georgia Tech(23)
19. Oregon(22)
20. Texas A&M(19)
21. Arizona(25)
22. Indiana
23. Wyoming
24. Mississippi
25. Iowa
Record
3-1-0
5-0-0
3-1-0
5-0-0
3-0-2
3-0-1
5-0-0
3- 1-0
5-0-0
4- 1-0
3- 1-0
4- 0-0
4-1-0
4- 1-1
5- 1-0
4-1-0
4-1-0
4-0-0
4-1-0
4-1-0
4-1-0
4-0-0
6- 0-0
4-1-0
3-1-0
Michigan was No. 1 in the 1989
preseason poll, but lost its first game
Reds
Continued from page 7
starters Jose Rijo of the Reds and
Bob Walk of the Pirates go at it
again.
The Reds scored only 20 runs in
their last nine regular-season games
and showed no signs of breaking out
of it in the first two games, either.
Both teams, however, got their
wish in Game 3 as the skies were a
steely gray and the shadows of Fri
day’s mid-afternoon start were no
problem.
Hatcher opened the fifth with a
double and moved to third on win
ning pitcher Danny Jackson’s sacri
fice. Barry Larkin, in a 6-for-27
slump, reached on an infield single
with Hatcher holding at third.
Duncan then hit a hanging curve
over the left-field fence. The Reds
second baseman was 0-for-8 in the
playoffs and had only four hits in his
previous 30 at-bats.
Hatcher gave the Reds a 2-0 lead
when he homered to left after Joe
Oliver singled with two outs in the
second.
The Pirates traded Hatcher to the
Reds on April 3 for minor leaguers
Mike Roesler and Jeff Richardson.
Jackson was sharp in the first two
innings but then appeared to lose a
little velocity. The Pirates tied the
score with two runs in the fourth in
ning and it could have been worse.
Jay Bell led off with a double,
Andy Van Slyke walked and Bobby
Bonilla singled home a run. One out
later, Carmelo Martinez doubled to
to Notre Dame. After taking over
the top spot in 1977, the Wolverines
were beaten the following week by
Minnesota.
Michigan fullback Jarrod Bunch
says the No. 1 ranking will be a fac
tor against Michigan State.
“It’s more incentive for us to
uphold it and more incentive for
them to knock us off,” he said.
Prior to this week, no team with a
loss had been ranked No. 1 before
November. The earliest No. 1 rank
ing for a once-beaten school had
been Nov. 13, 1950, when Ohio
State took over the top spot with a 6-
1 record.
Ohio State, which was 20th last
week, is one of four teams' that
dropped out of the Top 25 after los
ing on Saturday. The others, with
last week’s rankings, are Michigan
State (18), Arkansas (21) and Fresno
State (24).
tie the score and Don Slaught was in
tentionally walked to load the bases.
But Jackson struck out Jose Lind
and got Smith on a bouncer back to
the mound to end the inning. The
Pirates had the bases loaded and two
outs in the fifth inning but Martinez
popped out to short.
Jackson, 6-6 during the season,
was replaced by Rob Dibble after
Lind doubled with one out in the
sixth. Dibble struck out pinch-hitter
Gary Redus and Jeff King to end the
threat.
On three occasions this season,
Jackson was on the disabled list but
he finished strong. In his final three
starts, the left-hander gave up five
runs in 21 innings.
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