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Houston boosted its lead to two games over the Chicago Cubs and dropped the third-place Cardinals 5 1/2 games back with two weeks left in the regular season. The Astros and Cardinals play three more times in St. Louis next weekend. “You can’t start talking about scenarios,” Cardinals catcher Mike Matheny said. “We’re not going to give up. The guys in here believe in each other, and that’s what’s gotten us this far, and it’s going to contin ue to get us through the rest of this season.” It was the first sweep over the Cardinals for the Astros since a three-giune series in April 1997. “We came down here thinking we prettym. had to win two out of three,” the Cardinals’ Ke Robinson said. “That’s our approach to every sen but it just didn’t happen.” Redding (9-14) allowed one run and three hit six innings. He had been 0-5 in six starts since ha ing Florida on Aug. 1. The Astros scored an avea of 1.6 runs in those losses. Brad Lidge, Octavio Dotel and Billy Wat each pitched one hitless inning, with Wagner gel his 43rd save in 46 chances, his 21st in a row Dan Haren (3-6) lost his fifth straight decis allowing four runs and five hits in 3 2-3 innii He is 0-4 in six starts since defeating Pittsl on Aug. Tl So-cal w scu 2003 National League Standings CENTRAL Houston W 81 PCT 68 .544 OB Chicago 79 70 .530 2 St. Louis 76 74 .507 5.5 Pittsburgh 68 80 .459 12.5 Milwaukee 64 84 .432 16.5 Cincinnati 64 85 .430 17 “They did every better than we di Cardinals manager Tc La Russa said thought we’d come in and lose three, but we’ got to find a way tote the page, and we will.” Lance Berk man tnpk to start the second an scored on Rick Hidalgo’s sacrifice fly.at Houston made it 2-OirCi ‘volution. In doi ‘These games do end up counting more, because if you win three you're in great shape, and if you lose three you end up being in even more of a mess,” Astros third baseman Morgan Ensberg said. “You have to put them away, and we did in this series. It was a great series for us.” St. Louis has lost four straight overall, dropping to just two games over .500 at 76-74. “Obviously, it’s going to be tough,” Tino Martinez said. “But we’re not out of it yet. We’ve got... three more against these guys, so we’ve just got to stay in striking distance until they have to play us at home, and then maybe we can get back in it.” Houston outscored the Cardinals 20-6 and outhit them 29-13 in the three-game series. The Astros are 10-5 against St. Louis this season. third when Redding dev )n Biggie’s single. bled and scored Scott Rolen grounded into a run-scoring dour: play in the fourth. Biggio had a two-run single ins bottom half after Brad Ausmus singled and Air Everett was hit by a pitch. Notes: Jim Edmonds of the Cardinals ism l-for-22 slide. He had been hitless in ISat-ta before a ninth-inning single Saturday. Harenc; 1 Biggio at the start of the game. Biggio haslws his 24 times, tying Pittsburgh’s Jason Kendallfe the major league lead. This year’s NL CeninJis the first division race in 20 years that hslud three first-place teams in September: Horn Chicago and St. Louis. In September M. Montreal. Pittsburgh and Philadelphia eachkt the NL East. Arkansas whips up on Texas in upset By Jaime Aron THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Longhorns woke up Sunday with a strange feeling. For the first time since most of them pulled on a burnt orange jersey, they faced the morning- after regrets of a home loss. Texas was upset 38-28 Saturday by former nemesis Arkansas, ending a run of 20 straight wins at Royal Memorial Stadium. It had been the second-longest active streak in the country and goes down as the third-longest in school history, one shy of sec ond place. Kansas State was the last visiting team to win in Austin, doing so in October 1999 when fifth-year senior Bo Scaife was a true freshman. He’s the only player who played in both loss es; seven other current players redshirted that season. “This is very weird,” said receiver B.J. Johnson, a high school senior the last time it happened. “I don’t know how to handle this.” Actually, the Longhorns (1- 1) had nearly four quarters to prepare for it. They led only after their first drive, and not for very long as the Razorbacks (2-0) answered with a touch down. They scored again on their next possession and led by at least a touchdown the rest of the way. During the home winning streak, no team had scored more than 20 points. Arkansas had 21 at halftime. The Razorbacks finished with the most points by a visitor since October 1997 and became the first unranked foe to win in Austin since Texas Tech in November 1997. Arkansas had only one three-and-out possession, that coming on its first drive of the second half. The Razorbacks had a 46-yard touchdown run and a 60-yarder that set up the game-sealing field goal. They forced three fumbles, scoring off the first two while the third ruined a Texas drive that had reached the Arkansas 10. The Longhorns averaged only 2.1 yards on 29 rushes. Of their four touchdowns, one MIDHAT FAROOQI ins of life and I ivant high schoo came on defense and anoiltr came in a hurry-up offense j before halftime. The finall also came via quick-strike, fa luring a 55-yard pass Johnson. That leaves only sustained scoring drive, first one. All told, it was hard loti that the Longhorns came ranked No. 6 and I Razorbacks were supposed be also-rans in their conferen;; division. 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