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NntiirB MnJlRs, v. iPMs One -r' IT if 1 AM I Houston (UPI) This is the city Which has the medical center where the heart transplant was developed. The Philadelphia Phillies must have paid it a visit, Chastised for years as being a team without heart because of its series of failures in postseason competition, the Phillies battled back from incredible adversity Saturday to defeat the Houston Astros, 5-3, in 10 innings and set up a showdown game tonight (7 p.m., Channel 6) for the National League pennant. In a game that featured more controversies than a summer Softball game in the park, the Phillies rallied to win in the 10th on back-to-back run-scoring doubles by pinch-hitter Greg Luzinski and Manny Trillo, and overcame a controversial double play call that went against them in the fourth and deprived them of a potential big inning. "You would believe the team had no character if you turned the TV off early," said Phillies Manager Dallas Green.

"It's one of those frustrating games when we struggled early and didn't score runs. But we battled back. If anybody questioned the lack of character, I think the outcome proved differently." THE PHILLIES, seeking their first pennant since 1950, will send rookie Marty Bystrom to the mound in the final game of the best-of-five series tonight 1 Pete Rose of the Phillies slams 'score the winning run in th tenth onto the ball as Rose scored from Photo) ft. vv i i 7 rr 44t Wrr VJ145 (UPI PWSsI QUARTERBACK JIM KELLY (12) MEETS IRISH TACKLER JOHN HANKERD Notre Dame Defense Holds, Miami Missed The Field Goal Attempt E.JU. StjrMls.

Section The Indianapolis Star sunlUy, OCTOBER 12, 1980 Financial while the Astros, looking for their first pennant in the 19-year history of the franchise, will counter with Nolan Ryan. Saturday's game had a little bit of everything if you like weird happenings. Besides the controversial play in the fourth inning, the Astros had a potential run disallowed because the runner left too early and the Phillies got one run because the Astros threw home first instead of to first base to complete a double play in the eighth. "My appraisal is that it was indeed a strange game," said Astros Manager Bill Virdon. There was nothing strange, however, about the two runs the Phillies got in the K'-i into Houston catcher Bruce Bochy to inning Saturday.

Bochy couldn't hold first on Greg luzinski's double. (UPI ing-night patrons at Market Square Arena Saturday night. So what if it wasn't a very pretty victory? So what if the Pacers only played about 10 really good minutes of basketball out of 48? So what if they committed 27 errors and 25 fouls? So what if they were as flat as Twiggy standing in a hurricane? They still won. And they're further i IK oak fid By MAX STULTZ Star Sportswriter South Bend, Ind. Notre Dame crushed Miami (Fla 32-14, Saturday afternoon in a mismatch of previously unbeaten football teams as Harry Oliver kicked four field goals for the second straight week and senior Jim Stone ripped for 224 yards against the Hurricanes' vaunted defense.

Ranked No. 1 nationally against the rush, Miami spent a futile afternoon trying to fend off the thrusts of Oliver, who missed for the first time this season before getting back on target, and Stone, who assumed absolute control of the running attack in the absence of injured sophomore Phil Carter. Getting his first career start at tailback because of Carter's thigh injury, the 6-1, 198-pounder capped a brilliant effort with a 27-yard scoring sprint only nine seconds before the finish of the one-sided intersectionai collision. With Carter having missed tying Va-gas Ferguson's school record mark of 255 by only a yard last week and Stone sitting on 197, it was decided to give the Seattle (Wash.) veteran his shot at the double century mark. AND STONE GLEEFULLY accepted the opportunity, skirting right end for the climaxing touchdown with the Irish's fourth straight victory already indelibly printed in the record books.

"I was disappointed with their last touchdown," was all Miami Coach Howard Schnellenberger had to say about the final blow to the Hurricanes' pride. Having conquered four opponents, including highly regarded Florida State, while permitting a sparkling low average of 15 yards per game on the ground, the Hurricanes came into the battle the underdogs by only four points. And for almost 30 minutes they kept the Irish off the scoreboard. But fresh- See HUSH, Page 14 By BILL BENNER Star Sportswriter Bloomington, Ind. Indiana sure did a nice job of running and throwing the football Saturday.

Wisconsin didn't it couldn't. Just like two plus two equals four, that adds up to Indiana 24, Wisconsin 0. That's 0, as in zero, as in goose egg, as in absolutely nothin'. The Hoosier defenders definitely played themselves a splendid game. So did the Hoosier offenders.

"It was probably our best overall game in a long time," said Indiana Coach Lee Corso. so proud that he broke the unofficial record for hugs as his Hoosiers left the field afterward. It came at a nice time as, of course, all victories do. It was I.U.'s fourth in succession but, more importantly, evened its Big Ten record at 1-1 as it re-entered conference play. ALSO, THERE WERE 51,029 in Memorial Stadium for homecoming, and after the season-opening loss to Iowa and the just-enough effort against Duke last week, it was nice for the alumni to feel good about one.

To be honest, Wisconsin, now 1-4 and 0-2 in the Big Ten, isn't a very good football team. At least it wasn't Saturday. The Badgers have now collected just three field goals their four losses nine points in four games and their offense is as imaginative as that statistic suggests. Not that they really needed any, but the Indiana defense had plenty of incentive. It seems that some Wisconsin football players became a little loose-lipped last week and questioned in print the abilities of the Indiana defensive unit.

That proved to be a mistake, since a few of those newspaper clippings became required reading in the Indiana locker room. "Wisconsin was talking about us all week long, said linebacker Marlin Ev ans. "They said we weren't nothinV that we were sorry. So we just had to prove to them what Indiana is all about. See I.U., Page 12 By JOHN BANSCH Assistant Sports Editor West Lafayette, Ind.

Mark Herrmann scratched Minnesota's "Dog Defense" behind the ears for 30 minutes Saturday afternoon long enough to lead Purdue to a 21-7 Big Ten football victory. The Boilermaker quarterback had his best half of the 1980 season in the opening two periods completing 14 of 19 passes for 163 yards and two touchdowns. Herrmann finished with 16 completions in 23 attempts for 191 yards. The winners rolled to a 21-0 advantage at the break en route to their second conference victory in two starts this" autumn and third in five games. Tight end Dave Young was the recipient of both second quarter scoring tosses of 5 and 7 yards.

Each tune he was wide open as the Purdues destroyed Minnesota's two dog cover defensive scheme which centers around man-toman coverage underneath and two deep backs. IT IS THE SAME defensive format the Gophers used a year ago when they upset Purdue at Minneapolis. This time, the Purdues were ready. "We put in a lot of plays especially designed for the defense," Herrmann related after recovering from a jarring third period tackle hich sent him to the sideline with an aching head for the remainder of the cool, windy cloudy day "A year ago we weren't prepared for that defense but we were ready today." Herrmann's heroics, performed in front of a homecoming sellout crowd of 69.399. elevated him to fifth place in the NCAA career passing category.

He now has 7.376 yards as he moved past Ed Luther (San Jose St. I and Gene Swick See PURDUE, Page 12 Even 10th inning. That was just good old-fashioned hard-nosed baseball, with pugnacious Pete Rose leading the way. IT WAS ROSE who started the 10th-inning fireworks with a one-out single off losing reliever Joe Sambito and after Mike Schmidt flied out, Luzinski who had been angry at being left out of the starting lineup doubled into the left field corner as a pinch-hitter for Bake McBride. Rose, running on the hit, was waved home by third base coach Lee Elia but it appeared he would be thrown out as the relay throw had him beaten.

But catcher Bruce Bochy, a late-inning replacement for injured Luis Pujols, had trouble fielding the shortshop relay throw from Rafael Landestoy and juggled the ball as Rose crashed into him with the tie-breaking run. Trillo then doubled to left-center for an insurance run and Tug McGraw protected the lead by retiring the Astros in order in the 10th. "That was a perfect example of the beneficial play for the runner," said Rose. "Bochy was blocking the plate without the ball and there was no room for me to slide and when I saw him juggle it, I just went in straight up. It was a difficult play for Bochy.

Johnny Bench (a former teammate) would have had trouble with that play." ROSE GAVE ELIA a major share of the credit for the run that put the Phillies ahead. Elia had received much criticism in the Phillies' second-game loss to Houston when he failed to send McBride home in the eighth inning on a bloop single to right. "I give a lot of credit to our third base coach. He saw the relays were coming up short and he gave me the green light," said Rose. "If it wasn't for him, I would have stopped.

He showed plenty of courage in his decision." The Astros, who battled back from adversity all season, rallied for a run in the ninth off winner Warren Brusstar to tie it 3-3, forcing the third straight extra-inning game of the playoffs. Rafael Landestoy led off the ninth with a walk, was sacrificed to second by Sambito and scored on Terry Puhl's single to right. Held to only five hits by Vem Ruble and scoreless for 18' innings, the Phillies finally got their act together in the eighth by putting together four straight singles, including run-scoring hits by Rose and Mike Schmidt and a sacrifice fly by Trillo to overcome their early frustration. THE PHILLIES' victory was ensured, however, with a bad running play by Houston rookie Gary Woods in the sixth inning. Woods was called out on an appeal play for leaving the base too soon after he had apparently scored Houston's third run on a fly to right by Pujols.

That run the Astros didn't get proved to be decisive when the Phillies got things going in the eighth. Greg Gross, pinch-hitting for starter Steve Carlton, opened the inning with a single and See PHILS, Page 2 Place! above .500 than they've ever been in four years plus two games in their NBA History. THE LETDOWN for the Pacers, who now have won eight of nine games under Coach Jack McKinney (counting exhibitions) was predictable. "Now that it's over, if it was going to happen, this was the time for it," said McKinney afterward. "This was a team we had beaten easily twice (by 17 and 25 points in exhibitions) we had to get up at 6 this morning we flew in here and didn't practice we were just loggy.

"That's not making excuses. It's something we've got to get used to because it's going to happen all the time." The defensive play was what aggravated McKinney most as the Pacers let the Pistons to the base line far more often than should happen. He also couldn't be very happy with the foul situation which saw Indiana charged with personals on 12 shooting occasions. "We played defense rather poorly tonight," McKinney acknowledged, "and they know it." BUT IT WOULD be easy to make too much of the Pacers' mistakes and too little of their successes. After all, they did win and by 13 points.

There were some good numbers to go with the bad. They hit 43 of 88 floor shots for .489 and held the Pistons to 32 of 80 for .400. They won the boards by a 61-47 margin. Individually, they had some fine performances. George McGinnis went for 21 points and 17 rebounds despite running afoul of the law as enforced by Ralph Lembo (both a name and a geographical location) in the second half.

Johnny Davis had 18 points, nine assists and a game-long series of big offensive plays. Billy Knight, switching to forward for most of the second half, had 17 points and 13 rebounds. Centers James Edwards and See Pacers, Page 14 State, Big Ten Scores Anderson 58, Manchester Ashland 23, Franklin 18. Findlay 30, Earlham 0. Georgetown 14, Butler 7.

Hanover 24, Bluff too t. Illinois 20, Iowa 13. Indiana 24, Wisconsin I. Indiana State 19, Southern Illinois (. Michigan 27, Michigan State 23.

Notre Dame 32, Miami (Fla.) 14. Ohio State 63, Northwestern Purdue 21, Minnesota 7. Rose-Huiman 10, Olivet Nazarene 8. St Joseph's 34, Indiana Central 21. Valparaiso 35, DePauw 14.

Wabash 23, Washington 7. Wilmingtoa 30, Taylor 14. WHT 1,,:" MWDtANA POPS PtSTOWS, 100-87 Pacers In 1st By DAVE OVERPECK Guess who leads the NBA's Central Division? Now sit down. You may not be prepared for this. It's the Indiana Pacers.

Those erstwhile modicums of mediocrity are all alone atop the flight with a 2-0 record after a 100-87 victory over the Detroit Pistons before 9,756 home open to "WPWKC" J. i Lonnio Down The Middle Indiana tailback Lonnie Johnson (44) rushes for five yards and a first down in Saturday's Homecoming game against Wisconsin. Badger linebacker Dave Levinick is assisted by guard Tim Krumrie in making the stop. (UPI Photo) 1 pwwin vm mim ihii iwii mm- miiiiii I- Av. yy 'riiir I' v.

'J' (Star nm Mm CWrM Detroit's Kent Benson, the former Indiana University All-Americon Jrom New Castle, drives around Indiana Pacer demon Johnson for a first half bucket in Saturday night's NBA home opener at Market Square Arena. (AP Photo by Al Behrman) SPORTS Royals Return To Happy Toun Page St. Joe Hops Indiana Central Page INDEX 2 Arthur Ashe 9 Big Fish 10 bob Collins 3 Checkers Chat 7 Harness Highlights 17 lines And Shots 10 Pins potting 16 Prep Pourri 8 Shooting The Stors 8 3 PURDUE'S JIMMY SMITH SHAKES LOOSE FROM TACKLER Avoids Loss For lst-Quarter Boilermaker Gain 7.