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dit un One goal was all that was needed, by sophomore Kevin McCarthy, as RIT edges its crosstown rival, the University of Rochester, in college soccer. Story on 3D. FRIDAY OCTOBER 7. 1982 ROCHESTER NEW YORK SECTION 2D HORSE RACING 30 SPORTSCOPE 3D COLLEGES 6D HIGH SCHOOLS 6D STOCKS 10D BUSINESS Democrat and (Chronicle AL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES MILWAUKEE 000 020 0002 CALIFORNIA 021 100 O0X 4 LP Vuckovich; WP Kison. HRS Milwaukee, Molitor; NL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES ATLANTA AT ST.

LOUIS. PPDV Rained out in fifth inning with Atlanta leading, 1-0. Game to be play tonight from start In St. Louis, 8:25 p.m. NHL QUEBEC 6.

BUFFALO 4 ST. LOUIS 2, DETROIT 1 WASHINGTON 5. NY RANGERS 4 MONTREAL 2. HARTFORD 1 TORONTO 3. CHICAGO 3 SPORTS QUIZ MINNESOTA 5, WINNIPEG 4 What was the only team ever to VANCOUVER 3, LOS ANGELES 3 win all seven of its baseball playoff games and in what year did it accomplish the feat? ANSWER.

2D California, Jackson. G3E0 COBCK nil's lhkey Homme 3" 1 I ii-y III w- Amerks Coach Keenan has had little time to prepare for opener By Mich I Lewis Democrat and Chronicle It's only a couple of days before his team's American Hockey League season opener and Rochester Americans goaltenders Phil Myre and Paul Harrison and centers Jean-Francois Sauve, Bob Mongrain and Randy Cun-neyworth. Perhaps they're riot NHL all-star caliber, but they should be able to make a dent in the AHL, The Amerks open their AHL season against the Baltimore Skipjacks tomorrow night at 8 at the War MemoriaL With that talent the Amerks might be able to make a run for the Southern Division title, or perhaps the Calder Cup. Right? If Keenan thinks so, he isn't saying. "I'm too streetwise at this level to say we're going to have a great "82-83 season," Keenan said yesterday.

"For game one, it looks good. I shouldn't say that. Someone on the Sabres could break his leg (last night), and they'll call up six players. You can't make long range plans here." Keenan, who starts his third season at the Amerks' helm, has been around long enough to realize the great minor- TURN TO PAGE 5D A strong offense and an inexperienced defense may mean some high-scoring games for the Coach Mike Keenan hasn't set his lines yet reg ular, penalty killing power-play. The parent Buffalo Sabres haven't given Keenan much time because they were among the last National Hockey League teams to make major cuts, sending seven players to Amerks Mon- dav.

"It was short notice, but it is something I can live with." Keenan said. "With that num ber of aualitv players, they had to have time to or 1982-83 Rochester Americans. They open their 27th American Hockey League season at 8 p.m. tomorrow against the Baltimore Skipjacks at the War Memorial. The Amerks will be aided by several National Hockey League veterans as Coach Mike Keenan begins his third seasorvat the helm.

make sure the players could play their way on the team or off it" Fortunately for the Amerks. some of that quality has down to them veteran left wing Yvon Lambert, Amgels' ECbsodi handcuffs Brewers, 4-2 AL PLAYOFFS runs batted in during the regular season, Kison left the Brewers in the same kind of bind the Orioles eyeballed last weekend. It's win three in a row at home, or stay home for the winter. This was a crushing defeat for the Brewers. Not only did their bats fail them again a disturbingly common occurence these past seven games, six of them losses but California beat Angel-killer Pete Vuckovich, who was 3-0 vs.

the Angels this season and 5-0 lifetime. Kison worked like a surgeon, so efficient he almost put the crowd of 64,179 to sleep. By mid-game, the crowd was entertaining itself with beachballs. By game's end, Kison had allowed just five hits, and only five balls out of the infield. He struck out eight and retired 14 on ground balls.

And he finished with a flourish. Kison retired the final 13 Brewers after Paul Molitor's Fred Lynn-aided, inside-the-park homer had sliced the Angels' bottom-of-the-order manufactured 4-0 lead in half in the fifth. "I felt comfortable the whole game," Kison said after he left the Brewers wondering where their offense went In this series, the Brewers are hitting .182 the No. 3 through 7 hitters, Cecil Cooper, Ted Simmons, Ben Oglivie, Gorman Thomas and Roy Howell, were 0-for-18 last night and have scored just five runs. TURN TO PAGE 3D and we just didn't have anyone to stop them.

Peter Stastny, who was third in the National Hockey League scoring race last year with 46 goals and 139 points, said his club was hungrier than the Sabres in the final period. "We knew if we scored the first goal of the last period, we would beat them," said Peter, who completed his hat trick by flip- ping a pass from Anton past goalie Bob Sauve at 6:29 of the period. Goulet scored the eventual winner 16 seconds into the final period when he beat Sauve from in close. "I didn't expect such a good start, but I was wishing for one because our line didn't score much in the preseason," Peter Stastny said. "You can see from the last two years that we are on the way up and we gained a lot of experience in last year's playoffs." The Nordiques, who finished fourth in the Adams Division last year, 11 points behind Buffalo, defeated Montreal, before losing to the Stanley Cup champion New York Islanders in the semifinals.

TURN TO PAGE 5D hie Ownocrit and Chronicle other post-season home run, No. 16, Kison handcuffed the baddest hitting club in all of baseball. The 32-year-old right-hander took just 2:06 to nail down a 4-2 victory that gave these Angels a two games to none lead in this best-of-five American League playoff series, one that Geoff Zahn can end tomorrow when he faces the veteran who saved these Brewers in Baltimore last Sunday, Don Sutton. So overwhelming was Kison that afterwards he had Brewers Manager Harvey Kuenn stumbling for the right words. said Kuenn, "our walls are to the back, I mean, our backs are to the wall." In becoming the second Angels pitcher to gag a club that sends up to the plate a lineup that averaged 23 home runs and 85 Associated Press 1 filtered Stastny brothers power Nordiques to victory over Sabres in opener Jackson HR sets mark; California 2-0 in series By Greg Boeck Democrat and Chronicle Sports Columnist ANAHEIM, Calif.

Another Mr. October showed up at Anaheim Stadium last night Like Reggie Jackson, he was wearing one of those haloed baseball caps, too. Bruce Kison, the lanky ex-Pirate, raised his record to 4-0 in these October showdowns known as the league championship series with a nine-inning masterpiece over the Milwaukee Brewers that sent the California Angels to the brink of their first World Series. On a night when Jackson slammed an Scramble in crease Baylor wants to stay with friend, Grich ANAHEIM, Calif. Theirs is a special relationship, an aberration of the very nature of the sport In this era of free agency, baseball is a transient game.

You're here today, gone tomorrow. Nice knowing you. What was that name again? You're in the game these days to make money, not friends. That's what makes Bobby Grich and Don Baylor different For 14 of the past 15 summers, they've played together. From Blue-field, to Stockton, to Dallas, to Rochester, to Baltimore and to California.

The exception was 1975. In spring training that year, Baylor, then an Oriole, was traded to Oakland in the Reggie Jackson deal Left behind, for the year, was the godfather of Baylor's son, Grich. This says it all about their relationship: On the night he was traded, Baylor sat in the clubhouse at Miami Stadium and cried. "How," he asked a friend, "am I going to tell Bobby?" OF COtJRSE, BY the opening of the 1977 season, they were teammates again reunited as Angels by free agency and Gene Autry's money. They may be going their separate ways again, once this post-season is chiseled into the history books.

Baylor is eligible for free agency again. That's what made Game One of the American League playoffs so special for Bobby Grich. His friend, the man with the "quiet strength," was the hero, the designated hitter who drilled Milwaukee pitching for two hits and five runs batted in in the Angels' 8-3 Cakewalk. Grich was talking now. "It was a special feeling for me to see him do so well," Grich said.

"I don't know if he'll be here next year, and we've played together for 14 of the last 15 years." Grich remembers so many moments together. The All-Star game in Seattle in 1979. They both made the team, and his friend homered in the game. The playoffs, 1979. And his mind wandered back, all the way to Rochester, 1971.

"I remember well the day we clinched the pennant," Grich were in Tidewater. I was playing shortstop and Don was in left field. After the final out, I turned around and we met in the outfield. We congratulated each other for our first championship, and I remember telling him, 'Let's have a few AND THEY HAVE. But these October days are special now; they may be their last together as teammates, but not by Baylor's choice.

You ask Baylor if he wants to stay in Anaheim, and he answers, "They'll have every opportunity to do something." But so far, Angels management has been strangely quiet in contract talks with Baylor. There have, in fact, not been any talks yet This obviously miffs Baylor, and more. It hurts the man who put together one of his finest seasons, one that included a league-leading 21 game-winning hits. "It was human nature for it to be on my mind at times," Baylor told the Los Angeles Times before this series opened. "I always have my ups and downs and the contract issue seemed to compound it All I can do now is let management make its decision and do my job, which is driving in runs." BAYLOR'S CURRENT contract pays him $186,000, but on this team of mercenaries, that makes him the lowest-paid regular.

No figures have been made public, but he is looking for a four- or five-year deal Complicating matters, of course, is the presence of Reggie Jackson. Reggie's the right fielder now, but in time, perhaps as early as next season, Jackson figures to be the designated hitter Baylor's role. Jackson knows all about playing without a future contract "The situation speaks for itself," Jackson said when asked of the difficulty Baylor is going through. "It's as if his life is hanging in the balance. And he's been uncomfortable with it most of the year.

He's been uncomfortable with it until the game gets to the point where the outcome depends on his production and then he seems to get his mind straight, just like Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke. "The whole thing," Reggie went on, "has been difficult for both of us because we're close friends and I've got to be the DH sooner or later." And sooner or later, Baylor and his best buddy, Grich, will have to part company again. That's why Grich is rooting even louder than Angel fans for Baylor in these playoffs. He'd like to delay the inevitable as long as possible. Greg Boeck is the Democrat and Chronicle sports columnist.

By Mike Billonl Special to the Democrat and Chronicle BUFFALO The Czechoslvakian connection ruined the "kids" debut for the Buffalo Sabres last night Peter Stastny had three goals and an assist his brother Anton added a goal and two assists, and the third member of the high-powered brother art, Marian, had one assist to lead Quebec over the Sabres, 6-4, before a season-opening crowd of 11,013 in Memorial Auditorium. The scored was tied, 4-4, after two periods, but goals by Michel Goulet and Peter Stastny within the opening seven minutes of the final period and some fine goaltend-ing from Daniel Bouchard clinched the victory. The loss disappointed Buffalo Coach Scott Bowman, who benched veterans John Van Boxmeer and Tony McKegney in favor of a 20-man lineup with an average age of 22 years. "I think they were a little better organized than we were," Bowman said. "The Stastny line is some line if you give them chances, Mikko Leinonen (28) of the Rangers battles Capitals' Alan Haworth for control of the puck in their season-opener in New York.

Story page 6D. Fratto hoping trip to A.C. and appearance on live TV will help boost his career By Rick Wheeler Democrat and Chronicle ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. The irony of the situation has not escaped Rocky Fratto. "I've come to where it's legal to gamble in order to take a big risk with my career," Fratto said yesterday.

"I've come down to be part of their entertainment their big-name act" Geneva's Fratto (27-1) will fight Boston's left-handed Sean Mannion (25-5-1) in a scheduled 10-round junior middleweight bout tonight at the Sands Hotel and Casino. It's the main event on a seven-bout card that will be shown live on ESPN, the cable sporta network, beginning at 8:30. Frat-to's bout is slated for approximately 9:20. It will be Rocky's first fight on live television. It will be the second fight in less than three weeks for Fratto, who scored a unanimous 10-round decision over Roberto Colon, Sept 18, at the War MemoriaL "Even thought it seems like I just fought yesterday, I had to accept this fight" Fratto said.

"I had to say yes. "Rocky Fratto may be the North American Boxing Federation super welterweight champ. He may be among the top 10 (he's No. 7) in the World Boxing Association rankings. But he isn't that well known around the country.

"Maybe," Fratto added, "a good showing here on ESPN can turn all that around." Fratto has fought 28 times as a professional and 27 of TURN TO PAGE 3D seeking to keep their players out of the all-star games, postponed the first two of them, originally scheduled for Sunday in Washington and Monday night in Philadelphia. "Since three regular-season weekends of games have not been able to be played," the NFL's announcement said, "and in view of previous announcements that a maximum of two weekends of games could possibly be made up in the event of a prompt settlement this means at least one weekend of games has now been lost for the season." The league did not specify which two would be made up. Commissioner Pete Rozelle has said two weekends could be salvaged by doing away with the wild-card first round of playoffs and making use of Jan. 23, the idle Sunday between the conference championships and the Super BowL VS. District Court Judge John Garrett Perm denied the union's request for a temporary injunction to block NFL teams from filing suit to prevent its all-star games, but also said the union could proceed with challenges to those parts of the standard contract that prevent players from participating' in them.

Perm also ruled that any additional suits filed by the league or its 28 clubs in this issue must be filed in federal district court "in the interest of efficiency, economy, uniformity and convenience." Penn said the public's interest would not be served by "piecemeal litigation." His decision means the five clubs that originally filed suit in their local jurisdictions Dallas, St Louis, Buffalo, Miami and Philadelphia will have to begin the legal process again in federal court "Yesterday we announced that the games would be postponed one week, because the clubs were harassing players around the country with lawsuits and temporary restraining orders," said Brig Owens, a union official and the titular TURN TO PAGE 3D No all-star games, yet; owners refuse to meet This weekend's games called off, cutting season at least one week Associated Press WASHINGTON The National Football League play-, ers union failed yesterday to get permission in federal court to stage its strike-league all-star games, and the NFL formally called off next weekend's games, the first formal shortening of the 16-week season. The league said one of the three weekends lost to the 16-day strike will not be made up. Meanwhile, union chief Ed Garvey and union president Gene Upshaw yesterday visited with officials at the National Labor Relations Board to discuss a number of cases the union has pending against the league. Details of their dis-cussion were not made available. Garvey was expected to contact his counterpart on the owners' bargaining team, Jack Donlan, to set up a new round of negotiations.

Garvey, who held his first face-to-face meeting with owners on Tuesday, is expected to ask for the intervention of a private mediator to help settle the dispute that stopped the regular season after two weeks. The 1,500 players represented by the players' association have been on strike since Sept 21. In the late afternoon, Donlan turned down a union request for another bargaining session this week in Washington, saying further talks hinge on the players dropping their No. 1 demand (wage scale). On Tuesday, the union, swamped by litigation from clubs.