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Tyrone Daily Herald, Tuesday, October 28,1986 PtftStvtn Crushing Defeat For Amazin' World Champs By MIKE BARNES UP! Sports Writer NEW YORK (UPI) Comeback has been the No. 1 characteristic of the 1986 New York Collapse has been the trademark of the Boston Red Sox for the last 68 years. So when Boston led 3-0 In the sixth inning of Game 7, with Its hottest pitcher on the mound Monday night, the outcome of the World Series was never In doubt. The Mets would win. Sure enough, they did.

"This club has shown the ability to come back from adversity all season," Keith Hernandez said after New York captured its first Series crown since 1969 with an 8-5 victory. "We had our backs against the wall In the league championship series, and it came down to winning four of five (games) from Boston. "When we were down 3-0 tonight, 1 satd on the bench that if we could tie it Ray Knight Series MVP NEW YORK (UPI) Ray Knight, who barely made the New York Mets roster in spring training, Monday night became the Most Valuable Player of the 83rd World Series. "This is probably the greatest thing that's ever happened to me in baseball," Knight said amid a champagne rainstorm outside the Mets clubhouse following New York's 8-5 victory over Boston in Game 7 of the Series. "1 just can't describe my feelings right now.

This is tremendous." Knight, who batted just .218 in a part-time role for the Mets in 1985, came back this year and personified the Mets' aggressive and winning style of play. In 137 games, the Mets third baseman batted .298 with 11 home runs and 76 RBI. He also was involved in a fight with the Reds' Eric Davis that typified New York's swashbuckling style of play that led to 108 victories. Knight capped off his comeback season with a 9-for-23 performance in the Series, Including a 3-lor-4 output Monday night and the gamewinning RBI on a seventh-inning hemer off reliever Calvin Schlraldi. In all, the 33-year-old resident of Albany, batted .391 in the seven- game series with five RBI.

For his performance, Knight won the. MVP award, which is given by a panel of five writers and broadcasters. Chevrolet is to present Knight with an automobile to donate to his favorite charity. "I just thought about being aggressive," Knight said of his homer. "Knowing the game, was tied, I just tried topuU ball.

the ball was hit well, 1 just wasn't sure it was high enough to go over the wali." Knight, hugging wife Nancy Lopez as he spoke, said he recalled the frustrations he felt in his first season and a half with the Mets before his resurgence this year. "Two years ago I'd get booed just walking down the sidewalk," he said. At one point during spring training, Knight was rumored to be gone from the team. Mets Manager Davey Johnson Johnson, however, convinced General Manager Frank Cashen that Knight's experience and tenacity could not be underestimated. GRID MENU TONIGHT Powder Puff Football Tyrone Jrs.

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Lipps was injured in Pittsburgh's 30-9 win over the Cincinnati Bengals Sunday The spokesman said "no further information" was available on Lipps' condition up, we'll win It. And we did." Of course they did. After all, they were playing the Red Sox, who have now lost four straight Game 7s in the World Series since Babe Ruth pitched them to the championship in 1918. Three times they were one strike away from wrapping up the title Saturday night, but a Bob Stanley wild pitch and a Bill Buckner error made them play another game. And that, of course, meant another loss.

"We'll probably be remembered as chokers," said second baseman Marty Barrett, who tied a Series record with 13 hits. "But we were supposed to come In fifth place. "1 don't care what the fans think. (Game 6) was a one in a million comeback and they did It." The Mets did It again Monday night But to win, they had to follow the formula: give the Red Sox an early lead, then roar back. Make 'em think they have a chance, then snatch victory away.

Dwight Evans, who drove in nine runs in the Series to set a club record, homered off Ron Darling leading off the second. Rich Gedman. the next hitter, then belted a 1-2 pitch that deflected off right fielder Darryl Strawberry's glove and over the wall for a 2-0 advantage. Wade Boggs' twoout RBI single gave Boston a three-run edge. Meanwhile, Bruce Hurst was dominating the Mets.

The lefthander, seeking to become the first to win three Series games since Mickey Lolich in 1968, allowed just one single through 5 1-3 innings. But it all came apart after that. "My job at that point was to protect the lead and not let It slip away," said Hurst, who was able to pitch on three days' rest after Sunday night's rainout. "That was my job, to hold It, and I didn't do it." Pinch hitter Lee Mazziili and Mookie Wilson singled with one out and Tim Teufel walked off the tiring left-hander to load the bases. Hernandez then got the Mets back in the game when he poked a two-run single to left center on an 0-1 pitch.

"I've always hit well with men in scoring position and I felt very comfortable up there in the sixth," said Hernandez. "There was no way I wn going to swing at his hook (curve) so I waited for the fastball." Gary Carter followed with a looping fly that fell in front of right fielder Evans, and pinch runner Wally Backman scored to tie it 3-3. The Mets then collected three more runs in their next at-bat to go ahead to stay. Calvin Schiraldi. the loser in Games 6, became the loser in Game 7 when he served up a tie-breaking homer to Ray Knight leading off the seventh.

"It was a 2-1 fastball," said Knight, ''who 'was' named the Series' Most Valuable Player after a 3-for-4 performance in Game 7. "I decided to be real aggressive. I looked for a pitch and it was there. It's probably my greatest thrill in baseball." "We thought this was the spot for Schiraldi," said Boston Manager John McNamara. It wasn't.

Len Dykstra singled, went to second on a wild pitchout and scored on Rafael Santana's single past the gimpy Buckner. Hernandez' sacrifice fly made it 6-3. Sid Fernandez quieted Boston for two innings, and Roger McDowell sent the Red Sox down in the seventh. But Evans did not want a repeat of 1976, when the Red Sox lost Game 7 to Cincinnati. His two-run double off McDowell got Boston within a run and put him 180 feet from a tie score.

But that's as far as the Red Sox got. Jesse Orosco got Gedman to line out, fanned playoff hero Dave Henderson and induced pinch hitter Don Baylor to ground out to shortstop. Strawberry homered in the eighth and Orosco, of all people, singled in another run off Al Nipper for two New York Celebration On Tap Today NEW YORK (UPI) Tons of ticker-tape and confetti will rain on Broadway today when New York celebrates the Mets capturing the World Series. Mayor Edward Koch and Gov. Mario Cuomo will kick off the parade at noon EST at Battery Park.

Thousands of fans are expected to line the famed thoroughfare as the team proceeds up to City Hall. "Tomorrow (Tuesday), there will be a tremendous outpouring," Koch said from Mets locker room after the Mets defeated the Boston Red Sox 8-5 in Game 7. "It brings the whole town Even before the end of the game city officials were scrounging for genuine ticker-tape, a commodity nearly obsolete in today's electronic age. Trans-lux Paper Products, a Connecticut firm believed to be the last authentic ticker-tape vendor, donated 1,650 gallons of the curly paper. The American Stock Exchange found (tve 30-gallon bags that had been stored away.

To make sure the paper rain Is really a downpour, city officials said they will mix the original ticker-tape with confetti and sacks of shredded papers. City officials made sure each of the 40 buildings wboce open on Broadway received their share of pater sacks on rriday. Several streets in downtown Manhattan will be closed te accommodate the parade, and traffic department officials are urging spectators to take public transportation. Insurance runt. The Red Sox went down 1-2-3 in the ninth, with Orosco fanning Barrttt to end the game.

Police mounted on horseback prevented most of the farts from pouring out on the field at the Mets formed a jubilant mass of humanity on the mound. The triumph was the 116th of the season for the Mets, who posted 39 comeback victories In the regular season. They beat the Astros In the NL playoffs, with three of the wins coming in their last at-bat. They lost the first two games of the Series at Shea, but won It all by sweeping the last two. The point is, the Mets seemed to win all the time.

And that made them the most hated team in baseball. "This Is what we thought we could accomplish," said Manager Davey Johnson. "It could have gone the other way. I'm just glad the bad guys won." Within Of Stunned Off Hurt ByJAMESGOMEZ BOSTON (UPI) Boston Red Sox fans stared at their television screens In stunned disbelief Monday night as the New York Mets captured the World Series with an emotional seventh game victory. "I know a lot of people said that If the Red Sox lose, they shouldn't come back to Boston," said Scott Tyldesley, a bouncer at a tavern near a darkened Fenway Park.

"But they deserve a warm welcome back to town." The Red Sox, who were within one strike of winning their first World Series since 1918 in Saturday's Game 6, lost the deciding game, 8-5. "That's baseball. It's one of those things," said 92-year-old Dick Casey, an usher at Fenway Park when the Red Sox won the 1918 Series. "Now I have to wait until next year." Casey refused to question any of Manager John McNamara's player moves during the Series. "They just didn't come through," Casey said of the players.

"They didn't hit in the pinches and the pitchers didn't hold out. There was just no relief pitching." "It's a tough break," said Matthew Montanino. "They should have won it Saturday night. They'll be in the playoffs next year. They have a good club, but they're just having a few tough breaks." In the sixth game, the Red Sox lost a 6-5, 10-inning decision.

It was just the latest near-miss in post-season play for the Red Sox. In 1946, Boston bowed to the Louis Cardinals when Red Sox shortstop Johnny Pesky, now an assistant general manager, momentarily hesitated on a throw home in Game 7 that allowed Enos Slaughter of the St. Louis Cardinals to score and snap a 3-3 deadlock. In a one-game playoff for the American League East title against the New York Yankees in 1978, Bucky Dent hit a two-out, three-run hemer into the screen in left to spark a 5-4 New York comeback victory. Dist.t Football Ratings HEADED FOR STATE MEET AGAIN Tyrone Area High School senior Lee Hayes (right i.

seen here being congratulated by his coach and TAHS athletic director Pete Dutrow. will compete in the PIAA State cross-country championships for the third consecutive year when high school athletes gather at the Penn State golf course Satur day, Nov. 1, for this year's run. Lee qualified this time with a 2nd-place District 6 medal, clocking 16:38 in the D-6 Meet last week. Huskers Tumble Six Places: 'Canes, Wolverines, Lions Ranked 1-2-3 In UPI Poll NEW YORK (UPI) Alabama and Nebraska, both losers for the first time this season in weekend action, each fell six spots in the latest UPI Board of Coaches poll.

Alabama dropped from second to eighth after losing to Penn State, 23-3, while Nebraska, which lost 20-10 to Colorado, fell to the No. 9 spot in balloting Monday. Miami, which was idle over the weekend, held onto the No. spot for the fifth straight week. The Hurricanes, 7-0, received 47 of 50 first-place votes to earn 745 of a possible 750 points.

Only one point separated No. 2 Michigan and third-ranked Penn St. The Wolverines, who earned one first-place vote and 668 points, jumped from No. 4 last week to No. 2.

The Nittany Lions received two No. votes and also climbed two spots to reach No. 3 with 667 points. The national champion, to be crowned following the Jan. 1 Bowl Games, will receive a $32,000 non- atbletlc scholarship from theGerrtts Foundation and United Press International.

Oklahoma and Auburn both moved up two spots to No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, as losses by Alabama and Nebraska altered the look of the top five. The rest of the top 10 was Washington at No. 6, Arizona State at No.

7 and Texas at No. 10. The rest of the Top 20 was No. 11 Louisiana State, No. 12 Iowa, No.

13 Arkansas. No. 14 Arizona, No. 15 UCLA, No. 16 North Carolina State, co-Nos.

17 Ohio State and Baylor and coNos. 19 Southern California and Florida State. Florida State, Ohio State and Southern Cal were the new teams in the Top 20. Dropping out were Mississippi State. Clemson, Stanford and North Carolina.

The Nittany Lions, 7-0, handed Alabama its worst defeat in a decade and held the Southeastern Conference's leading running attack to 44 yards. "I really thought we were better than Alabama coming down here." Penn State Coach Joe Paterno said. "I felt we might be a little bit stronger and probably just as quick in a lot of key spots." Miami faces its last tough test Saturday before the Jan. 1 bowl games when the Hurricanes face Florida State, which moved back into the rankings for the first time since Sept. 22.

"Of course, it's nice to be back in the Top 20 but when you're playing the No. 1 team in the country, you can't be too concerned about rankings," Seminoles Coach Bobby Bowden said. "We could find ourselves back out of there real quick." "This is a case of the best in the nation going against a team that's not too bad. I'm not sure whether we are good enough to have a chance to beat them. They are without question the most talented team in the country the results of their games and their ranking prove that.

This is one game where we can't make mistakes. If we do, we'll have no chance." Grid Ratings NEW YORK (UPI) The United Press International Board of Coaches Top 20 college football ratings, with flrstplace votes and record In parentheses, total points based on 15 points for first place, 14 (or second, and last week's ranking I.Miami (47)17-0) 745 1 2. Michigan (1X7-0) 4 3. Penn State (2) (7-0) 5 4. Oklahoma (6-1) 585 6 5.

Auburn (7-0) 7 6. Washlgnton(6-i) 420 8 7. Arizona State (6-0-1) 411 9 8. Alabama (7-1) 34S 2 9. Nebraska (6-1) 341 3 10.

Texas A4M (6-1) 278 10 11. Louisiana State (5-1) 237 11 12. Iowa (6-1) 219 12 13. Arkansas (6-1) 13 14. Arizona (6-1) 124 15 15.

UCLA (5-2) 70 17 16. N.C. State (5-1-1) 51 19 17. (Tie) Ohio State (8-2) 21 17. (Tie) Baylor (5-3) 21 20 19.

(Tie) Sou. Cal (5-2) 9 19. (Tie) Florida St. (4-2-1) 9 unranked Others receiving voles: Brigham Young, Colorado. Colorado State.

Fresno State. Georgia. Mississippi State. Pittsburgh. Stanford and Virginia Tech.

The National Champion, to be crowned following the Jan. 1 Bowl Games, will receive a $32,000 non-athletic scholarship from the Gerrits Foundation and United Press International Note: By agreement with the American Football Coaches Association, teams on NCAA or conference probation and forbidden to compete In a bowl are ineligible for the Top 20 and national championship consideration by the UPI Board of Coaches. Those teams are Florida, Southern Methodist and Texas Christian. Top 27-2d, With Late Score: CLASSAAAA Indiana 57 Johnstown Vo-Tech 57 Johnstown 52 State College 48 Altoona 48 Hollldaysburg 47 CLASSAAA Bellefonte 58 Phlllpsburg-Osceola 55 Tyrone 54 Bald Eagle Area 52 Huntingdon 49 Cambria Heights 46 Penn Cambria 39 Marion Center 39 Mount Union 37 Central Cambria 36 Lewistown 35 Chief Logan 34 Central 31 Lock Haven 31 Somerset 29 CLASS AA Blalrsville 51 Bishop Gullfoyle 45 United 45 Rlchland Township 44 Bishop McCort 44 Southern Huntingdon 41 Northern Cambria 40 PenasValley 37 Kishacoquillas Portage 35 West Branch Bellwood-Antis 34 Homer-Center 34 Mosbannon Valley 32 Forest Hills 32 Ligonler Valley 25 Bald Eagle-Nittany 24 Conemaugh Valley 20 CLASS A Juniata Valley 42 Blacklick Valley 41 Ferndale 38 Laurel Valley Glendale 34 Williamsburg 32 Penns Manor 26 Salisbury 19 Purchase Line 19 Bucktail 15 Claysburg 14 Giants Create 3-Way Tie In NFC East Race light arid ttendlnfs Tyrone Philipsburg Bald Eagle Huntingdon Central Lewistown Chief Logan I I i i 520 420 3 1 1 5 0 0 4 1 0 5 0 ByDAVERAFFO UPI Sports Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (UPI) New York Giants Coach Bill Parcells did some experimenting Monday night and found the formula to cure his team's offensive ills.

Parcells wanted to try different formations and personnel combinations against the Washington Redskins to snap the Giants from their scoring slump. The Giants opened the game with two tight ends for the first time, and the new look confused the Redskins and helped Joe Morris to an 181-yard rushing game. Morris scored tv! including on a 13-yard run with 1:38 remaining, to lift the Giants to a 27-20 victory and into a three-way tie with Washington and the Dallas Cowboys for first in the NFC East. "We didn't plan to use it that much," Parcells said of the two-tight tad look, "but once we got it going we going to try and make them stop It. We're just trying to get a little bit more power." Tyrone Jeyvees Drop Flnele, Finish t-2 Scoring strikes in the closing seconds of both halves lifted Huntingdon's Jayvee football team to a 98 victory over Tyrone High's Jayvee grldders here last night as the Golden Eagles junior unit closed its season with a fine 6-2 record The Bearcast burned their hosts on key halfback pass completions to set up both of their scores, the first a 22- yard field goal as time expired in the Ist-haH, making it 3-0, and the clincher a short smash from inside the 5 with remaining in the game That late TD strike enabled them to overcome an 1-3 Tyrone lead provided earlier in the fourth quarter when Brian Thomas and Joe Stein bug! bookvd up on a 35-yard TD pass and Scott Hoover threw a 2 point PAT completion to Tom Getz The Giants occasionally have used two tight ends on short-yardage situations.

But because Mark Bavaro and Zeke Mowatt are the only tight ends on the roster, Parcells resisted using them together. Injuries to both players also made using them together difficult. However, the Giants needed offensive change after a 17-12 loss to Seattle. They used Ottis Anderson at fullback Monday and found him to be a pretty solid blocker. The Giants even paired Anderson and Tony Galbreath in the backfield on their second possession in hopes of taking some pressure off Morris.

Morris turned into the workhorse anyway. He carried 31 times to roll up the second biggest game of his career and the fourth largest single-game rushing total in Giants history. His 11- yard TD run gave New York a 10-0 lead en route to a short-lived 20-3 advantage. Morris declined to talk after the game, but his teammates praised him. "I'm going to let the statistics speak for his accomplishments," New York center Bart Oates said.

"1 can't speak any better than what he did on the field. 1 can give you a lot of adjectives, like superb, outstanding, wonderful, "1 though Morris was great," Redskins Coach Joe Gibbs said. "We let it get away early and then when we came back we couldn't go all the way to take it away from them." Washington's Jay Schroeder and Gary Clark picked the Giants defense apart Schroeder threw for a career high 420 yards and Clark caught 11 passes for a club-record 241 yards. The Giants went ahead 20-3 on a 30- yard pass from Phil Simms to Bobby Johnson early in the third quarter The Redskins came back on a 1-yard TD run by George Rogers, and Schroeder's 42 yard scoring pass to Clark later in the quarter "1 really didn't anticipate that many big plays," said Schroeder, who completed 22 of 40 with two in terceptions. "They tried man-to-man coverage on us and came up short.

But at the end we were the ones who came up short." Max Zendejas' 29-yard field goal with 4:06 left tied the game. Zendejas kicked a 23-yarder late in the first half. Raul Allegre, who earlier kicked field goals of 37 and 44 yards, missed a 29-yarder early in the fourth quarter. Both teams were a bit confused by crowd noise at strange times. Many of the 75,923 fans at Giants Stadium brought portable televisions to watch Game 7 of the World Series and cheered whenever the New York Mets scored or recorded a key out In their 8-5 victory over the Boston Red Sox.

With 3:15 left in the third quarter, the crowd erupted when the Series ended. "The noise hurt us," Redskins guard Russ Grimm said. "It pulled us offside a couple of times. But they played hard enough to win anyway." Red Flash Cagers Tip-Off Nov. 5th With Exhibition Saint Francis College basketball coach Kevin Porter has announced that the Red Flash will "unofficially tlpoff their 1986-87 season on Wed nesday, November 5, against Marathon Oil.

The game is set iu begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Maurice Stokes Physical Education Building Marathon Oil, a collection of for mer college basketball standouts, travels the country taking on some of the major Division I baskfibal) programs in America. On iheir swing throughout the East Coast Marathon Oil will take on Penn State Bucknell (Nov. 8), Pennsylvania (Nov.8),Martst (Nov. and James Madison Nov.

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