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Sp Sportsline 843-6111 oris Stllll.l Oi toi 17. itl l'j' I. Milwaukee Rallies To Beat Cards il i 'I eighth with a double-play pitch, then retired the side in order in the ninth, striking out Tommy Herr and pinch-hitter Gene Tenace to end the game as Fingers wanned up in the bullpen. Fingers has not pitched since Sept. 2 because of a torn muscle in his right forearm.

Afterward, Brewers Manager Harvey Kuenn, who had said earlier in the week that Fingers could pitch perhaps one innin'finally admitted that his ace was unavailable. "He said his arm was a little stiff, so we would have had to go to Peter Ladd," Kuenn said. The absence of another relief star, St. Louis' Bruce Sutter, also became an issue. In Milwaukee's seventh, while Sutter sat in the bullpen, two Cardinal relievers who followed starter Dave LaPoint failed to retire a batter.

'T would only have used Sutter with Continued on F-10 the Orioles to win the American League East. They did. In the AL playoffs, the Brewers fell behind West champion California 0-2 and had to win three straight games for their first American League pennant. They did. "The attitude of this team very seldom changes, no matter what the situation," said Yount, whose two-run, check-swing single drew the Brewers to within one run, 5-4.

"When you play in a World Series, every game is important," Yount continued. "This took this game the same as any, with the attitude that we want to win." At the same time, the 56,560 fans who braved a cold, windy day at Milwaukee County Stadium were left in suspense over whether one of their favorite sons, relief ace Rollie Fingers, was able to pitch. Left-handed reliever Bob McClure stifled a potential St. Louis rally in the MILWAUKEE (AP) Gorman Thomas and Robin Yount each drove in two runs in Milwaukee's six-run seventh inning, and the Brewers, their backs to the wall once again, charged to a 7-5 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals Saturday to even baseball's 79th World Series at two games apiece.

Trailing 5-1, the Brewers were headed for a third loss in four 1982 World Series games a deficit from which only four teams have recovered when they sent 12 men to the plate in the seventh. "Hopefully, this will give us a lift for the rest of the Series," said Paul Molitor, who walked and eventually scored the tying run in Milwaukee's big inning. "We didn't want to be staring into a situation of having to win three in a row." Such a predicament would have been nothing new. They had to beat Baltimore on the last day of the regular season after losing three in a row to JlY 5 Brewers Familiar With vt Milwaukee Brewer Catcher Signals No. 1 After Winning Brewers Beat St.

Louis Cardinals, 7-5, in World Series Saturday 1 1 MILWAUKEE (AP) First baseman Cecil Cooper has a theory that might explain the amazing comeback character of the Milwaukee Brewers. "The big thing was winning in Baltimore two weeks ago," Cooper said. "That made our season. That took all the pressure off. The World Series is almost frosting on the cake." The Brewers, who had blown a four-game lead with five to play, clinched the American League East championship by defeating Baltimore, 10-2, on the last day of the regular season Oct.

3. They dropped the first two games of the AL playoffs to California, then won three straight from the Angels to advance to the World Series. It was nip-and-tuck the rest of the way and the 22,679 fans stayed glued to their seats until the final gun. The loss may have been a costly one for UNM which may have lost offensive guard Michael A. Carter with a possible fractured elbow.

New Mexico, which felt it got most of the bad calls from the officials in last week's 40-12 loss to Brigham Young, had every call go its way in the first quarter. After the Aztecs had gone ahead 7-0 with 8:25 left in the first period, the Lobos were lucky to be trailing only by seven points after 15 minutes. Minutes after Mark McKay had thrown 11 yards to Clinton Sampson for the initial TD, Lobo quarterback David Osborn was intercepted by Mike Fox at his own 42, and he returned it 55 yards to the UNM 3. However, the Aztecs were called for roughing. That saved of fi-r i i 3 I' 1 -1.

JT-i I La Veteran Robin Yount Milwaukee Shortstop The Aztecs then moved into scoring territory, but Morales missed his field goal attempt. After the initial drive in which it got 61 yards, SDS was held to only 41 yards the rest of the first half by the srout Lobo defense. After the Aztecs had gone ahead 7-0 with 8:25 left in the first period, the Lobos were lucky to be trailing only by seven points after 15 minutes. Minutes after Mark McKay had thrown 11 yards to Clinton Sampson for the initial TD, Lobo quarterback David Osborn was intercepted by by Mike Fox at his ou 42, and he returned it 55 yards to the UNM 3. However, the Aztecs were called for roughing.

That saved UNM from a 14-0 deficit. The Ibos punted out of trouble two plavs later. I psets Hidilisht College Action Upsets highlighted Saturday's college football action as three top 20 teams lost, including second ranked Alabama Joining the Crimson Tide a 35-28 loser to Tennessee in the loss column was No. 9 Notre Dame and No. 15 Illinois.

The Irish fell to Arizona, 16-13, while the Illini lost to Ohio State, 26-21. A number of other highly-rated teams struggled. No. 1 Washington had its problems with the hapless Oregon State Beavers, before winning, 34-17, while fifth-ranked Southern Methodist just got past Houston, 20-14. For details on these and other games, see the college football roundups on Pages F-3, F-4 and F-5.

No. 1 Washmpon defeated Oregon Stale, 34-17 No. 2 Alabama lost to Tennessee, 35-28, No. 3 Pitt defeated Temple, 38-17. No.

4 Georgia defeated Vandertnlt, 27-13. No 5 So Methodist defeated Houston, 20-14. No. 6 Nebraska defeated Kansas State, 4213. No.

7 Arkansas was idle. No. 8 Penn State defeated Syracuse, 28-7: No 9 Notre Dame lost to Arizona, 16-13. No. 10 Arizona State played Texas-El Paso late.

No. 11 North Carolina defeated N.C. State, 41-9. No. 12 UCLA defeated Washington State, 42-17.

No. 13 West Virginia defeated Virginia Tech, IM. No 14 Southern Cal defeated Stanford, 41-21 No. 15 niioois lost to Ohio State, 26-21. No.

16 LSU defeated Kentucky, 34 10. No. 17 Miami, Fla. defeated Miss. State, 31 14.

No. 18 Tesas was idle. No. 19 Honda State defeated East Carolina, 56-17. No.

20 Ctemson defeated Duke, 4914. A 5 1 1 Comebacks Gorman Thomas would come through with the winning hit Saturday even though Thomas had been in a three-for-29 slump in post-season play. Thomas' two-run single on a 1-2 pitch capped a seventh-inning rally. "There's something about Gorman that he's at his best when he has to be," Cooper said. "When he came to the plate in that situation it looked like he was trying to yank the ball out of the park.

"But once Gorman got behind with two strikes on him, I wasn't worried. When Gorman has two stakes, he spreads his feet and shortens his swing and won't swing at a bad pitch. I just knew he was going to do something then." the initial San Diego State drive and finally David Osborn was able to move UNM into the end zone for the go-ahead touchdown with 4:21 remaining before intermission. Again the Lobos got the benefit of a penalty. Osborn completed a pass to Derwin Williams from his own 47 to the San Diego State 40.

The Aztecs were called for both pass interference and roughing-the-passer, and UNM had a first down at the 25. Two plays later Osborn again hit Williams with a pass at about the 15 where he was hit by two men. But Williams refused to go down and he struggled all the way to the 3. From there, Osborn flipped a pass to the wide open tight end John Lane in the end zone for a touchdown. But ironically, Parks who had not missed an extra point attempt all season, was wide on this one to make it 9-7.

Journal Special WICHITA, Kan It's the kind of decision every football coach has to make more than once in his career --go for the touchdown or settle for the field goal. Facing such a decision against Wichita State Saturday, New Mexico State head Coach Gil Krueger chose to go for the touchdown. The decision proved to be a major factor in the Aggies' eventual 28-26 loss before 23,506 fans in Cessna Stadium. The Missouri Valley Conference defeat dropped the Aggies to 1-6 overall and 1-3 in the league. Wichita State improved to 6-1 and is unbeaten in three MVC games.

Krueger's key decision came with six minutes to play and the Aggies trailing 28-19. The ball rested on the WSU 7-yard line. On three previous downs, Aggies had failed on pass attempts the Shocker end zone. With a touchdown and field goal needed to win, a 23-yard boot seemed well within the range of Aggie kicker Todd Sorenson. But Krueger wanted six instead and sent in a pass play for Hanker Al Tanner.

The play fizzled when quarterback Jamie McAlister's pass fell at Tanner's feet. Minutes later, NMSU got its touchdown on an 11-yard pass to McAlister to tailback Kim Locklin "A field goal couldn't have helped us at that time," Krueger said. "We had Al Tanner wide open on the play, but Jamie McAlister threw it short. It was just ore of those plays. I couldn't have asked more from our players.

Too bad we couldn't have come out with a victory. The ill-fated comeback clouded the Aggies' best offensive output of the Continued en F-3 22 Wichita Defeats It Then, facing what could have been a 3-1 deficit in the World Series, the Brewers stormed back from a 5-1 deficit with a six-run seventh-inning rally to defeat the St. Louis Cardinals, 7-5, Saturday and even the best-of-seven series, 2-2. "We definitely were on the brink," Cooper said. "But we knew it was not do-or-die today.

It was not the end of the line if we had lost today. We still had tomorrow, even though we would have been down, 3-1. "Baltimore was the end of the line," he said. "If we didn't win that game, we don't go anywhere. We put so much emotion into that game that it seems nothing bothers us anymore." Cooper said he was confident that Imm noin a 14-0 deficit.

Ihe Lobos punted out of trouble two plays later. Then on the third play after the Lobo kick, McKay threw a perfect pass to Sampson who outran the Lobo deep coverage and went in for what would have been an 85-yard score. But again the men in stripes smiled on the Lobos and it was called back for a holding penalty. The I)bos dominated the second quarter, and led 9-7 as Marco Morales of the Aztecs missed a 43-yard field goal just one second left in the first half. Morales had hit 8-of-9 field goal attempts coming into the game.

On the other hand, UNM's Pete Parks, who had missed all five of his previous field goal attempts, hit one from 27 yards out early in the second period to bring the score to 7-3 at the 8:17 mark. The Ixbo defense was suberb after APtJserphoto State I 1 jy i 'it i Ills i APU-tfrphnrn The Lobos meet downstate rival New Mexico State in Albuquerque this Saturday in a nonconference victory. The win over the Atecs was also the first one for UNM over their league foes since the Aztecs joined the conference five years ago. New Mexico's winning Tl) came with 43 seconds left in the third period. And it was native San Diegnun Michael Johnson who did the honors.

He took a pitch from quarterback David Osborn around the right side and sidestepped a couple of defenders and danced into the end zone. That made the score 22-10. San Diego came back to score with 13 10 left in the game, but was denied hat could have been the winning TI) in the final minute of the game. New Mexico had made it lf-10 early in the third period on a 29-yard pass from Osborn to tight end John Lane. I-- 4 I- Tennessee Wide Receiver Mike Miller and His Volunteer if 'in ilk -if.

f- i Ki- A By FRANK MAESTAS Journal Sports Writer SAN DIEGO, Calif. It wasn't pretty but it was a victory nevertheless. New Mexico's Lobos captured their fifth victory of the season here Saturday night, defeating San Diego State in a thrilling Western Athletic Conference game which went down to the wire. The final score was 22-17, but the win was not ensured until the Lobos held the Aztecs twice inside the UNM 20-yard line. A SDSU field-goal attempt was no good to end the first threat; on the second, the Lobos smothered quarterback Mark McKay after a bad snap on fourth-and-12.

The victory puts the Lobos at 5-1 on the season and into a first place tie Brigham Young for WAC lead at 31. Tennessee urvives Tide Rally KNOXVIIXE, Tenn. (AP) Coach Johnny Majors of Tennessee was almost speechless Saturday after his two-touchdown underdog Vols upset second-ranked Alabama 35-28 in a Southeastern Conference football game. "There is just really no way for a fellow like me to put into words what this team and its assistant coaching staff did today," Majors said. "Normally after a win, you have a few choice words to say and after a loss, you comment on certain segments of the team," he added.

"But after this game, it's just hard to put into words what I feel." The Vols sprung the upset behind two touchdown passes from Alan Cock-rell, four field goals by Fuad Reveiz and a clinching 34-yard scoring run by Chuck Coleman in the fourth quarter. After building a 35-21 lead, the Vols survived a late touchdown and a later threat to secure the victory. "The last six minutes were an eternity," said Majors. He called it "by far the outstanding victory" at Tennessee, saying "this one will always remain in my memory until I die. There are none greater than this one." "I think they beat us worse than the score indicated," said Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant of Alabama, denied his 321st lifetime victory.

"I never like to lose and certainly don't like to lose now, but it could be good for us, for me, for our staff, our, players and people," the veteran coach added. "It will teach us, at least, what 1 Continuedyin F-3 Iff A Miller Heads Upfield As Alabama's Jeremiah Castille Moves In Teammates Shocked the Crimson Tide, 35-28, Saturday -iL r-ii-.