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1 8, 1 98 1 D-1 John Bannon's column -II 4 uV Spirte Script goes awry at end of drama "Tfr 1 The tension of the game's 5 ft A Pi GUTS; N0 GL0RY- The University of Delaware VV football team had an adequate supply of intestinal fortitude. Good fortune, they had almost enough of that, too. What the performance lacked was a bang at the finish. With the smell of blood in the air, the Blue Hens couldn't complete the kill. They had just blanks left in the chambers sitting three yards removed from the winning touchdown.

So in place of some charming win at the wire script, Youngs-town State instead wobbled out of Delaware Stadium 24-21 victors Saturday afternoon. A contest, that had been remarkable theater if not peerless football, would end with the whimper of a quarterback falling to the turf for the final few seconds. Delaware finds itself 4-2, playoff troubled and, at least for n6w, not the dominating team that September's evidence seemed to state. They were, though, with Youngstown's cooperation, an entertaining unit Saturday. There was an avenue open to avoid such hair-raising moments and the subsequent deflating conclusion.

Just seconds before Delaware came up empty at the Youngstown goal line, the First Staters had gone barrelling through a stop sign at the last crossroad of this game that had so many turns. The ball was sitting on the Youngstown 21. The clock advertised 38 seconds remaining. The down marker counted four and the Delaware field goal kicker, K.C. Knobloch, was unlimbering a right leg that held forth promise of a tie.

Tubby Raymond, the Delaware decision-maker in such ticklish spots, damned the torpedos and sent his troops full-speed ahead in chase of victory. That was the guts part. Fun decision, too. The joy of kissing your sister should be the pleasure of your brother-in-law. The glory portion didn't seem so far behind when quarterback John Da vies made the gamble look good with a 14-yard pass completion to Mark Steimer.

"I won't second-guess myself on that," Raymond said. "The players deserved the chance to win. I thought they had played hard and I owed it to them to give them a chance to win it." The players standing in the huddle wouldn't have been surprised if Knobloch had trotted out to join them. Grabbing for the brass ring, though, certainly appealed to the gathering on the field. We talked about going for the field goal during the time out," said Davies.

"I was glad we decided to go for the win. I didn't want a tie. We needed a win." And, after Steimer had safely clutched the gamble to his chest, it seemed Delaware's need would be satisfied. "We had made the big play," Steimer said. "After that, we were all juiced in the huddle.

Excited. I didn't think there would be any way we wouldn't take it in." Davies was pondering the same thing. The back-up, thrust into action by an injury to starter Rick Scully in the first half, had surveyed victory's chances from 70 yards away just a few moments earlier. In a drive aided by a pair of penalties, he would display moxy, grit and enough skill to take the Blue Hens to the brink of success. See BLUE HENS D-7 it Coach Tubby Raymond and mark to 3-3.

It was an obviously dejected Raymond who explained his decision that led to one of the wildest Delaware Stadium finishes in several seasons. "The fourth-and-10 call was really the hairy one (gamble). After that, I felt commited to going for the win," said Raymond, who saw the final bid fizzle on the YSU 10, where defensive end Tom Cullen sacked Davies. "I felt that the players wanted it that way." Delaware, of course, helped dig Hens fall to Youngstown By TOM TOMASHEK Staff reporter University of Delaware, spurning a possible tying field goal, failed on a fourth-and-goal play in the final seconds and allowed Youngstown State to escape with a 24-21 victory Saturday in Delaware Stadium. The Blue Hens and Coach Tubby Raymond had gambled and won just seconds before, going for the first down on a fourth-and-10 situation from the Youngstown 21 with Purzycki 'I'm the happiest 1-6 football coach in the country right Dodgers, Expos go down to wire Garvey homer leads 7-1 victory, sends series to decisive Game 5 Joe yy -i-yyyy yw iV O.

Wy-ry'rfyyy i i ''Ll i Slatl photo by Fred Comegys Blue Hens on the sideline the 10-point hole from which it was uable to emerge on a cool, but brilliant autumn afternoon. In fact, after jumping to a 7-0 lead in their opening offensive series of the game, several Hen turnovers and defensive breakdowns allowed YSU to claim a 21-14 halftime lead on only eight plays. "It looked like we were going to be all right after that first time we See DELAWARE D-2 Series tied at 2-2 "We've had to fight through adversity throughout the playoffs and I think we showed some people something today." "I don't know anything about momentum," said Lasorda. "I don't know how to define the word. All I know is the winner tomorrow goes to the World Series." "It's now up to Ray Burris," said Montreal Manager Jim Fanning.

"I feel he'll give us a good, strong game. I thought Gullickson pitched well today; he just got a hanging slider to Garvey and it cost him." Hooton, who has a 12-7 record against the Expos, has now beaten them nine straight times. The last time he lost to them was July 7, 1979. "Of the last three games, I had my best stuff today," said Hooton, who allowed five hits and one unearned run before being relieved with runners on first and second and one out in the eighth. "I'm glad to be able to turn it over to Fernando so he can do his thing.

He didn't pitch up to his capabilities the other day in Los Angeles (when he lost to Burris). Everyone knows he can do it." Until Garvey unloaded, the game was a grinder with each team having scored one unearned run. The Dodgers, however, repeatedly wasted chances. "That made me frustrated to say the least," admitted Hooton. "All of our missed chances kind of made me run out of a little patience with our own hitters.

The frustrations See DODGERS D-10 24-21 last play shows on the faces of 38 seconds remaining, rather than playing for a tie with a field goal attempt. But after a 14-yard pass from quarterback John Davies to tight end Mark Steimer kept the Hen's winning bid alive, the Hen's second gamble came up short in front of 18,645 Band Day fans. The loss was the second in six starts this season for Delaware, while YSU a loser three times to the Hens in the last two seasons and 0-4 in the overall series upped its Photo by Dave Sack Hornets scored their first '81 win threw a seven-yard scoring pass to Jeff Vickers. A fake punt and 32-yard pass from Lane to Rob Bias helped set up the score. Sallies' right cornerback Rob Cochran stopped two Newark drives with excellent defensive plays.

The first came on a flea-flicker play in the second quarter, with Cochran batting away a pass that Jeff Fulmer was about to catch for a 55-yard touchdown. Cochran later intercepted a Lane pass and ran the ball 81 yards to Newark's 10 in the third quarter. See SALLIES D-9 DelState notches 1st win By JACK IRELAND Staff reporter DOVER Delaware State College rallied for two touchdowns in the final three minutes to defeat North Carolina 21-17 and post its first victory ever under Coach Joe Purzycki at Alumni Stadium Saturday afternoon. "I'm the happiest 1-6 football coach in the country right now," said Purzycki, who was carried off the field by his team after the emotional victory and presented the game ball by captain Tim King in the locker room. "I guess most 1-6 coaches are ready to beat their wives, but I have never had a more satisfying win.

I have won about 50 games in high school coaching and some of them were great ones, but I never wanted a group of kids to win so bad before. "This victory means our kids know how to win now under very adverse conditions. It's a very spe-, cial day for our football team." The win came in dramatic fash- See DELSTATE D-2 By HAL BODLEY Sports editor MONTREAL With one swing of Steve Garvey's bat Saturday the National League Championship Series was reduced to a one-game playoff. Garvey's two-run, eighth-inning home run led Los Angeles to a 7-1 victory over Montreal to square the best-of-five series at two games apiece. The Dodgers' celebrated rookie left-hander, Fernando Valenzuela, will pitch against Ray Burris, hero of the Expos' second-game victory, in today's 4:05 p.m.

deciding game. The winner advances to the World Series, meeting American League champion New York beginning Tuesday night in Yankee Stadium. Garvey's home run, off loser Bill Gullickspn, snapped a 1-1 tie and made a winner of Burt Hooton who is now 3-0 in post-season play. Gul-lickson has never beaten the Dodgers in five career decisions. With one down in the eighth, Dusty Baker, who drove in three runs on the cold, clear afternoon, singled to left.

Garvey then blasted Gullickson's first pitch into the left-field seats for a 3-1 Los Angeles lead. The Dodgers continued their assault in the ninth inning when they scored four times at the expense of relievers Woodie Fryman and Elias Sosa. "I was feeling pretty low when Montreal beat us Friday night," said Dodger Manager Tommy Lasorda. "I feel a lot better today. I'm very happy.

We are fortunate; I just hope we get a well-pitched game from Fernando." "I think the momentum has switched to us, especially the way we were able to score all those runs in the ninth inning," said Garvey. DelState Coach Joe Purzycki gets carried off the field after his Sals remain unbeaten, bury Newark 35-6 the state," said end and captain Joe Schiavoni, who caught four passes for 83 yards from quarterback Mike Marchesani, including a 30-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter for a 2 1-0 lead. A great second half won it for the Sals, who led only 7-0 at intermission after scoring on a 50-yard drive on the game's first possession. After recovering a Newark fumble and driving 23 yards for a score to open the third quarter, the Sals promptly marched 97 yards for another. "That 97-yard drive was the key.

We had fallen off on our blocking in the first half but got it back there," said Coach George Glenn. Running back Steve Jarome gained 40 of his 133 yards on that drive alone, including a 13-yard gain on third-and-eight from the Sallies 17. Vic Boland added two rushing TDs for Sallies in the second half. "We're not the best in the state. We still have a long way to go," Boland said.

"When we go 10-0-0 then we'll be able to say it." The Yellowjackets, now 4-1, didn't get on the scoreboard until midway through the fourth quarter, when junior quarterback John Lane By DAVID HUGHES Staff reporter The 500th game and 5-0-0. It all worked out perfectly for the Sale-; sianum School football team Satur- day night. The unbeaten Sals won their fifth tgame of the season a 35-6 tri-1 umph over Newark High before about 2,500 people at Baynard Sta-dium celebrating the 500th game in school's rich 56-year football -history. "Tonight we proved Salesianum plays good football and has the best football tradition of any school in.