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Markets Classifieds Tuesday, October 29, 1985 Section 2 No sin raom Ml FOSTER I-AA poll The NCAA Division I-AA Top 20 football teams, released by the NCAA, with records and points 1. M.Tenn. State 7-0 80 2. Furman 7-1 75 3. 7-1 70 4.

Richmond 7-1 67 5. Grambling 6-1 62 6. N. Iowa 6-1 62 7. Ga.

Southern 6-1 60 8. Idaho 6-2 48 9. Miss. Valley 6-1 43 10. E.Wash.

6-1 43 11. Marshall 6-1-1 42 12. La. Tech 6-2 30 13. Akron 5-2 29 14.

N. Hampshire 6-1 27 15. Ark. State 4-3 26 16. Murray State 5-2-1 19 17.

Rhode Island 6-2 11 18. E. Kentucky 5-2 11 (tie) Idaho State 5-2 10 20. Del. State 6-2 10 EBBBS3 streak and sole possession of the Southern Conferenc lead.

While the conference lead will not be in jeopardy until a Nov. 16 visit to The Citadel, the streak and the ranking will be tested Saturday by Mars Hill currently ranked 11th among the nation's NAIA schools. Furman's mental preparation will also be tested, says Sheridan. "We're in a similar situation we were against Newberry. This game is sandwiched between two extremely important games," said Sheridan, whsoe team lost a 17-14 decision to Newberry.

"We've got to make sure we're better prepared for them (Mars Hill) than we were for Newberry. Without question, Mars Hill is a better football team than Newberry they've proved that on the field." Mars Hill, coached by Furman gradu defensive lines of scrimmage. In big games, it often boils down to that," said Sheridan. "Going into the game, I didn't know if we could do that." Despite a record that has grown to a glittering 7-1 and 4-0 in the Southern Conference, the Paladins have rarely done that in the first seven games. Particularly on defense.

"We knew we had to have our defense play its best game of the year, and it did. That was the key to the game," said Sheridan, now 40-10-1 against Southern Conference foes. "I think we bottled up (John) Settle as well as anyone has and we did a good job against a team that had been completing 55 percent of its passes." From a physical standpoint, it was the best game offensive and defensive we've played. We played better defense Saturday than in any game this year or last year," said Sheridan. By Abe Hardest News Staff writer Immediately after Saturday's 21-7 conquest of Appalachian State, Furman coach Dick Sheridan thought he had just seen his team's best performance of 1985.

After a closer look at the film, he was convinced of it. So were the voters who decide the NCAA I-AA rankings. The triumph gave Furman the No. 2 ranking among the nation's I-AA teams, only five votes behind top-ranked Middle Tennessee State. The Paladins, who had to rely on finesse early in the season, flexed some muscle at the line of scrimmage against the larger Mountaineers.

That and a turnover-free game left Sheridan with few negatives to discuss in Monday's weekly press conference. "As we evaluated the game. It was obvious that we controlled the offensive and Herzog to White House: 'We stunk up the place' By the time President Reagan called him Sunday night, St. Louis manager Whitey Herzog, having gotten a head start in the fifth inning, was already in his street clothes. When he finally heard Reagan's voice, Herzog thanked him for calling, adding, "I remember when you called me and Furman now has a six-game winning See Furman, Page 2C congratulated me on winning (in 1982).

I'm sorry we didn't put on a better show. We kind of stunk up the place a little bit." That was Herzog's way of saying that while the Kansas City pitching staffs performance made it the tract nf tho CCamisas Clly applauds oils heroe 0 I It if CO 00 00 3" Royals won it their way Foster baseball world, Herzog felt his own team's ineptness was at least as big a factor in the outcome. Herzog refuses to believe a pitching staff that hadn't won "more than 91 games," in the season could be good enough, by itself, to hold his Cardinals to 13 runs and a pathetic batting average of .185. So with the Cardinals' disaster and White House diplomacy behind him, Herzog had time to guess what had happened that the Cards would become the only team to win the first two games of a Series on the road, then lose the war. 9 One suggestion was the absence of rookie Vince Coleman, because of an injury.

Tito I i f- Landrum's excellent performance as Coleman's replacement tended to hide that damage from the casual observer, but not Herzog. Of Coleman, he said, "I don't want to make excuses, but he was our catalyst. He was to our team what Lonnie Smith was in i '82. We stole two bases in this Series. During the season we stole 310.

We really didn't get into our game at all. I don't think anybody in the world saw the (real) Cardinals in the World Series." The Cardinals' boss was alternately 1: jocular and serious. Of his ejection during the fifth inning, Herzog said, "I went out f7 The Denver Post KANSAS CITY, Mo. The White Rat and his rapid ratpack, whose happy feet led them along a summerlong trail of unmatched whimsy, reached the end of the road Sunday night. It was not pretty.

They ran into the Kansas City Royals, who, on this occasion, hit the ball better, pitched the ball better, kept hold of their composure better who, in short, turned the 82nd World Series from an quiet intrastate tiff into a showdown. A showdown of mice and men. The men shelled John Tudor, the ace of the Cardinals' pitching staff, with a sudden two-run homer off the bat of Daryl Motley in the second inning. Then they decided to give the visitors a much-needed hitting clinic by nearly equaling St. Louis' offensive production for the entire seven-game series (13 runs) by crossing the plate 11 times.

And the mice? Put it this way: Whitey Herzog, their manager, was ejected during an ugly fifth-inning confrontation with home-plate umpire Don Denkinger. Ejected, too, was pitcher Joaquin Andujar, who came undone as usual when Denkinger failed to give him the inside corner on a close pitch. The impending histrionics provided the most intriguing viewing of the evening, but in reality, they were not so much the cause of the Cards' 11-0 nightmare as the effect. Kansas City owned an eight-run lead when Herzog and Andujar snapped at Denkinger (who, not coincidentally, was the ump on a controversial call that helped the Royals stay alive in Game 6). A few minutes later, news of Tudor's post-game tantrum he punched an electric fan in the clubhouse and required stitches for the index finger of his left (throwing) hand reached television viewers.

At which point the general populace had to be thinking of the Cardinals as a foamy-mouth band of crazed banshees. Not so quick. A few guys merely blew up, frustrated by a choke unequalled in 81 other World Series'. Never before has a team blown a two-game lead earned on the road, and not since 1912 has a team come within two outs of winning a 5 Ah Tht Alloc Iatt4 PrtH Kansas City's Bret Saberhagen waves to the crowd during the Royals' victory parade flappable manager. "What he did tonight he did all season." Like so many of the rest of the Royals, Saberhagen's odyssey into the center stage was little noticed by America until post-season play began two weeks ago.

Kansas City is not Gotham, and its players are not ambushed by phone calls from Madison Avenue. Perhaps that is why, almost to a man, your newest world champions are (in this age) a delightfully unaffected clan. This team grows on you. The lineup See Series, Page 4C dinals' 40 hits. On Sunday night they were cuffed by Bret Saberhagen, an engaging 21-year old, first-week father with a not-ready-for-prime-time mustache and bouncy swagger.

This, in other words, was not your prototype grizzled veteran putting the St. Louis batting order down to the tune of five harmless hits. This was merely one-half of the first pairing of 20-game winners to meet in a seventh Series game since 1962 living up to his reputation. "I've seen Saberhagen do it all year," gushed Dick Howser, the pitcher's un World Series and been rebuked. "I don't think there's anybody in here who can say they've never vented their frustrations somehow," Tito Landrum was saying in the quiet Cardinals' clubhouse afterward, looking around plaintively at the mass of visitors.

"I do it differently (than Herzog and Andujar), and a couple of years ago I was treated for ulcers. "Well, the guys on this team don't have ulcers." Nor bats. St. Louis' .185 team batting average is the lowest ever recorded in a seven-game World Series; ditto the Car there to keep Joaquin (Andujar) from getting kicked out. I was frustrated watching it.

"I really didn't mind leaving. I'd seen enough." On the serious side, Herzog offered short term burnout as one suspect. He said the Cardinals were "pretty fortunate to win three ballgames. I don't know why we stopped hitting. "We played 33 games in 32 days in September, and we really never had a letup.

We had to win every one of our ballgames. The Mets just kept fighting us. Then we got down two games to the Dodgers, a team we've never beaten very well, and we came back and won the thing." In the World Series, he said, "We won the first two ballgames and really didn't deserve to win. We pitched well." Burnout, Coleman out, and Andujafs inability to give any pitching help were negative factors for the Cardinals. That opened the door for the Royals.

The KC pitching, which Harzog admitted "just dominated us," closed the door on the Cardinals. Andujar's version Andujar was the embodiment of dejection a few feet from Herzog's office. Although he won 21 games for the Cardinals this season, he pitched badly down the stretch. Under other conditions, he would have started Sunday night. He was more rested than Tudor, but not as reliable.

His frustration exploded after the KC rout was underway. He felt umpire Don Denkinger (1) had given him a bad call and (2) misunderstood a message Andujar and Herzog said the pitcher had directed to his catcher. He too was ejected. Andujar wanted to explain things in general, if not to the ump, to someone else. "Last two months," complained Andujar, "everything go wrong for me.

You can tell everything go wrong for me. One KC hit on a broken bat, a ball hits a third baseman's glove. Everything goes wrong for me and the umpire jumps at me for no reason. Andujar said, "I know that pitch was down the 'meedle' and I don't even say nothing to the umpire. I just called Darrell and the ump jumps at me and said, 'Go back to the mound.

'I said. That was a horsefeathers It was." "At the beginning of the season," he said, "I was the one keeping the Cardinals on top, because I was winning. Everybody forgot that. "The same way I had good luck in the beginning, that's the same way I had bad luck. You can not have everything.

"Hey, somebody has to pick me up, because I can not do everything. I win 21 and (lose) 12. 1 wish I could have another season like that" Summerville in top spot Some Kentucky players deny recruiting charges High school poll CLASS AAAA School (No. 1 votes) pts W-L Summerville (7) 79 7-1 2 Conway (1) 73 S0 3 Stratford 62 4 Greenwood 44 7-1 5 Berkeley 42 7-1 4 Orangeburg 33 7-1 7 Hillcrest(O) 7-1 8 Spring Valley 28 7-1 Spartanburg 27 6-2 10 Gaffney 21 7-1 CLASS AAA 1 Clinton (4) 74 8-0 2 Myrtle Beach (2) 73 7-1 3 Thurmond (2) 61 8-0 4 Camden S3 7-1 5 Daniel 48 8-0 6 Newberry 37 7-1 7 Beaufort 34 7-1 8 Wren 25 7-1 9 Woodmont 18 7-1 10 Carolina 13 7-1 CLASS AA 1 Woodruff (8) 80 6-2 2 Pageland Central 72 8-0 3 St. John's, John's Is 65 7-1 4 Chesterfield 48 7-1 5 Barnwell 41 7-1 6 Batesburg-Leesville 38 6-2 7 North Myrtle Beach 27 7-1 8 Hampton 26 6-2 9 Blocksburg 18 7-1 10 Silver Bluff 10 6-2 CLASS A 1 East Clarendon (8) 80 8-0 2 Lake View 72 8-0 3 Aynor 60 7-1 4 Cross ....54 8-0 5 Btackville-Hildo 49 6-2 6 Jonesville 7-1 7 Timmonsville 30 7-1 8 Ridge Sprmg-Monetta 27 6-2 Porter Good 17 7-1 10 Wore Shoals 11 6-2 but the newspaper did not report that.

Sam Bowie, a former Kentucky star now playing for the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers, denied the newspaper report quoting him as saying he received cash payments of up to $500 from boosters. Several other players made similar denials Monday. John Carroll, editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader, said the newspaper stood by the story which included extensive taped interviews. The newspaper was girded for critical reaction from Kentucky fans, and Monday had to evacuate the newspaper plant in downtown Lexington because of a bomb threat Neither Lexington nor Herald-Leader officials would comment on the nature of the bomb threat David Berst, the NCAA's director of enforcement, confirmed that Kentucky had asked for an investigation. Staff, wire report Summerville is entering the two toughest weeks of its schedule with a new honor and a new burden the No.

1 ranking in The Associated Press' weekly high school football poll. Summerville (7-1) gathered the first-place votes which last week went to Greenwood, Spartanburg and Orangeburg, all three beaten Friday night. Seven of the eight participating reporters voted for Summerville. One favored Conway Summerville coach John McKissick said that if he had a vote, he'd probably pin the No. 1 label on "whoever we play next." In fact, his next two opponents might be worthy: No.

5 Berkeley (7-1) at home Friday night, and No. 3 Stratford (8-0) at Goose Creek next Thursday. The No. 1 ranking will be an additional See High school, Page 3C LEXINGTON, Ky. (UPI) NCAA officials confirmed Monday University of Kentucky officials have invited an investigation into allegations of rule violations in the school's basketball program.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reported Sunday 26 of 33 former Kentucky players interviewed said they participated in the improper activities, which included receiving cash payments of up to $500 from boosters, the selling of free season tickets for $1,000 each or more and receiving excessive payments for public appearances. Several of the players Monday denied the newspaper's report, saying they had been quoted out of context. "I received this after the season was over," said Bo Lanter, referring to his acceptance of money for speaking engagements. He said those payments were within NCAA regulations 4.