Idaho State Journal from Pocatello, Idaho • Page 6

SECTION A IDAHO STATE JOURNAL POCATEn.0. IDAHO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, HAKE'DISAPPOINTED' Idaho-ISU Grid Rivalry Fails to Stir Bengals ByGEORGEGREEK Journal Sports Editor 'MOSCOW-Ah, rivalries. There's nothing quite like them. Take the Idaho Stale Bengals (1-3) and their annual 'donneybrook with the Idaho Vandals, for example. This in preparation for the renewal of that blowout 'Saturday, the Bengals' emotions have reached a level As of Thursday morning, Bengal boss Bud Hake was concerned about the Bengals' lack of excitement for the Kibble Dome bash.

"We're approaching this a little too nonchalant," Hake said. "I'm very disappointed in the emotionality we've been evidencing so far this week." Kickoff is set for 9 p. m. MDT. Hake's counterpart, Ed Troxel, said he expects to be meeting an aroused Bengal unit.

"I know they are going to play like hell against us," he told the Journal in a telephone interview. "Our thing is to stop any early momentum. If we let them get the early momentum, it's going to be a tough ball game. "I anticipate that they will come up here and go wild. That's how they do against the University of Idaho." Undoubtedly Troxel remembers a year ago when the Vandals, who were on their way to a 7-4 season- one of the best in Vandal history--, met a 1-6 Bengal team that had been getting hammered by just about everyone.

But the Bengals took the fight to the Vandals in the Minidome before losing 6-3 on a pair of Ralph Lowe field goals, including a Vandal record 53-yarder. "It is not out of the question. We can beat Idaho if we give it our best effort and you only get your best effort if you're aroused," Hake contended. Hake has also been concerned about his team's lack of a killer instinct. "We're not very opportunistic," he explained.

"When adversity hits us, we have a tendency to (all apart. When adversity hits them (opposition), we do not take advantage of the opportunity." A surprisingly porous Vandal defense and Injuries have been Troxel's main worries. When it was suggested that the 0-3 Vandals have had a "little problem" with their defense, Troxel responded, "You call it a little problem? I call it a momentous problem." In its three losses to Hawaii, Rice and Pacific, which counted as a Big Sky Conference game, the Idaho defense has given up a combined 107 points. And at the beginning of the season, Troxel had felt that the defense would be solid and that the offense might be suspect. Instead, the offense has responded with 19 points a game--enough to win games.

"They've had some big plays against them. Other than that they don't look that, bad," Hake noted. "If you didn't see the Scoreboard in a couple of the games, you would have thought the wrong team won." The Vandals did not have a game last week and Troxel said, "We think we got a lot of things corrected." That Vandal defense, which includes Greg Coman, a one-time American Falls High School standout, at right cornerback, looks like a tag team wrestling match with 230-pound Chris Tormey at a linebacker, 241-pound Robert Collins at left end, 262-pound Steve Parker at left tackle, 255-pound Joe Pellegrini at right tackle and 240- pound Tom Eilertson at right end. "They're just huge. That probably will give us as much problem as anything," Hake predicted.

Chris Frost, an ex-Highland High School star, started Idaho's first two games at linebacker but the 212- pound senior injured his ankle in the Pacific game and did not play against Hawaii. However, he Is now ready, although he will not start. Mick Spoon, the junior college transfer from Grays Harbor, has drawn the assignment of engineering Idaho State's offense on the strength of his passing this week In practice, Hake said. A passing attack has been sorely missed by the Bengals. Freshman Dirk Koetter has the best completion percentage--an anemic 38.5.

Spoon and Steve Holzer have both been under 27 per cent. "There is no dividing line. AH are shades of gray rather than black or white," Hake said of his quarterback trio. In other changes, Rick Sasser will start ahead of Joe Moreino at strong-side 'tackle, although Moreino will continue to play both ways. And Dan Patricelli will replace injured Ron Lueker at strong-side guard.

The Vandals will present ISU's defense with a severe test. Led by senior quarterback Craig Juntunen, they are second only to Northern Arizona in total offense with a 362-yards-per-game clip. "Last week we had two quarterbacks down. If we had a game last week, we would have had to bring a kid out of redshirt or use a freshman," Troxel said. However, Juntunen, who has had a sprained ankle, is now "98 per cent" well and Rocky Tuttle, who has a shoulder injury, can play if necessary.

Juntunen is a double threat at 6-2, 195 pounds. He has rushed for 231 yards and passed for 327 to lead the conference in total offense-186 yards per game. Juntunen's favorite target been Malad's Kirk Allen, who has caught 10 passes to lead the Vandals in receptions. Idaho's veer is given running punch by fullback Lance Hubbard and running back Robert Taylor, The team's leading rusher last year, Robert Brooks, is out Dan Dionas at one end ahead of Greg Taylor and replace Bob Matsey at strong safety. Free safety Brett Helmandollar has an injured arch and may not make the trip.

Rick Olson will replace Helmandollar. -We are going to have between 14,000 and 15,000 at the game. Anytime we are going to play that state rivalry people know anything can Troxel said. Probable Starters VANDAL DEFENSE SLB Chris Tormey LE Robert Collins LT Steve Parker RT Joe Pelligrini RE Tom Eilertson WLB Phil Vance MLB Robert Cafterty LC Bill Clark SS Rick Linehan FS Brian Charles RC Greg Coman VANDAL OFFENSE WR Dan Davidson QT Larry Coombs OG Dave Wlggum Joe Kramer SG Joe Dahlin ST Tom Randel TE Rick Mayfield QB Craig Juntunen FB Lance Hubbard RB Robert Taylor WR Kirk Allen WT. Pos.

230 SE 241 ST 262 SG 255 240 TG 205 TT 200 TE 181 QB 186 FB 190 TB 185 2B 170 LE 235 LT 240 MG 237 RT 236 RE 230 SLB 230 WLB 195 LC 225 FS 195 SS 179 RC BENGAL OFFENSE Name WT. Greg Smith Rick Sasser Dan Patricelli Don Schroeder Tom Townsend Warren Whitaker Barney Jacobs Mick Spoon Bruce Bachmeier Steve Wolpin Don Woolfey 1W 245 230 213 251 243 211 175 201 182 203 BENGAL DEFENSE Dan Dionas 194 Joe Moreino 247 Ray Allred 249 Michael Johnson 244 Mark Tuson Neal Richardson Greg Langford Mike Allison Rick Olson Larry Chambers Jerry Graybeal IS) 2 1 3 210 175 171 180 150 Little-Used Ken Holtzman Unhappy With Inactivity NEW YORK (AP) Ken Holtzman, frustrated at being overlooked by the New York Yankees in a pitchers famine, said Thursday night he had asked repeatedly to be traded and gol nolhing but double talk. "I have been in Gabe Paul's office 10 or 12 times since the slarl of Ihe season, suggesting thai it would be to both the teams' and my benefit for me to be traded," the $150,000 a year left-han- der said. "I have gotten no satisfaction at all." "My feeling is if that's the way they want it, that's the way it can be. I can't make decisions for them.

So I just have to sit around and draw my salary." Holtzman has participated In six consecutive championship playoffs and three World Series; in which he compiled a 4-1 record on the mound with the Oakland A's and a .833 slugging percentage. But most of the time since joining the Yankees, he has been a player all dressed up with nowhere to go. He was not used in the American League playoffs or the World Series last year, his first with the Yankees in a five-year contract and this season he has pitched only sparsley. Although he won 91 games in five seasons before this one, he has'pitched only 51-2 innings since, July 1 and not at all since Sept. 10.

DAN PATRICELLI Starts at Guard DAN DIONAS Gets Nod on Defense N.L. PLAYOFFS RESUME Bum Toe Hobbles McBride--Will He Play? Crash Landing 'Yankees second baseman, ball in hand, is aggressively upset by sliding Royals Frank White on force play in sixth inning of the second American League playoff game at Yankee Stadium Thursday night. Royals Fred Patek scored on the play and a strong argument led by Yankee Manager Billy Martin ensued. But umpire Marty Springstead held his'ground. (AP Wire- photo) By RALPH BERNSTEIN AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) Philadelphia Phillies Manager Danny Ozark was expected to have a double-barreled center field headache today for the third game of the best-of five National League championship series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The Phillies and Dodgers are 1-1 after splitting the first two games in Los Angeles. The action resumed today at the Phillies' Veterans Stadium before a sellout crowd of more than 60,000. Ozark has had to go the first two games without his secretary of defense center, field, angular Garry Maddox, who hit .293 during the regular season and ran down everything hit inside the stadium. Bake McBride moved from right to center and Jay Johnstone and Jerry Martin platooned in right in the games at Dodger Stadium. But now, not only was Maddox questionable for the third game, but McBride was limping with an injured big toe on his left foot.

The toe was X-rayed Thursday night, but the results were inconclusive. The X-ray technicians want to take a better look. Maddox took batting practice Thursday and ran at full speed in the outfield, but Ozark still wasn't satisfied that it was worth the gamble to play his regular center fielder. "We can win this thing without Garry Maddox," Ozark said at a partial team workout Thursday. "I'm more interested in Maddox being ready for the World Series." McBride, who was 4-for-9 in the first two games, with two runs scored, a home run and one run batted in, in- the toe he crashed into the center field wall in the second game trying to grab a drive by Reggie Smith that went for a triple.

At first he complained of a shoulder problem. But later the toe began to throb. He apparently kicked the wall. "It hurts," said McBride, who had trouble walking let alone running. Phillies' trainer Don Seger tried to brush the McBride I a i "He'll play.

We'll hit it with a hammer and it'll be okay." But McBride didn't look like he was ready to chase down drives to the outfield. Meanwhile, Seger said he felt that Maddox might able to play, if there was.no fluid on the knee Injured In the final game of the regular season Sunday when he fouled off a pitch. Seger said Maddox has had continual treatment in an ice machine, a pressure device which circulates cold -water at an adjustable pressure. Maddox has spent several hours with the knee in the machine since Sunday. Despite the trainer's opti- mism and a tentative okay from the team doctor, Philip Marone, Ozark said, "1 would think he couldn't play.

At best 1 would use him only as a pinch hitter." But Ozark may have had to take a chance with -Maddox if McBride cauldn't make it. However, if these cases ran true to form, both Maddox and McBride were expected to be in the lineup against Dodgers' starter Burt Hooton, 12-7. Hooton, 0-2 against the East Division champions this season, nonetheless had a 2.40 earned run average against the Phils. He throws a knuckle curve that has bothered the Phillies. In addition to McBride, Hooton had to check Richie Hebner, hitting .400.

in the series, and Greg Luzinski with a .286 mark, one homer, two RBI and two runs scored. i i Schmidt had just one hit in seven at-bats. Ozark started Larry Christenson, 19-6, who won 15 of his last 16 starts, but had had trouble finishing because of a blister on his pitching hand that breaks and bleeds after six or seven innings. The blister is particularly aggravated by the slider pitch. YANKS KNOT SERIES Guidry WingsThree-Hit Gem By FRED ROTHENBERG AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) The New York Yankees, led by their stopper and their starter, won the game they had to win, evening their Ameri- Rain May Wash A.L Game Three KANSAS CITY A The National Weather Service says there's a good chance that rain will fall in Royals Stadium tonight, possibly washing out the third a A i a League Championship series.

But ticket holders for that third game or any other game rained out during the playoff series in Kansas City need not worry that their tickets will also be washed away. According to the Roya ticket office, playoff tickets are numbered in sequence and persons holding tickets for the game Friday night will have seats reserved for the game even If It Is postponed until Saturday. can League playoff series with the Kansas City Royals at one victory apiece. The stopper was Ron Guidry, who overpowered the Royals with a tidy three-hitter. The starter was Cliff Johnson, who ignited the Yankees' dormant bats with a home run and a run-scoring double.

The efforts of the slender i and the massive Johnson propelled the Yankees to a 6-2 triumph Thursday night and turned the best-of-five AL pennant series into a two-out-of-three affair. The first of those three games at Kansas City's Royals Stadium is tonight, with righthander Dennis Leonard, Kansas City's 20-game winner, against Mike Torrez, 1713 this season. Guidry, the ragin' Cajun from Carencro, almost didn't make the Yankees in spring training, only going north with the team because New York didn't have any other left-handed relievers. At one point in spring training, Yankee manager Billy Martin joked to the 27-yearold: there's anybody in the American League you can get out, tell me and I'll let you pitch to him." Once the season started and Guidry was forced into the starting rotation, the lanky lefthander was getting everybody in the AL out. "That's the way he's pitched all year," said Martin after Guidry's masterful performance kept the Yankees from the edge of extinction.

"He's one great pitcher. He kept us in the picture all season." Guidry, 16-7 this year and a winner of 11 of his last 14 decisions, said his spring swoon didn't affect his confidence. "I just hoped 1 wasn't gonna be judged by the spring 1 had. I knew 1 could pitch up here. "1 didn't leel any pressure all season.

1 really don't know what pressure is." Guidry, forced into the Yankees' starting rotation because of injuries to veterans Catfish Hunli-r, Don Gullett and Ed Figucroa, was coveted by the Royals, and two years ago he was all but on his way to Kansas City. But Kansas City Manager Whitcy llerzog said that Birdie Tehbctts, the Yankees' chief scout, vetoed the deal. Herzog would have loved to have Guidry wearing Kansas City blue rather than the Yankee pinstripes Thursday night. "He pitched a great ball- game. He had great stuff, a great breaking ball," said Herzog, whose club was limited to Frank White's single in Ihe third, Freddie Patek's double in the sixth and George Brett's single in the ninth.

"He's a really good pitcher." Although the Royals never went after the 6-foot-4, 225- pound Johnson, they would have preferred if he played for somebody besides the Yankees. Called "The Monster" by Martin, Johnson creates excitement at the plate, swinging from the heels on every pitch. The only thing that keeps his body from toppling over is the contact of bat and ball. With the Yankees trailing 1-0 in the fifth, Johnson hit a towering pop behind home plate which catcher Darrell Porter misplayed, giving the Yankees designated hitter a second life. "I feel I should have caught that ball," Porter said.

Several pitches later, Johnson hit the ball in the opposite direction, more than 430 feet to straightaway center field. Not-only did he have to battle one of starter Andy Hassler's fastballs, Johnson had to squint through tearing eyes that were irritated by the wind. "When I left the on-deck circle and got to the batter's box, my eyes started watering and they wouldn't stop," said Johnson, who smashed 12 homers in 56 games with the Yankees this season. "Just because 1 hit the home run, it doesn't mean they didn't water." Johnson, acquired from Houston on June 15 for minor league pitcher Randy Stein and lots of cash, also laced a tie-breaking double in the sixth inning, prompting a standing ovation from the crowd of 56,230 largest In Yankee Stadium this year when he went to bat in the elgthh Inning. "It was a warm feeling," Lj-i A i said Johnson.

"These people nOl MllTI On 106 in New York are about to spoil me." Yankee southpaw Ron Guidry soaks arm in bucket of ice after firing a nifty three-hitter against thp Kan sas City Royals at Yankee Stadium Thursday nlaht to even the playoff series at one game apiece Th a Yan-.