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The Orlando Sentinel Martina takes 2, advances to Lynda Carter final, C-16 Sunday, October 6, 1 985 mim Let wir St. Louis rips Cubs for title COMPILED FROM WIRE REPORTS Royals clinch on Wilson hit COMPILED FROM WIRE REPORTS Jays' homers finish Yanks UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Larry Guest THE SPORTS COLUMN -At Willie Wilson singled home Pat Sheridan with two outs in the 10th inning Saturday night to give the host Kansas City Royals their second consecutive American League West championship with a 5-4 victory over the Oakland A's. The victory ended the California Angles hopes despite defeating the host Texas Rangers, 3-1, on homers by Reggie Jackson and Doug DeCinces. Oakland built a 4-0 lead off Kansas City ace Bret Saberhagen through 5 Va innings to keep California's divisional hopes alive. But George Brett belted his fifth homer of the week and 30th of the season with a man on base in the bot-Please see ROYALS, C-5 The St.

Louis Cardinals, termed during the off-season by their manager as a team that could finish anywhere from first to last, Saturday clinched their second National League East title in four seasons with a 7-1 triumph over the Chicago Cubs in St. Louis. Manager Whitey Herzog toasted the title, then saluted the club that chased them almost to the wire. "Before I go any further, I want to congratulate the New York Mets," he said. "It took 101 ballgames victories.

Any other year, and they would have won it." As it turned out, St. Louis didn't need to win Saturday, because the Mets were thumped in New York by Please see CARDS, C-5 TORONTO The Toronto Blue Jays need no longer worry about magic numbers, and the only things left for the New York Yankees are tragic numbers. The Blue Jays clinched the American League East Division title for the first time in the club's nine-year history as Ernie Whitt, Lloyd Moseby and Willie Upshaw all belted solo homers Saturday in a 5-1 victory over the Yankees. "I never knew anything could feel this good," Moseby said as he exchanged champagne spray with second baseman Damaso Garcia. "It's a great feeling." The feeling was particularly gratify-Please see JAYS, C-5 ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL St.

Louis celebration Tudor is doused. Doyle Alexander ex-Yankee wins. Florida routs flat LSU, 20-0 Gators' defense dominates Tigers' potent ground game By Tim Povtak Miseries continue for UCF Lanham, Davis hurt in 48-1 2 shellacking By Gary Silvers OF THE SENTINEL STAFF OF THE SENTINEL STAFF tt ft Art A K. Halftime hollering fails to lift outmanned UCF 8t's halftime at the Central Florida-Southwest Texas State game Saturday night at Orlando Stadium, and the hometown Knights are deployed in assorted skull sessions that have sprouted in various nooks of a steamy locker room. Assistant coaches, the veins protruding on their necks, are in serious oratory, fine-tuning their respective components of the machine.

They are orally checking a spark plug here, turning a brake drum there, adjusting the carburetor here. Their voices collectively blend into a cacophony of confusion with only an occasional phrase rising above the din. and no more bleepity bleep holding "The humidity is getting to them!" "We're going to invite them to a Florida barbecue in the second Gene McDowell, UCF head coach, has just arrived in the bathhouse, delayed by a halftime ceremony that honored several key contributors. Galen Hall and Bobby Bowden rarely participate in halftime ceremonies, but then Galen and Bobby are not saddled with the task of running a college football program on a lemonade stand budget. The Division II Knights typically are playing a team out of a larger division.

At halftime they are hanging within a touchdown of these I-AA visitors from Texas. A couple of vital breakdowns have kept the Knights from enjoying a halftime lead, a point that McDowell hammers home when time comes to address the whole machine uh, squad. "We execute, and they don't score in that half," he says in a firm voice. "We execute, and we block two punts. How many passes we drop that half? Four? Darin Slack?" Silence.

Darin Slack, the backup quarterback who took over when starter Tony Lan-ham went down with a first-period knee injury, is in an adjacent trainers room. "DARIN McDowell booms. "Yessir," comes a voice out of the other room." "Get out here!" "Yessir," the voice grows. "When the receivers get open, plant your foot and hit them!" "Yessir. Yessir," says the voice, working toward the front of the room.

For UCF football, the week had gotten off to a grinning start Tuesday night at Gate the Knights' unique annual dinner auction where an old pair of sweat socks is apt to bring $500. The madcap auction raised a welcome $251,000 to rattle around in what can now accurately be called UCF's athletic coffers. Six months ago, they were echo chambers. Mending the fiscal fences, however, is only half the fight. To turn Orlando into a black-and-gold hotbed, McDowell knows he must improve over recent UCF won-lost records (7-25 over the last three seasons).

A victory on this night advances UCF to 3-1, a defeat means 2-2. Period. He knows the average guy on the street doesn't know Division I-AA from the 3rd Armored Division and probably could be convinced that Southwest Texas State is a correctional facility. Come to think of it, somebody could trick me, too. Except that I do know SW Tex played close games with East Carolina and Lamar, who are not exactly Nebraska and Michigan, but are not chopped liver, either.

This is 75-scholar-ship SW Tex against 39-scholarship UCF. Nevertheless, there was McDowell and his ambitious pioneers gamely aiming a Division II slingshot at yet another I-AA army. "We are in the ballgame!" the coach declared, winding down his halftime talk. He mentions that humidity theory about how young men from Texas may wilt in the second half, causing a locker room interloper to reassess the relative positions of Texas and South Dakota. "We can beat this team," McDowell says with conviction in his tones.

"Any questions?" With a flick of his wrist, the squad rumbles through the door. Three-and-one or two-and-two?" one lad shouts a challenge to teammates. Two-and-two stinks!" comes a reply. agree a dozen voices. Three plays into the second half, a Texas visitor scoots around right end and somehow survives the humidity 65 yards to ignite an avalanche of SW Tex points.

Two-and-two, all against Division I-AAi began to take on a befter fragrance. BATON ROUGE, La. With shocking ease and a defense that truly was dominant, the Florida Gators humbled eighth-ranked LSU, 20-0, Saturday night, silencing a notoriously vocal crowd at Tiger Stadium. The Gators can't win the Southeastern Conference championship this season because of NCAA probation, so the defense played like it doesn't plan on letting any other team on the schedule win the title, either. Although the Gators botched numerous scoring opportunities and sophomore quarterback Kerwin Bell had the worst game of his career throwing three interceptions Florida still won easily.

The Gators, ranked 11th but playing like contenders for No. 1, embarrassed LSU before 77,598, the fifth-largest crowd in Tiger Stadium history. It was the first time LSU had been shut out since 1980 when Florida State beat the Tigers here, 16-0. There was nothing wrong with LSU except that it had to play Florida when the Gators' defense was at its best. "It was obvious we didn't accomplish anything offensively," LSU Coach Bill Arnsparger said.

"Florida is just a great football team." LSU (2-1) was expecting to be an SEC title contender and still may be but Florida made the Tigers look hapless. Florida gained 407 yards to just 135 for LSU, which stuck to a conservative game plan and never showed any offensive spark. Tailback Neal Anderson surpassed Tony Green to become Florida's all-time leading rusher (2,597 yards) with 123 yards in 22 carries. Florida used Anderson's 51-yard touchdown pass to Ray McDonald in the first quarter and two Jeff Dawson field goals to build a comfortable lead. Then with 2:46 left, fullback John L.

Williams ran 29 yards for another score, adding insult to an already sure defeat. Much of the crowd already was heading home. Please see GATORS, C-14 Those who thought the University of Central Florida football, team hit rock bottom last week against Illinois State were wrong. The Knights played their worst game of the season Saturday night, bowing, 48-12, to Southwest Texas State before 7,850 fans at Orlando Stadium. UCF (2-2) lost more than a game.

Starting quarterback Tony Lanham went down with a knee injury on the first drive and never returned. Lanham, who will undergo arthroscopic surgery Monday, is out indefinitely. Later, tight end Mac Lantrip injured his left shoulder, and running back Elgin Davis hurt his left knee. To top it all off, a UCF cheerleader sustained a sprained ankle on the sideline. Southwest Texas State (1-4) played nothing like its record indicated.

The Division I-AA Bobcats proved they are in a different class than the Division II Knights in more ways than one. "I expected a tough game with this team," UCF Coach Gene McDowell said. "I figured it would be one of the four most difficult games on our schedule." Leading, 14-6, at halftime, Southwest Texas State broke open the game early in the third quarter, churning out 143 yards in JOHN RAOUX SENTINEL Please see UCF, C-13 Southwest Texas defender zeroes in on UCF's Aaron Sam. Robinson passes Bear as college's top winner ASSOCIATED PRESS Tennessee 31 Wake Forest 29 PageC-6 Illinois 31 Ohio State 28 Page C-7 Iowa 35 Michigan State 31 Page C-7 Miami 27 East 15 Page C-11 Delaware State 51 Bethune-Cookman. 7 Page C-12 Florida 31 Albany State 20 i PageC-12 added.

"I just want to tell you that you are living in the best country in the world." Grambling stormed 77 yards in 10 plays on its first possession, with quarterback Terrell Landry passing 12 yards to tight end Arthur Wells for a touchdown 4:39 into the game. The Tigers made it 14-0 at 11:03 on Wayne Hill's 1-yard run and breezed from there to give Robinson his record-breaking triumph. The Tigers, ranked No. 2 nationally among NCAA Division I-AA teams, are 4-0 this season and haven't lost to Prairie View in the last 19 meetings, one of which ended in a tie. The Panthers are 1-5.

Rcbinson was surrounded continually by photographers along the sideline, snapping pictures of his achievement as he boosted his record to 324-106-15. Bryant, who Please see RECORD, C-13 DALLAS Eddie Robinson, 66 years old and in his 44th season at Grambling State University, Saturday night passed the late Bear Bryant and became the win-ningest coach in the history of college football with 324 victories when the Tigers defeated Prairie View 27-7. As the final seconds ticked away, a swarm of humanity surrounded Robinson as he moved slowly off the field, stopping only for a TV interview. "It belongs to you, it belongs to the coaches, it belongs to Grambling," Robinson told his players after they reached the locker room. "I'm just somebody out there trying to serve the youth.

"Anybody here in this room can do anything in the world he wants to do if he is willing to prepare himself. This is what we want you to do; tOje better men for having played fhe game." Robinson ASSOCIATED PRESS Eddie Robinson exalts his teaoc from the sideline he chalks up record-breaking 324th victory..