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Comics ftailg ditiztn Sports OCTOBER 7, PAGE 31 Markets Jack Iticknrd ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR UA romps, 42-13 UTEP not for real, Cats are Tryiiing to move up The public address announcer was -rattling off the Saturday afternoon college football scores for the benefit of the early arrivals at Arizona Stadium Saturday night. When he announced the Kansas-Texas AM score, it started a few conversations in the press box. Kansas had upset the Aggies, 28-10. "You ought to move up to no worse than llth this week," a Phoenix writer said to a UA official. That score meant something to the Wildcats, who are now for the first time in the school's seriously threatening to break into the elite Top Ten in the major college football ratings.

Last week Associated Press, the poll of sportswriters and sportscasters, gave UA the No. 12 spot in its rankings. It's the highest any UA football team has ever been ranked. Arizona started the season in 17th place in the AP voting. Since the season opened they've jumped ahead of such established football schools as Penn State, Louisiana State, Texas, Arizona State, UGLA, Maryland, Pittsburgh and Tennessee.

This despite the fact the Wildcats really haven't overwhelmed any opponent. Their victory margins were by 7, 15 and 5 points. But it's been a year of early-season upsets in college football and all those schools UA has passed have suffered a loss. Texas AM was one of the surprise teams of the early season. The Aggies were rated fifth despite little preseason support.

That loss will possibly eliminate them from the top 20 and give Arizona a chance to move up a spot. Tougher from here on The Wildcats will find it's much easier from here on in trying to gain more voter support. There are two obvious ways to move up pull a major upset or win by an overwhelming margin. Arizona's schedule doesn't provide many upset opportunities. So the Cats have to keep winning and by impressive scores.

That's why Saturday night's 42-13 conquest of'Texas El-Paso was so timely. The Miners are well known as a patsy in college football, even though they are a bit improved this year. Anything less than a one-sided victory would hurt the Cats with the pollsters. When you have a team down 42-0 after three quarters, as UA did Saturday night, it offers a chance to play all the reserves. Jim Young did just that.

He played everyone who was in an Arizona uniform, including 21 freshmen. However, Young also put some restrictions on his offense in the last quarter. The Cats spent most of the last period running up the middle, in contrast to the play-calling earlier when the forward pass was the big weapon. That's one way to keep from trying to run up the score against an outmanned opponent. A coach can't tell his substitutes to take it easy because it's their chance to show what they can do.

But he can limit what they do. One loss and out Arizona cannot afford a loss if the Cats hope to make it in the Top Ten in the polls. Schools like Nebraska, Notre Dame and Southern California have great football reputations. All three have suffered defeats and yet they still rate in'the Top Ten, even though their losses came at the hands of unranked opponents. While Western Athletic Conference games are certainly more important, to UA than any non-league games, one date looks bigger and bigger on the UA schedule.

On Oct. 19 the Cats visit Texas Tech, a team that was ranked No. 10 in the AP poll a week ago. The Red Raiders, although tied by New Mexico, gained- that spot when they upset Texas. Certainly a WAC championship and a win over Arizona State are the two major goals in the UA football program this year.

But it's fun playing the game of poll climbing, especially when it's a new game. Lead series, 2-0 By STEVE WESTON Citizen Sportswriter Somebody should sue Gil Bartosh for false advertising. After all, the starch his University of Texas-El Paso football team was supposed to contain wasn't starch at all -it was silly putty. At least that's what it looked like Saturday night when Bar- tosh's Miners were squeezed into a variety of funny shapes by University of Arizona's Wildcats, 42-13, at Arizona Stadium. The rare rout by UA was surprising to almost everyone.

After all, the Miners had shown great promise in a 1-2 campaign including a 34-7 smashing of Utah, this Saturday's UA opponent. And they did own a share of the Western Athletic Conference football lead with. UA both at 10. But perhaps they underestimated coach Jim Young's Wildcats, who played like the nationally ranked and undefeated team that they are. Like the guy in the television bank commercial, the Wildcats were "almost perfect." The Wildcat defense, getting brilliant play up front from defensive player of the game middle guard Glen Gresham, end Rex Naumetz and tackle Mike Dawson, turned UTEP running back Mike "Cat" Belew into a pussy cat, limiting the nation's No.

5 rusher to 30 yards on'19 carries. The UA secondary, led by Roussell Williams, Joe Colace and again Dennis Ander- Here, you take it Citizen Photos by Lew Elliott Texas-El Paso quarterback Bobby McKinley (11) tries to get rid of the football as Arizona'defenders block his path. Watching the action is Brad Longnccker (80). McKinley was frustrated most of the game Saturday night by the UA defense as the Wildcats romped to a 42-13 victory at Arizona Stadium. It's the same old script A's rebounding in playoff OAKLAND (AP) It was a familiar script: Oakland trailing Baltimore in the American League playoffs until Sal Bando started swinging at Dave McNally's pitches.

There were a few new wrinkles thrown in, such as two errors by the usually sure- handed Baltimore Orioles. They enabled Bando and Ray Fosse to drive in four unearned runs with home runs as the A's rebounded from Saturday's 6-3 defeat to whip the Orioles, 5-0, yesterday behind Ken Holtzman's five- hit pitching. The A's, two-time defending World Series champions, victimized McNally for the second straight year to square the best-of-five-game series at 1-1. A year ago in Baltimore, Bando homered twice against McNally and had a third homer taken away by a leaping catch. Bando led off the fourth inning by watching two pitches miss the Then, he said, "I tried to hold up on my swing and popped it up.

I was just depressed." But Bobby Grich, Baltimore's Golden Glove-caliber second baseman, dropped the high pop in foul territory. "I had it right in my glove," Grich said. "It wasn't like the ball was right in the sun -just a little bit." The reprieved Bando lined a three-ball, one-strike fast ball over the left-field fence, just eluding the glove of Baltimore's Don Baylar. "I thought he caught it," Bando said of a play that would have been a re-run of Al Bumbry's leaping grab in Game Two of the 1973 playoffs in which Holtzman outpitched McNally, 6-3. Fosse, sidelined much of the season from surgery on a disc Dodgers serving at match point PITTSBURGH (AP) There's nothing like two victories on the road before going home to make a team feel like the National League champions.

"I'm not saying we're going to sweep, but we're the National League champs," said Jim Wynn, the power behind the Dodgers' season-long drive that has left them one victory short of the NL title and a World Series berth.after yesterday's triumph over the Pittsburgh Pirates. "We're in the driver's seat," said Ron Cey, who rapped a homer, two doubles and a single to tie the playoff record of four hits in one game set by Pittsburgh's Bob Robertson in tfrt "Now the Pirates have got to pull all the stops," echoed Willie Crawford, whose pinch- hit single brought Cey home with the winning run against Pittsburgh's relief ace Dave Giusti. NQ team has overcome a 2-0 deficit since the best-of-five intra-league playoffs began in 1969 and the Pirates task is made more difficult by the series shifting to Los Angeles. It's as if the Dodgers are serving and have match point with three cracks to get it. "I'd say we have our backs to the wall," Pittsburgh Manager Danny Murtaugh said after the Dodgers scored three runs off Giusti to snap a 2-2 tie.

"But we've out of it nine or 10 times this year, and here we are playing in the big series," added Murtaugh, whose club was 14 games under .500 early in the season. While Murtaugh took the "chin-up" approach, it was business as usual for Walter Alston, silver-haired Dodgers' manager whose club had the best regular season record in baseball. Had he realistically expected to win both games in Pitts-' burgh and blunt the normally potent Pirate hitting? "To tell you the truth, 1 really didn't give much thought to it," he said. "-But I've been in baseball long enough not to be surprised at anything." The Dodgers, who won'-s-fl Saturday behind the pitching of Don Sutton, led 2-0 into the Pirates' seventh yesterday, and Pittsburgh's 15 scoreless record they set in two games against Cincinnati in 1970. Dodgers 5, Pirates 2 in Ms back, credited teammate Jesus Alou's "magic wand" after belting a double in the seventh inning and the three-run homer in the eighth off of Grant Jackson.

An error by substitute shortstop Frank Baker kept the inning going for Fosse. "It's heavier, 35 ounces, and has more wood," said Fosse, who wasn't sure he'd be a starter behind the plate until Friday night. "I dreamed I'd hit a three-run homer. It came two days later," he said. The playoffs move to Baltimore tomorrow for the third and fourth games, plus a fifth if necessary on Thursday.

The games will be telecast in Tucson at 11 a.m. on Channel 4. "It doesn't bother me at all," Dark said of the task of winning twice at Baltimore. "With these two teams, it doesn't matter where we play." "It looks like it'll go the distance," Orioles third baseman Brooks Robinson said. "I'm glad we're going back home." A's 5, Orioles 0 iiiiiiuga IIIQIA.UC.U mi, yjojrun LOS Angeles ab hbi i nfipj i Inside? Grid scores 32 ASU football .32 Wvnn 2 0 0 0 Garvey Ib 5 0 1 1 Fcrgusn rf 4 0 0 0 Ccv3b 5 2 4 1 Russell ss 4 1 1 0 Yeaoer 3 0 0 0 WCrwtrd 1 1 1 Mssrth 3 0 0 0 Mota ph 1 0 1 1 Lacvpr 0 0 0 0 Marshall 0 0 0 0 Total 38 512 5 Pittsburgh ab hbi Stennett 2b 3 0 0 0 Hebner 3b 3 0 1 1 AOHver cf 0 1 1 Stargell I 3 0 1 0 Giusti 0 0 0 0 Oemerv 0 0 0 0 RHnandz pO 0 0 0 DParker rf4 0 0 0 Sanguilln c4 0 2 0 Krkptrk Ib4 0 0 0 avers 0 0 0 0 Mendoz ss 1 0 0 0 Popovcti ss2 1 1 0 Rooker 2 0 1 0 ZlsK 1 0 1 0 dines I I 1 1 0 0 Total Defense becoming Sun Devil trademark.

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"It was nice to play a game that wasn't so close," said Young. The Cats' offense had drawn some criticism for not scoring more in wins over San Diego State (17-10), Indiana (35-20) and New Mexico (15-10). Saturday, it could have scored all it wanted. Surprisingly, the Miners were ill-prepared for UA's passing game, which Hill engineered with authority, and for receivers Scott Piper and Theopolis Bell. Hill peppered the UTEP secondary with the short air game.

He piled up 224 yards -and threw a pair of touchdown passes to Bell against a Miner secondary that had allowed only 98 passing yards per game. "I knew we could do it," said an ecstatic Hill afterward. "The short passing game was wide open we just took it to 'em." "It was kind of surprising," added Piper, who caught six passes for 87 yards. "We thought they'd cover us tighter. "Every time I'd catch that slant pass I'd expect the safety to come up and knock my block But it was always kind of a delayed hit." Related story, picture on page 35 Bell was about as wide open all night as Piper was, though the Miners worked hard to close things down in the second half.

Slill, Bell grabbed a half-dozen tosses for 92 yards. "Maybe they had a misconception of their pass defense," Young offered. "But we felt we could throw against their type of coverage." Young said he allowed Hill to change some plays at the line of scrimmage, if Hill felt the UTEP defensive alignment deemed il necessary. "I must have called about in audibles (play changes)," said Hill. "And that's more than I ever have in a game here." Young gave Hill more of a free probably because of a suspicion UTEP might do as much defensive freewheeling as New Mexico did the previous week.

And it worked. And Young hinted Hill will continue to have a hand in play-calling, which Young does himself. "Well, from a standpoint of calling automatics, yes," smiled Young. Even though Hill named offensive player of the game was devastating UTEP with the pass, the UA running game was no slouch, either. The Cats used 10 ball carriers to pile up 284 yards -helping UA to 520 yards of total offense.

Former track star Gus Brisco led the way with 75 yards on 15 carries. He was subbing for injured Jim Upchurch, who came in long enough to run for 44 yards on six carries. Starting halfback Willie Hamilton also was used sparingly, but he rolled for 70 yards on eight trips. UTEP made a mistake in gearing its defense to stopping the UA ground game. That fact was advertised.

And the gross miscalculation of Hill's passing abilities was fatal. The Miners had moved the ball very well in their first three outings. But UTEP's running game netted only 88 yards and Miner runners were thrown for losses 14 times. him, and we did it." A big assist for UA came in keeping the Miners in bad field position. On 13 possessions, the Miners only once began their attack from outside their own 27-yard line.

The 4-0 Cats, hoping to improve their national rankings of 12th (Associated Press) and 15th (United Press International) take their show to Salt Lake City this week for a Saturday night WAC game against Utah (0-3). "It's not like playing UTEP of a year ago," Young warned. "You could do most anything then and still beat UTEP. This week we've playing a team that can beat you." Seeing what UTEP did to Utah a couple of weeks ago, Young might have his hands full this week with convincing his team of that. Celebrating It's a happy night for University of Arizona's Willie Hamilton (2) and Jim Upchurch.

Hamilton scored two touchdowns and Upchurch one Saturday night as the Wildcats ran their season record to 4-0 with a 42-13 defeat of Texas- El Paso. UA Statistics Team UTEP First Downs 16 Not Yards Rushing Bfl Net Yards Passing Net Total Ollcnse 284 Passes Comp. Alt. 12-21 Passes Intercepted Bv 0 Fumbles-- Lost 1-1 Punts Average Penalties-- Yards 7-62 Individual Rushing UETP Belew 19 30 McKinlev 21 Holt 2 17 Willis 3 11 Johnson 2 8 Elliott 1 3 Amerson 1 -2 UA 30 284 234 520 17-32 2 3-2 B74 1.5 1.9 8.5 3 6 4,0 3.0 FIRST A UA 7, UTEP 0: Bell 10 a oass Irom Hill at 6:29. PAT Pislor.

kick. 48-yard drive, 6 Dlavs. Key plays: Passes trom Hill to Piper tor 1 and lo Belt (or 16; 11- yard run by Hill. SECOND QUARTER UA 14, UTEP 0: Upchurch 10-yard run at 13:22. PAT Pistor.

kick. 48-yard drive, 7 plays. Key plays: 15-yard run by Hamilton. NOTE Drive saved on Hamilton fumble recovery by UA offensive lackle Brian Murray. UA 21, UTEP 0: Hamilton 6-yard run al 8:16.

PAT Pislor, kick. 71-yard drive. 7 plays. Key plays: Passes from Hill lo Piper tor 27 and 14 yards; pass Irom Hill to Cambptell lor 11 yards. Bctsco Hamilton Upchurcri Hill Lunslord.

Baker Hoenlsch. Newman Baechler. 15 6 6 .7 3 3 1 1 2 PASSING UTEP Yds. McKinley. 11-19 144 75 70 44 2V 28 16 13 4 3 2 5.0 B.7 7.3 4.8 4.0 5.3 4.3 4.0 3.0 1.0 Amcrson Arizona Hill Baechler.

Lunsford. 1-2 52 UTEP Collins Walker i Bclcw Willis Ariiona Bell Piper Camptell Greathousc Davis 16-28 224 l-l 12 0-4 0 PASS RECEIVING TO 0 I 2 0 0 83 62 21 17 110 3 87 30 12 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 How they scored TEXAS-EL PASO 0 0 0 A I A 7 14 21 13 13 0 4 2 THIRD A UA 23, UTEP Bell 21-yard pass trom Hill at 12:50. PAT Pistor. kick. 26-yard drive, 5 plays.

Key plays: 9-yard run by Brisco. 7-yard pass (rom Hill to Hamilton. NOTE: Touchdown set up on klckofl (umble recovery by UA's Rousell Williams at UTEP26. UA 35, UTEP 0: Hamilton 11-yard run at 9:23. PAT Pistor.

kick. 74-yard drive, six plays. Key plays: Runs of 22 and 9 by Hamilton, passes ot 24 and 9 Irom Hill lo Sell. UA UTEP 0: Randolph 1-yard run at 1:00. PAT Pistor, kick.

74-yard drive, 11 Dlavs. Key plays: Runs ot 6, 24, 10 and 5 yards by Brisco; 12-yard pass Irom Bar.helor to Grealhouse. FOURTH QUARTER UA 42, UTEP 7: Belew 2-yard run at 11:47. PAT Belichesky Vkk. 94-yard drive, 13 plays.

Key plays: Passes of and 13 (rom McKinley to Walker; pass ol 21 from McKinlev lo Belvin; runs of 14 and 18 by McKinlev. UA 42, UTEP 13: Collins 52 pass Irom Amerson at :20. PAT kick tailed. 50- yard drive, 2 plays. NOTE: Touchdown set up on fumble recovery bv UTEP's W.

C. Paiae on 5-yard line. Atlendancc: 38,051. Angeles geles 12, HR-Cey pez. S-- Stennett.

IP Mssrsth (W, 1-0) 7 Marshall 2 Rooker 7 6 Glusll (L, 0-1) 0 4 Demcrv 0 R. Hcrandfz 2 1 Messrsmth 8 2 0 0 WP-Dnmcrv. T-- i 2 3 0 0 0 0 3 2 5 4 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 I 1 Tavcras. Grich, Baker. DP Baltimore 2, Oakland 2.

LOB Baltimore 5, Oakland 7. IB FOSSC. 3B Rudl. HR Bnndo 1, Fosse 1. SB Tcnacc.

D. Green. Ip ti er bb so McNally (Lfl-D 5Jd 6 2 1 2 2 Garland 1 0 0 1 0 Reynolds 0 1 0 3 1 G.Jackson 1 2 0 0 1 rloltzman IW.l-O) 9 5 0 0 2 2 WP McNallv. A "We just overpowered them up front," said Young. "And we got to the ball quickly." UA cut off Belew with Naumetz, the rush end.

Young explained Naumetz rushed straight into the Miners' backfield several limes instead of looping around the blockcrs. "They've never.been pressured like that before," said Naumetz. "We worked really hard all week on containing McAuley has line on Cats Regis McAuley, Tucson Daily sports editor, predicted "There's an offense there some place" on the Arizona Wildcat football team. And with that, McAuley almost tabbed the outcome of Saturday night's UA victory over Texas-El Paso. He called 42-10 and the Wildcats won 42-13.

Associate sports editor Jack Rtckard had the 29- polnt victory spread right with a 38-9 pick. Other Citizen selections were Naaman Nlckell, 2813; Steve Weston, 27-17; Dave Kellogg, 31-10; John Lankford, 28-6; Bruce Johnston, 24-21; Bill qulmby, 76; Dave Dykes, 34-7; and Steve Chandler, 33-15..

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