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J. iiiM Waft4 ill I Lata! MLFiimi: LL-i a-v. 4B Bobcat football team scores 35 after intermission in win 6 5 3 i i Classified, 53-C3 Comics, SB Bridge, 10B Landers, 10B Features, 11 giauis, 4B Washington the only unbeaten iJhe Little Red score 7 goals in sectional boys soccer win team left in the NFL after win ports Thgjjhaca Journal October 28, 1991 Section IRIEFLY Masterpiece the Metrodome 272-2321, Ext. 14 A championship game for the ages Hulbert 2nd in Houston THE WOODLANDS, Texas (AP) Ithaca's Mike Hulbert came close Sunday but is still without a PGA tour win in 1991. XHuIbert finished just one shot behind South African Fulton Allem at the the Independent Insurance Agents Open in Houston Sunday.

Hulbert, who started the day three shots back, never could get anything going, shooting 14 straight pars before a bogey and a pair of birdies led to a 71. A long bid for birdie on No. 18 and a tie for the lead fell short. Allem made up seven strokes Sunday with a torrid back nine that included five birdies to emerge from the pack with a final-round 66 and win his first American tour event by one shot over Tom Kite, Billy Ray Brown and Hulbert. Allem shot 273 for the four rounds, 15 under par.

Hulbert has won twice on the tour in his pro career the 1986 Federal Express St. Jude Classic and the 1989 B.C. Open. Moravia runner sets record Moravia's Rick Badman set a course record, but Tinoa camp nwav with the Inters- By BARRY STANTON Gannett News Service MINNEAPOLIS Masterpiece Theater. There has never been another baseball game quite like it, because there has never been a World Series quite like it.

If anything ever lived up to its hype, it was Game 7 of the 1991 World Series, won 1-0 in the 10th inning by the Minnesota Twins and their fans Sunday night at the Metrodome. Can both teams win a World Series? Of course not. But no team has ever come closer, and lost, than the Atlanta Braves who fought through the most dramatic World Series ever played. Five games decided in a team's last at-bat. Four decided on the final swing.

Three extra-inning games, a record. That included Sunday night, when Gene Larkin's fly ball dropped over the heads of Atlanta's drawn-in outfield to push Dan Gladden across the plate with the only run of the game, and the only one the Twins needed to win. Snapshots. So many snapshots. Chuck Knoblauch and Greg Gagne deking a double play and Lonnie Smith biting on the fake, keeping him from scoring a game-winning run on Terry Pendleton's eighth-inning double.

Jack Morris pumping and pumping and pumping his fist after a game-saving double play got him out of that frame. Mark Lemke, the MVP if the Series had gone the other way, snagging Kent Hrbek's sinking line drive and finishing off an unassisted double play that got the Braves out of their own jam in the bottom of the eighth. So many on the, final play. Larkin's swing, and the ball softly rising and falling over the outfield. Gladden heading back to third, tagging up just to be sure, while his already rushed the field to mob Larkin.

Morris racing down the line with Gladden, his personal convoy to home plate. Morris earned the right to be right there when the winning run scored, pitching 10 innings of shutout baseball to win the Series'. Most Valuable Player award. "I thought nine inning was enough," said Twins manager Tom Kelly, who wanted to lift Morris. "I told him I've got a lot left," Morris said, "and that tomorrow we don't play." Morris gave everything his 36-year-old arm had in baseball's ultimate start.

"I'm fallible," he had said Saturday night, less than an hour after Kirby Puckett's dramatic the redundant adjective of this Series llth-inning home run won Game 6. "I've made mistakes. I'll make some more. But if I go out and give it my best and it's really my best then it will be good enough." He was right, but barely. Morris and John Smoltz, the Braves pitcher who had been on the mound when they clinched the NL West championship and again when they had to win Game 7 of the NLCS, battled until Smoltz just couldn't keep up.

They carried these teams further into a scoreless game than any pitchers had in any other Game 7 in history. In the end, this game's snapshots join this Series' snapshots Scott Leius' game-ending home run in Game 2, plays at the plate that closed out Games 3 and 4, Puckett's great catch in the third inning and his home run in the 11th inning of Game 6 in our mental scrapbook. They will be there next to Kirk Gibson and Bill Buckner and Reggie Jackson and Carlton Fiski Next to Ron Swoboda and Don Larson and Willie Mays. It was spectacular, baseball's best argument for its hold as our favorite game. It was a World Series that will always be remembered.

It was Masterpiece Theater. cfyolastic Atheltic Conference boy's cfoss country title Saturday at Stonehedges Golf Course Meanwhile, Odessa-Montour edged out rival Watkins Glen for the girls' I AC crown. I Badman covered the five-kilometer course in 15:55.4, breaking the old record of 15:59.7 set by Newark Valley's Chad Schonbeck in the 1989 IAC Championships. But-the Tigers placed all five of their runners in the top 14 to slip by Groton 34-46. iTioga's Jason Zorn was second Asia i i Oi'jl tSk The Associated Press TELLING THE WORLD: Minnesota's Kirby Puckett and a fan celebrate Sunday.

ill lU.lt lUHUVVtU Uy UllggJ rv iiu a inn iiniw wi u. other Tigers runners were Jeff "Wilson (seventh, Jason Little Red shocks U-E on last-second kick Tt :u.u nA mcuici ciguui, auu ivaviu Wade H4th. fr-uereK Luaiow pacea uroton with a fourth-place finish in 16:33. Brian Sincerbeaux was fifth in t's huge, stupendous, gigantic all the words you could Frank Fazio, IHS head coach JU.Ji iuiiuwcu uy oiuu Jitvvau (sixth, Moravia was a distant third with 101 Doints. ing for words to describe the victory.

"We haven't beaten them since 1982 and to beat them down here is really something. This team has got tradition, good coaching it's got everything down here. It was a huge win for us." Two years ago, mired in the midst of an 18-game losing streak, a win over Union-Endicott was almost but unthinkable. Just two weeks ago, it seemed a remote possbility after the Little Red suffered through a 55-0 defeat to Nor- SeelHS, 5B The field goal capped a memorable contest which will be remembered as one of the most exciting in Ithaca High history. "It's huge, stupendous, gigantic all the words you could use," IHS Frank Fazio said while reach second kick split the uprights, setting off a jubilant celebration along the IHS sidelines.

"I told everybody in the huddle, if you do your job, I'll make this," Amici said. "I'll never forget this game in my whole life." Tioga swept the first four spots in route to the boys' B-Division title. Moravia's Kim Hokanson won the girls' race in 18:59 followed by Southern Cayuga's Anna Donohue in 19:19, but neither the Blue Devils or Chiefs fielded complete teams. Laurel Chamberlain's third-place finish in 19:43 paced Odessa-Montour to the girls' title. Watkins Glen, paced by Laurel Mclntyre (10th, 21:02) was second, followed by Waverly and Newark Valley.

Lansing swims 1 By DENNIS READ Journal Staff END1COTT When Ithaca High senior Dom Amici faced the biggest kick of his career, he knew he was going to make it. With seven seconds left on the clock, Amici nailed the 23-yard field goal, lifting the Ithaca High football team to a 17-14 win over Union-Endicott Saturday night at Ty Cobb Stadium. The victory was the Little Red's first over U-E since 1982. Amici had missed a 37-yard attempt two minutes earlier, but his Bombers forced to rally at Buff State By TOM FLEISCHMAN Journal Staff BUFFALO Jim Butterfield has been carrying a whistle around his neck at Ithaca College since 1967. Just being around for 25 years, you tend to pick up a few things.

But his Bomber football team apparently didn't take that into account before they rallied to defeat Buffalo State Saturday, 41-23. "I think that our guys looked at this club, regardless of the warnings and there were warnings all week long and said, 'Ho hum, all we have to do is make a trip up Butterfield said. To some degree, his players could be excused. They were coming off a string of emotionally draining ballgames, including a 23-20 come-from-behind win over American International, and their first shutout in two years, 50-0 over the University of Buffalo. And in Buffalo State, IC was facing a team it had blown out three straight years by a combined See BOMBERS, 3B Dom Amici Punt return the big play as Green top the Red By BRAD HERZOG Journal Staff HANOVER, N.H.

"It just started out like all the other punt returns I've had this year," said Greg Hoffmeister. The 5-foot-6 backup tailback felt nothing was out of the ordinary, as he camped under the ball at his own 15-yard line during Saturday's football game between 1990 Ivy League co-champions Dartmouth and Cornell. Hoffmeister's Dartmouth team led 17-13. Just minutes earlier, Cornell's Ed Groszewski had re-: covered a block punt in the end zone for a touchdown. "Obviously, the momentum shifted, and you could feel it on the sidelines," said Hoffmeister.

"You've got to find some way to get it back." He did and then some, I Eighty-five yards later, he was standing in the end zone, and the Big Green was on its way to a 31-25 triumph in front of 9,526 at Memo-See PUNT, 3B to IAC crown ELMIRA Lansing High captured the Interscholastic Athletic Conference swimming championship Saturday, winning jail but one event, at Southside High. The Bobcats failed to win only Jhe 100 yard backstroke (as well as the diving). Lansing had 381 points, Watkins JGLen had 219, Dryden 147, Edison 331, Waverly 123, Odessa-Montour 1101 and Southern Cayuga 96. Laura Herrick of Lansing swam to wins in the 200-individual med-3ey, 100-butterfly. Her time of in the butterfly was a meet irecord, the fomer mark of 1:07.49 set by Lansing'sJenny Sherwood in 1984.

Danielle Smith and Nancy Wells Vere also double winners for Landing. The Section 4 Class swim meet ml M-v vf 1 'CC "-x. 4, will be held Thursday and Friday at Jiorseheads. TODAY'S GAME Football Los Angeles Raiders at Kansas City, 9 p.m. ABC, VIICU-AM The Associated Press WRAPPING UP ROSIER: Cornell's Ethan Levitas tackles Dartmouth's Al Rosier Saturday afternoon..