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ef.1pty play 1:3 ray 4B A wild afternoon of fumbles, pickets ahd Denalties in NFL scab ball she has SOulE STRONG OPiniOIJS, 14B Sherry Carmon, a lifetime Ithacan, feels strongly about her hometown PLUS: Classified, 7B-11B Ann Landers, 12B Calendar, 12B Bridge, 12B Features, 14B CLETJiEHS WIS 20 WITH SHUTOUT, 6B Boston's Roger Clemens tops Brewers fdr his 20th win of the season ports The Ithaca Journal Monday, October 5, 1987 Section BRIEFLY Cornel rallies to defeat Lafayette behind, 17-12 rr if- 'mwmMiwHiii Red comes from By KENNY VAN SICKLE Journal Staff After three weeks of play, Cornell's football team at 2-1 sits in the same position it did last year when the Big Red went 8-2. And just like last year, Cornell has played two-thirds of its non-league schedule and is headed back into Ivy League play. Unbeaten Harvard (3-0) comes to Schoel-lkopf Field Saturday. The Big Red grew in stature Saturday night with a 17-12 win over Lafayette. Cornell had dropped two straight in the series with the Easton, team and this was the first victory in the rivalry under coach Maxie Baughan.

Some 9,000 hardy souls braved 30-degree temperatures and a brisk north wind, plus some misty rain, to see the Big Red rebound from a 10-0 early deficit to win on gutsy defensive play, a 111-yard rushing effort by Scott Malaga, an 82-yard punt return score by Mike Raich, and five placekick points. The long run with the punt was just one splendid maneuver by Raich that earned him Eastern College Athletic Conference Division I-AA co-defensive player of the week laurels. "A lot of lessons were learned the hard way," said Baughan. 1 Sports Editor, Frank Benson 272-2321, Ext. 14 Ithacanswin marathon MARATHON The team of Chuck Clark and Brad Buchanan, both from Ithaca, crossed the finish line first in the 18th annual Finger Lakes Marathon Sunday, in a time of 2 hours, 39 minutes and 2 seconds.

A total of 42 teams and individuals took part in the over-26 mile run that began in Ithaca and ended in Marathon, over one of the most challenging courses in the East. The course began on Ellis Hollow Road, went through Slaterville Springs and Harford before its finish. Finishing second was the team of Quentin Summers and Brad San-ford in 2:44.35. The Horseheads man-and-wife team of Ellen McHugh and David Boor was third at 2:53.15. The top individual was Reinhold Wotawa of Berkshire.

He finished in 2:57.19. For complete race results, see Page 2B. IHS tops Chenango Forks CHENANGO FORKS Jason Lowi scored a goal and assisted the game-winner as Ithaca High defeated Chenango Forks, 2-1, in boys soccer Saturday. Peter Mahr also drew an assist for the winners. Matt Jordan scored for the home team and Don Lockwood drew an assist.

IHS improves to 6-4-1. The win ners were outshot, 7-5, and had no corner kicks while Chenango Forks had three. Ithaca goalie Greg Grant made two saves and teammate Lou Stazi had three. Pete Doll made one save for the Ithaca, winners of four of its last five games, will take on Seton Catholic Tuesday. The Little Red was helped by the defensive play of Ocean Tama-Sweet.

IHS runners hit Rochester ROCHESTER The Ithaca High School boys cross country team finished 19th among 30 AAA (large school) teams at the Mc-Quaid International meet Saturday. The IHS girls finished 10th out of 22 teams. The top finish for IHS was the 14th place time by Laurie Cool, 19:45. She ran the fourth fastest time among Section 4 girls and she raced in a field of 140. Steve Vanek finished 53rd in 17:00.

TC3 competes in Cortland tourney Tompkins Cortland Community College won two matches and lost three over the weekend at the Cortland State Junior Varsity Volleyball tournament. Tompkins Cortland opened with losses against Onondaga Community College and Nassau CC, then defeated Erie and Niagara before falling again to OCC. The next match for TC3 (6-5) is tonight at Cazenovia. Hillclimb set for bicyclists The Cascadilla Hillclimb, an annual event promoted by the Finger Lakes Cycling Club and sponsored by area merchants, will be Saturday, Oct. 10, starting from Cascadilla Park Place between University and Stewart avenues.

Registration will be at the same place, starting at 9 a.m., with the start at 10 a.m. Finish will be on Stewart Avenue at the eemeterv. Entry fee for all riders is $3, and helmets are required. There will be categories for men, novice men. scholastic men and women, and all levels of riders are invited to compete.

TODAY'S GAMES J.CV. ii. V- .9. Big day for Raich, 3B "But our players never quit; they made things happen." The Leopards opened with a flourish, got points on their first two possessions, and kept applying the pressure. "In that first quarter everything thing we did was wrong," said Baughan.

Co-Capt. Lee Reherman, an offensive tackle, agreed. "We were in the depths early," said Reherman, but we made some adjustments, dug in, and things came out all right." What turned the tide was the Raich punt return. It built the lead to 17-10 at 7:50 of the third period. The Leopards converged on him as he made the catch.

He eluded them, ran to his left, found a good route, got a clearing block from Mike Brown, and made it to the end zone untouched. Lafayette might have gotten more than a two-point safety at the fourth with a better bounce of the pigskin. Linebacker HoraceDavis got his chest on Tom Kobin's punt from the 12. The Leopards nearly caughtup with the ball before it went out-of-bounds. If Lafayette had fallen on it in See CORNELL, 3B Bombers march Saturday at Alfred University, in its first road game of the year, the Bombers showed they could win another way coming from behind.

The Associated Press ROBYN WISHNAJournal Staff RUN RAICH, RUN: Mike Raich wakes it into the end zone for a TD after returning a punt for 82 yards. This was the first punt return for a TD since 1967 for the Big Red. ROBYN WISHNAJoumal Staff LAST DITCH EFFORT: A cluster of players go for the ball during the last moments of Saturday's game. The Cornell Big Red came from behind to defeat Lafayette 17-12. 4th-quarter touchdown lifts IC over 1, in game-winner 96 yards in 13 plays by Mike Scott's 13-yard touchdown run on fourth down to defeat the Saxons, 20-17, and claim its third straight victory.

Baseball collapses 1914 The Boston Braves 1 1 games behind the New York Giants on July 4th win the National League pennant by WA games. 1951 The New York Giants trail Brooklyn by 13 games on Aug. 11, but win N.L. championship in a three-game playoff on Bobby Thomson's three-run homer. 1964 The St.

Louis Cardinals trailed Philadelphia by fVi games with 12 games to play, but the Phillies lost 10 in a row. 1969 The New York Mets were 9'j games behind the Cubs on Aug. 13, but won the NL East by eight games. 1978 The New York Yankees were 14 games behind the Red Sox on July 19, took a 3iVgame lead in the A.L. East on Sept.

16, blew that lead and won a playoff game. 1987 The Toronto Blue Jays led the Tigers by 3'4 games with seven games left in the season, and dropped seven in a row. 20 runners in this three-game series? What if shortstop Tony Fernandez and catcher Ernie Whitt were healthy? What if Manny Lee had not -i. mi Alfred Ball control and hard hitting were the themes Saturday at Merrill Field, on the Saxons' new Omni-Turf rug. Ithaca (3-1) had three drives of 12 plays or more in the second half, while Alfred (1-2-1) went 81 yards in 15 plays taking See BOMBERS, 3B take title missed a hit-and-run sign in the fourth inning Sunday, which made the running Fielder a dead Jay at second? Lee then tripled he was the only Toronto player to get an extra base hit in this series and that would have scored Fielder and tied the game and done who knows what all.

But Fielder was on the bench. "All I know is that I saw the sign," he mumbled. What if nearly all the Blue Jays had not dropped into the same slump at the same horrendous time? Nelson Liriano finished 2-for-27, George Bell 2-for-26, Juan Beni-quez 0-for-15, Jesse Barfield 3-for-22. Liriano is the leadoff man, the other three are Nos. 3-5 in the meat of the order.

What if they had done anything at all on offense so Jimmy Key's brilliant three-hitter did not go to waste? "If I had the answer, we'd all be millionaires," Barfield said. "I know one thing. It wasn't that we weren't trying." "It wasn't like we needed an explosion," Ranee Mulliniks added. "All we needed was three or four See TIGERS, 6B 96 yards to score Huth churns out yards, 3B Trailing by three points early in the final quarter, Ithaca marched By TOM FLEISCHMAN Journal Staff ALFRED Last week, Ithaca College proved it could jump to an early lead and still play a full 60 minutes of football, without taking a second-half coffee break. Tigers blank Jays to i i By MIKE LOPRESTI Cannot News Service DETROIT When this ferocious stretch run in the American League East finally ended Sunday, you could take your choice.

It was: A) One of the great comebacks in recent history with the Detroit Tigers coming from 3'2 games back the final week to finally win it, gasping past Toronto, 1-0. B) One of the most painful collapses ever with the Blue Jays losing their last seven games in a row. C) One of the finest two-team battles you will ever see, with all seven games' between the two during the past 10 days being decided by one lonely, frustrating, gut-wrenching run. Probably, it was all of the above. "This was something you dreamed could never happen, but it happened," said Detroit's Larry Hern-don, whose wind-blown homer in the second inning was the only run of the day but the only run Frank Tanana needed.

"The whole week," Toronto first baseman Cecil Fielder said, "was just a lot of what-ifs." What-ifs that will torment the Blue Jays for a long time: What if they hadn't stranded TIGERS ON TOP: Winning pitcher Frank Tanana, first baseman Darrell Evans and catcher Mike Heath celebrate Detroit's 1-0 win over Toronto Sunday. It was the first division tide for the Tigers since 1984. Football 49ers vs. Giants, 9 p.m. ABC.