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Section Staunton, News-Leader, Oct. 17, 1976 19 Gullett hurt as Reds take opening win 5-1 arm, grabbed the ball on the running track in front of the wall, but he would have needed a rifle to cut down Piniella at the plate. In the third inning, the Riverfront Stadium crowd of 54,826 got its chance to yell as Cincinnati took the lead for good. With one out, Dave Con-cepcion, the ninth hitter in the Reds' lineup, sent a shot up the alley in left-center field and turned it into a triple. A moment later, Concepcion trotted home as Pete Rose sent a sacrifice fly to Yankees centerfielder Mickey Rivers.

Rose's fly ball was considerably shorter than Nettles' was a homer right away. "I'm a little guy," said the 5-foot-7 second baseman. "To hit a homer, I've got to get all of it. When I do, I know." There is a certain psychological edge in putting the other team behind early, said Morgan. "It's always important to be first to score in a World Series or playoff or All-Star game," he said.

"When you do, it means they already have their job cut out for them. They've got to get somebody on base. They've got to get something going. And if you're going to score early, I can't think of any better way to do it than a home run." CINCINNATI (AP) The Cincinnati Reds successfully opened defense of their World Series crown with a 5-1 triumph over the New York Yankees Saturday, but they lost their top pitcher in the process. Left-hander Don Gullett suffered a dislocated tendon in his right ankle while facing New York's Mickey Rivers in the eighth inning.

He "felt something pop" in his right ankle, but continued to pitch. "It popped again when I pitched to Roy White," Gullett added, but when White, the next batter, singled for New York's fifth and last hit, Gullett was removed from the game. their right fielder in the stands, where his home run landed. Trailing early was nothing new for New York. The Yankees had fallen behind in each of the last four American League playoff games against Kansas City.

Each time, they wiped out those Royals' leads, and they quickly wiped out the Reds' edge this time. Lou Piniella, New York's designated hitter, opened the second inning with a double to right field. He moved to third as pennant hero Chris Chambliss grounded out, then scored on a long fly ball to center field by Graig Nettles. Cesar Geronimo, reputed to have baseball's best outfield ceptional" Reds off and running in Saturday's contest, triggering a blitz of extra-base hits which carried Cincinnati to the easy victory. The Reds also had two doubles and two triples.

The five extra-base hits were the most a Cincinnati team ever has accumulated in a World Series game. Now you know why they call this club the Big Red Machine. Morgan's homer came on a fastball from Alexander, who doesn't throw many of those. "Alexander lets you hit the ball," said Pete Rose, the Reds' leadoff man. "And we did, all over the place." Morgan said he knew his ball Reliever Pedro Borbon finished up.

The young pitcher then was taken to a hospital, where rays of the injury disclosed a dislocated peroneus longus tendon in the ankle. It was placed in a cast and will remain there for six to seven weeks, a team spokesman said. Gullett's injury placed a damper on the opening-game triumph, one started by Joe Morgan's home run off Doyle Alexander in the first inning. "They're a fine club," the Reds second baseman said after the game. "We're an exceptional club.

That's the difference." Morgan got the "ex The game went Cincinnati's way, and so did the only controversy. That arose when baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn withdrew permission for the Yankees to use walkie-talkie communications between a scout in the upper deck and a coach in the dugout. The Yankees wanted to use such a system to help position defensive players. The commissioner's office withdrew permission after learning that the scout was operating from the press box area instead of a regular seat in the upper deck. No defensive positioning could have helped the Yankees on Morgan, unless they placed sacrifice fly had been, but Rivers doesn't have nearly the arm that Geronimo does, either.

Gullett wiped out nine straight Yankees batters following Piniella's double in the second. Chambliss opened the fifth with a single, but Nettles banged into a double play. The double play saved a run because Elliott Maddox followed with a triple into the leftfield corner that bounced away from George Foster. Willie Randolph tagged a long drive to center, but again Geronimo backed to the wall and pulled the ball down, stranding Maddox at third. The Yankees had their best shot at Gullett in the sixth.

Fred Stanley led off with a walk but was forced at second on Rivers' attempted sacrifice. Then Roy White reached second when Geronimo dropped his drive after a long run in left-center field. Geronimo was charged with a two-base error on the play. Thurman Munson ripped the next pitch for a single to right, but the Yankees weren't about to test Griffey's arm, and White stopped at third. That brought up Piniella, and he narrowly missed an extra-base hit with a drive that fell foul in the right-field corner.

Steelers try to snap three-game loss string 1 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two perennial playoff teams struggle against early elimination, two more put their undefeated records on the line, and the expansion clubs tangle to see if one of them can win a game as the National Football League season nears the halfway mark Sunday. The defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers, 14, try to snap a three-game losing streak at home against Cincinnati. And the Miami Dolphins, eliminated from the playoffs in the last game of the 1975 season, face an even earlier demise as they take a 2-3 record against Kansas City. Pittsburgh, which lost 18-16 to Cleveland last Sunday, has not lost four straight since the 1970-71 season. And this Sunday they face the unenviable task of meeting the Bengals, tied for the American Conference Central lead, without starting quarterback Terry Bradshaw, who sustained neck and back injuries last weekend.

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"I don't think we're out of the race," says Miami Coach Don Shula. "By the same token, we realize we have to play much better football. We haven't played anything that resembles our defense of old." Meanwhile, Dallas, 5-0, and Minnesota, 4-0-1, put their unbeaten strings on the line the Cowboys at St. Louis and the Vikings at home against the winless New York Giants. In other NFL games Sunday, it's Detroit at Washington, Cleveland at Atlanta, Baltimore at Buffalo, Philadelphia at Green Bay, Oakland at Denver, Chicago at Los Angeles, Houston at San Diego and New Orleans at San Francisco.

The New York Jets meet New England Monday night. Dallas, which got into the Super Bowl via the wild card route last year, is off to its best start since 1969, when the Cowboys went 6-0. Cowboys' signal-caller Roger Staubach, who has completed 74 per cent of his passes this year for 1,198 yards and seven touchdowns, is still hobbled slightly with a knee injury but is expected to start. By the grace of the New York Giants, Dallas extended it's winning streak last weekend. Now, Minnesota will try to capitalize on the style of ball that has plagued the Giants this season.

But Vikings Coach Bud Grant warns that New York is due. "Teams like this are coming up and beating good teams," he says. "We're scared to death they could beat us. York 2. Cincinnati 2.

LOB New York 4, Cincinnati 4. 2B Piniella, T. Perei, Geronimo. 3B Concepcion, E. Maddox, Bench.

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Barber takes shot at PGA policy SAN ANTONIO, TEX. AP Miller Barber fought gusty winds and blustery, raw cold for a two-under-par 70 Saturday, then leveled an angry blast at the PGA Tour policy that stretched the second round of the $125,000 San Antonio-Texas Open Golf Tournament over two days. "The ones who played yesterday had it at least three shots better," said Barber, whose 138 total was the best posted by the 95 golfers who had to finish their second rounds Saturday. He trailed seven players all of whom finished their rounds before play was suspended by a series of showers and thunderstorms Friday. "I'm definitely going to sit down and write a letter to our commissioner Deane Beman about it," Barber said.

"It wasn't at all equitable. It just isn't right. I haven't heard a single player who had to play today say it was right." At the completion of the second round, Don Iverson, South African Bobby Cole and rookie John Harris-all of whom finished in the driving rain that eventually halted play Friday were at 136, eight under par. The group at 137-all of whom also played in Friday's rain but were spared the more difficult wind and cold of Saturday's round are George Cadle, Peter Oosterhuis of England, Steve Taylor, Mason Rudolph and Tom Jenkins. Barber's the weather, just about as good as I can play," he said-lifted him into a group at 138, two back.

The others at that figure all finished their rounds Friday. The biggest casualty of Saturday's play was first-round leader Tom Shaw. He had an opening 66, had parred two holes when play was stopped Friday, then returned for 16 more Saturday. Of those 16 holes, he bogeyed seven, double-bogeyed another and finished with an 80. And he missed the cut for Sunday's double-round, 36-hole wind-up.

Ben Crenshaw, the gallery favorite who finished Friday, and defending champion Don January, who played Saturday, were at 142. January had a second straight 71. Gobblers fight off U. Cavaliers yards, running 18 times for Tech. Billy Copeland was the big gainer for Virginia with 68 yards on 17 carries.

Hitt completed 11 of 20 passes for 122 yards to give the Cavaliers their biggest offensive threat. Virginia to 0-6. It was the Cavaliers' 15th consecutive defeat, the longest losing streak in major college footr ball. Tech took a 7-0 lead in the first period on an 87-yard march in 14 plays with Adams scoring from seven yards out. The Cavaliers, who had a field goal try nullified by a fumbled snap from center and lost a fumble at the Tech 15 after a pass interception, got a 21-yard field goal by Jenkins after failing to penetrate the CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.

AP) Virginia Tech's Roscoe Coles plunged over from the one-yard line with 1:08 left Saturday, capping a 70-yard drive that gave the Gobblers a 14-10 football victory over Virginia's Cavaliers. Coles and fullback Paul Adams turned on the power in the 16-play march that began on the Gobblers' 30. Quarterback Mitchell Barnes went to the air only once, hitting Moses Foster on the Virginia 46 before Tech began the relen tless ground drive for the score. The Cavaliers, trailing 7-3 at the half, took the lead with 7:12 left in the game. Quarterback Andy Hitt hit Jim Wicks with two passes, one a 17-yarder.

With the ball on the 17 after a nine-yard pass from Hitt to Wicks, running back Raymond Keys took over, carrying five consecutive times and scoring from a yard out to send Virginia ahead 10-7. The victory lifted Tech's record to 4-2 and dropped end zone in three tries from the Tech nine. Virginia's Joe Turner intercepted a Barnes pass on the Cavaliers' 32 in the first period and ran it back 50 yards to the Tech 18 for what appeared to be the start of a scoring bid. David Sloan got three yards, but Keys fumbled going into the middle and Tech's Mike Stollings recovered. Adams, celebrating his 22nd birthday, carried six times during the 14-play Gobbler drive before scoring the first touchdown.

For the day, Adams carried 26 times for 86 yards and Coles also had 86 Virginia Tech 7sOsO 7-14 Virginia 0 3 0 7-10 Tech Adams7run (EnglekickO Vlr-FG Jenkins wx Vlr Keys I run I Jenkins kick) Tech Coles 1 run lEnglt kick) First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles lost Penalties. yards 21 12 174 260 42 101 51 122 2 57 57 1 11 200 6 45 49 3 2 2 1 29 220 1 i Vr 4l ve Bestwick sees hope for future By KEN BOSSERMAN CHARLOTTESVILLE For a while Saturday afternoon, it looked as if Virginia's 15-game football losing streak, the nation's longest, would come to an end at Scott Stadium where an overflow crowd of 32,618, the second largest in the stadium's history, packed every nook and cranny for the traditional grudge match between two old rivals. "They won, but it was not a clear-cut victory," said Virginia coach Dick Bestwick following the contest. "I thought we would win going into the game, and when we got the touchdown, I knew we were going to win, but it was just not to be. They had what it took when it counted.

Tech is a very sound team. "We played well defensively. We had the breakdown at the end, but overall I was pleased." Tech had come into the contest as much as a 17-point favorite. But Virginia's defensive unit, which had given up over 400 yards of offense to each opponent so far this year stiffened. With Tech winning 7-3, Virginia took the lead with a 46-yard drive which put the Cavaliers ahead 10-7 with 7: 12 left in the game.

But the Cavalier defense couldn't stop a 17-play 70-yard Tech touchdown drive which put the Gobblers ahead for good at 14-10 with 1:08 to go. "It was a big victory for us," noted Gobbler coach Jimmy Sharpe. "I compliment coach Bestwick and his staff. He certainly had them ready to play. I'm proud of our defense and offense.

When we got behind, the offense showed a lot of determination to get the ball down field and post the score. Our team showed a lot of character, leadership, and poise." Virginia crowds, which have a tendency to begin thinning out shortly after halftime stayed to the bitter end for this one. Mammoth traffic jams which had stretched several miles on arteries into Scott Stadium before the game, reestablished themselves following the contest. With the football season quickly drawing to a close it's apparent that Virginia won't have any trouble filling University Hall for the basketball season. It was announced that all games for the 1976-77 season were sellouts and no additional season tickets were for the defending ACC champs.

UlL- VP 1 MlX I i Homecoming queens and kings Waynesboro High Principal Tom Muncy crows Dodie Beverage, the daughter of Gene Beverage of 275 N. Bath Waynesboro, homecoming queen at Waynesboro's football game with Alleghany County. Nat Nicholas, the son of Mrs. Susan Nicholas of 1105 Winchester Waynesboro, was named homecoming king. (Photo by Emory Hopping) Cathy Crone, the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Jerry E. Crone of 2412 Pinehill Circle, was named homecoming queen at Lee's football game with Lexington Friday night. Her escort, John Grover, the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Bruce Grover of 2406 N. Augusta as king for the occasion. (Photo by Carlos Santos).