Mt. Vernon Register-News from Mt Vernon, Illinois • Page 13

Thursdoy, September 19,1974 gj i St. Louis Leads By 1 'A Bucs Top Cards In "Must Game" By GARY MIHOCES Associated Press Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) The St. Louis Cardinals took the just-another-ball-game, get-'em-next-time approach after losing, but down the hall the Pittsburgh Pirates sighed with relief. "This was must game for us," Manager Danny Murtaugh said after Pittsburgh defeated St. Louis 4-1 Wednesday night to move within games of the first- place Cardinals in the National League East.

The Pirates had stumbled to six straight losses previously and the Car- SIDELINE WATCHING By Bob Forbes The W.F. Platoon Not many prep football teams in southern Illinois play strictly platoon football. In most cases, the depth just isn't there and that forces coaches to use some of their players both offensively and defensively. Mt. Vernon, for instance, normally uses four or five players both offensively and defensively.

But at West Frankfort, the name of the game is platoon football. Gene Ernest, in his first year as head football coach at Frankfort, does not start one single player both offensively and defensively. "We're strictly a two-platoon football team," said Ernest, who brings his team to Mt. Vernon tomorrow night. "This was one of those years when we had a bunch of kids about equal in their ability and that allowed us to use the platoon system.

And if you can get by with it, the platoon system is best because it gets more kids involved in the program and it means you have fresh players in the game all the time." Seniors dominate the Frankfort defensive team (9 seniors, 2 juniors) while juniors have a slight edge (6 juniors, 5 seniors) on offense. Frankfort will bring a 1-1 record to the King City. The Red Birds bombed Cairo in their season opener, 54-0 and then 16st a thriller to Johnston City last week, 14-12. "We couldn't do anything wrong against Cairo and we couldn't do anything right against Johnston City," said Ernest, summing up the two games. "We should, have beaten Johnston City by three touchdowns but we made about eight big takes in that game that killed us.

Our execution against Johnston City was very poor." Ernest, calls his team "quick" but "small." "Basically, most of our people are in the 155 to 170 pounds range," he said. "We're not very big but we're fairly quick. If we can keep from getting man-handled, we can do a good job." Ernest starts a veteran offensive backfield of Don Wilkinson (150) at quarterback, Marty Morris (145) and Dennis Falletti (165) at the halfbacks and Neal Wilson (160) at the fullback. All except Wilson started last, season. "We feel we've got a pretty good backfield," said Ernest.

"Morris is our best runner. He's averaging a little over four yards a carry." Mt. Vernon will take a 2-0 record against Frankfort. The Rams own wins over Cahokia (24-6) and Herrin (27-6). Mt.

Vernon beat' West Frankfort 25-0 last year and 14-0 the year before that. Pairings for the third annual Lunkers Unlimited Bass Tournament will be made at 8 o'clock tomorrow night at Pharoah's Garden Marina on the Southwest side of Rend Lake. The tournament will be held on Rend Lake Saturday and Sunday. Alan Estes, Mt. Vernon's Most Valuable football player a couple of years ago, is a tight end for North Central College in Naperville this year.

Estes played center in high school. Naperville opens at home Saturday afternoon. dinals had won that many in a row, including a 2-1 triumph over Pittsburgh in 13 innings Tuesday night. "The pressure was definitely on us," Pirate lefty Jim Rooker said after stopping the Cardinals with a complete-game sixhitter. The Cardinals, who had beaten Pittsburgh in 10 of 13 previous encounters, didn't buy the notion that another victory would have been the coup de grace for the Pirates.

"No way." said Cardinal shortstop Mike Tyson, who made two errors in the fourth inning when the Pirates took the lead to stay with two runs off loser Lynn McGlothen. "We still have to keep winning. There's no way we could have wrapped it up with a win tonight," Tyson added. Prior to their six-game slide, the Pirates had led by as many as 2V 2 games over the Cardinals. Joe Torre, whose first- inning double produced the only Cardinal run, noted that pitfalls await any team that gets too comfortable with a lead.

"You really do have to play them one at a time, and you can't be looking forward to this series or that series," he said. Torre's RBI-double in the first scored Ted Sizemore, who had singled and taken second on a walk to Ted Simmons. "When I gave up that run it made me try all the harder." said Rooker. "I know McGlothen is the kind of pitcher who might only need one run to win." Oliver opened Pittsburgh's two-run fourth with a double. Willie Stargell then hit a grounder that was deflected by McGlothen and field by Tyson, whose errant throw eluded Torre at first and enabled Oliver to score.

Stargell was thrown out at second on the play, but Dave Parker followed with a single and took third on a single by Manny Sanguillen. Parker then scored when Ed Kirkpatrick's bloop to center was dropped by Tyson, who nonetheless managed to throw to second for the forceout on Sanguillen. McGlothen left Guy ton. HB Pasquino Schutte, Pierce, Hawthorne. NO Doggan Meredith, A STINGY BUNCH Mt.

Vernon's defensive unit has allowed only 12 points in the Rams' first two games six each to Cahokia and Herrin. They have given up a total of only 321) net yards in the two games (229 rushing, 100 passing). Members of the starting defensive unit pictured above include Joe Meredith, Melvin Doggan, Jon Hawthorne, Cliff Pierce. Kevin Schutte, Curt I.ott, Lyle Grimm, Rocky Pasquino; Curt Stokes, Dave Guyton and Bill King. Doesn't Anybody Want Title? Both NL West Contenders Lose SEETHE -GREAT ONES- ARRIVING DAILY JOINTHE75 CELEBRATION AT POOR OLE PAUL'S TYLER See, Drive, Price the trading difference on a GREAT, ALL NEW 75 Buick, or Cadillac (Be sure to see the.

new SKYLARK REGAL). BEFORE YOU US A TRY Remember, your trade in is worth more us so the trading difference should less the game in the seventh after Rooker had singled and taken second on a sacrifice. Relief pitcher Rick Folkers then walked Richie Hebner on four pitches before Oliver belted a long fly to left. Cardinal outfielder Lou Brock, who stole his 110th base in the fifth-inning to extend his season record, backpedaled and attempted to change direction at the last moment at the ball struck the base of the wall for a two-run double. The Cardinals close out their three-game series here tonight.

"It's not necessarily a MUST game for us," said Oliver, "but it's a game we had better win." "We'll be back," pledged Torre. Bowling EIGHT BALL HIGH SERIES: Mavis Schweninger 552, Darleno Peacock 523. FRIENDSHIP HIGH SERIES: Edith Little 596, lu- cretia Cocke 528. By BERT ROSENTHAL AP Sports Writer Doesn't anybody want to win the West in the National League? Neither the first-place Los Angeles Dodgers nor the runner-up Cincinnati Reds, the two winningest teams in baseball, are acting like pennant contenders. Both lost for the second straight time Wednesday night, leaving the Dodgers with a 2' lead.

Los Angeles was beaten by the Houston Astros 32 in 10 innings and Cincinnati dropped a 6-5 decision to the San Diego Padres. Meanwhile, the National League East race tightened, the Pittsburgh Pirates whittling St. Louis' lead to games, beating the Cardinals 4-1. Elsewhere in the National League, the Montreal Expos swept a doubleheader from the New York Mets 3-2 and 4-0, the Chicago Cubs topped the Philadelphia Phillies 5-2 and the Atlanta Braves downed the San Francisco Giants 4-2. Rookie outfielder Greg Gross was Houston's hero.

He started an uprising in the eighth inning when the Astros broke a scoreless tie with two runs. He threw out the potential winning run at the plate in the ninth inning, and he scored the winning run in the 10th. The Dodgers, shackled by Larry Dierker on four hits through eight innings, tied it dramatically in the nintn on Steve Garvey's single and Ken McMullen's pinch homer off reliever Mike Cosgrove. Then, Ron Cey greeted reliever Ken Forsch with a double, and Rick Auerbach was sent in as a pinch runner. Joe Ferguson followed with a single to right, but Gross fired a perfect strike to the plate, cutting down Auerbach.

In the 10th, with Charlie Hough pitching for the Dodgers, Gross cracked a single and raced home with the winning run on Bob Watson's double. The Reds' chances of winning the West for the third straight year diminished. Cincinnati has 12 games remaining and Los Angeles 13. Light-hitting Enzo Hernandez, who said he never had driven in more than two runs in a game, knocked in four for San Diego. Hernandez singled home two runs in the fifth inning, giving the Padres a 3-1 lead, then doubled in two runs in the seventh, producing a 5-5 deadlock.

Hernandez eventually scored the winning run on John Grubb's sacrifice fly. Expos 3-4. Mets 2-0 The Expos won the opener with a two-run seventh inning, capped by Tim Foli's run-scoring squeeze bunt single. They took the Major League Standings St. Louis Pittsburgh Philaphia Montreal New York Chicago Los Angeles Cincinnati Atlanta Houston San Fran San Diego National League East 80 69 78 73 71 67 62 70 76 78 82 86 West 93 56 91 83 76 68 55 59 68 74 83 96 .537 .527 .490 .477 .450 .419 .624 .607 .550 .507 .450 .364 GB 1 1 7 9 13 2' 2 11 26 39 New York Baltimore Boston Cleveland Milwaukee Detroit American League East Pel.

80 69 .537 80 70 .533 77 71 .520 73 75 .493 72 78 .480 68 81 .456 2'; 6' i 12 Wednesday's Games Atlanta 4, San Francisco 2 Chicago 5, Philadelphia 2 Pittsburgh 4,, St. Louis 1 Montreal New York 2-0 San Diego 6, Cincinnati 5 Houston 3, Los Angeles 2, 10 innings Thursday's Games Chicago (Hooton 5-11) at Philadelphia (Ruthven 9-12), St.Louis (Curtis 9-13) at Pittsburgh (Kison 7-8), San Diego (Freisleben 9-12) at Los Angeles (Sutton 16-9), Cincinnati (Norman 11-12) at San Francisco (Caldwell 13-4), Only games scheduled Friday's Games Philadelphia at Montreal, New York at Pittsburgh, Chicago at St. Louis, Atlanta at Houston, San Diego at Los Angeles, Cincinnati at San Francisco, Oakland Texas Minnesota Chicago Kan City California West 85 65 80 70 77 74 73 77 72 78 61 90 .567 .533 .510 .487 .480 .404 5 8'j 12 13 Wednesday's Games Boston 8, Detroit 5 Baltimore 10, New York 4 Cleveland 6, Milwaukee 3 Oakland 5, Kansas City 4 California 4-0, Texas 1-2 Chicago 3, Minnesota 1 Thursday's Games Detroit (Ruhle 0-0) at Boston (Tiant 20-12), Baltimore (McNally 15-10) at New York (May 6-3), Oakland (Blue 15-15) at Kansas City (Briles 5-5), Only games scheduled Friday's Games Cleveland at New York, 2. Iwi-night Baltimore at Boston, Detroit at Milwaukee, California at Minnesota, Oakland at Chicago, Kansas City at Texas, nightcap behind the combined four-hit pitching of rookies Dennis Blair and Dale Murray. Cubs 5, Phillies 2 Rookie Ron Dunn drove in two runs with a single and a double, and scored one run, leading the Cubs' attack.

Rick Reuschel, Chicago's top winner, pitched hitless ball for the first three innings but pulled a hamstring muscle running out a single and had to leave the game. Relievers Steve Stone and Ken Frailing then completed a five-hitter. Braves 1, Giants 2 Hank Aaron, baseball's alltime home run king, drove in two runs with his 732nd homer and a single, and Rowland Office smacked a two-run triple for the Braves. The homer was the 19th of the season for the 40-year-old Aaron, who is playing his final year in the majors. COMICS Page -B Gaunt Runs Wild, RLC Wins Two Eleven stolen bases in one game? Six stolen bases in one game by one player 9 That's right.

The Rend Lake College Warriors, in the opening game of a double header against host Shawnee yesterday, had 11 stolen bases. And catcher Gaunt of Mt. Vernon accounted for six of the base thefts Gaunt even stole home in the seventh and final inning to give the Warriors a 3-2 victory. Gaunt also home in the first inning. "I'm sure that, has lo he school record for stolen bases in one game by one player." said Wayne Arnold of the Rend Lake staff.

"And that's probably also a learn record for stolen bases." Rend Lake managed only three hits in the game. Mark Moore was the winning pit cher. He struck out seven and walked six. He allowed five hits. Ken Hefner was the loser.

Rend Lake also won the second game, 2-1, and that triumph came compliments of a Shawnee The Warriors scored both their runs in the first inning Tim Norman doubled home Mark Hefner for the first run. With two outs, Allen Valentine hit a fly hall to center field. The center fielder dropped the ball, a I lowing Norman to score what proved to be the winning run. Dave Vaughn was the winning pitcher for the Warriors in the second game Flick Goodman was the loser. Now 4-0 on the season, thr Rend Lakers play at John A Logan College in Carterville tomorrow.

Jr. Rams Top Fairfield, 4-2 Mt. Vernon 's Casey Jr. High defeated Fairfield 4-2 yesterday afternoon in junior high baseball action. Gary O'Bryant took the mound win for the Jr.

Rams. He gave up five hits, struck out seven and walked eight Mt. Vernon banged out 12 hits. Melvin Miller led the attack with two triples Scott Gray and Terry Swin- nen added two hits apiece. Now 2-1 on the season, the Jr.

Rams were scheduled to play at Benton today. i Summersville In Easy Win orQ i ows To Tamaroo The Summersville grade school softball team ended a perfect season yesterday by blasting Grand Prairie, 364. Summersville's entire 14- player squad played in the game and every player had at least one hit and scored at least one run. Steve Deitz was the winning pitcher. Host Bluford bowed to Tamaroa 14-5 yesterday in prep baseball play.

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