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ami mnn ii in, imniTO- SPORTS CALGARY HERALD Tuesday. October 10, 1995 D3 CURLING CFL demons stars as Argos end 9-game losing streak "We came out and we weren't focused," said Slack, who was 22 of 37 passing for 339 yards, but surrendered two interceptions. "I could see it in trie warmup and I could see it in the dressing room." That drew the ire of Bombers coach Cal Murphy "If Reggie says he didn't think the team was focused before the game go ask him where his head was tonight. I was extremely disappointed with our effort." lllf iSI2lli I 1 Toronto 31 Winnipeg 20 The Canadian Press TORONTO The Toronto Argonauts can still think about the Canadian Football League playoffs, thanks to Mike (Pin-ball) demons. Clemons carved the Winnipeg Blue Bombers defence for three touchdowns as the Argos snapped a nine-game losing streak with a 31-20 at SkyDome on a cool Thanksgiving Day on Monday Toronto (3-12) moved to within four points of the fifth and final Northern Division playoff spot.

Still, the the victory could merely be a stay of execution as the Argos must win their final three games (against Winnipeg, Calgary and Memphis) to finish fifth. "I was a man on a mission," said the always amiable Clemons, who handled the ball 31 times. "I was determined that I was going to do everything that I could to get us a win." Clemons rushed 16 times for nine yards, caught 13 passes for 96 yards and returned two kickoffs for 58 yards. "It wasn't about catches, runs or yardage," said Clemons. "It was about getting into the end zone." Blaise Bryant had both touchdowns for Winnipeg (5-11), currently tied with Saskatchewan for fifth.

"He's certainly one of the guys who can get the ball into the end zone for us," said Toronto pivot Kent Austin, who finished 23 of 34 passing for 243 yards. Bombers' pivot Reggie Slack said his club wasn't ready to win. Mike Ridewood, Calgary Herald low angle view of her shot during Sunday's ICE LEVEL: Skip Elisabet Gustafson gets a Swedish rink wins Autumn Gold Classic MURRAY RAUW Calgary Herald Elisabet Gustafson credits last year's trip to the Husky Autumn Gold Classic as a major reason she became the world champion. "We come here to meet the strong teams," said Gustafson. I'm sure the reason we won the worlds last year is because we had been to this bonspiel and played so many tough Canadian teams." If that's the case, some more grand experiences await her rink from Sweden this season.

Gustafson and her rink of Katrina Nyberg, Louise Marmont and Elisabeth Persson defeated Calgary's Glenys Bakker 8-2 to win the 18th Autumn Gold at the Calgary Club on Mon- GAME Calgary Stampeders 41 at B.C. Lions 27 THE ANALYSIS THE BIG PLAY: Calgary quarterbacks Jeff Garcia looked at the situation first and 10 from the B.C. 15-yard line. He looked at the Lions' defence spread wkle to cover the Stamps' six-receiver set. Then he took off, running the ball right through the heart of the defence, all the way to the end zone.

The touchdown, Gar-cia's fifth of the season, broke a 20-20 tie and gave the Stamps a lead they never rrenored; RECORDS: The Stamps, now 14-1, beat the 9 6 Lions twice this year by a combined score of TURNOVER STORY: The Stamps' fence was so unbeatable in the second half that B.C. had trouble picking up first downs, let alone points. Linebacker Aion-ara Johnson and safety Greg Knox each had an interception. Knox's was followed SUMMARY NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP problem By The Canadian Press First Quarter Cal Single Martino 54 7:13 B.C. FG Passaglia 11 12:11 B.C.

FG Passaglia 45 14:22 Second Quarter Cal 4- TD. T. Vaughn 7 pass from Garcia (McLoughlin convert) 2:41 B.C. TD R. Gordon 34 pass from McManus (Passaglia convert) 9:16 Cal FG McLoughlin 32 13:21 B.C.

TD R. Gordon 18 pass from McManus (Passaglia convert) 14:32 Third Quarter Cal FG McLoughlin 36 4:27 Cal FG McLoughlin 45 7:1 7 Cal FG McLoughlin 8 13:09 Fourth Quarter Cal TD Garcia 15 run (McLoughlin convert) 3:02 Cal TD Danielson 6 pass from Garcia (McLoughlin convert) 9:51 Cal TD T. Vaughn 41 pass from Garcia (McLoughlin convert) 10:49 B.C. TD Philpot 39 pass from Caravatta (Passaglia convert) 13:11 Calgary B.C. 1 10 9 21-41 14 0 727 Attendance 32,907.

NBA Bob Carroll, Reuters NO CATCH: Argonauts receiver Paul Masotti has the ball knocked away by Winnipeg's Jason Mallet (20 and Ken Burgess (22) during game at Skydome. STORY one play late by receiver Terry Vaughn's 4iraTDckcrtisMl-4r MILESTONES: The Stamps' victory clinched first place in the Northern DM-' sion and kept alive their chances at a 17-1 1 record, which would be the most wins ever in a CFL season. The victory was also the Stamps' ninth consecutive on the road and includes a game from the end of last season Slotback Ailen Pitts came I up nine yards shy of setting a CFL record for most career 100-yard receiving games (The current record is 41 games held by I Edmonton's Brian Kelty). Pitts's six catch-'. es Monday gave him 100 for the season.

I Slotback Dave Sapunjis, with three catch- I es, now has 99, WHAT'S NEXT: Calgary plays; Saskatchewan at Taylor Field this Satur-' day. Allan Maki Yardsticks Cal 23 us 323 441 21 42D 21-36 199 2-32 2-1 0 8-42 11-85 B.C. 16 19 290 309 0 309 18-41 131 1-20 0-0 2 10-38 14-95 First downs Yards rushing Yards passing Total offence Team losses Net offence Passes made-tried Return-yards Intercepts-yards by Fumbles-lost Sacks by Punts-average Penalties-yards Time of possession 34:50 25:10 Net offence is yards passing, plus yards rushing, minus team losses such as yards lost on broken plays. Individual Rushing: Cal Stewart 13-63, Garcia 8-55: B.C. Philpot 9-25, Blackwood 1-(minus 3), Hanson 1-(minus 3).

Receiving: Cal T. Vaughn 6-123, Pitts 6-91, Sapunjis 3-53, Danielson 3-51, Smith 1-3, Stewart 1-2; B.C. R. Gordon 7-117, Trevathan 3-68, Philpot 4-55, Murphy 3-37 Clark 1-13 Passing: Cal Garcia 20-35, 289 yds, 3 TD, 1 Intercept, T. Vaughn 1-1, 34 yds; B.C.

McManus 15-36, 234 yds, 2 TD, 2 intercept, Caravatta 3-5, 56 yds, 1 TD. fore forcing the Warriors to trade him. He didn't have it last year, either, because when he came to the Bullets iji November he signed a contract that expired at the end of the 1994-95 season. Now, Webber is planning to spend the rest of his career in Washington. The six-foot-10 forward will receive about $59 million over the next six years.

What the Bullets want in return is no small thing. "When I first saw him last year, thought, 'You're going to be my mail. You're going to bring me a owner Abe Pollin recalled. Webber dislocated his left shoulder last December and missed 19 games. Washington, 21-61, missed the playoffs for a seventh straight season.

STAY IN REGINA PACKAGES AS LOW AS: DISCOUNT TRAVEL WAREHOUSE 531-9595 final of Husky Autumn Gold Classic Ont, in the morning quarterfinals and bounced junior upstart Susan O'Connor in the semifinals. "Obviously, they're a good rink, they're the world champions," said Bakker. "She didn't get their by accident." But Bakker lamented the fact that after a solid run through the bonspiel, she was unable to apply any pressure on the Swedes in the championship. A second story to the bonspiel was the play of O'Connor, who was in her first major women's cash spiel. After losing her first two games, O'Connor strung together four straight wins in C-Event, then beat former 1993 and 1994 World champion Sandra Peterson in her first playoff game.

Bakker won $5,000 for her second-place finish, while Kullman and O'Connor took home $3,500. Peterson, Scheirich, Bodogh and Carolyn Darbyshire of Calgary won $2,200. Probable pitchers Game 1 tonight Atlanta (Glavine 16-7) at Cincinnati (Schourek 18-7), 6:07 p.m. Klesko. Jones, a switch-hitter, had 20 of his 23 homers from the left side.

"That's smart, you know," said Glavine, who will pitch against Schourek in Game 1. "He's got three good ones. You play the percentages and the matchups and try to neutralize our left-handed punch." There are few clues as to how it might play out because of an oddity: The Braves have not seen much of the Reds' playoff rotation. By happenstance, the Braves have faced Smiley in four of their 13 games and Schourek just once. Wells came over from Detroit in a late-season trade and didn't pitch against Atlanta.

The Braves beat Smiley once, lost to him once and didn't let him get a decision the other two times. They roughed Schourek up pretty good in his start June 19 in Atlanta, piling up eight hits and five runs in six innings. The Reds' trio isn't as dominant as the Braves' threesome. Instead of being brilliant, they usually settle for solid and let the bullpen and the offence take it from there. Everyone knows if they can at least come close to matching Glavine, Smoltz and Maddux, the Reds will be right where they want to be.

"We feel if we stay close to anybody, we can beat anybody," Johnson said. flat in Game 1. But they have two days to split in their park. So I think they'll be OK." How dominant can Randy Johnson be? Maybe the biggest price the Mariners had to pay Sunday wasn't all the emotion they spent. It was having to use Johnson, their ace, for three innings in relief meaning that he can't start three games against Cleveland.

"If they could have pitched Johnson three times," Shore said, "I'd have given them an outside chance for this simple reason: I think lefthanders have a better shot at containing the Indians' lineup. They neutralize (Jim) Thome. They're tough on (Kenny) Lofton. (Carlos) Baerga is better against righthanders than lefthanders. And I'd rather face (Herbert) Perry at first than (Paul) Sorrento.

"So if anybody was going to have a agaom ii Stop day. Gustafson jumped to an early 3-0 lead in the final and cruised to the championship, becoming the first first non-Canadian team to win. The victory was worth $8,000. But Gustafson, who is entered in a women's bonspiel in Winnipeg before returning home, said the true worth of the bonspiel will be the mental gain her team has acquired. Gustafson lost qualifying finals in both the A and Events before she advanced to the championship round from the C-Event.

Once she was into the money, she defeated Sherry Scheirich of Saskatoon 6-1 on the quarterfinals then beat Calgary's Cheryl Kullman 7-2 in the semifinals. Bakker, meanwhile, also qualified from the Event and was on a four-game winning streak going into the final. Bakker scored an 8-3 triumph over Marilyn Bodogh of St. Catharines, cou Neal Lauronl, Reuters WORKOUT: Tom Glavine will be the Braves' starting pitcher tonight. know exactly what to expect at the plate, but they know all about playoff pressure.

The Reds are just getting used to it. The starters held up fine during a three-game sweep of Los Angeles, but that felt more like a regular-season series. This is much different. "You're going to have the nerves because you're just one step away from The Show," Wells said after Monday's workout. Their arm preference is the main reason manager Davey Johnson has them lined up to face the Braves, whose main power threats hit left-handed: David Justice, Fred McGriff and Ryan one team win and keep on flying? Four times in the last eight days, they have gone to the park knowing that if they lost, their season was over.

Four times, they won. On Sunday night, they became the first team since the 1908 Boston Red Sox to trail in extra innings in the deciding game of a postseason series and come back to win. So how tough will it be for them to keep the fire burning? "Having been with a (Toronto) team that has been there before, I know emotion can carry you a long way," Lakey said. "I know we were pretty drained after the Oakland series in '92, and I think we had to catch our breath in Game 1 of the World Series. But then Ed Sprague hit the game-winning homer in Game 2, and we turned it right back on again.

"So I think Seattle might be a little Bd pose 1 Webber signs $59 million deal trio Braves aren't sure what they'll see from Cincinnati pitchers The Associated Press CINCINNATI The Atlanta Braves' playoff rotation of Tom Glavine, John Smoltz and Greg Maddux is regarded as the best in baseball. Then there's the Cincinnati Reds' starting staff strong from the left side, way short on playoff experience. Pete Schourek, John Smiley and David Wells all throw left-handed and all are something of a mystery in the postseason. While the Braves' top three has a combined 19 playoff starts, the Reds' trio has a total of five. Schourek and Wells had never started a playoff game before this year, and Smiley is still win-less in the postseason.

They are the biggest unknown factors in the best-of-seven National League championship series, which starts tonight, and they could be the biggest factor in deciding who heads to the World Series. The Reds know what to expect from Glavine, Smoltz and Maddux. However, the Braves are at a bit of a disadvantage. "I think one thing they have going for them is the fact that we haven't seen Schourek or Wells at all this season," Atlanta's Chipper Jones said. How much of an advantage is open to interpretation.

The Braves may not AL MATCHUP from PAGE Dl this thing would be over," said Gordon Lakey, a Toronto Blue Jays scout. "But the one thing you can't predict is the charismatic nature of the Seattle Mariners. "I keep wanting to pick Cleveland. But I keep thinking about what I hear one of those attorneys on TV say when he was trying to pick the verdict in the O.J. trial.

He said, 'My common sense says he's guilty. But my emotions say he's Well, my common sense says Cleveland wins. But my emotions make me think Seattle wins. I just don't know." Well, that, of course, is why they play So here is how Lakey and Phillies scout Ray Shore look at the key questions in this series: Will the Mariners have anything left? How much emotion have they spent? How many sudden-death games can The Associated Press LANDOVER, Md. Chris Webber might have got more money to play elsewhere, and he certainly could have picked a team with a more illustrious tradition.

Yet, when Webber put his name on a six-year contract with the Washington Bullets on Monday, he finally got what he had been striving for since becoming the National Basketball Association's top draft choice in 1993. "It's about being happy," he said. "I have peace of mind, something I've been searching for for two years. "That's a hard thing to do without, but now I have a family and a place that I can call home." Webber didn't have either in Golden State, where he spent one season be chance of beating Cleveland, it would have to be a team with good lefthanded pitching. And with Randy Johnson, you're talking about the best lefthander in the game.

Without him pitching three times, I don't think they have a chance." Can anyone stop either lineup? The Indians won 21 more games during the regular season than the Mariners. And no team has lost a playoff series to a club it outdid by that many games dur ing the season. (Biggest difference: 17, when the 82-80 New York Mets upset the 99-63 Cincinnati Reds in the 1973 National League playoffs.) We'll see soon. Call the criminal IMPAIRED srnmz 3 Impaired Driving Office and speak to a defence lawyer for a free consultation! DRIVING OFFICE 686-0808 LAWYER REFERRALS.