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The SUN, Flagstaff, Arizona, Monday, October 1. 19797 Pirates Clinch Sixth East Title blister on his pitching hand after six innings. Kent Tekulve, making his 94th appearance, finished to gain his 31st save. Other years we ran away with it, but not this year, said Kison. And its even more meaningful because the last two years we played our hearts out (against Philadelphia) and came up empty.

The Pirates can thank Steve Carlton for his help. The Phillies left-hander completely overpowered the Expos as he tossed a three-hitter and struck out 12. Montreal needed a victory to remain even with the Pirates in the loss column and then would have had to win a makeup double-header from Atlanta today to force a one-game playoff for the division title. He (Carlton) is a great pitcher and hes tough to beat. You cant win if you dont score any runs, said Expos Manager Dick Williams.

We did the best job we could but came up two games short. Carlton helped win his own game by scoring the first run in the third. He led off with a single off starter Steve Rogers, 13-12, and went to third on a double by Pete Rose. Bake McBride then flew out to left, scoring Carlton. Elsewhere in the NL, New York downed St.

Louis, 4-2, Atlanta topped Cincinnati, 7-2, Houston trimmed Los Angeles, 3-2, and San Diego defeated San Francisco, 5-3. Met 4, 2: Elliott Maddox singled in Alex Trevino and scored on catcher Terry Kennedys throwing error in the ninth, enabling the Mets to avoid a 100-loss season. Brakes 7, Reds 2: Gary Matthews and Bob Horner cracked solo homers to back the six-hit pitching of Phil Niekro and lead the Braves to victory. Astros 3, Dodger 2: Rookie Dan Heeps eighth-inning sacrifice fly scored Jeff Leonard from third base with the winning run to give the Astros a victory. Padre 5, (riant 3: Gene Tenace belted a two-run homer with one out in the 10th to give the Padres a victory in Roger Craigs final game as San Diego manager.

Craig was fired before the game. Aging Despite Record Boise State and Nevada-Reno are both 1-0 in Big Sky play, followed by Montana and Montana State at 1-1, Idaho and Weber State 0-1, and Idaho State 0-3. NAU's 4-0 overall record is also the best among the league's teams, followed by BSU 3-1, Nevada-Reno 2-1, Idaho 2-2, Montana 1-2, MSU 13, and ISU and Weber State both 0-4. Have a Drink! CAPTAIN Willie champagne on in post game The Pirates PIRATE TEAM Stargell pours Dave Parker celebrations. clinched the National League East Title with a victory Sunday over Chicago.

(UPI photo) v' wr -tJ 2 1 Sk. 5 O. Consistent Golf Pays As Hinkle Wins Series By United Press International The Pittsburgh Pirates, led by Willie Stargell and Bill Robinson, won their first National League East Division title since 1975 and their sixth of the decade by beating the Chicago Cubs, 5-3, while their only rival, the Montreal Expos, lost to Steve Carlton and the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-0. Pittsburgh will meet Cincinnati in the first game of a best-of-five series for the NL pennant Tuesday night. The Pirates have lost to the Reds in three previous divisional playoffs.

Stargell, 38, drove in two runs with a sacrifice fly and his 32nd homer and Robinson, 36. delivered a two-run single in the seventh inning which proved to be the decisive runs. We've walked with our heads high all along." said Stargell, whose two RBI made him the club's all-time leading RBI man with l.476. I told everyone it, was going to be over today. I really did.

Just ask the guys." Pittsburgh also got another strong pitching effort from Bruce Kison, who allowed seven hits, including Dave Kingmans 48th homer, before being forced to leave the game with a McEnroe I Foods Fleming SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) John McEnroe and Peter Fleming are longtime doubles partners so when they met each other the finals of the $175,000 TransAmerica tennis tournament there figured to be few surprises. But McEnroe said he fooled his buddy in capturing the $27,500 first prize Sunday with a tough 4-6. 7-5. 6-2 win over the former UCLA star, who had defeated him a week earlier in the Jack Kramer tourney in Los Angeles. I stayed back after my first serves most of the time, which I usually dont do." said McEnroe.

The only way to beat Fleming is to mix things up. I did and it worked. Fleming, who earned $13,800. blamed service problems for the defeat. He double-faulted six times and said the difference from last week is that I didn't get my first serves m.

I tried to put something extra into my serves and it just didn't work. The match was there for me to take. I wasnt able to take it. McEnroe and Fleming then each picked up $4,600 more when they breezed to the doubles title wth a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Wojtek Fibak and Frew McMillan. In the first set of their Cow Palace singles final, Fleming broke McEnroe at 3-3 and maintained command for the win.

Both players played a concentrated serve-and-volley attack. McEnroe was down 2-3 in the second set when he broke Fleming who doubled-faulted twice in a row. At 5-5 McEnroe served three consecutive aces and went on to take the set. McEnroe jumped to a 2-1 lead in the third set and broke Fleming to take a two-game lead. Painter By United Press Defending Big Arizona is still league with a still don't seem I'll say this, Northern Arizona Lumberjacks Big Sky game year.

Running back dash in the final Idaho, brought Idaho State's In other Big shutout Montana to down Weber game, Idaho was idle. Reaves had game, rushing touchdown. final scoring But, overall, game against Painter said. After ISU deBruyjn's punting game Poindexter. per kick, from getting Northern in the field goal attempt inside the 30 We went different.

Idaho in its first three they didn't give interceptions. Boise State controlling the yards against halftime on Joe And tailback touchdown in for BSU's Montana also three Weber 17 points to deficit. Tailback one and seven goals of 35, 31 stopped the fumble recoveries. Weber State pass to Scott goal in the first was the final Bill Kelly hit pass. Quarterback passes and Pete goals in leading Vandals also defensive end return.

SunSports had the $100,000 top prize all to himself. Heading into the final four holes, he was breezing along with a three-stroke lead. He lost a stroke when he bogeyed the 15th hole, but managed par on the 16th and needed only to hold par on the last two holes to win. But the 17th hole changed everything it made Nelson a loser, Hinkle a winner. Nelson's approach shot to the green buried in a sand trap.

"I had to move 8 inches of sand to get to the ball." said Nelson, whose sand blast left him about 65 feet from the hole. And. before he finally managed to get his ball he had used up a double-bogey six shots Meanwhile. Hinkle needed only half as many shots on the decisive hole. After his second shot placed him 35 feet away from the cup.

Hinkle rapped what could only be called a hard putt. "If the hole hadnt gotten in the way, he laughed, the ball might still be rolling And that speeding putt, coupled with Nelson's sand shot, turned out to be the tournament winner. "This." figured Hinkle, will do more for me than anything else Ive done. "I set my sights on this tournament six weeks ago. This is the tournament I thought I had a chance to win.

AKRON. Ohio (UPI) Larry Nelson should be $100,000 richer today. He isn't. Instead. Lon Hinkle is 100 grand to the good.

While Nelson frittered away a three-stroke lead on the final four holes, Hinkle played consistently good golf, sank one key putt near the end and won the first prize Sunday at the $400,000 World Series of Golf. Hinkle's 67-67-71-67272 was just good enough to edge Nelson, Lee Trevino and Bill Rogers by one stroke. Unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable." said Hinkle. I just kept plugging away. I thought, added the 30-year-old Dallas resident this was a little bit beyond what I was capable of doing at Firestone Hinkle's 272 was eight strokes below par at the rugged Firestone Country Club South Course and only 11 of the select field of the world's top 38 golfers in the tourney were able to break par.

Tom Watson and Hale Irwin tied for fifth with 274s. Tom Kite was seventh with a 275. Howard Twitty was eighth with 276. Bob Gilder finished ninth at 278 and Andy Bean and Bruce Lietzke tied for 10th at 279. As for Nelson, he collected $37,266 for sharing second place, but he should have International Sky Conference champion Northern unbeaten this fall and leading the perfect 3-0 record.

But the Lumberjacks to have it all together. Im sure growing older fast, said coach Dwain Painter after his edged Idaho State 6-3 Saturday night in a for their third narrow victory of the Willard Reaves five-yard touchdown two minutes of the game at Pocatello, heavily-favored NAU the win erasing 3-0 first-quarter lead. Sky games Saturday, Boise State State 14-0 and Montana battled back State 23-16. While, in a non-league defeated Puget Sound 34-10. Nevada-Reno his fourth consecutive 100-yard plus for 107 yards and NAUs only Willard also had two long runs in that drive to set up his touchdown.

Idaho State played a great defensive us. They were really well prepared, used an interception to set up Case 35-yard field goal, the contest turned into a between deBruyjn and NAUs Whit Both men averaged more than 46 yards preventing the Bengals and the Lumberjacks good field position. Arizona had two other scoring opportunities game, but ISUs defense blocked one and a second was wide both from yard line. into the game expecting something State had turned the ball over 20 times games this fall, Painter said. But us the ball once, while we threw two got its first shutout of the 1979 season by ball on the ground, rushing for 314 Montana State.

The Bengals led 7-0 at Aliottis 33-yard pass to Kipp Bedard. Terry Zahner then scored an insurance the fourth quarter on a three-yard run opening Big Sky win. got its first conference win by turning State turnovers in the third quarter into come back from a 9-3 second quarter Rocky Klever led MSU, scoring on runs of yards. And Raul Allegre kicked field and 22 yards. And the Bobcat defense Wildcats on five interceptions and two led on Bill Tantillos 4-yard touchdown Zellmer and Roger Ruzeks 29-yard field half.

But the only other Wildcat score in the game when backup quarterback Curt Miller with a 6-yard touchdown Rob Petrillo tossed two touchdown OBrien kicked a pair of 32-yard field Idaho to its win over Puget Sound. The scored on Russell Davis plunge and Lloyd Williamsons 32-yard interception Padres Craig Axed Lavik Dies TEMPE (UPI) Memorial services will be held Thursday for Rudy Lavik, a former football coach at two Arizona universities. Lavik, 87, died Saturday at Desert Samaritan Hospital in Mesa after a short illness. Lavik. born April 30, 1892 in Forman, N.D., went to work at Arizona State Teachers College in Flagstaff (now Northern Arizona University) in 1927, coaching all sports.

He moved on to Arizona State Teachers College in Tempe (now Arizona State University) in 1933 and was head football coach there through 1937. He also coached basketball and track. Lavik continued as athletic director and chairman of the department of health and physical education until 1949. He taught full time until 1962 and was a part-time faculty member for several years after that: vi A physical fitness enthusiast, Lavik jogged daily until recent years. Survivors include his wife, Charlotte, a daughter, Ruth L.

Funk, Richland, and four grandchildren. Memorial services will be at 8 p.m. Thursday at the First Congregational Church in Tempe. The family requests donations be made to the Rudy Lavik Memorial Fund at ASU. Aliotti, Trautman Named Sky Players BOISE, Idaho (UPI) Boise State University tackle Randy Trautman and University of Montana linebacker Kent Clausen have been named the Big Sky Conference co-defensive players of the week and BSU quarterback Joe Aliofti has received the offensive honor.

Aliotti, a 6-1, 195-pound junior from Pittsburg, led the Broncos to their first Big Sky Conference win of the season as BSU defeated Montana State 140 in front of record crowd at Bronco Stadium. Aliotti had 225 yards in total offense as he directed BSU to 452 yards in total offense. He ran for 87 yards and completed 11 of 17 passes for 138 yards and a touchdown. Aliotti is now the leagues total offense leader with 174.5 yards a game and is the leagues top ranked passer as well. Other defensive players nominated this week were Marvin Lewis, a tackle who led Idaho State to a near upset of Northern Arizona with six unassisted and seven assisted tackles; Idaho linebacker Lloyd Williamson, who returned a pass interception 33 yards for a touchdown; Montana State middle guard Ron Ranieri; Northern Arizona linebacker Gregg Gerken; and Weber State linebacker Otto Ribary.

Other offensive players nominated were Idaho State punter Case deBruijn, who had a 66-yard punt and a 35-yard Held goal for the Bengals; Idaho wide receiver Rocky Tuttle; Montana wide receiver Jim Hard; Montana State tight end Butch Damberger; and Northern Arizona running back Willard Reaves, who had his fourth straight 100 yard game rushing. he said. I thought I did as good a job as anyone in the league. Ill manage a pennant winner someday, I really believe that The Padres were expected to announce a new manager at an 11 a.m. news conference today.

Jack McKeon, a former manager who is currently in the Padres front office, is believed to be one of the candidates for the position. Craig. 48, led the Padres to their best season in history a year ago with a 84-78 record. SAN DIEGO (UPI) Roger Craig, who was fired as manager of the San Diego Padres, hasnt lost faith in himself. When you sign on to manage, you know they'll probably fire you eventually.

but I thought after what I did last year that they would give me another chance." said Craig, who was given his pink slip moments before his club took the field against the San Francisco Giants for its final game of the season Sunday. I know I can manage in the majors, Whos The Only Unbeaten NFL Team? Chiefs 24, Seahawks 6: Ted Mcknight scored on runs of 23 and 84 yards and Kansas City blocked two Seattle punts to spark the Chiefs to an upset over the disappointing Seahawks, 1-4. Rams 21, Cardinals Cullen Bryant and Wendell Tyler each scored on 1-yard runs, backup quarterback Vince Ferragamo connected for a third touchdown and the Los Angeles defense held St. Louis to 43 first-half yards. Chargers 31, 49ers 9: Dan louts fired two TD passes and Roy Gerela, acquired Saturday, kicked a 26-yard field goal to lead San Diego over wmless San Francisco.

O.J. Simpson rushed for 89 yards on 16 carries for the 49ers. NORTHERN ARIZONA'S Best Desk Buy! No. 1 draft pick threw an 11-yard TD pass to rookie running back Ken Johnson. iking 13, Lions 10: Chuck Foreman, benched in the first half for one of the few times in his sparkling seven-year career, scored on a 2-yard run late in the third quarter and Rick Danmeier kicked two field goals to carry Minnesota past Detroit.

Bills 31, Colts 13: Joe Ferguson threw for 317 yards and three touchdowns to lead Buffalo over winless Baltimore. Ferguson completed 14-of-23 passes as the NFLs highest-scoring team won its third game in five starts. Cowboys 38, Bengals 13: Long interception returns by Randy Hughes and rookie Aaron Mitchell set up two Dallas touchdowns and helped the Cowboys roll over winless Cincinnati. The victory kept Dallas tied with Washington and Philadelphia atop the NFC East, all with 4-1 records. Raiders 27, Broncos 3: Ken Stabler threw a 28-yard scoring pass to Dave Casper and set up another touchdown and two field goals with key completions in leading Oakland past Denver.

kick it but as it turned out, they got good field position and were able to take it in, said Chicago Coach Neill Armstrong, whose team lost its third straight game after two opening victories. The Steelers were beaten, 17-14, in Philadelphia, snapping the NFL champions 12-game winning streak, and they have nobody to blame but themselves. I knew it would take an excellent effort on everyone's part, said Eagles' quarterback Ron Jaworski. People think you can beat another team on character, dedication and great effort, but you can't beat the Steelers on just that You need some ability and I think we showed that today. Rookie kicker Tony Franklin snapped a 7-7 halftime tie with a 48-yard field goal in the third quarter and Wilbert Montgomery later plunged over from the 1-yard line to give the Eagles a 17-7 lead.

John buntings interception of a Terry Bradshaw pass set up Montgomery's touchdown Early in the fourth quarter, Herman Edwards picked off another pass in the end zone after the Steelers had marched to the Philadelphia 14. The Steelers then drove to the Philadelphia 2-yard line midway through the final period, but Franco Harris fumbled when hit by Frank LeMaster and Ken Clarke recovered inside the 1. The Steelers managed to pull within three points with 1:12 remaining on Bradshaws 37-yard scoring toss to John Stallworth, but the ensuing onside kick was recovered by the Eagles, now 4-1. Miami may ask for a transfer to another division just to get away from playing the New York Jets twice a season, Miami was relegated to wild card status because of two losses to the Jets last season. And the Dolphins had cruised through their first four games this year without a loss, leading the league with only 45 points allowed.

But that was before their annual trip to the Dolphins dungeon known as Shea Stadium Tommy Newton, a third-string fuilback, plunged for two second-period touchdowns to lead the Jets to a 33-27 upset. Newton scored twice on 1-yard runs to pull New York from a 10-7 deficit to a 20-10 lead. The Jets then sealed the game in the second half when Bobby Jackson returned an interception 58 yards for a score and Richard Todd threw a 71-yard TD pass to Wesley Walker. The previously unbeaten Browns also got the short end, a 31-10 drubbing by the Houston Oilers. Earl Campbell scored on three short runs and J.C, Wilson returned an intercepted pass 34 yards for a TD as the Oilers posted their most lopsided victory in two seasons.

The Browns were limited to Brian Sipes 1-yard TD run and a 44-yard field goal by Don Cockroft. New England is at Green Bay tonight. Redskins 16, Falcons 7: Joe Theismann.com-pleted 19-of-26 passes for 232 yards in leading underdog Washington to its fourth straight triumph. Mark Moseley added three-field goals and the Redskins' defense held Atlanta to a 2-yard TD run by rookie William Andrews. Saints 24, Giants 14: Chuck Muncie rushed for 80 yards and two-touchdowns to spark New Orleans past the winless New York Giants, who unveiled rookie quarterback Phil Simms.

The Giants By United Press International Five weeks into the NFL season, the fourth-year Tampa Bay Buccaneers stand tall as the leagues only unbeaten team. Three other clubs Pittsburgh, Miami and Cleveland entered Sunday's action with unblemished records, but all were beaten on the road. "Of course its very satisfying, especially after losing the lead and coming back to win, said Tampa Bay Coach John McKay after the Bucs 17-13 triumph over the Chicago Bears. Were ahead of our plan, but we still have a long way to go. It's conceivable, with their defense, they could be 15-1.

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