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Vandy shares spotlight Page 19 Bruins drop Pens Page 20 'Bama busts PSU Page 21 Who Stands Where Page 22 Monday, October 1 1, 19B2 Page 17 Brewers advance to World Series Lions overtake Trojans Page 18 Steeler celebration Page 1 8 Stingers fit for tie Page 1 8 Rams win sixth Page 1 9 The Indiana Gazette ports 'Comeback Kids' nip Angels for title Cards, McGee blasts Braves ATLANTA (AP) It's a season Willie McGee will never forget one that started in the minor leagues and ends in the World Series. McGee, a rookie center fielder, made the major offensive contribution Sunday night, belting a two-run triple and a solo home run as the St. Louis Cardinals nailed down their 13th National League pennant with a 6-2 victory that completed a three-game sweep of the Atlanta Braves in the NLChampionship Series. "I thought I would be in Triple-A, and I was there a few weeks when, boom. I gat a call," McGee said.

"It blew mv mind, and now i wind up in the World Series to top it off." McGee's triple came during a four-run outburst in the second inning that gave Joaquin Andujar and reliever Bruce Sutter all they needed to send the Redbirds into the World Series opener at home on Tuesday night against AL champion Milwaukee. (t was a pleasing comeback for McGee. who had fanned three times against veteran kmicklebailer Phil Niekro in the Cards' 4-3 victory in St. Louis Saturday night. "Ozzie Smith told me to keep my head up and in the game today I'd probably come up with a chance to win the game," McGee said.

"I'm still in a learning process. The pressure is tremendous with the stands packed and so many people watching on TV. but 1 don't worry about it. I'm young and I'm going to make mistakes. 1 just feel tremendous being here.

I'm just thankful 1 got an opportunity to play." Andujar. who remained In the game after taking a liner off his left Doug DeCinccs led off the fourth with a double and Grich bunted toward first baseman Cooper. He picked up the ball and tagged Grich with his glove while he held the ball in his other hand. First base umpire A) Clark called Grich out, but was overruled by plate umpire Don Dcnkinger. Cooper was charged with the Brewers' fourth error of the game.

DeCinccs took third on the play and scored on Bob Doane's squeeze-bunt single. "That play on Grich was a bone-head play," Cooper said. "I simply, I guess, panicked and proved we're all human beings and make mistakes. Unfortunately, I made it with everybody watching." The Brewers' had scored a run in the first on Ted Simmons' sacrifice fly and another in the fourth as Ben Oglive homered off Bruce Kison. who had stymied the Brewers on five hits in Game 2.

McClure, the winning pitcher, re-j lieved Brewers starter Pete Vucko-: vich in the seventh and retired Reggie Jackson on an inning-ending double play grounder, tie was helped in the eighth by a leaping catch by substitute center fielder Marhsall Edwards, then gave up a single to pinch-hitter Ron Jackson to start the Angels' ninth. In came the 6-foot-3, 240-pound Ladd, who had earned a save in Game 3 of the series. Ladd threw out Boone on a sacrifice bunt as pinch-runner Rob Wilfong look second. Brian Downing grounded to third and Rod Carew, a seven-time AL batting champion, then grounded out to shortstop Yount, ending the game and setting off a wild celebration. The crowd of 34.968 erupted in a thunderous cheer as hundreds of fans charged onto the field and surrounded the hugging, happy Brewers.

MILWAUKEE (AP) The Gas-house Gang. The Amazing Mets. And now, add to the list the Comeback. Kids from Milwaukee. The Brewers culminated the greatest comeback in championship series history Sunday by rallying to edge the California Angels 4-3 to win the American League pennant.

Cecil Cooper, a .313 hitter during the regular season but previously 2-for-19 in the five-game showdown, lined an opposite-field single with the bases loaded in the seventh inning to knock in the tying and winning runs, bringing the Brewers back from the edge of playoff extinction and into their first World Series. The Brewers travel to St. Louis to open the Series against the Cardinals on Tuesday night. "I could have been the goat of the series," Cooper said. "I made a bonehead play (in the field).

I'm just thankful I had a chance to redeem myself." Cooper's personal redemption came after Charlie Moore reached first when his soft popup fell out of reach of a diving Bobby Grich behind the mound with one out in the seventh. Jim Gantner singled and Robin Yount walked on a 3-2 pitch from loser Luis Sanchez with two out. Cooper then singled to score the runners. "It was a fastball up in the strike zone," Cooper said. "The entire time I was at bat I kept thinking to go to left field.

When I hit it, I thought the ball might hang for a minute. I was running to first base and kept pointing for it to get down. It did." The Brewers, who moved here from Seattle as a bankrupt, year-old expansion team in 1970, also got some superb relief from Bob McClure and Peter Ladd. Ladd, who has replaced injured Rollie Fingers as the Brewers' bullpen stopper, preserved the victory by retiring all three batters he faced in the ninth. "Rollie could have pitched to two A haonv flock of Cardinals celebrates after the final out of Sunday's NL Championship Series game at Atlanta.

St. Louis won its first pennant since 968 with a 6-2 win over the Braves. See (AP laserphota) other playoff photos on pages 18 and 22. shin in the second inning, allowed the two runs and six Atlanta hits before leaving with two down in the seventh. Sutter, who had 36 regular season saves, then retired the last seven Braves in order.

10 10 4 90 a 10 19 laMrtill i 1 1 4 at i I a i i oa 1110 10 0 0 4 0 11 1 0 0 I 4 111 DCfmlb i 4 0 4 0 10 4 110 1000 1000 10 10 0 000 Jill 11 111 1 "This is a younger club and I don't think it is as intelligent as those Kansas City teams. We played smarter basehall day-in, day-out with the Royals. But we've got Sutter. We didn't have that big guy in the bullpen ovej there." Herzog said he was "both happy and uneasy" after the Cards took the early 4-0 lead. He said he was nervous because they wasted later opportunities, twice' leaving the bases loaded without scoring.

"Usually when you fail to put a team away early, bad things happen in the late innings." he said. The second inning uprising came off starter Rick Camp, who yielded a walk and four hits before being chased. Besides McGee's triple. George Hendrick and Smith contributed RBI singles. The Cards got a solo run in the fifth on Tommy Herrs double and a two-out single by Keith Hernandez.

and McGee closed the scoring with his eighth inning homer. "It was a long year," said Manager Joe Torre, who steered the Braves to the NL West title after preseason forecasts called for a second division finish. "The last few weeks took a lot out of us, but I don't want it to sound like 1 am making an alibi." he added. "Let's give credit to the Cardinals. They outplayed us.

It's as simple as that." Sutter, completing his second vear with the Cards after being acquired from the Chicago Cubs, said, "After spending most of my time in the cellar, I just can't describe what a great feeling of elation tonight is. "When you start playing baseball you have two dreams." he said. "One is to make it to the major leagues. The other is to pitch in the World Series. Now I'm going to get my chance." Wit I 17 I II I MA In c-fmtiHMi nr Manm in i m.

ItUwi. 00 010 001- juw, ooQ ooo wo-i A- fc-4 hr Jsdln in ttw Catcher Darrell Porter, who hit only .231 in the regular season, captured the Most Valuable Player award in the series after getting two singles and three doubles in nine trips and also drawing five walks. "It's one of the greatest things that ever happoned to me." said Porter. "But I've seen so many other guys out there who could have won it, like McGee and the entire pitching staff. Whitey Herzog, who managed Kansas City to three AL West titles only to lose the playoffs to the New York Yankees each time, compared his St.

Louis team with his divisonal winners aL Kansas City. or three batters, but Peter Ladd has been doing such a great job that I could save Rollie for a couple of days." said Brewer Manager Harvey Kuenn. "This is the greatest thrill of my life," he said. "The guys couldn't have played any belter. They came back all year and they did it again today." But not before the Angels grabbed a 3-1 lead, with runs in the first and third on ALCS Most Valuable Player Fred Lynn's RBI singles and one in the fourth, greatly aided by Cooper's miscue.

innio Wftwl.t Cm 1.0-5 il-1 1 I I 4 114 a 9 4 I 1M 1 I I I 1 I 1-1 I 0 0 11-1 1 IJ I 0 0 4 0 0 CmiMwlNl Westminster notches 'confusing7 win over IUP Late field goal gives visiting Titans 3-0 win By JED WEISBERGER Gazette Sports Editor Of the four setbacks that George Chaump has suffered through in his initial season as IUP's football coach, Saturday's 3-0 loss to Westminster was the most cruel. Maybe the Braves didn't deserve to beat the Titans, considering their futility on offense, but they didn't deserve to lose by what amounts to a quirk in the rules either. "I feel bad for our kids," remarked Chaump. whose team's four-game losing streak is IUP's longest since 1961. "This should have been a 0-0 tie.

Our defense certainly deserved the shutout." The game appeared destined to be 0-0 tie until the final seconds, when a scenario that has to be as rare as free labor anions in Poland somehow transpired. Westminster, which was fortunate to have the last shot at scoring in this battle, moved the ball to the IUP IB with a single second left as Titan quarterback Rich Edder hit Kiski Prep grad Lamont Boykins with a pass on a crossing pattern good for 23 yards. Since the Titans were out of lime outs, Westminster coach Joe Fusco ordered his kicking team onto the field while the clock was stopped to move the sticks. Westminster got off the snap, and Ron Bauer's kick barely cleared the helmets of IUP's defensive linemen. The clock read :00.

The buzzer sounded. Game over? No! There was a flag on the play. Illegal procedure on Westminster. Ball moved back five yards. Confusion.

Clock, stopped. Chaump wanted to know what was going on. A second field-goal attempt from 35, Good. Titans (4-0) win. IUP 1-4) loses.

According to the officials, West minster snapped the ball before it was signaled ready for play. That drew the flag. Since it was a dead-ball foul, IUP couldn't refuse the penalty. Chaump asked for a "coaches con ference" to explain what was called. His opinion differed with that of the official.

Since that was the case, IUP was charged with a time out and the Titans got their second chance to kick because the clock didn't start until the snap. Apparently the second that was originally run ofT, was allowed to tick by mistake since the penalty wiped out the play. "The explanation was very illogical," said Chaump. "Every offensive team in America should put a play like that in. I tried to explain that to the officials and couldn't get an audience." Perhaps the rule governing this situation needs to be looked at.

The defensive team was actually penalized because of an infraction by the offense. "We didn't do that on purpose," said Fusco when asked if he thought of drawing the penalty. "We're too dumb for that." So what was IUP's best defensive effort of the season, against a team that was averaging 34 points per game, went to waste. The Titans were only able to rush for six yards. Edder and Frank Bon-givengo, the Westminster quarterbacks were sacked 10 times.

It was a game the Braves conceivably should have won. "The fact that Indiana's defense was that tough didn't surprise us," said Fusco. "We knew they would come at us the way they did. They are playing excellent defense." But IUP couldn't get anything going on offense, especially With Its Continued on page 19 with a field goal as time ran out, edged the Braves 3-0 Satur day in Miller Stadium. (Gazette photo by Peel) IUP's Kevin McCorkle (4) looks to put a stop to the travels of Westminster's Lamont Boykins, a Kiski Prep grad, while the Titans' Tim Kaiser (36) looks for someone to block.

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