The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • 84

Sports nan Wichita 'Kfiagle JvBeacon Sunday October IS 1978 1 0 Piniella Single Sinks Dodgers Yanks Nip LA Tie Series Dodgers Cry Robbery and Piniella Went for High Pitch Page 3G NEW YORK AP) Lou Piniella knew what was coming his way when he went to the plate against Dodger reliever Bob Welch in the 10th inning of fourth World Series game The game was on the line with runners at first and second and two out single delivered the winning run in New 4-3 victory over Los Angeles throws said Piniella but fastballs Very fast balls I believe easier to gear yourself up when you know Piniella said the ball he hit was a fastball up was a bad pitch too he said popped it Correspondent Photo by Alan Zlotky Kansas QB Harry Sydney fumbles after being hit in the second quarter KXJ Scares Oklahoma up or hit a fly ball on it Instead Piniella drilled a single that brought Roy White home from second base White had walked on a 3-3 pitch after battling back from an 0-3 count against Welch He moved up on a twfrout single by Reggie Jack-son who had been victimized by Welch on a game-ending strikeout in the second World Series contest WHITE RECALLED HIS trip around third base with the deciding run guy on deck said he said grinned a lot Piniella and Jackson were involved in a bizarre (day during a two-run rally that got the Yankees back in the bail game in the sixth inning White started the rally with a one-out single and Thurman Munson who later doubled home New York's tying run in the eighth walked on a 3-3 pitch Jackson followed with a single to right scoring White with the first Yankees run and extending his streak of driving in at least one run to eight consecutive Series games That tied (See 3G Col 4) The Big Ones MISSOURI 38 IOWA ST 13 Missouri erupted for 16 points in the second period to wipe out a 7-3 deficit and beat Iowa State Page 8G OKLA ST 34 COLORADO 38 Oklahoma State lost the ball on a tumble during the second half but Colorado was penalized for being offsides on the play and OSU then marched for a touchdown to to hand Colorado its first loss of the season Page 7G DAME 36 PITT 17 Notre Dame quarterback Joe Montana put on a perfect fourth quarter performance to knock Pitt from the unbeaten ranks Montana connected on all seven of his final-quarter passes for two touchdowns and 110 yards to erase a 17-7 Pitt advantage Page 1IG MICH ST 34 MICHIGAN IS Michigan State quarterback Ed Smith hit on 20 of 36 passes for 240 yards and two touchdowns to bounce Michigan from the undefeated ranks Page I0G Scores ea 3G Tigers ff'in 26-13 Memphis Rally Tips Shockers By BILL MacKAY Staff Writer MEMPHIS Wichita patched-up defense played well enough to win most football games but the Shockers' offense except for an occasional gainer played like sleepwalkers The result was Memphis State's eighth football win in a row over WSU without a defeat 26-13 Sure the defensive players gave up 26 second-half points but they spent so much time out on the turf of the Liberty Bowl that it seemed they might be staking claim to that piece of Memphis property WICHITA STATE walked to the dressing room at the end of the first half with a 130 lead At that point the Shockers seemed to have the game well in hand with their defenders playing their best football since the season-opening win over Oklahoma State Not even a dedicated pessimist could have forecast that the WSU offense in the second half was to carve a giant niche into the monument of ineptitude they had erected at Drake Stadium in Des Moines only a week earlier During the second half the offense controlled the football for only 10 minutes and 49 seconds to Memphis State's 19 minutes and 11 seconds WSU ran 35 plays and netted only 85 yards The closest the Shockers got to scoring was when a 35-yard field-goal try by Williams fell short IT WAS first miss after kicking four in a row Meanwhile the Wichita State defense playing two men in new positions and without its star cornerback Sherman Taylor kept the Shockers in the ball game for a time in the second half It was as if the defense was waiting for the offense to come to life It could have stayed in Memphis all night awaiting that Memphis State took the second-half kickoff and marched to the Wichita State 7-yard line But on fourth-and-three the Shockers' defense rose up (See MEMPHIS 8G Col 1 1 Moore said the plan was to throw to the left comer and let Murphy who is 6-feet-4 go up in the air and try to beat his man one-on-one But Sydney's pass was out of Murphy's reach The first three quarters it seemed the crowd waited for the roof to cave in on the Jayhawks who have won only one of their first six games But when KU entered the fourth quarter (See OU 6G Col 31 to wingback Jimmy Little at the Oklahoma 5-yard line The next was a 5-yard look-in pass to Murphy near the left coffin comer Touchdown OU 17 KU 16 The crowd went wild There were only 15 seconds left in the game No 1 ranking and unbeaten record hung in the balance The suspense heightened as Kansas was penalized 5 yards and lined up to kick from the 8-yard line But the Sooners were then called off sides and the ball moved back to the 3-yard line COACH BUD Moore whose Jay-hawks last knocked off an Oklahoma national championship team in 1975 said the call was a two-point play all the way is no question we could have tied the football game" said Moore we teach our players to play for a tie" Huskers Stomp K-State 48-14 By MAL ELLIOTT Staff Writer LAWRENCE Kan For years Oklahoma University has been king of the football turf in the Midwest Saturday it came within inches of losing its crown But the indies were not on the turf They were in the air on a two-point conversion attempt A pass by Kansas' sophomore quarterback Harry Sydney was just inches out of the reach of Kevin Murphy in the corner of the end zone The result which was a severe jolt to the 43420 fans who witnessed it was a 17-18 escape by Oklahoma which may have seen its No 1 ranking swallowed up by a rousing fourth-quarter comeback by the homestand-ing Jayhawks THE SOONERS playing without their great wishbone quarterback Thomas Lott and fullback Kenny King ran into a Kansas team that ironically has returned to its wishbone offense behind the inconsistent but scintillating young Sydney Sydney ran for 100 yards and passed for 83 more He completed only four passes but the last two could have cost the Sooners a sixth national championship One was a 33-yard desperation pass But a lightning-like 87-yard pass from Dan Manucci to Eugene Good-low 3:05 before intermission had bolstered Wildcat hopes of at least making a respectable showing GOODLOW STEPPED OUT of the grasp of the last Nebraska defender near mid-field and none of the red-shirted Corahuskers could catch him felt like we had a chance at the said Dickey hadn't really done that much At least it was a Those hopes went a-glimmering in the first 59 ticks of the third quarter though (See NEBRASKA 6G Col 3) scoring two touchdowns in the first minute of the second half WAS THE ball game" said Comhusker boss Tom Osborne "It was pretty quiet in here at halftime We really didn't know who would win But after those two touchdowns there wasn't hardly any way we could lose the K-State which had won back-to-back contests against Air Force and Oklahoma State was hanging on by its fingernails at halftime though the Wildcats only trailed 14-7 K-State was badly outplayed in the first 30 minutes as evidenced by Nebraska's 16 first downs to K-State's 3 By CHARLIE SMITH Staff Writer LINCOLN Neb be honest a lot of times it looked like men against boys out That's how Kansas State coach Jim Dickey summed up football game at Nebraska The Wildcats played hard and sometimes well but in truth Nebraska won on form The final score was 48-14 and what the contest amounted to was a pleasant autumn outing for 75818 Memorial Stadium homecoming patrons It was the 97th consecutive sellout here Eighth-ranked Nebraska won by Kansas Basketball Outlook Is Promising Fowler Giles Are Keys for 'Hawks Kansas State Returns Only Two Starters Shockers' Cage Plan: 'Harass and Destroy' Give acoach an All-America guard and a center who stands 7 feet 1 inch tan and weighs 2S5 pounds and he might just win everything in sight Those two players still have to go out and get the job done and they wiU need some help Therefore a couple of highly questionable knees could hold the key to the 1973-79 season for coach Ted Owens and his Kansas University basketball team despite the presence of DaraeU Valentine and Paul Mokeski Although only a sophomore Valentine may be the finest backliner in the US this year The Wichita Heights product was not far below that status last year when as a freshman he led KU to the Big Eight Conference championship Mokeski is a 7-1 pivot who has seen a lot of duty the last three years for Owens He has shown flashes of brilliance but has been inconsistent going to have an excellent team he iMokeskil has to be able to compete with anybody we said Owens whose Jayhawkers will be ranked somewhere among the nation's elite in the polls again this year Kansas State University went from champion to a tie for fourth in the Big Eight Conference basketball wars last year This year it appears the Wildcats may struggle to finish in the first division Coach Jack Hartman puts it this way: think we're going to have a good basketball team but I don't know The reason he thinks it may take a while for this group to develop is that he has a lot of new faces He returns only two starters off a 17-10 club One of those however is 6-foot-5 Rolando Blackman a sophomore from Brooklyn He could possibly become one of the nation's finest said Hartman not normally given to such lavish praise As a freshman Blackman played well and was instrumental in several key victories down the stretch when he was shifted from forward to guard will start the season considering him a guard" said Hartman he remains there depends on what happens" Hartman said he feels good zbut his players Although Gene Smithson hails from another part of the basketball world the new coach's techniques give local fans the promise of a return to the traditions which built Wichita State University into a power Last week a group of WSU fans took the school to court over the right to retain seats they have held for years What made those tickets so precious was a run of success in the 1960s under Coach Ralph Miller whose teams swarmed opponents with pressure defense That is also the philosophy brought to the Shockers this season by Smithson from Illinois State where he compiled a record of 68 wins and II losses Smithson calls the style of play and And the battle cry is an acronym for Mental Toughness Extra Effort game is an intensity says Smithson Which leads to the question of whether or not intensity can compen- sate for lack of size But over the years it has at WSU The Shockers have had two or three good big men but most of the teams have been small and quick Smithson said those win also be the traits of this year's team "We probably wont play with a true center he said "We will play a five-man moving game We won't have a center we just don't have one feel our front line will be able to rebound wen They move to the ban quick And sometimes quickness can dominate (See WICHITA 4G Cat f) Tzawwi whl The college basketball season holds a lot of promise for fans In Kansas Today Eagle-Beacon staff writer Mai Elliott previews the Kansas K-State and Wichita State teams Up-off time is near (See WILDCAT? 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