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C2 THE PANTAGRAPH. Sunday. Sept 22. 1985 Cubs' Abrego notches first victory "We're trying to improve, no matter who we play. But, you can't beat a junior high team if you don't block.

"I'm looking for the day when we can score in 4-down territory. We're supposed to have a good offensive line and we have the tradition of having hard-nose runners. But I didn't see any hard-nose runners tonight." "Our punting game was good and Steve Stull (quarterback) threw the ball well. Mike McCabe, our punter, is concentrating better." Stull competed 14 of 30 passes for 137 yards but had at least four passes dropped by receivers. McCabe averaged nearly 36 yards on seven punts.

PHILADELPHIA AP) Chicago Cubs right hander Johnny Abrego received no special satisfaction from beating a team that cut him loose two years ago. He Just wanted to win his first major league game. Abrego allowed four hits over six innings, struck out five and walked four as the Cubs beat the Philadelphia Phillies 9-2 yesterday after exploding for eight runs in the fifth inning. "I had no special satisfaction about beating the Phillies," said the 22-year-old right-hander. "I just won it to in a game.

"I know a lot of their guys from playing with them, so it was kind of fun." The Phillies made Abrego their No. 1 draft choice in 1981. After he developed arm trouble, the club left him unprotected in 1983 and he was claimed by Chicago. The Cubs brought him up from Pit-tsfield of Eastern League on Sept. 1.

Abrego said he could virtually smell the victory after the Cubs exploded for eight runs. "With the big lead, I just wanted to throw strikes," he said. "I'm still in a learning experienced. I'm finding out you just can't throw the year with a walk and stole second. Dernier took third on Shawon Dunston's infield single and both scored on Sandberg's single.

Keith Moreland's triple knocked out Gross, and Leon Durham greeted reliever Rocky Childress with a run-scoring double. Thad Bosley's single scored Durham, and after Bill Hatcher's single, another run scored as Abrego grounded out. Dernier was safe on a fielder's choice as Bosley scored, and another fielder's choice grounder by Dunston drove in the final run of the inning. fastballs. I'm really happy to win my first game.

Philadelphia Manager John Felske as not happy that his team lost to a rookie pitcher for the second straight game. "Abrego changed speeds nicely; he got us out," Felske said. "We sure didn't hit the ball very hard. In fact, we haven't been hitting consistently for some time." In the fifth inning, the Cubs' Ryne Sandberg scored his 100th run for the second straight year. Trailing 21 in the fifth against Kevin Gross, 14-11, Bob Dernier opened Chicago's biggest inning of ISU From CI The Tartars did get to the Illinois State 19-yard line early in the fourth period but freshman safety Jeff Smith sacked Romano for a 13-yard loss on third down.

"We run that blitz usually late in the game," said Smith. "We had a few good individual performances on defense but we also had a few breakdowns. We spent all week preparing for the other quarterback and that caused a few problems. But, Popp is only 5-8 and he would have had a tough time passing over our big line." Otolski said his team was not overconfident because of Wayne State's Division II status. "Tom Lamonica (ISU sports information director) has the statistics showing Division II teams won 12 of 36 games against Division 1-AA teams," said Otolski.

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