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The News Tribune Section Tacoma Washington Monday October 10 1983 NFL roundup C-3 Television 07 Vs Penalties burn Knox Seahawks I 4V i 4 i-r enough to dominate most of the post-game discussion in the locker room don't think it was Coach Chuck Knoz said anything fair about ft I haven't seen penalties that lopsided in I don't know when We were the least-penalized team in the AFC in the preseason To come out there today and get all those penalties called well you gotta be kidding me If that's an example of the consistency id officiating then I know where that group's working next week was a factor (in the outcome) I'm not going to say It was the factor but there's no question ft hurt Knox said would Just like to think that surely there was some holding on their team We bad eight penalties called on us in the first half and they didn't have a flag They even get one until the fourth quarter I don't care what kind of coaching Job you do nobody's that don't know why or how something like that could said Reggie McKenzie Seattle's left guard been in the league 13 years' and I've never seen anything like that until now It (sic) easy always starting out drives with a first-and-30" In the first half the Seahawks were making it look easy despite their eight penalties They got their first takeaway with 7:38 remaining In the first quarter when Jackson alertly Jumped on a punt that had bounced off San Diego's Bruce Laird That gave the Seahawks the ball at the Chargers' 45 and Zorn took them the distance in seven plays A nifty pass to veteran Harold Jackson covered the final two yards Jackson ran a quick out pattern and got rookie comerback Continued on Page C-5 1 i Another story C-5 By BART WRIGHT The News Trlbuno SAN DIEGO Over the course of the teat seven seasons the Seattle Seahawks have come up with sane interesting ways to lose National Football League games but there's never been anything quite like yesterday's 38-81 loss to the San Diego Chargers Before 49133 at San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium plus a regional television audience Seattle earned a standoff with the Chargers in most all statistics ezeept two turnovers and penalties The Seahawks took the ball away from San Diego five times and give it back Just twice but they were penalized 13 more times than the Chargers As a result Seattle lost a 31-point second-quarter lead the game and a golden opportunity to keep pace with the division-leading Los Angeles Raiders who invade the Kingdome Sunday The outcome left the Seahawks and San Diego tied with Denver at 8-3 in the Western Division of the American Football Conference and two games behind the Raiders who improved to 8-1 yesterday by beating Kansas City Yesterday's bizarre game eventually was won when second-year San Diego safety Andre Young picked off a Jim Zorn pan and raced 40 yards down the sidelines for the tie-breaking touchdown with 3:04 left Earlier Seattle bad started all of its touchdown drives following takeaways including a recovery of a fumbled punt by Michael Jackson and a fumble recovery and interception by Ken Easley But the penalties IS of them against Seattle and Just two against the Chargers were SPORTS FANS I BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW Sonics rookie Scooter McCray did a big league fingertip roll Sonics bow in Dome debut Sundvold frets over performance in 1 17-98 loss to Portland 'Y i wi i S'-iy r-V j1' V- vJS -S yY -''I f- 1 iV -'i 4 o'jiA i'v "if 1 "ii" 1 Staff photo by GREG LEHMAN break Scooter McCray whipped a pass from the left of the key to Gus Williams on the run at midcourt on the opposite sideline and Williams sailed the ball on to Sundvold back across the Portland key for a driving layin from the right side That first-quarter play pulled Seattle within four of Portland at 34-80 But the Blazers never trailed after taking an 11-10 lead on McCray's goal-tending Seattle managed only a 18-18 tie after that Jeff Lamp led Portland with 37 points and Mychal Thompson grabbed 14 rebounds to go with his 18 points Kermit Washington trying to come back from retirement scored just two points and was whistled for five fouls in 14 minutes DOME NOTEg Last night's Dome crowd was about ha If -capacity for basketball For tome reason breakaway rims would not the Dome's new backboards at the proper 10-foot height so rigid rims had to bs substituted Jut prior to the game No Darryl Dawkioa-lmi-tators showed tip however so the hoops and glass boards survived enscatbed The oaly substantial criticism from players concerned the location of the lights shots from the comer about 10-11 feet out the lights art kind of in your noted Williams The 24-second clock system tailed early in tho third er A stopwatch was first to tho cm foilowM by the Seales' portable floor-level docks before the house system was restored is the fourth period One thing was obvious: with a big crowd the metal movable seats will give thunderous foot-stomping meaning to oethusiastic cheering The lounge for 800101' season ticket-holders was not ready last eight It was promised for tho team's regular-season return Jan IS series left knee in the third game Although been Just years since the Phillies last appeared in the series they have an almost entirely new cast In 1980 catcher was Bob Boone He's with California now while Bo Diaz is behind the plate for the Phillies The shortstop-second base combination were Larry Bows and Manny Trillo now accepting their mail with the Chicago Cubs and Montreal Ezpos Ivan Dejesus and Joe Morgan are the replacements Left field belonged to Lonnie Smith now a SL Louis Cardinal and Greg Luzinski who need a glove anymore as a designated hitter with the Chicago White Sox Now Gary Matthews the National League Continued on Page C-6 Another story C-6 By MARK WALLACE Tho Nowt Trlbuno Jon Sundvold la a young man who expects a lot of himself So in a quiet sort of way he took personally his part in the Seattle 117-98 National Basketball Association exhibition loss to the Portland TTail Blazers last night in the Tacoma basketball inaugural before a crowd of 11061 The No 1 draft pick saw his first substantial amount of playing time In 89 minutes the 8-f pot-2 guard from the University of Missouri had four assists and scored 17 points second to A1 team-leading 81 Included were two three-point shots in three attempts during fourth-quarter comeback bid But asked to critique Ms performance Sundvold said thought I played terrible I can only Improve from this twil it's true that Sundvold was only 8-for-81 from the floor and that he committed three turnovers but there were mitigating circum- Not only were the Sonics playing a better team than the Utah Jass whom they beat Friday night but the Blazers are a veteran squad Except for three 1983 draftees all Portland players have at least one year's experience with the dub The Sonics on the other hand with seven rookies and three recently acquired veteran players on the pre season roster are Just getting used to each other The familiarity showed itself statistically in a 48-39 edge in rebounds and a 844 field goal percentage compared to Seattle's 380 And it showed np in Portland's ability to shrug off the atrocious officiating of rookie referees Carey Toone and Jim Cope both normally Continental Basketball Association officials The pair whistled a total of 81 personal fouls 48 on Seattle and six technicals The resulting march to the free-throw lines produced 87 shots and 85 points for Seattle 81 for Portland Both teams' players often were unprepared for many of the calls Three players Jack Sikma and A1 Chambers of Seattle and Wayne Cooper were disqualified on fouls In a particularly bizarre third quarter the Sonics hit only two field goals but scored 88 points 83 on free throws Neither Seattle Coach Lenny Wilkens nor Portland Coach Jack Ramsey blamed the outcome on the officiating But the basic result was a game with absolutely no tempo and tempo is i the Sonics need emphasis on the transition game the fast break and One result was that Sundvold seem to do as good a Job as is did Friday night in the offense 1 very Sundvold said "I made too many mental mistakes I probably forced a cou- Brought to You by Kevin Fitzgerald Only one man In sports history has been elected to BOTH the pro loot ball Hal of Fame AND the big league baseball Hal of Fame Can you guess who holds that unique record? Answer Is Cal Hubbard who was one of the great linemen In the National FOotbaN League In the 1920s and 1930s He was voted Into pro footbaTs HaN of Fame in 1963 He was also an umpire In big league baseball and was voted into baseball's Hall of Fame In 1976 WWW When was the last time a major-college football team scored 100 points In one game? Answer Is Nov 23 1968 when Houston beat Tulsa 100 to 6 WWW an oddity The winning team In each of the last 2 Super Bowls the 6an Francisco 49ers and the Washington Radsklne were both led by a former Notre Dame quarterback named Joe Joe Montana who played at Notre Dame from 1975 to 1978 quarterbacked the 49ers to the Super Bowl championship after the 1981 season And Joe Theismann who played at Notre Dame from 1968 to 1970 quarterbacked the Redsklne to the Super Bowl title last for Tacoma Dome crowd POBTUUM (1171 Mia FO FT 17 t-4 I I t-H I IS MM 4 4 37 914 7-17 I 77 S-lt I 17 I S-l MISS II 14 Mitt 17 I It 4 14 II MM TaMM MS 4377 SI-4441 11 117 M4TTLB (741 Mia FS FT If IS MS NaNt CaFart Lwn Lm Carr S4S IS-77 14-4117 41 71 17 II 117 SIS V-N Tarts palat ftaM (aati-ParHaaU Saatlla MISaaavaMMLRrawal4 77aaSSil SHaallat ParWaaS 144 SaattM MS ParRaaS II Saatlla 77 ParHanS tl ILavar ft Saatlla SI (Wiuiama SI Madias ThaH-ParRaaS I IThamptaa II laaRla (McCray SI-SivaH PartiaaS (Law I WaiMaftaa II laattta (McCray WaaS Srawn 1) Taani ParHaaS It Saatlla IS TacMcai MuM-PamaaS (Hiatal Safaaa- a-a a m- llUswsi SaiaasRl list nb piftifwwii 8wm9 inivgwi bswroii seup Ha Caack WIHiaa Srawn MMMSaMaaa ParHaaS laaHla pie of shots'! shouldn't have I did some things there was really no thing Stevie Burks said to that I look to shoot right away kind of look around Wilkens was more complemen-' tary in his assessment: thought he played reasonably Sundvold scored IS of his points in the fourth quarter but his first two showed more about the kind of team the Sonics want to be In a marvelous no-dribble Chicago's Miller said of White Sox starters LaMarr Hoyt Floyd Bannister and Richard Dotson who were a sensational 434 over the second half of the season got some guys here who can pitch Going into their record seventh playoff the Orioles figured they had to keep Rudy Law and Julio Criii off the bases so they become table setters for sluggers Greg Luzlnskl Ron Kittle Carlton Fisk and Harold Baines As it turned out Law batted 889 and Crus J33 to lead the White Sox combining to reach base 14 times with 11 hits and three walks and each stole two batted 188 was 138 178 hitting numerous hard shots tie hit 388 before being sidelined hit with a pitch on the after JfMp'JFJU "v-JJ-iaMW -4' si a -J lr 1 kv GIG HARBOR 383-1741 858-9981 Pitching-rich favored in WWW See Fitzgerald Ford First for a better heiv car deal It pays! 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The Associated Press It will be pitching against the new-look platoon-oriented Philadelphia Phillies when the 1988 World Series unfolds tomorrow night in Baltimore The Baltimore pitching staff held power hitters In check during the American League playoff series limiting the White Sox to three runs In four Left-hander Scott McGre gor the iron man this season with an 18-7 record and 889 cans for four games being played in Baltimore if the series goes the fail seven fames Additionally Philadelphia ace Steve Carlton pitched In last final NL playoff game meaning hell probably have two starts at most la the World Series Rookie Mike Boddicker who fanned 14 White Sox while turning the playoffs around In the second game is set for the second game butpitchlng coach Ray Miller said the Orioles would have to decide whether to use a three or four-man rotation Storm Davis and Tippy Mar-tines allowed 19 kits in last Saturday's final playoff game but turned aside four Chicago scoring threats to complete a frustrating series for a team which led the league during the regular season with 800 runs scored three weeks all I heard FITZGERALD 1 run average win pitch the (Charnel 4 8:30) Philadelphia will counter with 19-game winner John Denny Oddmakers at casino in Reno Nev have established Baltimore as -gVfc favorite to win the opening game and 8-7 favorite to win the aeries They based the series odds on the strength of the schedule which -V.