Show ’ary' - 'TWinnir agri: — liriiiC'iiiiiii West Side wins 1 5 Valley View 18 ii Gant puts the hurt on Braves ST LOUIS (AP) — Just a few days ago Ron Gant was saying he gets no special pleasure out of beating the Atlanta Braves Yeah right Gant hit two long home runs against the team that abruptly dumped him two years ago because of a broken leg leading the St Louis Cardinals past the Braves 2 Saturday for a surprising 1 lead in the NL championship scries “It’s a great feeling I had a lot of things happen to me in my career with Atlanta a lot of good and a lot of had There’s a lot of emotion going through me when I play them” he said “Yeah it is sweet because it’s against Atlanta but if it was against the Dodgers it would be just as sweet” Gant launched a two-ru- n homer into 3-- The Mustangs grounded Sky View's air attack Friday night in Page 14 Hyrum Sports briefs Wife of Cardinals' owner injured by pop foul ball ST 10UIS (AH) — The wife of one of the owners of (he St Louis Cardinals was knocked unconscious during Game 3 of ihe National league championship series Saturday after being struck on Ihe head by a foul popup Kathy Manser ihe wife of Fred Manser was silling in ihe front row just to the right of home plate when site was hit to start during Marquis Grissom's the third inning Cardinals catcher Tom Pagnozi lunged into the stands to try to catch the ball Team trainer Gene Gicsclmann left the dugout to administer to Manser and Cardinals team physician Stan London also was at her side She had been revived and was wearing a neck brace at the halfinning at-b- al Fordham player dies NEW YORK fAP) — A Fordham University football player collapsed during pregame warmups and died Saturday with his parents in the stands and his sister preparing to sing the national anthem Mill Tierney 20 of Lyndhurst NJ was taken to St Marnahas Hospital where he was pronounced dead less than an hour after collapsing at Coffey f ield in the Bronx l ordham immediately postponed the game with Lafayette College Saturday's scores NCAA football Utah St 53 New Mexico St 21 Brigham Young 63 UNLV 28 CS Northridge 35 Weber St 28 S Utah 41 SW Texas St 27 AL playoffs NL playoffs St Louis 3 Atlanta 2 NHL Islanders 5 Philadelphia Pittsburgh 3 Ottawa 2 1 Detroit 6 Buffalo 1 Montreal 5 N Y Rangers 2 Dallas 4 New Jersey 2 Los Angeles 4 Washington 3 Florida 6 Hanford 0 Tampa Bay 7 Toronto 4 Phoenix 4 Anaheim 2 Vancouver 5 St Louis 3 Boston 5 San Jose 3 Series Manheim Auctions 400 at Nashville Tenn Noon ASA Auto Racing at Jenner-siow- n Pa 2 pm FOX - NFL Football doubleheader game NBC — Major League Baseball American League Championship Series game No 5 New York at Baltimore 2:30 pm TNN — NASCAR Racing Craftsman Truck Series Ford Credit 300 at Bakersfield Calif 3 pm ESPN — Senior PGA Golf The T'ansamerica final round at Napa Calif 5 pm - Major League Basebal National Senes game No 4 Championship League FOX Atlanta at St Loms 6 8 pm Tnt pm Today's quoto 1! 1 s j day rtallv f'f me dm I I n iii mourn-- 1 nulls fullest mii‘fit is dead until sou set the hods I m In it id set the bods but at least it s " — good in set thts'ri in good hands -- hns Kuufmunt: ilu mubf'hm nu ( hi'ii s jut i BALTIMORE (AP) — They were the most maligned pitchers on the Yankees’ staff this scavrn Ixxied at home and ripped by both the press and owner George Stcinbrenner Kenny Rogers David Weathers and Graeme Lloyd won’t win any popular i ty contests On Saturday night however they pitched the Yankees through six sometimes shaky innings as New York heal the Orioles 8-- 4 to move w itliin one w in of its first World Series appearance since 1981 Their combined effort enabled New York manager Joe Torre to gel to his top guns in the bullpen Mariano Rivera and John Welleland “That’s our job — to bridge the gap to the seventh innings” said Weathers “And once we get those two guys in we’re going to be very success! ul That’s our job — to bridge that gap" Rivera as unhitlahle as any pitcher in baseball this scavrn gave up three straight singles in the eighth to load the struck out bases But the By Shawn Harrison sports writer LAS CRUCES NM — Make il 17 straight wins for the Northern Aggies Utah State opened Big West Conference action just like it had hoped — with a win over the other Aggies of the league USU blew out New Mexi- co State Saturday night at 53-2- 1 Aggie Memorial Stadium in front of a sparse crowd of just 7839 fans The win ended a four-gam- e losing streak by USU (3-- 4 overall) NMSU is still looking for its first win of the and hasn’t beat the Aggies year (0-since 1967 “We still made mistakes that we have to correct but the positive thing is we won” USU head coach John L Smith said “We came out and did a better job in the second half We loo k control then" halftime The Aggies turned a 26-1- 4 lead into a 47-1- 4 lead early in the touchdown fourth quaner off a run by Abu Wilson It was Wilvin’s ‘ third score of the night USU cruised Ihe rest of the way playing everybody who made the trip “I think everybody played” Smith vA LV said “The only guys that didn’t play are S AfM £ the ones we want to save and rcdshiit” AP photo “We just ran into what we knew was going to be a very good offensive New Mexico State running back Denvis Manns eludes Utah State defensive back Spencer football team" NMSU coach Jim Waggoner Saturday in Las Cruces NM The Northern Aggies buried their hosts Mess said “We just need to keep plugd game of his career) on 24 carging away but it’s hard and it’s conference Manns gained 168 yards on embarrassing We’ll just keep playing 24 carries despite playing Ihe second ries and scored three limes Mis 18 points half on a sprained ankle but was held moved him into second on the e and see what happens” There is a new rushing leader in the out of the end zone Mis average of 1056 USU scoring list with 216 passing Steve Big West NMSU’s Denvis Manns yards a game is the best now and he Stcinke (204) passed USU’s Abu Wilson in a battle hasn’t scored this season See AGGIES on Page 15 Wilson rushed for 117 yards (his 17th of the lop two running hacks in the 6) il famt-- 0i' IN' httmt- gurw- Uoinrirf I - Press No I FTorida and No 3 Florida State had il easy on Saturday The same can’t be said for No 2 Ohio State and No 4 Arizona State The Gators (6-- 0 J led by Danny Wucrf-fel’- s three TD passes and a running game that produced Vj8 yards breezed to a 56-1- 3 victory over No 12 LSU Tire Scmi-nolc- s (5-with Warrick Dunn rushing for 163 yards had little trouble heating No 6 Miami 34-1- 6 sweated it out The Buckeyes (5-touchbefore Joe Germaine's down pass to Dimilirous Stanley with win 8:51 left gave Ohio Stale a 0) 48-yar- d 17-1- 4 right-hand- er Chris Hoilcs and Brady Anderson before popping up Trxld Zeile Wctteland who recorded seven o( saves against his 43 regular-seaso- n Baltimore pitched the ninth “The people who come out of have to be the ones carrying the torch for us” Torre said "And they’ve done it” Rogers had rough a first season in New York during which he was injured in spring training threatened with demotion to the bullpen and blasted In Stcinbrenner All you need to know about Weathers and Lloyd is the following: 0-- 4 combined with respective 935 and 1746 LRAs during their brief regular scavrns in New York Rogers yanked after two innings in a Game 4 start against Texas in the opening round made it through three gave innings this time The up a run in the first inning on Rafael Palmeiro’s sacrifice fly hut worked a I second The third inning though wa a chore “That’s been like my whole scavrn inconsistent” Rogers said T didn'i make the pitches I needed to make TTiat’s the way il goes" Jrt' f‘r'l -- 2-3 At Columbus Ohio after Stanley turned Germaine's short hook pass — his only completion of the game — into a d TD the Buckeyes held off the Moilcs hit a Icadoff holier and Badgers (3-2- ) with two interceptions Early in the fourth quarter Kevin Hunt-Ic- y Andervin put a scare mi the Yankee 's fumble return for a TD had by flying out to the warning Hack 0 lead a Wisconsin After Rogers allowed a one-ogiven single “I told the team I'm proud of the way to Zeile New York pitching coach Mel they battled back” Buckeyes coach John Stottlemyre made his first visii to ihc Cooper said “A lot of teams would have mound as Brian Bochringtr goi loose found a way to lose that game The mark in the Yankees' bullpen of a good football team is not playing Rogers then yielded a single to K lx i your best football game and still coming to Alomar bringing up Rafael Palme no with runners at firs: and second and one out with a W” over Wisconsin And the No 4 Sun Devils ) rallied from a 28-- 7 deficit at the Rose Bowl to beat UCLA 42-3- 4 No 5 Nebraska just keeps rolling along this time beating Baylor 49-- 0 and looking like a national title contender again "I think we’ve got a good football team” Huskt-r- s coach Tom Osborne said after his team totaled 669 yards “f think we're playing well" The same can’t he said for Ohio Stale and Arizona State w hich nearly saw their national title hopes end in upsets The wins preserved the possibility the teams could meet in the Rose Bowl with unbeaten records 48-yar- 36-ya- 14-1- See YANkhSS on Page 18 See NCAA on Pnge IS Cougars make quick work of UNLV PROVO Utah (APj — For Steve Sarkisian hapless UNLV proved the cure for his passing blues win over Utah (timing off a 45-1Stale last week in which he failed lo throw a touchdown pass for the fin: time this scavrn Sarkisian tossed all lour of his TD strikes in the first half tn route lo IVth ranked Brigham Young's 63 28 blowout of winiiss UNLV "One thing that worked for u with their linebackers playing deep is our backs were able to make the 7 Baltimore at — NFL Football NMRA Drag Racing Chief Auto ESPN tape Pans Naviais a’ Da::as isame-da- 1 Utah St ends losing streak with big rout (6-0- All-Pr- o — Yankees closing in on Series Aggies smash NMSU By the Associated NFL Football doubleheader NFL Football regional coverage NASCAR Auto Racing PRIME See GANT on Page 16 Buckeyes Devils survive tests am - waltzed through their previous five postseason series but fell victim to another strong pitching performance by St Louis left-hand- On television TNW AP photo St Louis outfielder Ron Gant (5) is greeted at home in the sixth inning of Saturday's game by teammate Gary Gaetti after hitting his second home run against the Braves big-gam- 100-yar- IHL FOX NBC defending World Series champions 53-2- 1 Houston 3 Salt Lake 2 1 1 2-- ar asSsaage? New York 8 Baltimore 4 N Y and Gant's home runs “Ronnie can get hot" Atlanta manager Bobby Cox said "lie can get as hot as anybody” Game 4 is Sunday night with Andy Bcncs starting for St Iziuis and Denny Ncagle for Atlanta The Braves traded in late August for the former All-Stbut he has pitched only one inning in the postseason Osborne whose bizarre year included a car crash a brief slay in jail and an odd incident in which he cut his finger on a champagne bottle during a clinching celebration put something positive on his resume — seven strong innings and a e win Mark Petkovsck relieved with runners ihc Cardinals bullpen in the first inning then hit a solo shot off former teammate Tom Glavine into the shrubs in center field in sixth Helped by the homers outstanding pitching from winner Donovan Osborne and the bullpen and the largest crowd ever to see a baseball game in the state of Missouri the Cardinals were able to beat Atlanta at Busch Stadium for the first time in seven games this year The Cardinals also won their team-recor- d eighth straight postseason game at home a string that began in 1987 The loss left the Braves in an unfamiliar position — trailing in October The catches underneath and do something afterward” said the senior passer who threw II of his 22 completions (on 35 attempts fur 400 yard (to BYU running I acks Sarksjan who also ran Ft a Wildcats lose — Page 14 touchdown as the Cougars improved to 6-especially praised his offen1 sive line "YMnh you have proicciion you get guys open It s lough to stay with lour or five receivers for four or five seconds" he said “At times I even had seven or eight freshman running batk Konncs II which LNIY passes against entered ( ougar Stadium rated last in four NCAA defensive categ'inca "Vke worked al passing to ihc hacks ihis week That was the coat h "s game plan” Jcnk ns said Ji rikins caught two of Sarkisian li-- T UNLV struck first when freshman quarterback Jon Denton scrambled 23 yards And the Rebels who have now lost 11 straight on the road lead flirted with a 14-before BYUs Brad Martin recovered Omar Lose s fumble al ihe line Cougars’ Sarkisian's first Til throw a to Aaron Cupp lied ilk game 0 first-quart- Ihe senior added second quarter scoring losses of ( yards to NO Kcalaluhi and 21 and 3 1 lo Jenkins to pul the ( ougais citmlortably ahead Denton s fcart cut BY U 17-sar- halftime no closer N d pass to I tn lead to 28-1before but the Rebels would get k COUGARS on Page 14 rx : v-- s Bngham Voung runrwg Lacs &nan MuKanzie too a UNI V aee‘or-- s t Two yards as he i t by me Srp aua-to Satoraav s pame ir o Jea t |