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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 11, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 21 a Missouri Guidry wins 2-fi/ffer, 7-0 hands Irish yanks Cut botox Lead to 1 3-0 upset by de Sainsbury South Bend ind. Up Sopho Imore Jeff Brockhaus kicked a 33-Yard Field goal with 12 50 to play saturday to give underdog Missouri a 3-0 Victory Over fourth i ranked notre Dame and hand the Irish their first shutout loss at Home since 1960. They were shut out at Michigan state 21-0, in 1965.the defending National Champion Irish lost the Ball twice on fumbles to kill scor first Downs rushes Yards passing Yards return Yards passes punt fumbles lost penalties Yards Missouri . 12 18 51-178 41-183 110 151 43 3 11-18-0 13-29-2 7-186 4-127 3-2 4-3 4-23 3-35 individual leaders Rushing Missouri Gant 17-102, 9-22, Bradley 19 15 notre Dame Ferguson 19-84 heavens 14-47 Stone 1-34. Passing Missouri Bradley 11-184, 110 notre Dame Montana 13-28-2,151.receivingmissouri, Gant 4-39, Newman 2-19 notre Dame Holohan 5-70, Ferguson 4-35. By United press International the surging new York Yankees embarrassed Boston for the third straight Day saturday cutting the first place red sox Lead in the Eastern division to just one game. The Yankees who humiliated the red sox 15-3 and 13-2 in the first two games of Al Roundup the four game series were led by pitching Ace Ron Guidry. Guidry fired a two hitter for his 21st Vic tory and the Yankees pulverized the Hap less Boston red sox 7-0, behind a two out seven run rally in the fourth inning. Guidry who has lost twice became the first left hander to shut out Boston in Fenway Park since Ken Holtzman did it with Oakland in August of 1974. The Yankee Ace fanned five to up his league leading strikeout total to 220 and lowered his league Best earned run average to 1.77. The shutout was his seventh of the year and he became the first Pitcher in the league to beat every club at least once this season. The Only Boston hits came in the first a ing threats and failed on three occasions to make the distance on fourth and one at , led by the passing of Sopho More quarterback Phil Bradley never was continued on Page 22 Ron Guidry. On Way to his 7th shutout it s Borg against Connors in finale of . Open Verf meets Shriver by Steve Wilstein new York up Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors the immovable object and irresistible Force of men s Tennis were set to clash again sunday in the men s finals of the . Open Tennis championship. In the women s finals three time de fending Champion Chris Evert had a Date with 16-year-old wonder girl Pam Shriver in an intriguing match that could produce one of the greatest upsets in history. Borg the top seeded Wimbledon Cham Pion who is hoping to capture the third leg of the grand slam notched his 55th straight Victory saturday when he ripped fourth seeded Vitas Gerulaitis 6-3, 6-2, 7-6 in the semifinals of the $550,000 Champion  a finalist now for the fifth 1 straight year made 19-year-old Mcaa Champion John Mcenroe run around the court like a dog chasing a Bone before taking a 6-2,6-2,7-5 semifinal Victory. J Evert seeking to become the first i woman in 43 years to win four straight titles crushed last year s runner up aus Ralian Wendy Turnbull 6-3, 6-0, in the conclusion of Friday s rain suspended match. Borg practice with Gerulaitis on his private court in nearby King s Point n.y., but showed him no mercy saturday. Geru Laitis who had the second Finger on his right hand lanced Friday because of a blood Blister managed to push the third set to a tiebreaker. He lost it 7-3 when he double faulted on match Point. Shriver who conquered top seeded Wimbledon Champion Martina Navratilova in the semis watched a few games of exert s demolition of Turnbull said this stinks and left to try on some new clothes. Mcenroe May be the new Jimmy con nors a left hander with a temper and flair but the old one was too much for him saturday. Connor 26, embarrassed Mcenroe in the first two sets then rubbed it in even More when he pulled a trick out of Bill til Den s old bag. Back in the 1920s when Tilden was King of the courts he used to let an opponent win five games on him then come Back to win the set. Connors coasted through the third set while Mcenroe swept five of the first six games and needed Only one More game to win a set. Connors then roared Back to win the next six games in a Row and Clinch the Victory. Mcenroe one of the youngest semifinalists in history had to be Content with $9, 550, not bad for a recently turned pro. Mcenroe won the Mcaa title last Spring for Stanford then quit school to join the men s pro circuit. Evert said she was looking Forward to playing Shriver in the women s finals. She plays the kind of game i like Evert said. She s aggressive and i la be going for passing shots. She must be playing great to reach the finals especially to beat Martina. I m really going to have to jump off to a Good Start. I can t Experiment for three or four  while Connors continued his silence after the match Mcenroe tried to look at the Bright Side of defeat. This is Good experience for me Mcenroe said. Maybe i la beat him one Day. This is the fourth time we be played and it keeps getting worse. But maybe it la help me against some other  Mcenroe admired the Way Connors at tacked him in the third set though Down 5 -1. He did t quit at 5-1, he went for broke Mcenroe said. He can get charged up All of a sudden. You can t get away with hitting decent volleys on him you have to hit  single to Center by Rick Burleson and an infield hit by Jim Rice. The Yankees chased starter Dennis Eckersley 16-7, when they banged out six of of Weir 11 hits in the fourth inning. Chris Chambliss doubled and following an intentional walk to Graig Nettles scored on Lou Piniella s wind blown double to Short right. Following another intentional walk to Roy White Bucky Dent and Mickey Rivers smacked singles with each hit driving in two runs. Thurman Munson drove in the sixth run with a single and the final run scored on a passed Ball by Carlton Fisk. The red sox who made two errors have now made 25 errors in their last 10 games which has accounted for 20 unearned runs. In the three game series the Yankees have scored 35 runs on 49 hits. In other Al games Milwaukee blanked Minnesota 3-0, Detroit downed Cleveland 5 2, Seattle topped Chicago 9-6, Baltimore blanked Toronto 4-0 and California swept Kansas City 3-2 and 4-2. Texas at Oakland was rained out. Brewers 3, twins 0 Mike Caldwell tossed a four hitter and Rookie Paul Molitor tripled in two runs to help lift the Brewers within 4 /2 games of Boston. Caldwell 18-9, walked three and struck out four to Post his 20th Complete game. Rookie Roger Erickson 13-11, yielded Only five hits for the losers. Tigers 5, indians 2 hard Luck Dave Rozema won his first game in nearly a month by pitching a five hitter to break a personal four game losing Streak and pitch the tigers past the Indi ans. Rozema raised his record to 7-10 with his ninth Complete game. Mariners 9, White sox 6 Bob Stinson Ruppert Jones and Leon Roberts drove in two runs apiece during a six run ninth inning that lifted the Mari ners Over the White sox. Enrique Romo 11-6, worked the final 1 2-3 innings to get the Triumph. Tom Paciorek hit a two run Homer for Seattle and Rusty Torres hit a two run Homer and Claudell Washington a Solo shot for Chicago. Orioles 4, Blue jays 0 Eddie Murray and Ken Singleton belted Solo homers and the orioles pulled off a triple play in support of Scott Mcgregor s six hit pitching to defeat the Blue jays. Angels 3-4, royals 2-2 Don Baylor doubled in one run and Ron fairly s sacrifice Fly delivered another when the Angels scored twice in the eighth to defeat Kansas City in the Nightcap and move to within l /2 games of the royals in the Al West. The second place Angels Cap tured the opener As reliever Dave la Roche quelled a ninth inning Kansas City rally to preserve Don Aase s 10th Victory. Lions rally to trip Tampa Bay 15-7 Byor Vanjackson Tampa Fla. Up Benny Ricardo kicked three Field goals and Jesse Thomp son scored on a 9-Yard pass saturday night to rally the Detroit Lions to a 15-7 Victory Over the error plagued Tampa Bay Bucca neers. The Lions spotted the bucs an Early touchdown on a 1-Yard plunge by Ricky Bell and then took advantage of Tampa Bay fumbles and mistakes to even their record at 1-1. Ricardo kicked 48 and 27-Yard Field goals after the Lions recovered Buccaneer fumbles and connected on a 47-yarder after time had run out in the first half when the Ball was moved into position by two consecutive penalties. The Lions wasted Little time taking the Lead to stay after Ricardo s first Field goal Cut the score to 7-3 in the first period. On the ensuing Kickoff Tampa s George Ragsdale fumbled and Detroit s Leonard Thompson recovered on the Tampa 12. Three plays later Greg Landry hit Jesse Thompson for the touchdown. Tampa Bay defensive end Lee Roy Selmon broke through to Block Ricardo s extra Point at tempt. The Lions took the opening Kickoff and failed to move the Ball punting to the bucs at the Tampa Bay 40. On the bucs first first Downs rushes Yards passing Yards return Yards passes punts fumbles lost penalties Yards det 11 46-149 477 60 7 9-14-0 9-43.2 3-2 8-80 to 10 29-94 31 47 6-14-1 8-43.7 6-5 5-43 Rushing Detroit Bussey 21-88, King 17-38, Kane 3-1, Bolton 2-5, Gaines 3-17. Tampa Bell 15-98, Davis 8-28, Carter 5-9, Ragsdale 1-5. Passing Detroit Landry 8-10-0-55, Danielson 1-4-0-14. Tampa Boryla 2-5-0-15, Huff 4-9-1-48. Receiving Detroit Thompson 3-29, King 3-27, Kane 1-6, Jarvis 1-9, Hill 1-minus 2. Tampa Owens 1-18, Carter 1 mlnus3, giles2-37, Davis 1-0, Hagins 1-11. Of the stacked defense to score. Lion defensive end Al Baker sacked Tampa quarterback Mike Buryla Midway through the first period forcing a Fumble and tackle John Woodcock recovered on the Tampa 29. Four plays later Ricardo kicked his 48-Yard Field goal the longest of his career. The Lions then forced Ragsdale to Fumble the Kickoff setting up the Landry to Thompson touchdown for new coach Monte Clark s first Victory with the club. Detroit s defense got to Tampa Quarter backs Boryla and Gary Huff for seven sacks and caused six fumbles recovering five As the buccaneers dropped their second straight game both at Home. Landry was injured on the final play of the first half and the Veteran was forced to sit out the second half with bruised ribs. Play from scrimmage Bell broke through right tackle for 56 Yards before he was knocked out of Bounds at the Lions five Yard line. Three plays later on fourth Down at the one Bell dived Over the Center Detroit 9 303 Tampa Bay 7000 Tarn Bell 1 run o Donoghu kick det Fig ricardo48 det-thompson9pass rom Landry kick failed det Fig Ricardo 47 det Fig ricardo27 a 64,445 15  
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