European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 23 Phillies shut Down dodgers from press dispatches Philadelphia Shane Rawley pitched his first National league shutout and doubled Home a run thursday night As the Philadelphia Phillies beat the los Angeles dodgers the who had 22 hits in a 156 Victory Over the Phillies wednesday were held to four hits by he National league last pitched a shutout on july for the new York Yankees against Mineso it was the fifth straight Victory and fourth Complete game of the season for he struck out four and walked Jerry was the snap Ping a personal three game winning Reuss allowed 10 hits in seven in the Phillies took a 10 Lead in the first inning when Juan Samuel lined his Lith triple of the season and scored on Glenn Wilsons sacrifice Philadelphia added another run in the fourth when John Russell doubled and came Home on raw Leys double to right the Phillies turned three double plays to support in other games thursday mets giants 0 new York Terry a last minute replacement for the scheduled pitched a and Darryl Strawberry knocked in four runs with a Homer and a single to Lead new York Over san Wally who came into the a photo Shane Rawley first no shutout game batting Only right handed but went 3 for scored two runs and drove in one off Vida Blue allowed nine hits and struck out 10 in 6 a right handed Learned Only 20 minutes before game time that he would replace Sid who was taken out of the lineup with dizzy Leach responded by striking out walking one and checking the giants on three singles in Only his second Start of the cardinals astros 1 Houston Pinch hitter Mike Jor Gensen walked with the bases loaded to bring in the winning run in the ninth in Ning As Louis Defeated the astros led Houston starter Phil Niekro had retired 13 straight batters and had a four hitter going into the Tommy Herr opened the inning by reach ing first on an error by first baseman Glenn reliever Dave the second of four Houston pitchers in the struck out Jack then Herr went to second on a balk and Pinch hitter Tito Landrum walked off reliever Jeff Pinch hitter Brian Harper singled to bring Home Herr and tie the game Terry Pendleton followed with another single off Calhoun before Bill Dawley sur rendered the walk to the third Pinch hitter of the cardinals reliever Ricky won after one inning of Ken Dayley went the final inning and picked up his 10th pirates reds 1 Pittsburgh Rick Rhoden pitched eight innings of shutout Ball and singled Home a run to Lead Pittsburgh Over reds player manager Pete Rose got a single in three a bats and is now 13 hits Short of breaking to Cobbs career record of gave up six walked three and struck out six before leaving the game with the bases loaded and no outs in the reliever Rod Scurry yielded a sacrifice Fly to Tony but got the last three outs for his second padres 0 Steve Garvey doubled Home two runs in the third inning to sup port the four hit pitching of Andy Haw Kins and Pace san Diego Over the loss was the fourth in a Row for the who have been shut out in three of those walked two and struck out four while completing his third game of the the padres scored two unearned runs off loser Floyd in the third with two Tony Gwynn was Safe on a throwing error by Montreal shortstop Hubie Graig Nettles put Ting runners at first and Garvey drove both runners Home when he doubled off the Brightfield in the Nettles walked and Gar vey Youmans wild pitched the runners to second and third and Terry Kennedy followed with a single to make it cubs braves 2 Atlanta Thad Bosley hit a Pinch hit Home run Over the Brightfield Fence leading off the ninth inning As Chi Cago beat it was Bosl cys fifth Homer of the season and his second As a Pinch he leads the National league in Pinch hits with Bosley Homer came on a 32 pitch from reliever Rick the Chicago third in a Row Over went to reliever Ron Merid Lee Smith worked the ninth in Ning to gain his 27th it was the ninth loss in 10 games for Haven ots 737 have not become healthy by Herschel Nissenson a sports writer if its True that something approaching parity has arrived in College it has somehow managed to avoid places like Teasel Oregon state and the word at those schools is parody rather than last they were a combined they have not had More than seven wins among them since the intervening years included debacles such As 539 1977 and 6371 6381 638 1981 and 6 among they have not enjoyed a winning season since Northwestern went 74 in Teasel which Hast won More than two games since a Heady 4 7 Mark in and Oregon state both recorded their last winning campaigns in rices ongoing string of 21 consecutive no winning seasons the owls were 64 Back in 1963 is an Mcaa going strictly by consecutive losing sea sons a year is merely a no winning Oregon state is the Leader at with Northwestern and Teasel paso at 13 and Rice at among other Ign minies suffered Dur ing the lean Northwestern set a Majo College record by losing 34 consecutive games Between the second contest of the 1979 when the wildcats beat Wyoming and the fourth game of when they pounded Northern Illi Nois the wildcats also went from through a total of 54 without winning on the they manage to play a scoreless tie at Illinois in the 1978 Northwestern failed to win a game in 1980 and 1981 and had Only one lonesome Victory in 1977 and the last three years have been virtual wonders by comparison 38 in 1982 Dennis Green was named big ten coach of the year for that achievement and 29 in both 1983 and during its no winning Rice has broken even twice 55 in 1970 and 551 in and despite an 091 record in 1968 and 011 in the owls went positively bonkers in 1964 1967 1973 1980 56 and 1981 How bad has it been Ray Alborn had said that the turning Point of the 1982 season was the opening he was Southwest Ern the opening game oppo was supposed to be a be fore Alborn had taken a deep uses Clarence Verdin returned the open ing Kickoff for a for sheer it is hard to match Teasel Over the last 10 the miners Are 14101 for a winning percentage of they were flushed by the Success of that Giddy 47 Mark in 1974 which came on the heels on an 011 disaster in so Why is the 1985 Media guide entitled Miner magic one reason is Steps first Redshirt program a year what is helping us now is being Able to get enough players Here to have a Good intr squad game every thursday for the says coach Bill another is the conditioning we have continued to improve on our this group could go out and have some collisions and yet come Back the next time and scrimmage we scrimmage often and still had people on the Field instead of the sidelines with injun if we tried to hit two straight we probably would have had 30 peo ple for the fifth year in a Northwest terns games will be broadcast by radio station wait in is the real wait nearing an end will the 10year Mark of a close second to Steps go up or Down Green refers to 1984 As the year of missed we were in More games than we could have won three of our first four games last year if it haunt been for missed the goal for 1985 is to get Over that to take advantage of those opportunities we missed a year weve made a significant amount of i think it is realistic we can win four of our first five games this that Hast happened since but the wildcats open the 1985 season at which has had Only five winning seasons in the last after a trip to mis Northwestern faces Northern Illi Indiana and last years two victories came against Indiana and theres a Clear understanding of How to be successful at says who is in his fifth were not going to let our opportunities get away this Northwestern strength will be the offensive which Green Calls the Best offensive line weve had by far since Ive been Oregon states 10year record is 1593 Over the past six it is even worse the string of failures began after 11 consecutive non losing seasons the beavers have a new Dave who led Idaho state to Mcaa division Ian championship two years Kragthorpe was offensive coordinator at Brigham Young from so it is a foregone conclusion that Oregon state will throw the says Kragthorpe its hard for me to make any both in terms of since 1 want Here last and in terms of How it stacks up in the pac10 a six year Mark of because i Haven coached in the pac10 trying to be we Are a ways away from having an outstanding football rices string of losing seasons actually began under the legendary Jess whose Overall record in 27 seasons there was 14412410 including four Southwest conference titles and two Cotton bowl but Only 8211 in his last three it continued under to Hagen 12 Al Conover Homer Rice Alborn 1353 last Watson Brown Brown got his Start in coaching after an injury temporarily stopped his playing Ca reer at he worked As a student assistant with the commodores and met who was Vanduys athletic director and Golf coach in before i was i was thinking about becoming a sports Brown i guess the time i spent with coach Neely changed my he May have had second thoughts when he got a look at the Rice team he inner Good football teams win with their Junior and senior Brown said upon his Arri but Rice has been forced to try to win with their freshmen and were working to try to change that in the we went out this Spring to accomplish one major thing and that was to get better on we we rent just last last we were dead i think we can get even though were still very were going to be even More experienced and Essen we have All 11 starters Back on de sense because by the last game we were starting All behind Oregon state and the list of losers Over the last 10 years includes Texas Christian 22 but a Bluebonnet bowl bid last Eastern Michigan but an even worse in the last Kansas state Virginia with a peach bowl trip in Kent state 35 and Vanderbilt there Hope for the Down the second longest no winning Streak belongs to Iowa 19 years from the last four years have produced a 32151 including a big ten championship and four bowl