European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 21 sooner top a preseason sports by Herschel Nissenson a sports writer the Oklahoma who were ready to claim the 1984 National championship had they beaten washing ton in the Orange Are the preseason Choice to win it All in defending Champion Brigham Young just made the top in wide open with 10 of the 105 division i a teams receiving at least one firs place Oklah Ina outdistanced last years preseason pick in the associated press the sooner received 23 of 60 firs place votes and of a possible Points from a nationwide panel of sports writers and Auburn received 13 firs place votes and Points in balloting results announced saturday the preseason poll also raised the possibility that a team on probation could win the National championship since there Are two such teams among the top Southern methodist is third with three firs place ballots and 924 followed by with seven firsts and 837 and with firsts and 788 both sum of the Southwest conference and Florida of the Southeastern conference Are ineligible for their league championships and bowl games this rounding out the top ten Are sixth place Southern California with two firs place votes and 754 Points three and 738 Ohio 709 and by with one firs place ballot and 608 the remaining four firs place votes were split be tween and Oklahoma coach Barry whose sooner finished sixth last want thrilled to be1 1 this but noted that weve All got to Start there arc just a lot of unknowns about our quarterback and the defensive secondary Are major our front line people Are Good on defense and i think pretty Good on the offensive Switzer said being ranked 1 just raises the expectations of your it creates so much anticipation and they feel so disappointed when it Doest they ought to know that unbeaten seasons just dont happen much any since the a began a preseason poll in Only six teams ranked 1 at the Start of the season have won the National Tennessee did it in Michigan stale in Oklahoma in 1974 and 1975 and Alabama in Oklahoma also was the preseason pick in 1977 and finished Auburn wound up 14th last in three of the last four National champions Clemson in Miami in Ami Myu last year were not in the preseason top because the was switched from 14 to 7 for the sooner will not play their opener until the varsity reports monday for preseason the Day classes meaning the sooner will have no two Aday prac Tice last years final top ten consisted of washing Boston Oklahoma and Southern trailing 1 1 Illinois and Washington in the preseason second ten Are notre Oklahoma South Penn Florida stale and the final 1984 second ten consisted of South Caroli Ohio Florida Miami Kentucky and in 53 teams received at least one top Twenty the preseason rankings minus such traditional Powers As Michigan and Texas reflect the competitiveness in College football these Texas missed the preseason rankings for the first time since 1977 while Alabama and Michigan failed to make it for the first time since Stieb pitches jays Over Chison 63 from press dispatches Chicago Dave Stieb came within three outs of pitching the first no hitter in Toronto Blue jays but that not new to Ive had a few like said the hard throwing right hander who was knocked out of the game on successive Home runs in the ninth inning saturday night by Rudy Law and Bryan Little be fore the Blue jays wrapped up a 63 Victo Ive done that said i took a no hitter into the eighth inning against Oakland and Tony armas hit a Stieb said he was aware of the no hitter i Start thinking about it in the third then the fourth and the he you try to keep going As Long As you who now has a 123 career record against the White sox and is 81 in com Iskey i want surprised i pitched that i dont know but Ive always done Well against this after the homers by Law and Gary Lavelle relieved Stieb and was greeted by a Homer by Harold the three successive homers tied a White sox record set by Carlton Tom Paciorek and Greg Luzinski against California in orioles As 3 John Shelby tie breaking two run single in the top of the 11th inning enabled Baltimore to defeat Oakland for its ninth Victory in 11 Larry sheets started the inning with a single off reliever Keith walks to Pinch hitter Jim Dwyer and Lee Lacy Between Fly outs loaded the bases before Shelby hit a ground single into right just past the outstretched Glove of first baseman Dusty winning Pitcher Don hurled two innings of shutout Relief and Sammy Stewart pitched the Lith for his eighth he allowed a run on Dwayne Mur phys triple and Steve hendersons rain in Cleveland Cleveland the scheduled doubleheader Between the Cleveland indians american league and the Milwaukee Brewers was rained out saturday the games were rescheduled As part of two on Moose Haas and Danny Darwin Are the probable pitchers for to be opposed by Tom Waddell and Ramon the clubs will also play a doubleheader twins red sox 0 Boston Dave Engle scored on Bruce hurts wild pitch in the fifth in Ning and Mike Smithson fired a six hitter saturday to Lead Minnesota Over walked Only two Bat ters in going the distance for the fourth time this season and sending the red sox to their eighth loss in their last nine games and 14th in their last the right hander struck out five in pitching his third shut out of the allowed five tigers Angels 7 Chet Lemon delivered a Homer and a double to drive in five runs and Lance Parrish added a pair of homers for three More Bis saturday to Power Detroit rout of Jack scattered four walked two and struck out four Over eight Chuck Gary pitched the royals rangers 2 Kansas City George Brett drove in four runs with a double and Home run and Bret Saberhagen won his sixth straight game As Kansas City turned Back who gave up eight hits and struck out seven before departing after six raised his season Mark to tying new Yorks Ron Guidry for the most victories in the american Yankees mariners 3 Seattle Don Mattingly drove in two runs saturday night to Lead new York Over Seattle for the Yankees 16th Victory in their last 18 the Victory enabled the Yankees to re main four games behind the Toronto Blue who beat the Chicago White sox saturday in the american league East world champs a photo Youyong the Pitcher for the South gets a big hug from his woo Duck after winning the Little league world in the final game saturday at Yung threw a on hitter As the koreans beat Mexico at left is Seoul shortstop Yonghyuk Seoul beats wins la world series a South won the 39th an Nual Little league world series sat urday with a 71 Victory Over after putting together two big innings and getting one hit pitching from Youyong it was the second straight year that a team from Seoul captured the Little league title and Only the second time a City has produced consecutive championship asian teams have won 15 of the last 19 world which have been held for 11to 13yearolds in Little leagues Birthplace since saturdays the first without a attracted a crowd of to Lamade stadium that saw the koreans score three times in the first and four More in the who won souls series walked just one and struck out a Border City that played in the West Region for 22 years before reaching the series for the first time this Defeated Staten Island 63 and
