European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 02, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday septembers. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 21 Blue jays tie o s for Lead by the associated press Toronto Dau Stieh won for the fifth time in six decisions and George Bell hit a two run Homer thursday leading to Ronto past the Chicago while sox 5-1 for the Blue jays ninth Victory in to games. The win coupled Wuh Baltimore s 1i 0 loss to Cleveland thursday night moved Toronto into a first Polacc tie with the orioles. The Blue jays not Benin first since May 17 Slich. 14-8, had pitched his fifth Ca reer on Hiller aug. 1ft against Milwaukee. This time he alluded four hits in six innings struck out two and walked two Jim Acker followed with two witless innings and Tom la cake pitched the ninth to finish the combined six hitter la cake. Who struck out one. Has 40 strikeouts in his last 25 innings. Steve Rosenberg -i-10. Gave up five runs and nine hits in his second com plete game of the season. Bell s eighth inning Homer his 16th of the season extended his hitting Streak to 22 games a club record and the longest in the american league this season. The attendance of 44,422 gave the Blue jays their highest season total Ever at 2.782.536. Chicago went ahead in the first when Lance Johnson reached on third base Man Kelly Gruber s error and scored on Ivan Calderon s double. Toronto came Back with three runs in the Bottom of the inning. Cookie Wilson opened with an infield single and score Don Manny Lee s triple. Lee scored on Bell s groundnut to first. Truber doubled see Al on Page 86 Blue jays Catcher Pat Borders tans out while sox runner Dun i Boston who tries to score from third on a Ron Karkovice single. Irish defeat Virginia 36-13 by Rick Warner East Rutherford. . A yes Virginia. Lou Holt must have been kidding. After losing seven top players before the season started the notre Dame coach said his defending National Cham pions were not a top 20 team. But the second ranked fighting Irish sure looked like champions thursday night As Thuv routed Virginia 36-1.1 in the Kickoff classic. Tony Rice guided the fighting Irish to touchdowns on their first five posses Sions and they coasted the rest of the Way against a team expected to contend for the Atlantic coast conference title. I Don t know if we could have played belter than we did in the first 25 min utes Holtz said. Virginia coach George Welsh whose team finished last season with five consecutive victories also was impressed with notre Dame they re very Good but i m not sure we re As bad As we looked in the first half he said we got dominated and i think it could have been a lot the game was All but Over at halftime after notre Dame raced to a 33-0 Lead before a sellout crowd of 77.323 at giants stadium. Rice one of the preseason favourites for he Heisman trophy completed six of seven passes for 125 Yards and ran for 34 Yards and a touchdown in the first Nail. He played Only three series in the second half As Holt substituted freely and finished with 70 Yards Rushing and 147 passing. It was easy for us because we made it easy Rice said. The first team said let s get the bail in the end zone and we notre Dame Oul gained Virginia 333-60 in the first half and led in first Downs 16-3. In fact the fighting Irish nearly matched the Cavaliers total first half yardage on one play a 52-Yard pass from Rice to Raghib Ismail that set up a 2 Yard scoring run by Rodney Culver late in the first Quarter. Virginia meanwhile failed to Cross Midfield in the opening half. About the Only thing notre Dame did wrong was miss an extra Point and a two Point con version. The Cavaliers scored two touchdowns in the fourth Quarter and actually out gained the fighting Irish 171-144 in the second half. But it was much too late to Stop notre Dame from winning its 13th straight game the longest Streak in the country. Obviously we Don t one a lot of depth Holtz said. I was disappointed that our second unit was t Able to move the Ball and allowed Virginia to Domi Nate us in the second half. We have a Long Way to go before we re a an sports Contil Wop in turn fluid television baseball new York mils it san Francisco or Cleu
