European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 14, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes monday october 14, 1991 National league playoffs braves Tomahawk pirates 10-3 by Ben Walker Atlanta apr with 50,905 frenetic fans swinging tomahawks Greg Olson Ron Gant anti Sid Bream swung Home run bats As the braves won a postseason game in Atlanta for the first time Ever pounding the pirates 10-3 saturday for a 2-1 Edge in the National league championship series. Not a first pitch Home run by Orlando Merced not John Smiley s great record in the daytime not anything could deny the braves and their boosters. A this Park has been Good to us All year a Olson said. Quot we really did t hit the Ball Well in Pittsburgh and we were hoping we would come Back to Atlanta and hit the Ball like we be been All  they did. Olson connected to Cap a four run first inning Gant homered in the seventh and after Alejandro Pena again rushed to the Rescue Bream hit a three run shot in the eighth. By then the braves War chant was louder than Ever. It started a half hour before the game and if the pirates did not know they were in trouble then it did no to take Long to find out. John Smoltz baseball a Best Pitcher since the Allstar came struggled but survived to win his seventh straight decision. The fans led Turner had an old fashioned Southern Ball. Pena who preserved Atlanta s 1-0 Victory in game 2 by keeping the tying run at third base relieved with the bases loaded in the eighth and the score 7-3. He retired Merced on a foul pop on a 3-1 pitch and got Jay Bell who also homered earlier to look at a called third strike. Pena perfect in 13 save chances since the mets traded him to Atlanta on aug. 29, ran off the Field and so did the rest of the braves. That got the fans even More excited and they began their Celebration an inning Early. Pittsburgh s loss further compounded its problems. Game 1 Winner Doug Drabek Wasny table to Start sunday night because of a hamstring injury and pirates manager Jim Leyland said his Ace is a a iffy Tor game 5 monday. Instead. Randy Tomlin 8-7 was to face Atlanta Scharlie  15-13. Meanwhile the pirates the Best Road team in the majors this year at 46-32, fell to 0-7 in Atlanta As Barry Bonds Bobby Bonilla and Andy Van Slyke tailed to drive in any runs for the second straight game. That was partly because of Smoltz. He was baseball Stop Winner since the All Star break going 12-2, and he won his seventh consecutive decision. Smoltz overcame a cold and Mercedes line drive Homer on the first pitch a the first Home run off Smoltz in %16 innings a before leaving in the seventh after Bell s Solo shot. Vav 3 i / \ s Quot a Quot a it f Atlanta s Lonnie Smith steal second saturday As Pittsburgh a j a Bell backhands a wide throw from Mike Lavaliere. A momentum and emotion run in funny ways and right now its on our Side a Smoltz said. Games in Atlanta usually Are High scoring and Leyland picked Smiley a 20-game Winner to Start because of his 8-1 record in Day games. But before Smiley got to look at the braves he and the rest of the pirates saw the fans. The drum beats began a half hour before the game and the chants and tomahawks swung into action. Nearly every Pittsburgh player went to the top step of the dugout to Survey the scene. Smiley had said he would use a Tunnel vision Quot to Block out the crowd. Instead the Only Tunnel he saw was the one leading to the showers. Mercedes Homer quieted the fans for a moment. Then with two outs in the Bottom of the first the Brives broke Loose just like always. Atlanta which scored Only two runs at three Rivers stadium this week had scored in the first inning in eight of its last 13 Home games. The braves did it again when Gant David Justice and Brian Hunter hit consecutive doubles. Then Olson homered deep to left Field and circled the bases with arms spread wide. It came on his sixth wedding anniversary and marked his first Home run since aug. 10. All seven of Olson a Home runs this year have come in Atlanta. Lonnie Smith 0 for 10 in the series was hit by a pitch with two outs in the second inning. He was caught off base by Smiley but Merced threw wildly to second base and Smith later scored when no batting Champion Terry Pendleton doubled for his first hit of the playoffs. Rafael Belliard singled Home a run in the third for a 6-1 Lead before the pirates chipped away. Barry Bonds singled in the fourth stole second and scored on Linda a single and Bell homered in the seventh. Gant got that last run Back with a Solo shot off Bob Kipper in the seventh. And after Pena shut Down Pittsburgh in the eighth Bream a former pirates Star put it away with a three run drive in the Bottom half off Rosario Rodriguez. Smoltz gave up eight hits in 6v5 innings. He walked two and struck out  storms into Csc semifinals by Walt morr1ssette Staft writer Rhein main a Germany Hawathia Porter hooked up with Glen Stokes on a 58-Yard touchdown pass play for the winning Points sunday in Rhein Mains 26-13 Continental sports conference playoff Victory Over Lindsey. The depending Usall champions 7-4 continue their quest for their fourth straight Csc title next sunday at Sembach 8-3where the tigers crushed i it Lull to by a 411-6 count in the other Csc quarterfinal sunday. The rockets broke a close game open after an Early Gamble by flyers coach Winston guess backfired. Stokes catch and tackle breaking run for the score gave Rhein main a 16-13 Lead with 9 56 left in the first half. Guess had a 4lh-and-2 at his own 47 with 8 39 left in the half and decided to go for it. But skip Wrights run up the Middle was stopped by rockets line. A a they be been giving us the Middle All Day Quot guess explained. Quot we be been getting 2-2yards up the Middle. I thought we could gel 21 Yards that time. 1 thought we got the first Down but we got a bad  Rhein main cashed in the break when Shawn Lee caught a 32-Yard pass from Porter and was knocked out of Bounds at the 2. Charlie Harris took it in on the next play and Jason Manning s extra Point made it 23-13. Manning boomed a 39-Yard Field goal with 10 07 left in the third Quarter for the final Points. Lindsey scored All its Points late in the first Quarter. Skip Wright scored on a 57-Yard run with 56 seconds left Ray Mcpherson kicked the Pat and Teddy Froneberger picked off Porter and returned it 14 Yards for the touchdown with 24 seconds left in the Quarter. But the rocket defense shut out the flyers for the last three periods and held them to 130 total Yards 54 Rushing. Linebacker Marty Andres fired the rocket defense with three sacks five Solo tackles a forced Fumble and the Fumble recovery that set up Manning a 39-Yard Field goal. Champ Johnson had six solos and an interception for Rhein main Jay Greg son had five solos a forced Fumble and a Fumble recovery and head a oath line Baeker ferry Maki had four solos. Manning also averaged 39.6 Yards on six punts to help keep the flyers backed up. Lindsey also lost All three of its fumbles which killed key drives. Andres said Rhein Mains Success began in practice this week. A their offence is pretty much the same As ours a Andres said Quot so we spent a lot of time looking at it. We be been practising real hard As a team and its showing  Rhein Mains Steven Robinson scored on a 3-Yard run with 3 19 left in the first Quarter and led All rushers with 94 Yards in 21 carries. Porter completed 4 of 17 passes for 129 Yards and backup Dennis Williams completed a 25-Yard pass in five tries. The rockets had 271 total Yards 151 on the ground. Ray Williams was 9 of 18 passing for 57 Yards and an interception and Anthony Leaphart was 1 for 7 for 19 Yards with two kickoffs. Wright led Lindsey with 57 Yards in seven carries and Lindsey a Don Johnson caught six passes for 41 Yards. Froneberger led Lindsey s defense with six solos and three assists. James Mcgee Chris Salter and  Sessoms each had six solos and two assists. Salter and Sessoms each had a sack and Darrel Keith picked off a pass. Quot Rhein main is a Good team but there s no Way we could compete without our top three  guess said. Armond Dotsey Andrew Jetter and Morris Boulai missed the game because of duty commitments. Lindsey air station is scheduled to close in 1993, but guess said the flyers will a suit up for one last season in 1992 and hopefully i la still be the  in the other Csc playoff game sunday Sembach 40, Hahn 6 Sembach Germany a David Mathis passed for four touchdowns and 176 Yards sunday to Lead the tigers past Hahn. Denic Tris Wright scored on an 8-Yard run before Mathis in timbered his passing Arm and went to Arthur Crockam for 20 Yards Joe Brown for 10 and 20-Yard ads and after Ryan Gates scored on a 50-Yard run Mathis connected with Mike Stanford for a 9-yarder to wrap up the scoring. Sembach pounded out 355 Yards Rushing with Gates setting the Pace with 163 on 10 carries. He was followed by James Warren who had 59 on 8 carries and Greg Goodrich who had 46 on 7 totes. Mathis was 12 for 26 on his passing with one interception. Wendell Simms completed 8 of 13 passes for 103 Yards for Hahn