Sports
Saturday's action means Sunday’s bruises
Aches and pains don’t go away
By Todd Paz
Of the Emerald
Duck linebacker Dwight Ford
is in good spirits during a
Thursday afternoon practice
He easily struts through his
defensive assignments in
preparation for Saturday's
game against USC The Ducks
had just come off a strong effort
against top-ranked ’Wash
ington, and Ford was look
ing forward to the Trojans.
The scene changes. Sunday
morning Ford has a noticeable
limp and looks a bit dazed as he
stands in his street clothes
watching the rest of the Ducks
stretch out Ford suffered a
lower leg injury in the first
quarter of the Duck's 38-7 loss
to USC and was forced to sit out
the rest of the game
McArthur Court The center
diagnoses and treats injuries
"Personally, I have had a lot
of ankle troubles. Usually, Sun
day I can't walk Your ankle is so
sore, you don't want to do
anything, but you know it (going
to the treatment center) is the
only way you will get better My
love of football gets me out"
Zinke grimaced
Whether the team won or lost
has a lot to do with how a player
deals with "the day after the
game" syndrome
"You have a pretty good
feeling if you accomplished
something, but there is always
that empty feeling if you lose,"
said Todd Bland, sophomore
fullback.
For some players, like injury
plagued quarterback Mike Jor
gensen, the next day can be
The morning after is like ‘16
rounds in a boxing match. Your
back pops, you have a headache
and you just want to lay in bed all
day.’
It was like going ‘into a street
fight, giving it all I had and
coming out of it with nothing,
but your pride," Ford said
Sunday is a day most college
football players do not look for
waro to, especially after a losing
effort. It’s the day that the
bumps and bruises of the past
day's action come to a crashing,
painful realization. Center
Ryan Zinke described the
morning after as though he went
through "16 rounds in a boxing
match. Your back pops, you
have a headache and you just
want to lay in bed all day.”
For Zinke, the morning after
just getting out of bed can be a
major struggle And, as for many
others, it entails going to the
treatment center located at
r
“tough” and the emotions ot a
game against a big rival like
Washington or USC can stay
with him until the next day Jor
gensen described the mental
aggravation of the day after as
“a little broken up, since we
came so close to beating the
Huskies and losing to them in
the end " Oregon led Washing
ton 21-17 in the fourth quarter,
before falling 37-21.
With the Duck's dismal start,
the morning afters of the 1982
campaign have been painful for
the entire team Jorgensen
termed the atmosphere in the
locker room on Sundays as
"quiet."
Ford said, "If you were win
ning and you play a hard game,
it eases the pain a lot more from
Oregon trainers huddle over Mike Walters after the senior defensive end took a hard shot.
the bumps and bruises. When
you lose a game, sometimes you
feel sorry for your little aches
and pains and tend to nurse
them a little bit more."
Middle linebacker Chris Cos
grove, said the morning after is
"mentally tiring, especially after
losing It is sad and it really hurts
since it is my senior season."
The morning after isn’t easy
for the coaches either,
especially after an 0-5 start
"Mentally it has an effect on
you." said Oregon coach Rich
Brooks “You go out and
prepare and put a lot of time and
effort and energy into some
thing and the results don't turn
out the way you want them to It
(the next day) is a little bit on the
down side, but you have to get
over it and get on with the next
one If you go five weeks without
a real emotional uplift, it
becomes a little bit harder "
For some players, the
morning after can be dealt with,
but the overtones of the
previous day's play can always
be seen Quarterback Kevin
Lusk summed up the general
feeling, "It isn't too bad, it is just
your pride that hurts the most "
Milwaukee, St. Louis gain World Series
Brewers never quit
McGee leads Cards
MILWAUKEE (AP) - The Milwaukee
Brewers capped baseball's greatest
comeback, riding a two-run seventh
inning single by a struggling Cecil
Cooper to a 4-3 victory over the
California Angels in Game 5 of the
American League Championship Se
ries to win the pennant and earn their
first shot at the World Series
Their backs against the wall in the
closing days of the season, the Brewers
turned adversity into victory by winning
the last three games of this best-of-five
playoff No other team had accom
plished that feat in the 13 years of
league championship play In fact, only
one other team - the 1972 Detroit
Tigers - had tied a series 2-2 after
losing the first two
Needing to win on the final day of the
regular season in order to capture their
first AL division title, the Brewers did
Needing two good pitching perfor
mances to win Games 3 and 4 and tie
the series, the Brewers got them
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And, in the deciding game of the
series, needing one of their best hitters
to break out of a series-long slump, he
did
With his team trailing 3-2 in the
seventh inning, Cooper came to bat
with two out and the bases loaded after
singles by Charlie Moore and Jim
Gantner and walk to Robin Young He
had only two hits in his previous 19
series at-bats With the count one and
one and facing the California stopper,
right-hander Luis Sanchez, Cooper
slapped a single into left field that
delivered the tying and go-ahead runs
and capped the Brewers’ historic
comeback
The pennant came in Harvey Kuenn's
first season as a big league manager
and it had to have provided the former
big league shortstop and former batting
coach with some measure of console
tion for his tribulations of the past six
years
ATLANTA (AP) - Rookie Willie
McGee drilled a two-run triple and a
home run as St Louis charged into the
1982 World Series, clinching the Na
tional League pennant with a 6-2 vic
tory over the Atlanta Braves Sunday
night
The triumph, with the help of another
door-shutting relief job by Bruce Sutter,
completed a three-game sweep of the
National League Championship Series
for the Cardinals and put them In the
World Series for the first time since
1968 It is the 13th NL pennant for St
Louis, which hosts the first two games
of the World Series against the Amer
ican League champion Milwaukee
Brewers beginning Tuesday night
Joaquin Andujar. the National
League's pitcher of the month in Sep
tember when he won five games and
had a 0 80 earned run average, throt
tled the Braves on just two hits over the
first six innings But he tired in the
seventh, surrendering both Braves
runs on tour hits betore Sutter, who led
the league with 36 saves, came on to
nail down the victory and the pennant
tor the Cardinals
The Cardinals gave Andu]ar a com
fortable early cushion, knocking out
Atlanta starter Rick Camp in the second
inning with four quick runs in a rally
started by Keith Hernandez, who
opened the inning with a single to left
field
Camp got two strikes on the next
batter. Darrell Porter, but lost him. is
suing a base on balls
When George Hendrick followed with
a single to right, Hernandez dashed
home with the game's first run That
brought pitching coach Bob Gibson to
the mound for a word with Camp The
advice didn't do much good because
McGee drilled the next pitch up the
alley in right-center field, scoring Porter
and Hendrick The ball got to the wall
on two bounces and McGee zipped into
third with his second triple of the series.
Monday, October 11,1982