Cowboys win close one
By Ray Buck
Knight Ridder Newspapers
IRVING, Texas (KRT) — In a
"Monday Night Football" game that
followed suit for the NFL this week
end, the Dallas Cowboys won on
the final play of the game against the
Washington Redskins, 9-7, at Texas
Stadium.
Emmitt Smith ran four out of five
consecutive running plays for 3,5,3
and 13 yards to make it easy for
Cowboys kicker Tim Seder—who
had missed twice earlier—to drill a
26-yard field goal with time expired
and a six-game losing streak
snapped.
Don't look now, but the Cowboys
are not the dregs of the NFL ... or
even the NFC East. They're 1-4 after
their first regular-season victory
since Dec. 10. The Redskins are 0-5.
For most of the night, this game of
winless wonders lived down to ex
pectations, as the Cowboys and Red
skins treated the end zone like it had
barbed wire in front of it. After three
quarters, the Cowboys led, 3-0.
With 12 minutes, 16 seconds left,
the Redskins led, 7-3.
The turning point of game came
with 2:40 left when rookie defen
sive tackle John Nix, 240th pick
overall, forced a fumble by strip
ping Redskins running back
Stephen Davis, who was in the
process, it seemed, of putting the
game away.
"I'd been trying to do that all
night," Nix said. "We knew they'd
been fumbling the ball a lot. Some
body had to make a play. I guess it
was me."
The Redskins came into the game
with a league-leading 13 turnovers,
tied with Dallas. It was Washing
ton's only turnover of the game.
Safety George Teague admitted
that it was beginning to get nerve
racking as the Cowboys trailed 7-6
and the clock wound down during
an eight-play, 40-yard, late-game
drive by the Redskins.
"I was worried we wouldn't get
the ball," Teague said. "We were
waiting around too long."
Then Nix stripped Davis.
The Battle of the Beatens sudden
ly gained interest, if anyone was
still awake watching ABC.
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Foster’s 301 sparks UCLA win
By Joshua Mason
Daily Bruin (U. California-Los Angeles)
(U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES —
When Freddie Mitchell is at a loss
for words, something truly special
must be happening.
“What he’s done is amazing,”
Mitchell said, as he paced back and
forth on the UCLA sideline, just
seconds after former teammate De
Shaun Foster had scampered 92
yards for his fourth touchdown run
of the game. “I’ve never seen any
thing like this. I just don’t know
what to say.”
In a performance to remember,
Foster did more than quiet the fast
talking Mitchell. He also hushed a
Washington defense that hadn’t al
lowed a rushing touchdown since
the last time these two teams met.
“I just wanted to get out there
and run hard,” Foster said of his
fourth quarter spectacle. “As I was
turning the corner, it was just off to
the races.”
For Foster and the Bruins, the 92
yard run that gave UCLA a 35-13
lead epitomized what he has been
doing all season long: running for
daylight and not letting anyone
stop them along the way. As Foster
phrased it, they just wanted to
“show America” what the Bruins
were all about.
“I think he definitely made a
statement out there,” UCLA head
coach Bob Toledo said.
On 31 carries, Foster rushed for a
UCLA-record 301 yards and four
touchdowns, easily eclipsing his
previous career-high of 189 yards
against Alabama last season. It was
the strongest rushing performance
against the Huskies ever, and a
showing that will surely catapult
Foster to the forefront of the Heis
man race.
“I’m for team and individuals,”
Toledo said about the recent spot
light on Foster’s increasing Heis
man numbers. “I told this team that
players make plays and teams win
championships. If you’re going to
win as a team, the players need to
make big plays. And if you make
big plays, there’s an opportunity to
get those individual awards.”
The two blemishes on Foster’s
masterful performance came less
than a yard away from the end
zone. With 5:13 to play in the sec
ond quarter, the Huskies stopped a
red-zone drive after the ball slipped
out of Foster’s hands when line
backer Ben Mahdavi laid a hit on
him. In the third quarter, Foster had
another missed opportunity for the
end zone after a short 3rd-and-goal
run resulted in a two-yard loss that
set up a sack of UCLA quarterback
Cory Paus the following play.
“He fumbled that ball, but when
you’re fighting for extra yards like
that, you’re going to fumble some
balls,” Toledo said. “He definitely
made up for that mistake though.”
What were jeers from the home
crowd against Ohio State (Foster
fumbled the ball a career-high four
times in that contest), suddenly
transformed into chants of “Heis
man, Heisman,” from the Bruin
faithful. Don’t expect much to
change in the Bruin game plan the
rest of their Pac-10 schedule, partic
ularly the focus on letting Foster’s
golden legs carry them to the top.
“The two biggest things for any
team is to play good defense and
run the football,” Paus said.
“What did we do today? We ran
the ball, DeShaun had 300 yards,
and we played good defense.
That’s every coach’s formula to
win and we did it.”
Moyer, Martinez Hit Mariners past Cleveland, into ALCS
By Jose Miguel Romero
The Seattle Times
SEATTLE (KRT) — To get to the
American League Championship
Series for the second straight sea
son, the Seattle Mariners turned to
three of their most reliable players
in the Division Series through its
first four games — Jamie Moyer,
Edgar Martinez and Ichiro.
All three players, plus a major
contribution from shortstop Mark
McLemore both defensively and at
the plate, helped the Mariners de
feat Cleveland 3-1 yesterday in the
decisive Game 5 of the ALDS. So,
also, did the unflappable Seattle
bullpen, as the Mariners won by ex
celling in three of their most reli
able keys to victory — starting
pitching, relief pitching and two
out hitting.
Jamie Moyer baffled Cleveland
for the second time in five days,
winning his second game of the
postseason with a sparkling one
run, three-hit performance over six
innings. Moyer, a veteran left
hander unnerved by the impor
tance and pressure of the game, re
tired 10 in a row from the third
through the last out of the sixth in
ning. He also kept the Mariners in
the game throughout.
And when Moyer left the game,
the Mariners’ bullpen continued
the dominance. Jeff Nelson struck
out four in 1 2/3 innings and
Arthur Rhodes retired the only bat
ter he was asked to face. Kazu Sasa
ki earned his first save of the play
offs by retiring the side in order in
the ninth, completing the Mariners’
rally from a 2-1 series deficit to ad
vance to play either New York in
the ALCS.
When Juan Gonzalez grounded
out to end the game, the Mariners
gathered in the infield and em
braced each other in celebration as
47,867 fans roared for several min
utes.
It wasn’t easy, though the
Mariners got off to a good start.
Cleveland starter Chuck Finley
managed to keep from repeating his
first-inning performance of Game 2,
in which he allowed four runs,
though his control wasn’t sharp.
The pitcher threw 40 pitches in the
first three innings, running into
trouble in the bottom of the second.
The Mariners loaded the bases
with no outs on consecutive walks
to Edgar Martinez and John Olerud.
Martinez, in vintage form, drew his
base on balls after facing an 0-2
count to lead off the inning. Two
batters later, Mike Cameron was hit
on the right upper leg with the first
pitch he saw from Finley.
It seemed, however, that Finley
would work his way out of the jam
after striking out Dan Wilson on
three pitches and then David Bell.
The next batter was Mark
McLemore, who had just one hit in
the series up to that point.
That lone hit was the go-ahead
RBI single in the seventh inning of
Game 4 on Sunday, and one day
later, McLemore delivered again.
He lashed the first pitch from Fin
ley into left field. Marty Cordova,
the Cleveland left fielder, raced in
to try and snare the sinking drive,
but the ball landed in front of him
by mere inches. Cordova trapped
the ball while still on the ground,
and McLemore clapped and
pumped his fist as Martinez and
Olerud scored Seattle’s first two
runs of the game.
Fortunately for the Mariners, all
of their base runners were in mo
tion on the play, allowing the not
so-speedy Olerud to make it home.
Cameron, one of the Mariners’
fastest players, took third base.
The excitement wasn’t over. Just
as fans were sitting down after cele
brating McLemore’s hit, Finley
caught McLemore too far off the
first base bag and threw over for an
attempted pickoff play. Jim Thome,
the first baseman, threw to Omar
Vizquel at shortstop, who saw
Cameron break for home plate and
threw to the catcher, Einar Diaz.
The ensuing collision knocked the
stocky Diaz over backward, but he
held onto the ball for the final out
of the inning.
When next Cleveland came to
bat, in the top of the third inning,
Travis Fryman led off with a double
off the left-field wall. With one out,
Diaz drew a walk from Moyer, put
ting runners at first and third.
Kenny Lofton, mired in a l-for-16
series slump, singled up the middle
to cut the Mariners’ lead in half.
Then, Vizquel bunted toward third
base, and Bell mishandled the ball
as he attempted to throw to first.
The bases were loaded with one
out, and the dangerous Roberto
Alomar came to bat with a chance
to knock Moyer out of the game and
give Cleveland a major advantage
with a lead.
Alomar had grounded into an in
ning-ending double play in the
first, and much to the delight of the
Safeco Field throng, he hit sharp
ground ball to Bell, who started an
other rally-killing exchange, Bell to
Bret Boone to Olerud and still, a 2-1
Seattle lead.
Moyer survived and thrived
thereafter. His pitches painted the
corners of the plate and thoroughly
frustrated the Cleveland batters.
Cleveland Manager Charlie
Manuel, who had already been
working home plate umpire Mark
Hirschbeck for a less liberal strike
zone, fumed from the bench as
Moyer struck out Gonzalez, Ellis
Burks and Jim Thome, all looking.
Gonzalez and Burks offered opin
ions at Hirschbeck, who neverthe
less continued to give Moyer the
benefit of borderline strike calls be
cause of Moyer’s good control.
Moyer, never known for striking
out the opposition with regularity,
punched out six before leaving the
game after the sixth inning, five of
those on called third strikes.
Finley, too, did enough to keep
Cleveland within striking distance,
though he lasted the same amount
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