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SECTION E NBA E2 HIGH SCHOOLS E3 SPORTS OPEN SEASON E10 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2007 R ED S OX 1 2 , I NDIANS 2 ALCS GAME 6 ■ SERIES TIED, 3-3 ■ WP: SCHILLING; LP: CARMONA All for one

CHARLES KRUPA/The J.D. Drew drills a 3-1 pitch to straight-away center field for a with two outs in the first inning, propelling the Sox to the Game 6 win.

Red Sox vs. Indians All games on Fox Sox storm to decisive Game 7 Schill, Sox were made Game 1: Red Sox 10, Indians 3 Game 2: Indians 13, Red Sox 6 By JIMMY GOLEN games than anybody over the regular Game 3: Indians 4, Red Sox 2 Associated Press writer season, two teams that beat up each for moments like these Game 4: Indians 7, Red Sox 3 — From the brink of elimi- other over the past week,” Indians nation and the depths of a yearlong said. “That’s the BOSTON — It was perhaps the only Game 5: Red Sox 7, Indians 1 slump, J.D. Drew helped the Boston way it should be. Everyone should be outcome less likely than J.D. Drew, Game 6: Red Sox 12, Indians 2; Red Sox force a Game 7. excited.” 2-for-17 with the bases loaded in the Series tied, 3-3 The struggling Red Sox A third consecutive victory would regular season, swinging on a 3-1 x-Tonight: Indians (Westbrook 6-9) a grand slam and drove in five runs put Boston in the for the count. at Red Sox (Matsuzaka 15-12), 8:23 and, behind yet another postseason first time since 2004, when it rallied Ten runs in the first three innings. gem from , Boston bat- from a 3-0 deficit in the ALCS to beat Seven off Fausto Carmona, meaning More coverage tered the Indians 12-2 Sat- the en route to its Cleveland’s Big Two went an emphatic JON COUTURE urday night to tie the AL champion- first title in 86 years. ■ The season now sits on 0-for-4 on the biggest stage of their At the ALCS ship series at three games apiece. After stumbling in his previous out- the right shoulder of Daisuke “We needed tonight’s game, we ing, Schilling came back to show why careers. Eight RBIs from the bottom Matsuzaka. E6 half of the Boston order, destroying Schilling, playoff legend, baseball needed a good performance for Schil- he is considered one of the best post- their LCS production and nearly historian, big-game master, almost a ■ gets his first ling,” Drew said. “We got that, now season in baseball history. matching their playoff totals. complete afterthought. start of the postseason and he we’re going to play in Game 7.” Schilling gave up Victor Martinez’s It all adds up to another Game 7 “First inning he was fastball-split. responds. E6 After failing to get a victory from aces solo homer in the second inning and for the team that came back from 1-3 As the game progressed, kind of got in ■ returns to the scene C.C. Sabathia and Fausto Carmona, otherwise held the Indians scoreless down in 1986, from 0-2 in 1999, from where he was throwing his , of his 2004 heroics. E6 the Indians hope Jake Westbrook is until tripled and scored on 0-2 in 2003, from 0-3 in 2004. A team cutter,” Sox manager the answer tonight. The Red Sox turn Jhonny Peralta’s sacrifice fly in the sev- ■ that’s fanned 10 times said. “Really, really pitched like the J.D. Drew erases a lost season to Daisuke Matsuzaka, who has not enth. By that time, it was already 10-2. in six games. A team that’s hit into 11 guy that we need.” with one swing of the bat. E7 pitched well so far in the postseason. Schilling got on a plays. On Saturday night, after the third ■ A look at the Sox history in “It’s going to come down to Game 7, grounder and former teammate Trot And a team that made Curt See COUTURE E7 Game 7s. E7 the two teams that won more baseball See GAME 6 E7 DOMINATING WITH DEPTH Pats not selling Talent up and down lineup POSTSEASON PLAY carries unbeaten ORR into What: Division 1, 2 and 3 South Sectionals Dolphins short sectional tournament When: Monday and Tuesday FOXBORO — It could be By JONATHAN DARLING Where: Glen Ellen CC (Millis), Easton Standard-Times staff writer CC, Norton CC, Bayberry Hills GC a very good team meeting ROCHESTER — Old Rochester’s golf (Yarmouth) at around noon Monday. team dominated the South Coast Con- And, it could be the typical Teams to watch: Bishop Stang, Old post-Dolphins game Monday ference, posting a 16-0 record in league Colony, Old Rochester play and an 18-0 mark overall. meeting. The latter, just in case But how did the Bulldogs annihilate Players to watch: Jordan you’re wondering, is never Botelho (Old Colony), Joe Connor pretty. DAN PIRES the competition with their top player, (Apponequet), Nick Jagoe (Westport), senior captain David Lash, posting an Not straining to look too Inside the Patriots Todd Lake (Dartmouth), Brandon deeply, it should be like the 8-6-4 record in match play? Oldham (Old Rochester) “A lot of people think golf is an indi- typical shiny, happy ones TODAY’S GAME vidual sport, but it’s not at all,” Lash At stake: The top two to four teams they’ve had in 2007 so far. said. “It takes more than one good and top 10 percent of individuals After all, on one side of the PATRIOTS (6-0) at advance to the state championships. player to win a match.” field today at Dolphin Stadium DOLPHINS (0-6) The backbone of ORR’s success this will be the definition of sports When: 1 p.m. perfection. season has been the second tier of their Bishop Stang, where he cracked the Where: Dolphin Stadium lineup. Four players have seen action in And, directly across from Bill starting lineup many times and carded Belichick’s divine creation will TV: CBS the team’s Nos. 4, 5 and 6 positions and a few rounds in the 30s at Country Club have posted a combined 53-7-4 record its polar opposite. Sad to say Line: Patriots by 16½ of New Bedford. He transferred to Old about Cam Cameron, there but for the SCC champions. Rochester over the summer. PETER PEREIRA/ The Standard-Times for the grace of Don Shula and While the 6-0 Patriots Leading the team in wins was sopho- “I wasn’t sure what to expect … a ORR’s Brian Heacox had a team-best 15-1-1 possibly Belichick, stand the continue to steamroll their more Brian Heacox, who played mostly new league, new courses, new team- mark, playing mostly from the back of the likely owners of the first pick way through season, the 0-6 in the No. 5 position and posted a 15-1- mates,” said Heacox, a Marion resident 1 record in his first season in the SCC. lineup. That sort of strength at the back in April’s NFL draft: the Miami Dolphins have gotten an early Heacox spent his freshman year at See ORR E3 carried the Bulldogs to an unbeaten season. Dolphins. See PIRES E10