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123456789 RHE knowledge 020 000 0 0 1 129 Strategy: Wilson High coach has advice for PSU on OSU’s QB. SATURDAY’S GAME 2 1 010 0 0 0 x47 1 A Who: PSU at Ohio State By Mark Wogenrich A When: 8 p.m. Of The Morning Call A TV: ABC A Radio: WAEB-AM 790 With 3 minutes left in the state title game, Wilson football coach Bret Comp Todd Boeckman for the bucked conventional wis- Buckeyes this year. dom and risked his team’s On Saturday, Penn State 29-28 lead by going for it gets its first look at the on fourth-and-one. player Comp warns about. Rays rise to beat Phils From his team’s own But then, having recruited 46-yard line. Pryor so hard out of Jean- Because he didn’t want nette, the Lions already to give Terrelle Pryor one knew all about him. In fact, more offensive huddle. Pryor spent so much time So as the last coach to with Penn State defensive beat a Pryor-quarterbacked coordinator Tom Bradley team, Comp would offer that he recently texted this advice to Penn State: Bradley offering a tour of “Tell the offense to take campus. few a more risks than its “I told him I didn’t need accustomed to taking, one,” Bradley said. “He’s which is something I’m sure someone with a great future [coach Joe Paterno] doesn’t ahead of him.” want to hear,” Comp said. That future arrived quick- “You have to let it all hang er than scheduled. Original- out. You don’t want to get ly pegged as a situational in a shooting match with quarterback this season, him, even though these Pryor was hurried into the days Penn State can do it.” starting lineup after Ohio It’s been nearly two State’s 35-3 loss to USC. He years since Pryor, Ohio has stretched his starting State’s freshman quarter- winning streak to 21 games back, has lost a game as a by giving the Buckeyes’ starting quarterback. He offense a different zone- has followed that loss to read look. Wilson in the 2006 PIAA Pryor alternately has Class 2A final with a 16-0 shown great flair and senior season at Jeannette High and a 5-0 mark after replacing fifth-year senior PRYOR PAGE C7

Rob Kandel The Morning Call PHILLIES CATCHER CARLOS RUIZ hangs onto the ball after being crashed into by the Rays’ Rocco Baldelli in the second inning. Baldelli was called out by home plate umpire Kerwin Danley, but Tampa Bay held on for the win. Tampa Bay comes back to win Game 2 as the Phillies’ bats stay silent with runners on base.

By Mike Fitzpatrick ing it’s going to be a tight pitch for Tampa Bay against Of The Associated Press series,” Rays outfielder B.J. GAME 3 45-year-old Jamie Moyer, Upton said. “Both clubs are A Who: Rays at Phillies making his World Series ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. | Squeeze a lot alike.” A When: 8:35 p.m. Saturday debut. plays, a wacky checked The Rays scored on Jas- A TV: Fox Shields pitched shutout swing and a fresh face out on Bartlett’s safety squeeze A Radio: WSAN-AM 1470, ball into the sixth, working of the bullpen. These and built another rally ESPN-AM 1230, 1320 out of trouble just as Phil- plucky Tampa Bay Rays when Rocco Baldelli walked lies ace Cole Hamels did for pulled out all their tricks at on a checked swing that a 3-2 win in the opener Tropicana Field to tie the seemed to confuse players Charlie Manuel said. “I’m Wednesday night. Jay LaPrete Associated Press file photo World Series. and umpires alike. concerned about us hitting “I didn’t feel too much OHIO STATE'S TERRELLE PRYOR hasn’t lost a game as a starter James Shields stymied Tampa Bay never really with guys on base, because pressure,” Shields said. since Wilson High beat Jeannette in the 2006 PIAA 2A title game. the slumping Philadelphia got a huge hit, but neither it looks like at times we “The guys in the clubhouse Phillies, rookie David Price did the Phillies as Jimmy might be trying a little too were real relaxed before the got the final seven outs and Rollins & crew fell to hard. But we can fix that.” game.” Tampa Bay rebounded from 1-for-28 with runners in The series shifts to Phila- The 23-year-old Price, a rare home loss with a 4-2 scoring position. delphia for Game 3 on Satur- called up in September after Atlanta presents victory Thursday night that “That might be one of day night, although rain is he was the top pick in last made it 1-all. our sloppiest games all in the forecast. ALCS MVP “We came in here know- year,” Philadelphia manager Matt Garza is scheduled to PHILLIES PAGE C6 problems for Eagles Good running game: Phillies head north WORLD SERIES Falcons are more ONLINE than QB Matt Ryan. SUNDAY’S GAME A Schmidt? Howard? A Who: Falcons at Eagles Ashburn? Vote for the From staff and wire reports A When: 1 p.m. hoping to heat up A greatest Phillie of all TV: Fox time. With a rookie quarterback A Radio: WCTO-FM 96.1 This 104th MORE INSIDE A For the sights and due to visit Lincoln Financial World Series A sounds of St. Pete, visit Field, the Eagles’ game plan heads north to- Liberty grad might seem obvious. third overall pick of this instrumental in the Groller’s Corner blog by Keith Groller day, exiting this A Stephen Miller blogs live in Phillies Blitz, blitz and blitz again. year’s draft and recipient of sedate, sterile Rays’ success. But consider this headline a six-year, $72-million con- A Files during every game of the Series dome named for Notebook. A Take a 360-degree virtual tour of from last week’s Chicago tract. The Falcons are 4-2 an orange juice PAGE C6 Tropicana Field, the home of the Rays Tribune: “Bears game plan: largely because the former KEITH brand, and heads A Historic newspaper pages of great Rattle Matt Ryan.” Boston College quarterback GROLLER for the cold, cruel air of “The Bank.” Phillies moments The Bears tried, but Ryan has completed 93 of 161 Maybe escaping this peculiar build- A Photo gallery of World Series completed 22 of 30 passes passes for 1,164 yards and ing with its fake grass and manufac- Game 1 for 301 yards and a touch- five TDs (with three intercep- ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. | And so we’re tured emotion (they need dancing A Archived Phillies stories and down — his first 300-plus tions). going to leave the “Land of Catwalks cheerleaders, videos and blinking features passing as a pro — and led “You can tell, when you and Cowbells” all even. lights to stir the fans here) will be A Rosters, stats and more the Atlanta Falcons to a look at the preseason film You didn’t think it was going to be 22-20 victory. and you go all the way easy, did you? themorningcall.com/phillies And that wasn’t a sudden GROLLER PAGE C6 turn of fortune for Ryan, the EAGLES PAGE C7