October 2005 in Sports - 22 October 2005

22 October 2005

• Major League Baseball 2005 World Series Game 1
  • Chicago White Sox 5, Houston Astros 3
    • WP: José Contreras. LP: Wandy Rodríguez. SV: Bobby Jenks HRs: Hou — Mike Lamb; ChW — Jermaine Dye, Joe Crede. The White Sox, just as they did back in 1959, won the World Series opener, thanks to José Contreras' seven innings of strong pitching, and home runs by Jermaine Dye and Joe Crede. Astros starter Roger Clemens left after two innings after tweaking his hamstring. White Sox lead series, 1–0.

• Soccer: MLS Cup 2005 Playoffs: Conference semifinals
  • MetroStars 1, New England Revolution 0
    • The MetroStars' Amado Guevara scores the match's only goal in the first half.
  • Colorado Rapids 0, F.C. Dallas 0
• NCAA College Football:
  • AP Top 25
    • (1) Southern California 51, Washington 24
    • (2) Texas 52, (10) Texas Tech 17
    • (4) Georgia 23, Arkansas 20: Bulldogs QB D.J. Shockley was lost for next week's edition of the Florida vs. Georgia Football Classic against Florida in Jacksonville with a strained knee.
    • (5) Alabama 6, (17) Tennessee 3: Jamie Christensen's 34-yard field goal with 13 seconds left in regulation gave the Crimson Tide their first win against the Volunteers in Tuscaloosa since 1930.
    • (7) LSU 20, (16) Auburn 17 (OT): John Vaughn's field goal attempt hit the left upright, and LSU won in overtime.
    • (8) UCLA 51, Oregon State 28
    • (9) Notre Dame 49, BYU 23: Fighting Irish QB Brady Quinn sets a school record by throwing for six touchdowns—four to Maurice Stovall, also a school record, and two to Jeff Samardzija.
    • (11) Florida State 55, Duke 24
    • (12) Penn State 63, Illinois 10: Joe Paterno earns his 350th win as Penn State coach in a rout of the Fighting Illini. The Nittany Lions' 56 points in the first half set an all-time school record, with quarterback Michael Richardson throwing for four touchdowns, and running for two more in less than two quarters.
    • (14) Ohio State 41, Indiana 10
    • (15) Oregon 28, Arizona 21
    • (19) Wisconsin 31, Purdue 20
    • (21) TCU 41, Air Force 10
    • Northwestern 49, (22) Michigan State 14
    • North Carolina 7, (23) Virginia 5
    • (24) Fresno State 40, Idaho 10
    • (25) Cal-Berkeley 42, Washington State 38
  • Ohio Northern defeated Mount Union 21–14 to end the Purple Raiders' 110-game regular-season winning streak. Mount Union's last regular-season loss was a 23–10 loss to Baldwin-Wallace on October 15, 1994.
  • Richard Thomas Rose, a 20-year-old Minnesota-Morris student and member of the school's men's basketball team, was killed during a postgame celebration after a goalpost falls onto his head. The Cougars, a Division II team, had just upset Crown College when the tragedy occurred. (Yahoo!)
• Golf: Tiger Woods misses the cut at the Funai Classic at Walt Disney World after finishing his second round this morning (rain pushed the completion of round two to today) with an overall two-round score of 3-under. Vijay Singh also misses the cut, shooting 4-under. It's Woods' second missed cut this year; Singh's third.