Saturday was quite an eventful day in sports.

I was driving back to Ames after a night back home in good old LeMars. Tuning in the radio, looking for anything but country music and lame 80’s pop rock, I managed to pick up the ISU-Baylor football game.

It was the beginning of the third quarter. Iowa State was leading the game, like they always do at the half, 21-14. I had to wonder how long it would take Iowa State to blow the lead. But before I finished that thought, they already had. Baylor had three touchdowns in the third, and two more in the fourth, while leaving the Cyclones scoreless in the second half.

Final score: 49-21.

Baylor.

The ISU football team still didn’t break their bad habit — to play all four quarters of the game. A bad day for Troy Davis, held to 138 yards, and a good day for Todd Doxzon, with 207 passing yards.

Well, the game was a disappointment, to say the least. I decided not to listen to the postgame talk; I’ll hear it all over again at the Tuesday press conference.

Besides, while flipping through the stations, I found the Bee Gee’s Disco Inferno and stuck with that.

Finally pulling into Ames, I got cleaned up and took off for the ISU volleyball match. They were taking on the Oklahoma Sooners.

I have never seen our volleyball team win since I started covering them and thought this was my opportunity.

Wrong.

The volleyball team, like the football team, got stomped. It was a three-game sweep (full story will be in tomorrow’s Daily).

Sometimes I think there is a lack of chemistry in the team. Maybe some interference in the form of tension. Whatever it was, it needs to be ironed out.

There are a lot of talented players on the team, and the team is capable of some big wins, but they have to pull themselves together and interact more.

Well, depressed, and a little frustrated that I would have nothing positive to write about in my column, I went over to my friend’s house and caught the end of the Yankees-Braves game.

That game had it all. Top of the ninth, Atlanta just had a run, making the score 3-2, needing one more run to tie the game.

Atlanta had men on first and second. Two outs. John Wetteland throws three balls and two strikes to Mark Lemke.

He just needs one more strike to make the Yanks the 1996 World Series champs. He throws, and Lemke swings, hitting the ball into foul territory, falling into the glove of Charlie Hayes.

I think that Yankee fans everywhere had the tears flowing. I even got a little choked up. I wish that I could have been there — it was the kind of ending I always wanted to see in person.

Well, that’s how Saturday was — the good, the bad, and the ugly, but not necessarily in that order. I’ll leave it you to decide which was which.

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Rory Flaherty is a junior in construction engineering from LeMars.