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Sports Section 2 Sunday, January 4,1987 Page 13 Washington Dethrones Chicago Doug Flutie (2) scrambles from Neal Olkewicz (52). United Press International Charles Mann (R) CHICAGO (UPI) The Washington Redskins finally made defense-proud Chicago pay for its lack of offense Saturday afternoon by using something the Bears thought obsolete a quarterback. Jay Schroeder, protected, by a courageous, injury-plagued offensive line, hit Art Monk on a pair of TD passes and George Rogers scored on a short run to lift the Skins to a 27-13 upset of the Super Bowl champions in an NFC playoff game. The victory sent Washington, 144, into the NFC championship game Jan. 11 against the winner of Sunday's contest between the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers.

The Redskins became the first wild card team to advance to the NFC title game since Dallas accomplished the feat in 1980. "We thought we could score on them and hit some things deep," said Schroeder, who completed 15 of 32 passes for 184 yards. "We came'in prepared. Give credit to our line, they are the ones that gave me time to throw." "It was an unbelievable game for us," said Washington coach Joe Gibbs, whose team overcame a 13-7 halftime deficit. "We were still confident going into the second half we could score on them.

The defense was outstanding." The Redskins blended just enough big offensive plays with a takeaway defense, forcing four turnovers, three which led to scores. By contrast, the Bears renowned defense managed only two sacks and an interception. The Bears were opposed by an offensive line that included Russ Grimm, who is recovering from a leg injury sustained last week in the NFC wild card game, and tackle Joe Jacoby, who wore a cast on his left arm. The Bears have been without a strong starting quarterback since early in the 1986 campaign when they lost Jim McMahon through injury, but the absence hardly seemed to trouble them. The Bears completed the regular season with a 14-2 record, relying on masterful defensive play.

Doug Flutie, in only his second NFL start, was Redskins 27 Bears 13 entrusted with running the offense Saturday. He was clearly not the man for the task. Flutie did hit Willie Gault on a 50-yard bomb with 10:07 left in the half to knot the score at 7-7. But the 5-foot-9 quarterback couldn't lead his club to another score and was 11 of 31 for 134 yards. "I felt comfortable out there.

I didn't throw the ball particularly well," said Flutie. The Washington offense, copying the Chicago style that has dominated the league for the past two seasons; resorted to a time-consuming offense once it had the lead and handed the Bears only their second loss at home in two years. Washington controlled the ball seven more minuter, than Chicago and avenged a playoff loss at RFK stadium two years ago. Schroeder hit Monk on a 28-yard strike on an in the first quarter, then put the visitors ahead to stay on a 23-yard TD with 7:09 left in the third quarter. Both plays came on blitzes by a Chicago defense that recorded 62 sacks this year.

Chicago's defense, which set a NFL record for fewest points allowed in a 16-game season, played well but had a few costly lapses. Cornerback Mike Richardson, beaten twice by Monk, returned a Schroeder pass 43 yards to the Redskins' 4 in the second quarter. But Chicago could only come up with one of Kevin Butler's two field goals. "We had our opportunities, including that time, but we couldn't capitalize," said Bears' Coach Mike Ditka. "We said all along we didn't want to make the turnovers and that's what we did.

It wasn't a good example of our football team." Rogers rushed for 72 yards in 28 carries, including a 1-yard TD with 14:07 left in the game that gave Washington a 20-13 lead. It was the first rushing TD the Bears' defense had allowed in nine games. Browns Outlast Jets In 2 OTs CLEVELAND (UPI) As Mark Moseley stepped onto the field for a second chance in sudden death, he sensed most of the people of Cleveland were measuring the rope they would use to hang him. "I felt like I had 80,000 people on my shoulders," said Moseley, who had missed three field-goal attempts earlier in the game, including one in sudden death. "But I've been in these situations before.

I knew they still were depending on me, and that faith came through. Finally." Moseley, 38, released from the Washington Redskins earlier this season, kicked his third field goal of the game Saturday, from 27 yards 2:20 into the second overtime, giving the Browns a 23-20 victory over the New York Jets to advance into next Sunday's AFC championship game. Moseley had dug himself and his team into desperation by missing from 46 yards in the first quarter, from 44 in the third and from 23 in the first overtime. Bernie Kosar, who was five years old in 1969 when the Browns last won a playoff game, had little to atone for. His 489 passing yards and 64 attempts surpassed Dan Fouts' records set in 1981 against Miami, and also matched the San Diego quarterback's mark of 33 completions.

The game was the third- longest playoff contest in NFL history, lasting 77 2 seconds. "Personal achievements must take a back seat to what's best for the team," Kosar said. "We Browns 23 Jets 20 win as 45 men working together, not as one man. Working together for a common goal and overcoming adversity is the key." After Moseley's overtime miss, New York's drive sputtered, and Cleveland took the ball back on its own 31 and drove to the Jets 35 as the first overtime ended. Kevin Mack, who with the rest of Cleveland's running game had struggled against the Jets defense, then ran for 15, 4 and 7 yards to set up Moseley's decisive kick.

"Their running game just got revved up," Jets Coach Joe Walton said. "You've got to give them credit. It's an empty feeling for us. Our defensive line stopped them for most of the game, but we started to get tired and they didn't." New York snapped a 10-10 halftime tie and went ahead 20-10 on Pat Leahy's 37-yard field goal 4:03 into the- third quarter and Freeman McNeil's 25-yard TD run with 4:14 left in the fourth. But Cleveland forced overtime on Kevin Mack's 1- yard TD run and Moseley's 22- yard field goal with seven seconds left in regulation.

"We thought we had them," McNeil said, "but we thought wrong. The Browns just have so many weapons offensively and we got sacked a lot (9 United Press-International Jets' Pat Ryan is sacked by Clay Matthews Cleveland hosts the winner of Sunday's contest between New England and Denver for the AFC championship Jan. 11. The winner of that game will meet the NFC champion in Super Bowl XXI in Pasadena, Jan. 25.

With 1:57 remaining in the fourth quarter, Mack capped a nine-play, 68-yard drive helped by Mark Gastineau's personal foul on Kosar and cut the deficit to 20-17. New York's ensuing possession sputtered, and Cleveland took over at its 33 with no timeouts and 57 seconds remaining. On first down, a 25-yard, pass-interference penalty on cornerback Carl Howard brought the ball to the Jets 42. Kosar then threw a 37-yard pass to Webster Slaughter, and Moseley kicked a 22-yarder to force overtime. Peim State Voted National Champion NEW YORK (UPI) The Penn State Nittany Lions, who shocked the Miami Hurricanes in the Fiesta Bowl, were officially selected the champions of college football Saturday, by unanimous vote of the UPI Board of Coaches.

The Nittany Lions received all 50 first-place ballots from the Board, totaling 750 points, to claim their second national title in five years and add the final polish to their 12-0 record this season. Penn State became the first team to win the championship under UPFs new national trophy and scholarship program. The school will receive UPI's new Coaches Trophy, sponsored by the Gerrits Foundation, at the American Football Coaches convention in San Deigo. UPI and the Gerrits Foundation will also present Penn State with a 4-year scholarship which must go to an entering 1987 freshman who is a non-athlete. The scholarship will be funded College Football up to maximum amount of $32,000.

"It's a great honor to receive this trophy," Penn State coach Joe Paterno said. "I'm even more happy to receive this award because it also has a $32,000 scholarship that means four students will get $8,000 to help them pay for their education. In this day when everybody says college football is just in it for the money, that's nice." Penn State was rated fifth in the pre-season ratings while the Hurricanes were seventh and Oklahoma first. The Hurricanes had held top spot in the UPI rating since the fourth week of the season when they defeated the then-No. 1 Sooners.

The Hurricanes entered the Fiesta Bowl heavily favored but their Heisman Trophy winner, Vinny Testaverde threw five intercep- tions and the Nittany Lions prevailed 14-10. For a complete story on the Fiesta Bowl, please see page 15. The Hurricanes, 11-1, finished second with 686 points but they were not every coaches choice for No. 2. Miami received 33 second place votes, the rest going to Oklahoma, 11-1.

Coach Barry Switzers' Sooners finished third with 674 points after drubbing Arkansas 42-8 in the Orange Bowl. Nebraska, 10-2, finished fourth and Arizona State, unranked at the start of the season and coming off an impressive 22-15 victory over Michigan in the Rose Bowl, was fifth. The Sun Devils finished the year at iO-1-1. Ohio State, 12th in the rankings that ended the regular season, moved up to sixth. The Buckeyes beat Texas 28-12 in the Cotton Bowl on New Year's Day.

Michigan dropped from fourth to seventh, Auburn came in eighth, Alabama was ninth and Arizona tenth to round out the the Top Ten. In the next 10 it was No. 11 LSU, No. 12 Texas No. 13 Baylor No.

14 UCLA, No. 15 Iowa, No. 16 Arkansas No. 1.7 Washington, No. 18 Boston College, No.

19 Clemson and No. 20 Florida State. Penn State's points total represented a record, coming in the first year since the UPI Board was expanded from 42 to 50 members. Total pointte are based on 15 for first, 14 for second, etc. The UPI Board of Coaches: Atlantic Jack Bicknell, Boston College; Mike Gottfried, Pittsburgh; Dick MacPherson, Syracuse; Dick Rutgers; Don Nehlen, West Virginia; Jim Young, Army; Gary Navy; Bruce Arians, Temple; Bill Dooley, Virginia Tech; Bobby Ross, Maryland.

Midwest Tom Osborne, Nebraska; Woody Widenhofer, Missouri; Earle Bruce, Ohio State; Hayden Fry, Iowa; Leon Burnett, Purdue; Bill Mallory, Indiana; George Perles, Michigan State; Herb Derbmedi, Central. Michigan; Dan Simrell, Toledo; Lou Hoi tz, Notre Dame. Braves Top Berries ByGREGMcCLURE Sports Editor BUNKER HILL A strong second-half performance by Maconaquah carried the Braves to a 77-54 victory over Logansport Saturday night. It was the eighth straight win for the Braves, who are now 8-1, while the Berries dropped their fourth consecutive game and are 2-5. Logansport started well and led 28-26 at the half.

The Berries got seven points from Brian Frantz and six more each from Mike Farrell and Cameron Richter to take their two-point halftime advantage. But Maconaquah scored the first eight points of the third period to take a 34-28 lead and stayed in front the rest of the game. The Braves, who led by nine after three quarters, then hit their first nine shots of the final period and shot 72 percent from the field in the fourth (13-18) to pull away from Logan. Maconaquah center Otis Lloyd and forward Mike Brown sparked the Braves' second- half rally. Lloyd scored eight points and had four rebounds in the third period and Brown, who missed most of the third period because of foul trouble, had 13 points in the final period.

"I thought the first half we played one of our better halves of the season," Logansport coach Phil Hershberger said. "We did the things we have to do to win. But Maconaquah turned up the pressure in the second half. It became more of Maconaquah 77 Logansport 54 a transition game." Farrell finished with 13 points to lead the Berries and Frantz added 11. Maconaquah finished with four players scoring in double digits, led by Ryan Grove's 18.

Lloyd finished with 16, Brown had 15 and Mark Miles added 10. Maconaquah was 31-66 from the field for 47 percent and Logan was 22-57 for 39 percent. Logansport plays at Danville Tuesday night. The Braves play at home against Eastern Saturday. By Quarters Logansport 14 28 39 54 Maconaquah 14 26 48 77 2-5 4-9 4-8 3-4 2-7 2-3 LOGANSPORT Farrell 5-14 Noel 0-fl Gault Myers Blngaman Graf 0-0 Jordan 0-1 22-57 MACONAQUAH Brown 7-10 Morrell 1-4 Lloyd Grove 6-12 Miles I'.

4-12 Shine Shlnn Overman Hevezl Powell FG FT 6-10 2-6 3-8 0-0 0-0 31-88 3-4 0-0 1-1 0-0 3-4 1-2 0-0 1-2 1-3 10-18 FG FT 1-2 4-4 6-8 2-2 2-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 15-20 3 0 3 0 3 5 2 1 0 0 17 PF 13 0 5 8 11 7 5 1 0 54 PF 15 2 16 18 10 6 4 8 0 0 77, United Press International Perm State's Joe Paterno eyes Fiesta Bowl Trophy.