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1 Weh.e Kicko eturns ffR Rout taw an by Ma Ignit By PETE DONOGHUE Press Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP Fullback Gary Weber's 90-yard Kickoff return detonated a second-half Matawan Regional explosion yesterday that powered the Huskies into a Dec. 6 showdown with Colonia for the mythical state football championship. "That was the play that killed us," Watchung Hills High School coach Robert. Baly said of Weber's run after, his team absorbed a 1975 Asbury Park Press State's to Rose Bowl Bid Asbury Prk Press Newsome. Brick won the South Jersey Group IV playoff game 9-7 on Warren Wol field goal.

Brick Township's back George Gawdun is stopped by Pennsauken's Brian Matera (50) and Chuck rick's Wolf Jr. Nervous team. Up until halftinie, Matawan had dominated the game but Watchung was only two. touchdowns behind and had fleetingly demonstrated it could threaten. But with Weber taking the opening second half kickoff, it took only 14 seconds to put Watchung out of things.

The 6-foot-2, 230-pounder churned up the right sidelines into a pack of Warriors at midfield, bashed through them and cut to the center, and then sprinted the rest of the way to the end zone. Ken Mandeville, the tail-i back in coach Barry Rizzo's single wing offense, then passed to Ricky Butler for two extra points to make the score 22-0. In the next eight minutes, Watchung had the ball twice and Matawan once, and each time it was lost on a pass interception. On the second Watchung interception, Butler returned the ball 30 yards to set up a 54-yard, seven-play Matawan drive for a touchdown. Butler's 14-yard run.

around left end was the top ground-gainer of the march while Kurt Neal scored the touchdown on a 26-yard pass from Mandeville. Eddie Steward then ran for the two-point conversion. Matawan scored its fifth and final TD midway through the fourth and final-period when defensive back Bill McCord intercepted a Watchung pass and dashed 38 yards to the goal line. Mandeville then passed to Neal for two extra points. Then Matawan sent in its substitutes.

The Huskies had scored one TD each in the first two periods, Weber rushing from the one in the first quarter and Mandeville running around right end for eight yards in the second quarter. Weber's first -quarter TD capped a 77-yard, 18-play drive that consumed nearly Wi minutes on the clock. Weber carried the ball 10 of his 23 rushes while a 14-yard run by Butler and a 12-yarder by Weber were the drive's top gains. A run for a two-point conversion failed. The Mandeville TD came four plays after Winnie Migliore intercepted a Wat-' chung pass, one of six aerials picked off by Matawan, and returned it 13 yards to the Warrior 20-yard-line.

Four plays later Mandeville was in the end zone. Mandeville then passed to Butler for two extra points. Watchung's only TD came in the final minutes of the game against Matawan substitutes. Quarterback Tom Sharkey threw four successive passes for the TD 15 and 26 yarders to Walt Con-' nally, a 13-yarder to Dean Dizell and then a 14-yarder to Connally in the center of the end zone. Sharkey followed with a pass to Dave Palumbo for two points to set the final score.

Earlier in the fourth quarter, before Rizzo substituted freely, Watchung mounted its only other rel scoring threat, only to have it See MATAWAN Page D2 Township's Colonia High for the Central Jersey Group IV title. Colonia (9-0) defeated Hamilton West, 28-7, yesterday, and, although there is no official state championship, the Matawan-Colonia victor is expected to be recognized as New Jersey's top Associated Press the three-yard line late in ranked Buckeyes whipped trip to the Rose Bowl. Rennicks slipped in front of the net during a scramble to clear a South shot and, in the ensuing attack she rolled on top of the ball and trapped it, giving South a penalty shot. South senior Bridget Ellis, selected to the All-Shore team today, took the shot, Rennicks was beaten and South led 1-0. Neither team mounted an offensive threat the rest of the half, although there were several near misses.

In the second half, though, South began to find its attack, as did Westfield, and shots began to rain on goal. See SOUTH Page D2 Rally 38-8 drubbing from the state and shore's top-ranked team. "That really broke our backs." The triumph, Matawan's ninth without a loss this year and 16th straight, set the stage for the expected encounter with Woodbridge South's shutout was the 16th straight of the season, the only goal against them was by Raritan in the opening game of the year. "Our offense had to play tougher than normal," continued Halbfoster, "because we wanted to protect the streak. We knew Westfield was tough.

They play the "new" system of offense, a 4-3-3, and its supposed to be a very offensive-oriented style. It didn't help them today, though." Westfield had the offensive opportunities, but it was a defensive, mistake by goalie Beth Rennicks that gave South its first goal, early in' the first half. Late tit Wins Game on Kick -1 Nov. 23, ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) Top-ranked Ohio State, behind with less than four minutes remaining, rebounded on Cornelius Greene's passing and Ray Griffin's interception that set up touchdowns by fullback Pete Johnson to send the Buckeyes to a 21-14 victory over fourth-ranked Michigan for the Big Ten title.

Johnson scored three touchdowns two of them in a 59-second span of the final four minutes yesterday to score the Buckeyes' fourth straight Rose Bowl appearance. The victory marks the first time in four years either team has won the conference title outright. The two arch-rivals had tied the last three years, although the Buckeyes went to the Rose Bowl each time. The means Michigan now heads to the Orange Bowl. Griffin, brother of Heisman Trophy winner Archie Griffin, set up Johnson's winning three-yard touchdown run by intercepting a' Rick Leach pass and returning it.

30 yards to the Michigan three-yard line with 2:23 left. Johnson, who raised his Big Ten-record season touchdown total to 25, scored on the next play. Less than a minute before that, the powerful Johnson had scored on a one-yard plunge to climax an 80-yard, 11-play drive only the Buckeyes' second substantial march of the game which saw Michigan go ahead 14-7 with six minutes remaining. Archie Griffin managed only 46 yards rushing for Ohio State, snapping at 31 his record string of consecutive regular-season games of rushing for more than 100 yards. The Buckeyes stopped Michigan on the game's first series and then drove 63 yards in 15 plays on their first possession to score on a seven-yard Cornelius Greene-to-Johnson pass.

It was only Johnson's second catch of the year and this was to be Ohio State's last major offensive 1 thrust until the final minutes See BUCKEYES, Page D2 Ohio Leads Ohio State fullback Pete Johnson goes over from the game to score winning touchdown as No. 1 Michigan 21-1 4 to win Big Ten championship and a were the first he had caught this year. VI knew before the game that he might throw to trie because Mr. Wolf told me they might, s( there wasn't any extra pressure," said' Gawdun, "I just knew we Wad to win because that's what Brick does. We had to keep the pride and -the tradition going," With only 1:49 left to play in the first half afttjr the score, it appeared certain that Brick would hold its' 6-0 lead at the break.

But Will George, a strong-' armed junior quarterback who has major league potential as a pitcher, retaliated. He connected on a short pass to Joe Brodzik, who quickly lateralled to Chuck Newsome. Newsome scampered 51 yards before being pulled down at the 25. On the next play, George the entire Brick team that had kept them in the game. "Before the game, I wan afraid we were going to get blown off the field," said WolL "That's how, big and strong they were and that's' how good they looked.

quarterback is Yhe of the best quarterbacks I have ever But It was Brick's quarterback, Cliff Janssen, not rated as an exceptional passer "because he takes too long to set up, who drew first blood with his passing game. He connected on two quick passes over the middle to George Gawdun for 25 yards, hit Mike Orenchuk for 29 more, and then dumped a screen pass to Jay Rutter who carried it 15 yards for the TI). The passes caught by Gawdun, a defensive stand' out used only on1 offense during crucial situations, TR South Girls Win Field Hockey Crown lound Newsome in the end zone and the kick for the point alter gave Pennsauken's Indians a 7-6 halftinie lead. a Twice more during the1, game, Pennsauken threatened to break the game wide open. But both times.

Brick's Dragons slopped the Indians on the ground Inside the 10. A strategy change in the second half enabled Brick to stop, what had been until then a devastating passing attack. "We started to crash one of our linebackers," said assistant Brick coach George Jeck. "In the first half, we had been crashing only our ends and he was passing deep so the linebackers were watching the ball go over their heads. Once we started crashing a linebacker, they, didn't know where a guy would be coming from." It was the hard rush that locked up the game for Brick after the field goal.

Mark Anderson crunched George from his blind side while the quarterback was setting up and jarred the ball loose. Bill Gorcyzca recovered the fumble for Brick. The contest also featured an unusual sideline participant. A Pennsauken resident, ostensibly part of the chain See WOLF Page D2 By GARY DECKELNlOt Press Staff Writer PENNSAUKEN Warren Wolf of Brick Township doesn't normally get nervous hen he is asked to kick an important, field goal. But he.

admitted he was more than a little nervous yesterday when he connected on a 25-yard, attempt with 2:19 left to play that gave his team a 9-7 victory against Pennsauken in. the opening round of the South Jersey Group IV football championship playoffs. "I was nervous but I had a good wind behind me and I knew if it got it up in the air the wind would carry it," said the son of Brick's coach. "So I just tried to kick it high and straight. I knew It was good the moment I kicked it." The ball sailed well above the crossbar but came within 18 inches of the end post as Brick grabbed the lead for the' first time in the second half.

"I don't know how many filed goals he has kicked this year (four), said Wolf who tries not to admit he thinks of the player as a son as well as a team "Bui I know he kicked one today." The kick climaxed defensive and offensive heroics by By JACK GENUNG Press Staff Writer WINDSOR TOWNSHIP -Toms River High School South's girls field hockey team a near-perfect season yesterday by winning the.N.ISIAA Group IV championship, 2-0, over North Jersey champion Westfield. "It was a goal the team said they would reach at the beginning of the season," said coach Gail Halbfoster after the game at Mercer County Park. "We had more pressure, I think, than Westfield did, because we had the shutout streak," added Halbfoster. Inside All-Shore Field Hockey D9 All-Shore Girls Tennis Dll About About Hockey D16 Education D20-21 jrEja-, iaLrvfrjr aw rssfa 1 i LAa 4akr: "wwijr rum rrost 8-8. Matawan's Gary Weber (43) breaks through a giant hole and scores a touchdown during yesterday's game with Watchung Hills.

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