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Asbury Park Press Ul i 7 NFL 15 Scoreboard Rutgers shoclcs UNLV in overtime, 91-85 Dec. 8, 1991 mm Redden helps Knights snap No. 24 Rebels' win streak By MICHAEL AMSEL PRESS STAFF WRITER PISCATAWAY TOWNSHIP All hell broke loose at the Louis Brown Athletic Center last night. That's because the Rutgers University basketball team rallied from 12 points behind in the second half to upset N6. 24-ranked Nevada-Las Vegas, 91-851 Guard Mark Redden scored five points in overtime to seal the upset, It capitalized.Worthy drove the baseline, was fouled by Elmore Spencer and calmly made both free throws to force an extra period.

Weiler scored inside at the start of the overtime period, then Redden calmly buried a jumper from the corner to put the Knights up, 87-82. Vegas rallied back to cut the lead to 87-85 and had a golden chance to tie Please see Rutgers, page H6 snapping the Runnin' Rebels' regular-season winning streak at 32. When the final second ticked off the scoreboard clock, jubilant Rutgers' fans stormed out onto the court and celebrated as if the Knights (3-0) had just captured the national championship. "It wasn't a Mona Lisa, but it sure was intense," said Rutgers' coach Bob Wenzel, after one of the most gratifying victories in his career. "This was a great win for Rutgers, a great win for a young basketball team." "They've got quality players, they are nationally ranked and they knocked off LSU," said Darryl Smith.

"So, that means we beat a pretty, damn good basketball team tonight." But the Knights refused to die and battled back determinedly. With 27 seconds remaining, center Charlie Weiler (career-high 12 points, 10 rebounds) scored from inside to trim Vegas' lead to 82-80. Smith then fouled Melvin Love with 26 seconds to play and he misfired on both free throws, giving Rutgers one final chance. Two clutch free throws by Steve Worthy (19 points) with nine seconds to go in regulation sent the game into overtime and set the stage for the dramatic upset. Moments earlier, it looked as if the Runnin' Rebels were home free.

They went in front 80-74 on a three-pointer by J. R. Rider (30 points) and seemed to have the game under control; 67 VP i rt MX 1 53 ED CURRYAsbury Park Press Manasquan's Calvin Jones (23) is at the bottom of the pile, but in the end zone as the Big Blue topped Holmdel, 28-13. FoMir from Shore Coirferemee crowned Imm Manasquan perfect 11-0 again 'A ,7 5 0 By STAN GOLDSTEIN PRESS STAFF WRITER MANASQUAN Manasquan foot: ball coach Vic Kubu came right out and said it "This is the most talented team I have ever coached." After yesterday's 28-13 win over Holmdel in the New Jersey State In-terscholastic Athletic Association Central Jersey Group II championship game, Kubu, who has been a head coach for 17 years, had strong evidence to make the claim. The Big Blue Warriors, the defending CJ Group II champions, finished 11-0 for the second straight year.

"This team is now a legend," he said. "These seniors will be very deeply missed, they are part of Manasquan history and it's going to go down a long time before someone replaces them. What they're doing is a legacy for us to stand by. "For the young kids to say that's who I want to be a Dave Tolan, a Calvin Jones, an Ahmad Kelly, a Jade Landfried that's what football is all that's what small-town football is all about. "I remember looking up to the players when I was a kid at Manasquan the Bruce Beckmanns, the Doug Gif-fords and the John Kennys.

I hope this is a legacy we Can live with." "This really feels great," said Tolan, the Manasquan quarterback. "Two state titles in a row. I can't describe the feeling." Tolan, who had missed several games earlier in the season with a rotator cuff injury, said he had no pain yesterday. "Nothing at all hurt today. Please see Perfect, page H9 8 1 TsV it PETE ACKERMAN Asbury Park Press Toms River North coach Bob Nani is given a victory shower by his players after the Mariners downed Eastern.

KEVIN P. COUGHUNAsbury Park Press Matawan players celebrate after upsetting Ocean, 28-14, in their Central Jersey Group III battle. Matawan surprises Ocean Toms River South 'D' does it Toms River North rolls on By JOEL MAGARACI PRESS CORRESPONDENT Middletown South falls in CJ Group IV action. Story, H9. By TOM OLAUSEN (V RESS STAFF WRITER i OCEAN TOWNSHIP came up with a simple for-i, mula to score touchdowns against (vj0ccan.

Back on Nov. 9, the By MITCHELL POWITZ PRESS STAFF WRITER VOORHEES TOWNSHIP It was pure domination, plain and simple. On offense, defense and special teams, the Toms River High School North football team ruled the gridiron yesterday. For. 48 minutes, the Mariners played with reckless abandon.

Then it was celebration time. Toms River North crushed unbeaten Eastern Regional, 24-6, to bring home the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association South Jersey Group IV cham Please see North, page HIO did not get a carry. All the Huskies had to do to score yesterday was give the ball to Jamison. It was that simple. Jamison scored touchdowns the first three times he touched the ball to lead Matawan to a 28-14 Please see Matawan, page H9 CAMDEN All afternoon, the Toms River South defense found a way to contain Woodrow Wilson's big-play offensive attack.

In the end, Woodrow Wilson found a way to help. The top-seeded Tigers, primed to score the go-ahead touchdown in the game's final minutes, self-destructed Huskies managed only one touchdown in losing to the Spartans, but junior tailback Robert Jamison at the hands of a relentless Indians' defense. It allowed the third-seeded Indians to escape with a heart-stop- Please see South, page 10 fl a a Jets' Mathis didn't fall victim to the mean streets fate that befell many of his friends? When he was 12 years old, his mother, Carol, saw her son hanging around with the wrong crowd and slowly slipping away from her. At that point, she packed up her son and three daughters and moved the family to Stone Mountain, where her sister lived. "When I was younger I started hanging around with the wrong people, and my mom didn't like that," he said.

"She didn't like Please see Mathis, page H8 when I go back for a couple of weeks. I just enjoy my family. I don't go out very much or do much of anything. You never know what can happen." Compared to the prospects of growing up on the mean streets of the Motor City, the rigors of the NFL seem almost inconsequential. Mathis, in his second season out of New Mexico, was one of the lucky ones.

can remember one night," he said, "I'm upstairs in my room and I heard gunshots. I heard two shots, it startled me and I went to the window and I couldn't see anything. In the morning I went out and right in front, about a house down, you could see blood all over That's right next to your house! "I grew up with guys on the block, I'd always see them doing drugs and I was always around that I grew up seeing a guy get jumped on by three or four other guys. I'd just walk by and say, 'What can I How is it that Mathis escaped the same By STEPHEN EDELSON PRESS STAFF WRITER WHEN JETS' wide receiver Terance Mathis returns to his native Detroit today, there won't be a throng of childhood buddies there to welcome him at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Mich. "All my friends are in jail, hiding out, dead or just strung out," he said.

"I don't have any friends left in Detroit. All the guys I went to school with, I cannot find and it's sad I 4., f'..