Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 25

Sunday DECEMBER 7, 1986 RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL Sports Section 2B NFL 3B UNR FOOTBALL 4B BASKETBALL 6B NCAA FOOTBALL 7B AT A GLANCE Today's TV tip The San Francisco 49ers, coming off a loss to the New York Giants, wilt play host to the New York Jets, who haven't scored a touchdown in two games. Channels 4-12, 1 p.m. Miami's Testaverde wins Heisman in a runaway Heisman voting LEADERS Player 1st 2nd 3rd Total Testaverde, Mia 678 76 27 2,213 Palmer, Tem 28 207 174 672 Harbaugh, Men 25 136 111 458 Bosworth, Okla 9 136 96 395 Lockbaum, HC 32 39 68 242 Fullwood, Aub 4 45 27 1 29 Bennett, Ala 3 29 29 96 Dozier, Pn St 23 31 77 Sweeny, Fsn St 6 16 23 73 Spielman, Oh St 5 9 27 60 first-place votes 1,050 ballots were sent and 2,213 points, counted on a 3-2-1 basis. Testaverde, a 6-foot-5 senior, carried each of the six Heisman regions East, Mid-Atlantic, South, Southwest, Midwest and Far West. Palmer received 28 first-place votes and 672 points.

Michigan quarterback Jim Harbaugh finished third with 25 first-place votes and 458 points. Completing the top 10 finishers were Oklahoma linebacker Brian Bosworth, Holy Cross tailback-defensive back Gordie Lockbaum, Auburn tailback Brent Fullwood, Alabama linebacker Cornelius Bennett, Penn State tailback D.J. Dozier, Fresno State quarterback Kevin Sweeney the career major-college passing leader and Ohio State linebacker Chris Spielman. Lockbaum, who played running back and defensive back and ran back kickshad the second-highest first-place vote total NEW YORK (AP) Vinny Testaverde won the Heisman Trophy Saturday night the way No. 1-ranked University of Miami won most of its games in a runaway.

Testaverde, a quarterback who led the nation in passing efficiency, won the 52nd Heisman Trophy, presented annually to the nation's outstanding college football player by the Downtown Athletic Club of New York, by 1,541 points over Temple running back Paul Palmer, the country's top rusher. The only greater margin was the 1,750 points by which Southern Cal tailback O.J. Simpson defeated Purdue halfback Leroy Keyes in 1968. Testaverde's landslide victory capped a family dream that began when his father, Al, a construction worker from nearby Elmont, N.Y., put a miniature football in a bassinet alongside his son's pillow when Vinny was 5 days old. "Words can't describe the way I feel right now," Vinny Testaverde said after he was announced as the Heisman winner on a A star at 9, page 6B BYU players treated for drug dependency, says Utah newspaper PROVO, Utah Three of the four Brigham Young athletes charged with prescription drug violations were being treated for dependency on painkillers before they were arrested, a Salt Lake newspaper says.

The Deseret News, in its Saturday editions, said football players J.C. VonColln, Trevor Molini of Reno and Steve Sanders have been involved in therapy at Utah Valley Hospital about two weeks for dependency on painkillers Percodan and Percocet. "We did it on our own," one of the players said. The sources said a fourth player, Ladd Akeo, did not take the painkillers and was not involved in the rehabilitation. VonColln and Molini, former all-state tight end at Reed High School, were charged Tuesday with altering a prescription for a controlled substance.

Akeo and Sanders were charged with obtaining a controlled substance by fraud or misrepresentation. All charges are third-degree felonies punishable by prison terms of up to five years. VonColln, an inside linebacker and BYU's leading tackier this season, has suffered chronic back problems. Molini, a tight end, underwent foot surgery last season, and Sanders underwent two knee operations and one shoulder operation in the past two years. nationwide television show.

"My father had a dream before I was born that he'd have a son and his son would win the Heisman Trophy. When I was a kid I used to dream about winning the Heisman Trophy." In voting by members of the media across the country, Testaverde received 678 of 790 Tfeitaverde Pack advances to Final Fooir TTTT V- 15 Top-ranked UNR defeats Tigers By Paul BaumanGazette-Journal You can picture it now. If the University of Nevada-Reno wins the NCAA Division I-AA football championship, UNR coach Chris Ault will hold the trophy and say, "We haven't peaked yet." Ault has insisted throughout UNR's undefeated season that the Wolf Pack hasn't peaked. He didn't give in much Saturday after his No. 1 ranked team overwhelmed 14th-ranked Tennessee State, 33-6, in the I-AA quarterfinals.

The victory was UNR's 19th straight at Mackay Stadium. It gives the Pack a 13-0 record heading into next Saturday's semifinal against Georgia Southern, also at Mackay. Tennessee State, ranked No. 1 among the nation's I-AA teams in scoring defense and total defense after the regular season, finishes at 10-2-1. "We're getting ready to peak," Ault conceded.

"I'll tell you this of the last three games, it was our best overall." UNR split end Bryan Calder went further. "I really feel it was our best game all year," said Calder, who led UNR with five receptions for 84 yards. "The offense and defense inspired each other. There were big plays on both sides of the ball. I feel we're growing as a group." See PACK, page 3B 1 1 Vlft.

I j. 4 ,1 4 Page 3B kicks 4 field goals I-AA playoff roundup Lance Iversen Gazette-Journal BREAKING AWAY: University of Nevada-Reno running back Carl McAfee, who falls to the ground, on the way for a 41-yard Charvez Foger dashes past Tennessee State strong safety touchdown run in the first quarter of Saturday's game. The winning tradition still lives Latest scores College basketball UNR 81, San Diego 80 (OT) North Carolina 122, Miami 77 Indiana 71, Kentucky 66 Purdue 88, Connecticut 70 Iowa 103, Loyola, Calif. 80 Arkansas 103, Kansas 86 Florida St. 72, Alabama 71 Oklahoma 101, 76 Illinois 99, Pittsburgh 97 W.

Kentucky 82, USC 52 Georgetown 126, St. Leo 51 Syracuse 94, Northeastern 74 N.C. State 96, W. Carolina 75 Utah 68, Arizona 67 NBA Philadelphia 105, New Jersey 100 Detroit 128, Denver 113 Cleveland 88, Boston 86 Seattle 136, Houston 80 San Antonio 106, Chicago 97 Phoenix 111, L.A. Clippers 109 Utah 1 1 4, Sacramento 111 Dallas 109, Golden State 104 Pro hockey Boston 5, Philadelphia 0 Detroit 4, Hartford 1 New Jersey 4, Buffalo 3 Washington 3, Montreal 1 Calgary 3, Quebec 2 Pittsburgh 5, Minnesota 2 Los Angeles 7, Chicago 2 College football UNR 33, Tennessee St.

6 Arkansas St. 55, Delaware 14 Ga.Southern 55, Nicholls St. 31 E. Kentucky 24, E. Illinois 22 Army 27, Navy 7 Brigham Young 23, Air Force 3 Michigan 27, Hawaii 10 BYU defeats UNR women BOISE, Idaho Brigham Young University's Teresa Spaulding scored 36 points to lead the Cougars past the University Nevada-Reno in the championship game of the Boise State Women's Invitational basketball tournament Saturday night, 77-61.

UNR led at halftime, 36-31. UNR advanced the the championship game with a 76-72 victory over Boise State in double overtime. BYU advanced with a 92-60 victory over Portland. UNR forward Gwen Meux was named to the all-tournament team. Meux scored 18 points in the championship game before fouling out and 21 points in the opening-round victory over Boise.

She had 11 rebounds for the tournament, seven assists and four steals. Tennessee State loses, but keeps winning spirit UNR's next foe: Georgia Southern Quarterback Tracy Ham ranjfor two touchdowns and threw for a third as Georgia Southern, 10-2, defeated Nicholls State 55-31 Saturday to advance to a semifinal -showdown against Nevada-Reno. Georgia Southern will play UNR at Mackay Stadium this Saturday afternoon. Arkansas State and Eastern Kentucky will meet in the other Division I-AA football semifinal game. Saturday's winners will play Dec.

19 in Tacoma, for the national championship. See roundup, page 3B. defense and total defense after the regular season. UNR, meanwhile, led the division in scoring offense and total offense. UNR's offense clearly won.

"They are the No. 1 offense in the nation, so you can't say nothing bad," Buchanan said. "They showed they were the No. 1 offense." Buchanan was particularly impressed with UNR quarterback Eric Beavers, who completed 18 of 39 passes for 231 yards against Tennessee State. He threw one touchdown and no interceDtions.

"He wouldn't allow the defensive line to sack him," said Buchanan, who had three tackles (one sack for minus 1 yard) in the game. "He would take two or three steps back and release the ball." "Tennessee State is still a winner," said senior defensive tackle Charles Buchanan. "Speaking for the seniors, we've lost something like eight ballgames at Tennessee State. That should speak very highly for our football program. Some teams lose more than seven games in a year.

As seniors, we've only lost eight times, not to mention how many times we've won." For the record, Tennessee State is 36-8-2 in the past four years. Half of those losses came in 1985, when the Tigers went 7-4 in what was for them a rebuilding year. Saturday's game featured a classic matchup between Tennessee State's defense and UNR's offense. Tennessee State led I-AA in scoring By Paul BaumanGazette-Journal The Tennessee State football team isn't used to losing, period. Never mind the 33-6 shellacking the top-ranked University of Nevada-Reno (13-0) handed the 14th-ranked Tigers (10-2-1) Saturday at Mackay Stadium in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs.

It was the worst loss for Tennessee State, the winningest I-AA team in history, since the Tigers fell to Jackson State, 43-0, way back in 1975. Owens' 3-pointer leads UNR to overtime victory By John SchumacherGazette-Joumai Five seconds remained when Darryl Owens, the goat of a heartbreaking basketball game, rose up for a gutsy, last-gasp jump shot Saturday night. The goat horns fell off when the ball went in, handing the University of Nevada-Reno an improbable 81-80 overtime victory over the University of San Diego. A Lawlor Events Center crowd of 4,100 watched Owens miss five of six free-throw attempts down the stretch to keep the Toreros in the game. But San Diego guard Eric Musselman missed the front end of a one-and-one with 16 seconds left, giving Owens a chance to redeem himself.

Owens raced down the court, but couldn't find an open man. He swung to the left, then dribbled back to the top of the key and launched a three-pointer over the 5-foot-7 Musselman's outstretched arms. "It just happened. I didn't plan it," Owens said. "I'm just happy it went in." "I didn't want to call a timeout.

We don't do that well in our set offense," UNR coach Sonny Allen said. "We had them scrambling. It was a heck of a thing to hit, a jump shot on the move for three points." San Diego called a tvjneout with two Page 4B Lincoln beats Reed for title Arkansas upsets Kansas seconds on the clock, but Nils Madden missed a 25-footer at the buzzer. Owens' shot overshadowed a brilliant performance by UNR guard Boris King, who hit 12 of 13 field-goal attempts and all four free-throw attempts to finish with 29 points. "I just felt good.

I've been working on it (his shot) extra," King said. "It paid off." "He just played about as perfect a game as you can play," said Allen, whose team turned an apparent regulation victory into an exciting finish. The Pack made three standout defensive plays near the end of regulation, but poor foul shooting forced the overtime. King drew a charge from San Diego guard Paul Leonard with 3:05 to play and the Toreros leading 71-70. David Wood then scored on a dunk tip to give the Pack a 72-71 lead.

Leonard then lost the ball out of bounds after being pressured by James Moore. King followed with a tip-in from eight feet away and was fouled. His free throw Army defeats Navy PHILADELPHIA Army quarterback Tory Crawford ran for 94 yards and one touchdown to lead the Cadets to a 27-7 victory over Navy Saturday in the 87th football meeting of the military academies. Army touchdowns by Crawford, Andy Peterson and Clarence Jones on the Cadets' first three possessions of the second half turned a 6-0 halftime lead into a rout. The victory gave the Cadets, 6-5, the Commander in Chief's Trophy for the best record in round-robin competition among Army, Navy and Air Force.

It was the first time Army has had three consecutive winning seasons since 1966-68. See college football roundup, page 6B. Wire service and staff reports iv-, Marfc Crosse GazettfrJournd EASY BUCKET: UNR's Mario Martin flies past San Diego's Nils Madden to score a layup Saturday night UNR won overtime, 81-80..