The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 28

C6 Akron Beacon Journal Sunday, October 22, 1978 1, noddy for help lauds teammates in Penguin win '-I a n-r -y. mv- jom. 7T A 4 1 i- Akron A Jim Ih'remtut and his defensive mates limited Akron's normally powerful running game to only 115 yards. "This was the best game I've had this year and maybe the best since I've been here," Dittmer said. "We knew going into the game that they like to rush inside so we had to take that away from them, which we did.

"At halftime I didn't think we could hold them to three points, but now I wish we wouldn't have let them have any." AUSTINTOWN As far as the University of Akron football program is concerned, the worst thing about Saturday's 27-3 Mid-Continent Conference loss to Youngstown State could be that Penguin quarterback Keith Snoddy is only a junior. That means the Triway High graduate will be back to lead the Penguins against the Zips again next year and if his third appearance against Akron is anything like his first two, the Zips will be in trouble again. Last year Snoddy ran for 93 yards and passed for 118 more (including two touchdowns) as Youngstown surprised the Zips 28-10. Saturday Snoddy was even more effective, rushing for 98 yards and passing for 151 as Youngstown rolled up 493 yards in total offense in routing the Zips and taking over sole possession of first place in the Mid-Continent Conference. "I DON'T think I played all that well, especially in the first half (when he threw two interceptions and fumbled once)," Snoddy said.

"But the people here have confidence in me and when I see that, I know I can get the job done. "We've got a good team here. They know how to play. Our offensive line was super. We had three backs either over or close to 100 yards rushing so you know the line was great." Snoddy ran the option to perfection, either pitching off to Robby Robson (who gained 136 yards and scored all three Penguin touchdowns), handing off to fullback Dwight Dumas (who gained 104 yards), or keeping the ball himself.

"That's what is so great about the triple option, you just take what they give you," Snoddy added. "When they gave me Dumas I handed off. When they took away Dumas and me I pitched to Robson and when they took away Robson and Dumas I ran it myself." ANOTHER standout for the Penguins was junior middle guard Terry Dittmer of Field High. Dittmer FOUR AKRON players suffered knee injuries of various degrees. Offensive tackle Don Schutz appeared to have the worst one, but the extent is not yet known.

Others hurt were quarterback Bob Maxwell, wide receiver James White and linebacker Allen Parsell. The injury to White left Akron with only freshmen Pat Snow and Terry Cameron at wide receiver in the second half. MAXWELL thought if Akron could have scored a touchdown in the first half the game might have ended differently. "If we had capitalized on our chances, the momentum could have shifted and it might have been a different game," he said. "As it was, it just turned out to be a bummer." Beacon Journal photos bv Dennis Gordon Youngstown's Keith Snoddy breaks loose for 42-yard gain in third quarter Youngstown defeats Zips Continued from page C-l himself.

The offensive line made the holes enabling Youngstown to roll up 342 yards on the ground. And the Youngstown running back duo of Robby Robson and Dwight Dumas wasn't too shabby, either. Robson filled in superbly for Brumfield, gaining 136 yards in 26 carries and scoring all three of Youngstown's touchdowns on runs of 10 and four yards and on a four-yard pass from Snoddy. Dumas Wittenberg ends -if gained 104 yards in 20 carries. Other heroes for Youngstown were: wide reciever Jim Ferranti, who caught four passes for 112 yards; placekicker Chuck Haynali, who kicked three extra points and field goals of 23 and 25 yards, and middle guard Terry Dittmer of Field High, who led the Penguin defense which limited Akron to only 115 yards rushing on an average of 2.6 yards a carry.

DESPITE a shaky defensive front, the Zips had their chances on sire Baldwin-WaUae 48, Ohio Wesleyan 14 DELAWARE Roger Andrachik stored four first-half touchdowns as Baldwin-Wallace built a big lead and rolled to an easy victory over Ohio Wesleyan. Andrachik 's touchdowns and scores by Joe Surniak and Bob Wujek gave the Yellow Jackets a 42-0 advantage at intermission. Baldwin-Wallace used five quarterbacks, who passed for 196 yards. B-W is 6-0 and 3-0. Bethany 14, Case WR 13 BETHANY, W.

Va. Jeff Beer complete 15 of 25 passes for 178 yards and a touchdown to help Bethany College break a four-game losing streak. Mike Mari caught a 23-yard touchdown pass for Bethany with 4:40 left in the game to tie the score, 13-13. Mark Sniegocki kick his second point-after for the winning margin. Bethany is now 1-5 whil Case drops to 2-4 with four consecutive loses.

Hillsdale 20, Ahsiand 7 Hillsdale, Mich. Hillsdale's Brian Anderson opened the scoring with a three-yard scoring run and freshman Dennis Ellis blocked an Ashland punt with Chris Doyle returning the ball 17 yards for a score. Al Taborn ran a yard for a third Hillsdale touchdown in the third quarter. Brad Williams ran one yard for the lone Ashland score. Hillsdale boosted its record to 4-3, Ashland is 1-6.

QK Ohio fln- At i Akron's Redell Windley has facemask grabbed by Penguins' Reynolds (47) Sims sparkles again, gains 231 yards as Sooners romp offense, but fumbles and dropped passes enabled the Penguins to shut off any hopes of a comeback. Youngstown scored two of the first four times it had the ball. Robson went around right end for his 10-yard score with 8:46 left in the first period and Haynali gave Youngstown a 10-0 lead with 12:38 left in the second period with his 23-yard field goal. Both scoring drives were keyed by Snoddy-to-Ferranti completions, the first covering 31 yards and the second 68. The second one also got the Penguins out of a second-and-nine situation at their own two-yard line.

That had been set up by an Andy Graham punt which har' gone out of bounds on the one. Ricky Holman, who earlier had stopped a Penguin drive on the Akron 15 with an interception, gave the Zips their first big chance by returning a second interception 33 yards to the Youngstown 22. Akron drove to a first down at the 10, but Paul Winters, struggling to get into the end zone, fumbled at the three and Youngstown's Pat Durina recovered. "THAT REALLY hurt," Dennison said. "If we could have gone in 10-7 or 10-10 at half I think it would have been a different game.

It's hard to get down and then come back against a team like this." And, Akron would have had a 10-10 tie at halftime because Andy Graham gave the Zips their only points of the game with a 22-yard field goal 1:59 before intermission. Graham also missed a 41-yarder with 33 seconds left in the half after Allen Parsell had recovered a Snoddy fumble. Snoddy came out running in the second half, going around left enc for 42 yards on the Penguins first play from scrimmage and eventually leading Youngstown to a first down at the Zip four. However, four plays later the Akron defense stopped Robson at the one and took over the ball on downs. Two plays later freshman fullback Tim Staycer fumbled on the Akron seven with Youngstown's Tom Harder recovering.

Two plays later Robson went around left end from the four for the touchdown and the Penguins led 17-3. Akron had one last chance to get back in the game, driving to the Penguin 18 on its next possession before losing the ball on downs with 4:56 left in the third period. The Zips couldn't move the ball after that, with Youngstown eventually scoring again on Snoddy's four-yard pass to Robson with 6:13 left in the game and on Haynali's second field goal with 2:42 remaining. 30 minutes remaining in the first half but Pereira scored at the 14-minute mark and at the 13-minute mark before John Bertram turned a fumble by goalie Conrad Earnest into the tying goal three minutes later. Schiraldi gave Akron a 3-2 lead at the 20-minute mark of the second half, but Dieter Wimmer tied it again with five minutes remaining, again pouncing on an error by Earliest.

Miller scored with nine minutes left in the second overtime and Pereira gave Akron an insurance goal two minutes later before Schiraldi scored his second goal with just one minute to play. Akron finished with 72 shots on goal with Falcon goalie Bob Alar-con making 23 saves. Bowling Green ha A 21 shots on goal with Earnest vxning only six saves. ooster From Beacon Journal Wire Services SPRINGFIELD Senior tailback Dave Merritt rushed for 153 yards to lead Wittenberg to a 28-14 victory over Ohio Conference rival Wooster Saturday afternoon in a battle of college football unbeatens. Merritt moved into fifth place on the all-time Tiger rushing list with 3,233 career yards.

Wittenberg quarterback Chuck Delaney shared offensive honors on the day, running for one touchdown and passing for two others. Wittenberg entered the game as the top rushing and scoring team in the nation in NCAA Division III, while Wooster was in the top five defensively. The Tigers are now 6-0 while Wooster dropped to 5-1. Mount Union 20, Heidelberg 17 ALLIANCE A two-yard run by Tom Froehlich capped a fourth-quarter comeback that helped Mount Union drop Heidelberg. Mount Union took the lead on a first-quarter touchdown by Claude Charlillo and a Dave Engel kick.

But Heidelberg exploded for 17 second-quarter points, with Steve Faw-cett scoring twice on five-yard runs. Following a scoreless third period, Mount Union quarterback Joe Toth found Paul Gulling for a 47-yard touchdown pass. A two-point conversion attempt failed, but Froelich later scored the winning touchdown. Dayton 19, Fordham 10 NEW YORK Claude Chaney threw a one-yard touchdown pass to Bert White in the right side of the end zone with 4:36 remaining in the third quarter as Dayton defeated Fordham. The Flyers, ranked second in NCAA Division IE football, boosted their record to 6-1-1 while the Rams dropped to 4-3.

Chaney's pass capped a 70-yard drive that was set up when Tim Schoen recovered a fumble by Rich Collins, the Fordham quarterback, at the Flyers' 30. The Flyers added a safety with 48 seconds to go in the game when Collins was tackled in the end zone. Denison 11, Ohio Northern 10 GRANVILLE Ken Winn scored on a 35-yard pass from quarterback Clay Sampson with 11 seconds left in the first half to give Denison a homecoming victory over Ohio Northern. The score gave Denison a 14-7 halftime lead, which Ohio Northern kicker Kipp Kubbs cut to 14-10 with a 26-yard fourth-quarter field goal. Denison's defense preserved the win by holding Ohio Northern on downs at the Denison 28 with 44 seconds left.

Denison is 3-2-1 over-all and 2-1 in Red Division play. Ohio Northern fell to 3-3ijver-all and 1-2 in the division. 'f Pereira stars as Akron beats Bowling Green 6-3 Bradley and the running of Gant sealed the verdict. Bradley wound up completing 10 of 19 passes for 147 yards and two touchdowns and rushed 11 times for 62 yards and two more touchdowns. Gant netted 103 yards in only seven attempts.

Nebraska 52, Color BOULDER, Colo. Fifth-ranked Nebraska, stung by a pair of big plays from Colorado in the opening period, battered the Big Eight's top defense for 49 straight points, including two touchdowns by I-back Rick Berns, in another rout. The Cornhuskers (6-1, 3-0) rallied from a 14-3 first quarter deficit to pull into a 14-14 halftime tie, then surged into the lead on Berns' 10-yard scoring run early in the third quarter. Later in the same period, Billy Todd kicked his third field goal of the game, and quarterback Tom Sorley lofted a 42-yard TD pass to tight end Junior Miller for a 31-14 advantage. Colorado (5-2, 1-2), which absorbed its 11th straight loss to Nebraska and its second consecutive loss this season, had taken the early lead on a 100-yard kickoff return by Howard Ballage and fullback" James Mayberry's short run.

Okla. State 21, Kansas 7 STILLWATER, Okla. Young', Terry Suellentrop persistently pounded through the Kansas line to set up the pivotal touchdown as he; helped Oklahoma State defeat the Kansas Jayhawks. The 19-year-old freshman running back got excellent help from defensive end Curtis Boone and freshman offensive receiver Ron Ingram as) the Cowboys won their second game of the season. From Beacon Journal Wire Services AMES, Iowa Billy Sims made sure Oklahoma kept its throttle pulled Saturday, rushing for 231 yards in 20 carries as the No.

1-ranked Sooners beat Iowa State for the 17th straight time, 34-6 in a Big Eight Conference game. "With today's performance, he must have over 1,000 yards for the season, with four games remaining," Oklahoma coach Barry Switz-er said enthusiastically. Actually, it's 973 yards. But you can't blame Switzer for getting his addition wrong in the excitement over Sims' second straight single game personal record. He ran for 192 yards a week ago against Kansas.

"Sims was outstanding, one of the best running backs I've seen," Iowa State coach Earle Bruce said. "Oklahoma has got superlative backs. They can break a ball game open from any place on the field. That is just a super backfield. I've never seen the likes of one like it." Sims, who went into the game as the nation's fifth leading rusher, had breakaway runs of 64 and 52 yards to set up a pair of second quarter field goals for the Sooners, and scored a third period touchdown on a 20-yard sprint.

Quarterback Thomas Lott ran for two first half touchdowns and fullback Kenny King added one on a 15-yard run. Lott and King each sat out last week's game with injuries, and both left in the third quarter when they aggravated those bruises. Uwe von Schamann kicked field goals of 25 and 26 yards and kept his NCAA extra point record alive by booting four conversions to make straight. Iowa State's lone touchdown Big Eight came on the first play of the second quarter when quarterback Walter Grant hit slot back Ray Hardee on a 46-yard play. Dexter Green, Iowa State's all-time rushing and scoring leader, was held to just 42 yards in 16 carries.

Oklahoma is now 7-0, 3-0; Iowa State 4-3, 0-3. Missouri 56, Kansas State 14 MANHATTAN, Kan. Kellen Winslow and Earl Gant each scored two touchdowns as No. 13-ranked Missouri (5-2, 2-1) crushed the Wildcats (2-5, 1-2). The Tigers gathered momentum after a Kansas State gamble backfired on the final play of the first quarter.

With the score tied 7-7, Kansas State tried a fourth down pass from its own 28 rather than punt into a wind estimated at 15-25 miles per hour. Missouri forced the decision by calling time out with six seconds left in the period. The pass, coming off a fake punt formation by kicker Don Birdsey, was completed to tailback Darryl Black but lost five yards. The Tigers then covered the 23 yards in six plays with Gant scoring from the nine. That gave Missouri the lead for the first time and the Tigers never relinquished it.

Kansas State came back strong early in the third quarter, closing the gap to 21-14, and launching another drive that ended in a missed field goal. But the running and passing wizardry of Missouri quarterback Phil It might not have been an outstanding display of textbook soccer, but it was a victory and that's all coach Robert Dowdy really cared about. "We didn't play particularly well on defense, but the game was a good offensive showing," he said after his University of Akron soccer team defeated Bowling Green 6-3 in overtime at Lee Jackson Field Saturday. Joe Pereira scored three goals and Vito Schiraldi two as Akron won its sixth game against three defeats. The Falcons are now 6-2.

The game was tied 2-2 after the first half and 3-3 after regulation and the first overtime before Marc Miller, Pereira and Schiraldi scored in the second overtime to give Akron the victory. DENNIS MEPB.YM gave Bowling Green a 1-0 lead with a goal with.