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C4T THE NEWS JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2, 1994 EQ5 i piyided on new divisions Owners can't agree on realignment 1 Kaiser, Rudd win Kent run crowns CAMDEN Smyrna High's James Kaiser captured his second straight boys title and Milford's surprising freshman Melody Rudd won the girls race in the 11th annual Kent County Cross Country Championships at Brecknock Park's 3.1-mile course Tuesday afternoon. Caesar Rodney claimed its second consecutive boys team title, placing three runners in the top five. The Riders have won six Kent County boys titles. Milford's girls won their first team title, becoming the first team besides Lake Forest and Caesar Rodney to win the meet.

Kaiser completed the course in 17 minutes, 10 seconds, well ahead of Caesar Rodney runners Wayne Welsh and Donnie Anderson, who both finished in 17:47. Lake Forest's Kevin Shotwell and Caesar Rodney's Scott Willey rounded out the top five. Rudd toured the trail in 21:31, besting runner-up Kelly Crowley, of Dover, who finished in 21:59. Dover's Shirley Clark came in third, Lake Forest's Holly Hrupsa was fourth and Dover's Tramaine Grippon placed fifth. Kelly leads Ursuline BELLEVUE Kayte Kelly successfully defended her individual title and led Ursuline Academy to the team championship I Ah APGILLIAN ALLEN Eagles quarterback Randall Cunningham and Cards Coach Buddy Ryan (shown In file photo) will meet each other Sunday.

Buddy: Cards' coach making first return trip to the Vet luesday in the Catholic Conference Girls Cross Country Championships. Ursuline swept four of the top five positions on the 3.1-mile course at Bellevue State Park to gain its third title in the event's 15-year history. Kelly won in 19 minutes, 50 seconds, improving on last year's 20:12. Alicia Brennan and Melissa Dibbs of Ursuline finished second and third in 20:04 and 21:11, respectively. Jessica Travis of St.

Mark's came in fourth in 21:29 and Kathleen Zvarych of Ursuline finished fifth in 21:39. DelState women win DOVER Josephine Carter had 20 digs to help Delaware State University defeat the District of Columbia 15-4, 13-15, 15-10, 15-4 in volleyball Tuesday. Latosha Williams and Char-maine each recorded 18 digs for the Hornets (10-15) and Sharon Williams added 58 assists. Payne wins Super ET DELMAR Ricky Payne of Eden, won the Super ET at s. -r 1 i i t.v 1 The News Journal SUSAN GREGG Kayte Kelly of Ursuline Academy wins her second straight individual title in the Catholic Conference Girls Cross Country Championships.

the U.S. 13 Dragway last Sunday, edging Mark Cathell of Salisbury, Md. Rick Passwaters of Bridgeville was the winner in the Heavy ET, defeating Kirk Huntington of Salisbury in the final race. In the Pro Bike event, Jamie Mebane of Norfolk, topped Chuck Riley of Lewes. Water field inducted DELAWARE, Ohio Dr.

D. Allan Waterfield, University of Delaware Dean of the College of Physical Education, Athletics and Recreation, has been inducted into the Ohio Wesleyan University Athletic Hall of Fame. Waterfield, 53, of Newark, was a four-year standout on the Battling Bishop swimming team. UD's Hendrickson eitcd NEWARK The University of Delaware's Kristy Hendrickson was named North Atlantic Conference women's soccer player of the week for the third time in October. UD women ranked 13th OVERLAND PARK, Kansas The University of Delaware field hockey team fell one notch to 13th in the NCAA Division I poll released here Tuesday.

cord rip Christiana in a Flight A game. Brandywine 2, Mt. Pleasant 0 Brad Kaffenberger had nine saves to lead host Brandywine over Mount Pleasant in a Flight A game. Wm. Penn 5, Wilmington 0 Mike Clarke posted a goal and two assists as host William Penn knocked off Wilmington in a non-conference game.

St Elizabeth 2, Sanford 0 Andrew Boyle had two goals to help St. Elizabeth shut out host Sanford in a nonconference game. A.I. du Pont 4, Dickinson 0 Brian Conley chalked up his sixth shutout of the season as A.I. blanked the Rams in a Flight contest.

pairings set downstate team to qualify. The quarterfinals are Tuesday, with the winners of Saturday's matches at Christiana and McKean playing at William Penn and the victors from Brandywine and St. Mark's playing at Newark. The quarterfinals are Thursday, Nov. 10, in a doubleheader at Glasgow.

The championship match is Saturday, Nov. 12, at the Bob Carpenter Center at 8, following a 6:30 consolation match. Ursuline is the defending champion and ranked No. 1 in the state by The News Journal. Newark 2, Concord 0 Michelle Hoosty made six kills, had five digs and added six perfect passes as fifth-ranked Newark High upended No.

6 Concord High 15-8, 15-5. Though both schools will still be considered co-champions of Flight the match gives Newark the right to play Alexis I. du Pont to decide the Blue Hen Conference overall title. The No. 3-ranked Tigers will host that match Thursday at 7 p.m.

Jessica Phipps aided the Yel- lowjackets' victory with 13 assists, three digs and two kills. Ursula Cornish added four digs, and Heather Lloyd had four aces and two kills for Newark (15-3). 1 Hankins sparks Smyrna From wire reports ROSEMONT, 111. NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue's long efforts to bring football's geography in line with reality appear headed for defeat, as team owners have failed to agree on a plan to realign the league. -No action was taken Tuesday oil- a number of proposed realignment formats at the owners annual fall meeting in this Chicago suburb, but Tagliabue said he would try again today.

5 Several owners, however, said there did not seem to be sufficient agreement to pass a plan by the required three-quarters vote. not very optimistic," said Cleveland Browns owner Art Mo-dell, adding that he would not want to force a team into a change of divisions. 'Although a number of owners agree on the need to correct the current map, which suffers from anomalies such as Dallas in an eastern division and Atlanta in a western one, they acknowledged that almost every team proposed for a switch feared the loss of a key rivalry. Tagliabue has suggested for months that the league should realign when its two newest teams begin play in 1995. Without agreement on a plan, however, the expansion Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars will likely be inserted into the two divisions that have only four teams the AFC Central and the NFC West.

MCCALLUM EYES RETURN: Los Angeles Raiders running back Napoleon McCallum, whose left leg vas twisted so grotesquely in the season-opening Monday night game against the San Francisco 49ers that he almost lost the limb, says he wants play again. -McCallum ruptured an artery, three of four ligaments in the knee were damaged, his hamstring and calf muscles had to be reattached surgically and nerve damage left him unable to lift his foot. He has had two operations and faces a third in which a part of his patellar tendon and a cadaver's tendon will be inserted to replace two of the knee ligaments. "It could have been worse, even though a lot of people cringed from it," McCallum said. COWBOYS SIGN TACKLE: The Dallas Cowboys, still searching for depth on the offensive line, signed rookie Jerry Reynolds, a 6-6, 300-pound tackle, off Cincinnati's practice squad.

iTo make room for the former Nevada-Las Vegas player, the Cbwboys released guard James Parrish, re-signed just last Tuesday after tackle Erik Williams sijffered season-ending injuries in a ar accident last week. ALT CONSIDERS RETIRING: Kansas City Chiefs tackle John Alt, whose major task is protecting quarterback Joe Montana, says he's thinking about retirement following his latest back injury. "I don't want to have any trouble the rest of my life," Alt, 32,1 said after he went through a light workout in obvious discomfort. Alt reinjured disks in his lower back Sunday against Buffalo, and for the third time in the last four games he had to leave the game. SLOWING IT DOWN: The Buffalo Bills' offense no longer centers around the quick-paced, no-hud-dla attack with three wide receivers; and one running back.

In their last three games, the Bills have mostly huddled from a variety of formations. In Sunday's win against Kansas City, they didn't switch into the no-huddle for the first time since 1990. ELSEWHERE: San Diego Chargers quarterback Stan Humphries was called doubtful by coach Bobby Ross for Sunday's game in Atlanta. Eagles: Hype FROM PAGE CI wi(l go into overdrive as Ryan ana a number of former Eagles including Clyde Simmons, Seth Joyner and Andre Waters return to Philadelphia with the Cardinals. Simmons, Joyner and Waters were key members of the hardhitting defense Ryan built for the Eagles.

The year after he left, the Eagles led the NFL in rushing ana passing defense. Even linebacker Byron Evans "a Phoenix native, friend and former teammate of Simmons, Joyner and Waters, and the weTtrer of a Cardinals baseball cap during the off-season was FROM PAGE CI acquired by Ryan are cornerbacks Eric Allen and Otis Smith, linebackers Byron Evans and Britt Hager, receivers Fred Barnett and Calvin Williams and center Dave Alexander. And maybe the biggest reason for Ryan to ho-hum this one Braman is no longer there. If he still owned the team, maybe Ryan would be looking for a little revenge. But not now.

So, after the Cardinals land in Philadelphia Saturday, Ryan won't have the bus driver circle the Vet, honking his horn. That's what he did the first time he returned to Chicago's Soldier Field, in his first season as Eagles coach in 1986. "When we went back to the Bears the first year I was there, we had won the world championship, all the players were there and I came in with a new team," said Ryan, the defensive coordinator of that title team. "I think it was the third game of the season it was the second, and they had more media there than they did for the Super Bowl. But this won't be anything like that." Ryan is long gone, but apparently not forgotten.

He said he still gets about 100 pieces of fan mail from the Delaware Valley each week, and that has increased lately as he gets ready to return. And Ryan said some old friends have contacted him about socializing, but he declined. After all, this is a business trip. "No, I don't go out the night before a game," he said. "I'll stay in my hotel room and eat a hamburger with a big piece of onion and drink a couple of beers and go to bed." So if you get the idea Ryan isn't exactly pining for the good ol' days, you're right.

For one thing, he has a better deal now. He's general manager as well as coach of the Cardinals, giving him control he didn't have with the Eagles. Plus he gets to come to work every day at the Cardinals' plush training facility in Tempe, which makes the Eagles' digs at Veterans Stadium look like a bad YMCA. Also, the sun shines a lot around here. That doesn't mean Ryan has wiped his memory clean of his five years in Philadelphia.

He remembers it all, the good and the bad. The best of the good? "The best memory was probably when we won the NFC East the third year 1988 and closed it out in Dallas clinching the division title on the final day of the season," he said. "That was a great year. "And another thing that always comes to mind is how all of our football players, every Monday night, went bowling together. I'm talking about all of them.

I mean, there wasn't another NFL team was a sellout, the first time since the Cardinals left St. Louis in 1988 that they've sold out consecutive games. And it's the first time they did it for anybody but the Cowboys. Before, Cardinals fans came to see the other team play. Now they're coming to see their team.

It's always been that way with Buddy Ryan you can love him or hate him, but it's almost impossible to ignore him. "Buddy Ryan gets people excited about football," said safety Andre Waters, one of seven former Eagles on the Cardinals roster. "And that means the players as well as the fans. He's always been a player's coach, and guys want to play for him. It's been like that everywhere he's been." But not all the Cardinals love their new boss.

Starting quarterback Steve Beuerlein has had some run-ins with Ryan, who benched him for three games earlier this season, and you get the idea the two don't go bowling together. "We don't have much of a relationship either way," said Beuerlein. "I go about my business and he goes about his business." And after Sunday night's game, Beuerlein questioned the way in which Ryan ran his business, at least the offensive end of it. Beuerlein wants to open up the Cardinals offense which is ranked 24th in the NFL and that is not the way Buddy Ryan plays football. It was the same way with the Eagles.

Ryan relied on his defense and didn't want to do anything to put that defense in peril. Ryan believes in the old football saying, that three things can happen when you throw the ball and two of them are bad incompletions and interceptions. That was the root of his feud last year with Houston offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride and Gilbride's run-and-shoot offense. A change in time zones hasn't changed Ryan, and since he's been in Arizona he's been more conservative than Barry Goldwa-ter. That was evident in Sunday night's victory over the Steelers, and Beuerlein, for one, wasn't happy about it.

"A lot of players and coaches have their hands tied right now," he said. "Hopefully, we can earn the head man's trust and he'll let us go a little bit. We need a chance to make plays." When Ryan was informed of Beuerlein's remarks, he responded in typical fashion. "I hire coaches to make game plans, not quarterbacks," said Ryan. "It doesn't bother me what Beuerlein says.

But he's going to do what I tell him, or we'll have somebody else do it." Buddy's way or the highway. That's been Ryan's motto his entire career. Now the highway leads back to Philadelphia. Cardinals offensive coordinator who was elevated to head coach when Ryan was fired, vowed he wouldn't get "sucked in" to the media hype that will surround the game. He said he told his team it can't avoid the hype but to remember that "you are the people who cannot get involved with it.

You have to concentrate and focus." Although he brushed aside questions about whether he had an extra incentive to win, Allen talked about what a win would mean to Kotite. "I know coach Kotite wants this one bad," he said. "We're going to try and deliver it for him." Ni i where you could get five guys together on a Monday night. But this team was a real close team." And the worst of the bad? "Probably getting fired was the worst part," said Ryan. "Because I thought I had done a hell of a job and turned the franchise completely around.

And we had a hell of a football team, one that probably could have been world champions 10 years in a row if we had kept them together. So that was probably the toughest thing." A recently published book about the Eagles says team president Harry Gamble was responsible for hiring Rich Kotite as offensive coordinator in 1990, and that Gamble also was instrumental in Kotite being promoted to head coach when Ryan was fired. But Ryan says that's not true, and he got in a subtle dig at Kotite in the process. "No, I hired him," said Ryan. "In fact, Ted Plumb a former Eagles assistant now with Ryan in Arizona recommended him to me.

Harry never pushed anything on me. He never did a thing. I had all the say in everything that was there, and I made the decision. I "Buddy Ryan gets people excited about football He's always been a player's coach, and guys want to play for him. It's been like that everywhere he's been." ANDRE WATERS don't think Rich Kotite got me fired.

I mean, he could have done a better job coaching, but, you know, we still won ballgames." But not enough of them, and not when it really counted, in the playoffs Ryan's Eagles were 0-3 in the postseason. After he was fired, Ryan went back to his horse farm in Kentucky for two years, and joined Houston as defensive coordinator last season. Then Cardinals owner Bill Bidwill stunned the NFL when he hired Ryan to run his entire football operation. So far the results have been mixed. The Cards are 3-5, but Ryan has made a difference in another area.

For the first time since their inaugural season in Arizona, people around here care about the Cardinals. The Cards had the worst attendance in the NFL, but they doubled their season-ticket sales this season, an additional 24,000. Cardinals fever cooled off a bit after they got started the season 0-3. But they've won three of their last five, losing only to Dallas twice. And Sunday night's 20-17 overtime victory over Pittsburgh strange going against him." "It's going to be different," Alexander added.

"It's going to be strange playing across Clyde and Seth in those Cardinal uniforms. It's going to seem strange until we get into the flow of the game." Wide receiver Fred Barnett said he and safety Waters "always talked about playing against each other, so that is going to be fun." Cornerback Eric Allen and Waters were longtime roommates. "We both studied meticulously," Allen said. "We tried to get any edge we could. We'd check out signals on the sidelines and try to get them." Rich Kotite, the former Eagles FELTON George Hankins scored three goals in the second half to lift Smyrna High to a 3-1 win over Lake Forest in noncon-ference soccer Tuesday.

Goaltender Chris Koska recorded 10 saves for the Eagles, who improved to 2-14. Justin Webb scored for Lake Forest. Tower Hill 4, McKean 1 Jimmy Chong scored two goals to lead Tower Hill to an upset over No. 4-ranked McKean in a non-conference game. St Andrew's 3, Friends 0 Jon Rickert had two goals and an assist as St.

Andrew's clinched at least a tie for the Independent Conference title. Concord 1, Christiana 0 Fidel Garafolo's goal midway through the second half helped host Con Tournament The Delaware High School Volleyball Tournament begins Saturday with four doubleheaders. At Christiana: Newark (Flight A No. 1) vs. Caesar Rodney (at-large No.

6), 6:30 p.m.; Archmere (at-large No. 2) vs. McKean (Flight No. 2), 8. At McKean: Sanford (Independent No.

1) vs. Wilmington Christian (at-large No. 3), Christiana (Flight A No. 4) vs. St.

Mark's (Catholic No. 2), 8. At Brandywine: Ursuline (Catholic No. 1) vs. Wilmington (at-large No.

5), William Penn (Flight A No. 3) vs. Padua (at-large No. 1), 8. At St.

Mark's: Concord (Flight A No. 2) vs. Tower Hill (Independent No. 2), A.I. du Pont (Flight No.

1) vs. Caravel (at-large No. 4), 8. The 16-team field includes 10 automatic conference qualifiers and six at-large teams selected through a points system weighing a team's and its opponents' records. The Newark-Concord tie for first place in Flight A was broken by a coin flip.

The Ursuline-St. Mark's tie in the Catholic Conference was broken on the basis of Ursuline's win over St. Mark's in the A.I. du Pont Tournament in September. Caesar Rodney became trje first is high for game with Ryan's low-key.

Evans said he has "100 percent respect" for Ryan, whom he said, "believed in me when no one else believed in me." But he also knows that the flamboyant Ryan often tries to get a psychological edge over opponents by making outlandish statements. "Coach Ryan is coach Evans said. "He plays head games with other people and if you feed into it, then he has you where he wants you." Center Dave Alexander, who also spoke fondly of how Ryan gave him his start in pro ball, admitted it was "going to be.