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COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCOREBOARD more scores, coverage, dw 1 Oregon Oregon State 2 Auburn 18 S. Carolina 37 20 56 17 9 Boise St. Utah St. 10 Oklahoma 13 Nebraska 50 (n) 12 Virginia Tech 44 20 Florida St. 34 Appalachian St.

42 Western Illinois 14 Wofford 17 Jacksonville St. 14 New Hampshire 45 B-Cookman 20 Ga. Southern 31 William Mary 15 N. Dakota St. Montana St.

Villanova S. F. Austin 42 E. Washington 37 17 SE Missouri St, 17 54 Wesley 19 24 M. Hardin-Baylor 9 Mount Union 37 Alfred 7 20 North Central 10 Bethel, Minn.

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UUdlU lieib 0 Ml Will UVtM DUULdli. Good starts tin (1 UD, DSU men win conference 1 opem van it 111 1 1111 111 11 Spartans win it in fitting style lowing a couple of illegal procedure penalties. Following a stalled Middletown drive, St. Mark's senior Ryan Taylor erupted down the right sideline for a 70-yard punt return for a score that gave the Spartans a 30-25 lead with 7:38 remaining that it never relinquished. "I wanted to get a kick return," Taylor said.

"I thought I'd get one, but it kept clogging up. I dropped a touchdown in the end zone prior and I had to get it back. That return gave us See SPARTANS -D9 been different. The great thing is there was no panic in the locker room, nobody was pointing fingers and it was just a matter of executing." The biggest sequence of plays for the Spartans came in the fourth quarter. That was when quarterback Jeff Ziemba hit Jabre Lolley with a quick screen that Lolley raced off with 75 yards down the left sideline for a touchdown that pulled the Spartans to within 25-24.

T.J. DeMatteis missed what turned out to be a 30-yard point-after kick fol By MIKE FINNEY The News Journal DOVER Just when it looked as if St. Mark's first state football championship since 1978 was going to slip away again, the previously perfect Spartans rolled up their sleeves and got to work. The top-seeded Spartans, who trailed by 16 points at one point, awakened to score 25 unanswered points in the second half to shock No. 2 seed Middletown 37-25 in winning the Division I championship game of the DIAA ST.

MARK'S 37, MIDDLETOWN 25 Football Tournament at Delaware State's Alumni Stadium on Saturday night. St. Mark's coach John Wilson wasn't surprised at the resiliency his team showed in preserving what turned out to be the perfect season. "You know what? It's been that way all year," Wilson said. "I think if we hadn't been in situations like that before, earlier in the season, it might have -Jr, v.

1.. The News JournalGARY EMEIGH Middletown defensive end Jacob Smulski (28) strips the ball from St. Mark's Jabre Lolley in the first half of Saturday's Division I championship game. DELAWARE 42, LEHIGH 20 (i WESLEY 19, MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR 9 Wolverines earn return to Div. Ill semifinals Wesley defense offsets top-ranked Cru offense (I 'rss A J.A I Hi 1 JfJ I -v 1 itifaii'inr-a The News JournalWILLIAM BRETZGER Delaware running back David Hayes (right) twirls away from the attempted tackle of Lehigh linebacker Colin Newton (10) on a 16-yard touchdown run during the third quarter of Delaware's 42-20 win Saturday in Newark.

Delaware receiver Rob Jones (5) provides a block on Lehigh Jarard Cribbs. By KEVIN PHILLIPS Special to The News Journal DOVER Wesley's top-ranked defense kept Mary Hardin-Baylor's top-ranked offense in check as the Wolverines advanced to the NCAA Division in tournament semifinals with a 19-9 win in Saturday's quarterfinal. The Cru entered the game averaging 487 yards and nearly 50 points per game, but the top-seeded Wolverines held them to a season-low 239 yards to earn a visit from Wisconsin-Whitewater (13-0) next Saturday in Dover. Wesley head coach Mike Drass said the key was holding the Cru's (12-1) receiving duo of Damian Davis and Ervin Johnson to 58 yards on five catches. "Watching film, their two receivers, especially Davis, have unbelievable talent.

Those guys were getting vertical on people," Drass said. "I think both corners did a great job out there." Senior cornerback Marcus Wilson said taking on Davis, a former Oklahoma State prospect who had just one catch, was a challenge he was looking forward to. "Davis is a tremendous athlete. He brings size, ability, everything. I just wanted to prove my point that I can match with any receiver in the nation," Wilson said.

"Being physical was definitely effective for me. He hasn't seen physical corners before, so I came up and pushed him around." The Wolverines (12-0) contained Mary Hardin-Baylor's rushing attack to 136 yards, well below their season average of 324 yards per game. With the Wolverines up 19-3 late in the third quarter, Mary Hardin-Baylor drove to inside the Wesley 5-yard line. After two running plays, the Cru had a third-and-goal at the Wolverine 1, and Wesley got a break when it appeared they had 12 players on the field but there was no call. The Wolverines stopped Bailey on third down.

The apparent missed call Hens hold down tri gger UD never stops firing as Lehigh falls off pace in first-round rout Hens only ones who can stop themselves NEWARK You don't want to worry because the University of Delaware rg Photo gallery E3 and video at delawareonline.com. I-AA HIGHLIGHTS Georgia Southern surprises WilliamS Mary, giving UD home-field advantage into the semifinals. Villanova rides a 27-point second quarter to a rout of Stephen F. Austin. New Hampshire sends MEAC champ Bethune-Cookman packing.

Appalachian State runs into the quarterfinals again. More coverage, D6 I By KEVIN TRES0LINI The News Journal NEWARK The University of Delaware scored a touchdown on its first possession, another on its third series, and another on its fourth Saturday afternoon in the wind and chill at Delaware Stadium. Lehigh, the visitor in the NCAA Division I-AA (FCS) second-round football playoff, was thereby given the unenviable task of having to keep up with the Blue Hens. The Mountain Hawks could not, which took some time to become apparent after several early successes of their own. "Chasing the scoring" was how Lehigh coach Andy Coen later termed the dire situation in which his team found itself because of Delaware's offensive prowess.

Lehigh's effort to topple the Hens eventually waned, and Delaware had few worries in the second half of what became a 42-20 victory witnessed by 13,649. "We got a stop early in the second half," Delaware coach K.C. Keeler said. "We got some things rolling and then we kind of put the lead in a position that we pretty much See HENS D7 football team blew open the game in the second half to win its playoff opener 42-20 over Lehigh. The offense was and four touchdowns.

But you have to worry because UD's offense became stoppable when it fumbled the ball away twice. Other than that, Lehigh had no chance against the third-seeded Hens. Yet to UD coach K.C. Keeler, who repeatedly says "we can't have an 'oops'" in the Division I-AA playoffs, the turnovers are a cause for concern. "It's unacceptable," Keeler said.

"It cost us a See FRANK D6 commentary MARTIN FRANK See WESLEY -D7 See a photo gallery at delawareonline.com. unstoppable, as usual, behind quarterback Pat Devlin, who threw for 256 yards As knee holds up, Peters holds off the best Eagles tackle stymies Williams, others his past two games and nine in 10 games but exited without adding to his total. Not bad, given that Peters only had three days to study film and take mental notes on Williams' pass-rushing technique because of the short turnaround from Sunday's loss in Chicago. "You just got to get your body right most of all and get mentally prepared and go out there and play like you done had a bunch of rest," Peters said. "We knew we had to win, so all that fatigue went out the window." Since coming back from arthroscopic knee surgery that sidelined him for consecutive October games against Atlanta and Tennessee, Peters has fended off some of the NFL's elite pass rushers every week.

He's faced Dwight Freeney (seven sacks), Osi See PETERS -D4 win over the Texans. Peters had just neutralized Pro Bowl defensive end Mario Williams, a No. 1 overall pick with two double-digit sack seasons who's working on his third but couldn't get his long arms on Eagles quarterback Michael Vick. Williams had come into the game with three sacks in By GEOFF M0SHER The News Journal PHILADELPHIA Last year, whenever the Eagles played on Sunday, Jason Peters' knee would still hurt the following Tuesday and Wednesday. Now? "It don't even bother me no more," a smiling Peters said after Thursday night's Jason Peters held Mario Williams without a sack Thursday night.

The News JournalGARY EMEIGH Mary Hardin-Baylor's Quincy Daniels is brought down by Wesley linebacker Jeff Morgan after a short gain Saturday during a 19-9 Wolverines' victory..