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The Journal News Sunday, September 23, 2001 7C TCP 25 ROUNDUP Virgima-shocks. Glemson in -final second www.thejournalnews.com ano's home debut. Keith Burnell also scored on a 1-yard run as the Hokies (30, 1-0 Big East) recorded their second straight shutout this season, and their ninth straight win over the Scarlet Knights (1-2, 0-2). Noel was 17-of-22 for 164 yards, including scoring passes of 5, 16, 6 and 7 yards. No.

11 Fresno St. 37, Tulsa 18: At Tulsa, David Carr passed for 314 yards and three touchdowns as Fresno State beat Tulsa in the Western Athletic Conference opener for both teams. Bernard Berrian, whose 96-yard kickoff return helped Fresno State beat Wisconsin two weeks ago, had 169 receiving yards and two touchdowns for the Bulldogs (4-0, Levi rushed for 107 yards. No. 12 Kansas St.

64, New Mexico St. 0: At Manhattan, Woody Dantzler fumbled with less than five minutes left. Virginia (2-1) couldn't convert on its next drive, which started on the Clemson 34. But a 39-yard punt gave the Cavaliers good field position for their final drive. No.

2 Florida 44, Kentucky 10: At Lexington, Rex Grossman threw for 302 yards and four touchdowns as Florida beat Kentucky in the Southeastern Conference opener for both schools. Grossman completed 22 of 36 passes, including 52-, 29-, 6- and 4-yard touchdown passes for the Gators (3-0). Earnest Graham added 86 yards on 11 carries, including a 50-yard scoring run. Reche Caldwell finished with five catches for 105 yards. No.

9 Virginia Tech 50, Rutgers 0: At Piscataway, Grant Noel threw four touchdown passes and Spinner leads drive, throws winning 1-yard scoring pass The Associated Press Bryson Spinner's 1-yard touchdown pass to Billy McMullen with a second left gave visiting Virginia a 26-24 victory over No. 19 Clem-son yesterday in the Atlantic Coast Conference opener for both teams. With no timeouts left, the Cavaliers drove the ball 44 yards in 1:43. The game-winning play came with the final seconds ticking away as Spinner hustled his team to the line after a running play. Clemson (2-1) stormed back from a 20-10 deficit with eight minutes left in the third quarter to take a 24-20 lead with 12:36 left But as the Tigers drove to put the game away, quarterback and caught five passes for 66 yards for the Wolverines (2-1).

Calvin Bell caught four passes for 86 yards. Jeff Welsh set school records for completions and attempts, going 36 of 58 for 374 yards for Western Michigan (1-2). Illinois 34, No. 25 Louisville 10: At Champaign, 111., Christian Morton intercepted two passes, returning one for a touchdown, as Illinois forced five turnovers. Illinois (3-0) repeatedly pressured Dave Ragone into making poor throws, sacking him three times and picking off three passes.

Ragone finished 22 of 39 for 309 yards. Morton's first interception came midway through the second quarter with Illinois leading 10-7. The sophomore intercepted a tipped pass and returned it untouched 33 yards for the score. Illinois' Kurt Kittner was 18 for 39 for 301 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions. State record, and the Wildcats rolled up a 50-0 halftime lead.

Scobey had 112 yards on 16 carries and scored on runs of 3, 6, 9 and 14 yards. Aaron Lockett returned the second-half kickoff 97 yards for another score for the Wildcats (2-0). No. 13 Washington 53, Idaho 3: At Seattle, Roc Alexander ran a kickoff back 95 yards for a score and Washington also scored on a blocked field goal and a punt return. Larry Tripplett blocked a 36-yard field-goal attempt by Brian Pope, and cornerback Chris Massey scooped up the ball and ran 69 yards into the end zone as the first quarter expired.

Vandals quarterback John Welsh separated his right shoulder in the final minute of the opening quarter. Also injured in the first quarter was standout Washington tight end Jerramy Stevens. Stevens, expected to be one of the top tight ends picked in next year's NFL draft, broke his left foot and could miss up to eight weeks. Washington tailback Braxton Cleman, a senior, suffered a broken clavicle and also could miss eight weeks, coach Rick Neuheisel said. No.

16 Northwestern 44, Duke 7: At Durham, N.C., Damien Anderson rushed for 189 yards and tied a Northwestern record with four touchdowns. The Wildcats (2-0) scored on four of six first-half drives and had 332 total yards in building a 20-7 lead. Duke (0-3) lost its 15th straight game, extending the nation's longest losing streak and tying a school record set in 1995-97. It was the third time Anderson scored four in a game and the fifth time in school history. No.

20 Michigan 38, W. Michigan 21: At Ann Arbor, BJ. Askew scored three touchdowns, ran for a career-high 112 yards Virginia Tech forced six turnovers Josh Scobey ran for four touch- Virginia Tech forced six turnovers Josh Scobey ran for four touch iW.ii'r. iWhKW vtt.J'VS&'i I to spoil Rutgers coach Greg Schi- I i nr. North Carolina linebacker i David millir.ii.rf i 1 Tmi Tar Heels' 41-9 upset over Florida LOCAL ROUNDUP Lopsided loss for Army UAB dominates; Iona, Fordham lose The Associated Press Their minds might have been half a world away, but the Army Black Knights didn't use the likelihood of war as an excuse for losing a football game.

Jeff Aaron threw two touchdown passes and ran for another score as Alabama-Birmingham beat visiting Army 55-3 yesterday. Four of UAB's touchdowns followed Army turnovers, and another came off a blocked punt Running back Josh Holden said the terrorist attacks and talk of military action affected the whole Army team, especially because West Point is close to New York. "But preparing for a possible war is what we're there for," he said. David McCracken said things just snowballed on the Black Knights against UAB. "We're not making any excuses," he said.

The game, which began with a flag-waving tribute to America and a moment of silence, was the first meeting between UAB (2-1, 1-0 Conference USA) and Army (0-2, 0-2) UAB held Army to 237 yards just 46 rushing while piling up 459 yards of offense. Montclalr St. 46, lona 20: At Upper Montclair, N.J., quarterback Ed Collins threw for 384 yards and three touchdowns and wide receiver Eric Magrini tied school records with 12 catches and 197 yards for Montclair State (3-0). Kazmel Minott caught a pair of touchdowns for the Gaels (1-1). Colgate 21, Fordham 9: At Hamilton, Tom McCune threw for 293 yards and two touchdowns in the Patriot League opener for both teams.

Nate Thomas rushed for 106 yards on 23 carries and Ja-maal Branch gained 104 yards on 16 carries for Colgate (1-2). Colgate has beaten Fordham (1-1) six straight times. Fordham quarterback Mark Carney threw for 173 yards with two interceptions. Bucknell 23, Columbia 20, OT: At Columbia, Chris Lundberg's 32-yard field goal in overtime capped a rally that brought the Bison (1-1) back from a 10-point third-quarter deficit Sam Warren, who had made two earlier field goals for Columbia (0-1), missed a 47-yard attempt on the game's final play. machine on premises N.

Carolina routs No. 6 Florida St. EAST ROUNDUP Syracuse salutes Pataki Governor speaks before Orange's win The Associated Press Gov. George Pataki joined a crowd of just more than 43,000 at the Carrier Dome in paying tribute to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks before the start of last night's Auburn-Syracuse game.

Pataki, flanked by a handful of police officers and firefighters, got a rousing ovation as he made his way to midfield. "We New Yorkers are a strong people, and inhabitants of a strong nation," Pataki said. "Evil criminals have been able to break our hearts, but they haven't been able to break our spirit The American people stand strong and more unified than ever before, inspired by our fallen heroes." James Mungro rushed for 142 yards and three touchdowns, leading Syracuse to a 31-14 victory over Auburn, the second straight win for the Orangemen (2-2). Wisconsin 18, Penn State 6: At State College, Wisconsin linebacker Wendell Bryant had 4Vfe sacks and recovered a fumble in the Big Ten opener for both teams. With the loss, Penn State's Joe Paterno remains second behind Paul "Bear" Bryant on the major-college victory list at 322.

The only thing I feel like doing right now is punching a wall. I'm angry," Paterno said. Anthony Davis rushed for 200 yards on 37 carries for Wisconsin (2-2). Boston College 38, Navy 21: At Annapolis, Boston College rolled up 479 yards of total offense. Boston College coach Tom O'Brien, a 1971 Navy graduate, was classmates with Charles "Chick" Burlingame, the pilot of the jet that struck the Pentagon during the Sept.

11 terrorist attacks. "It is hard to come back, especially when one of your classmates beams a message down from space in the pregame to beat you," O'Brien said. For Navy (0-3), quarterback Brian Madden finished with 106 rushing yards and 124 passing yards. Hofstra 51, Maine 44: At Hempstead, Hofstra's Rocky Butler threw four touchdown passes, three to Kahmal Roy, and also scored on a 1-yard run. Butler was 1 1 for 20 for 215 yards and ran for 127 yards on 17 carries for the Pride (2-1, 2-1 Atlantic 10).

OTHERS ROUNDUP Perry's 276 Terrapins defeat Wake Forest as Friedgengoes to 3-0 Combined wire services Bruce Perry rushed for a career-high 276 yards, scoring on runs of 50 and 80 yards as visiting Maryland beat Wake Forest 27-20 yesterday. The Terrapins are 3-0 under new head coach Ralph Friedgen from Harrison, the longtime offensive coordinator at Georgia Tech. The game featured the two top rushers in the Atlantic Coast Conference in Perry and Tarence Williams. Williams finished with 100 yards for the Demon Deacons I downs, one short of the Kansas The Tar Heels, which entered 0-3 and 17-point underdogs, used a 34-point second half to stun Bowden's Seminoles (2-1, 1-1). "I jumped around with everybody else," North Carolina senior quarterback Ronald Curry said when asked what he did after the game.

"I'm still a kid, especially at heart." North Carolina limited Florida State to just 11 first downs and 34 second-half yards. "We felt like we could dominate their offense from the first play of the game," linebacker David Thornton said. Their offense wasn't too complicated and we felt like we had the speed and the talent up front to go out and be aggressive and attack all game." It took Carolina coach John Bunting, a former Eagles linebacker and NFL assistant who replaced Carl Torbush this season, about 15 minutes to weave his way through a mob of fans who stormed the field and took one of the goal posts to the ground. "I didn't anticipate everybody being on the field after the game, thaf for sure," Bunting said after sive touchdowns for Alabama (2-1, 2-0 Southeastern Conference). Arkansas (1-2, 0-2) had won three of the last four meetings.

Texas 21, Oklahoma St. 7: At College Station, Texas, Eric Crutchfield recovered a blocked punt in the end zone for Texas (3-0, 1-0 Big 12). The crowd of 82,601 remembered the victims of the terrorist attacks by buying and wearing red, white and blue T-shirts that turned Kyle Field into a giant patriotic rainbow the upper deck red, the middle level white and the lower deck blue. More than $150,000 raised from the shirt sales was being donated to the New York Fire Department 1 1 ii i 59. Monsev.

NY 425 6203 nttnti A Doors Open Daily at 12:00 JT -i- Thornton celebrates with fans after the MiMUQR I reiniT fht CMOS Seminoles suffer third conference loss since joining ACC The Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N.C. Florida State has handed out its share of beatings since joining the ACC in 1992. North Carolina returned the favor yesterday in one of the biggest wins in its 111 years of football. "I haven't even got a speech for this," Florida State coach Bobby Bowden said after his No. 6 Seminoles turned the ball over five times in a stunning 41-9 loss.

"They got what they deserved a win and we got what we deserved a loss." The defeat was a major jolt to Bowden's program, which has been to the national title game each of the last three years. "This team has to decide what it wants to do," Bowden said. "I didn't see anything that resembled poise; I didn't see any execution. I think it was a complete breakdown." iza The Associated Press State yesterday in Chapel Hill, N.C. Texas, beat its highest-ranked team since a 7-6 victory over No.

6 Duke in 1960. The Tar Heels have never beaten a top-5 team. The loss matched Florida State's worst since a 52-20 drubbing by Florida in the 1997 Sugar Bowl, and worst in the regular season since Auburn beat the Seminoles 59-27 in 1985. Florida State didn't turn the ball over in season-opening wins against Duke and Alabama-Birmingham, but freshman Chris Rix fumbled twice and threw an interception. By early in the fourth quarter, North Carolina fans were mocking the Seminoles with their version of the tomahawk-chop chant, a scene not seen too often in ACC football circles.

Curry was benched in favor of Durant to start the second half, but he returned to cap off the stunner when he found Kory Bailey on a 53-yard scoring pass with 13:12 left to put the Tar Heels up by 18. "We let them get encouraged. We let them get their confidence up and they took advantage of it," Bowden said. HHHHHLWn Private his victorious home debut. "I guess if you win that's going to happen, isn't it? "I'm too old.

I needed to be evacuated. But we need to do that some more and I'll get in better shape." Backup quarterback Darian Du-rant threw a pair of touchdown passes for the Tar Heels (1-3, 1-1) and Jeff Reed had two field goals as North Carolina took command in the third period to hand Florida State its third ACC loss in nine-plus seasons a span of 74 games. The Seminoles did make it to the Fiesta Bowl after losing in the second game of the 1998 season at N.C. State. However, Florida State still has No.

1 Miami, No. 2 Florida, No. 10 Georgia Tech and No. 19 Clemson left on its 2001 schedule. "There are question marks, but they're questions that have to be answered," Florida State running back Nick Maddox said.

"I don't think this is a game that's going to break our backs. "We need to take this as a lesson. If we take it as a loss, if going to be a long season." Carolina, which had already lost at No. 3 Oklahoma and No. 5 Hampton 55, Virginia State 14: At East Rutherford, N.J., Zuriel Smith returned three punts for touchdowns.

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