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www.thejournalnews.com Focttell The Journal News Sunday, September 9, 2001 15C TOP 25 ROUNDUP Fresno Stat pulls another surprise rushed for 179 yards and one touchdown. Cory Paus ran for a touchdown and passed for another for UCLA (2-0). No. 20 Clemson 38, Wofford 14: At Clemson, S.C., Woody Dantzler threw two scoring passes to J.J. McKelvey.

Dantzler was 21 of 30 for 207 yards for the Tigers (2-0). No. 24 Ohio St. 28, Akron 14: At Columbus, Ohio, Jonathan Wells rushed for 119 yards and scored twice as Ohio State opened Jim Tressel's coaching tenure with an unimpressive performance. Ohio State's Steve Bellisari threw two touchdown passes, but fumbled three times.

Akron's Rickie Coble had an 87-yard interception return for a touchdown. Sophomore Sammy Maldonado, a former star at Harrison High, had 14 carries for 68 yards for the Buckeyes. The crowd of 102,602 was the largest ever at an Ohio State home game. "4 OTHERS ROUNDUP Auburn survives Manning-led rally legitimized their earner upsets of Colorado and Oregon State. The Bulldogs, in their first game as a ranked team since 1993, trailed 20-10 at halftime.

Miami 61, Rutgers 0: At Miami, Ken Dorsey threw for 315 yards and two touchdowns. The Hurricanes (2-0, 1-0 Big East) remained unbeaten in nine games against Rutgers (1-1, 0-1). No. 2 Florida 55, 6: At Gainesville, Rex Grossman threw for 331 yards for Florida (2-0) Jabar Gaffney caught two of Grossman's three scoring passes after Louisiana-Monroe scored the game's first touchdown. No.

4 Texas 44, North Carolina 14: At Austin, Texas, Cory Redding returned an interception 22 yards for a touchdown and Nathan Vasher added a 44-yard punt return for a score as Texas (2-0) beat f. No. 19 Wisconsin becomes first Big Ten school to lose to Bulldogs The Associated Press Fresno State pulled off another upset yesterday. Or did it? "We're for real! We're for real!" the Bulldogs yelled after defeating Wisconsin 32-20 for the school's first win over a Big Ten team. Coach Pat Hill's 19th-ranked Bulldogs beat the 23rd-ranked but favored Badgers behind Bernard Berrian's 300 all-purpose yards.

Hill's crusade to move the Western Athletic Conference favorites into consideration for a BCS bowl gained momentum with the victory before 78,506 fans the largest crowd ever to see the Bulldogs win. In the Bulldogs' eyes, the win Army falters at finish Cincinnati's TD with 7 seconds left proves 'devastating' Andrew Gross The Journal News -fl WEST POINT Army's season-opening loss to Cincinnati yesterday seemed no different than last season when the fourth quarters represented a wasteland of blown leads. But after a preseason spent swearing to anybody who would listen that this year would be different, the Black Knights are still not convinced they are forever plagued with an inability to hold leads. Cincinnati won the Conference USA opener 24-21 as true freshman Gino Guidugli connected on two touchdown passes to junior Tye Keith in the final 4:48, including the winning score on a 12-yard pass with seven seconds left as Keith was left wide-open over the middle. "It was devastating," Army jun- ior linebacker Jason Frazier said.

coach (Todd Berry) told us, we can't play for 59 minutes and 50 seconds. Everyone here was angry. We're a good team and we know what we can do. You could see it in Coach Berry's eyes, see it in the other players' eyes: We're not going to let this stop us." Army senior Omari Thompson gave the Black Knights (0-1, 0-1) a 21-17 lead on a 39-yard run with 1:16 to go on a trick play. After tak-.

ing the snap, senior quarterback Chad Jenkins went between his legs to give the ball to Thompson, who waited three seconds before running a naked reverse to his left as the rest of the Army offense went right Thompson had fumbled the kickoff after Keith's first touchdown, but Frazier forced Cincinnati senior running back Ray Jackson to fumble, with Army taking over at its own 16-yard line with 3:58 remaining. "I was pretty confident we were going to win the game from the get-go," Thompson said. "After I committed that turnover, I didn't stop believing. It is pretty devastating. We had some mistakes but we played well.

I'm confident and far more excited than I was after we lost the first game last year (23- i-W Zi Alabama gets first win for Franchione The Associated Press Casinious Moore rushed for the first three touchdowns of his career and Auburn survived Eli Manning's impressive Southeastern Conference debut in a 27-21 win over visiting Mississippi yesterday. The Tigers (20, 1-0 SEC) took a 27-0 lead in the third quarter before Manning led two long touchdown drives in a four-minute span. He then marched the Rebels (1-1, 0-1) 80 yards on 14 plays as Charles Stackhouse ran for a 5-yard score with 4:41 left to make it 27-21. A Jordan-Hare Stadium-record crowd of 86,063 saw Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville win for the second time in three meetings with his former team. Alabama 12, Vanderbllt 9: At Nashville, Neal Thomas kicked four field goals for Crimson Tide coach Dennis Franchione's first victory.

It came after the NCAA announced last week that 11 major violations were found in the Tide program. Alabama will have 90 days to respond to the NCAA's letter of inquiry. Neither Vanderbilt (0-2, 0-1 SEC) nor Alabama (1-1, 1-0) scored a touchdown. Illinois 17, N. Illinois 12: At Champaign, Walter Young caught a 13-yard scoring pass, and EAST ROUNDUP yards despite losing star running back Lee Suggs for the season with a knee injury last week.

No. 10 Georgia Tech 70, Navy 7: At Annapolis, George God-sey threw for two touchdowns and ran for another during an abbreviated performance for Georgia Tech (3-0). The 63-point margin of defeat was the largest for Navy (0-2) in the 121-year history of the program, surpassing a 70-14 loss at Michigan in 1976. No. 12 Kansas St.

10, Southern Cal 6: At Los Angeles, Josh Scobey rushed for 165 yards as the Wildcats gave Bill Snyder his 100th college coaching victory. Kansas State built a 100 halftime lead in its opener against the Trojans (1-1), then held on as USC's Carson Palmer fumbled at the Kansas State 24 with 2:33 left. No. 14 UCLA 41, Kansas 17: At Lawrence, DeShaun Foster V.Vv. the Black Knights took a 14-10 lead with 11:10 remaining.

Army had scored on its previous drive, too. Jenkins' 57-yard pass to Comeaux put the Black Knights on the Cincinnati 1, and junior Josh Holden, who gained 109 yards on 16 carries, blasted over the middle on the next play with 57 seconds left in the third quarter. "I don't believe in moral victories and this playing people close. We've got to get over that and when we get over that well win championships," Berry said. "Are they tainted by the past? Yeah, we were tainted by the past last year.

Are they going to be tainted by this last game losing one late? Only if their minds allow it" Fordham gether. And that's what we need to do to win. And hopefully, we can keep that going." It was 39-0 before the Stags finally got on the board with 1:10 remaining in the third quarter on quarterback Paul Gorra's 13-yard pass to tight end Matt Giugliano, who had both of the Stags' touchdowns. Fordham's improved defense didn't allow a first down until nearly midway through the second quarter. By then, the Rams were ahead 20-0.

Fordham's defense had three interceptions and a fumble recovery. Senior linebacker Tony Downs returned an interception 21 yards for a touchdown to give the Rams their 394) lead in the third quarter. Fordham coach Dave Clawson was happy to get off to a good start, but he knows his club still faces a long uphill climb to contend for a Patriot League championship. "It feels good to win, but we're still a young team in transition and it's important that we get some confidence," he said. "And now we can show them that if they do things the right way, they're capable of scoring points, executing and having some fun out there." coach Mack Brown's former team.

Vasher set a school record with 153 yards on eight punt returns. No. 6 Florida St. 29, UAB 7: At Tallahassee, Chris Rix passed for a touchdown and somersaulted for another. Rix, the redshirt freshman quarterback, gave the Seminoles (2-0) a 13-0 lead with just over six minutes left in the first half when he scored on a spectacular 2-yard forward flip.

No. 7 Oregon 24, Utah 10: At Eugene, Joey Harrington threw two touchdown passes to Keenan Howry in Oregon's 22nd straight home victory. Harrington completed 17 of 27 passes for 220 yards and did not throw an interception for Oregon (2-0). No. 9 Virginia Tech 31, W.

Michigan 0: At Blacksburg, Keith Burnell ran for 74 yards and a touchdown in his first career start Virginia Tech (2-0) rushed for 271 i-- fourth-quarter leads. "The scenario was perfect; the script was perfect We blundered our lines at the end." Guidugli looked like a veteran on his first career touchdown pass, a 25-yard strike to junior wide receiver Jon Olinger to give the Bearcats a 10-7 lead with 12:36 left in the fourth quarter. Guidugli rolled to his left and bought time for Olinger to get behind junior cornerback Maurio Smith in the end zone. However, Thompson returned the ensuing kickoff 58 yards to the Cincinnati 31, where junior kicker Jonathan Ruffin pushed him out of bounds. Four plays later, Jenkins completed a 6-yard pass over the middle to junior Aris Comeaux as a beat for Carney was 4 for 4 passing on an 11-play, 69-yard drive on Ford-ham's next possession, which culminated with a 1-yard touchdown run by sophomore tailback Kirwin Watson, who rushed for 90 yards on 16 carries.

After Fordyce missed the extra-point kick, the Rams led 13-0 with 3:53 left in the first quarter. Rams sophomore flanker Javarus Dudley, who had four catches for 55 yards, said Carney didn't show the effects of sitting on the sideline last year. He said with Carney, Mucci and sophomore Kevin Eakin, the Rams have three solid quarterbacks. "He looked pretty sharp," Dudley said. "He's been practicing really hard.

Last year he wanted that spot (starter) and he (finally) got it. We've got three real good quarterbacks, but right now I think Carney is the best." With Columbia on tap next Saturday in the Rams' home opener, at Jack Coffey Field, Carney is hoping that his club can build on yesterday's victory. Fordham is looking for its first winning season since going 9-2 in 1988. "Starting 1-0 helps a ton," Carney said. "We haven't done it in my four years here.

We've finally got the two sides of the ball the offense and defense playing to Morris J. KennedyThe Journal News Army's Jason Frazier (right) closes in on Cincinnati's quarterback Adam Hoover in the first quarter yesterday. Hoover suffered a season-ending knee injury in the first quarter. The Associated Press Sammy Maldonado of Ohio State is tackled by Ricky Coble of Akron yesterday. Maldonado, a former Harrison High star, had 14 carries for 68 yards.

Brandon Lloyd had 126 yards receiving as Illinois (2-0) survived a scare. The Huskies rallied as Dar-rel Hill caught a 26-yard pass with 1:12 left, but the 2-point conversion failed. Northern Illinois (1-1) also missed two first-half field goals. E. Carolina 51, Tulane 24: At New Orleans, Leonard Henry had a 92-yard touchdown run and finished with 218 yards on 19 carries for East Carolina (1-1, 1-0 Conference USA).

Tulane (0-3, 0-1) has given up 169 points this season. Michigan St. 35, C. Michigan 21: At East Lansing, James King blocked four Michigan State punts to tie a Division I-A record, but the Spartans survived. TJ.

Duckett rushed for 120 yards, including a 31-yard touchdown run, to lead Michigan State (1-0). The Chippewas (1-1) trailed 35-7 before King blocked his third and fourth punts of the game and they were both returned for touchdowns. Colorado 51, San Jose St 15: At Boulder, Chris Brown ran for three touchdowns for Colorado (2-1). San Jose State (0-2) had 305 yards of total offense. E.

Kentucky 30, Liberty 7: At Richmond, Eastern Kentucky coach Roy Kidd joined six other Division I coaches with 300 victories. Kidd joined Grambling's Eddie Robinson, Alabama's Bear Bryant Pacific's Amos Alonzo Stagg, Temple's Pop Warner, Penn State's Joe Paterno and Florida State's Bobby Bowden as coaches with 300 or more wins. Kidd has a 300-117-8 career record. Rhode Island 35, Hofstra 26: At Kingston, RL, Luther Green scored four touchdowns and Rhode Island (2-0, 2-0 Atlantic 10) held off a second-half rally by Hofstra (1-1, 1-1). Rhode Island built a 21-0 halftime lead, but Hofstra pulled to within 21-20 on three touchdown passes from Rocky Butler to Kahmal Roy.

Syracuse 21, Central Florida 10: At Syracuse, James Mungro rushed for 121 yards and two touchdowns. Backup quarterback RJ. Anderson, who took over for starter Troy Nunes to start the second half, rallied Syracuse after it had fallen behind at halftime. Toledo 33, Temple 7: At Philadelphia, Tavares Bolden and Carl Ford hooked up for two touchdowns, and Chester Taylor rushed for 99 yards and two scores. West Virginia 20, Ohio 3: At Mor-gantown, W.Va., Avon Cobourne ran for 173 yards and scored twice in the fourth quarter.

for another touchdown. Trailing 20-0, Canisius scored 24 unanswered points with the help of three fumbles and a blocked punt But Iona drove 89 yards in she plays for the final touchdown. Pace 16, Stonehill 10: At Easton, quarterback Jamie Reed threw a 28-yard touchdown pass to Larry Piediscalzo with just three seconds remaining to lift Pace (2-0) to a comeback win in a North-east-10 Conference game. With the score tied at 10-10, Pace fumbled at the Stonehill 18-yard line with 31 seconds remaining. But the Chieftains fumbled the ball back to Pace, and Reed promptly found Piediscalzo streaking through the middle on the ensuing play.

Reed also threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Josh O'Brikis with 10:45 left to play. Upstart South Florida shocks Pittsburgh Bulls get first victory over a major college The Associated Press Pittsburgh couldn't beat South Florida an opponent that began playing football 106 years after the Panthers did. Marquel Blackwell threw for four touchdowns out of an effective South Florida spread offense, and the Bulls held off Pittsburgh's fourth-quarter comeback for a 35-26 upset yesterday. The loss to a program that didn't field a team until 1997 and only this year began playing most of its schedule against Division I-A opposition was arguably the most stunning in Pitt's 111-year football history. The Bulls' remarkable victory in only their eighth Division I-A game was their first against an established major-college team.

Both teams are 1-1. AREA ROUNDUP Carney doesn't miss 17 at Cincinnati)." The highly recruited Guidugli was pressed into service with 53 seconds left in the first quarter after senior Adam Hoover suffered a season-ending torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. Guidugli completed 31 of 41 passes for 311 yards and three touchdowns, four completions shy of the single-game record for the Bearcats (1-1, 1-0). He completed 7 of 9 passes on the final drive, which covered 70 yards in 1:09. "I wanted a game just like this where we were behind in the fourth quarter and we come back and win it," said Berry, whose team wasted chances to win four games in the fourth quarter in last season's 1-10 finish, blowing two knee injury, but he is expected to return to action for Fairfield's MAAC opener, Sept.

22 against Siena. Carney hadn't started a game since midway through his sophomore season. Carney lost the job to freshman Mike Mucci last year after he came to camp overweight in his junior year. But after losing 25 pounds before the season be gan, the 6-foot-2, 207-pound Carney earned his starting job back this fall. "I worked out with our strength and conditioning coach, Jason George," Carney said.

"I was motivated to do it so it made it a lot easier. After sitting out last season, I knew what I had to do." Carney didn't seem rusty at all yesterday, leading the Rams to touchdowns on their first two possessions. Hcdrove the Rams 52 yards on their first possession, finding junior wide receiver Kendal Creer on a 5-yard touchdown connection for a 6-0 lead with 10:04 left in the first quarter. Matt Fordyce's conversion kick made it 7-0. "My teammates helped me get the early jitters out and after that I calmed down," Carney said.

"I was proud that we had no turnovers. Our offensive line did an outstanding job, too." Iona blows 20-point lead, then rallies for road win After two seasons on bench, QB stars tin win over Fairfield Rick Remsnyder The Journal News FAIRFIELD, Conn. Looking Jike the Ohio all-star of his high school days and apparently not forgetting the Fordham playbook after nearly two seasons on the bench, senior quarterback Mark 'Carney's impressive passing display yesterday against Fairfield ave the Rams their first season-djpening victory since 1997. Carney completed 19 of 27 passes for 237 yards and three (touchdowns as the Patriot League iRams ruined Fairfield's home 'opener, 46-14 at Alumni Stadium, jjparney, who passed for 223 yards to lead the Rams to a 260 halftime tead, played sparingly in the second half against the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Stags, dropped to 0-2. The Stags were obviously hampered offensively by the absence No.

1 quarterback Mike Cer-chio, who passed for 2,051 yards nd 19 touchdowns last season. Tlie junior quarterback missed his second straight game with a Pace beats Stonehill Staff and wire reports Canisius overcame a 20-point halftime deficit scoring 21 in the third quarter, but Iona's Rob Terry capped a late drive with a 12-yard scoring run as the visiting Gaels won 27-24 yesterday. The junior running back gained 219 yards on 32 carries, including one for 62 yards. Canisius (0-1) extended its losing streak to 21 games. Iona (1-0) opened the scoring with a 29-yard field goal by Spencer Callahan.

In the second quarter, Jason Collins came off the bench and threw an 84-yard scoring pass to Jocko Leonard. Callahan hit another field goal. Then Iona's LeVar Stockton ran a quarterback keeper.