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Sunday, Oct. 2, 1988 The Philadelphia Inquirer 13-E West Virginia wins 5th; BC conquers Pitt9 34-31 From Inquirer Wire Senice Craig Taylor and Anthony Brown ran for touchdowns, and Charlie Baumann kicked three field goals as turnover-plagued West Virginia defeated Virginia Tech, 22-10, yesterday in Blacksburg, Va. Major Harris threw two interceptions and the Mountaineers (No. 7 AP, No. 6 UPI) lost four fumbles en route to their fifth victory in as many games.

An interception thrown by Virginia Tech's Will Furrer was the lone turnover by the Hokies (1-4). The Mountaineers survived a third-period scare after Virginia Tech scored its only touchdown when Archie Hopkins blocked Lance Carion's punt and Jock Jones recovered it in the end zone. That brought the score to 15-10, and the Hokies forced West Virginia to punt, but The Cadets scored twice in a 15 second span late in the first quarter to take a 14-0 lead. Army, which entered the game ranked fourth in the nation in rushing, kept the ball on the ground and took advantage of Bucknell's inexperience in defending the wishbone. McWilliams, who carried the ball 1 1 times, capped a 65-yard drive when he scored on a 5-yard run with 3 minutes left.

Navy 41, Yale 7 Sophomore quarterback Gary Mcintosh ran 51 and 45 yards for touchdowns to spark the Midshipmen (3-2) over the Bulldogs (0-2-1) in Annapolis. Md. Navy scored 24 points in the soc-ond quarter against Yale. Mcintosh, who did not play In the first quarter, passed 32 yards to Carl Jordon for a touchdown in the second quarter. The Eagles trailed Pittsburgh, 31-19, before Power and Cherry took over.

Power, starting in place of the injured Mark Kamphaus, completed 17 of 30 passes for 238 yards and two touchdowns. Boston College took advantage of two crucial Pitt errors, a blocked punt that was recovered in the end zone by Ronald Perryman in the second quarter and a fumble by tailback Curvin Richards with 3:31 remaining. Richards ran for 202 yards after replacing leading Pittsburgh rusher Adam Walker, who was injured in the first quarter. BC running backs Tim Frager and Jim Bell combined for 124 yards rushing and Brian Lowe kicked field goals of 19 and 34 yards. With 1:38 remaining, Cherry gath ered an 8-yard lob from Power in the right corner of the end zone for the winning score.

Fullback Ed Toner ran across for a two-point conversion. Syracuse 20, Maryland 9 Running backs Robert Drummond and Michael Owens each scored on 1-yard runs, and Kevin Greene added two field goals as the Orangemen (3-1) beat the Terrapins (2-2) in Syracuse, NY. The Orangemen used a well-executed, ball-control offense and made several key third-down conversions throughout the game to keep drives going. Dan Plocki kicked three field goals for the Terrapins. Syracuse put together two long scoring drives in the first half to take a 14-6 lead.

Tailback Drummond leaped from the 1-yard line with 5:08 left in the first quarter to complete an 81-yard, 10-play drive that included a 21-yard acrobatic catch by Rob Moore on third-and-8 from the Orangemen 40. The Terrapins managed a long drive of their own on the next series and, on the first play of the second quarter, Plocki kicked a 27-yard field goal to make the score 7-3. On the Orangemen's second scoring drive, Owens ran in from the 1-yard line on fourth down after the Maryland defense had stopped Syracuse's first three running plays from the 1. Army 58, Bucknell 10 Sophomore quarterback Bryan McWilliams rushed for 116 yards and two touchdowns, and senior fullback John Barth scored three times as the Cadets (3-1) rolled over the Bison (04) in West Point, N.Y. East were unable to score again.

Brown's 5-yard scoring run with 10 minutes, 11 seconds to play put the game out of reach for Virginia Tech before 50,231 in Lane Stadium. West Virginia got on the board first with Taylor's 8-yard touchdown run at 9:49 of the first period. Baumann added field goals of 19 and 37 yards as the Mountaineers built a 12-0 lead in the second quarter. Baumann also kicked a 29-yard field goal in the third period. Boston College 34, Pitt 31 Mike Power threw two touchdown passes to Marcus Cherry in the final 5:46 to rally the Eagles (2-3) over the Panthers (2-2) in Newton, Mass.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL 'Nova tips R.L, 20-13 QB Erney leads Rutgers in rout over Cincinnati JU 1' JL HA if? 1 it1 '( or -Ktmi mux- Penn's Eric Poderys breaks up a pass by Columbia QB Bruce Mayhew in the second quarter. Penn extends Columbia's streak of defeats to 44 Associated Press PISCATAWAY, N.J. Scott Erney threw three touchdown passes as Rutgers rolled to a 38-9 college football victory over Cincinnati yesterday. Erney, who completed 17 of 26 passes for 259 yards, combined with Brett Mersola on a 68-yard play only 12 seconds before halftime for a 24-3 lead. Erney also hit James Cann on a 4-yard swing pass for a touchdown in the first quarter, and he added a 26-yard pass to fullback Mike Botti in the fourth quarter.

Rutgers (3-1) also got a 94-yard kickoff return for a touchdown from Ron Allen late in the game, and guard John Kutz fell on a loose ball in the end zone during a Rutgers drive in the Scarlet Knights' 17-point second quarter. "We had to win this game," Botti said. "We didn't want to flop on our faces after (beating) Penn State. We knew what we had to do, but got messed up a few times doing it. We were a little sloppy, but the big plays covered up for us." On the other hand, Cincinnati did not make the big play.

The Bearcats failed to come up with the fumble in their end zone, fumbled twice themselves in the second half in scoring position, and did not put up any points in the third quarter despite holding the ball for all but eight plays. "We've been talking about five years of almost being there," Cincinnati coach Dave Curry said. "How do you defend? That was their first fumble of the year, and it's for a touchdown. That's worth fumbling. "We have to be good enough to get on those fumbles.

We caused it. We tipped the pass. We could have caught it, too." For the most part things went right from the start for Rutgers which took a 7-0 lead on the Erney-to-Cann pass. The 72-yard drive was kept alive early when a third-down Erney pass to Tyrone McQueen tipped off the receiver's hands to Mersola for a 25-yard gain. Phil Insalaco kicked a 50-yard field goal to draw the Bearcats within 7-3 late in the first quarter before Carmen Sclafani countered with a 40-yard field goal for Rutgers early in the second quarter for a 10-3 lead.

About five minutes later, Cincinnati running back Terry Strong fumbled at his 12 and safety Jeff Newman recovered. The Scarlet Knights got the ball to the 2-yard line and Botti tried to run off the left side, but fumbled and Kutz recovered for the TD and a 17-3 lead. The long TD from Erney to Mersola came right after a punt gave Rutgers the ball at its 32 with 24 seconds to play. Erney went back to pass, avoided a rush and started moving forward, freezing the Cincinnati secondary and allowing Mersola to get behind it for the score. Cincinnati quarterback Glenn Far-kas added a 13-yard touchdown pass to Strong in the fourth quarter, just before Allen returned the kickoff.

Cincinnati 3 0 7 17 0 69 1438 Rutgers Rut Cann 4 pass from Erney (Sclafani kick) Cm FG Insalaco 60 Hut FG Sclafani 40 Rut Kutz fumble recovery end zone (Sclafani kick) Rut Mersola 68 pass from Erney (Sclafani kick) Rut Botti 26 pass from Erney (Sclafani kick) Cm Strong 13 pass from Farkas (run failed) Rut Allen 94 kickoff return (Sclafani kick) A 23.899. Cin 22 Rut First downs Rushes-yards Passing Return Yards Comp-Att-Int Punts Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards Time of Possession 20 36-200 259 16 17-26-1 6-41 3 2 8-80 26:24 38-141 256 26 27-47-0 6-38 5-3 8-55 33:36 Hampshire fumble on the UNH 36. Seven plays later, Delaware was up 10-0 as Randy Holmes swept around right end for an 8-yard TD run. Holmes went in again shortly afterward from the 1 to make it 17-0, and for all intents and purposes, the game was over. Delaware 10 7 21 038 6 1420 New Hampshire Del Brien 34 field goal Del Holmes 8 run (O brien kick) Del Holmes 1 run (O'Brien kick) UNH Lane 33 field goal UNH Lane 38 field goal Del A.

Sydnor 1 run (O Brien kick) Del Anderson 64 pass from C. McCoy (O Brien kick) Del Holmes 8 run (O'Brien kick) UNH Braune 13 pass from Carr (Lane kick) UNH Ross 43 pass from Carr (Lane kick) By Chuck Newman Inquirer Stall Writer Linebacker John O'Brien fidgeted on the sideline for a half, watching Villanova's big-strike offense reduced almost solely to the running of fullback Pete Lombardi. The Wildcats were ahead, 10-7, after 30 minutes, and Villanova coach Andy Talley realized he would have to overcome his reluctance to use his most valuable defensive player, whose neck and shoulder problems had kept him from contact all week. "I knew by that point if our defense didn't play effectively, we would lose," Talley said. "1 didn't want to use him if I didn't have to, but we needed him.

He makes things happen, and he did." In the second half, the 6-foot, 4-inch, 235-pound O'Brien made three sacks, six unassisted tackles and three assists, and the Wildcats went on to defeat Rhode Island, 20-13, yesterday in a Yankee Conference game before a sellout crowd of 13,400 at Villanova Stadium. The win pushed Villanova to 3-1 overall and 2-0 in the conference, tied for the top with Massachusetts (3-1, 2-0). Villanova needed the defensive surge that O'Brien provided to survive against the Rams. The Wildcats took a 3-0 lead just 1 minute, 56 seconds into the second period on a 40-yard field goal by Tom Withka, then used an error by Rhode Island punter Chris Cassara for a touchdown and a 10-0 lead 2:21 later. Cassara fielded a low snap from center as he lined up to punt but touched his knee down at the Rhode Island 16-yard line.

Three plays later, Lombardi, who normally gets the leftovers in an offense designed around quarterback Kirk Schulz and receiver Bobby Brady, blasted into the end zone from 8 yards out. Rhode Island drew to within 10-7 with 2:21 left in the half when wide receiverdefensive back Kevin Smith, who also had an interception in the game, went 23 yards on a reverse to cap a 46-yard drive. The Rams took the ball to the Villanova 40 on their first possession of the second half before the visitors self-destructed with two penalties. Villanova did little on its next at which point Talley decided to call on O'Brien. His first play of the game was a sack of Rhode Island quarterback Steve Monaco, and two series later Villanova took advantage of another Rams miscue to mount a scoring drive.

Rhode Island's Mike Rogers (38 yards rushing, 10 receptions for 70 yards) went 10 yards off tackle but lost the ball to Villanova cornerback Derek McEwen at the Wildcats' 48. lombardi then had three tough carries into the gut of the Rams' defense for 20 yards to set up a Schulz TD pass of 4 yards to Brady with 1:29 left in the third period. The drive, also highlighted by a 12-yard completion from Schulz to Brady in which the receiver made the catch with Smith draped over him, made it 17-7. Villanova made it 20-7 with 11:32 left in the game on a 25-yard Withka field goal. O'Brien destroyed the next Rams offensive series with back-to-back sacks after they had reached the Villanova 40.

That stand cut the time for a Rhode Island comeback, although the Rams did go 76 yards to score on a 13-yard pass from Monaco to tight end Steve Schwab with 1:56 left in the game. Lombardi fell on Rhode Island's attempted onside kick, and the Cats ran out the clock. Rhode Island Villanova 0 7 0 714 10 7 320 Vil fG Withka 40 Vil lombardi 8 run (Withka kick) Rho Smith 23 run (Cassara kick) Vil Brady 4 pass from Schulz (Withka kick) Vtl FG Withka 25 Rho Schwab 13 pass from Monaco (Cassara kick) A 13.400 Rho Vil First downs 16 16 Rushes-yards 36-83 44-147 Passing yards 196 128 Return yards 06 2 1 Passes 29-19-1 22-12-1 Punts 2-00 3-16 Fumbles-lost 4-2 4-1 Penalties-yards 8-78 4-25 Time of possession 31:02 28:58 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING Rhode Island, Poirier 9-56, Rogers 11-38, Smith 1-2J. Lowe 2-12, Donovan 2-2. Prew 1-(-1), Cassara 1-1-15).

Monaco 9-1-32). Villanova Lombardi 21-113, Dingle 13-55. Schulz 10-1-21 1. PASSING Rhode Island, Monaco 29-19-1-196 Villanova, Schulz 22-12-1-128. RECEIVING Rhode Island.

Rogers 10-70. Schwab 4-66, Foster 3-37, Williams 1-13, Lowe 1-10. Villanova. Dingle 3-59, Cashman 1-9, Sency 2-16. Lombardi 1-2, Thompson 1-7, Brady 4-35.

The Philadelphia Inquxer RICHARD M. TlTLtY Friedenberg's field goal with 7:02 remaining in the third quarter made the score 24-7. Matt Pollard nailed a 23-yarder for Columbia on the first play of the fourth quarter. And then came the series of the day. The Lions began the drive on their own 35 and got down to the 4 after Johnson completed a 16-yard highlight film flea flicker to Mayhew.

An offsides penalty on Penn pushed the ball to the 2. And then Caughill went into action, and Penn avoided becoming a victim. "To be honest, we didn't talk about the streak," Penn coach Ed Zubrow said. "It's my philosophy to take care of yourselves rather than worry about the other teams. If there's pressure there, it's on me as the head coach, because I'm the guy responsible for getting my team to play.

I sure hope it wasn't on the players. "Nah, the streak didn't concern us that much. But I sure am glad it's over." Columbia Penn 7 14 310 3 024 Penn Keys 2 run (Fnedenberg kick) Columbia Abbruzzese 14 run (Pollard kick) Penn Beato 1 run IFnendenberg kick) Penn Whaley 6 pas from Glover (Fnedenberg kick) Penn FG Fnedenberg 26 Columbia FG Pollard 23 A 1 1,640 Col Penn First downs 21 14 Rushes-yards 62-280 44-234 Passing yards 64 63 Return yards 84 56 Passes 10-15-0 8-14-0 Punts 2-32 5-41 Fumbles-lost 6-4 2-2 Penalties-yards 5-50 7-57 Time 0 Possession 36:03 23 57 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING Columbia, Abbruzzese 18-125, Sa-vini 8-21. Mayhew 11-39, Johnson 15-58. Maxy 4-23.

Ewmg 6-14. Penn, Keys 26-143, Beato 6-21. Maley 1-0, Sandler 1-23. Glover 2-4, Hooper 8-43. PASSING Columbia.

Mayher 9-14-0-48, Johnson 1-1-0-16. Penn. Glover 8-14-0-63. RECEIVING Columbia, Brown 2-11. Abbruzzese 4-23, Johnson 1-1-21, Mayhew 1-16, Assiff 1-9, Fox 1-7.

Penn, Tokarczyk 2-12, Whaley 2-17. Keys 2-19, Sandler 1-8, Anasti 1-7. shock New yielding a pair of field goals to hold a 17-6 halftime margin. Mike McCall set up the first Blue Hens score when he intercepted Jean on the fourth play of the game and set Delaware in motion from the UNH 49. Ten plays later, Don O'Brien converted his fifth field goal of the season, a 34-yard shot, and Delaware was up 3-0 with just over 3 minutes elapsed in the game.

New Hampshire appeared to have Delaware stopped on its second possession, but UNH safety Tom Joy hobbled the punt return after being hit by Delaware linebacker Erik Rin-goen, and Ringoen recovered the Mike Botti Rutgers running back scored a TD Princeton hands loss to Brown By Brett Goodman to The Inquirer PRINCETON Earlier in the week, Princeton coach Steve Tosches said his team had to get off to a good start against Brown. He reasoned that the Bruins had played poor first halves in losses to Yale and Rhode Island earlier this season and that a strong beginning for his Tigers would erase any frustration left over from last week's stunning last-second loss to Holy Cross. As it turned out, the Tigers defeated the Bruins, 31-27, yesterday afternoon at Palmer Stadium, but only after unleashing a gutsy come-from-behind effort to make up for their miserable performance early in the game. After a 22-yard field goal by Brown's Stephan Lins put the visitors up 27-25 with just over six minutes to play, Jason Garrett engineered an eight-play, 64-yard touchdown drive to give Princeton the victory. With the Tigers facing a third-and-goal situation from the Bruins' 6, Garrett scrambled up the middle and into the end zone with only three minutes remaining to secure the game for the Orange and Black.

"He's the catalyst. He's making the big plays. He's been doing it for three weeks in a row," Tosches said of his senior quarterback, who completed 21 of 30 passes for 277 yards. Princeton also got a big game from Judd Garrett, Jason's younger brother, whose 1-yard touchdown plunge capped the Tigers' opening drive of the second half and gave the home team its first lead of the day, 25-24. In all, Judd rushed for 121 yards on 23 carries.

For most of the first half, it seemed as if Brown would run away from the Tigers. Quarterback Danny Clark hooked up with Mike Geroux on a 36-yard flea-flicker for a touchdown only two minutes into the contest, and the Bruins were up by 14-3 at the end of the first quarter. But touchdowns by Mark Rockefeller and Dennis Heidt and a Chris Lutz field goal enabled Princeton to close the gap to a respectable 24-18 deficit at the half. Princeton is now 21, Brown 0-2-1. Brown 14 10 0 327 3 15 7 631 Princeton Bro GerouK 36 pass from Clark (Lins kick) Pri FG Lutz 22 Bro Geroux 44 pass from Clark (Lins kick) Pri Rockefeller 5 pass from Garrett Rockefeller pass from Garrettl -Bro Barialato 24 run (Lins kick) Pri Heidt 4 run (Lutz kick) Bro FG Lins 44 Pri Garrett 1 rush (Lutz kick) Brrt pr; I in, 7 Pri Garrett 6 rush (run failed) By M.

G. Missanelli lrtnuirer Staff Wrifcr One day, the "streak" will finally be over, dead and buried in a time capsule deep beneath New York City. But until then, all the Columbia football team has to show for itself are four years of futility and a few near-wins. Like yesterday's at Franklin Field. Columbia outgained Penn, had more first downs, completed more passes and had a 12-minute edge in time of possession.

But the result was a 24-10 Quakers win before 11,640 yesterday. As a result, Columbia's major-college-record losing streak is now at 44. Penn needed a heroic goal-line stand more specifically, a jarring, fumble-causing hit by inside linebacker Bill Caughill on Columbia tailback Solomon Johnson to preserve its third victory this season with no losses. Junior tailback Bryan Keys, who rushed for 143 yards on 26 carries, again was the offensive star for the Quakers. It was the third straight 100-plus game for Keys, who in the first quarter topped the mark for career rushing yards.

This, in only his 13th game. Keys scored on a 2-yard run, fullback Jim Beato had a 1-yard TD, David Wahlcy caught a 7-yard pass from quarterback Malcolm Glover, and Rich Fricdenberg kicked a 26-yard field goal and added three PATs to account for Penn's scoring. But back to Caughill's hit. Columbia, trailing 24-10, had a first and-goal at the Penn 2 when quarterback Bruce Mayhew sent tailback Johnson on a dive. Caughill sized up the Lions' running back in midair, then crashed into him headfirst.

The ball popped loose, and Penn's Mike Begg recovered at the 4. Four plays later, Dave Amodio de livered a turf-aided 77-yard punt to keep Columbia down for good. "Obviously, I'm not happy with the loss," said Columbia coach Larry McKlreavy, a former Penn assistant. "But we were one fumble away from winning this football game and winning it big. IPennl was dying.

We score there, and who knows? "But that's the way it is. When you're losing, big plays go against you. When you've won the Ivy League title in the past, as Penn has, things go your way." Columbia, which was outscored in its first two games this season 90-10, began yesterday's contest by lining up on the wrong side of the field after winning the toss. Then things really got humiliating. With a national cable television audience looking on, return man Terry Brown fumbled Friedenberg's kickoff at the 10-yard line, where it was recovered by Penn's Tom Charters.

Three plays later, Keys was in the end zone and the Quakers had a 7-0 lead. But the Lions came right back, thanks to the field generalship of Mayhew and the running of sophomore tailback Greg Abbruzzese. Ab-bruzzese, the star of last year's undefeated freshman team, gained 125 yards on 18 carries. His 14-yard first-quarter TD run ended a 60-yard, 10-play drive that tied the score. Beato pushed Penn back into the lead with his 1-yard run, ending a 66-yard, 10-play Quaker march fueled by an 18-yard pop pass from Glover to tight end Dolph Tokarczyk.

Whaley's catch, which made the score 21-7 with just 29 seconds remaining in the half, was a masterpiece. The senior wide receiver from Chestnut Hill Academy fought off Columbia cornerback Stan Brous-sard and snared the underthrown ball in the corner of the end zone. UNH also fumbled four times was held to minus-15 yards rushing. "I can't even get mad. It was a farce the way we played," New Hampshire coach Bill Bowes said.

Blue Hens coach Tubby Raymond, who saw his team manhandled by New Hampshire, 45-21, a year ago, credited his defense. "Two weeks ago, this was a confused team going nowhere," he said. "They've regrouped and made exceptional progress. We are showing signs of making a football team." Delaware capitalized on New Hampshire miscues to jump to a 17-0 lead in the opening half, before Defense helps Delaware 10 The Inquirer DURHAM, Nil. John Levclis sacked New Hampshire quarterback Bob Jean four times and blocked a punt to head a defensive effort that sparked Delaware to a 38-20 upset of New Hampshire, the No.4-ranked team in Division I-AA.

The loss was the first for the Wildcats (3-1 overall, 2-1 Yankee Conference), while Delaware (2-2, 2-1) won its second straight. Jean completed 22 of 48 passes for 258 yards, but in addition to the sacks he was intercepted three times and had two touchdown passes called back on offensive pass interference. A 10,800. Bro Pr First downs 25 Rushes-yards 51-257 43-18e Passing 218 27 Return Yards 6 Comp-Att-Int 15-24-1 21-30-0 Punts 5-37 2 42 Fumbles-Lost 4-0 3-3 Penalties-Yards 10-95 2-13 Time of Possession 29:34 30:26.