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-V. V. -w 4 (, PAGE D9 SUNDAY OCTOBER 22, 1995 SPORTSPART 2 ale can't overcome slip-ups against Columbia Conf. Overall WITWIT Pf PA' opposite direction at the start of the second quarter, and the Lions used the unexpected boost to go 92 yards in 11 plays. Quarterback Mike Cavanaugh's 31-yard run and 15-yard completions to Ryan Ornellas and Chris Valvo set up Harper's 18-yard TD run on fourth down.

Yale scored on Mayer's pass to Aram 35 seconds into the fourth quarter. But three plays after Mark Wallrapp recovered Cavanaugh's fumble, Mayer lost the snap. Columbia won two in a row over Yale for the first time since 1961-62 and remained tied for first in the league with Princeton. Columbia, which hadn't started 2-0 in the league before this year, is at Princeton next Saturday. The Lions haven't won there since 1945.

before the half, it might have been a different outcome." But the major problem for the Elis (2-4, 1-2 Ivy League) was that by the time they put together an 82-yard drive before Mayer's fumble, they had one first down, had been out-gained 242 yards to 44 and trailed, 21-0. "We wanted to get up on them fast, and fortunately we did," said Eric Keck, Columbia's 300-pound defensive tackle. "We seemed to know their game plan, and luckily for us Hetherington was out." Columbia (3-2-1, 3-0) won the coin toss, chose to kick with the wind and got touchdown runs of 15 and 27 yards by the 235-pound Harper in the first quarter. The wind suddenly shifted to the scoring pass to Jon Aram, he had two of Yale's four lost fumbles on snaps from center Jack HOI. The most critical came at the Columbia 4 with 24 seconds left in the first half.

"I've never played in anything worse than this," Mayer said. "At times the ball came in OK, but at other times there was nothing the center and I could do between us because it was so wet. "It's my responsibility to get the ball, but on the play at the 4 I was real upset the referee couldn't do something about the ball. Hill asked the ref to dry off the ball, but he said he couldn't do anything else about it. I'm not saying that was the deciding factor, but it was atrocious that the ball would come in like that." Said Cozza: "If we'd scored just than it was in the first half," said Cam Cozza, in his 3 1 st year as Yale coach.

"And with the way the wind shifted in the second quarter, I think Ray Tellier, Columbia coach had something to do with the man upstairs. "A game like this is where we miss Chris Hetherington a lot. He gives us that added dimension, especially with them often giving us the perimeter. But he can't play. He can run, but he can't throw, so he wasn't going in." Hetherington, Yale's 6-foot-3, 230-pound quarterback, missed his second game with an injured shoulder.

With his size and running ability, he would have helped against the bigger Lions. Though senior backup Kevin Mayer was 19of 36 for 232 yards, all career highs, and threw a 27-yard By BRUCE BERLET Courant Staff Writer NEW YORK Thank goodness Columbia installed AstroTurf at BEE! Wien Stadium -j una suuuiicr. 1 not, the mon soon on the banks of the Harlem River Saturday would have left Columbia and Yale playing in a pigpen. As it was, wind gusting to 40 mph all but eliminated passing until subsiding late in the first half. And both teams had difficulty handling the football, especially Yale.

But Columbia fullback John Harper hydroplaned his way to 138 yards and three first-half touchdowns as the Lions defeated Yale 21-7 before 3,875 on homecoming. "I haven't seen it much worse away Hopes washeli V- i little 3fer ,7 Princeton Columbia Cornell Penn Dartmouth Yale Brown Harvard 0 0154 2 1 132 3 0132 2 0174 70 126 133 132 86 2 0135 4 0114 3 0167 5 0125 158, 169 129 Sstuntay Columbia 21, Yale 7 Penn 58, Brown 21 Princeton 14, Harvard 3 Lehigh 34, Cornell 23 Dartmouth 35, Colgate 14 Next Saturday Cornell at Brown, 1 p.m. Dartmouth at Harvard. 1 p.m. Columbia at Princeton, 1 p.m.

Penn at Yale, 1 p.m. Princeton1 renlains DeRosa help iPenn defeat Brown, 58-21 Associated Press Brock Harvey passed to Kevin Duffy for two touchdowns and Marc Washington rushed for 129 yards as Princeton extended its winning streak to six with a 14-3 victory over Harvard Saturday in Cam bridge, Mass. It was Harvard's 10th loss in 11 home games under second- year coach Tim Murphy. Harvey put the Tigers in front to stay with a 4-yard touchdown pass to Duffy in the first quarter. Harvey also scored on a 39-yard pass in the third quarter.

Harvard averted a shutout on Ryan Korinke's 22-yard field goal early in the second quarter. Harvey, sharing the quarterback duties with Harry Nakielny after sustaining an arm Injury, completed 6 of 9 for, 84 yards as Princeton beat Harvard for, the fifth; consecutive year. Nakielny completed 9 of 14 for 104 yards; Harvard's Vin Ferrara completed 13 of 31 for 185 yards. Penn 58, Brown 21: Mark De-Rosa passed for three touchdowns in the first half and Penn ended a two-game losing streak by defeating Brown in Philadelphia. DeRosa, who completed 12 of 14 for 204 yards, had touchdown passes to Miles Macik, Travis Arbo-gast and Matt Tonelli.

The Quakers also got 48-yard touchdown runs from Aman Abye and Dion Camp. Penn nearly tied the Ivy League record for points, set by Brown last year in a 59-27 victory over Columbia. Jason McCullough completed 14 of 27 for 158 yards and two touchdowns to become Brown's all-time leading passer. His 3,042 yards surpassed Pete Beatrice's 3,015, and his 236 completions passed Joe Potter's 232. The Quakers scored with less than two minutes gone when Abye scored on a 48-yard run.

A 53-yard punt return for a touchdown by Mark Fabish made it 14-0. The Bears had 1 yard of offense when Marquis Jessie fumbled and Perm's Dana Lyons recovered at the Brown 37. The Quakers converted when Arbogast scored on a 28-yard reception. The first of three Jeremiah Great-house field goals put Penn up 24-0 before Paul Choquette scored on a 3-yard pass from McCullough. Lehigh 34, Cornell 23: Rabih Abdullah rushed for a career-high 266 yards and five touchdowns to lead Lehigh to its third consecutive victory, defeating Cornell in Bethlehem, Pa.

Abdullah's five touchdowns, on runs of 75, 55, 52, 20 and 15 yards, set a Patriot League record for rushing touchdowns in a game. Cornell went ahead 14-0 on a 71-yard touchdown pass from Steve Joyce to Ron Mateo and a 7-yard touchdown run by Terry Smith. But Abdullah scored the next three touchdowns to put the Engineers (5-2) ahead. Mateo finished with 137 yards on six receptions. Joyce completed 15 of 31 for 261 yards.

Dartmouth 35, Colgate 14: Greg Smith rushed for two touchdowns and scored another on a 35-yard pass play in the first quarter, leading Dartmouth over Colgate in Hanover, N.H. Dartmouth scored four times in the first quarter to defeat Colgate for the first time since 1949. Smith, son of ex-NFL receiver Jackie Smith, carried 15 times for 113 yards, including 104 in the first half. -f. UI1U if Si- 1 ti; tk J' 4 4 Jf ft-.

With muddy conditions at Dan Jena Field, It doasn't taka a tackla to bring down Bowdoin quarterback John Wihbey a Trinity's Jon Goias (50) wind up In the pile. There were 14 fumbles. Stephen Dunn The Hartford Courant Trinity quarterback Joe Mullaney has to contend with pressure from Bowdoin's Dave Best as he attempts to pass. Mullaney threw only eight passes and completed one for 3 yards. Bowdoin half backpedaling.

It had poor field position, mainly because of Bowdoin punter Jim Cavanaugh (seven for a 38-yard average), had several penalties that extended Bowdoin drives and had a 79-yard touchdown pass called back in the third quarter because of holding. With 5:15 remaining in the third, officials halted the game because of lightning. "I saw a few flashes," said Jones (20 carries, 139 yards). "I never heard of lightning stopping a game." Later, there was thunder. And rain.

Always rain. With 4:17 left in the game, Trinity's Jon Golas punted low and Tony Molinari blocked it. Cavanaugh, also a cornerback, ran 53 yards for a touchdown. On the two-point conversion try, Ramon Martinez, who came in for Wihbey in the third quarter, rolled to his right. But linebacker Ryan Hankard, who was back in coverage, came up and tackled Martinez before he could get a pass off.

Trinity's next possession ended with a punt with 1:13 remaining. The Bantams then committed their third personal foul, helping Bowdoin get into position to win. laney and ran 15 yards for a touchdown on the first play of the second quarter. Mullaney hit Tom Kaija for thetwo-point conversion pass and it was 14-0. Before halftime, Bowdoin drove 45 yards in nine plays, scoring on quarterback Wihbey's 6-yard pass to Jon Beedy.

The kick failed. Trinity spent much of the second ByTOMYANTZ I Courant Staff Writer AMHERST, Mass. The weather at Pratt Field Saturday was symbolic of Wesleyan's performance against Amherst: dismal. Amherst, meanwhile, scored two fWWJTT touchdowns as sheets of rain saturated the turf, turning it into pools of water, puddles of mud and chunks of grass. Those scores were enough for a 13-0 victory in the Little Three Conference opener.

"To run, you had to slosh through six inches of mud," said Wesleyan running back Tom Themistocles, who had carries for 64 yards, including a 40-yard run. "The field was lousy, but it was that way for both teams." Amherst (4-1) was able to maintain control despite the loss of tailback Josh Mason, who broke a bone in his right leg on a carry that established him as the school's all-time leading rusher. Mason, who came in averaging 169.5 yards a game, set the record with a 7-yard run 2 minutes, 10 seconds into the game. It gave him 2,431 yards, surpassing Bill Foye's record of 2,428 set from 1965 to '68. Dan Milazzo replaced Mason, who is out for the year, and rushed for 90 yards and a touchdown on 24 carries.

Wesleyan (2-3) was able to rush for 152 yards, but managed only 53 yards passing in 25 mph wind. The Lord Jeffs took a 7-0 lead on a 2-yard run by quarterback Rich Wil-lard with 6:19 remaining in the first half. The Cardinals' best scoring opportunity came late in the second quarter. They drove from their 40-yard line to the Amherst 1 1 before the drive stalled. Robert Stager missed a 28-yard field goal with 2:36 left.

After that, Wesleyan's offense was halted by mistakes and penalties, as well as Amherst's defense. The Cardinals were penalized 11 times for 76 yards. "Every time we got something going we made mistakes and were sent right back," coach Frank Hauser said. An interception thrown by Scott Hevesy (5 of 13, 39 yards) in the third quarter was one of the costlier mistakes. Amherst linebacker John Walsh returned it to the Wesleyan 9.

Milazzo ran for a touchdown on the next play for a 13-0 lead with 8:06 left in the quarter. To add to Wesleyan's problems, Hevesy left the game with about five minutes left because of what Hauser termed a chest injury. Wesleyan's last legitimate chance came late in the fourth quarter when Themistocles ran left, then cut against the grain for a 40-yard gain to the Amherst 48. But the Cardinals failed to gain another first down and turned the ball over. i "If it was a dry day, I would have scored, but I couldn't get my feet going through the slop at the end," Themistocles said.

That was the kind of day it was for Wesleyan, which concludes its Little Three schedule at home Nov. 4 against Williams. Williams, which has won the past eight titles, plays Amherst Nov. 11. "Nothing went right for us," Wesleyan defensive end Mike Rogers said.

"For us, this was a game you could say When it rains, it Trinity gets a scare but defeats Team (record) Rasutt Saturday Wwttame Central (2-5) def. St. Francis 15-13 Saturday at Wagner Coast Guard (3-4) lost to Union. 23-0 Sat, at Plymouth St UConn (6-1) lost to Rhode Island. 24-19 Saturday vs.

Northeastern New Haven (6-0-1) did not play Sat, vs. Knoxville College Sacred Heart (2-4) tost to Stonehlll. 1 9-7 Sat, at Salve Reglna Southern (5-2) did not play Saturday vs. C.W. Post Trinity (3-2) def.

Bowdoin. 14-12 Saturday at MidcHebury Wesleyan (2-3) lost to Amherst, 1 3-0 Saturday at Bowdoin Western (4-2-1 def. UMass-Lowell, 62-0 Saturday at Stony Brook Yale (2-4) lost to Columbia, 21-7 Saturday vs. Penn By WOODY ANDERSON Courant Staff Writer Somehow they played a football game in all that mud, wind and rain. Saturday at Dan Jessee Field, 'iTfJ Trinity defeated fSSSl.

it! Bowdoin, 14-12. reffrfiTfii: it came down to Bowdoin's 28-yard field goal attempt with 6 seconds remaining. John Wihbey fumbled the snap and kicker Jeremy Riffle never had a chance to win it. Beyond the 14 fumbles, 16 punts, 16 penalties and horrible footing, there were glistening plays, such as the second-longest run in Trinity history, and. stoppage of play for four minutes because of lightning.

This mudwrestling with helmets had almost everything. It didn't have an upset. Bowdoin played better than its 0-5 record. Trinity is 3-2 and some of the Bantams thought they were lucky to win. Drained Trinity coach Don Miller told his players, "I'm not going to try and analyze this game." With 9 minutes, 14 seconds left in the first quarter, Trinity running back Ray Jones took off on what he called "an everyday sweep." When he finished, he had a 98-yard touchdown.

The longest run by a Trinity player is listed as 100 yards by Joe Carroll against Wesleyan in 1908. Jones ran to his right and cut inside one block. "Then I didn't see anybody," he said. Late in the quarter, Trinity defensive end Zeb Andrews recovered a Bowdoin pitch on the Polar Bears 18. Four plays later, Jones took a pitch from quarterback Joe Mul.