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tt" 7 rrrrrrrrrrrrr rry ry rrr tv 1 1 1 tttttt ft C16 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Sunday, November 10, 1996 COLLEGE FOOTBALL Villanova runs into first-half trouble New Hampshire routed the Cats, 34-0. That put Villanova's playoff chances in jeopardy. Penn defense too much for Princeton The Tigers, 10-6 losers, gained just 184 yards. Jasen Scott, meanwhile, rushed a Penn-record 45 times, Associated Press CHRIS GARDNER By Steve Craig FOR THE INQUIRER DURHAM, N.H. Villanova was swept away by a first-half wave of New Hampshire points yesterday, leaving the Wildcats without a sure path to the Division I-AA football playoffs.

New Hampshire, ranked 18th in Division I-AA, had no trouble navigating the rain-soaked Cowell Stadium turf and thumped No. 16 Villanova, 34-0. New Hampshire scored all its points in the first half. Villanova, shut out for the first time since a 3-0 loss at Massachusetts in 1990, slipped to 7-3 overall and 5-2 in the Yankee Conference. New Hampshire is now 7-2 and 5-2.

William and Mary defeated Massachusetts yesterday to move to 8-1 in the conference. "We are definitely in harm's way now," Villanova head coach Andy Talley said of his team's playoff chances. "We controlled our own destiny. Now, if we finish 8-3, it's up to the selection committee." Villanova quarterback Clint Park suffered a separated shoulder early in the game. By then he already had been intercepted twice by New Hampshire cornerback Jason Swett.

The first interception was returned 74 yards for the game's open Penn's Chris Riley (left) and Princeton's Mark Whaling chase a fumble that resulted when Whaling sacked Quakers quarterback Tom MacLeod at the Princeton 10. The Tigers recovered the ball. Nation Army downs Air Force, 23-7; Dartmouth stays undefeated 1993 Penn-Princeton game, caught two passes, and touched the ball on nearly 62 percent of the Quakers' offensive plays. "Forty-five carries? That many?" coach Al Bagnoli said when in-; formed of Scott's workload. "We thought it was going to be 30 to 35, but 45 is awfully high.

I guess that means he's in good shape. He's going to be awfully tired tonight." Scott, who was on the field for all but one play, said: "I knew I carried a lot, but I had no idea it was 45. 1 was tired a couple of times in the first half when I caught a couple of passes, then had a couple of runs. I was replaced for one play, but that was all I needed." The Quakers clung to their 3-0 lead for nearly two quarters before mounting a 64-yard drive. Scott ran for 17 yards, and MacLeod hit Ken- ny Hall for 13 on a third-and-two play following a pretty fake to Scott.

Two plays later, from the Tigers' 26, Scott hitched himself to the back of 330-pound left tackle Sears free at the 15, and gave Penn a 10-0 lead with 1 minute, 46 seconds left in the third quarter. Princeton scored on its first possession of the fourth quarter. A 33-yard completion from Budzinski to Kevin Duffy carried the Tigers to the Penn 14, and Budzinski went in six plays later on a 4-yard run. But Ben Mulinix's extra-point try sailed to the right, keeping the Tigers from being able to tie the game on a field goal. On its last drive, Princeton got to the Penn 45 with 17 seconds left.

Fit- "I tingly, Foley sacked Budzinski for an eight-yard loss and Budzinski failed to spike the ball before time ran out. It has been a tough month for Foley. On Oct. 12, Bill Tierney, a Ford- ham football player who was his teammate at Bergen Catholic High School, collapsed and died during pregame warmups. Less than three weeks later, Foley lost his mother.

"I don't know what it tells me," Foley said. "I guess life isn't fair. But you just do what you have to do. And you've got to go on." By Joe Juliano INQUIRER STAFF WRITER PRINCETON Jasen Scott carried a heavy burden yesterday. Tom Foley carried a heavy burden of a completely different nature.

Together, they carried Penn to a 10-6 Ivy League victory over Princeton. Scott's burden was purely physical. The deceptively strong and durable tailback set a school record with 45 carries, gaining 155 yards and scoring the only touchdown for the Quakers (44 overall, 2-3 Ivy) on a 26-yard run. Foley's burden was overwhelmingly emotional. Wednesday, the senior defensive tackle attended funeral services in North Bergen, N.J., for his mother, Rose, who died of cancer Nov.

1 at age 56. Yesterday, Foley played as dominant a game as a Penn lineman has had all season, leading a unit that limited the archrival Tigers (2-6, 1-4) to 184 total yards. He sacked quarterback Brett Budzinski three times and hurried him frequently, made another tackle for a loss, and batted down a pass. "I was so upset about what happened to my mother, so frustrated," Foley, a 6-foot, 260-pounder, said. "The only thing I could do was vent my frustration at the guy across from me.

Football is the only sport where you can vent like that and not get arrested. "I can remember standing on the field at times during the game and seeing pictures of my mother. Usually, I don't think of anything during a game; I just play. "But I'm kind of satisfied with my performance. I know she's looking down at me smiling." Playing for the final time in rickety Palmer Stadium, which is to be torn down after the season, the Quakers forced four turnovers.

Free safety John Bishop intercepted a pass and snatched a Budzinski pitchout in midair. Princeton coach Steve Tosches, whose offense was limited by the injury-induced absence of leading rusher Marc Washington, said Foley and his defensive linemates decided the game. "They're the ones who had us on our heels," Tosches said. "They put pressure on us. They disrupted us in a lot of ways." Princeton's defense played almost as well.

The Tigers forced three turnovers two interceptions of quarterback Tom MacLeod and a fumble that MacLeod lost on a sack to Mark Whaling at the Princeton 10-yard line. The Quakers got a break in the first quarter when the officials ruled that the Tigers' Damani Leech lost the ball for a split second on a diving interception. Penn took a deep breath and scored first, on Jeremiah Greathouse's 31-yard field goal. Though the Quakers were not very productive scoring, Scott was one busy senior. He broke the school record of 42 carries established by Terrence Stokes in the yards as Ball State bombed Kent, 50-6.

Ohio University failed to complete a pass in the first three quarters of a 24-8 loss to Miami (Ohio). South Kentucky 24, Mississippi State 21 Billy Jack Haskins completed two touchdown passes to Norman Mason, including a 24-yard strike with 7:03 to go, to lift the Wildcats to a Southeastern Conference victory over Mississippi State in Lexington, Ky. Kentucky (3-6, 2-4) won its second straight game since the school announced that Bill Curry would not return as coach next season. The Bulldogs (3-5, 14) lost for the third time in their last four games. Mississippi State's Brian Hazel-wood attempted a wind-aided 50-yard field goal with 1:26 to go, but it sailed wide left.

Kentucky's Derick Logan gained 186 yards on 41 carries. Elsewhere: Hapless Duke reached 0-9 for the first time ever by losing to North Carolina State, 44-22. Darren Sharper intercepted three passes in William and Mary's 30-6 rout of Massachusetts Murray State (8- 1) clinched the Ohio Valley Conference title with a 17-14 triumph over Eastern Kentucky. Clifford Du-bose kicked three field goals as Mississippi Valley State topped Alcorn State, 16-9. Eric Goebel completed 20 of 39 passes for 403 yards and four TDs to lift Evansville past Kentucky Wesleyan, 35-27.

Keith Dean's 1-yard TD run accounted for the game's only points in Grambling State's 7-0 win over Alabama State. Southwest Texas Christian 31, Tulsa 24 Basil Mitchell rushed for 215 yards and three touchdowns, including a late 74-yard dash, as Texas Christian rallied to beat the Golden Hurricane in Tulsa, Okla. The Horned Frogs (4-5, 3-3 Western Athletic Conference) scored four touchdowns in the second half and handed Tulsa (3-6, 1-5) its fourth straight loss. Elsewhere: De'Mond Parker scored a pair of touchdowns to lead Oklahoma to a hard-fought 27-17 win over Oklahoma State Pete Burks fired a 12-yard pass to Anthony Eubanks for the winning TD in Arkansas' 13-7 victory over Mississippi. D'Andre Hardeman ran 95 yards for a touchdown as Texas defeated Baylor, 24-7.

West UCLA 38, Washington State 14 Skip Hicks scored three TDs to tie a single-season school record as UCLA defeated the Cougars in Pasadena, Calif. Hicks, a junior, has scored 17 touchdowns this season, equaling the Bruins record set by Gaston Green in 1986 and tied by J.J. Stokes in 1993. Hicks rushed for 116 yards on 24 carries as the Bruins improved to 4-5, 3-3 Pacific Ten. Washington State is 54, 3-3.

Elsewhere: Saladin McCullough rushed for 223 yards and scored five touchdowns as Oregon ran past Arizona, 49-31 San Diego had only 11 first downs and 292 yards overall, but the Toreros beat Azusa Pacific, 44-34. Brian Ah Yat passed for 227 yards and five touchdowns in the first half as Montana cruised to a 63-6 triumph over Portland State. South Korea takes lead in women's amateur golf ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA ROSA, Philippines South Korea vaulted from sixth place to a 4-stroke lead with a 139 in yesterday's second round of the women's World Amateur Golf Team Championships. Han Hee-won had the day's best individual score, a 4-under-par 68 that gave the South Korean team a 286 two-round total in the tournament. 50 times for 297 yards and three touchdowns as Wisconsin beat Minnesota, 45-28.

Dayne broke Billy Marek's school record of 43 rushes, set in 1974. record for TD catches with 16 and scores in a season with 1 7. HGregMoylan hit 17 of 21 passes for 189 yards and 5 TDs, and Gerald Mack ran for 244 yards as Millersville stunned East Stroudsburg, 49-16. ASSOCIATED PRESS Fullback Joe Hewitt rushed for a career-best 161 yards and scored two touchdowns yesterday as undefeated Army broke the Air Force jinx and beat the Falcons, 23-7, in West Point, N.Y. It was a sweet victory for Army (9-0), which had lost seven straight games to Air Force (5-4).

The Black Knights matched the school's best mark at this stage since the 1949 team finished 9-0. Army can win the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy, emblematic of service-academy supremacy, for the first time since 1988 by beating Navy at Veterans Stadium next month. Nakia Addison scored Air Force's lone touchdown on a 25-yard run to give the Falcons a 7-3 lead with 6 minutes, 38 seconds left in the first half. Dartmouth 40, Columbia 0 In Hanover, N.H., Jon Aljancic ran for one touchdown and passed for two as Dartmouth overwhelmed the Lions in a battle for first place in the Ivy League. Dartmouth (8-0 overall, 5-0) has gone 14-0-1 since its last defeat.

Columbia (6-2, 3-2) which lost its second straight, has not won in Hanover since 1946. Elsewhere in the East: Andre Hatcher rushed for 175 yards as Du-quesne (9-0) throttled St. Peter's, 48- 9. Chad Levitt rushed for 218 yards as Cornell defeated Yale, 28-20. Jason McCullough passed for three TDs in a torrential downpour as Brown battered Harvard, 31-7.

Phil Stambaugh threw for 283 yards and two touchdowns to spark Lehigh past Holy Cross, 20-10. Lafayette's defense forced four turnovers in a 23-7 conquest of Bucknell. Jasen O'Neil rushed for a career-high 117 yards to lead the Leopards North-eastern's David Edmundson scored on a 77-yard run in a 10-3 triumph over Boston University. Willie Gonzalez's two TD passes led James Madison to a 14-6 win over Connecticut Maine used three Chris Binder field goals to beat Hofstra, 9-7 Freshman Ryan Vena passed for 271 yards and two touchdowns in Colgate's 34-13 romp over Fordham. Midwest Wisconsin 45, Minnesota 28 Freshman Ron Dayne carried 50 times for 297 yards and three touchdowns as the Badgers blasted Minnesota in Madison, Wis.

"I noticed that after a while they started acting like they didn't want to tackle me," said the 260-pounder, who starred at Overbrook High in South Jersey. Dayne has rushed for 541 yards in his last two games for Wisconsin (5-4, 24 Big Ten). The Gophers are 3-6, 0-6. Elsewhere: Freshman Sedrick Ir-vin scored four TDs and rushed for 158 yards in Michigan State's 38-15 victory over Indiana. Dayton dumped Wofford, 38-14, to raise its record to 10-0.

Chad Lindsey had 161 Matt Richardson's 1-yard touchdown run gave Youngstown State a 17-13 victory over Southwest Missouri State. Justin Ventura's 28-yard field goal with 55 seconds remaining capped a 17-point comeback by Eastern Michigan in a 20-17 victory over Akron. Ryan Huzjak passed for two touchdowns as Toledo slipped past Central Michigan, 23-20, in the Mid-American Conference. Western Michigan gained its first victory by beating Bowling Green, 16-13, in overtime. Tim Lester hit Jake Moreland with a 17-yard TD pass for the game-winner.

LeAndre Moore rushed for a careclr-high 162 ing score just 2 minutes, 57 seconds into the game. The second set up a 49-yard drive and a 2-yard touchdown run by Jerry Azumah that gave New Hampshire a 14-0 lead with 8:32 left in the first quarter. "Swetty just made two great plays," UNH head coach Bill Bowes said. "I think we set them back with those and I don't know if they ever recovered." Villanova finishes its season at James Madison (7-3, 5-2) on Saturday. It needs to win and hope that other Yankee Conference teams such as New Hampshire lose.

"The best thing I caa tell New Hampshire is win the last two games or you'll be on the bubble with us," Talley said. With Park out, Villanova's highly touted passing offense was ineffective. Backup Chris Boden was 19 of 47 for 199 yards and was also intercepted. Boden directed only one drive into scoring territory, and that was snuffed when a fourth-and-goal completion to Josh Dolbin was stopped short of the end zone by a Swett tackle. "I thought this was going to be a four- to three-touchdown game, a wire job, but when you don't have your trigger guy, that makes it tough," Talley said.

Wide receiver Brian Finneran, ranked second in the nation with 8.67 catches per game and third in receiving yardage with 127.9 per game, had just three catches for 56 yards. Finneran was harrassed by the aggressive UNH secondary. "We just could not find the ways to get him the ball," Talley said. Villanova, which entered the game with the best turnover ratio in the Yankee Conference, suffered four turnovers. New Hampshire lost one fumble, late in the fourth quarter.

New Hampshire took a 21-0 lead on a 16-yard run on a reverse by receiver Calvin Jones with 49 seconds left in the first quarter. New Hampshire quarterback Chris Bres-nahan finished the scoring with touchdown runs of 8 and 16 yards in the second quarter. Bresnahan had no trouble with the wet weather, completing 12 of 15 passes for 174 yards without an in-. terception. Bresnahan suffered a sprained knee late in the third quar ter and is doubtful for next week.

Ten New Hampshire runners com- bined for 237 rushing yards Villanova 0 0 0 00 New Hampshire 21 13 0 034 First quarter UNH Swelt 74 interception return (Curry kick) 2:57 UNH Azumah 2 run Curry kick), 6:28 UNH Jones 16 run (Curry kick), 14:11 Second quarter UNH Bresnahan 8 run (Curry kick), 2:40 UNH Bresnahan 16 run (kick blocked), 14:05. A 1,231. Vil UNH First downs 17 20 Musnes-yaras 27-67 61-215 Passing 212 184 Return Yards 78 137 Comp-Att-Int 21-51-3 14-19-0 Punts Fumbles-Lost 2-1 4-1 Penalties-Yards 3-30 5-51 Time of Possession 23:38 36:22 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing: Villanova, Sifford 13-45. Cowsette 4-27, Golemi 3-16, Boden 5 (-16), Park 2 (-5). New Hampshire, Azumah 21-66, Scottron 5-56, Cas-sano 3-23, Lopez 3-17, Jones 1-16, Bresnahan 7-13, Curran 5-13, Baptisle 3-11, Flamish 2-2, Fischer 1-0.

Passing: Villanova, Boden 19-47-1-199. New Hampshire, Bresnahan 12-15-0-174, Cassano 2-4-0-10. Receiving: Villanova, Brad Finneran 5-75, Ka-vanaugh 4-19, Brian Finneran 3-56, Doblin 3-31, Cowsette 2-15, Sifford 2-8, Carter 1-6, Golemi 1-2. New Hampshire, Jones 4-48, Scottron 4-45, Azuma.h 3-6, Barrow 1-12, Tamulski 1-7, Washington" 1-5 W. Va.

trounces Rutgers to spoil Sacca's first start Penn Princeton 3 0 7 010 0 0 0 66 First quarter UP FG Greathouse 31, 13:42. Third quarter UP Scott 28 run (Greathouse kick), 13:14. Fourth quarter PU Budzinski 4 run (kick failed), 4:35. A 10,034. UP PU First downs 16 11 Rushes-yards 49-148 33-49 Passing 137 135 Return Yards 71 57 Comp-Att-Int 12-27-2 14-28-2 Punts Fumbles-Lost 2-1 2-2 Penalties-Yards 7-55 3-15 Time of Possession 35:46 24:14 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing: Penn, Scott 45-155, McGee 1-5, MacLeod 3-minus 12.

Princeton, Giurato 6-22, Thei-sen 8-21, Duffy 1-11, Clifford 2-2, Budzinski 18-minus 7. Passing: Penn, MacLeod 12-27-2 137. Princeton, Budzinski 14-28-2 135. Receiving: Penn, Dafferner 3-29, Bonanno 3-26, Scott 2-24. Hall 1-13, Cosmello 1-13, Gross 1-5, James 1-27.

Princeton, Duffy 3-48, Clilford 3-13, Gill 3-26, House 2-19, Giurato 1-11, Kamara 1-10, Erb 1-8. WV Foreman 48 pass from Johnston (Taylor kick), 2:28. WV Foreman 23 pass from Johnston (Taylor kick), 4:53. WV FG Taylor 29, 8:37. Second quarter WV Zereoue 2 run (Taylor kick), 2:35.

WV Swoope 48 run (Taylor kick), 5:29. WV Saunders 2 pass from Johnston (Taylor kick), 8:30. Third quarter WV Richardson 15 pass from Bulger (Taylor kick), 1:50. WV FG Taylor 31, 11:00. Fourth quarter Crooks 17 pass from Sacca (Mike-Mayer kick), 5:14.

King 27 pass from Sacca (Mike-Mayer kick), 5:25. WV Saunders 44 pass from Bulger (Taylor kick), 7:16. A 21,024. WV Rut First downs Hushes-yards 40-143 39-79 Passing 371 101 Comp-Att-Int 19-34-1 10-28-0 Return Yards 44 6 Punts-Avg. Fumbles-Lost 0-0 3-2 Penalties-Yards 5-56 5-50 Time of Possession 31:16 28:44 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing: West Virginia, Swoope 9-89, Zereoue 19-49, White 1-5, A.

Green 3-5, Gillespie 2-3, Plants 2-(minus 2), Molt 2-(minus 3), Johnston 2-(minus 3). Rutgers, Crooks 9-41, Bosch 11-39, Fauntleroy 5-27, Diggs 1-3, Powell 1-(minus 11), Sacca 12-(mmu8 20). Passing: West Virginia, Johnson 10-14-0-161, Bulger 9-19-1-210, Seider 0-1-0-0. Rutgers, Sacca 10-28-0-101. Receiving: West Virginia, Saunders 11-178, Foreman 6-164, Richardson 1-15, Wable 1-14.

Rutgers, Fauntleroy 2-15, King 1-27! Crooks 1-17, Powell 1-13, Bosch 1-12, Curry 1-7, Setiger 1-6, Diggs 1-2, t. Washington 1-2. Saturday's Best Koy Detmer passed for 401 yards and five touchdowns as No. 7 Colorado rallied past Iowa State, 49-42. Brian Ah Yat passed for 227 yards and 5 TDs in the first half as Montana coasted to a 63-6 victory over Portland State.

Darnell Autry ran for a career-high 240 yards and four TDs as Northwestern beat Iowa, 40-13. Saladin McCullough rushed for 223 yards, third-most in Oregon history, and scored five TDs as the Ducks beat Arizona, 49-31. James Suber ran for a school-record 261 yards and scored all five TDs as Indiana, defeated Lock Haven. 35-14. Leon Payne ran 29 times for 263 yards and three TDs to lead Widener past Delaware Valley, 49-21.

Bryan Snyder completed 24 of 32 passes for 345 yards and five TDs as Albright beat Susquehanna, 41-14. He set a Middle Atlantic Conference record for TD passes in a season with 37, breaking Larry Barretta's 1986 record at Lycoming. Albright's Ryan Ditze caught 9 passes for 132 yards and 2 TDs, setting a conference season ASSOCIATED PRESS PISCATAWAY, N.J. Struggling Rutgers was just the right antidote for West Virginia, which came into yesterday's Big East game reeling from two straight conference losses. Chad Johnston threw a season-high three touchdown passes in the opening 23 minutes, and the Mountaineers went on to a 55-14 victory over the Scarlet Knights (2-7, 1-5 Big East) in a get-well game.

Johnston found Shawn Foreman with touchdown passes of 48 and 23 yards on the Mountaineers' first two possessions. He threw a 2-yard TD toss to David Saunders in the sec-nnrl nnnrtpr so WVI1 built 38-0 half-time' lead, limiting Rutgers to 43 yards of total offense in the first two periods. The Mountaineers (8-2, 4-2) gained a season-high 514 yards and sacked Rutgers quarterback Ralph Sacca seven times. West Virginia is already assured a berth in the Liberty Bowl at Memphis, as one of the Big East's top four teams, but the Mountaineers are hoping to be selected for either the Carquest (Miami) or Gator (Jacksonville) Bowls in Florida. W.

Virginia Rutgers 17 21 10 755 0 0 0 1414 1 First quarter.