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C16 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER CO LLE GE FOOT ALL Sunday, October 20, 1996 Ranked Teams E. Carolina storms past Hurricanes Quakers sputter in loss to Lehigh After a good start, Perm went flat. Seka Edwards ignited a big-play offense as the Mountain Hawks soared to a 28-24 win. Av'ww'i' "Sir tfg Penn's Mitch Marrow wraps up Lehigh quarterback Seka Edwards for a yards and two touchdowns to sink the Quakers at Franklin Field. He ran The Philadelphia Inquirer JOHN COSTELLO loss.

Edwards passed for 248 for another score. By Joe Juliano INQUIRER STAFF WHITER There's no figuring the Penn Quakers these days. Yesterday against Lehigh, they came out firing, looking like the running, gunning, defensively sound Ivy League champions of yesteryear. But that lasted just one quarter. For the rest of the game, the Quakers' quarterbacks couldn't move the ball and their defense give up a bunch of big plays, leaving a sparse crowd of 5,074 wondering what happened in a 28-24 loss to the Mountain Hawks at Franklin Field.

Lehigh's Seka Edwards, a 6-foot, 153-pound junior, dazzled with his play-action fakes and playmaking ability. He mercilessly picked on Penn's cornerbacks, with 20 completions in 36 attempts for 248 yards and two touchdowns, both to Deron Braswell, who played at Cherry Hill West. Edwards also ran for a score. The nonconference defeat dropped the Quakers to 2-3, the latest in a season they've been below .500 since Al Bagnoli took over as head coach in 1992. And it left more questions than answers.

The biggest question at the end of this gray day might be: Who's the quarterback? Then again, neither Steve Teodccki nor Tom MacLeod played with much distinction after the first quarter. "We've got to look at the film," Bagnoli said. "Obviously, we lack the consistency that we need. We're still floundering, trying to get a passing attack. Right now, it's not there." Each quarterback threw a touchdown pass in the opening period Teodecki 15 yards to John James, MacLeod 4 yards to Travis Arbogast.

But after rolling up 151 yards in the first quarter with a no-huddle offense to take a 14-0 lead, the Quakers gained just 131 yards in the three quarters after that. The quarterbacks split time in the first half, but after Teodecki led a three-plays-and-out initial posses- sion in the third quarter, MacLeod went the rest of the way. It wasn't pretty. The junior misfired on his first eight passes of the second half, including an interception, before he completed a throw to Mark Fabish with 3 minutes, 32 seconds left in the fourth quarter. MacLeod would complete two more passes, but missed his next three, and the Quakers' last-ditch Nation no reason to think that we're not going to be able to overcome it." Lehigh 0 21 7 028 Penn 14 0 7 324 First quarter UP James 15 pass from Teodecki (Great-house kick), 9:48 UP Arbogast 4 pass from MacLeod (Great-house kick), 13:48 Second quarter LUEdwards 15 run (Swartz kick), 6:00 LU Rivers 27 interception return (Swartz kick), 6:12 LU Braswell 54 pass from Edwards (Swartz kick).

14:21 Third quarter UP Van Meter 8 fumble return (Greathouse kick), 5:04 LU Braswell 21 pass from Edwards (Swartz kick), 6:02 Fourth quarter UP FG Greathouse 37, 9:12 A 5,074 LU UP First downs 24 18 Rushes-yards 43-148 44-187 Passing 248 95 Punt Returns 4-7 2-33 Kickoff Returns 4-56 5-99 Interceptions Ret. 2-51 2-45 Comp-Att-Int 20-36-2 12-30-2 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-12 5-39 Punts Fumbles-Lost 5-2 3-1 Penalties-Yards 10-79 8-45 Time of Possession 31:34 28:26 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing: Lehigh, Baker 26-139, Edwards 12-3, Snyder 2-5, Falzone 1-4, Stanbaugh 2-(-3). Penn, Scott 23-117, Granata 12-41, Abye 5-38, MacLeod 2-1, Teodecki 2-(-10), Passing: Lehigh, Edwards 20-36-2 248. Penn, Teodecki 5-9-1 40, MacLeod 7-21-1 55. Receiving: Lehigh, Braswell 7-131, Falzone 3-51, Meurer 2-18, Snyder 2-17, Baker 3-14, Streeter 2-14, Ashby 1-3.

Penn, Fabish 6-41, Bonanno 2-10, James 1-15, Arbogast 1-4, Ricchio 1-21, Dafferner 1-4. James, picked off the pass and had nothing but green rug in front of him for 27 yards, giving Lehigh its second TD in 12 seconds. The Mountain Hawks took the lead with 39 seconds to play in the half. On a third and 27, Edwards fired deep to Braswell, who adjusted to a slightly underthrown ball, avoided tackles by Larrin Robertson and Mike Ferguson, and scored to complete a 54-yard play. The Quakers' only second-half touchdown came on defense when linebacker Mark Van Meter picked up a bobbled snap by Edwards and ran 8 yards to score in the third quarter.

But the Mountain Hawks took the kickoff and marched 65 yards in six plays, getting the touchdown when Braswell outjumped Chris Parsons in the end zone to catch a 21-yard toss from Edwards. With its passing game ineffective, Penn used the rushing of Jasen Scott (117 yards on 23 carries) to get a 37-yard field goal by Jeremiah Greathouse with 5:48 to play. But that was it, leaving Bagnoli to search through films for another week, looking for a spark. "You have to evaluate everything," he said. "You've got to avoid panicking.

To a large degree, we have people that are spoiled here. These are some tough times. There's ASSOCIATED PRESS East Carolina staged a stunner last night at the Orange Bowl, giving the Miami Hurricanes back-to-back home losses for the first time since 1984. Marcus Crandell threw three touchdown passes as the Pirates beat 12th-ranked Miami, 31-6, shutting out the Hurricanes over the final 57 minutes for perhaps the biggest victory in school history. The unranked Pirates (4-2), who were 17-point underdogs, beat Miami for the first time in nine tries.

East Carolina's highest-ranked victim previously was No. 15 Syracuse in 1991. Miami (4-2), trying to bounce back from a 34-16 loss last week to Florida State, instead got stuffed. The Hurricanes hadn't dropped two in a row at home since Jimmy Johnson's first season as coach. The Hurricanes lost quarterback Ryan Clement in the first half with a shoulder separation.

Northwestern 34, Wisconsin 30 Steve Schnur took advantage of an implausible second chance and threw a 20-yard touchdown pass to D'Wayne Bates with 37 seconds left as No. 14 Northwestern stunned Wisconsin in Madison, Wis. The Wildcats (6-1, 4-0 Big Ten) looked like certain losers when Brian GoWins missed a 55-yard field-goal attempt wilh 1 minute, 33 seconds left, giving the Badgers the ball at their 38. Because Northwestern had just one time-out left, all the Badgers had to do to wrap up the victory was kneel down after three straight snaps. Unbelievably, however, quarterback Mike Samuel twice handed off to freshman tailback Ron Dayne.

Dayne, a graduate of Overbrook High in South Jersey, gained 7 yards on the first carry, but defensive tackle Joe Reiff disrupted the sec- ond handoff and Dayne fumbled. Safety Eric Collier recovered at the Badgers' 41 with 49 seconds left, and the boisterous homecoming crowd of 79,576, the fifth-largest ever at Camp Randall Stadium, stood in silence. Schnur scrambled for 21 yards, then hit Bales with a fade pass in the end zone, and the Wildcats had their 12th straight Big Ten victory. The Badgers (3-3, 0-3) drove to the Northwestern 35 before Samuel's desperation heave into the end zone was picked off by Josh Barnes as time expired. The Wildcats won despite losing tailback Darnell Autry to a separated shoulder in the first half.

Dayne carried 28 times for 139 yards. Michigan 27, Indiana 20 Scott Dreisbach tossed a 19-yard touchdown pass to Jermane Tuman late in the third quarter as the 13th-ranked Wolverines rallied for a homecoming victory over Indiana in Ann Arbor, Mich. Rcmy Hamilton added a fourth-quarter field goal for Michigan (5-1, Big Ten), lhe Wolverines trailed by 17-7 in the second quarter after the Hoo-siers (2-5, 0-4) took advantage, of turnovers and mistakes. Arizona State 48, Southern Cal 35 In Tempe, Terry Battle's fourth touchdown of the game a 25-yard run in the second overtime gave the fourth-ranked Sun Devils a Pacific Ten victory over Southern California. Battle had a career-high 192 yards on 30 carries.

Arizona State (7-0, 4-0) forced overtime at 28-28 on Battle's 7-yard touchdown run with 1:30 remaining. USC (4-3, 2-2) scored first in overtime on Brad Otton's 10-yard pass to Rodney Sermons. The Sun Devils tied it when Jake Plummer hit Keith Poole from 6 yards out. After Battle's last TD, freshman Courtney Jackson's 85-yard return of an Otton fumble provided the final points. Washington 41, UCLA 21 Corey Dillon tied Hugh McElhenny's 46-year-old school record by scoring five touchdowns as No.

25 Washington battered the Bruins in Seattle. Dillon, a 225-pound junior tailback, scored on runs of 2, 1, 11, 5 and 1 yards to help the Huskies (4-2 overall, 3-1 Pac-10) overwhelm UCLA. He gained 145 yards on 33 carries, and also caught three passes for 53 yards. The Bruins (2-4, 1-2) trailed by 28-0 at halftime. Florida 51, Auburn 10 Danny Wuerffel threw for 346 yards and three touchdowns as No.

1 Florida clobbered the 16th-rankcd Tigers in Gainesville, Fla. The win gave Florida (7-0, 5-0 Southeastern Conference) a smooth road to a Nov. 30 showdown with No. 3 Florida State. It was the most points scored against Auburn (5-2, 3-2) since a 55-0 loss to Alabama in 1948.

Tigers QB Dameyune Craig was 7 of 28 for 82 yards and two interceptions. Nebraska 24, Texas Tech 10 In Lubbock, Texas, Damon Benning returned a fourth-quarter punt 51 yards, then scored on a 5-yard run two plays later to seal the Corri-huskers' victory over Texas Tech. Fifth-ranked Nebraska (5-1, 3-0 Big Twelve) took control with its defense, forcing five fumbles and holding Division I-A rushing leader Byron Hanspard to less than half his 217-yard average. Hanspard had 107 yards on 31 carries for Tech (4-3, 3-2). Ohio State 42, Purdue 14 Pepe Pearson rushed for 152 yards, including a 64-yard touchdown run, as second-ranked Ohio State triumphed in West Lafayette, Ind.

1 Purdue (2-5, 1-3 Big Ten) shocked Ohio State (6-0, 3-0) with two long TD passes in opening a 14-0 lead. The teams were tied 14-14 at half-time before the Buckeyes pulled away despite having starting quarterback Stanley Jackson ejected in the third quarter for kicking a Boilermaker player after being sacked. Virginia 62, North Carolina State 14 Anthony Poindexter intercepted three passes and blocked a punt, sparking No. 20 Virginia to a blowout of the Wolfpack in Charlottes2 ville, Va. Tiki Barber ran for 106 yards and scored three times in the first half as Virginia opened a 45-0 lead.

Virginia (5-1, 3-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) had four interceptions and two blocked punts, all in the first half. North Carolina State slipped to 1-5, 1-3. Barber finished with 17 carries for 132 yards. He had 213 all-purpose yards. Clemson 28, Georgia Tech 25 In Clemson, S.C, Nealon Greene scored on a 1-yard run with 4:06 to go and the Tigers, who blew an 11-point lead, rallied to beat 22d-ranked Georgia Tech.

The Tigers (4-3, 3-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) led by 21-10 at the half, but Georgia Tech's Joe Hamilton threw for a touchdown and ran in another to put the Yellow Jackets (4-2, 4-2) up by 25-21 in the third quarter. Clemson's Raymond Priester had 175 yards rushing, his third 100-yard game this season. Colorado 20, Kansas 7 Koy Detmer threw two touchdown passes and moved into second place on Colorado's career passing list as the ninth-ranked Buffaloes dumped the Jayhawks in Lawrence, Kan. Jason Lesley kicked field goals of 20 and 32 yards for Colorado (5-1, 3-0 Big Twelve). Detmer had a 32-yard completion to Phil Savoy in the third quarter to give him 3,949 career passing yards, ranking him second behind Kordell Stewart's 6,481 yards.

Detmer, who threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Desmond Dennis in the first quarter, completed 17 of 35 passes for 233 yards. Kansas (3-3, 1-2) scored with 5:01 left in the third quarter on a 1-yard run by June Henley. Alabama 37, Mississippi 0 Freddie Kitchens threw touchdown passes of 10 and 60 yards to Michael Vaughn as the seventh-ranked Crimson Tide rolled past Ole Miss in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Dennis Riddle rushed for 140 yards and a touchdown on 31 carries for Alabama (7-0, 4-0 SEC). The Tide's offense racked up 489 yards, and lhe defense allowed just 158 yards in posting the shutout.

Mississippi is 3-3, 1-3. Utah 21, Texas Christian 7 Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala rushed for 182 yards and scored on two breakaway runs in the second half as No. 24 Utah tamed the Horned Frogs in Salt Lake City. Fuamatu-Ma'afala, a 275-pound sophomore, scored on runs of 70 and 52 yards for Utah (6-1, 4-0 Western Athletic Conference). Utah's Mike Fouts, who averages 257 yards passing a game, threw for just 146 yards on a cold, rainy day.

Michael Reeder missed three field-goal attempts for TCU (2-4, 1-2). Wyoming 42, Fresno State 21 In Laramie, Josh Wallwork threw for four touchdowns to lift No. 23 Wyoming past Fresno State, extending the nation's longest winning streak to 11 games. Wallwork completed 25 of 39 passes for 308 yards to lead the Cowboys (8-0, 5-0 WAC). Jim Arellanos connected on 23 of 31 passes for 306 yards to spark Fresno State (2-4, 2-2).

Army and Dartmouth stay unbeaten drive ended at their own 32 with 2:04 to play. "I didn't play well; I don't have any excuse," MacLeod said. "We just couldn't get into a rhythm or pattern a bad pass on my part, or a penalty." The offense couldn't shoulder all the blame. The Quakers' defense and special teams also contributed. Lehigh (34) gained a key turnover, and a resulting shift in momentum, when Fabish couldn't field a bouncing punt on the first play of the second quarter and David Martin recovered for the Mountain Hawks at the Lehigh 44.

The visitors didn't score, but an exchange of punts gave Lehigh the ball back at the Penn 44. From there, big plays paid off for the Mountain Hawks, who picked up a first1 down on a third and 19, then scored on a third and 10 when Edwards scrambled in from 15 yards out. "I think we lost a lot of momentum," Bagnoli said. "I don't want to say it's all on one play. But instead of being up, 14-0, having the ball around midfield, we ended up letting them get back in the game." On Penn's next play, Teodecki, whose completions to that point had been mostly on quick outs, tried it once too often and got burned.

Ta-hir Rivers, stepping in front of downs by Jamie Holston, to beat Buffalo, 41-20, in Amherst, Mass. Jason Barnett passed 14 yards to Damon Mickel with less than five minutes to play as Boston Universi-tyedged Hofstra, 16-9, in Boston. Dave Loya threw for 244 yards and one touchdown to lead Duquesne to a 15-0 victory over Georgetown in a showdown of unbeaten teams in Piltsburgh. Mickey Fein threw for two touchdowns and rushed for a third to lead Maine past New Hampshire, 34-20, in Orono, Maine Rick Linden completed 12 of 22 passes and two touchdowns in his first college start as Harvard outlasted Holy Cross, 28-25, in Worcester, Mass, Tailback Jovan Rhodes rushed for a game-high 153 yards, helping Marist to a 28-20 victory over St. John's in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Fordham, playing its first game since the death of defensive back Bill Tier-ney, didn't score until the fourth quarter in falling to Brown, 27-14, in Providence, R.I Colgate running back Anthony Caravetta carried 32 times for 195 yards and one touchdown as the Red Raiders defeated Cornell, 31-21, in Ithaca, N.Y. South Georgia 13, Vanderbilt 2 Robert Edwards made up for an otherwise ineffective Georgia offense by scoring the day's only TD as the Bulldogs beat Vanderbilt in Athens, Ga. The homecoming victory gave Georgia (3-3, 2-2 Southeastern Conference) a .500 record for the first time under first-year coach Jim Donnan and avenged a homecoming defeat two years ago at the hands of the Commodores. Elsewhere: Duce Staley, the South eastern Conference's top rusher, ran for 105 yards in a mistake-riddled game to help South Carolina beat Arkansas, 23-17, in Columbia, S.C. Brian Cummings sparked a rejuvenated Maryland offense with three touchdown passes as the Terrapins built a 31-point halftime lead en route to a 52-0 rout of Wake Forest in College Park, Md.

Jay Jones had 217 all-purpose yards and two TDs, all in the second half, and set a Division I-AA record for with 268 yards on six kickoff returns as James Madison rallied to beat Richmond, 31-27, in Richmond, Va. Donnell Gordon rushed for a career-high 113 yards and a touchdown, and Louisville's defense allowed "just 136 yards as the Cardinals beat Northern Illinois, 27-3, in Louisville, Ky. Oteman Sampson threw for 251 yards and three touchdowns to lead Florida to a 47-26 win over Delaware State in Dover. Del. Midwest Michigan State 27, Minnesota 9 Octavis Long turned a short catch into a 64-yard scoring play on the first drive of the second half, sprinting through the defense to spark Michigan State (4-3, 3-1 Big Ten) to victory in Minneapolis.

Elsewhere: Chad Plummer threw for two touchdowns and ran for two as Cincinnati beat Houston, 31-20, in a Conference USA game in Cincinnati. Steve Ilookfin rushed for 155 yards and two touchdowns and Kareem Wilson added 147 yards and a score as Ohio University beat Kent, 24-15, in Kent, Ohio. Jeff Phelps tackled Bowling Green's Courtney Da ASSOCIATED PRESS Not since the days of coach Red Blaik has Army gotten off to such a rousing start. Quarterback Ronnie McAda and Joe Hewitt ran for second-quarter touchdowns and Bobby Williams added two fourth-period scores yesterday as the unbeaten Cadets (6-0) defeated Tulane, 34-10, yesterday in West Point, N.Y., for their best start since 1950. Army opened 8-0 tinder Blaik in 1950 before losing to Navy.

The Cadets still have the toughest part of the season remaining, including games against Air Force, Syracuse and Navy. Army dominated from the outset, holding the Green Wave (24) to 11 yards and no first downs in the second and third quarters minus-5 in the second in building a 20-3 half-time lead. Tulane had 76 yards in the first half 23 on the ground and finished with 177 total yards. Dartmouth 40, Yale 6 Jon Aljan-cic threw two touchdown passes to Zach Ellis and kicker Dave Regula set one school record and tied another as Dartmouth (5-0, 2-0 Ivy League) beat Yale in Hanover, N.H. Dartmouth's defense recovered three fumbles and Kevin Ritter scored the last touchdown on a 41-yard interception return.

The Big Green held Yale (2-3, 1-1 to 17 yards on 16 rushes in the first half. Elsewhere in the East: Matt Unit's 24-yard field goal with 5:06 remaining enabled unbeaten Columbia to beat Lafayette, 3-0, in New York for its fifth straight victory Massachusetts used a strong ground game behind a 120-yard performance by Ron Brockington and two touch vis at the 1 on a fourth-down pass with less than a minute left and Ball State held on for a 16-11 victory in Bowling Green, Ohio. Southwest Oklahoma State 28, Iowa State 27 Andre Richardson gained a career-high 1.73 yards, getting 151 in the second half when Oklahoma State overcame a 17-point deficit, as the Cowboys (4-3, 1-3 Big Twelve) beat Iowa State (2-4, 1-2) in Stillwater, Okla. Elsewhere: Quarterback Chad Nelson ran for a career-best 197 yards and two touchdowns as Rice piled up 440 yards on the ground to overpower Southern Methodist, 35-17, in Houston. Antonio Parker ran for 157 yards and scored two touchdowns, leading Alabama State in a 31-15 victory over Prairie View in Prairie View, Texas, for the Panthers' 65 consecutive defeat.

West Oregon State 26, Stanford 12 Freshman David Moran ran for a TD and passed for one as Oregon State (1-5, 1-3 Pac-10) ended its 15-game losing streak with a win over Stanford (2-4, 1-2) in Corvallis, Ore. Elsewhere: Montana, ranked No. 2 in the nation in NCAA Division I-AA, scored with 56 seconds left on a touchdown pass from Brian Ah Yat to Joe Douglass to beat Eastern Washington, 34-30, in Cheney, Wash. Moses Moreno passed for a career-high 359 yards and two touchdowns and ran for a score, leading Colorado State to a 36-13 victory over San Jose State in Fort Collins, Colo..