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Aft SCORECARD 12 SPORTS DIGEST 13 OUTDOORS 14 0tr Daily Jews November 7, 1982 Sunday i-. i'it Notre Daiie No. 1 Pitt 31-16 LSU rocks Bama, eyes Sugar Statistics, Paged? The AaactaMI Press V- Notre Dame, the echoes of upset by, shocked top-ranked-Pitt with three toucl fourth quarter to upset the previously unb Sl-18 on Saturday at Pttfliburgh. 7 "Coach (Gerry Faust)ud this win Trailing 15-10 early in the fourth quarter, Notre Dame ran a flea flicker pass from Kiel to flanker Joe Howard that turned into a 54-yard touchdown. It was the first time the Irish had used the play all season.

Pinkett's touchdown with 8:09 left to play broke open the Irish upset He also ran 7 yards for a Notre Dame touchdown with 4:02 remaining. The Fighting Irish, 6-1-1, atoned for an earlier upset loss to Arizona and a tie to Oregon as they cooled the Panthers' hopes for the college football national championship. With Pitt leading 13-10, Kiel handed off on first down to running back Phil Carter, who shoveled back to the quarterback. Kiel found Howard for a touchdown that gave Notre Dame a 17-13 lead with 14:36 left in the game. Dame history," said Altar Plnkett, to24-WXXE down sprint lifted Notre Dame's lead Quarterback Blair KieHaid the draw pli hadn't worked well at all trs season for Um "It was a super effort part," Kiel the play twice before, but flttecked it off because of Um fense they were in." Faust compiled a list ot Notre Dame's trig upsets Afore coverage, Page 3 Statistics, Page 12 By JERRY POTTER CUiioa-Udfer Sport Writer BIRMINGHAM, Ala.

The Louisiana State defense took Alabama's Wishbone and broke it in half, and then all the Tigers and their fans made a wish here Saturday. "Sugar Bowl, Sugar Bowl," the fans chanted outside the Tigers' dressing room after LSU beat Alabama 20-10 before 77,230 chilled and, in most cases, shocked fans at Legion Field. The victory gave LSU a 7-0-1 record overall and 5-0-1 standing in the Southeastern Conference. The blemish is a 24-24 tie with Tennessee. However, the Tigers are going to need some help to win the SEC title and gain a bid to the Sugar Bowl.

Georgia more than kept pace by beating Florida to remain unbeaten and atop the league with 8-0 and 4-0 records. The loss was Alabama's second in the past four games, and it was a whipping that had Alabama coach Bear Bryant talking about retirement "I think this is the best beating we'd had since the '60s," said Bryant, who has coached teams to 322 victories, more than any other college coach. "LSU had the superior team and I know that they had the best coach," said Bryant who later added that he wanted Alabama president Joab Thomas to evaluate the program" -and see if it didn't need another head coach. "Their defensive line of scrimmage ate our offense," Biy- ant added. "I didn't think anyone could do that" The LSU defense thought it could do it In fact that was its intention going into the game.

"We've been trying all year to get a little respect" said linebacker Gregg Dubroc, whose fumble recovery with 4:57 left in the game pretty much ended Alabama's hope for -comeback. "It feels great" he said. "We haven't beaten them in 11 years. We've been hungry all year." The LSU defense went into the game ranked No. 1 in the; I nation, yielding 193.1 yards per game.

It didn't take long to assert itself. It didn't allow the Crim- -son Tide offense a single first down in the first half. It yielded 10 quick points in the third quarter, but settled down to hold Alabama's offense to 119 yards, which is 327 -yards less than its average through the first eight games. "Alabama has a great offense," said Dubroc. "We knew -we had to live up to our ranking.

We were emotionally high. We got after them from the word go." The Tigers didn't begin to benefit from their effort until See Tigers, page 3D Pitt quickly closed to 17-16 on a 47-yard field goal by Eric stmtitodedthelrMWoW.V naiiueu um wnisieam. iqjHisi Texas in the 1978 Cotton Bos well as untsiT acnuDert W1U1 anvmg, juuus uawuns hauled in lexasLae is it wtton uoftMs well as tWrecAt qtfetstf.ft, oyard pass from Dan Marino at the Irish S3-yanl line, but Mosley recovered for Notre 1 Pitt coach Foge Fazio spokwpiietly tatWosers' dressing" room. ir. "There are some players wlo are verjlpset about the loss," he said, referring to a pair of costly" JSSnther fumbles by punt returner Jeff Casper and wide i-ecenur Julius Daw- Pinkett, a freshman, took a handoff from Kiel, slipped a pair of defenders and shrugged off four tackles on the way to a.

touchdown with with 8:09 left that gave the Irish a 24-16 lead. The loss was the first for Pitt, 7-1, since a 48-14 defeat to Penn State in the final regular season game of 1981. Kins. nev ieit tnev lost uie me rnr us i II nr I v-J 1 i Austin key to Rebels9! 45-14 win More coverage, Page 4 By MICKEY SPAGNOLA Daily Newi Sports Writer The Ole Miss Rebels, a winning season at the brink of extinction, deserted bv their fans and nrohahlv dnine a little 7 y-'t 1 1 wondering themselves, arose on a wintry Southern night to. fight back.

i iney lougni oacK Denina me Druiiant passing ot quarter-, back Kent Austin, who completed all 13 of his first-half; passes. They fought back behind the return of the ailing Andre Thomas, who scored three touchdowns and gained 106 yards. And they fought back with a defense that provoked five Tu- lane turnovers. So just when everybody was jumping on the give-up bandwagon, the Rebels, before a where-have-all-the-people-gone' crowd of 23,314 at Mississippi Memorial Stadium, put a 45-14, hurt on the Tulane Green Wave on a cold Saturday night "I knew we had a chance to win by the way we were practic-l tag," said Ole Miss coach Steve Sloan. "I didn't know if we; would, but I knew we had a chance.

"There were three keys to the game. Having Hammerhead; (Thomas) back was a big factor. Austin played a really good; game, almost a perfect game. The defense kept them out of i the end zone in the first half when they had opportunities' It was a must victory for the Rebels (4-5), who were Just de--molished last week by Louisiana State, the same Louisiana! State that jumped all over Alabama Saturday afternoon in; Birmingham. if in ri i i ii -Tini rfT rim tft tn i r.

m-i i i 1 StaH photo by Kim Kulith Texas Southern's hard, 25, and JSU's Stanley Conners, 27, Tommy Doss, 73, scramble for the loose football. J-Statef fes away points, but not game More coverage, "The one thing we did that we could not do is give Ole Miss! the momentum early," said Tulane coach Vince Gibson, who saw the Green Wave fall to 3-6. "They had all that frustration! built up and they just got it cranked up." It was Austin who got the cranking going. Austin was never-better, connecting on a remarkable 18 of 19 passes for 269! vards and touchdown nasses of 55 vards to James Harbour Statistics, Page By BERNARD FERNANDEZ Diily Newt Sporti Writer Whoever came up with the idea to give than lintocon- receive apparently didn't take the si and 57 yards to Buford McGee. His 94.7 completion percent-age was an NCAA record.

Thomas, who hasn't played regularly since the Georgia; sideration. formance that saw the Tigers: Fumble on three consecutive possessions in the first half allowing Texas Southern to score two touchdowns and a field goal in rapid succession. Rough the Texas Southern punter, keeping alive a fourth-quarter drive that resulted in yet another touchdown. And it could have been worse. An all-the-way interception return by the visitors' Brett Maxie was nullified when an illegal procedure call against Jackson State was ruled to have occurred before the ball was put into play, and JSU punter Robert Johnson somehow managed to get off a 42-yard punt on the dead run after scooping up a snap that sailed over his head deep in Tiger territory.

No wonder Texas Southern coach Joe Redmond, whose See Jackson State, page 2D were able to escape with a closer-tban-expected 34-28 victory that clinched at least a share of the Southwestern Athletic Conference championship. Jackson State, 8-2 overall and 5-0 in SWAC play, can nail down the conference title and a berth in the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs by beating Alcorn State in the regular-season finale Nov. 20 in Lorman. "I don't think there's any doubt we outplayed them," JSU coach W. C.

Gorden said, pointing to his team's 420-326 advantage in net yards. "We were our own worst enemies. "What happened was that we took Texas Southern too lightly. I didn't think we would, but evidently that was the case. I didn't see much gang-tackling out there by our players.

That's usually a tipoff that a team isn't hustling like it should." With an open date next week preceding the Alcorn game, Gorden and his staff will attempt to evaluate a lackluster per Jackson State, getting an early jur son, kept handing out presents to Tl afternoon at Mississippi Memorial turnout of 15,161. Texas Southern sta? nackaees. 22 points worth all told, and. Tjjjetide sea-af Saturday xe a slim pingits tkhere iirnsun- game, came uacic, noi omy 10 gain uiose iuo yaras, dui io run. hard, just what the Rebels have been missing.

Thomas scored; on on touchdown runs of 18, 6 and 6 yards. Then too, there was the defense, the same one that gave up! 45 points last week to LSU, coming up with all those turnovers. James Otis, who was moved from outside linebacker to strong safety in place of Johnny Armstrong, intercepted one See Austin, page 4D and there might have found another der the tree. and But the homestanding Tigers gif I sputter Kagel pulls oi as talk; mllAnc 3i en rolls 27-6 -Pagel Statistics, Page 12 LEE BAKER 45 ggB jlpa-Udger Sporti Writer Index Michael Kincaid's score on a 59-yard punt re- and Warren Conway's block of a field goal attempt to set ther touchdown allowed Mississippi College to over- cramping penalties and turnovers to beat down Delta State colleges 2 Big Eight 7 27-6 Saturday at Robinson Field. Big Ten 7 and again in the first half the Choctaws powerhouse ing game was hamstrung by penalties (eight for 80 three lost fumbles and a pass interception, but Kin- 4" Hood column SEC 3 Ole Miss game 4 Scores 5 Schedules 5 Top 20 5 Independents 6 8 NFL 9 Prep preview Scorecard 12 Tennis 13 Auto racing 13 dazzling dash down the west sideline midway through first quarter let the Choctaws take command early.

Ifter Warren blocked a 51-yard field goal attempt by Del- Jbavid Scales early in the third quarter, the Chocs moved vds in six plays to score again on an 8-yard slash through uard by Major Everett to begin sacking away the deci- measure, Michael Williams tacked on a pair of Z-lrhHnwn thmstu a MC moved in front bv 27-0 before Mtoimpn nrere ahle in nut a scoring drive together TELEVISION TODAY Sports Sunday (CBS), 1 p.m. Sports Special (NBC), 2 p.m. Basketball: SuperSonics vs Bucks (CBS), 2:30 p.m. lauarterback Scott Butler, pressured into less effective StaH photo by Dlan UikK than mioht hn vp hoon exnected after his 29-of-50 oass- rrf Sypage2D ,15 Delta State pB Scott Butler is pressured by MCs Mike Ricker, 51 and Kenny Hughes..