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pons NFL PREVIEWS 12 SCORECARD 14 OUTDOORS 16 (jrhecfUrioii'Jfcrtatr Daily News November 2, 1986 Sunday inside I Ole Miss I 1 v. A A AC realizes dream 21-19 Rebels had something to prove, 1 OD Victory sweet for Rebels, 10D Statistics, 10D By BUTCH JOHN Clarion-LedRer Sports Write BATON ROUGE, La. For Ole Miss, the dreams of 365 days a year came down to 9 seconds, 30 yards and the left foot of LSU kicker David Browndyke. And then they came true. Rebels 21, No.

12 LSU Tigers 19 but only as Browndyke's 30-yard field goal attempt sailed a couple of feet outside the left upright with 9 seconds to play. A measure of inches to LSU, a measure of miles for a Rebel team on the upswing for the time since John Vaught's 1970 retirement. "They were complaining before the game the rivalry wasn't like it used to be," said senior free safety Jeff Noblin. "I guess it's back to what it used to be now. What a great feeling." "I've never been in a rivalry like this," said linebacker Jeff Herrod, who joined his Rebel teammates in an post-game curtain call before the Ole Miss portion of 77.758 in Tiger Stadium left here Saturday afternoon.

"Beating LSU is a dream come true. I'll remember this as long as I live." It's safe to say Herrod has seldom been a part of a game like this: Ole Miss jumped out to a 21-9 halftime lead, then the defense held to the end, literally, for a fourth straight victory, a 6-2-1 record and 3-1 mark in the Southeastern Conference tied for second in the with LSU. among others. In his four seasons at Ole Miss, Billy Brewer, coaching a football team that hadn't won here 7 "3 Major upset Jimmy DiCarlo, a former high school trainer, kicked a 32-yard field goal with 16 seconds left to give Samford a 17-14 upset win over Millsaps. Story, 7D.

Western showdown If the Los Angeles Raiders are going to successfully defend their AFC West championship, it would seem that they have to beat the first-place Denver Broncos today. It won't be easy. Story, 1 2D. Vacancy continues The office of executive director of the Mississippi Department of Wildlife Conservation, vacant since Lon Strong's resignation in July, will remain unfilled for at least two more months. Story, 16D.

Calendar Today Running: Amateur: St. Richard's Special Kids Day 5K at Jackson TV Today Pro football: NFLGameday, 10 a.m., ESPN NFL '86, ESPN Houston Oilers at Miami Dolphins, noon, NBC (WLBT, channel 3, Jackson). Dallas Cowboys at New York Giants, noon, CBS (WJTV, channel 12, Jackson) Denver Broncos at Los Angeles Raiders, 3 NBC (WLBT, channel 3. Jackson). Tennis: Paris Open final, 7 a ESPN Running: New York City Marathon, 9 30 am, ABC (WAPT.

channel 16. Jackson). Auto racing: NASCAR Atlanta Journal 500, 1 1 a.m.. ESPN. Golf: Seiko Tucson Match Play Championship, 3:30 p.m., ESPN College football playbacks: Mississippi Slate, 5 p.m., WAPT, channel 16.

Ole Miss, 10 p.m., WDBD, channel 40. Mississippi College. 10:30 p.m., WDBD, channel 40. Jackson State, 11:30 WJTV, channel 12. 1 CHRIS TODD; The Clarion-Ledger Jackson Daily NeS Ole Miss defender Lopaz Jones pulls down LSU's Sam Martin, 23, with help from Jeff Bacon, left; ly the game would come down to the last second -v or a goalline stand led by strong safety Howard Moss in the final quarter.

LSU led 6-0 at 6:21 of the first quarter on two field goals, but did little els then on in the first half. I Ole Miss, which accumulated 260 yards of its game-total 316 in the finest half of offense all year, rode drives of 75, 83 and 80 yards for the 12-point See Ole Miss, 10D Call it a day in the life of a kicker, the freshman said. "I wasn't too nervous," he said. "I just didn't kick it well. It slid off the side of my foot a little.

I tried to kick it like a normal kick. I felt real good about my performance before the kick." "That play didn't lose the football game." said LSU coach Bill Arnsparger, whose club is 5-2 overall. "You can look at 50 or 60 other plays." Many were in the first half. It didn't appear like- since 1968. certainly hadn't.

"I don't believe I've ever had a bigger win than this one in how it was done," Brewer said. "Defeating a 12th-ranked team in the country in Tiger Stadium, it's quite an accomplishment for our program." And LSU's Browndyke, whose missed attempt cost him a school-record fifth field goal and wasted a 53-vard march all catches by marvelous split end Wendell Davis in the final 59 seconds? USM wins with i fantastic finish A Top 20 Humphrey, Tide crush reeling 'Dogs Humphrey has day to remember, 11D Tide running game too much, UD Statistics. UD By RUSTY HAMPTON Clarion-Ledger Sports Writer STARKVILLE Alabama brought a different motto to Scott Field here Saturday, but got the same results. Roll. Tide, Roll, gave way to Run.

Tide. Run, which led to a 38-3 victory over 19th-ranked Mississippi State before 42.700 and a national television audience. With halfback Bobby Humphrey gaining a school-record 284 yards on 30 carries, Alabama rushed for 514 yards against a Bulldog defense that has seen this scene before. Opponents have averaged 338 yards rushing in the last four games against State, which fell to 6-3 overall, 2-2 in the Southeastern Conference. Alabama, which gained 470 yards more on the ground Saturday than it did last week against Penn State, improved to 8-1 and 4-0.

The 8th-ranked Tide also remained undefeated at Scott Field (8-0) by winning their 28th game in the last 29 in this series. "They didn't have any secrets," said Rockey Felker, State's first-year head coach, who was Humphrey's position coach last year at Alabama. "They just ran right at us and dominated the game, from start to finish." "He taught me the key things that make me effective," said Humphrey of Felker. Maybe, but Humphrey also had something Saturday that coaching alone cannot foster: A big, fast, dominating offensive line that consistently gave Humphrey, Doug Allen (98 yards) and Gene Jelks (61 yards) lots of space to operate. "He's a great back, but he certainly had some holes to run through," said Felker.

Alabama made its game plan obvious early. Its first 30 plays were simple runs. Sweep left, sweep right. Dive left, dive right. "Alabama ran the sweep 32 times against Tennessee," said "And all the time we were hollering! for him to lateral the ball, which he fi-; nally did," said Carmody.

Brown raced into the right corner of. the end zone untouched with no time left on the clock. But the pitch was ruled a forward lateral, giving the the choice of allowing the touchdown to stand or accepting a 5-yard penalty' against USM. "They had no choice. And a game! can't end on a marked penalty.

That'j gave us the extra play," said Carmody. "And of course the penalty really, helped us because it backed us up for a', better angle on the field goal." Banks' field goal made USM 4-4 and' sent the 18,127 spectators on hand at; Ficklen Stadium into a frenzy. Debris came from the stands and! Carlton Owens Toombs, a came onto the field and attacked sidej judge Dan Blue. Toombs was by Greenville police and later charged; with simple assault, according to East Carolina officials. He was released on $100 bond.

"Certainly it's a tough way for East Carolina to lose a game," said Car-; mody. "But I thought we played welf-enough to win." Alston's catch was a designed play, Anderson said. "We call it 'May Day' and we work hard in practice on it. The plan was for the tailback and fullback to trail the wide receivers and tight end down the field. If a receiver catches it, he has the option of pitching to the back." See USM, 9D 1 '1 rt- I "ifsf- Eagles pull a miracle.

9D East Carolina in shock. 9D Statistics. 9D By DON HUDSON Clarion-Ledger Sports Writer GREENVILLE. N.C. Lyneal Alston's 73-yard reception from quarterback Andrew Anderson with 4 seconds left in the game set it cp.

Rex Banks finished it, nailing a 31-yard field goal with no time left on the clock that sent Southern Mississippi to a miraculous 23-21 come-from-behind win over 1-8 East Carolina here Saturday afternoon. "I knew I had it," said Banks. "I had a good hold and hit it well." Golden Eagles coach Jim Carmody said, "I've never seen a game like this since I've been coaching. I don't know how you could make a more spectacular comeback than that. "I really thought they had intercepted the ball Alston caught.

I don't know how Lyneal caught it. They had two or three people up there with us. And all of a sudden Lyneal comes running out of there with it." Before Alston and Banks took front row, the Golden Eagles had only hope. Trailing 21-20, USM was trapped at its own 18-yard line with 8 seconds left in the game. But on first-and-10, Anderson lofted a perfect spiral across the middle.

Alston made the catch with 4 seconds left, cut for the right sideline, stiff-armed and dragged a defender to the Pirates' 10, and pitched the ball to fullback Randolph Brown. (1) Miami beat (20) FSU 41-23 (2) PennSt. beatW.Va. 19-0 (3) Mich beat III. 69-13 (4) Okla.

beat Kansas 64-3 (5) Auburn lost to Fla. 1 8-1 7 (8) Ala. beat (19) Miss. St. 38-3 (9) Neb.

beat Kan. St. 38-0 (10) Tex. beat SMU 39-35 (11) Iowa lost to 1 7) Ohio St. 3 1 -10 1 2) LSI) lost to Ole Miss 21-19 (13) Ark.

beat Rice 45-14 1 4) Ariz, lost to 1 8) USC 20-1 3 1 5) UCLA beat Ore. St. 49-0 (16) N.C. St. beat S.

Carolina 23-22 1 7) Ohio St beat (11) Iowa 31-10 1 8) USC beat 1 4) Ariz. 20-1 3 (19) Miss. St. lost to (8) Ala. 38-3 (20) FSU lost to (1) Miami 4 1-23 More Scores 14D NBA Rockets 1 12 Lakers 102 Bulls 108 Knicks 103 Hawks 131 Nets 111 Pacers 92 Pistons 89 Cavs 1 13 106 Spurs 108 Mavericks 105 Bucks 111 Celtics 105 Jazz 119 Trail Blazers 110 13D NHL Islanders 7 Jets 4 Flyers 4 Bruins 2 Nordiques 2 Whalers 2 Sabres 3 Devils 1 Flames 4 Caps 1 Maple Leafs 2 Red Wings 0 Penguins 3 Blues 3 Blackha wks 6 North Stars 5 13D D.

St'HW ALM, The Clarion-Ledger Jackson Daily News BIG DAY Alabama's Bobby Humphrey slips out of the grasp of Mississippi State's Kirby Jackson on the way to the second of his 3 touchdowns Saturday in Starkville. Felker. "They did the same thing to us today. We knew it was coming. But how are you gonna stop it?" "After we were so effective that first time," said Humphrey, "we just stayed with it.

If something's going for you. you might as well stick with it." The Tide scored the first three times it had the ball, driving 78 yards in 13 plays. 88 yards in 8 plays, and 47 yards in 5 plays. Humphrey scored the first 2 touchdowns on runs of 4 and 20 yards. Jelks ran 5 yards for the third.

See State, 11 'f Hurricane Vinny After poor 1st half, Testaverde, Miami blow Florida Slate away Testaverde's performance came on a right foot sprained two weeks ago at Cincinnati. "I just stood there thinking, 'This is a passing clinic being put on by one of the Florida State coach Bobby Bowden said afterwards. "But that's what great players do produce in the clutch." And what great teams do is slip out of the noose no matter how tight the knot. The game might have been close if the sneaky Bowden's second-quarter fake field goal call hadn't resulted in an injury to quarterback Danny McManus's throwing hand. The play didn't work McManus was stopped a yard short of the first down at Miami's 1 1 by cornerback Tolbert Bain.

McManus headed to the locker room, a bulge of bandages and ice enveloping his right hand. Testaverde hangs tough. 2D Statistics. 14D By NICK MOSCHELLA Gannett News Service MIAMI Life at the top finally got tough for the Miami Hurricanes. But not so tough they couldn't fire up some of their top-ranked after-burners to pull out a 41-23 victory over Florida State before 62,834 spectators in the Orange Bowl.

At halftime Saturday, the Hurricanes trailed the Seminoles, 20-14. and quarterback Vinny Testaverde was limping around on a bad foot, looking pained and powerless. Hurricanes coach Jimmy Johnson even had a hair or two out of place, especially after noticing how clueless his normally confident players appeared. So at halftime Johnson told the boys to calm down, forget their troubles and just go out and haJe fun. I Not Knute Rockne, mind you.

But it worked. The top-ranked Hurricanes, 8-0. taking control in the fourth-quarter behind Testaverde's passing and a ired-up defense, broke open a nail-biter of a battle to rip No. 20 Florida State on national television. "At halftime I told them they weren't doing what they'd done to get here," Johnson said.

"I told them they weren't having fun. to just go out and play their hearts out." The Hurricanes took their coach's advice, sparked by Testaverde. A so-so 7-of-14 at halftime with 1 interception and 4 sacks, the hobbling Testaverde bit the bullet in the second half, finishing the day 21-of-35 for 315 yards, 3 touchdown passes and a pair of short TD runs. In the fourth quarter, Testaverde sandwiched two scoring passes, a 20-yarder to wide receiver Brian Blades and 24-yarder to Brett Perriman, around a 1-yard bootleg TD run. 1-900-410-1414 Gannett News Service Sports Hotline: For up-to-the-minute scores on professional and college athletic events, call 1-900-410-1414.

Caller pays 50 cents for the first minute, 35 cents for each additional minute. The two-minute broadcast is updated every 10 minutes when games are in progress. The Associated Press STOPPED SHORT Florida State tailback Keith Ross, 20, unsuccessfully tries to spin out of the grasp of a Miami tackier, while Seminole fullback Dayne Williams plows into Bill Has- See Miami, 2D kins, 54. 6.