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Lansing State Journal Sunday, Dec.22, 1985 College Football Sports it's a tine Hillsdale, Central Arkansas battle to draw in title game nil? Tv'' I xSSlJ? time in a championship game. "We came too far and played too hard for that," he said. The Chargers tied the game when quarterback Mike Gatt found Scott Sugg for a 58-yard touchdown pass with 3:04 remaining. Gatt's touchdown pass to Sugg was the second play in the drive. On first down, Gatt hit Tim Grote for a 6-yard pass.

Grote, who caught nine passes for 90 yards, was named the game's most valuable offensive player. Mark Baker kicked a 38-yard field goal for Hillsdale with 8:01 left in the third quarter for the Chargers' first score. After a scoreless first quarter. Central Arkansas got on the board on the second play of the second period when stand-in quarterback Victor Turner pitched to tailback Richie White, who went in from 7 yards standing up. The Bears' Curtis Burrow nailed a 34-yard field goal nine seconds before the half ended to put UCA up 10-0 at the half.

The Bears, co-champions of the Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference, finish the year at 10-2-1. Hillsdale, winner of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, finishes 11-1-1. Turner, a 5-foot-9 sophomore, was starting his second game as a college quarterback after regular starter Jeff Fusilier separated a shoulder last week in the Bears' 21-9 victory over Henderson State, the AIC co-champion. Associated Press Hillsdale's Tom Karpinski is pulled down by Central Arkansas NAIA national championship game in Conway, Ark. Foggie fuels Minnesota's 20-1 3 win Associated Press SHREVEPORT, La.

Sophomore Rickey Foggie ran and passed Minnesota into position for Chip Lohmiller's game-tying 19-vard field goal and Valdez Baylor's 1-yard dive in the final 11 minutes as the Golden Gophers defeated Clemson 20-13 in the Independence Bowl Saturday night in John Gutekunsfs head coaching debut Foggie, who comes from Water-loo, S.C, about 50 miles from Clemson, carried three times f6f 30 yards and threw a 22-yard to tight end Craig Otto on third--and-11 to set up Lohmiller's 19- yard field goal with 10:45 remain-' ing. On Minnesota's next possessioriT-" Foggie passed to split end Melvin" Anderson for 10 yards and" flanker Gary Couch for 14 before Baylor, who had runs of 16 and 12 yards on the drive, leaped over; the top for the winning score with' 4:56 left The 41-year-old Gutekunst, who had been Minnesota's defensive coordinator, took over the head" coaching duties barely two weeks ago when Lou Holtz left to replace Gerry Faust at Notre Dame. The victory enabled the Gophers to finish the season with a the first winning season since 1977, which also was the last time Minnesota went to a bowl game. Clemson, which turned the ball over four times, including each of its first three possessions, wound up 6-6. Because of an NCAA probation, it was the Tigers' first bowl appearance since they won college football's 1981 national championship in the Orange Bowl.

Ironically, Clemson Coach Danny Ford also made his head coaching debut in a postseason game when the Tigers defeated Ohio State 17-15 in the 1978 Gator Bowl. The fourth-period heroics by Foggie and Baylor came after Minnesota blew a 10-0 lead and saw Clemson forge in front 13-10 on second-period field goals of 39 and 21 yards by David Treadwell, plus Stacey Driver's 3-yard option pass to Keith Jennings in the third quarter. Lohmiller kicked a 22-yard, field goal to give Minnesota a 3-0 lead in the first period and Foggie whipped a 9-yard scoring pass to Anderson early in the second riod to cap a 91-yard drive and make it 10-0. From 1C for 18 yards and a first down at the Central Arkansas 44. With 10 seconds remaining, Gatt ran up the middle for 4 yards and time expired.

Georgia Southern 44, Fur man 42: Tracy Ham fired a 13-yard touchdown strike to Frankie Johnson with 10 seconds left to give Georgia Southern a come-from-behind victory over Furman for the NCAA Division I-AA championship at Tacoma. Wash. Furman led 28-6 in the third quarter. Ham's fourth touchdown pass of the second half capped the game-winning drive that took 72 yards in nine plays. The drive included a 53-yard pass from with a 66-yard, 10-play touchdown march, finished by Gelbaugh's 4-yard romp on a fake pass play.

The pace slowed briefly, before the Orangemen struck back to regain the lead on a 10-yard burst by halfback Robert Drummond, ending a 63-yard, nine-play drive with 12:53 to go in the second period. The Terrapins continued their policy of instant retaliation, Gelbaugh's 3-yard touchdown flip to No. 2 tight end Chris Knight finishing an 80-yard, nine-play charge, all but 13 yards of it achieved through the air. Maryland added a two-point conversion by fullback Rick Ba-danjek, attoning for a first-quarter extra point misfire by Dan Plocki. That left it 14-10 with 8:50 to go before intermission.

Then Associated Press CONWAY, Ark. Central Arkansas Coach Harold Horton and Hillsdale Coach Dick Lowery expressed similar sentiments after thejr football teams tied 10-10 Saturday for the NAIA football championship. Put there was a world of difference in the players. Tears flowed freely down the checks of the UCA Bears, who tied Carson-Newman 19-19 in last year's National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Championship Bowl. The Hillsdale Charges, making their first appearance in the Division I title game since 1957, were jumping, shouting and laughing.

"I think this time will hurt more," than last year's championship tie, Horton said. "We were a better football team but didn't Maybe I shouldn't be saying that, but I thought we just didn't execute on offense to sustain anything." After several more questions, Horton told reporters, "We have not lost in two championships. They declare both teams national champions, so what the heck, we're national champs." "You're national champs, whether you win or tie," Lowery said. "We're a little let down right now, but in a couple of hours it won't matter." Lowery repeated a comment made at a Friday news conference, saying he doesn't want the NAIA to add a provision for over Maryland of other games (in the National Football League, of course), this one will always be special. "This win enabled us to realize all our goals.

Even if I never play again, it's a great way to go out." Gelbaugh connected on his first seven passes and finished with 14 of 20. for 223 of the Terrapins' 467 net yards. "Stan Gelbaugh played about as perfect a game as he has ever played," Maryland Coach Bobby Ross said. "Except when we got out 35-10 (early in the third quarter) and became a little complacent, I thought we played very well offensively. And he was the key." Syracuse quarterback Don McPherson wasn't quite so perfect.

And therein lay the only reason the dashing sophomore option artist didn't upstage Gelbaugh and take home the MVP trophy win or lose on the scoreboard. McPherson contributed 315 yards of total offense to the Orangmen's net of 445; 204 passing (18-30) and 111 more on the ground. But he also threw three interceptions, each of them criti Syracuse running back Robert Maryland safety Al Covington at the Silverdome. Cherry From 1C had a great time here, and the best is, we paid our own way; i we aren't taking any bills back with us," MacPherson said. "The Cherry Bowl is something special, and the Cherry Bowl people are something special.

It's going to be magnificent, mark my words. Once the word gets around, how well they treat you, it'll grow and grow. And it pays that's important." Each team received about $1.2 million which, even after expenses, leaves a pretty impressive deposit for their respective athletic department bank accounts. Some teams have actually lost money by going to bowls. The Cherry Bowl has paid handsomely bothvears.

gfflimimrf niii'liiiilf ftini'imlli nil i Bimim Larry Fulford during Saturday's Ham to Johnson that put the Eagles of Statesboro, on the Furman 29-yard line. A crowd of 5,306 fans turned out to watch the game, dubbed the Diamond Bowl, in the Tacoma Dome. The Division I-AA championship game is scheduled in the Tacoma Dome again next year. Furman took a 42-38 lead on a 4-yard touchdown run by John Bagwell with 1:32 remaining. The Paladins of Greenville, S.C., went 80 yards in seven plays, on the drive.

Ham's other touchdown passes were a 23-yarder to Monty Sharp and a 40-yarder to Johnson in the third quarter and a 12-yarder to Herman Barron in the fourth quarter. came the two fumbles that set the Terrapins up for two quick scores, and a 28-10 halftime lead. They immediately stretched it to 35-10, zipping 69 yards in seven plays with the second half kickoff. Running back Tommy Neal's 39-yard burst through the line keyed the drive, and Gelbaugh's 6-yard pass to wide receiver Azizuddin Abdur-Ra'off brought the payoff. The Orangemen tried mightily to wheel and deal themselves back into the game, but were rewarded only by McPherson's 17-yard touchdown scamper with 2:51 to go in the third period, following Maryland's only turnover of the game, an interception by linebacker Rudy Reed at the Terrapins' 27.

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8-9 Fri. Sat. Not After Gatt's tying touchdown pass, UCA's Shawn McGehee, the game's leading rusher with 74 yards, returned the kickoff 23 yards to the 35. Three plays later, with the Bears facing a fourth-and-two at their own 42 with 1:18 to play, UCA Coach Harold Horton called on White to punt it away. Hillsdale made a fair catch at its 25 and ran two short plays up the middle before Gatt threw a 6-yard pass to Grote for a first down at Hillsdale's 38.

With 24 seconds left, Gatt threw to Dave Mitsud tion. He attempted to spin free, only to have the ball pop loose and fall directly into the arms of Maryland's Scott Tye, who rambled an easy 8 yards to score and boost the difference to 11 points. "Anyone who was standing there would have scored it," Tye said modestly. "The biggest thing was really the scouting work of our special teams coaches. That made the play." The Orangemen compounded the mistake on the ensuing possession when McPherson spoiled a 20-yard dash by losing a fumble at the Maryland 35.

And the Terrapins needed just four plays to widen the gap to 28-10 on a 20-yard sprint through left tackle (and past Syracuse Ail-American defender Tim Green) by running back Alvin Blount. "That (Tye's touchdown) gave us momentum. And at the time we were kind of struggling," Ross said. "The turnovers were very important. I think if you look at them, you'll find that every one turned into a score, or prevented a score." One Maryland interception of McPherson came in the end zone.

The other two were stolen away at the Terrapins' 12- and 20-yard stripes. As if the mistakes weren't enough, Syracuse also had great difficulty accomplishing the one defensive mission it had sworn to perform; stopping the Maryland ground game. "Nobody's been able to run on us (during the regular season, Syracuse ranked 4th nationally against the run), and they did. They've done it to everybody, but I didn't think they could do it to us," MacPherson said. "We missed Ted Gregory (nose-guard, who suffered a knee injury on Maryland's first offensive series), but we should not have missed him that much.

We've been very good against the run all year, and I was disappointed. "What it comes down to is, we didn't stop them, they didn't stop us, but we stopped ourselves. They have better personnel, but not much." Maryland complemented Gel-baugh's deadly throwing with 244 ground yards, 132 by Blount in 24 carries. The game started as if a scoring marathon was in prospect. Syracuse took the opening kickoff and moved 67 yards in eight plays to a 22-yard field goal by Don McAulay.

Maryland bounced right back on its first possession "I think this is going to be a great, great bowl game in years to come," said Maryland quarterback Stan Gelbaugh, the game's most valuable offensive player. "We had a great time, the Cherry Bowl people really took care of us. "I feel bad the crowd wasn't bigger, because this game really deserves nothing but the best And I think maybe that had something to do with the last time we came to Michigan. Maybe people didn't have such a good impression of us." One of the Terrapins' three defeats came at the University of Michigan, 20-0, in the third game of the regular season. cal, and lost an equally damaging fumble.

"We thought we played well offensively, but we turned it over. You don't beat a good team when you make that many mistakes," the downcast McPherson said, after accepting full blame for his miscues. No one denied the importance of mistakes Syracuse had five turnovers in all, Maryland only one to the outcome. And the fact that they kept the total score from mounting into the 70s or 80s was the least of it. "I thought we could do some things against them, and we did.

But the turnovers hurt us terribly," Syracuse Coach Dick Mac-Pherson said. "The killer turnover was the third one the punt. The others just took scoring opportunities away from us. That one gave them a touchdown." The "third one" came late in the second quarter, with the Terrapins nursing a 14-10 lead. Syracuse's gifted kick returner Scott Schwedes gathered in a punt at his own 10, and almost immediately encountered stern opposi- Lansing State JournalROD SANFORD Drummond (36) tries to outrun in Saturday's Cherry Bowl game The fact remains, however, that only about half the 51,858 ticket-buyers for Cherry Bowl II bothered to show up, and that the great majority of those were clad in the orange and blue of Syracuse or the red and white of Maryland.

"We're satisfied. I can't say we're elated, but we're satisfied. This is a big stadium to fill," Cherry Bowl President Muddy Waters said. "We're a growing bowl, and growing pains are expected." Maybe what he should do in the future is bottle the enthusiasm of the competing players and dispense it to prospective participants and spectators alike. ilArnen i Warm fleeced robes for chilly mornings 30 OFF long robe Ftelgular $50 Warm and comfortable ankle-length robes of fleeced Celanese Arnel" triacetate are thoughtful gifts for his Christmas morning.

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