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Tig ers top Daily World Sports Editor Tide. 1644 Unusual playoff for ABW hey certainly do make life interesting in Herman Fontenot at the end of LSU's opening drive, and Ron Lewis kicked a 45-yard field goal in the second period for the 7-1-1 Tigers, who are 4-0-1 in the SEC. i Alabama, falling to 3-6 and 1-4 with two games left, got its touchdowns on a 2-yard run by Rickey Moore and a 4-yard pass from Mike Shula to Ed Pugh, the tight end's first catch of the season. LSU capitalized on a poor kicking game by Alabama. The Tigers' first touchdown and field goal came after a 33-yard kickoff return by Garry James and a 34-yard punt return by Norman Jefferson.

yr'J- i t7- "V- BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -Twelfth-ranked Louisiana State kept its Sugar Bowl hopes alive Saturday with a 16-14 Southeastern Conference football victory over Alabama. "I guess we are in pretty good shape as far as that goes," said Coach Bill Arnsparger about the conference race. "But I really don't think about things like that. We just have to take them one game at a time." The decision assured Alabama of its first losing season in 27 years.

Alabama, Arnsparger said, played well defensively. But he also praised his team for hanging in although Alabama held the ball for almost 41 of the 60 minutes and rolled up 332 yards to 161 for the Tigers. "We are very banged up on defense, in very bad shape physically," the first-year LSU coach said. "We fought, scratched and clawed to the very end." Linebacker Michael Brooks, who blocked a punt to set up the winning score, said, "We had to stick together. That's what we had to do to win." Kevin Guidry recovered the blocked kick at the Alabama 12 and Dalton Milliard scored from the 7 three plays later for the final points of the game.

Jeff Wickersham passed 2 yards to Alabama moved from its 28 to the LSU 34 late in the game, but a 51-yard field goal attempt by Van Tiffin fell far short against a stiff wind. LSU has one SEC game left, against Mississippi State next week, plus a non-conference game with Tulane. Alabama, with Cincinnati and Auburn left, has its poorest season since it went 2-7-1 in 1957, the year before the late "Bear" Bryant took over as coach and led the Crimson Tide to 25 consecutive winning seasons. Alabama went 8-4 a year ago in Ray Perkins' first year as coach. ALABAMA'S GREG RICHARDSON LOSES BALL WHILE TIGERS CLOSE IN AP Photo LSU's defense, special teams key to 16-14 victory.

Cowboys corral Cajuns USC dumps Husldes me Louisiana independent School Association. LISA member schools, like Amy Bradford Ware and Belmont here in Opelousas, wrapped up their regular seasons Friday night. Now, for the lucky ones, it will be on to the playoffs. BUT IN THE case of ABW's Rebels, a three-way tie in District 3-AA tends to cloud the picture. ABW beat Belmont Friday, 42-6, to finish district play at 3-1.

Silliman defeated Central Private 12-10. That left ABW, Silliman and Central Private tied for the district championship. So how is the tie broken for playoff purposes? THE THREE TEAMS Will get together Monday at 6 p.m. at Park View. Numbers will be drawn from a hat to determin which school sits out first.

In a round-robin mini-tournament, the schools will play as through it were an overtime game. One school gets the ball on the 10-yard line and tries to score in four plays, then the other team gets the ball under the conditions. First team to outscore the other then plays the next school. ABW, for example, will play both Silliman and Central Private. Silliman will also play Central Private.

THIS WILL DETERMINE first and second for playoff purposes. What makes things interesting, at least for ABW first-year coach Russell Richard, is the presence of senior placekicker Neil Fontenot on his squad. Fontenot hit 25 of 29 extra points this season and has hit three of four field goals (29, 46 and 48 yards). But Fontenot creates some interesting options for Richard. IF YOU WIN the toss of the coin, do you take the ball or go on defense first? Richard might be wise to opt for defense, knowing that if his team keeps the opponent out of the endzone, he has sure three points coming.

And if you're going against ABW, you put the Rebels on offense first and hope you can hold them to just a field goal, then go for the touchdown and the win Interesting combinations. And it should be even more interesting for all concerned on Monday. By BOBBY ARDOIN Daily World Sports Writer LAKE CHARLES Twelve months of talk were too much for McNeese middle linebacker Vance Robichaux, so he and his teammates took out their frustrations in a 30-17 win over USL's Ragin' Cajuns. The frustrations of Robichaux, from Opelousas (Catholic) and the other members of the McNeese football team were aimed at USL here Saturday as the Cowboys rolled over the Cajuns in the 1-10 rivarly before 23,000 at Cowboy Stadium. "WE WERE DEFINITELY fired up," said Robichaux amid a McNeese lockerroom that bordered on chaos and euphoria.

i "I know what really had me ready for this game was all the talk. Everytime I came home, I'd hear it," added Robichaux, who finished the night with 10 tackles to lead McNeese. McNeese, now 6-3-1, opened both the first and second halves with 70-yard touchdown marches. USL, which dropped to 5-5, had to settle for three Patrick Broussard field goals until the Cajuns scored with 5:39 remaining in the game on an eight-yard Dwayne Williams run. "This (the victory) has been building up," said Robichaux, in light of last season's 48-16 victory by USL at Cajun Field.

"I HAVE BEEN remembering last year and all the talk. Now, maybe it will be my McNeese wide receiver Keith Ortego, a senior from Eunice, was one of the offensive stars for the Cowboys, catching five passes for 100 yards. The effort moved Ortego to third on the all-time receiving list and pushed him over the 1,000 yard mark for his career. Included on the night was a seven-yard pass reception By The Associated Press No. 14 Southern California toppled top-ranked Washington 16-7 in a showdown for the Rose Bowl on an upset-filled Saturday that also claimed No.

3 Texas and saw No. 6 Miami (Fla.) fall victim to the greatest comeback in major-college football history. In Los Angeles, tailback Fred Crutcher ran for 116 yards and a touchdown and Frank Jordan kicked three long field goals to give Southern Cal the Pacific-10 title and a berth in the Rose Bowl. Crutcher, who carried 35 times, scored on a 2-yard run early in the final period to bring Southern Cal back from a 7-6 deficit in the defense-dominated game. Jordan hit field goals of 51, 47 and 46 yards.

The victory raised the Trojans record to 8-1 and dropped Washington to 9-1. Meanwhile, Texas was ambushed at home by Houston 29-15! Also falling were Miami which led 31-0 at halftime but lost to Maryland 42-40; No. 8 Georgia, which got routed 27-0 for a touchdown with 6:01 remaining in the third quarter. "It was supposed to be a hook and go pattern," Ortego explained about the TD aerial reception. "I ran it and USL was in man coverage.

I was supposed to go up for the ball, and Don (Richards) put the ball right there." Ortego claimed that McNeese, which passed for 124 yards on the Cajun defense, wasn't intimidated by USL's ranking of ninth in the nation on pass coverage. "Statistics are for people who want to read about them. They played man defense all night; 'and we felt we could take advantage of that." USL HEAP COACH Sam Robertson claimed the Cajuns may have been victims of their own arrogance. "Overconfidence hurt us," admitted Robertson whose offense provided 389 yards, 253 from the arm of quarterback Donnie Wallace. "They had a very simple game plan.

They just knocked our fanny off the line of scrimmage and did what they wanted to. "We just didn't have ours (players) ready to play. We didn't execute the things we needed to execute offensively. I never dreamed that we would be held to 17 points." WALLACE COMPLETED 17 of 32 passes, but the Cajuns had trouble moving the ball inside the 20-yard lines and had to settle for three pointers instead. McNeese running back Simon Jordan had his most productive night ever as a Cowboy gaining 169 yards on 25 carries.

Jordan scored on three and 12-yard runs. Cowboy assistant coach Tommy Tate, a native of Port Barre, put it into perspective in the jubilant McNeese lockerroom. "They (USL) may be Division 1-A, but we have a good football team." by No. 10 Florida; No. 18 Iowa, a 17-16 loser to Michigan State; and No.

19 West Virginia, victimized by Rutgers 23-19. No. 5 South Carolina remained unbeaten by stopping No. Florida State 38-26. Other Top Twenty mambers also fared well.

Second-ranked Nebraska pounded Kansas 41-7; No. 4 Brigham Young trounced San Diego State 34-3; No. 9 Oklahoma smashed Colorado 42-17; and No. 12 Louisiana State stopped Alabama 16-14, dooming the Crimson Tide to its first losing season since 1957. No.

13 Ohio State crushed Northwestern 52-3; No. 15 Texas Christian stopped Texas Tech 27-15; No. 16 Boston College held off Army 45-31; and No. 20 Auburn shredded Cincinnati 60-0. Southern California, which dominated the Pac-10 in the 1970s, will be making its first Rose Bowl appearance since 1979.

Since then, the Trojans have struggled through NCAA probation and last year went 4-6-1, their worst season in two decades. II It If 1 I ii 'Wild Again' is surprise winner in Breeders' Cup IE Of. If 111 INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) -Trainer Vincent Timphony says "I'm a man with one good horse," and Saturday that horse, Wild Again, was even better than Slew o' Gold. Wild Again, a 30-to-l shot who had to be supplemented into the race for $360,000 because he was not nominated, outdueled Slew o' Gold and Gate Dancer in the stretch and won the $3 million Breeders' Cup Classic.

"He deserved to be here 100 percent because we couldn't pass on a $3 million race when he had a chance of winning," Timphony said. The bettors didn't think so, and so he paid a winning mutuel of $64.60 in ruining what was supposed to be Slew o' Gold's victorious last hurrah. The son of Seattle Slew, who needed treatment for a quarter crack in his right front foot Friday, is being retired to stud. Wild Again, a 3-year-old colt, was ridden by Pat Day, who got the mount when Eddie Maple switched to Track Barron, who finished fourth. And he had to withstand an inquiry involving his two closest finishers in the lV4-mile race.

Wild Again finished a head in front of Gate Dancer, who was a half-length in front of Slew o' Gold. But the stewards disqualified Gate Dancer to third and moved Slew o' Gold to second. Wild Again's victory was worth $1.35 million and gave him earnings for the year of $2,054,409. His owners are William Allen, Terry Beat and Ron Volkman. But Beal missed the big victory because he had a quadruple bypass heart operation performed Friday, Timphony had heart surgery last year when Wild Again was out of action with bone chips, and the two recuperated together.

The second richest race on the $10 million, seven-race program was a foreign affair. Lashkari, an English-bred owned by the Aga Khan, overtook French-bred mare All Along just before the wire and won the $2 million Breeders' Cup Turf Stakes by a neck. He paid a winning mutuel of $160.80, which made Wild Again's winning return of $64.60 pale. In the first two stakes on the program, each worth $1 million, Chief's Crown won the Juvenile and became the solid favorite for next year's Kentucky Derby, while Fran's Valentine, a 70-1 shot, almost won the Juvenile Fillies Stakes. She finished a half-length in front of Outstandingly, but was disqualified and placed loth.

In the other three $1 million stakes on the card, Eillo won the Sprint, Royal Heroine tied a world record in winning the Mile on the grass, and Princess Rooney dominated the Distaff. Steward Pete Pedersen, in explaining the inquiry, said Gate Dancer lugged in during the last sixteenth of a mile and placed Slew o' Gold in close quarters. "Actually he inter-ferred with both inside horses," said Pedersen. Slew o' Gold was fifth going down WILD AGAIN (2) EDGES OUT FAVORITES IN BREEDERS' CUP AP Photo THE GOOD teams win even when they play poorly. Ask the LSU Tigers if that adage is true.

The Tigers were clearly outplayed by the Crimson Tide of Alabama Saturday, as Alabama had 332 yards in offense to 161 for the Tigers. The bulk of the Tides' attack, over 220 yards, came on the ground. But Alabama had three 1 asses intercepted and a locked punt turned into a touchdown. THE STATS may say Alabama was better, but the scoreboard shows that LSU won the game. And the Tigers' hopes of an SEC championship are still going strong, as LSU has just SEC foe Mississippi State left on the schedule before closing out the regular season against Tulane.

Two more games and the Tigers are that much closer to a bowl bid. But will it be the Sugar or the Orange that LSU ends up in? the backstretch, as first his stable-mate Mugatea, then Wild Again led the eight-horse field. Gate Dancer was seventh. Then, Slew o' Gold, ridden by Angel Cordero began to move on the final turn and seemed to take the lead. As they turned for home, Laffit Pincay Jr.

moved Gate Dancer into contention and the three horses put on a brilliant stretch duel. Slew o' Gold's disappointing second was worth $675,000, which made him the second horse to top $3 million in earnings John Henry has won more than $6 million. Wild Again, who carried 126 pounds, was timed in 2:03 2-5. Slew o' Gold also carried 126 and Gate Danc er 122. In the l'-mile Turf race, Cordero sent All Along, the 1983 North American Horse of the Year, into the lead with about a quarter-mile to go and she appeared to be headed for her first victory in five starts this year.

But she couldn't hold off Lashkari, ridden by French jockey Yves St. Martin, who was third with a quarter-mile left. English-bred Raami finished third and Strawberry Road II, the pacesetter from Australia, was fourth. The time was Star Crown Stable's Chief's Crown, ridden by Don MacBeth, earned $450,000 and paid a winning mutuel of $3.40 in winning for the sixth time in nine starts. He carried scale weight of 122 pounds.

Each winner of the $1 million stakes earned $450,000. Fran's Valentine, ridden by Pat Valenzuela, took the lead in the Juvenile Fillies race with an eighth of a mile to go. But shortly after the finish, the steward ruled she had interfered with Bessarabian and Pirate's Glow in the upper stretch and disqualified her. Outstandingly, owned by Harbor View Farms and ridden by Walter Guerra, paid a winning mutuel of $47.60. Dusty Heart, who had finished 2'4 lengths back of Outstandingly, was moved to second and Fine Spirit was moved to third..