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3 THE HARTFORD COURANT: Sunday, November 3, 1991 CI How state colleges fared Te)m (record) Retitt Next Central Conn. (1-6-1) lost to AIC, 21-18 Saturday at Bowie St. Coast Guard (4-3) lost to 25-1 9 Saturday at Pace UConn (3-5) def. Richmond, 35-34 Saturday vs. Delaware New Haven (3-4) lost to Springfield, 48-21 Saturday at Wofford Sacred Heart (4-3) def.

Western N.E., 19-3 Saturday at Stonehill Southern Conn. (4-3) def. Ramapo, 28-24 Saturday vs. Ramapo Trinity (5-1-1) def. Amherst, 51-7 Saturday vs.

Wesleyan Wesleyan (3-4) lost to Williams, 24-1 4 Saturday at Trinity Western Conn. (0-8) lost to Stony Brook, 14-9 Saturday vs. Catholic Yale (5-2) def. Penn, 31-12 Saturday at Cornell Odds end ends University of Connecticut split end Mark Didio got his 16th career touchdown reception in Saturday's 35-34 victory over Richmond, tying him with David Dunn (1 985-87) for most career TD catches. Quarterback Nick Crawford rushed for 204 yards on a career-high 24 carries in a 31 -1 2 victory over Penn, only the second time in 1 1 9 years of Yale football that someone gained over 200 yards in a game.

Rich Diana rushed for 222 yards against Princeton in 1 981 Mike Muraca, Wesleyan's all-time leading receiver, caught eight passes for 82 yards one less than the combined total of six Williams receivers but it wasn't enough to overcome the Ephmen in their 24-14 Little Three victory. In their past three meetings, Trinity has defeated Amherst by a combined score of 130-21 35-0, 44-14 and 51-7. I. I I. i i I Staff reports 1 Summaries UConn wins 35 34; somethin Yale 31, Penn 12 UConn 35, Richmond 34 Connecticut 7 21 7 035 Penn COO 12 Richmond 7 0 7 2034 YH 3 0 14 1431 CON UR 1 Penn Yaks First downs 22 17 First downs IS 24 Rushes-yards 47207 44-211 Rushes-yards 45-160 66-391 Passing 261 158 Passing 85 63 Return Yards 10 121 Return Yards 0 26 Comp-Att-Int 18-32-3 15-18-1 Comp-Att-Int 9-21-1 5-10-1 Punts 5-34 6-35 Punts 5-39 6-32 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 3-2 Fumbles-lost 04 1-1 Penalties-Yards 5-38 6-55 Penalties-Yards 4-31 5-49 Time of Possession 30:37 29:23 Time of Possession 25:44 34:16 SCORING SUMMARY SCORING SUMMARY -Long 39 run (Sosik kick) Strashensky 1 run (Ventura kick) -Didio 80 pass from Benton (Sosik Lindner 1 pass from Benton (Sosik Lindner 11 pass from Benton (Sosik CON-UP-CON-kick) CON-kick) CON kick) Yale FG Perks 22 Penn McKinnon 1 run (kick failed) Yale Crawford 3 run (Perks kicked) Yale Crawford 24 run (Perks kick) Yale Lenain 21 pass from Sullivan (Perks kick) Penn Rush 1 run (run failed) Yale Price 1 run (Swartz kick) A 12,580.

By GEORGE SMITH Courant Staff Writer RICHMOND, Va. The University of Connecticut's victory-starved football team turned an apparent rout of the University of Richmond into a struggle Saturday in a game decided by the fickle bounce of an extra-point kick. Richmond, trailing by three touchdowns with 12 minutes, 8 seconds left, scored three times in the next nine minutes, thanks to a UConn fumble and two interceptions, but only converted the first two extra points. The third, with 3:19 left, hit the top of the right upright and bounced away, letting UConn escape with a 35-34 victory. "If you get one more point, you win.

Bingo," UConn coach Tom Jackson said after his team's second-half letdown. "Tomorrow, nobody will even remember the score." UConn is 3-5, 2-3 in the Yankee Conference with three games remaining and has a chance for a sixth consecutive winning season. UConn plays Delaware with 4:40 left. Three plays later, Benton again was intercepted by Scott Burton who ran to the UConn 1. Two plays later it was 35-34 on a 2-yard run by freshman Uly Scott (25 carries, 143 yards, two TDs).

"We didn't consider going for two on the last touchdown," Richmond coach Jim Marshall said. "We wanted to get one and go into overtime." The snap was good, but the kick wasn't. There was 3:19 left when Richmond kicked off. Two running plays got one first down before Benton faced a third and 10 from his 41. He rolled right and threw far down the right sideline where Didio had gotten behind the defender.

"It was a takeoff pattern," Didio said. "It seemed like the ball was in the air forever. It was the big play when we needed it." Nobody was happier than Benton. "Yeah, I was happy about the last pass. My luck couldn't have gotten any worse," he said.

"We won but not the way we should have." (8-1) Saturday in Storrs. "Today was a big gut-check, and we came through," Husky split end Mark Didio said. "No question we want a winning season. This win gives us momentum for next week, and we'll work hard in practice." The play that sealed the victory was a third-down, 47-yard pass from quarterback Cornelius Benton to Didio with 1:49 left that brought the ball to the Richmond 12. The Huskies were able to run all but 14 seconds off the clock before turning over the ball to Richmond.

Didio caught nine passes for 185 yards, including an 80-yard touchdown, and Ed Long, a freshman tailback, had a career-best 192 yards and two touchdowns on 32 carries. "The holes were there, and I just hit them and kept going," Long said. "It was exciting out there, but I don't think I want to be in that position again." The Huskies, with Benton throwing for 195 of his 261 yards, led 28-7 at the half. Long had a 39-yard touchdown run, Didio ran 80 yards for a touchdown and Benton completed touchdown passes of 1 and 11 yards to hit fullback Ken Lindner. Richmond (2-6, 2-4), opened the second half with 75-yard touchdown drive to make it 28-14, but the Huskies answered with a 65-yard drive and 13-yard touchdown run by Long on their first possession and it was 35-14.

The Huskies started the fourth quarter with a drive from their 44 that ended on the Richmond 16 when a late whistle gave the Spiders the ball on a Long fumble. The play, which Jackson protested furiously, appeared to give Richmond life. A week earlier, the Spiders trailed James Madison 33-10 at the half and rallied but lost 47-42 when they were unable to score from the 1 on four plays. Against UConn, the Spiders took Long's fumble and moved 84 yards. Quarterback Greg Lilly hit Sterling Brown with a 25-yard pass and it was 35-21.

Three plays later, Benton was intercepted at the UConn 41, and Richmond was in the end zone in five plays on a 14-yard scramble by Lilly making it 35-28 UR I Lyle 20 fumble return (Ventura kick) CON- Long 13 run (Sosik kick) INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS UR I kick) RUSHING Penn, Rush 21-104, McKinnon Brown 25 pass from Lilly (Ventura -Lilly 14 run (Ventura kick) Scott 2 run (kick failed) UR 1 13-29, Matthews 6-23. Rushing 3-12. Free UR A 7 man 1-3, Barthlow 1 (minus 1 1). Yale, Crawford 24 204, Kouri 23-100, Sullivan 2-16, Parento 3-14, Fahmey 1-11, Sheronas 3-10, Mills 310. Bigham 1-9.

Gouveia 2-8, Swe-dick 1-4. Kelley 1-3, Price 2-2. PASSING Penn. McKinnon 9-19-0-83. Barthlow 0-2-1-0.

Yak). Crawford 3 8-1-36, Sullivan 2-2-0-27. RECEIVING Penn, Miller 4-48. Mott 2-15, Rush 2-13, Brassell 19. Vale, Shabazz 3-32, Lenain 1-21, Kelley 16, Kouri INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING Connecticut.

Lindner 6-18. Benton 9-(-3. Long 32-192. Richmond, Scott 25143. Mahone 5-19.

Lilly 7-17, Strashensky 3-5. Adams 3-6, Henderson 1-1, Lyle O-20. PASSING Connecticut, Benton 18-32-3 261. Richmond. Lilly 15-18-1 158.

RECEIVING Connecticut, Didio 9-185, Long 2-12. Davis 2-33, Lindner 3-16. Kol-towski 215. Richmond, Brown 7105. Lyle 2-1, Hendersc.

2-12. Williams 1-10. Mahone 1-6. Soothes 1-5, Strashensky 1-2. Southern Conn.

28, Ramapo 24 Carnegie-Melllon 25, Coast Guard 19 Coast Guard CMU 13 6 0 7 16 0 19 25 Ivy Leagus CMU Guard Crawford's 204 yards let Yale run away, 31-12 11 16 Conf. LT 3 0 1 3 1 0 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Punts-yards Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards 42-152 119 109 2-2 2-18 63-268 136 75 4-328 '5-0 9-125 Overall WLT PF PA 4 2 1 179 164 6 1 0 201 112 5 2 0 199 124 2 4 1 133 1 53 3 4 0 109 177 1 6 0 91 165 1 6 0 98 184 0 7 0 157 269 Dartmouth Princeton Yale Harvard Cornell Columbia Penn Brown Ramapo 0 14 0 1024 S. Connecticut 14 0 0 1428 Southern Ramapo First downs 25 21 Rushes-yards 46-176 41-171 Passing yards 241 185 Return yards 52 9 Punts-yards 3-126 6-250 FumMes-lost' 4-3 1-1 Penalties-yards 993 16-88 SCORING SUMMARY 1 0 1 1 2 0 3 0 3 0 SCORING SUMMARY 0 4 0 CG Talley 23 run (Wassetman kick) CMU Dee 1 run (Harding kick) CG Waters 3 run (kick failed) CMU Siket 79 pass from Dee (Harding kick) CB Talley 2 run (pass failed) CMU Marmot 7 run (Dee run) CMU FG Harding 31 A 2.653 Saturday Cornell 20, Brown 17 Dartmouth 31 Harvard 31 Yale 31, Penn 12 Princeton 22, Columbia 6 Fake field goal keeps AIC from losing to Central Rivers' TD pass the difference By WOODY ANDERSON Courant Staff Writer NEW BRITAIN Sean Rivers was the starting quarterback last season for American International College and he expected to be the starter this season. But after the third game he lost his job to Tony Ragone. Since, he's been the holder for field goals and extra-point kicks.

But Saturday at Arute Field the left-handed senior helped pull off the winning play as AIC barely held off Central Connecticut, 21-18. With 52 seconds remaining in the first half and AIC on the Central 10-yard line, AIC sent Adam Hallet to attempt a 27-yard field goal. It was all for show. Rivers took the snap, ran to his right and threw a touchdown INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS SCSU Weber 11 pass froom Joe Stochmal (Boulanger kick) SCSU Kimbrough 17 pass from Stochmal (Boulanger kick) RC Turner 7 run (Amato kick) RC Jackson 2 pass from Grant (Mover kick) SCSU Sebastian 2 run (Boulanger kick) RC FG Meyer 42 RC Sancillo 4 pass from Grant (Amato kick) SCSU Stochmal 3 run (Boulanger kick) A 4,150 RUSHING: CM Marmol 11-77, Prnurro6-61, Pero 9-56; CG Talley Pas-quina 7-42, Dawdy 6-18. PASSING: CM Dee 3-9-0-1 19; CG Talley 10-22-1 136.

RECEIVING: CM Siket 179. Peters 1-20. Marmol 1-20; CG Dawdy 5-65, Winfietd 2-24, Jones 1-33. INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Stony Brook 14, Western Conn. 9 0 3 0 69 0 7 7 014 Western Conn.

Stony Brook RUSHING: SC Sebastian 14-75, Leuant 11-36. Stochmal 13-34. Smalls 7 30; RA- Grant 13-56, Dozier 9-41, Jackson 6-36, Turner 6-21. PASSING: SC Stochmal 14-25-1-241; RA- Grant 22-341 185. RECEIVING: SC Webber 5 95, Kimbrough 5-67.

Sebastian 2-45; RA McKinney 7-54, Jackson 6-47, Sancillo 4-37, Suglia 2-22 Sacred Heart 19, WNEC3 By BRUCE BERLET Courant Staff Writer NEW HAVEN Penn coach Gary Steele had likened Nick Crawford to a linebacker and admitted gearing his game plan Saturday to stopping the Yale quarterback and tailback Chris Kouri. The Quakers contained them in first half, but Crawford then impersonated O.J. Simpson in running Yale to a 31-12 Ivy League victory. Crawford rushed 24 times for 204 yards and two touchdowns, only the second time in 119 years a Yale ran for more than 200 yards. bettered the quarterback record of 186 set by his predecessor, Kehler, in a 33-17 victory over Lehigh Sept.

23, 1989. Only Rich Diana's 46-attempt, 222-yard effort in a 35-31 loss to Princeton Nov. 14, 1981, surpasses Crawford's total. Crawford, a senior who started one game before this season, passed out praise when asked about doing something never achieved by the likes of Albie Booth, Clint Frank, Levi Jackson, Calvin Hill, Brian Chuck Mercein, Dick Jauron, John Pagliaro and Kehler. And if Crawford didn't take himself out of the game in the third quarter because of exhaustion, he might have set a Yale record.

"I had no idea about the record, no sense of how many yards I had," said 'Crawford, whose previous high was 167 yards in a 34-20 victory over Lafayette Sept. 28. "I obviously feel great, but I can't compliment the offense enough. If Kouri 23 rushes, 100 yards) and The Toads offensive line don't do their job, I don't get all those yards." Crawford said his career-high total for carries wasn't by design. "I just try to do what's best.

I like to set up Chris for the pitchout, and if that's not open, keep it myself," said Crawford, who has 897 yards on 143 carries this season. "They were flying to the outside a lot and I saw a lot of openings, so I kept cutting back." Crawford's decisions cut into Steele and his defense. "The difference was Crawford," understated Steele. "We had him boxed in and he kept juking 'and getting away. I guess it's a tribute to Kehler that he could keep Crawford on the bench." "He really hurt us breaking tackles and keeping his feet going," Penn linebacker Andy Berlin said.

That was especially true on the first two of Yale's four consecutive TD drives in the second half while working from a no-huddle offense. Crawford's cutback run for 31 yards keyed a 64-yard drive that culminated in his 3-yard run that put the Elis (5-2, 3-1) ahead to stay 12-6 at 5 minutes, 48 seconds of the second half. Crawford then finished a 76-yard, 10-play drive with a 24-yard run on which he appeared trapped well behind the line of scrimmage, only to scramble up the middle, cut left, break three tackles and nearly col- SB Dennis Craig 27 pass from Kevin Walsh WC Keith Woelfe 23 FG SB Oliver Bridges 12 run WC Brad Lawerence 1 run (pass failed) WNEC Sacred Heart 0 0 3 03 0 0 6 1319 lapsed into the end zone with 2 minutes, 2 seconds left in the third quarter. "Nick made some big plays that were very meaningful," Yale coach Carm Cozza. "The TD run was incredible." It earned Crawford a break on Yale's next possession, which was finished by reserve quarterback Paul Sullivan's 21-yard touchdown pass to Adam Lenain, who took the ball away from Penn's Stephin Palmer and Tom Oko of Shelton.

Crawford returned for one more series and directed an 11-play, 66-yard drive, which included a 9-yard run on fourth down that kept it alive. Reserve Keith Price scored the final TD on a 1-yard run with 4:34 left after Crawford was knocked out of bounds after a 9-yard scramble. Fitz McKinnon and Sundiata Rush (21-107) scored on 1-yard runs for Penn (1-6, 1-3), which was hurt by the loss of halfback Lance Rushing on the second play of the second half. Rushing injured his lower back and was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital for X-rays and a CAT scan. He was released and returned to Penn Saturday night.

POLLS I s. pass to tight end Craig Wallace. Hallet kicked the conversion and AIC led, 21-6. The touchdown was crucial as Central (1-6-1) scored 22 seconds later and again in the fourth quarter. But the Blue Devils couldn't overcome three interceptions by AIC free safety Darnell Peeples and their lack of a kicking game.

Peeples was starting for the first time this season because of an First downs NCAA Division l-AA football Top 20 S. Heart 10 235 29 180 7-178 5-3 10-107 WNEC 11 103 108 102 6-284 4-4 9-78 Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Punts-yards Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards Williams 24, Wesleyan 14 Top 20 teams In the NCAA poH with first-place votes In parentheses, records through Saturday, total points and last week's ranking: Record 1. Nevada (4) 8-00 6-1-0 Williams 6 0 8 1024 Wesleyan 0 14 014 SCORING SUMMARY 2. Eastern Kentucky 3 Holy Cross 4. Northern Iowa 5 Sam Houston State 6.

Alabama State 7. Middle Tenn. State 8. New Hampshire 9. Delaware Pts 80 76 72 68 64 60 56 52 47 42 42 37 744 6-1-0 641 6-0-1 5- 2-0 6- 1-0 71-0 6-2-0 6-1-0 6-1-1 5- 2-0 6- 2-0 Pre 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 11 .12 12 14 15 -17 10 20 18 "1 19 29 25 10.

Appalachian State 10. Villanova 12. Western Illinois 13. Furman 14. James Madison 15.

Boise State 16. NE Louisiana 17. SW Missouri St. 18. Samford 19 Marshall jWesleyan upset bid falls short Williams Owyer 2 run (kick blocked) Wesleyan Truslow 1 run (Coughlin kick) Wesleyan McCarte 5 pass from D'Onofrio (Coughlan kick) Williams Rorke 8 run (Rorke run) Williams Levine 40 interception return (Barnard kick) Williams FG Barnard 27 A 7.850 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING: Williams Rorke 35-274, Rekty 12-56.

Dywer 11-43; Wesleyan Richardson 9 34. PASSING: Williams Dwyer 10-22-1; Wesleyan O'Onofno 2043-6. RECEIVING: Williams Burrell 3-37, Moynahan 2-18; Wesleyan Muraca 8-82). Yaker 5-60, McCarte 3-10, Vital 2 28. 5-2-0 24V 5-2-1 17 5-2-1 16 7-1-0 15 4- 3-0 9 5- 3-0 3Vi 6- 1-0 3V4 19.

Georgia Southern 19. Lehigh NCAA Division II football Top 20 Top 20 teams In the NCAA poH with first-place votes In parentheses, records through Oct 26, total points and last week's ranking: AIC 21, Central Conn. 18 Pts Pvs Record VALENTINE injury to a starter. He told Rivers before the game, "Watch No. 7 Peeples." Watching Central game films, Peeples said he noticed many overthrown passes.

"So I played behind the receivers and waited." He intercepted on Central's first two possessions of the second half including one on a halfback option pass and again with 46 seconds remaining in the game. The Blue Devils started their last possession with 1 minute, 28 seconds remaining and had moved from their own 11 to midfield when Peeples intercepted at the AIC 37. "I just had a feeling today," said Peeples, a junior who tied a school record with the three interceptions. "I sat on the bench all season. I just wanted a shot." AIC (4-3-1) chewed at Central with a crunching ground game.

Fullback Beau Snell, running as his father Matt Snell did for the New York Jets, gained 106 yards on 26 carries and halfback Craig Harris gained 100 yards on 19 carries. In AIC's 15-play scoring drive of 68 yards in the first quarter, the 235-pound Snell ran for 44 yards on eight carries, setting up Ragone's 2-yard touchdown run. But Central took away Ragone's passing. In the second half, Ragone missed on seven consecutive passes. He didn't throw another.

Despite the two interceptions, it was quarterback Eric Valentine who kept the Blue Devils in the game. He threw touchdown passes of 56 and 40 yards to Pat Boutin and Dave Pignone, respectively, and completed two passes and ran three times for 2 1 yards in a drive that set up Jason Ziruk's 11-yard touchdown run with 10:35 left in the game. But the conversion kick was blocked. The last time Central made a conversion kick was 10 touchdowns and four games ago. Since, Nelson Mingachos has missed six kicks and three have been blocked.

Even punter Tom Curran tried his luck at placekicking Saturday but in his first college try, the kick was short. And an old problem jumped at the Blue Devils penalties. Although they committed penalties for 52 yards at Lenoir-Rhyne last week, they committed 12 for 134 yards against AIC. 1. Indiana, Pa.

(4) 1 2 8 12 "3 "14 10 18 6 4 5 AIC 7 14 0 021 Central 0 12 0 618 Ale Central First downs 19 16 Rushes-yards 61-276 36-90 Passing yards 70 254 Return yards 152 60 Punts-yards 8-273 7-313 Fumbles lost 1-1 0-0 Penalties-yards 12-104 12-131 SCORING SUMMARY 76 72 68 64 59 57 52 46 42 40 34 8-0-0 60 5-2-0 7-1-0 7-1-0 7-1-0 5- 1-1 6- 1-1 6-1-0 6-1-0 5- 2-0 6- 20 6-24 6- 11 524 5-2-0 7- 1-0 5- 34 6- 2-0 5-24 2. Jacksonville St. 3. Mississippi College 4. Northern Colorado 5.

Ashland, Ohio 6 Wofford, C. 7 Pittsburg State 8. Virginia Union 9. Sacramento State 10. Butler, Ind.

11. North Dakota State 12. Grand Valley St. 13. Portland State 14.

East Stroudsburg 15. Fort Valley Ga. 17. Winston-Salem St. 18 18 Shippensburg, Pa.

20 Edinboro, Pa. By TOMMY HINE Z' Courant Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN Long after his football team had come from behind 'to defeat Wesleyan 24-14 in a tradition-rich Little Three game Saturday, Williams coach Dick Farley was second-guessing himself. It wasn't until after Wesleyan took a 14-6 halftime lead that Farley decided to go to his strength the running of Sean Rorke. The junior 'tailback from North Andover, 'carried 35 times for 274 yards. "The difference after halftime? "Rorke, Rorke and Rorke," Far-'ley said.

"Why not use him? We should have. That's the question I'll be asking myself the next 24 hours. "When you've got a bullet in your gun, you shoot it." And once he did, Wesleyan's upset bid against Williams (6-1) was dead. For a half, the Cardinals (3-4) Splayed perhaps their finest 30 minutes this season. They gave up a football team, and they really pound you." 1 Williams intercepted D'Onofrio five times in the second half.

The first of two interceptions by Mike Brown not only stopped a Wesleyan drive at the Williams 25, it got Dywer, a senior from Glastonbury, started on a scoring drive. Rorke, hit no less than five times at the knees, kept his balance and ran in from the 8 then ran in the two-point conversion to tie the score at 14 with 1 minute, 21 seconds left in the third. Less than two minutes later, Mike Levine stepped in front of a D'Onofrio pass and returned the interception 40 yards for a 21-14 Williams lead. Wesleyan then marched 90 yards for an apparent tying score, only to have Jon-Rene Glover's 5-yard touchdown reception nullified by a holding penalty. A field-goal attempt was wide, and three interceptions stopped Wesleyan from threatening again.

first-quarter touchdown on Dan Dwyer's 2-yard run on fourth down. But on Williams' next six possessions, the Ephmen managed only two first downs. By then, Dave D'Onofrio's pinpoint passes had given Wesleyan its 14-6 lead. Scott Hatter's interception at the Williams 42 set up the Cardinals' first TD Frank Truslow's 1-yard run. D'Onofrio's sixth consecutive completion gave Wesleyan its second touchdown Matt McCarte's diving catch in the end zone.

Wesleyan stopped Williams' bold bid on fourth-and-4 at the 8 to save its halftime lead. But, even then, Cardinals coach Kevin Spencer was worried. "It had been a good half for us. We played with a lot of confidence, but we knew 14 points was not enough," he said. "They're a second-half team.

It's a tribute to their offense that they did what they do best. That's what Williams is good at. They're a physical 30 20 19 NCAA Division III regional football AIC Tony Ragone 2 run (Adam Hallet kick) CENT Pat Boutin 56 pass from Eric Valentine (kick failed) AIC Darin Stevens 23 run (Hallet kick) AIC Craig Wallace 10 pass from Sean Rivers (Hallet kick) CENT Dave Pignone 40 pass from Valen-tine (run failed) CENT Jason Ziruk 11 run (kick blocked). INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING AIC Beau Snell 26-106, Craig Harris 19-100: Cent. Jason Ziruk 12-56.

Valentine 13-42. PASSING AIC Tony Ragone 4-12460: nt Eric Valentine 14-30-2-254. RECEIVING AIC Craig Harris 2-31. )ann Stevens 2-29; Cent. Pat Boutin 5-110-1.

Dave Pignone 5-81-1, Sean Davis Trinity bounces back, pummels Amherst, 51-7 Trinity 51, Amherst 7 Top teams from each region NCAA poll with records through Oct 26: East Region 1. Ithaca, 6-1; 2. Glassboro State, N.J., 7-0; 3. Cortland State. N.Y., 6-1; 4.

Union, 64: 5. Lowell, 74; 6. Ramapo, N.J., 6-1. North Region 1. Allegheny, 84; 2.

Dayton, Ohio, 7-0. 3. Baldwin-Wallace, Ohio, 74; 4. Albion, 641; 5. Augustana, in.

6-1: 6. Ohio Wesleyan. 6-1. South Region 1. Lycoming.

64; 2. Ferrum. 64; 3 Dickinson. 64: 4. Susquehanna.

7-0; 5. Sewanee, 641; 6. Millsaps, 6-1. West RegkM 1. St.

John's. 84; 2. Wisconsin-La Crosse, 84: 3. Simpson, Iowa, 84: 4. Beloit, 84: 5.

Central. Iowa. 6-1; 6. UC San Diego, 5-2. Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy By JIM SHEA Courant Staff Writer Trinity 7 17 21 7 SI Amherst 0 0 0 77 Trinity Amherst First downs 26 15 Rushes-yards 56-284 46-120 Passing yards 178 69 Return yards 8 0 Punts-yards 1-35 3-86 Fumbles-lost 1-0 1-1 Penalties-yards 3-30 3-30 SCORING SUMMARY AMHERST, Mass.

Still smarting game. We were very discouraged after losing to Coast Guard." The game was close for most of the first half. Amherst took the opening kickoff and held the ball for 7 minutes, 31 seconds, marching to the Trinity 18, where the 15-play drive stalled. The Lord Jeffs were playing without starting quarterback, Matthew Sawyer, whose shoulder is injured. After stopping Amherst, Trinity drove 82 yards in 12 plays, with running back John Mullaney scoring on a reverse from the 15.

The score remained 7-0, until 3:30 was 17 of 41 for 178 yards and two touchdowns. Bantams running back Mike Wallace had four receptions for 68 yards and a touchdown and picked up another 53 yards on seven carries. "After we lost to Coast Guard we were down, but starting on Monday we just focused on Amherst," Wallace said. "Our seniors kept us motivated. This was the last time they would dress in our white uniforms." Said Trinity coach Don Miller, "This was a wonderful win for us.

I was very impressed with the hitting today on both offense and defense. It was a very intense left in the second quarter. From that point, Trinity scored 17 points to take a 24-0 lead at halftime. First running back Shaun Kirby scored on a 2-yard run. Then Rick Ducey intercepted a Tom Mango pass at the Amherst 33, and Lane quickly hit Mike Giardi with a 6-yard pass to make it 21-0 with the extra point.

The final score of the half came on a 25-yard field goal by Ted O'Connor that was set up by Mike Mc-Hugh's fumble recovery with 28 seconds remaining. Trinity put the game away in the opening minutes of the second half with Kirby scoring from the 2. Voting mutts for the top football teams In the Northeast, wrth first-place voles In parentheses, records through Oct 26 and total points based en a 10-1 scoring system: from its loss to Coast Guard last week, 5Trinity defeated Amherst 51-7 Saturday at Pratt Field. t. The Bantams had 462 yards in total iPffense to the Lord Jeffs' 189.

The defeat i was Amherst's second worst in the series, 1 which began in 1886. In 1948, Trinity won 46-0. Trinity is 5-1-J entering its final game of the season next week against arch Wesleyan. Amherst is 0-6-1. Trinity quarterback James Lane was TRI -TRI -TRI -kick) TRI -TRI -TRI -kick) TRI -AMH TRI Mullaney 15 run (O'Connor kick) Kirby 2 run (O'Connor kick) Giardi 6 pass from Lane (O'Connor FG O'Connor 25 Kirby 1 run (O'Connor kick) Wallace 8 pass tram Lam (O'Connor Brodtrick 1 run (O'Connor fuck) Capone 6 run (Lewis kick) -Holstead 10 run kick failed) 1.

Penn State (7). 7-24. 79; 2. Syracuse (1), 6-24. 73; 3.

Pittsburgh, 5-34. 64; 4. Rutgers. 5-34. 55: 5.

West Virginia, 5-34, 49; 6. Boston College. 2-5-0, 36; 7. Army. 3-44.

33; 8. Temple, 2-54. 26; 9. Navy. A 2.

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