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THE HARTFORD COURANT: Sunday, October 25, 1992 CI 1 Odds and ends How stats colleges fared mfrtord) trtmrtor Ntim Central (1-5) Did not play Saturday vs. Buffalo Coast Guard (2-4) lost to Union, 21-9 Sat, vs. Plymouth State UConn(3-4) def. Malnej 37-30 Saturday vs. Richmond New Haven (7-0) def.

Southern, 56-13 Saturday vs. Springfield Sacred Heart (0-6) lost to Catholic, 16-2 Saturday at tona Southern (3-4) lost to New Haven, 56-13 Saturday at Ramapo Tnnity (3-2) lost to Bowdoin, 14-3 Saturday vs. Middlebury Wesieyan (3-2) def. Amherst, 46-14 Saturday vs. Bowdoln Western (1-6) lost to UMass-LoweH, 48-1 7Saturday vs.

Stony Brook Yale (4-2) def. Columbia, 23-0 Saturday at Penn A 46-1 4 victory over Amherst sets up Wesleyan's final Little Three game at Williams in Williamstown, Nov. 7. The last time Wesieyan defeated Amherst and Williams in the same season was 1970 the last year Wesieyan won an outright Little Three title. One of UConn's top defensive players, senior free safety Mark Chapman, suffered a hip injury and possible internal bleeding in the first half.

He had X-rays Saturday but his playing status was undetermined. "Our goal is to score 65 points a game," said University of New Haven quarterback Kan SuM. "We got that figure fromlast year's Southern game when they beat us, 64-60. If we can average 65 points, we'll win a national championship." New Haven beat Southern 56-13 Saturday. Yale tailback Keith Price rushed for 120 yards on 21 carries in a 23-0 victory over Columbia, marking the third time in six games this season he has surpassed 1 00 yards and giving him 703 of Yale's 1,140 rushing yards.

Price's two rushing touchdowns gave him nine TDs for the season, one more man the rest of the Elis have running and receiving combined. Sacred Heart has been held to a touchdown or less in five of its six games. The Pioneers have been shutout twice. gtafl reports Siodfh about COLLEGE By WOODY ANDERSON Courant Staff Writer i WEST HAVEN University of New Haven football coach Mark Whipple rested the season on the home game Saturday against city rival Southern Connecticut State. "If we don't win this game we can't have a successful season," he told his players.

i That's why. the- Chargers were more nervous than for any game this season. Whipple said he didn't know how to reduce the anxiety in the locker room before the game. He considered telling a joke. But nerves can only strangle a great team for so point, the Chargers had a 28-6 half-time lead.

Graham rushed 23 times for 111 yards. If any in the crowd thought the Owls could come back, those thoughts died when the Chargers took the second-half kickoff and drove 65 yards in three plays, scoring on A.J. Livingston's 6-yard run. The Owls totaled 425 yards, with 309 coming on 19 of 39 passes by quarterback Joe Stochmal. But Southern's only touchdown came early in the fourth quarter, a 24-yard pass from Stochmal to Socrates Small.

You see, New Haven now has a defense to talk about. came away with only 23- and 40-yard field goals by Paul Boulanger. "There's a lot of pressure on the defense," Chargers linebacker Chris Lunz said. "We don't want the offense to get everything." Lunz made eight tackles, including two for losses, broke up a pass, had one sack and helped prevent the Owls option offense from attacking the corners. The Chargers had five tackles for losses and broke up six passes.

When Graham, whose 192.2-yard average was the best in the nation coming into the game, finished a 70-yard drive with a 1-yard scoring run and Peter Capuano kicked the extra The Chargers routed the Owls 56-13 before 2,245 at Dodds Stadium to remain unbeaten (7-0). The Chargers, ranked sixth in Division reached their average for points in a game. Their 596 yards of offense didn't match their NCAA-leading average of 631 a game. But New Haven did the job despite a steady rain in the second half. "We knew we didn't play well against Southern last year a 64-60 loss," Whipple said.

The last thing the Chargers needed was more pressure this week. Quarterback Ken Suhl was arrested last Sunday and charged with misdemeanor sexual assault. He's scheduled to appear in Superior Court Thursday. "I'm mentally tough," said Suhl, who had one of his best games. He completed 15 of 23 passes for 289 yards and three touchdowns and ran for another touchdown.

"It took away a little this week," said Suhl, a senior from Greenfield, Mass. "It just brings the team together. It makes a good team better. It's unfortunate but you've got to keep going. because I had a tough week, 1 1 can't let the team down." After the Chargers scored on their first possession on a 31-yard pass from Suhl to tight end Dave Carton they struggled for the rest of the first quarter.

Then Suhl scored on a 6-yard run, completing an unusually long for New Haven 12-play drive. After Southern (3-4) punted, the Chargers went deep. Wide receiver Tony Willis, recruited as a quarterback, took a handoff from halfback Roger Graham on the left side, ran right and threw a high pass down the right sideline. Joe Davis leaped between two defenders for the catch to finish the 74-yard scoring play. ivy It was the second time this season Willis had completed a pass on that kind of play.

Then the Chargers defense kicked in. The Owls reached the New Haven 6, 23 and 19 in the second quarter but Summaries Connecticut 37, Maine 30 I Wesieyan 46, Amherst 14 1430 1437 yales defense responds TEAM STATISTICS FMd Amheret 0 8 0 14 WesleyM 10 14 14 44 TEAM STATISTICS AfffliMd WterisjTywM First downs 18 24 Rushes-yards 48-147 53-303 Passing Yardage 117 91- Passes 1224 2 5-20-1 Punts 9-33 0 Fumbtes-Ust 4-2 2-1 Penalties-Yards 545 8-90 SCORINO SUMMARY Rushes, yards Passing Return Yards UCem 19 42-209 191 36 2714-1 5-36 11 4-26 28:02 23 49-203 265 46 30-22-1 5- 37 6-2 6- 65 31:58 Punts Fumblas-Lost PanaKKs-Yaros -Time of Possasskm SCORINO SUMMARY ME Girard 34 pass interception (run teHed). UC long 1 run (luck blocked). ME FG Shaw 36. ME Shaw 1 pass from Colon (Shaw kick).

Was Muraca 29 return of blocked punt (Undoffi run) Wes Muraca 1 run (Stem lock) Amh Orlando 14 run (Frtzgibborm peas from Sawyer) Wes FG Stein 23 Wes Muraca 12 run (Stem kick) Wes Muraca 1 run (Stein kick) Amh Orlando 1 run (run failed) Wes Muraca 7 run (Stein kick) Wsi fTetcnar 39 interception return (Stein kick) A 4,200. UC Kcfllowski 6 pass from Rogers (Sosik I If I I lock). UCFG Sosik 32. UC GiWerd 38 run (Sosik kick). UC Lons 82 run (Sosik kick).

Stops Golumbia in 23-0 victory By BRUCE BERLET Courant Staff Writer NEW HAVEN The Yale de-. fense redeemed itself Saturday at Yale Bowl. Granted, the Elis weren't facing Dartmouth quarterback Jay Fiedler, 1 front-runner for Ivy -League player of the year honors, but they were playing a Columbia team averaging 22 points a game. But led bv senior defensive back ME Szydkmskj 84 pass from Colon (Shaw lock). WMVIOUM.

LEADERS UC Davis 17 pass from Rogers (Souk lock). A 7.238. IH DIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Maine. Sirmans 24-106, Witley 13-52, Colon 8-35, Baur 2-15. Connecticut, RUSHING: A Dan Onendo 23-104, Steve Jackson 1345; Mike Muraca 17-95, Howard Undsqr 1042.

Dave Cottree 11-76, Chns Richardson 4-38 PASSING; A Matt Sawyer 12-20-2 117. Robert DeVries 0-3 Dm D'Onofrie 5-20-191. RECEIVING: A Ken Burke 3-51. Mike D'Annono 2-24, Frank Pines 3-16, Jeremy Richmon 1-15, Tyler Wick 1-10; James Yaker 3-50, Muraca 2-41. Union 21, Coast Guard 9 long 15-135, Gilliard 9-43.

Nook 6-23, Under 1-5. Rouen 10-3. PASSING-Maine, Colon 22-30-1-265, Co necticut, Rogers 14-Z7-M91. RECEIVING-Maine, Squires 6-25, Syzdkwski 3-104. Gaines 3-31, Davis 2-31, Cates 2-24, Sirmans 2-18, Bauer 1-6.

Connecticut, Davis 7-117, Korioiwki 448, Jackson 116, Gil- Hard 1-7, BechonsW, 1-3. Yale 23, Columbia 0 Mike Brown's goal-line interception and blocked field-goal attempt, and a defense that had five sacks, Yale defeated Columbia 23-0 to remain tied for second in the league, one game behind first-place Princeton, "It's the first time this season we had a complete effort from the front seven on defense," said linebacker Jeff Kenney, whose four tackles included one of the six team tackles that went for losses. "We tried to get into the quarterback's face, rattle Colwwbla 0 0 0 00 Yah) 0 14 023 TEAM STATISTICS First downs Rushes-yards Passing Return Yards i Doe Poteson The Hartford Courant Wesieyan halfback Mike Muraca, who scored 5 touchdowns and had 238 all-purpose yards, finds running room Saturday. CeastOuardO-S) 0 3 0 Union (4-3) 0 0 14 721 TEAM STATISTICS UeJea Guard First downs 14 16 Rushes-yards 42-116 4341 Passing Yardage 210 189 Return Yardage 128 111 Passes 10-17-0 16-33-1 Punts Fumbles-lost" 22 5-0 Penalties-Yards 10-103 543 SCORINO SUMMARY CG luiownon 33 FG Ray 39 pass from Newton (Harrison luck) Frynn 19 pan from Newton (Harrison kick) CG Wasserman 1 run (run failed) Eberhart 45 interception return (Harrison kick) INDIVIDUAL LEADERS Col Yale 13 17 32-16 51-201 184 143 38 61 136-2 9-14-2 7-32 6-32 04 2-1 W-90 11-87 30:56 29:04 Comp-Att-mt Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-Yards Tirr of Possession them a bit, and we aid. The victory was Yale's ninth row over Columbia, the first shutout record Muraca (5 IDs) ties SCORINO SUMMARY since beating the Lions 23-0 Oct 1989.

and the first home shutout Yale Price 26 run (Swerti kick) Yale Price 2 run (Swam kick) Yale Safety, bar) snapped out of end ana on punt Yale Kt) ley 9 pass from Mills (Swartz kick) A 14,569. RUSHING: Coast Guard, Winhekf 1 1-36, Ho- gan 10-34; Union, Irving 25-98, labonte. 9- INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Wesieyan defeats Amherst, 46-14 34. PASSING: Coast Guard, Wasserman, 16-33- 189-0: Union. Newton.

10-17-210-2. RUSHING Columbia, KJosek 9-21, Andrzejewski 10-21. Yale, Price 21-120, Hetherrng-ton 8-33, Sullivan 6-12, Alennder 2-12. PASSING Columbia, AndRejewski 10-19 RECEIVING: Coast Guard, Jones, 648, Win-field 3-20, Lengum, 2-35, Pagqmno. 2-14; Union, Walker, 440, ijbonte, 2-36, Frym 1- 1-79.

7-16-1-77, Schwaloo 1-1-0 28. Yak), 19-1, Ray 1-39-1. MHIs 8-11-1-133. Hetherington 0-1-14. Le-bec 0-10.

Swedick 1-1-0-10. RECEIVING Columbia. Sardo 5-34, Hayes 540, Basset 2-39. Yale, hvan 2-25. UMass-LowelMl, Western Conn.

17 New Haven 56, Southern Conn. 13 10 0 0 7 17 7 IS 0 1141 UManteweg SCORINO SUMMARY increase Wesleyan's advantage to 32-8 after three quarters. Able to dart outside orxun hard off tackle, Muraca was most "effective running. Throughout his career, if a team stopped his run, he could make a catch (he had two for 41 yards Saturday), return punts and kickoffs (4-102) or block a punt Against Colby earlier this season, he threw a touchdown pass. "When he's on, he turns us all on," Moravek said.

Amherst, meanwhile, was experiencing an off day. Though it gained 264 yards, it yielded 303 rushing yards, lost two fumbles and missed too many tackles. Midway through the fourth quarter, Muraca scored on a 7-yard run to tie H.G. Travis' school record of five touchdowns in one game, set in 1918 against Hamilton. Twenty minutes after the game, Muraca was seen walking through a heavy rain across campus toward the locker room in the Freeman Athletic Center.

With the game ball cradled against his uniform By TOM YANTZ Courant Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN Wesieyan halfback Mike Muraca walked off Andrus Field Saturday with the game ball clutched against his uniform. "After the game, the ball is supposed to go back to our equipment manager, but I think in this case Mike should keep it," Wesieyan coach Frank Hauser said. Muraca deserved the honor after scoring five touchdowns to tie a school record and gaining 238 all-purpose yards in Wesleyan's 46-14 Little Three homecoming day victory over Amherst The ball and Muraca were frequent partners. His first touchdown came on a 29-yard blocked punt return late in the first quarter. Untouched, he raced in from right end.

After Scott Sidney kicked the ball, it bounced off Muraca's hands. "The ball hit the ground twice, and I said, 'Come on, bounce right up to Muraca said. "And it did, and I took off." Matt Landolfi's conversion run gave Wesieyan (3-2) an 8-0 lead. In the second quarter, Wesieyan began to Southern (3-4) 0(0 713 Haw (7-0) 7 21 21 756 TEAM STATISTICS Hewn Southsni First downs 25 21 Rushes-yards 46-233 38-116 Passing Yardage 363 309 Passes 16-24-0 19-390 Punts FumMes-lost 1-0 1-0 Penarbes-Yards 9-90 6-65 gain large chunks of rushing yards. Fullbacks Dave Cottrell (76 yards rushing for the game), Howard Lindsey (82) and Muraca (95 on 17 carries) were Wesleyan's leading runners.

Wesleyan's defense, anchored by linebackers Matt Moravek and Donny deCas-tro and nose guard Eric Mangini, stiffened. Punts (nine in the game) became part of Amherst's play selection. Muraca's second touchdown was a 1-yard run early in the second quarter. Amherst (0-5), which is 0-16-1 in its past 17 games, scored on Dan Orlando's 14-yard touchdown run and Matt Sawyer's conversion pass to John Fitzgibbons. But Josh Stein's 23-yard field goal boosted Wesleyan's lead to 18-8 at halftime.

Muraca, a senior quad-captain and holder of the school's career, season and game reception records, ran 12 yards for his third touchdown and 1 for his fourth to UML Derek Ron 36 run (Ten Byrne lock) WC Bradley Lawrence 15 run (Shawn Cer-vera kick) WC Shawn Cervera 28 FG UML Mark LeBoauf from Bitty Run 5 pen (Byrne kick) UML Derek Ron 39 run (lock faUed) UML Tom Bradley from Rizos 8 pan (Tom Bouley kick) UML Seth Ustarbs from Rizos 23 pan (Bouley kick) UML Travis Welch 36 krterception return (Bouley kick) WC Chns Ferret 1 run (Cervera lock) SCORINO SUMMARY NH Dave Canon 31 pass from Ken SuM (Peter Capuano kick) NH Suhl 6 run (Capuano kick) INDIVIDUAL LEADERS -Joe Dm 74 pan mm Tony Winn since a 47-0 victory over Columbia Oct. 18, 1986. It was the first time the Lions were held scoreless in 16 dating to the 1990 season finale against Brown (17-0). Despite being without linebacker and leading tackier Carl Ricci (sprained ankle), Yale (4-2, 2-1) held Columbia to 200 yards, 16 on the ground on 32 rushes, and continually harassed Columbia quarterbacks Chad Andrzejewski (10 of 19 passes, 79 yards) and Jason Doolittle (7 of 16 passes, 77 yards). That came a week after the Elis yielded 525 yards, including a school-record 419 passing by Fiedler, in a 39-27 loss to Dartmouth, "We didn't dwell on last week," Brown said.

"We just wanted to get our respect back after not being there in the first half against Dartmouth. We stuck with the basics and put on a lot of pressure." Columbia (1-5, 0-3) dominated much of the first half, running 45 plays to Yale's 23 and holding the ball 20 minutes, 28 seconds to the Elis' 9:32. But Yale had a 14-0 half-time lead on Keith Price's second-quarter touchdown runs of 26 and 2 yards, which capped drives of 67 and 65 yards that took only 113 and 103 seconds. Quarterback Steve Mills, who had the flu and a sore neck, was 5-f or-5 passing for 70 yards in those drives, the big gainers 26 yards to Dave Feuerstein and 32 to Ed Kmak. "The first half was very frustrating, then Yale made some adjustments and shut us down," Doolittle said.

"You have to give them credit for defending the way they did." Columbia's major frustration tame on its second possession, a 16-play, 59-yard drive that lasted 6:41 and ended with Brown's first career interception, of an Andrzejewski pass. Brown blocked Bart Teal's 34-Vard field-goal attempt with 91 sec- A- 1 In Ik, half RUSHING: Western, Bradley Lawrence 15- 79: Steve onewy 4-20; UMast-LcweS. Derek Ron 27-172; Tom Machado 1946: Chris Meeka3-24. PASSING: Western, David Sena 7-19-1- 119, Chris Ferret. 3-7-1-36; UMast-Lowel.

(Capuano kick) SC Paul Boulanger 23 FG SC Boulanger 40 FG NH Roger Graham 1 run (Capuano lock) NH AJ Livingston 6 run (Capuano kick) NH Davis 28 pass from SuM (Capuano lock) NH Willis 27 pass from SuM (Capuano kick) SC Socrates Smalls 24 pees from Joe Stochmal (Boulanger kick) UNH John Raba 20 run (Capuaravkick) BiHy Rizos 14-230-157. RECEIVING: Western. Brian Rodgers 3-45; Bfidtcy IjwfWKi 1-12; DMri Hfawwnttnn 1-21: Will CoRgim 1-18: Scott Withams 1-19; Steve Ongley 14: Matt Masich 1-12; UMasa. Lowerl. Tom Bradley 10125; Mark LoSoouf 2-7; Seth Ustams 1-23.

Sacred Heart can't turn tt around INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RUSHING: Southern, Keith Levant 8-59. Craig Sebastian 13-53; New Haven, Roger Graham 23-111-1, AJ Livingston 1340-1. Catholic U. 16, Sacred Heart 2 PASSING: Southern, Joe stocnmal 19-39-309-1; New Haven, Ken SuM 15-23-289-3. RECEIVING: Southern, Adrian Webber 8- 148.

Jeff rumbrough 7-113; New Haven, Tony Wiles, 5-114-1, John Raba 5-71. Bowdoln 14. Trinity 3 CathaHcU. 0 13 0 3 1( SecrodHoorl 2 0 0 02 TEAM STATISTICS First downs 9 Rushes-yards 38-110 42-140 Passing Yardage 20 246 Return Yardage 17 0 Passes 2-16-4 11-19-2 Punts 440.5 Fumbles-lost 3-2 00 Penaltns-Yards 14-122 14-125 SCORING SUMMARY 7 SHU Safety CU SuHrvan 41 pan from Farnham (kick failed) CU Sullivan 65 pan from Farnham (Rabies kick) CU Robin 31 FG. A 1,200.

INDIVIDUAL LEADERS LeSage to be a miracle worker. He knows Sacred Heart's inability to score goes beyond LeSage. The Pioneers, who totaled 112 yards to Catholic's 368, have scored 30 points this season. Two were given to them Saturday when Bill McAdams fumbled the opening kickoff, picked up the ball in the end zone and downed it. "We're not going to get a Johnny Unitas in here overnight" Reho said.

'There's no question Iquarterback's a problem. But we need to put things together with what we have." Catholic had a nice mix in its offense. The Cardinals, from Washington, went ahead 6-2 in the second quarter when quarterback Kyle Farnham (11 of 19, 246 yards, two touchdowns) found Ed Sullivan for a 41-yard scoring pass. After a auick Sacred Heart possession, last year. But he was ineffective in Sacred Heart's first five games and for a brief stint Saturday.

Pioneers coach Gary Reho went to Martin to start the second quarter. But in three possessions, Martin mishandled a snap that was recovered by Catholic (4-4) and threw two interceptions. "He threw a couple of passes that were catchable," Reho said. "You've got to catch them when there aren't that many." Although LeSage, who will be .25 next month, played some quarterback as a junior at Bethel High, it was eight years ago. After being redshirted as a freshman at the University of Connecticut, LeSage left took some time off and went to Sacred Heart after hearing on the radio about the plans to start a football program.

He is not yet familiar with the offense, and the players aren't familiar with him. "I don't think I'm being hard on myself said LeSage, who was 2 of 11 for 20 yards. "I know the game pretty well. It's easy to pick up things. All it is is X's and O's." By DESMOND CONNER Courant Staff Writer FAIRFIELD Sacred Heart junior Dave LeSage was standing near the locker room, blaming himself for the offense's inability to score in a 16-2 loss to Catholic University at Campus Field Saturday.

How can a guy who was a Division HI preseason All-America pick at linebacker take the blame? How can a guy whose idol is former Giants linebacker Brad Van Pelt take the blame? He's the quarterback now. "I still screwed up," LeSage said, with his head buried in his chest and tipping his hat "I wasn't executing plays as well as I should have been. Things like offsides penalties and stuff, that's more my fault than anything." LeSage, the team captain, replaced sophomore Joe Martin during a 27-6 loss to Nichols the previous week. Martin helped the Pioneers to a -5-4 Trinity (3-2) 0 0 03 Bowooln (2-2) 7 0 014 TEAM STATISTICS Bowdelo) TrMttf First downs 15 12 Rushes-yards 47-164 3944 Fussing Yardage 138 173 Return Yardage 10 25 Passes 1123-1 18490 Punts 7-319 Fumbles-lost 2-1 7-2 Penatties-Yerds 844 4-60 SCORING SUMMARY Mark McCorrmck 1 run (McCormk kick) Robert Rondini 28 FG ft Eric LaPtaca 85 run (McCormick kick) INDIVIDUAL LEADERS y- "You only get so many chances, and they made plays and we didn't when it counted most," said Columbia coach Ray Tellier, who is from West Haven. A bad snap over the head of Co- 4 i 1 TT1 1 RUSHING: Trinity.

Wallace. 10-45, Mi kiney, 9-22; Bcwdoin, La Place 7-100, Mc Cnrmick 15-52. OoHev. 8-20. RUSHING: SH Ron Stopkoski 1744, John Welts 15-16, Dave LeSage 5-10, Ernie Blocker 1-2: CU Derek Savoy 30-125, Russet West 5-11, Joe Utsch 3-2.

-PASSING: SH Have LeSage 2-11-2-20. Joe Martin 2-4-2-0. Wen 0-1-00; CU Kyle Femhem 11-19-2-246. RECEIVING: SH Rodney DuBon 2-20; CU Ed Sullivan 4-168, Bdl McAdams 2-24. Jm Ofhnger 2-18.

Brian Haley 1-17, Derek Savoy 1-12, Russell West 1-7. Farnham found Sullivan again, this time RECEIVING: Trinity. Giardi. 649. Kirby.

5- punier iiuuu ivivscK Yale's first safety in 11 years, and for 65 yards and a 13-2 lead. 20. Brodehck. 3-35; Brjwdom, Nye, 547, MrConniek. 2 28.

Derek Savoy rushed for 125 yards on 30 Mills' 9-yard touchdown pass 10 Dave Kellev canned the scoring with PASSING: Trinity, P. Broderick. 18-29-173- carries. Bowdoin, Good, 11 2J-1-HH). record in the school's first football season Reho, whose team is 0-6, doesn expect 6:08 left in the third quarter.

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