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PAGE BIT SUNDAY OCTOBER 7, 1984 Wildcats Nip Huskies, 13-12 SPORTSPART 2 and second-string tailback Scott Perry. Leclerc, son of former Trinity College and Chicago Bears star Roger Leclerc, threw for the first touchdown, a 16-yarder to tight end Tom Flanagan in the first period. He set up the second TD with a 29-yard completion, again to Flanagan. Perry, who stepped in for Andre Garron, injured last week at Dartmouth, got his first starting assignment and made the most of it. He carried 28 times for 177 yards, 104 of them in the first half when the Wildcats dominated the action.

Perry got the Wildcats' second touchdown on the first play of the second quarter, bouncing off Myers and cornerback Lou Donato on an 11-yard burst up the middle. Leclerc set up the TD when he faked a pitch to his left, rolled right and hit Flanagan on the run over the middle. The tight end then took the ball 29 yards to the 11. Plagued by bad field position in the first half, the Huskies suffered a severe blow on their first possession of the second half when Matt Latham, one of the team's three captains, was wheeled from the field with an ankle injury after fielding a punt on his own eight. Latham didn't return.

UConn punt returner Doug Post got the Huskies into New Hampshire territory, at the 49, for the first time in the game 48 seconds into the fourth quarter. The return started Connecticut's comeback. Riley, who was 14-for-24 during the day for 172 yards and two touchdowns, hit tight end Mike Walsh at the 25 for a 23-yard gain. Three plays later, he found tailback Gary Du-Bose in the left flat at the 15 and the shifty runner eluded a pack of defenders, racing into the end zone for UConn's first score. Kicker John Pulek then missed a crucial extra point try.

Defensive end Mark Michaels jumped on a Leclerc fumble at the UConn 44 with 4:45 left in the game, setting up the final touchdown. Du-Bose kept the drive alive on a fourth-and-one play at the UNH 28 by diving over the top for a first down. On a third-and-seven, Riley, under severe pressure, hit split end Brian McGilli-cuddy at the nine. On a third-and-goal from the seven, Riley again came up big, drilling a low touchdown pass to flanker Kane Winn, who was double-teamed in the end zone, to make it 13-12. After failing twice to get the win, the Huskies misfired on an on-sides kick, the ball going out of bounds in Connecticut territory.

Out of time outs, the Huskies could only watch New Hampshire run out the clock. Stephen Dunn The Hartford Courant Jack Niemiec of Coast Guard is brought down by Wesleyan's Mike Dolan, top, and Jay Norris Saturday at New London. Wesleyan Sinks Coast Guard, 13-9 and gave the Cadets a 9-7 lead with 5:18 tu play in the third quarter. The second drive could have given the Coast Guard its second victory in five games. With 6:04 left in the game, the Cadets took the ball on their 29-yard line and marched to the Wesleyan four.

On second down, they tried the same play that gave them their first touchdown a lob pass into the left corner of the end zone. Kelly Hatfield had beaten Joe Wight from 12 yards out in the second quarter, but Wight was in position this time when John Ren-don ran the route again. Wight's interception, his second of the game, preserved the victory and kept the Cardinals undefeated in three games. Although the play had worked before, it's tough to fool a team like Wesleyan a second time. "They throw the ball a lot in goalline situations," Wesleyan Coach Bill MacDermott said.

"We were expecting them to throw." But Campiglia didn't dwell on what might have been. "You can always second guess," Campiglia said. "If we ran it and didn't make it, people would say, 'Why didn't you pass I'd do the same thing again." Wesleyan failed to make a first down, but another turnover, a fumbled punt by Marcel Duhaime, cost Coast Guard another shot on offense. "It's hard to play down here. Homecoming makes it difficult and Coast Guard always plays us tough," MacDermott said.

"But in the first three weeks we've had it when we needed it. And the bottom line is that we're 3-0." The Cardinals had to punt the first five times they had the ball, their sixth possession was stopped by a Brett Goodell interception, and on their next offensive series the Cadets stopped Giliberto twice when he tried to make a yard for the first down at the Coast Guard 26. By ROY HASTY Courant Stuff Writer NEW LONDON Coast Guard Coach Bob Campiglia had every reason to be frustrated after his team lost, 13-9, to Wesleyan Uni-veristy before 4,738 homecoming fans at Cadet Memorial Field Saturday. The Cadets' defense had done its job, stopping fullback Mike Gili-berto and the Wesleyan running game and containing the Cardinals' offense. And the offense had adjusted well to the loss of quarterback Kurt Cox.

Cox had been scheduled to start, but his right shoulder, injured in last week's 49-6 loss to Norwich Univeristy, began to bother him in pregame warmups. Cox was replaced by freshman John Milne. After a shaky start, Milne directed two long drives in the second half. The first resulted in a 22-yard field goal by Rob Tarantino By GEORGE SMITH Courant Staff Writer DURHAM, N.H. Connecticut had two consecutive cracks at beating New Hampshire in the last minute and a half Saturday, but the Huskies fell through the opening both times in losing a 13-12 decision to the Wildcats.

With sophomore quarterback Chris Riley rallying the Huskies to two fourth-quarter touchdowns, UConn was 2Vz yards from capping the comeback with a victory when tailback Billy Parks was stopped just inches from the goalline on a two-point conversion try. But all hope did not die there. The Wildcats were offsides on the play, and with 1:35 on the clock, UConn had another life, this time from a little more than a yard out. The Huskies called a timeout their last and again decided to go for two and victory rather than a kick for a tie. Again it was Parks, a sturdy 5-f oot-9, 202-pound power runner who got the call.

But he barely got started before he was nailed at the line of scrimmage by New Hampshire linebacker Neal Zonfrelli. "I thought I was in the first time," Parks said afterward. "My body was over the line, but I guess the ball wasn't. I thought I got a bad spot." There was no question on the second run. He was stopped in his tracks.

"I was supposed to look for a crease but I never got a chance. I was hit just as I got the ball," Parks said. UConn Coach Tom Jackson said he never considered kicking. The kicking game has been a weak spot for the Huskies all season. Kicker John Pulek, who was l-for-7 in field goal tries this season, missing his last six, also missed the extra point kick after UConn's first touchown.

Had the game ended in a tie the teams would have played an overtime period. Bach team, according to Yankee Conference rules, would get a chance to score from the opponent's 15 yard line. If both, for example, hit field goals, they would' play another overtime. Two years ago, Maine and Rhode Island played six overtimes with the Rams finally winning, 58-55, and the following week Maine lost to BU in four overtimes, 48-45. UConn (2-3) was badly outplayed in the first half when New Hampshire (4-1) held the Huskies to only two first downs and 14 yards rushing on 16 carries in building a 13-0 lead.

"We were lucky to get out of the half just 13 down," Jackson said. Leading the New Hampshire attack was quarterback Rick Leclerc Elis End Skid With 41-0 Rout Continued From Page Bl you lose, it's almost like a double loss." The Elis, who dropped their first two games of the season to Brown and Connecticut, didn't have much time to think about losing Saturday at the Yale Bowl. Not after a partially blocked punt by senior noseguard John Zanieski led to the first score of the game a 12-yard touchdown run by junior tailback Rick Koze of Emmaus, just two plays later. On the next series the mostly-f reshmen Morgan State squad failed in its bid for a first down and after Keith Short's punt, Yale set up its next scoring drive on the Golden Bears' 47-yard line. Six plays and 2:28 later, junior fullback Dave Kline ran three yards for the TD.

Bill Moore's second kick of the game boosted the Elis to a 14-0 lead with 7:46 left in the opening quarter. It was a romp from point on with Yale mixing up its offensive and defensive plays, keeping the inexperienced, but much larger, Morgan State players off balance. In fact, Yale scored on its first three possessions the third a 6-yard run by Koze just 1:07 into the second quarter and had to punt just twice the entire game. So much quicker and efficient was the Yale defense that Morgan State crossed the 50 just five times and made it past the Yale 20 on just three occasions. Each time the Yale defense held, once at the game's end when it stopped fullback Mark Covington at the two.

It was a solid effort in all phases of the game for Yale, though it came against a school that has seen five head coaches in six years and has 38 freshmen among 70 varsity players. But for the Elis, it was a win and it prompted enthusiasm not seen in the 'team since its stunning 28-21 tri- The Cadets also had trouble moving the ball. Their offense produced the only score of the first half after Duhaime returned a-Dave Ross punt 58 yards to the Wesleyan 27. Milne hit Hatfield with a 12-yard touchdown pass with 8:33 left in the second quarter as Coast Guard led, 6-0, at the half Wesleyan opened up its offense in the second half and Ross passed for two touchdowns in the third quarter, leading 13-9. The lead, however, was jeopardized when Coast Guard reached the Wesleyan four with under three minutes left in the game.

But Wight's interception ended the threat. Campiglia refused to use Cox's absence as an excuse for the loss. "We had so many kids play a good football game. They knew Cox couldn't play and they really sucked it up," he said. "I'm proud of what the kids did out there today.

I just feel bad for them because they didn't win." Trinity Subdues Williams From Staff, Wire Reports Unbeaten Trinity capitalized on three Williams fumbles and rallied for a 17-16 triumph Saturday in Wil-liamstown, Mass. Trinity quarterback Joe Shield, who completed 22 of 32 passes for 211 yards, threw scoring strikes of 14 yards to Rich Nagy and 21 yards to Tim McNamara in a 52-second span of the fourth quarter to give the Bantams (3-0) a 17-10 lead. Both scores followed Williams fumbles. State Williams' Tod Goodspeed hit Paul Coleman on a 10-yard scoring pass, but Chapman's kick for the tying point failed. Williams (1-2) threatened again before Jeff Usewick intercepted a pass on the Trinity 44 with 1:30 left to preserve the victory.

SOUTHERN CONN. 39 ALBANY STATE Southern Connecticut gained 339 yards on the ground and held host Albany State to just 57 total yards on the way to an easy victory. Travis Tucker opened the scoring on a. nine-yard touchdown pass from Jim Sirignano in the first quarter. The Owls added another score before halftime on Dave Schmidt's one-yard plunge.

Sirignano. Mike Newtown and Bob Barton ran for touchdowns in the second half as Southern (2-2) handed Albany State (2-3) its worst defeat since 1979. Rick Atkinson also returned an interception 59.yards.for,a third-quarter score. C.W. POST 30, NEW HAVEN 7 Halfback Stan Dwight threw a 41-yard touchdown pass and ran for another scWe as C.W.

Post routed New Haven in Grccnvale, N.Y. football before crossing the goalline Saturday. Morgan State recovered but soon bad to punt. Yale's Chip Bonny loses the umph over Princeton last season. And it was Yale's biggest margin of victory su.ee Nov.

4, 1967 when the Elis crushed nationally-ranked Dartmouth, 56-15. "It's nice to hear the kids singing the fight" sorig iti -tMrtookei' room -after the game," said Yale Coach Carm Cozza. "The kids wanted to really play hard today. They wanted to prove they're not as bad a football team as they seemed last week (in their 20-0 loss to UConn)." Though the starting seniors were sidelined for much of the game, the Yale fans. But Cozza believes it is the best his No.

1 man has played all year. "Mike's settling down a lot now," said Cozza. "There was a lot expected of him." After the game the Yale players admitted that their upcoming Ivy League foes probably would rank this victory over hapless Morgan State as inconsequential. But in the minds of tffe Elis, it is, nonetheless, a victory. Harris with 100 yards in 22 carries.

The other was Morgan State's Magnificent Marching Band, which brought the crowd of 14,420 to its feet with its dance-stepping, spirited performance. For Yale starting QB Mike Curtin the win brought added confidence. Curtin, a junior, completed six of eight passes for 85 yards. He did. however, throw an interception at the Morgan State 7-yard line early in th sscoitt quarter, which resulted in a raucous chorus of boos from the victory was, nonetheless, sweet.

"This is a really excellent victory and right on time," said defensive captain Carmen Ilacqua, a linebacker who had 13 tackles and one sack. "Last Saturday and Sunday we were fooling a little sorry for ourselves, but Tuesday we just started working hard and picked ourselves up." For Morgan State, which has piayed in New England five times since the fall of '83 and lost all five by a total margin of 221-26, there weretfew bright spots Saturday. One was game-leading rusher Alphonso.