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"1 zzgfex: 1 1 van Breda Kolff will MpT Lions, Raiders eye qoach against Red for last ljIjJ back-to-back wins time this afternoon, 3B IX'H as playoffs begin, 4B Carol Kammen writes about elegant dining out in 1950s Ithaca Classified, 4B-9B Comics, 1 0B Landers, 11 The Ithaca Journal Saturday, January 8, 1 994 Section Sports Editor; I Frank Bensorf 274-9214 Sports Kerrigan oeaMe to compete BRIEFLY 3 Bobcats cr4- anI in pi ciiy ujjsci aim someone would do Certainly, I'd like them Nancy Kerrigan original description. Napoleon said police were developing a composite sketch of the assailant and were pursuing several leads. Kerrigan said Friday she had received two letters from a man who lived in Ontario. Canada, across the river from Detroit, but that they were not threatening. "There was nothing bad," she said.

"It was a fan that was very complimentary about my figure and me as a person and my skating." She said didn't write back. Kerrigan was to compete in the technical program Friday night and the free skate today and is one of the favorites for the gold medal at the Winter Olympics next month in Lille-hammer, Norway. The decision to withdraw was made after Kerrigan couldn't do a simple hopping exercise. Doctors had drained bkxid from the knee earlier in the morning. "Tm OK." she said about how she By BARRY WILNER i The Associated Press DETROIT Her voice quivering, her world in chaos, Nancy Kerrigan withdrew from the U.S.

Figure Skating Championships on Friday, saying she was "upset, hurt, angry" that a club-wielding assailant left her unable to compete. The 24-year-old defending champion was told by doctors she risked further injury to her severely bruised right knee if she skated at this event where two women will be selected for the Olympic team. "I really want to skate," Kerrigan said at a news conference Friday, "but the doctors said I shouldn't. "I kept crying. I was upset, hurt, angry.

I really wanted to skate. I've been skating so well and I wanted to go out and show everyone I didn't lose it. I'm skating better than ever and I wanted to do it for myself." Although unable to compete, it appears Kerrigan still has a good is dealing emotionally with the incident. "I'm pretty upset and angry that someone would do this. "Certainly, I'd like them to catch him so he isn't able to do this again or to anyone else." Claire Ferguson, president of the U.S.

Figure Skating Association, hinted strongly that Kerrigan would be placed on the team for next month's Olympics at Lillehammer, Norway. The USFSA's international committee is empowered to do so. The United States has two berths in the Olympics. Brenda Kerrigan, Nancy's mother, who is legally blind and watches her daughter compete by sitting inches from a TV, tearfully wondered how it could happen. "I can't believe one human being would deliberately hurt her," she said.

"I thought Nancy was loved by everyone." Coslet fired by Jets; By JIM CORBETT Gannett Ns Seirice HEMPSTEAD. N.Y. Bruce Coslet's strong belief in his offensive approach cost him his job as head coach of the New York Jets on Friday. He was fired and replaced by 42-year-old Pete Carroll. Coslet's defensive coordinator and close friend.

Carroll called the promotion, "the chance of a lifetime." But he termed it bittersweet at the expense of his long-time friend, who refused general manager Dick Steinberg's Tuesday mandate to relinquish 1 I.I. .1 .11 I.I I.I.IIUJ I. Ill I. Ill II HU I III I y-SNi A with a long black stick and it was really hard, and he kept running." Police gave conflicting information about the description of the attacker. The first reports Thursday described him as a 6-fixt white man wearing a black jacket, black shirt, black hat and white or tan pants.

On Friday, deputy chief Benny Napoleon described him as a "light complexioned black man," but a person in the police public information office said they were sticking with the GlA HI in Kerrigan chance of making the Olympic team as a special selection. Kerrigan, a 1992 Olympic bronze medalist who slumped after winning her first U.S. title last January, had finished practice Thursday at Cobo Arena when she was attacked by a man with a club or metal bar. "I was coming off the ice and went through curtains and was walking away from the ice when I heard something behind me," she said. "I turned and.

saw somebody running behind me and he whacked me winners (1-4-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference. 5-4-2 overall). Other goal-scorers were Troy Stevens, Jay Prentice and Ryan Donovan; all are freshmen. Junior goalie Mike Gallant turned aside 36 of 38 Big Red shots. Senior Geoff Bumstead and freshman Vinnie Aiiiier scored goals for the Big Red (2-3-2, 2-7-2).

which has lost four straight. Junior Andy Bandurski made 32 savesin goal. Stevens gave the visitors a 1-0 lead with a power play goal at 5: 17 of the first period. Ford made it 2-0 with 8:13 left, corraling a hxse puck near the crease and slipping it 1 t-i ii AM "1Y MO angry that this. to catch i II i II all-state Three members of the Section IV Champion Lansfng High football team wre named t0 the New York State Sportswriters Association All-State ClateDteam.

Junior Craig Foote was selected at wide receiver senior Bill Kerry was named to the first-team defense along with his brother Max, a junior. Lansing finished the season 9-1-1 and was the Section IV Class champion. The Bobcats advanced to the state semifinals before bowing to eventual champ Clyde-Savannah. Ithaca High standout Stan House earned fourth-team Class A all-state honors. House was named to the defense as a safety.

TODAY Basketball Tennessee St. at SW Missouri ESPN, noon Massachusetts at Duquesne, MSG, noon Villanova at St. John's, WWOR, 1 p.m. ACC-Big Ten Women's Challenge, Northwestern vs. North Carolina, CBS, 1:30 p.m.

Colorado at Nebraska, MSG, 2 p.m Cornell at Hofstra, WTKO, 3 p.m. Oklahoma State at Oklahoma, MSG 4 p.m. ACC-Big Ten Women's Challenge, Ohio State vs. Virginia, CBS, 4 p.m. Notre Dame at LaSalle, WHCU, 7:10 p.m.

Knicks at Hornets, MSG, 7:30 p.m. Ithaca High boys vs. Binghamton, WTKO, 7:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at Syracuse, WPIE, 8 p.m. Football AFC playoffs, Steelers at Chiefs, ABC, WHCU, 12:30 p.m.

NFC playoffs, Packers at Lions, ABC, WHCU, 4 p.m. Golf Mercedes Championships, ESPN, 4 p.m. Hockey Cornell vs. Rensselaer, WQNY, 7 p.m. Skating Olympic speedskating trials, TNT, 5 p.m.

US Figure Skating Championships, ABC, 8 p.m. Basketball Georgetown women at Connecticut, MSG, noon Mississippi St at Mississippi, ESPN, 3 p.m. Seton Hall at Purdue, CBS, 3:45 p.m. St. Bonaventure at West Virginia, MSG, 4:30 p.m.

Trail Blazers at Knicks, MSG, WHCU, 7:30 p.m. Warriors at Suns, TNT, 8 p.m. Boxing WBA cruiserweights, Norris vs. Warring, ESPN, 9 p.m. Football NFC playoffs, Vikings at Giants, ABC, WHCU, 12:30 p.m.

AFC playoffs, Broncos at Raiders. NBC, WHCU, 4 p.m. Golf Mercedes Championship, ABC, 3 p.m. nr" i mi in rumw i SMASH: Cornell's Ste'e Wilson and Union 's Jeff Jiampetti battle for Union hands it MARGUERITE NICOSIAJournal Staff control of the puck Friday night at Lynah Rink. to Cornell, 6-2 through Bandurski's pads.

Cornell generated few g(xxJ scoring chances, and was outshot 13-9 in the period. Stevens nearly made it 3-0 with 25 seconds left, but his shot from between the circles rang off the richt post. The Big Red came out flying to start the second and carried the early play. But for all its chances, the home team was only able to find the mark once when Bumstead beat 4 IMlll Gallant off a nice drop pass from Brad Chartrand. The Red was unable to capitalize on any momentum from that goal as the Dutchmen scored twice in the last 5:39 of the period to take a 4-1 lead into the second intermission.

Cornell outshot Union in the second perkxJ. 16-12. Donovan made it 5-1 with a power-play goal at 3:34 of the third, one-timing a pass from Chad Thompson from just inside the CU blue line. The Big Red takes on Rensselaer a 4-2 winner at Colgate Friday at 7 p.m. tonight.

ca and his team's reached the NCAA Division III playoffs all seven seasons he was coach there. In I9S8. he led the Bombers to the first of four consecutive NCAA Final Four trips, placing third. The next season, the Bombers were nation runner- Farmer up, but in 1 990 Ithaca finally got over the hump, taking the national title with a sh(xt-out in in the finals over Cortland. Ithaca repeated as national champion in 199I with a 2-0 win over his play-calling and game-planning responsibilities to an outside offensive axrdinator.

"I was absolutely surprised, no question," Carroll said of the coaching change. "But it Coslet Bruce was noing to stay, he was going to have to change and he wasn't going to. "Bruce believed this was the way to do it and he stuck with it to the end." Coslet was dismissed following ii 26-39. four-season tenure. He did hot produce a winning season and had just one (losing) 1991 playoff appearance.

"The issue was not naming an offensive coordinator or who the offensive coordinator would be." Steinberg said. "Bruce could live with an offensive coordinator. He just wanted to control the offense. Our opinion was it was tix) much for one guy to do." Steinberg finalized the decision Thursday night following a lengthv meeting ith owner Leon I less anil team president Steve Gutman. Penn State This past season, the Bombers finished 17-1-3 and reached the New York State Regional finals before ki-' ing 1-0 in overtime to William Smith.

Farmer was named National Couch of the Year in I9S9. Empire Athletic Association Coach of the Year in 1989 and 199Z and New York State Women's Collegiate Athletic Association Coach of the Year in 1992. I The Ithaca Journal honred Farmer with its Male Coach of the Year award in 1990. Farmer assumed duties as Penn State's coach on Monday. Ithaca College will begin the search for a new coach in the comine daw soccer coach Farmer moves on to By TOM FLEISCHMAN Journal Siaff It was quiet in Lynah Rink Friday night for several reasons.

With the students away on break, and nasty weather scaring off many others, the building was about half full. The pep band was also absent, keeping the noise down. And when Union took control of the game early handing Cornell a humiliating 6-2 loss the silence was deafening. Freshman Chris Ford notched his first career hat trick to lead the IC women's By GREG GAVICH Journal Staff After leading the Ithaca College women's soccer team to a pair of Division III national championships, Patrick Fanner will try to build a team from scratch at Penn State University. Friday, it was announced Farmer has accepted the position of head coach at Penn State, where women's soccer has just gained varsity sport status.

"I am very pleased with the opportunity to initiate women's soccer at the varsity level at Penn State," Farmer said. "I think it will be an exciting time on campus and for women's stxxer in Pennsylvania." Women's soccer began at Penn State in 1977 at the club level, and BlOFlLE Who: Patrick Farmer Was: Ithaca College women's soccer coach for seven years Becoming: Penn State women's soccer coach IC record: 110-23-23 While at IC: Two NCAA Diviison 111 titles (1990, 1991); five New York State titles; 1989 Division III coach of the year was elevated to a varsity sport last August as the schtxl moved to comply with the NCAA's gender equity Penn State will become the eighth Big Ten member with women's soccer and the conference will conduct the sport's first championship this season. "We're pleased to welcome Patrick Farmer to Penn State," Penn State Director of Athletics Tim Cur-ley said of his first appointment as athletic director. "Patrick has demonstrated the ability to develop competitive and suc-ccssful soccer programs at everv is a native of Old Forge and was a three-time letterman at St. Lawrence University.

He led the girls team at Town of Webb High Schix)! from I9S0-86. where his teams won six league titles and two regional championships. In I9S7, Farmer ttxik over at Itha F'.