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Daily Record, Morris County, N.J., Tuesday, December 9, 1997 CI V', Classifieds ttsrt en CS i All-Area field hockey C2 local sports C3 Rangers Beat Coyotes C4 By The Numbers C5 All-Area Field Hockey nn BOB DECKER Colvin revives Knolls By Sandy Seegers Daily Record i i if i i I jr 1 r- The Morris Knolls field hockey team could have been satisfied with its performance in the Morris County Tournament final. Although the Golden Eagles were edged 2-1 by Madison in double overtime, they had never advanced that far in the MCT. In addition, their program hadn't experienced success since 1976, so just being there was probably enough. Trish Colvin, the Daily Record Coach of the Year, and her assistants Craig Miniter and Nancy Cau-field, however, weren't ready to call it a season. "The girls were devastated by the loss to Madison," said the 28-year-old Colvin.

"We told them it wasn't over. It was far from over. I didn't want them to be complacent. I re-' minded them that they still had the state tournament. "We decided to focus game by game.

The kids loved playing at Drew. I told them they could play on the turf again if they wanted to." i With Colvin, a second-year coach, providing encouragement, Morris Knolls (164-5) did play on turf again. The Golden Eagles captured the Group IV championship by shocking the state's top team, Cherokee, 2-1 in overtime at the College of New Jersey. Colvin wanted to finish the season on a high note as much as her team, maybe more. A 1987 graduate of Mount Olive High School, Colvin still couldn't shake the disappointment of a loss she and the Marauders field hockey team experienced during her senior year.

"We were beaten 1-0 by Cranford in the sectional quarterfinals," Colvin recalled. "We had just one loss going into that game. I felt we could have done a lot more and I regret it. I was a captain. I felt responsible.

"We weren't mentally there. We See COACH C3 Paternostro's suspension, or lack thereof, 'by the book' No, Pope John head football coach Vic Paternostro did not "get away" with anything by not being suspended for one game after being ejected against Paterson Catholic three weekends ago. And no, he didn't have to argue his case in order to coach last Saturday's 44-13 victory over DePaul in the Parochial Group 2 championship game, either. It's all in the book, the rule book by which the New Jersey State In-terscholastic Athletic Association and its member schools abide. "We did get some calls when it came out in the papers that Paternostro would not be suspended," said Boyd Sands, the NJSIAA's executive director.

"I just told everybody that everything was handled strictly by the book." When the game officials of the Pope John-Paterson Catholic state tournament semifinal game checked in with the NJSIAA offices after the game, a 27-0 Pope John victory, they reported that Paternostro had been flagged with consecutive 15-yard penalties for unsportsmanlike conduct, resulting in an automatic ejection. Since neither penalty was considered "flagrant" by the game officials, however, Paternostro was not suspended for his team's next game, Saturday's victory over De-Paul. "The key word here is 'flagrant," Sands said yesterday by phone from his offices in Robbinsville. "We had conversations about the incident and, once we were satisfied the game officials had determined neither penalty was flagrant, there was nothing further to do." Sands did get some calls from the media, asking if Paternostro would be suspended, and some stories were written stating Paternostro would, indeed, be on the See DECKER C3 Depth keys Madison By Sandy Seegers Daily Record t32D BOB KARP Daily record Coach of the Year selection Trish Colvin led her Morris Knolls squad to the Group IV state title in 1997. AII-Arca Week When most people think of Madison, junior wing Tiffany Ser-banica, who led the state in goals scored with 43, immediately comes to mind.

The Dodgers, though, are not one player, says coach Ann Marie Davies, and that's why they went as far as they did. Madison (21-0-3) captured Northern Hills Conference, Morris County Tournament and sectional titles before capping its season with a 2-0 victory over Haddonfield in the Group I state final. "This team is much more experienced than last year's," Davies said. "We're solid all around. Teams keyed in on Tiffany but we were strong all over the field and that helped us.

Tiffany was a vital See TEAM C2 The Daily Record honors the best of the fall sports season with the selection of its All-Area teams. The upcoming schedule: Thursday Girls Soccer Saturday Gymnastics Wednesday Soccer Crosscountry Sunday Football Discouraged Parcells left trying to fix Jets Giants on verge of wrapping up division by Tom Canavan Associated Press By Barry Wilner Associated Press 'r -1 I r-l I -H ----'--1 n'a 'yt. 7 i 'v. 1 c- ries with a 1-0-1 record against New York. The teams tied 7-7 at Washington on Nov.

23. Even if the Giants lose to Washington, they could still win the division. They would have to beat the Cowboys at Dallas the following week, while the Redskins lost at home to the Philadelphia Eagles. "All that matters is the Washington Redskins right now," Fassel said yesterday, a day after the Giants maintained their hold on first place with a 31-21 win over the Eagles. "We're not thinking about anything else or concerned with anything else, individual honors or what might happen if we win," he added.

"We are focused to go out and beat the Washington Redskins." Losing their last two games also See GIANTS C3 that probably shattered New York's playoff aspirations. "To have to look at what I looked at (on film) even though we lost some games, I was not discouraged. When we perform the way we did, there is no way you can not be discouraged. "It is not down and out or despondent, just extremely disappointed. Don't say, 'He appeared to have no that's not what I am saying.

But the team performs like that, it bothers you." The Jets were 8-4 and alone in first place in the AFC East two weeks ago. Then they lost at Buffalo and at home to Indianapolis, and now must win their last two games and get help to make the playoffs. Against the Colts (2-12), the Jets gained 126 yards and yielded 306. They gave up eight sacks and got See JETS C3 EAST RUTHERFORD It's getting tougher for Jim Fassel to leave his office these days. There's always one more little thing the New York Giants rookie coach has to do.

That's how close the Giants are to either winning the NFC East for the first time since 1990 or making the playoffs for the first time since '93. New York (8-5-1) has two games left in the regular season, but the one against Washington (7-6-1) at Giants Stadium on Saturday will have the biggest effect on the division race this week. If the Giants win or tie, they win the division and get a home game in the first round of the playoffs. If Washington wins, it moves into a first place tie and it takes control of the division race because it would have the advantage in the season se HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. The New York Jets finally have gotten to Bill Parcells.

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