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Chris Feaver Sports Editor 274-9214 cfeaver ithaca.gannett.com PORTS 3Br The Ithaca Journal, Monday, October 22, 200f, www.theithacajournal.com Big Red 0-5 after loss to Brown Cornell Football Sunday's NFL Results St. Louis 34, N.Y.Jets14 (this page) Washington 17, Carolina 14, OT Chicago 24, Cincinnati 0 New Eng. 38, Indianapolis 17 Tennessee 27, Detroit 24 Atlanta 20, New Orleans 13 Cleveland 24, Baltimore 14 Pittsburgh 17, Tampa Bay 10 San Diego 27, Denver 10 Arizona 24, Kansas City 16 Minnesota 35, Green Bay 13 Open: Miami, Oakland, Seattle, Dallas, San Francisco Tonight's Game Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 9 p.m. Details, Page 4B Bombers rout Utica, 6B the second I don't know how to define it other than a lack of focus.

"We don't have confidence," Pendergast said. "We are not playing with any confidence right now, and I think that's a big part of it." Statistically, Cornell was not too far away from Brown (3-2, 2-1). The Bears gained 478 total yards (eight yards less than its average) to Cornell's 459 and Brown won the first-down battle by 22-21. But in reality, the Bears were light years ahead in any category. Once again, turnovers contributed orpatlu ti-i thp Rio Red's demise, leading directly to three Brown second-half See BIG RED, 4B Saturday: Brown 49 Cornell 21 Record: 0-5 overall, 0-3 Ivy League Next game: Saturday at Princeton, 1 p.m.

ing home game is against Columbia on Nov. 10. The last time the Big Red started 0-5 was in 1985, when CU finished 3-7, 2-5 in the league. "(Brown) took advantage of some opportunities that we gave them," said Cornell first-year coach Tim Pendergast. "And on the flip side, we gave the opportunities away.

We gave up some points there in The Hot EVE STEELJourna. Staff Come" sophomore Chad Nice, 23, looks for yardage through the middle of the Brown defense Saturday at Schoellkopf Field. Tlie Big Red lost to the Bears, 49-21. Hurricanes remain first in Top 25 polls for now BASEBALL PLAYOFFS ODBC VHDDH SHfflgBV ninth inning HR lifts Miami gets at least another week to enjoy the No. 1 ranking in the AP media poll.

The Hurricanes (5-0), idle on a weekend in which two top-10 teams lost for the first time, easily held the top spot in The Associated Press poll. While Fresno State and Oregon tumbled out of the top 10, Miami maintained its lead over No. 2 Oklahoma (7-0). No. 3 Nebraska (8-0) and No.

4 UCLA (6-0). Miami received 47 first-place votes and 1,771 points Sunday from the AP panel. Oklahoma, which visits Nebraska on Saturday, had 22 first-place votes and 1,741 points. The Sooners beat Baylor 33-17 Saturday. Nebraska, a 41-31 winner over Texas Tech, had two first-place votes and 1.626 points.

UCLA had the remaining first-place vote and 1,602 By CHRISTOPHER FEAVER Journal Staff ITHACA Last year, the Cornell football team played for an Ivy League title, finishing with a 5-5 record. Of course, if Ivy League kickers were only slightly better in the final seconds, the Big Red could easily have finished 2-8. This year, a fate worse than 2-8 is looming on the fast-approaching horizon after Cornell was thumped, 49-21, by Brown on Saturday before 6,039 fans at Schoellkopf Field. With the loss, Cornell falls to 0-5 overall, 0-3 in the Ivy League. The Red has just four games to play (the season has been shortened to nine games this year due to the cancellation of the Bucknell game on Sept.

15) with three of them on the road. The only remain- Soriano's AL Championship Sunday's Game Yankees 3, Mariners 1, Yankees lead series, 3-1 Today's Game Mariners (Sele 15-5) at Yankees (Pettitte 15-10), 8 p.m., Fox By RONALD BLUM Tlie Associated Press NEW YORK In one of the grittiest, yet wildest, postseason games ever, Alfonso Soriano hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the New York Yankees a 3-1 victory over Seattle on Sunday night and move them within a win of their fourth straight trip to the World Series. After Seattle's Bret Boone broke up a scoreless game with an eighth-inning homer off Ramiro Mendoza, Bernie Williams answered right back with a drive off Seattle's Arthur Rhodes in the bottom half. Soriano, the rookie second baseman who broke into a lineup of veterans, homered off Kazuhiro Sasaki with one out in the ninth, gfving the Yankees a 3-1 lead over the Mariners in the best-of-seven AL championship series. Roger Clemens and Paul Abbott reunited in a rematch of last year's fourth game.

Clemens allowed one hit, just like he did last year, but Abbott pitched hiiless ball. But, because of their wild-ness, both were pulled after the fifth inning. Abbott walked eight, one short of the ALCS record. It then came down to a bat- lives Blue Raiders gets another shot at Bobcats ITHACA Trumansburg will get a chance to avenge its loss to Lansing when the two teams meet in a Section IV Class first-round playoff game Friday at Lansing. The Bobcats (6-1, 4-0 Div.

VI) earned the Div. VI championship and the No. 3 seed in the tournament with its 44-29 win over Trumansburg last Friday in Trumansburg. Trumansburg (5-2, 3-1 Div. VI) is the No.

6 seed, and will travel to Lansing for the rematch at 7 p.m. Walton (6-1, 4-0 Div. V) is 4 The Associated Press Kicker Brett Conway is congratulated after the Redskins 'first victory, 17-14 in overtime, over Carolina. Corner Top 25 rankings, 5B Patemo gets 323rd; Syracuse wins again, 7B points after the Bruins beat California 56-17. Miami is at Pittsburgh (1-5) on Thursday night, while the Oklahoma-Nebraska winner might have a chance to replace the Hurricanes at No.

1 in next week's poll. In the USA TodayESPN coaches poll, the top 5 are Miami, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Virginia Tech and UCLA. Today, the first Bowl Champioaship Series standings will be released. The BCS standings use the AP media poll, the coaches poll, eight computer rankings, strength-of-schedule and won-lost records to determine which teams play in its national title game at the Rose Bowl on Jan. 3.

the top seed in the eight-team tournament that includes teams from Divs.V,VIandVIII. The Warriors, the Division champs, host Newark Valley (4-3, 2-2 Div. VI) at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday. Edison (6-1, 3-1 Div.

VII), the Div. VII champs, gained the No. 4 seed and will play Seton Catholic Central (5-2, 2-2 Div. V) at 2 p.m. on Saturday at Elmira Notre Dame.

Delhi (5-1, 3-1 Div. V) is the No. 2 seed and will host Greene (4-3, 1-3 Div. V) at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday.

but couldn't push past the far post. Ronnie Echelon and Zak Ibsen assisted. The victory completed a worst-to-first turnaround for San Jose under new coach Frank Yallop. Last season, the Earthquakes were 7-17-8, the poorest record in the league. This season, they went 13-7-6, finishing second to Los Angeles in the Western Division.

The Galaxy, who have never won the title, also lost the MLS Cup in 1996 and 1999. i ii ini iffirft QMWk. -'V Earthquakes work overtime, win MLS Cup vat: 1 COLUMBUS, Ohio Dwayne DeRosario scored six minutes into overtime as the San Jose Earthquakes beat the Los Angeles Galaxy 2-1 Sunday to capture their first MLS Cup. DeRosario, a substitute who came in with five minutes left in regulation, dtibbled around Dan Calif and sent a hard shot from 16 yards out which goalkeeper Kevin Harman got a hand on NFL Rams smash Jets By BILL BARNARD Tlie Associated Press EAST RUTHERFORD, J. Trung Canidate quadrupled his rushing yardage for the season Sunday.

The St. Louis Rams' confidence in 1 him increased immeasurably. Canidate scored twice and accounted for 232 yards in his first start replacing the injured Marshall Faulk, helping the Rams remain the NFL's only unbeaten team with a 34-14 victory over the New York Jets. "We felt pretty good about him based on what we see of him in practice, and when he was finally put in a position to contribute, we were elated with how it turned out," coach Mike Martz said. "I wish I could tell you I knew he would do this, but I'd be lying if I did." Canidate had just 14 carries for 47 yards this season aftr an injury-plagued rookie ye? in which he ran the ball ju three times.

He was filling in for Faulk, last season's Most Valuable Player who bruised his right knee a week ago and was inactive Sunday after saying he might be able to phf against the Jets (3-3). Canidate rushed for 195 yards on 23 carries and added three receptions for 37 yardji It was the most yards rushing for an NFL running back mak-' ing his first start since Gerald Riggs had 202 for Atlanta in See JETS, 4B Golf Coceres defeats Love at Disney By DOUG FERGUSON Tlie Associated Press LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. A downpour on the final hole only delayed inevitable Sunday. Jose Coceres wasn't going to let Davis Love III or even some 1 nasty weather spoil his first trip to Disney World. The 38-year-old from -Argentina pulled away from the pack with three straight birdies at the turn and never gave Love or anyone else -much of a chance the rest of the way, closing with a 4-under 68 to win the National Car Rental Classic.

It was the second victory of the year for Coceres, who fin- ished at 263 for a one-stroke victory over Love. Jerry Smith had a 63 and tied for third, giving him more than enough money to secure his card for next year. The first international player to win. at Disney, Coceres earned $612,000 and became the ninth multiple-winner on the PGA Tour his year, both victories after a delay. In April, he had to return Monday morning to win a playoff at Hilton Head over Billy Mayfair.

Scores, Page 5B. New York if" Williams sliced an opposite-field drive just foul down the right field line, then popped a home run over the right-field wall, with outfielder Ichiro Suzvki smacking into the fence as he ran out of room. After Mariano Rivera pitched a 1 -2-3 ninth throw-See YANKS, 6B Series Did someone mention error? Atlanta had seven in the series, a fatal collapse of its defense. The seventh error, a botched grounder by Giles in the fifth with the score tied 1-1, prolonged the inning for Durazo to come to the plate where he could hit a ball to left that barely stayed fair and gave the Diamondbacks the lead that was just enough. Johnson tried to take it from there, with several pitches that hit 99 miles an hour.

But on this night, he was not unreachable. Franco homered in the fourth for a 1-1 tie. Atlanta loaded the bases in the fifth though not entirely on Johnson the bags filled, by two broken-bat hits and Matt Williams' error. Franco's grounder to short ended that. Johnson's velocity never wavered.

In the seventh, he was still throwing 97 miles an hour. But on this night, he would need help. v. 1 The Associated Press Yankees rookie Alfonso Soriano is greeted by teammates after hitting tlie game-wbming two-ntn homer in the ninth inning against the Seattle Mariners Sunday in New York. Tlie Yankees won, 3-1, to take a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven American League Cliampbnship Series.

The Yankees can wrap up the series tonight in New York. On This Date October 22, 1984 Tim Van Slyke, a 24-year-old United Parcel Service employee, became the first bowler to roll a perfect game in the 23-year history of Dryden's Viking Lanes. Bowling on lanes 1 and 2, Van Slyke had 12 straight pocket hits for his 300 game. It was his third game with the four-man Dick's Dozers team in the Monday Night Scratch League. Earlier, he had scores of 210 and 187 and wound up with 697.

Top TV Baseball ALCS, Game 5, Seattle at N.Y. Yankees, 8 p.m., Fox More television, 5B Best Bets The local schedule is light, towns. A good day to rest up with some LAC volleyball being from a busy weekend and played in some of the outlying watch the Yankees-Mariners. Wild finish at Talladega D'backs headed to the ending homers against Baltimore in 1996 and Boston in 1999. There were just two hits in the game before the drive over Death Valley by Boone, who had five RBIs Saturday in Seattle's 14-3 rout.

Left fielder Chuck Knoblauch kept going back but the ball, caught in a stiff wind, kept on going. everything he had. Especially in the seventh inning, when his location left him. It was in seventh that the Braves scored a run on Julio Franco's single to close to 3-2. And both Marcus Giles and Chipper Jones fouled off pitch after pitch, forcing tense at-bats to go eight pitches, before each walked to load the bases.

Then Johnson, fading but kept in the game by the manager who trusted him so, got perhaps the biggest strikeout of the thousands in his life. That came on a slider to Brian Jordan, with the bases loaded and two out, Turner Field on fire for a rally. That would be it. A pennant was sealed. But Johnson was finished at last.

Kim, who shut down Atlanta's last gasp in Game 4, did it again in Game 5, allowing one walk in two innings. What the Big Two did, Johnson and Schilling, was fashion a series in which the Braves had little margin for error. tie of the bullpens and the Yankees prevailed. Soriano's home run, which sailed to right-center field over Mike Cameron's attempt at a leaping catch, was the fourth game-winning home run for' the Yankees in ALCS play. Chris Chambliss hit a series-winner against Kansas City in 1996, and Williams had game- NL Championship Sunday's Game D'backs 3, Braves 2, D'backs win series, 4-1 was named scries MVP.

But in the end, the Braves were done in most of all by the Big Two. Arizona needed four games in this series. Johnson and Curt Schilling won three. In 25 innings, they gave up three runs, struck out 31. Most of the time, they blew through the Braves.

But Sunday, with so much at stake and the World Series so close, Johnson had to grind with By MIKE LOPREST1 Gannett News Service ATLANTA Four years old, and the Arizona Diamondbacks are going to the World Series. Behold the power of pitching. Two pitchers, especially. One of them Randy Johnson, whose long wait for a World Series trip ended Sunday not with all-conquering dominance but the mighty will of holding back an entire team, even when the magic had left his left arm. The 3-2 victory that resulted closed out the Atlanta Braves in the National League Championship Series 4-1.

The Diamondbacks, a creation of the 1990s, were pushed to the Series by many hands. Sunday, it was a home run from the unlikely bat of Erubiel Durazo, a fifth-inning two-run shot that shook Turner Field and doomed Tom Glavine. And spectacular relief from Byung-Hyun Kim. Second baseman Craig Counsell, huge in early games, The Associated Press Bobby Labonte, 18, flips in Turn 2 at Talladega Supers-peedway, starting a 16-car pilaip on tlie final lap of tlie NASCAR Witiston Cup EA Sports 500. The race was won by Dak Earnhardt fourth from right.

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