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Chris Feaver Sports Editor 1 rtf I The Ithaca Journal, 274-9214 YyX. VlvlU Monday, November 6, cfeaverithaca.gannen.com www.theithacajournal.com Sacred Heart stains Big Rect Cornell Hockey Sunday's NFL Results Miami 23, Detroit 8 Buffalo 16, New England 13, 0T Chicago 27, Indianapolis 24 Tampa Bay 27, Atlanta 14 Philadelphia 16, Dallas 13, OT Baltimore 27, Cincinnati 7 Tennessee 9, Pittsburgh 7 N.Y. Giants 24, Cleveland 3 New Orleans 31, San Fran. 15 Arizona 16, Washington 15 Denver 30, N.Y. Jets 23 Seattle 17, San Diego 15 Oakland 49, Kansas City 31 Carolina 27, St Louis 24 Tonight's Game Minnesota at Green Bay, 9 p.m.

Details, Page 6B Konn Hawkes netted the," game-winner for the Pioneers 7, (3-1-1), who grabbed the ead. just 2:46 into the first period and never trailed. "By far and away, this is the biggest win of our program's history," Peter McRae saiC.t "Nothing even comes close tq it" "This (legitimizes) what we're trying to do," Hannah said, "not only at Sacred Heart, but in the MAAC (Metro, Atlantic Athletic Conference), See HOCKEY, 6B; of shocking. "(Our players) definitely understand what kind of hockey we need to play if we're going to be successful," said Schafer in a subdued post-game press conference. "I don't want to say we took them lightly, because it was our first game," said sophomore left wing Sam PaolinL who had a pair of assists.

"We prepared well, but we just didn't do the little things in the first and second periods." Junior Lloyd Marks had two goals and sophomore was facing his twin brothers, Cornell sophomores Matt and Mark McRae, for the first time in his life. "After the game started going, and they scored a couple of goals, I didn't really think about it too much," Peter McRae said with a smile. And of course, there were the painful, sick feelings of the Big Red, whose 5-3 season-opening loss to Sacred Heart a team in just its second year as a full-fledged Division squad was nothing short By TOM FLEISCHMAN Journal Staff ITHACA There were a lot of strange feelings being felt Saturday night at Lynah Rink. First, there were those felt by 28-year-old Shaun Hannah, a hard-working forward in his playing days at Cornell University, now the head coach at Sacred Heart, a team just making its way in Division I men's hockey. "Yeah, it felt funny coming in, not being on the other side," he said.

FfllTCTWkS SI'S Two Tioga athletes killed in Friday automobile crash n. I it I AW v. Wt) High Schools Recapping a busy high school weekend: Ithaca High and Lansing girls win sectional soccer championships; The Little Red girls' swim team dominates at Section IV Class A meet, beating runner-up Horse-heads by 142 points; Lansing beats Trumansburg for Sect. IV Class volleyball title. Roundup, Page 7B.

Ithaca clips Tigers By LaMOND POPE Journal Staff ONEONTA Mark Tisdale had a message for the Ithaca High girls' soccer team just before it stepping off the bus for the Section IV Class A. championship showdown with Union-Endicott. "I told them that we worked, tremendously hard and, in our, eyes, we worked harder than any other team in the league," the Little Red's coach said. "We won STAC (Southern Tier Athletic Conference) and this was the next part of the picture." But perhaps an earlier speech in which Tisdale- told the group he would shave his head if they captured the' title also motivated the Little Red. The team lived up to its end -of the deal, beating Union- Endicott 3-0 Saturday at Soccer Hall of Fame.

Alison McKeown scored two goals and Micaela Kimball added another to help Ithaca 1. advance to the state tourna- ment's round of eight. See ITHACA, 7B IC Football Saturday: Ithaca 27, Buffalo State 20 Record: 6-3 Next game: Saturday at Cortland State, noon, for Cortaca' Jug Cornell's Justin Dunleavy, 25, heads upfield as ran for two touchdowns as the Big Red defeated the Big Dartmouth's Phil Frost, 17, and Pat Deyhle, 40, get ready Green, 49-31, to remain tied for the Ivy League lead, to make the tackle Saturday at Schoellkopf Field Dunleavy Cornell travels to Columbia Saturday. Ivy title still within reach for CU after 49-31 win Saturday: Sacred Heart 5, Cornell 3 Record: 0-1, 0-0 ECAC Next games: Friday at Union, Saturday at RPI (ECAC openers) Then there were those of Peter McRae, a junior defenseman and team captain of the visiting Pioneers, who Cornell Football Saturday: Cornell 49, Dartmouth 31 Record: 4-4 overall, 4-1 Ivy League Next game: Saturday at Columbia, 1 :30 p.m. back to the .500 mark overall at 4-4.

More importantly, the Big Red improved to 4-1 in Ivy play, tied with Harvard and Pennsylvania. Yale, which was also tied for first entering last week, fell to Brown, 28-14. "That's where we are right now," Mangurian said. "It is playoff football and that's the way you have to think." Saturday was the first win for the Big Red all season that did not come by one point. Regardless, the outcome was still very much in doubt entering the final quarter.

Dartmouth had rallied from a 28-17 halftime deficit to take the lead on the first play of the fourth quarter as Matt DeLellis hauled in a two-yard NFL lation or overtime this year. And his 23-yard overtime field goal last season on the same Foxboro Stadium field gave Buffalo a 13-10 win in the next-to-last regular-season game and clinched a playoff berth. "He's an amazing guy under pressure," Buffalo coach Wade Phillips said. Coming off a bye week, the Patriots (2-7) lost quarterback Drew Bledsoe to a hand injury in the second quarter, but John Friesz did just enough to lead the Patriots to Adam Vinatieri's 43-yard field goal with 2:03 left in regulation and a 13-10 lead. Doug Flutie, starting his See BILLS, 6B I The Associated Press Giants running back Ron Dayne is pursued by Cleveland's Jamir Miller, 95, Sunday.

Valuable Player in September. Joelle Robinson was an honor student, had perfect attendance for seven years, and was active in Students Against Drunk Driving. The Tioga County Sheriffs Department said an investigation into the accident was continuing. The teen-agers were traveling together when their vehi cle collided with a pick-up truck at 4:10 p.m. Friday at the corner of Oak Hill Road and Route 17C in the Town of Barton, said deputies with the Tioga County Sheriffs Department.

Sinsabaugh, who was traveling south on Oak Hill Road, failed to stop at a stop sign at the intersection of 17C. Richard E. Ahnert of Middle Grove, the driver of the truck, was uninjured, police said. Police could not say whether any of the victims in the crash were wearing seat belts. The Robinson and Chamberlain families will receive family and friends from 3 to 9 p.m.

today at the Sutfin Funeral Chapel, 273 South Main Nichols. Memorial services for Colleen Chamberlain and Joelle Robinson will be held at 1 1 a.m. Tuesday at the Tioga Central School. The Rev. Joseph Gay will officiate.

Sports scholarships will be established in the girls' memory. Contributions may be directed to the Tioga Central High School, 5th Avenue, Tioga Center, N.Y. 13845. at Tour Championship Golf Mickelson tournament as a pro in 1996, that Woods took a lead into the final round and didn't hoist a trophy at the end of the day. And it was the second time this year Mickelson was the man responsible for stopping the streak.

In February, he came on strong down the stretch to win the Buick Invitational in San Diego and stop Woods' tour winning streak at six. Woods, who shot a 69, has one tournament left the World Golf Championship next week in Spain to try to become the first player in 50 years to win at least 10 times in one season. As for his streak of nrotect ing third-round leads, Woods figured it had to end sometime "I've had a loot of good things go my way," said Woods, who was 1 over on the back nine. "I've been able to make key shots at the right times, and it has added into victories. Sometimes, I have olaved Doorlv coming down the stretch and have somehow snuck out a win." This wasn't one of those days.

More golf. Page 7B. TV 9 p.m., ABC Bets Blue" Division battle it out on Monday Night Football. And count the number of obscure references made by Dennis Miller. and wire reports.

Woods Gannett News Service Two teen-age boys injured in a Barton car accident that killed two young women Friday remained hospitalized Saturday night, although one's condition had been upgraded. Anthony Sinsabaugh, 17, of Chemung, who was the driver of the vehicle, was upgraded from serious to fair condition and moved out of the intensive care unit, said a nursing supervisor at Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pa. Donald McClernon III, 18, of Waverly, remained in the intensive care unit in critical condition, the supervisor said. Two other passengers in the car. Colleen Chamberlain, 16, and Joelle Robinson, 16, were pronounced dead at Packer Hospital on Friday.

Friends since they were 4 years old, both were juniors at Tioga Central High School where they were well-known athletes. The two were also involved with community activities and volunteered for a variety of causes. Debbie Robinson, Joelle's mother, said her daughter was very athletic and on the Division 1 all-star field hockey and basketball teams. She was the third-leading scorer on her team in field hockey and she excelled in varsity basketball, with a career-best 32-point game last season against Newfield. She also played softball and indoor field hockey, and she was the unanimous choice at the Maine-Endwell field hockey tournament for Most Mickelson tames Tiger By DOUG FERGUSON The Associated Press ATLANTA Tiger Woods had two incredible streaks going this year.

Phil Mickelson ended both of them. If Mickelson had bothered to do his homework before the final round of the Tour Championship, he would have had to flip back through four years and 19 tournaments to find the last time Woods had at least a share of the 54-hole lead and failed to win. Trailing by one shot going into the final round Sunday, all Mickelson cared about was putting pressure on the No. 1 player in the world. "I didn't really expect him to win," Mickelson said.

"I thought I had a pretty good chance. And I really like the position I was in, being one group in front and having them watch me make birdies." With four birdies on the front to take the lead and no mistakes over the final five holes to keep it, Mickelson closed with a 4-under 66 and took advantage of sloppy play by Woods for a two-stroke victory at East Lake Golf Club. In the Year of the Tiger, Mickelson earned one distinction the only player to beat Woods twice down the stretch. "It's a wonderful way to end the year," said Mickelson, who finished at 13-under 267 to break by one stroke the Tour Championship record set by Tom Watson in 1987. It was the first time in 20 tournaments, dating to his third Top Football Minnesota at Green Bay, On The Air, Page 9B Best See above with nothing on the local docket after a very busy weekend, pull up a chair and watch a couple of teams from the old "Black and From staff pass from Greg Smith.

The extra point made the score 31-28 Dartmouth, and thoughts of last season's Dartmouth 20-17 win a win that eventually kept Cornell from a share of the Ivy League title popped into the heads of Big Red fans. "I really thought we had a lot of momentum Mangurian going into the fourth quarter," Dartmouth coach John Lyons said. "I was concerned though, because I knew Cornell had the ability to come back." Lyons' concerns were well-founded, but the method Cornell used for its rally may have been a surprise. The Big Red entered this week averaging just 57.4 yards per game on the ground, while the Cornell air game netted more than 300 yards a contest. But quarterback Ricky Rahne, after a red-hot first half, where he was 20-for-25 for 213 By CHRISTOPHER FEAVER Journal Staff ITHACA Two down, two to go.

Two weeks ago, the Cornell football team found itself in a five-way tie for first place in the Ivy League with four games remaining. Now, after Saturday's 49-31 win over Dartmouth at Schoellkopf Field, the Big Red is still tied for first, and the number of teams tied for first is down to three. It was the Big Red running game, led by Evan Simmons' 138 yards and three touchdowns, that keyed the Big Red win. In the fourth quarter alone, Simmons ran for 88 yards as the Big Red rallied from an early fourth-quarter deficit for the 18-point win. "I guess we have to get behind before we play well," said Cornell coach Pete Mangurian.

It was the seventh time in the last eight Cornell Ivy wins that the Big Red has trailed in the fourth quarter. Cornell, in contention for its first league title since 1990, is KATE SCHLEEJournal Staff yards, had struggled in the third quarter, going 0-for-7 while the Big Red gained just one total yard on three possessions. So after Dartmouth took its lead, Mangurian turned to his running attack, which also had success last week in the 25-24 win over Princeton. Cornell went on its most time-consuming touchdown drive of the season, marching 67 yards on 15 plays, eating up 6:12 of the clock, ending in a Justin Dunleavy 1-yard touchdown run and a Cornell 35-31 lead. The star of the drive was Simmons, who carried the ball nine times on the drive for 46 yards, including one stretch where he carried the ball on seven consecutive plays.

After a Dartmouth punt, it was Cornell scoring again on another Dunleavy 1-yard run with 5:24 remaining in the game. Simmons again who was the hero, dashing 37 yards down the left sideline on the first play of the drive, setting up first-and-goal. "I'm seeing guys finally executing," said Simmons, explain- See RED, 6B ,1 Bills' Christie boots Patriots Bombers? bury Bengals By TOM FLEISCHMAN Journal Staff V''. ITHACA As usual, Buffalo State football came to" town on Saturday with shovels; I in hand, ready to bury Ithaca College. As usual, the Bengals of, head coach Jerry Boyesr I brought their loudest voices, spewing venom at anyone wearing Bomber Blue.

But this time unlike the past five years, when a season-ending loss to the Bengals meant no NCAA playoff trip for Ithaca it was the Bombers wielding the digging implements at the end. Senior Tommy Giorgio ran for 134 yards and two touchdowns, and the Bomber defense held the explosive Bengals in check long enough to secure a 27-20 Ithaca victory, its first over Buffalo State in six years. Junior linebacker Mark McDonough sacked Bengal quarterback Chris Henry on fourth-and-goal at the Bombers' 1-yard line with 1V4 minutes to play to seal IC's See BOMBERS, 8B By HOWARD ULMAN The Associated Press FOXBORO, Mass. The clock ticks down, Steve Christie trots on and the Buffalo Bills celebrate. The remarkable has become routine for a kicker whose 32-yard field goal at 4:32 of overtime beat the New England Patriots, 16-13, Sunday.

He also was surefooted on the rain-soaked field with a 48-yarder that tied the game with four seconds left in regulation. "It was wet and the balls were getting heavy," Christie said. "I just block everything off, try to hit the ball solid and just don't let things bother me." The Bills (5-4) have won four games on Christie's field goals in the last minute of regu- The Associated Press New England's J.R. Redmond dives for yardage in tlte third quarter Sunday at Foxboro Stadium. The BiUs won, 16-13, in oxertime on a Steve Oinstie 32-yard field goal.