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Chris Feaver Sports Editor Vl 1 I The lthaca Jurnal 274-9214 VJL VIVIU Monday, October 16, 2000 cfeaverithaca.gannett.com i www.theithacajournal.com Mets one win from Series Sunday's NFL Results Sunday's Games N.Y. Giants 19, Dallas 14 St Louis 45, Atlanta 29 Buffalo 27, San Diego 24, OT Washington 10, Baltimore 3 Oakland 20, Kansas City 17 New Orleans 24, Carolina 6 Pittsburgh 15, Cincinnati 0 Denver 44, Cleveland 10 Indianapolis 37, Seattle 24 N.Y. Jets 34, New England 17 Philadelphia 33, Arizona 14 Green Bay 31, San Francisco 28 Minnesota 28, Chicago 16 Tonight's Game Jacksonville at Tennessee, 9 p.m. Details, Page 4B ALCS The Yankees and Mariners are headed back to New York, thanks to Seattle's 6-2 victory Sunday in Game 5. The Bronx Bombers still hold a 3-2 series lead and can advance to the World Series by just splitting at Yankee Stadium.

Game 6 is at 8:12 p.m. Tuesday. Details, Page 7B. -'Mil made a big defensive play. With Ray Lankford on first and Mark McGwire on deck, Carlos Hernandez hit a grounder into the hole between first and second.

Zeile dove and made the play and beat Hernandez to first to end the inning and preserve the 8-6 New York lead. The Mets added a pair of unearned runs in the bottom half thanks to two errors by third baseman Fernando Tatis and Mighty Mac never got a chance to bat as the tying run. St. Louis came close in the eighth, getting two runners on against John Franco, but Craig Paquctte grounded out to end the Cardinals' last threat. By JOSH DUBOW Tlte Associated Press NEW YORK The New York Mets made Tony La Russa pay double for bringing back Darryl Kile on only three days' rest.

New York pounded the St. Louis ace with a record five doubles in a four-run first inning and moved within one win of the World Series, beating the Cardinals 10-6 Sunday night for a 3-1 lead in the NL championship series. The Mets will try to wrap up their half of the Subway Series by winning Game 5 tonight at Shea Stadium. Mike Hampton starts for New York agaiast Pat Hentgen, pitching for the first time in 15 days. runs and eight hits in three-plus innings.

That shouldn't be much of a surprise, considering the results of pitchers going on short rest in the past two post-seasons. Nine times managers have brought starters back early eight times on three days' rest and once on only two and the results are disastrous. The pitchers are 0-4 with a 17.51 ERA and the teams have lost seven of the nine games. But because Bobby J. Jones fared little better with six days between starts, the Cardinals stayed in the game.

Jones allowed six runs and six hits in four-plus innings before being replaced by Glendon Rusch, The Hot Meola, Kansas City douse Fire to capture MLS title fed totem bv own I pal Cornell's Joe Splendorio, 86, Mets-Cardinals Sunday's Game Mets 10, Cardinals 6 Series: Mets lead, 3-1 Next game: Tonight at St. Louis, 8:18 p.m., FOX La Russa hopes that works better than bringing Kile back too soon. Kile, who had been 4-8 with a 6.66 ERA in his 13 appearances with three days between starts, allowed seven reaches out unsuccessfully for 9, covers in the first quarter Cornell Football Saturday: Colgate 23, Cornell 16 Record: 2-3 overall, 2-0 Ivy League Next game: Saturday at Brown, 1 p.m. Though Colgate gained 293 yards rushing on the night, most Red Raider drives went nowhere, and they could manage just 68 yards through the air. But the Big Red offense struggled.

As has often been the case this season, the Cornell running game was almost non-existent. Factor in quarterback sacks (five for 35 yards), and the Big Red rushed for minus-2 yards on the night. This allowed the Colgate pass rush to tee off on quarterback Ricky Rahne, forcing him to hurry on many passing attempts. Rahne was 20-for-38 for 236 yards on the game, and See RED, 5B By JOSEPH WHITE 77ic AssiKiated Press WASHINGTON Tony Meola has his first championship, and Lamar Hunt has another one to add to the 1970 Super Bowl. Meola made 10 saves, including three in the final 10 minutes, and the Kansas City Wizards survived some strange bounces Sunday to beat the Chicago Fire l-Q to win their first MLS Cup.

Miklos Molnar, one of three Wizards players to retire after the game, scored in the 11th minute, while Meola added the game's MVP award to the season MVP trophy he won Friday. His record fifth shutout of the playoffs was one of his busiest games ever. "It's the best because we won the championship while it happened," Meola said. "I can't tell you how happy it I am. Today it worked for me." Meola was the U.S.

national team goalkeeper at the 1990 and 1994 World Cups and once tried out with the New York Jets. After a difficult stint with the New York-New Jersey MetroStars, he was traded to the Wizards last year and spent most of the season rehabilitating a knee injury. This season, he returned to set league records with 16 regular-season shutouts and a IHS harriers win STAC VESTAL The Ithaca High School boys' cross country team won its sixth consecutive Southern Tier Athletic Conference championship Saturday, finishing with 48 points to lap the 16 team field at Arnold Park. The Little Red captured four of the top nine spots to distance itself from second place Union-Endicott by 25 points. Ithaca's girls' team failed in its bid for a fourth consecutive crown, placing second to Elmira Southside 48-69.

Kyle Paolangeli (15:41) and Mark Axtcll (15:45) led the boys' squad, finishing second and third. Axtell earned special praise from his coach. "Mark had the race of the day (for IHS), running with courage and confidence as a senior should do," Ithaca's Rich Bernstein said. Tom Hammer (16:12) and IC Football Saturday: Ithaca 58, St. Lawrence 0 Record: 4-2 Next game: Saturday vs.

Wilkes University, 1 p.m., Butterfield Stadium Ithaca schools Saints By TOM FLEISCHMAN Journal Staff ITHACA On the scoreboard, when the clock showed 0:00 in the fourth quarter Saturday, it read Ithaca 58, St. Lawrence 0. And there's another of sorts, that can help to explain the eight-touchuown discrepancy on the football; field between schools that, in. many other respects, are quite, similar. That other score.

27-6, represents the number of seniors on the respective rosters. The, Bombers, of course, are always a veteran-driven and the starting offensive and defensive units feature a com-( bined 12 final-year players. Head coach Greg Burton's Saints, however, are a work in, progress. That progress has been painfully slow just one win in Burton's first 25 games, at SLU and 21 consecutive defeats, many of them like Saturday's annihilation on. Homecoming Weekend at Butterfield Stadium.

With 68 of its 80 player cither freshmen or sophomores, the Saints are playing, up a division every week. "Basically, we're playing everyone's varsity with a JV" team right now," Burton said Saturday. "And that's not-making excuses; that's just the' way it is." That's certainly the way it seemed, as the Bombers (4-2)-snapped their two-game losing streak in a big way. Three, Bombers Conor Tom Kenney and Mark McDonough scored their; first career touchdowns as IC rolled to a 44-0 halftime lead and then emptied its bench. Ithaca scored points on of its eight first-half possessions, and got a 28-yard inter-'! ception return for a score atc in the first quarter frorrL, sophomore strong safety Kenney, who was making his second career start.

It was' Kenney 's second pickoff of the See ITHACA, 5B: of Saturdays night game at a pass as Colgate's Max Wynn, Raiders scored twice in the final quarter and won, 23-16. Colgate rallies from early deficit, holds on for win The Associated Press Buffalo kicker Steve Christie celebrates his game-winning field goal in OT Sunday. Corner scoreless streak of 681 minutes over eight games. As Chicago lay siege around the Kansas City net in the waning minutes, Meola dived right to stop Josh Wolff in the 82nd, cradled a close-range attempt from Dema Kovalenko in the 83rd and got his chest in the way of a 13-yard bullet from Hristo Stoitchkov in the 86th. "The extraordinary for Tony is every day," Kaasas City coach Bob Gansler.

"He makes these kinds of saves every day, perhaps a few more today." Also in the locker room, wearing a Kansas City championship T-shirt and a gold medal around his neck, was Hunt. The Wizards owner passed up the Kansas City Chiefs-Oakland Raiders game to attend the MLS Cup. Hunt's Chiefs upset the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV to even the score between the AFL and NFL "There the sport was established. That made everything even, 2-2," Hunt said. "This is a different battle.

The battle here is against the bill collector. Here, the battle is to sell tickets." The money-losing MLS attracted 39,159 fans to the neutral site of RFK Stadium. It was the first MLS Cup without three-time champion D.C. United. title; girls finish 2nd Zach Cater-Cyker (16:21) rounded out Ithaca's performers, placing seventh and ninth, respectively.

Union-Endicott's Andy Allstadt won the boys' race in 15:23. Robyn Ellerbrock paced the girls' team, finishing third in 18:46. Laura Sherman (19:22) placed 10th, while Laura Age (18:53) and Liz Age (18:54) finished in 17th and 18th. Zia Anger (20:00) came in 21st place. Horseheads' Alexis Lake won the girls' race in 18:17.

"We didn't run as a pack the way we have been recently," Bernstein said, "and against a good team like Elmira Southside, we can't be as suc cessful as we can be. Ithaca's girls and boys won the junior varsity titles. More high schools, Page 5B. O'Reilly 400, where he started 15th in a field of 36. Emergency crews had to cut the roof off his Ford to get him out.

He had been placed on a ventilator at the hospital, where his father, former Midwest short track star Dean Roper, was with him when he died. "We appreciate the show of support from the other drivers and teams who came here to be with us," Roper said. It was the first fatal accident at Texas Motor Speedway, which opened in April ot 1997. Earnhardt mars to victory at Winston 500, 7B. Shelton was an All-American end on the undefeated 1915 team.

He rowed and also played basketball. Shelton was a veteran of both World Wars. TV at N.Y. Mets, 8 p.m., FOX Bets will take the division title, and meet Lansing this Saturday at Ithaca High's Bredbenner Field for the overall crown. Tee triumphant in return who pitched three scoreless innings of relief for the victory.

St. Louis had a shot against Rusch in the sixth inning, but first baseman Todd Zeile trick BILL WARREN Journal Staff Schoellkopf Field. Tlie Red defensive back. He was second-team all-state in 1997, his senior season. At Colgate, he spent his first two years searching for a position, playing defensive back as a freshman and tight end as a sophomore, before moving to defensive end in the middle of his sophomore year.

This season, the 6-foot-3, 224-pound Tee has started all but one game. He said the defensive end position works well for him. "It's something I'm suitable for," he said, noting that he often is expected to drop into pass coverage from that position at Colgate. The win for Colgate (5-1) was even more satisfying for Tee, who spent much of the summer working out with the Cornell team in Ithaca. "There was," Tee said, "a little bit of talking out there." C.F.

Giants, Bills also win, 4B success, except when they play us." The Jets tied idle Miami for the AFC East lead at 5-1 after losing to Pittsburgh 20-3 a week earlier. Testaverde left that game after his first offensive play when he pinched a nerve in his neck. Coach Al Groh played coy and didn't reveal whether Testaverde or Ray Lucas would start. Testaverde said he felt an occasional tingling in his left arm, but not as much pain as he did last Sunday. As long as he can hand off to Martin, the Jets should be OK.

"He's sure making me look good," Testaverde said. By CHRISTOPHER FEAVER Journal Staff ITHACA There were no miracle comebacks this time for the Cornell football team. Instead, it was upstate rival Colgate scoring two fourth-quarter touchdowns, including a 60-yard run by Randall Joseph with 2:03 remaining to break the game open, and defeating the Big Red, 23-16, Saturday night at Schoellkopf Field. It was the fifth win in a row for Colgate (5-1) and the fifth straight victory in its long series with Cornell. For the Red (2-3, 2-0 Ivy League), it was the third loss this season in three attempts against Patriot League foes, including Lehigh and Bucknell.

The Cornell loss negated what was probably the best defensive effort of the season for the Big Red, despite Cornell playing without its two leading tacklcrs, linebacker Dan Weyandt and safety Phil Rigueuer, who were out with injuries. ITHACA It was a g(xxl homecoming Saturday for Colgate junior Eric Tee. The Red Raiders' football contest at Cornell marked Tec's first game game in Tompkins County since he was an offensive and defensive terror for the Lansing High Bobcats before graduating in 1998. A huge Lansing contingent made the trip to Schoellkopf Field on Saturday to root Tee on. And those Lansing fans were witness to Tee making three tackles and his second quarterback sack of the season as starting defensive end for the Red Raiders, in Colgate's 23-16 win.

"It was a little too overwhelming (seeing his rooting section)," Tee said. "I tried to say hello to everyone." Tee lettered for four years at Lansing High where he played wide receiver and Roper, injured in NASCAR truck race, dies FORT WORTH, Texas Trucks series driver Tony Roper died Saturday, hours after a fiery crash in a race at Texas Motor Speedway, becoming the third on-track fatality this year in NASCAR. The 35-year-old driver had a severe neck injury which prevented blood from flowing to his brain, said Dr. John LaNoue, a trauma surgeon at Parkland Hospital. LaNoue said the injury Friday night left Roper without any brain function.

Roper was unresponsive when he was pulled out of his truck after the wreck during the Jets' Martin runs wild New York moves into tie atop AFC East: On This Date October 16, 1973 Murray N. Shelton joined a select group of Comcllians by being inducted into the National Football Hall of Fame. Top Baseball NLCS, Game 5, St. Louis More television, 6B Best Dryden's girls' soccer team is at Elmira Notre Dame this afternoon in an IAC Division 1 make-up game. The winner "Curtis is our workhorse.

We go as he goes." The Jets defense did too, as Drew Bledsoe sacked a career-high seven, times. It forced six turnovers' from a team that had five in its other six games. The win set up a showdown for first place next, Monday with the Dolphins, i "The important lesson for our team is that, in this leaguej just because you win one week-doesn't mean you're going to-win next week," Groh said." "Momentum is an overstated; thing." It was for the Patriots (2-5)." They won consecutive games'' against Denver and See JETS, 4B By HOWARD ULMAN 77ie Associated Press FOXBORO, Mass. Vinny Testaverde's neck felt better. Curtis Martin's legs weren't bad, either.

Testaverde, recovering from a pinched nerve in his neck, took all but one snap at quarterback for the Jets, and Martin showed the Patriots what he once gave them a running game as New York dominated New England 34-17 Sunday. Martin rushed for 143 yards and three touchdowns in his third season since he left the Patriots as a free agent. "Right now, they're the enemy," he said. "I don't wish them bad. I wish them all the --Vsv The Associated Press New York Jets running back Curtis Martin high-steps into the end zone during the second quarter Sunday at Foxboro, Mass.

Tlte Jets defeated New England, 34-17. From staff and wire reports..