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Sports Chris Feaver Sports Editor 274-9214 cfeaverithaca.gannett.com 3B The Ithaca Journal Monday, October 30, 2000 www.theithacajournal.com Giants groraid Eagles again NFL Sunday's NFL Results Atlanta 13, Carolina 12 Indianapolis 30, Detroit 18 Buffalo 23, N.Y.Jets20 Miami 28, Green Bay 20 Pittsburgh 9, Baltimore 6 Tampa Bay 41, Minnesota 13 Cincinnati 12, Cleveland 3 St. Louis 34, San Francisco 24 New Orleans 21, Arizona 10 N.Y. Giants 24, Philadelphia 7 Jacksonville 23, Dallas 17, OT Kansas City 24, Seattle 19 Oakland 15, San Diego 13 Tonight's Game Tennessee at Washington, 9 p.m. Details, Page 4B 45:43 against the Eagles. McNabb finished 10-of-31 for 129 yards and an interception on a cold, blustery late fall afternoon at Giants Stadium.

"It was windy and there was a little snow, but there were plays to be made and I didn't make them," McNabb said. "But no matter how things were going I felt we were just one big play away from getting back into it." The Eagles never made that play, and coach Andy Reid took the blame for that. By TOM CANAVAN The Associated Press EAST RUTHERFORD, J. The New York Giants own the Philadelphia Eagles, and even their problems in games after a bye week couldn't change that. Ron Dayne ran for 93 yards and a touchdown, and the Giants held the ball for all but 16 minutes, 19 seconds in defeating the Eagles for the eighth straight time, 24-7 on Sunday.

"We know we got their Giants (6-2) embarrassed the Eagles (5-4) for the second time this season. "For some reason, it seems like we have an answer for everything they do," said Collins, who completed 22 of 37 for 253 yards and no interceptions. "We always feel like we have a good game plan and we pick up their blitz packages, which is big." The win was only the Giants' third in 12 games after a bye week, and this one put them into a tie for first place in the NFC East with Washington. The Redskins play the Tennessee Titans on tonight. The Giants defense didn't let the Eagles score until Donovan McNabb threw a 25-yard touchdown pass to Charles Johnson with 5:12 to play.

Earlier this season, New York beat Philadelphia 33-18, holding the ball for 38:44. Sunday's possession time of 43:41 was the most by the Giants since Nov. 20, 1983, when they held the ball for number," safety Sam Games said after the Giants defense limited Philadelphia to 192 total yards. "There's no question about that. There is no other reason we're 8-0 against them.

It's not that we're that much better than them. We've just got their number." Kerry Collins threw a 27-yard touchdown pass to Amani Toomcr, and Joe Montgomery scored on a short run as the The Hot Anoth er nail-Bsiter for Red After 13 years, Sooners back on top of AP poll Tlte Associated Press The Sooner Schooner rides again. On a day of frenzied finishes, Oklahoma simply sent its fans into a frenzy by knocking off rival Nebraska and replacing the Cornhuskers as the No. 1 team in the nation. "It's a great feeling to be sitting where we are today," Sooners center Bubba Bur-cham said following Saturday's 31-14 victory over the Huskcrs.

"It's been a long time. It's good to see as back on top." Oklahoma (7-(), 4-0 Big 12) made it back to the top of the AP poll for the first time in 13 years. In 1987, the Sooners did it in similar fashion by beating Nebraska in the final game of the regular season. However, Miami beat Oklahoma in the '88 Orange Bowl to win the national title. This season, the Sooners are kx)king to return to the Orange Bowl the Bowl Championship Scries' desig Lansing finally solves From Journal Staff Reports HORSEHEADS Trumansburg High School's volleyball team had been a thorn in Lansing's side for much of the last two seasons.

First, the Blue Raiders beat Lansing in last year's sectionals playoff. Tru- mansburg then handed the Bobcats their only defeat of this regular season. Lansing exacted some Interscholastic Athletic Conference -1 revenge Saturday, defeating the Blue Raiders, 15-8, 15-9, to repeat as the Interscholastic Athletic Conference champion. "We had a goal of winning the IACs, and we felt we had to prove something to ourselves," Lansing coach Stephen Dunn said. "We had to face a team that has great players in Jill Ahouse and Sarah Zimet.

We've been working on facing T-burg's style of offense and defense and we just made as few mistakes as possible." Aimee Garrett had an ace and seven kills while Erin On This October 30, 1986 The Lansing High girls' volleyball team defeats Edison, 14-16, 15-8, 15-7, to win its first IAC of i A 24-23 win earlier this year while Harvard's Robbie Wright had his game-winning 27-yard field-goal attempt blocked by the Big Red's Joe Splcndorio in Cornell's 29-28 win over the Crimson. Saturday's victory was crucial for Cornell in its quest for its first Ivy League title since 1990. The win kept Cornell (3-4, 3-1 in a four-way tie for first place in the league along with Penn, Harvard and Yale. Princeton was part of a five-way first-place tie entering Saturday's play, but fell to 2-5 overall, 2-2 in Ivy play. "We made it a closer game than it should have been," said Cornell coach Pete Mangurian.

"We made enough mistakes to lose the game, but we made enough plays to win it. That's the way we're going to approach it. We're one step closer. We jast put one team we're tied with behind us." One of those winning plays came with the Big Red trailing 18-17 with 5:50 remaining in KATE SCHLEEJournal Staff Cornell wide receiver Keith Ferguson, left, heads upfield as Saturday at Schoellkopf Field. Ferguson had eight catches Princeton's Blake Perry and Chris Roser-Jones pursue for 164 yards as the Big Red edged the Tigers, 25-24.

Princeton kicker falls down, Cornell wins by one The Associated Press Bills quarterback Doug Flutie scrambles vs. tlie Jets during live second lialf Sunday in Buffab. Corner nated national title game on Jan. 3, where they just might find Miami, now No. 3, waiting again.

Oklahoma must win the rest its games at Baylor, Texas and Oklahoma State and home to Texas Tech then would likely have to beat Nebraska in a rematch in the Big 12 title game Dec. 2 in Kansas City. Although many national title scenarios remain, an Oklahoma-Miami matchup looks to be the early favorite. The BCS standings on Monday should have Oklahoma in first place, with Miami in the top four but poised to reach second place by next week if it can beat No. 2 Virginia Tech.

Miami (6-1) beat Louisiana Tech 42-31 on Saturday, while the Hokies (8-0, 6-0 Big East), 37-34 winners over Pittsburgh, may be without Michael Vick, who has a sprained right ankle. Tup 25 poll, Saturday's scores, Page 6B. burg, win IAC title Cleveland added 14 assists and two aces in the championship contest. Molly Netherton contributed four aces and seven kills from off the bench as Lansing handed Trumansburg its first loss since August 25 at South Seneca. "We had strong play from off the bench.

Molly Netherton came off the bench and came through in the final game," Dunn said. "She's an up and coming star in the IAC and deserves a lot of credit." Trumansburg went 3-0 in pool play, including a 15-13, 15-11 victory over Lansing in final pool play contest. Trumansburg and Lansing both beat Candor and Tioga to advance to the championship match. Lansing earned a key victory in a pool play contest against Tioga. The Bobcats trailed by as many as nine points before fighting back to beat the Tigers 15-13, 15-0.

"The team rallied back, got ready and took care of that one," Dunn said. "We stopped making metal mistakes and started playing defense." More high schools, 5B. Date champioaship. The Bobcats finish the season 1 6-0; the Spartans are just the fourth team all year to win a set against Lansing. York, then click over to ABC at 9 to see the Tennessee Titans take on the Washington Redskins from our nation's capital.

Make sure your pic-ture-in-picture is working. The Associated Press win reports. High Schools Weekend at a glance: The Lansing volleyball team defeated Trumansburg, 15-8, 15-9, to repeat as IAC champ (this page) Groton's boys and girls both won IAC cross country championships Ithaca freshman -Weatherty Schwab ended her season at the state tennis championships in Syracuse, losing in the opening round and in the consolation bracket. Lansing won, while Trumansburg and Union Springs both lost in Section IV Class girts' soccer quarterfinal action. Watkins Glen's girls won the IAC swimming championship, beating Lansing by 55 points.

Roundup, Page 5B. Lansing football out of playoffs T-burg, Candor also eliminated By LaMOND POPE Journal Staff WHITNEY POINT The Lansing High Sch(xl football team stood five minutes away from advancing to the Section IV Class championships. And with its prized defense on the field, the Bobcats appeared to be in gwid shape. But Lansing's opponent, Delhi, just wouldn't quit. The Bulldogs looked to their back-field and marched 63 yards to Lansing's 1-yard line.

Delhi quarterback Chris Clark called his own number on fourth-and-goal and, with 16 seconds remaining, inched over the goal line to give the Bulldogs a 19-15 victory over the previously unbeaten Bobcats on a chilly and windy Saturday afternoon. "I have to give Delhi credit, they played right to the end and they scored on the next to last play of the game," said Lansing coach Ed Redmond, whose team finished 8-1. "Our kids played hard. If there were three or four different plays that went the other way the outcome could have been different. I don't think (Clark) got in by very much.

I think he got in by a foot." The touchdown capped a comeback for a Delhi team (6-3) that trailed 15-7 less than a minute into the fourth quarter. "We've been in holes all year," Delhi coach David Kelly said. "We do continue to play and I'm happy that as time was running out today, we continued to play hard." The Bobcats' Justin Kanellis scored two touchdowns in the second quarter to give Lansing a 13-7 lead at halftime. Lansing gained the eight-point edge early in the fourth quarter when Bobcats linebacker Ethan Bowman entered the backficld unblocked and sacked Clark for a two-point safety with 1 1:54 remaining in the game. Delhi would attempt to throw just once more the rest of the game.

Sixteen of the Bulldogs final 17 plays were runs. "They brought their linebackers with such intensity it was extremely difficult for us to get inside," Kelly said. "There just weren't a lot of variety of things that we could goto." Delhi held Lansing to its See LANSING, 5B JJ the game. Princeton quarterback Jon Blevins was scrambling for yardage when Rich Zacek hit him, forcing a fumble that was recovered by the Big Red's Jordan Hase at the Princeton 36-yard line. Cornell then turned to its running game, which found success in the second half, going on an 8-play, 36-yard drive, capped by a Ricky Rahne 4-yard pass to Mike Parris for a touchdown.

Rahne then found a leaping Joe Splcndorio on the two-point conversion and the Big Red had a 25-18 lead with 1:58 remaining. "When you play a good team like Cornell, you can't turn the ball over," said Princeton coach Roger Hughes. That the difference in a tight game." Princeton did respond, marching down the field and scoring with 17 seconds remaining as Danielewicz found See RED, 5B KATE SCHLEEJoumal Staff By CHRISTOPHER FEAVER Journal Staff ITHACA For a team known for its inconsistency this season, Cornell's football wins have come in a remarkably similar fashion, and have been equally hard on the nerves of Big Red fans. For the third time this year, the Big Red rallied from a fourth-quarter deficit, then withstood a last-minute charge by its opponent, downing Princeton, 25-24, Saturday in front of a tiny crowd of 4,952 at cold, blustery Schoellkopf Field. If not for another gift to Cornell from the kicking gods, the contest may well have gone to overtime.

But with 17 seconds remaining, Princeton place-kicker Taylor Northrup slipped on the dry artificial surface during an extra-point attempt that would have tied the game. His kick never got higher than three feet off the ground Cornell tops Waterloo, 4-3 Cornell Football Saturday: Cornell 25, Princeton 24 Record: 3-4 overall, 3-1 Ivy League Next game: Saturday vs. Dartmouth, 1 p.m. Hobart blanks IC, 5B and negated a 63-yard Princeton touchdown drive in the final 1:48 of the game led by Tiger fourth-string quarterback Brian Danielewicz. "I slipped on the turf," said Northrup of his miss.

"There's no excuse." Northrup is not the only kicker to walk away from a Cornell game dejected this season. Yale kicker Mike Murawczyk missed a 32-yard field goal attempt on the final play of the game in Cornell's Cornell Hockey Saturday: Cornell 4, Waterloo 3 (exhibition) Record: 0-0, 0-0 ECAC Next game: Season opener, Saturday vs. Sacred Heart, 7 p.m., Lynah Rink home start, made just six saves. Krzysztof Wieckowski, Matt McRae and Dan Svoboda also scored for Cornell, which went 0-for-6 on the power play despite generating numerous chances. Waterloo (4-6-1) scored all three of its goals on the power play, including the final goal with 9.9 seconds left in the third.

Patrick Herman made 50 saves for Waterloo, which got goals from Brett Turner, Mike See HOCKEY, 4B Top TV Football Tennessee at Washington, 9 p.m., ABC More television, 6B Best Bets if, dfZ By TOM FLEISCHMAN Journal Staff ITHACA For Cornell men's hockey coach Mike Schafer, Saturday's exhibition game with the University of Waterloo was a great way to evaluate talent just one week before start of the regular season. But just because the game didn't count on the Big Red's record, don't think that Schafer and Co. didn't care if they won or lost. "It's very important, having a winning mentality," Schafer said after his club, dominant for most of the game, grabbed the lead late in the second period and held on to defeat the Warriors, 4-3, before a sell-out crowd of 3,836 at Lynah Rink. David Francis' goal with 5:36 to play proved the game-winner as the Red won a close game despite outshooting their visitors from Ontario, 54-9.

Sophomore goalie Chris Gartman, getting his first It's a TV sports kind of night. You can start off at 7:30 by watching the defending Stanley Cup champion New Jersey Devils host the Florida Panthers, on Fox Sports New On Page 7B: Lakers All-Star center Sliaquille O'Neal isn't the only reason the Western Conference is the dominant conference in the NBA tliis season. With four top centers either injured or gone, the East is short on big men while the West has all the power. For an overview of tlie 2000-01 NBA season, turn to Page 7B. From staff and Cornell forward David Francis, 1 1, checks Waterloo 's Ryan Painter into tlte boards as tliey battle for a loose puck dur ing Saturday's exhibition hockey game at Lynah Rink.

Francis scored the game-winning goal in the third period as the Big Red defeated the Warriors, 4-3; Cornell opens the regular season this Saturday against Sacred Heart..