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mm ii Sid Steuben, Scores and standings Page 5C EFA's swim streak Page 6C Sunday Telegram Echuyler ELMUtA, N.Y., SUNDAY, NOV, 1978 JCr: SUM1? ER beats Vikings in the JbowP I 18-yard gallop to the Bomber 36. "We stopped ourselves," Northrop said, "and you can't let that happen against a team like East Rochester. They control the ball very' well and block like blazes. What hurt the Vikings even more than the two fumbles and certainly even more than ER's spotty defense was a third-period pass interference call. The flag extracted ER from a fourth-down punting situation and gave the Bombers possession at the Viking 43.

Five plays later, Vanthof notched the second touchdown and the Bombers were off and running. "That call was very harmful to our cause," Northrop said. "The ball was tipped and I always thought anything goes when that happens." inthof notched his third score in the final minute of the third period with a Sam Bam Cunningham leap over the top routine following Jim McGray's 49-yard return of a pass interception to the Viking 21. The Bombers' full-house backfield, which accounted for 252 yards on the ground (they had none passing), rang up another score when Leone scrambled in from two yards away. Locey, who had to fight a wind-, whipped field and a relentless pass -rush most of the day, finally got his arm untracked.

He hit Mike Henly on a beautiful 51-yard pass for the Vikings' first score and after Mike Dutcher recovered an onside kick, the Corning West field general found favorite target Roger, Ackerman in a somewhat roundalxmt way. ER's Greg Capiiellino got a hand on Locey's long throw but tipped the ball right to Ackerman who pranced into the end zone to complete a 51-yard play. Locey finished with 1(1 of 25 compkv, tions for 187 yards to go with the Vikings' 175 rushing yards 103 by Marcucci. "I couldn't throw deep at all into the wind," Locey said. "We had to go underneath the coverage and they knew it.

ER is tough but I think we played them almost as equals. "Number one? No way. They'd be a top team in the Sullivan Trail ence but I'm sure they'd get knocked around a little." Are you listening, pollsters? By MARK FLEISHER ROCHESTER East Rochester strikingly demonstrated the stupidity of high school football polls Saturday afternoon in the Section 5 Class AA title game at Holleder Stadium. Leading 27-14 and only 17 seconds from their 10th win, the Bombers, a shaky number one in the New York State Sportswriters poll and an extremely dubious number one by virtue of the Philadelphia Journal's crystal ball, found it necessary to stop thf clock. Why? Apparently East Rochester had been informed in no uncertain terms by the pollsters that it had better beal Corning West by a convincing margin to retain king of the hill status.

Feeling a two-touchdown margin was not enough, the Bombers returned from the time out and did score again, meaningless though il was. "No, he (ER Coach Don Quinn) didn't say anything about the time out after the game," Corning West Coach Arnie Northrop said. "What do I think about it? I'd rather not comment. "A high school poll is a bunch ol baloney," he said. "There is no validity to them at all." Three touchdowns by game Most Valuable Player Tom Vanthof and another by quarterback Bob Leone gave ER a comfortable 27-0 lead after three periods.

Comfortable but a rather "polite" 27-0 lead nevertheless. Polite because only a 63-yard scoring march with the opening kickoff allowed ER to gain a 7-0 half-time advantage. Polite because it might well have been Corning West on top or at the worst even if not for a couple of key first-half mistakes. Once Corning West got over some early-game jitters, the Vikings showed little respect for ER's defense. Quarterback Al Locey sent Ron Marcucd who was voted the game's top offensive player, through the line to the tune of 90 first-half yards.

But one Viking thrust ended with Jim Colacecchi's fumble which was recovered in the end zone by ER for a touchback and another drive slipped away on Marcucci's bobble after an Penn Yan wears sectional crown Records show Bi-State "HI can't match up to Capitol STC divisional football is mis-match of six passes Saturday all in the second quarter for 96 yards and a pair of TDs and was named the game's Most Valuable Player. Earlier in the quarter he had tossed 23 yards to Chapman for a score. The Mustangs drove to the Well- sville 42-yard line midway through the first period before stalling. Wellsville (8-2) then drove 69 yards for a TD in 11 plays, with fullback Dave Earle scoring on a four-yard run on the opening play of the second period. The Mustangs then marched to the Wellsville 29-yard line but lost the ball when Chapman fumbled.

At that point, the Penn Yan defense top-rated in the FLL-East took over and twice presented the offense with good field position. ROCHESTER Penn Yan became the first Twin Tiers high school football team to win a post-season game in 25 years Saturday by downing Well-sville, 14-7, to capture the Section 5, Class A Playoff Championship. The Mustangs, champions of the Finger Lakes League-East Division, tallied the winning touchdown with just two seconds remaining in the first half. Jeff Jensen, who had returned to quarterback earlier in the second period, connected with halfback Paul Chapman for a 40-yard touchdown pass to break a 7-7 tie as time ran out. Jensen quarterbacked the first six weeks of the season for the 8-1 Mustangs before he and Chapman switched positions.

He completed four By AL MALLETTE I have been a booster of the Sullivan Trail Conference since plans hit the drawing board in the early 1960s. Then when the STC became a reality in 1966 with Academy, Southside, Corning East, Corning West and Hornell, this newspaper got behind the drive to have Notre Dame, then Horseheads and Edison and finally Waverly and Sayre- admitted. These accomplished, we all sat back with smug looks on our iaces, completely satisfied with the Sullivan Trail Conference setup. This compact, competitive league was going to be the savior of sports for the schools along the Sullivan Trail or Rt. 17.

Now, some dozen years later some interesting figures show us that the Sullivan Trail Conference isn't working that well for football more pointedly in the Bi-State Di- Sugar Bowl lures Lions By HAL BOCK Orange Bowl-bound Nebraska, the AP Sports Writer nation's No. 2 team, was upset by Top-ranked Penn State ended the Missouri, 35-31. suspense Saturday, accepting a bid to Meanwhile, eighth-ranked Georgia the Sugar Bowl to face the Southeast- threw the SEC race into a tangle by ern Conference champion. tying Auburn 22-22. The Nittany Lions, idle Saturday, The tie leaves the SEC title unde- announced their decision shortly after cided until Dec.

2 when Auburn plays Let's look at Waverly. The Wolverines were among the Twin Tiers' finest in both 1973 and 1974, losing just once each season both times to Capitol schools. An East team which won five games beat Waverly in 1973. In 1974 the lone loss was to Corning West by a whopping 34-0. Waverly is 9-14-1 since '72 vs.

the Capitol. Then there's the Hornell situation. Since 1972 the Red Raiders show a disastrous 5-26 record vs. Capitol teams many times by one-sided tallies. Remember when Sayre used to tack up those glorious records? Not any more.

Not since the Redskins have been banging heads with the bigger STC Capitol teams three-four times a season. Sayre's record against Capitol clubs since 72 is 10-22. How long will it take these Bi-State schools to see the light like Edison and no pun intended? The Heights, treated as a patsy by almost everyone in the STC, bolted the league for the Interscholastic Athletic Conference (IAC) after going 2-16 against Capitol teams from 1972 through 1976. Since the jump, the Heights has come back to go 14-3-1 over the past two seasons, which, as one insider said, "has brought respectability back to the Edison football program, its players and coaches." As long as Edison played in the Sullivan Trail, it failed to win a football title or many games, for that matter. Some years ago, before he retired, Al Northrop of Edison bluntly said: "Honestly, I'm happy where I am (Southern Counties League) because we're too small as a school, too small (in numbers) as a team.

I don't feel we could go at them week after week and keep winning oh, maybe once in awhile. And we'd have to be exceptional to win the championship in a league such as that proposed Sullivan Trail." Northrop was 100 per cent correct. Unlike other sports, football is a game of team depth. Bigger schools normally have more players, more size and more talent to choose from. So under the Sullivan Trail format, the message is clear the Bi-Staters are going to take their football lumps.

si ztA sports anaylsis vision of smaller schools Notre Dame, Waverly, Sayre and Hornell. These schools are being used as fodder by the Capitol powers when the Capitol schools aren't that powerful. Don't believe that? Let's look at the record. It's an eye-opener. In the seven seasons since 1972, the Bi-State football record against Capitol schools is a disastrous 35 wins, 98 losses and two ties.

We are just off an STC season in which the Bi-State record against the Capitol is 1-15 and that one win was a 21-0 verdict by Sayre over Southside. This isn't the type competition original organizers designed for the STC. Let's dig more. In 1975 Notre Dame was one of the classy scholastic football teams in the Twin Tiers. The Crusaders were 7-2.

The losses were to Capitol clubs Horseheads and EFA, and the Raiders, in a battle of divisional champs, clobbered ND, 36-6. Since 1972 Notre Dame is 9-20-1 vs. the Capitol. No. 3 Alabama, which was idle Sat-' -urday.

If Alabama wins that the Crimson Tide draws the Sugar Bowl bid. If Auburn wins, Georgia' gets the conference title and the Sugar Bowl invitation. I Nebraska, hoping for a national championship showdown against Penn State, lost that chance. Unranked Mis-: souri's payoff for this upset will be a' 1 trip to the Liberty Bowl to face No. 17' Louisiana State.

Meanwhile, Oklahoma, which iost! to Nebraska 17-14 last week and'-dropped to No. 4, walloped Oklahoma State 62-7. Then the Sooners accepted an invitation to the Orange Bowl for a rematch with Nebraska. Southern California will be the host team in the Rose Bowl after defeating UCLA Saturday to clinch the Pacific-10 championship. The No.

5 Trojans won't know who they play in the Pas-i adena game until next Saturday when Michigan and Ohio State meet for the; i Big Ten championship. Purdue, ranked 15th and bidding for its first Big Ten title since 1929, let the conference lead slip away Sat- i urday, dropping a 24-6 decision to No. 7 Michigan. r- 1 The loss to Michigan left Purdue at 7-2-1 and its consolation will be a trip to the Peach Bowl. Wittenberg boots IC, 6-3 Jr jr through the third quarter.

It came after Ithaca's defense held the Tigers out of the end zone following a first-and-goal on the five. Ithaca's lone scoring drive began on Wittenberg's 44-yard line, following a bad pitch from Tiger quarterback Chuck Dclaney to tailback Dave Merrill. Sophomore quarterback Mike Biondl replaced starter Paul Morris-sey and marched Ithaca to the Wittenberg five before stalling and settling for a three-pointer. Wittenberg, which lost four fumbles, was led by tailback Merrit, who rushed for 117 yards, while tailback Bob Ferrigno led Ithaca, which lost two fumbles, with 79. "Ithaca really forced things," Wittenberg coach Dave Maurer said after the game.

"The linebackers gave us trouble on outside pursuit and the defensive tackles stuffed us inside." Said Maurer, "Our team is so small that down on the goal, line we just couldn't move the ball," ITHACA Wittenberg College junior Steve Jefferies booted a 24-yard field goal with only 10 seconds left in the game to lift the Tigers to a 6-3 football win over Ithaca College In an error-riddled NCAA Division III quarterfinal playoff contest here Saturday. The win advances Wittenberg, 9-0-1, into a semi-final matchup next Saturday against the winner of the game between Minnesota-Morris and St. Olaf's of Minnesota. The Bombers finish their season with a 9-2 record and a Lambert Bowl Trophy as the East's top small college team. Jefferies' winning field goal, his second three-pointer of the game, erased a tying 22-yarder kicked only four minutes earlier by Ithaca's Tom The winning score came after Wittenberg took the ensuing kickoff baits 39 yard line and advanced the ball to the Ithaca 8 In 12 plays.

Jefferies' first kick, a 25-yarder, broke a scoreless deadlock mid-way How the AP Top 10 fared How the Top 10 teams in the Associated Press college football; poll fared Saturday: 1. Penn State, 10-0-0, idle. 2. Nebraska, 9-2-0, lost to Missouri, 35-31. 3.

Alabama, 9-1-0, idle. 4. Oklahoma, 9-1-0, beat Oklahoma State, 62-7. 5. Southern Cal, 9-1-0, beat UCLA, 17-10.

6. Houston, 8-1-0, idle 7. Michigan, 9-1-0, beat Purdue 24-6 8. Georgia," 8-1-1, tied Auburn, 22-22 9. Texas, 7-2-0, beat TCU, 410 10.

Notre Dame, 8-2-0, beal Georgia Tech, 38-21 Baldwin-Wallace blasts SLU BEREA, Ohio (AP) Quarterback Joe Surniak fired three touchdown passes and scored on a 37-yard run to lead Baldwin-Wallace to a 71-7 mauling of St. Lawrence in an NCAA Division III first-round college football playoff game Saturday. Baldwin-Wallace, playing on its home field, ran its record to 9-0-1 and earned a berth In next Saturday's semifinal I round against Carnegie-Mellon. St. Lawrence ended the season 8-2.

The Yellow Jackets surged to a 50-0 halfttme lead. They fumbled on their first possession of the game but stopped St. Lawrence on a fourth-and-one play at their eight-yard line. In the second quarter, Baldwin-Wallace broke a school record with 35 points as Surniak threw touchdown passes of 32 yards to Jose Tirado and 13 yards to Jim Degyansky, who also scored on a one-yard dive, STOP THIEF! Baldwin-Wallace linebacker Mike Hoon (73) has just picked off a St. Lawrence pass in Saturday's NCAA Division III playoff game at Berea, Ohio.

It wasn't the Larries' day as Baldwin-Wallace waltzed into the semifinals, 71-7. (AP Laserphoto).