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INSIDE CCHS clobbers Dieruff 36-13 PAGE C5 240.942 lap doesn't faze Gugelmin PAGE C7 THE MORNING CALL f(w)l SPORTS VS ') UPDATE Call Info-tel Category 8693. SPORTS SCORES 610821-8300 Categories PageC-2 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1997 Q)t771 psalm JL tteke up The U.S. must win 1 1 of the final 1 5 points to coyly about his team's chances of keeping the Cup it won in 1995. "It's true that we have a certain advantage," he said. "But there's still a long way to go.

We have to keep working and fighting and never relax." No team has ever trailed by more than two points going into singles play and won in the 31 previous Ryder Cups, and the United States would need to sweep the three suspended matches just to Playing like crazy may not do it. After losing one match carried over from Friday's suspension and halving the other, the Americans trailed and sent their best -players out for the morning better-ball matches. Fred Couples and Davis Love III, Justin Leonard and Brad Faxon Tiger Woods and Mark t' Phil Mickelson and Tom Lehman could manage only a half point in their four better-ball matches. And in three of those four matches the Americans were ahead 4A iVrvV overcome the 9-4 deficit. By RON SIRAK Of The Associated Press SOTOGRANDE, Spain An American victory at Valderrama will take even more magic than Seve the Sorcerer displayed Saturday.

Nothing short of the greatest comeback in Ryder Cup history will be enough. Seve Ballesteros smiled, snarled, cajoled, kibitzed, winced and sometimes just watched as his European team had a near-sweep of the United States and took a stunning 9-4 lead into today. With three alternate-shot matches suspended by darkness and 12 singles matches still to play, Europe needed only 5 of the remaining 15 points to win the Cup outright and five points to retain it as defending champion. "Time will tell," Ballesteros said get that close. Only four times in the 70-year history of the competition has a team trailed going into singles play and won including Europe in 1995, which trailed 9-7 and won 14'a-13.

A subdued Tom Kite, who said he was shell-shocked, put up a brave face after Europe won six of the seven points decided Saturday. "It's not insurmountable," said the U.S. captain. "We'll have to going to the back nine only to watch the determined underdogs sprint past them. "Three of the four major championship winners were out there," Mickelson said, referring to Woods, Leonard and Love.

"And they beat all of us. Give them credit, they figured out how to beat us." It was a true team effort by the Please See RYDER Page C9 play like crazy, but it's not REBECCA NADEN Associated Press Nick Faldo high-fives European Ryder Cup teammate Lee Westwood (center) after they beat Tiger Woods and Mark O'Meara in their morning better-ball match. LPGA's I 4 Lehigh's rally falls short Hi Kmg 1 4rt vs. Harvard short as Harvard thumped the En gineers tar 35-30 on FINAL SCORE 1. "I 35 HARVARD Saturday.

It wasn't for want of trying, ei 30 LEHIGH ri Phil Stambaugh fuels the Engineer comeback with 4 touchdown passes. By GARY R. BLOCKUS Of The Morning Call It's not midseason for the Lehigh football team, but it's certainly midstream. For the second straight week, sophomore quarterback Phil Stambaugh was called off the bench in the second half to perform miracles, but this time he came up ther. Stambaugh was an incredible 21-for-30 for 245 yards and four touchdowns while attempting to bring the Engineers back from a 28-point deficit.

To be fair, Stambaugh, a sopho- more from Pius who was the Please See LEHIGH Page C9 UK if1 The Betsy King Classic will be played at Berkleigh Country Club for more than the big purse. By DON B0STR0M Of The Morning Call Pride, bragging rights and a $90,000 first prize of a $600,000 purse will be on the line this week at the 1997 CoreStates Betsy King Classic. The spotlight will be on defending champion Annika Sorenstam as she tries to hold off fast-closing Karrie Webb for Player of the Year laurels and the No. 1 spot on the LPGA Official Money List. Kelly Robbins, Chris Johnson, Tammie Green, Juli Inskter, Dottie Pepper, and of course, Hall of Famer Betsy King are other superstars that will try to conquer the scenic, demanding par-72, Berkleigh Country Club course in Kutztown.

Since this is the last full field, official LPGA event of the season, competition will also be keen among those scrambling to keep their tour cards by finishing in the top 90 on the money list. It promises to be marvelous theater. The world's elite lady golfers wowed the Lehigh Valley with their shot-making prowess a year ago in the inaugural event. Expect more of the same. Folks were quick to identify this as a major happening.

Attendance was estimat-ed at 64,000 including 27,000 for the final round. The players responded to the warm, enthusiastic galleries with brilliant, scintil-: lating play that left many shaking their heads in amazement. Michigan hands iM.D. third straight defeat ing the Irish a three-game losing streak for the first time in 12 years. Not since Gerry Faust's final Irish team dropped three straight at the close of the 1985 season has Notre Dame (1-3) sunk so low.

And with a game next Saturday at No. 20 Stanford, the Irish and new coach Bob Davie could find themselves with the school's longest losing streak since 1963. The Irish played their best game Please See MICHIGAN Page C9 The No. 6 Wolverines rally from a 14-7 halftime deficit for a 21 -1 4 victory. ANN ARBOR, Mich.

(AP) A bad situation just got worse for Notre Dame. Brian Griese's 41-yard touchdown pass and Chris Floyd's 14-yard scoring run in the opening minutes of the second half lifted No. 6 Michigan to a 21-14 victory over Notre Dame on Saturday, giv ALAN BRIAN NILSEN Special to The Morning Call With the ball up around his helmet Lehigh's Marlon Miller (95) gets set to intercept a pass intended for Chris Menick of Harvard (39) during action in the first half. Please See KING Page C12 Kids' Druckenmiller decides to attend, play for Villanova Nicole Druckenmiller will take her points scored in her career at Northampton to Villanova University next year. ii.

lii. u.i luiMi ji mi i. ii in ami im. mi )' 'um wi jiiiiiiiinnii -irg'r'- versity was located in the Philadelphia. The strong academic tradition and the respected women's basketball program also appealed to Druckenmiller.

Two months after first laying eyes on Villanova, Druckenmiller called head coach Harry Peretta and made a verbal commitment to the university. She accepted a full schol- Please See VILLANOVA Page C9 The Philadelphia Main Line school wasn't the top choice until a summer visit By MONICA DEEB Of The Morning Call Sprawled out in the back of her parents' car, Nicole Druckenmiller was looking forward to going home. The last thing she wanted to do was visit Villanova University, a school in which she had little interest. But Druckenmiller's parents had insisted they stop since Villanova was on the way home from Washington, D.C. The Northampton senior girls basketball player had just competed in Junior Nationals for five straight days and was tired and sore.

Once Druckenmiller saw Villanova, though, she stopped complaining. She immediately fell in love with the beautiful rural campus she erroneously had thought the uni GEOFFREY DUNN Special to The Morning Call Issues "Hot Eagles, ViEces aire not black and white By TERRY LARIMER Of The Morning Call Rhodes said when asked about it. "It could be any nationality on the other side and I wouldn't care. I assure you that also goes for Denny." The two coaches know each other well. When they were assistants with the San Francisco 49ers, they went at it every day, Green as coach of the receivers and Rhodes as coach of the defensive backs.

"Every day in practice you'd go out trying to compete and someone is going to win," he recalled of their days in San Francisco. "I've got a world of respect for Ray," Green said. "Ray is a very aggressive coach and I am also." Please See EAGLES Page C12 tor, Tony Dungy, was named head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, they met twice and they met again earlier this seasons. Tonight, Green meets Philadelphia Eagles coach and former colleague Ray Rhodes, who made it clear that his race is not going to be an issue in this game or perhaps ever 'That's bullbleep to me," Green, who has been one of those coaches each time, said this week, "It shows that progress is being made, but maybe progress needs to pick up a little bit." Green faced former Raiders coach Art Shell In 1993, the first time two black head coaches squared off against each other. Last year, after Green's former defensive coordina Eagles coach Ray Rhodes leads his Birds against Dennis Green's Vikings.

MINNEAPOLIS Perhaps some day in professional football, some day in sports and some day in America, this will not be news, but tonight marks Just the fifth time two black head coaches have gone head-to-head in the National Football League. Minnesota Vikings coach Dennis.