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Sunday, October 25, 1987Hattiesburg AMERICAN 1 SPORTS SCOREBOARD, page 2C SEC STANDINGS, page 3C CULLbGB SCORES, page 4C CLASSIhlbU AUS, pages 9-1BU USM beats Memphis State 1 7-1 4 Chris Seroka comes See page 4C as the Tigers moved to the USM 4-yard line. -Whitwell helped MSU avoid disaster when he recovered a Bill Moody fumble. And he helped MSU capitalize when he passed six yards to Lee Butler for a touchdown with 9:34 remaining in the game. John Butler's extra point tied the game 14-14. USM responded, however.

Favre passed 23 yards over the middle on second-and-nine from the USM 41. Facing fourth-and-one from the MSU 27-yard line, USM head coach Jim Carmody elected to go for the field goal despite the fact that Seroka missed from 24 yards in the second quarter. SEE USM, page 4C However, with Whitwell replacing Tim Jones at quarterback, the 34 Tigers got their offense untracked. Whitwell completed two passes to tailback Elgin Perkins for 20 yards. The sophomore from Tupelo then capped the drive with a 66-yard scoring strike down the middle to Charles Wilson, who beat Baylor and free safety Darrell Williams, who intercepted two passes and recovered a fumble Saturday.

Whitwell avoided a sack by USM defensive end Steve Brown before unloading downfield for Wilson. A 21-yard Billy Knighten punt gave MSU good field position and the Tigers took advantage. Whitwell passed 12 and nine yards to Chris Martin and 23 yards to Sammy Seals By ANDY CLAY AMERICAN Sportt Writer MEMPHIS, Term. How quickly the goats horns can slip from a young man's head. USM senior cornerback John Baylor proved that Saturday night in the Golden Eagles' 17-14 victory over Memphis State before 27,448 in Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium and scouts from the Independence Bowl.

Memphis State quarterback Andy Whitwell passed for two second-half touchdowns to tie the game. Baylor was in the vicinity of the receiver on each play. But Chris Seroka's 43-yard field goal with 5:22 left in the game put USM on top and Baylor broke up a Whitwell pass to Ray Craft on fourth-and-2 from the USM 29-yard line to help USM improve to 4-3. "They were running a double out and the outside guy (Craft) ran a 5-yard out," Baylor said. "I just made a great break on the ball." Baylor hit Craft from behind as the ball arrived.

USM stretched a 7-0 halftime lead to 14-0 midway through the third period when freshman quarterback Brett Favre capped an 11-play, 98-yard drive with a 20-yard scoring toss to freshman tight end Billy Schrider. The reception was Schrider's second of the season and first touchdown. Twins hitting barrage sets up Game 7 tonight Digest On TV today Noon NFL Football (San Francisco at New Orleans), CBS. Noon NFL Football (New York Jets at Washington), NBC. 2:30 p.m.

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Golf (Las Vegas Senior Classic), ESPN. SEC scores Georgia 17 Kentucky 14 Tennessee 29..... Tech 15 SEE PAGE 3C Top 20 scores Oklahoma 24 Colorado 6 Nebraska 56 Kansas St. 3 N.C. State 30 Ciemson 28 Miami 48 Cincinnati 10 Indiana 14 Michigan 10 Syracuse 52 Colgate 6 UCLA 42 California 18 Notre Dame 26 USC15 Oklahoma St.

42 Missouri 9 Ohio St. 42 Minnesota 9 Michigan St. 14 Illinois 14 SEE PAGE 3C JuCo scores East Central 3 Pearl R. 30 Co-Lin 13 Hinds 42 Gulf Coast 12 SEE PAGE 4C State scores USM 17..... Memphis St.

14 Ole Miss 42 Vandy 14 Auburn 38... MSU 7 JSU 31 Grambling17 Texas So. 31 Valley 17 Alcorn 19 17 Troy St. 38 DSU 6 Livingston 8 Miss. 7 SEE PAGE 4C Rain needed Plenty of moisture Is needed for hunters' food plots for game to survive, according to outdoors writer Phil DiFatta.

SEE PAGE 6C j. AP Photo MINNESOTA'S Tom Brunansky slides safely into home plate under the tag of St. Louis' Tony Pena in the fifth inning of Saturday's World Series game. through The Cardinals led 5-2 in the fifth and the Twins had the look of a team bending to the pressure. Straker threw a fat 0-2 pitch that Tom Herr, who homered only twice this season, blasted into the right-field upper deck in the first Hrbek had been picked off second base with no outs in the second Puckett had missed a cutoff man, which eventually led to a St.

Louis run in that made it 4-2 in the fourth. When Willie McGee singled in Smith in the top of the fifth to make it 5-2, the Metrodome was a morgue. With Straker out and left-handed Dan Schatzeder in, Herzog started platooning taking out Dan Driessen and Curt Ford, bats he never dreamed he might badly need a couple of innings later. The only nagging doubt for the Cardinals at that point was that Tudor had not been himself, had been struggling with his location "We had come too far to quit," said Puckett. "We never quit here." A Puckett single and Gaetti double made it 5-3 and brought pitching coach Mike Roarke to the mound to chat with Tudor.

Whatever was said, it didn't help. Baylor stepped in and mashed the first pitch, a fastball, into the left field stands to tie the game. "It happened so quickly," Herzog later said. "Bang, bang and it was tied." Tom Brunanksy's single chased Tudor for Rick Horton. Brunansky eventually scored on Lombardozzi's third hit of the game, Just beating McGee's throw to the plate.

Then in the sixth, the knockout punch. Hrbek's shot went to straightaway center, an estimated 439 feet from home plate. The hometown boy he was born here really made good. if I ssssssssssssammmmmmmmmammmmmmammmm yj nLta Columbia loses Jim Given threw three first-half touchdowns as Bucknell raced to a 49-6 halftime lead and went on to rout Columbia 62-20 Saturday, extending the Lions' major-college-record losing streak to 37 games. Columbia, which is winless In its last 40 games, Including two ties, since 1983, misfired on an attempted onside kick to start the game, setting up Dan Scocca's one-yard scoring run.

By MIKE LOPRESTI GANNETT News Service MINNEAPOLIS The World Series is tied, but not really. For how many people would put the grocery money or maybe even a spare dime tonight on the St. Louis Cardinals? Minnesota's scintillating com-e-from-behind 11-5 victory Saturday may have evened it in games at 3-3, but it's pretty clear who carries the most weapons into the decisive Game 7. Minnesota has ace Frank Viola ready, albeit on three days' rest. The Cardinals surely stunned after watching John Tudor give up a 5-2 lead Saturday are scrambling for anybody who can get people out in the Metrodome.

They must turn to rookie Joe Magrane, who was savaged by the Twins here in Game 1. And then there is this little matter of home field advantage. Six-for-six so far in this Series, and if the Twins didn't have the feeling of invulnerability Inside these walls before, they must now after a fearsome explosion blew away a St. Louis team whose championship seemed imminent. "I have no idea," manager Tom Kelly said of the Metrodome Factor.

"If I knew what it is, I'd take some of it on the road. I wish I could help you (with the reason). For my own sake." Added Kirby Puckett, who was hitting .200 in the Series but had four hits Saturday, "The people will be screaming and it will be great. The only sad thing is one of us has to lose now." Don Baylor's two-run homer and Steve Lombardozzi's RBI single led a four-run fifth that wiped away the St. Louis lead and made it 6-5.

Then the big blow: Kent Hrbek breaking out of a slump with a grand surpassed the 450-yard mark this season. Rushing accounted for 257 yards of that offense while 199 yards came via the pass game. Meanwhile, Ole Miss' defensive unit limited Vanderbilt, 1-6 overall and 0-4 in the SEC, to 248 yards only 69 of that rushing. That marks the second straight game the squad has held the opposition to under 75 yards rushing. "We are getting that fight and scrap back that is a trademark of Ole Miss," Brewer said.

"When we lose that we are just an average football team." Ole Miss, 34 and 1-2 in the SEC, got the homecoming crowd going with a score on the first offensive possession of the game. After the opening kickoff, the Rebels drove to the Vanderbilt 23-yard line in eight plays before Bryan Owen booted a SEE REBELS, page 3C Game 7 St. Loula at Minnesota When where: 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Metrodome, Minneapolis. Serlea: Minnesota won Game 6, 11-5, Series tied 3-3.

Broadcast: ABC-TV (WLOX, Channel 13). Starters: St. Louis Joe Magrane (9-7); Minnesota Frank Viola (17-10). Inside: Pitcher John Tudor can't seem to win the big game for the Cardinals. Page 7C.

AP Photo KENT HRBEK of Minnesota celebrates his grand-slam homer in Saturday's World Series game against St. Louis. slam homer in the sixth to put it away. "This place was as loud as I've ever heard," Gary Gaetti later said of that moment. It was the Twins' second grand slam of the Series, and only the '56 Yankees have done that.

Hrbek was the seventh different Minnesota player to homer in the Series, and that ties a record. "It seemed like they almost knew what was coming," Herzog ballpark didn't beat us We can't keep the ball in the ballpark. That's the problem." Added Ozzie Smith, "The ballpark shouldn't make a difference in a Game 7." There was a deceptive start to this one, as if the Metrodome ghost that haunts visitors had taken the day off. V- Auburn breezes Rebs overwhelm Vanderbilt 42-14 past State 38-7 to their third-highest point total of the season. Slack was a late replacement for Burger, who along with starting offensive tackle Jim Thompson were being investigated for possible NCAA rules violations when they accepted a ride on an airplane to a hunting trip two weeks ago.

The sophomore had less than 24 hours to prepare for his first start, but looked in comfortable command most of the afternoon. "Getting off to a good start was a big key for me," said Slack, who fired all three TD passes in the first half. "The coaches and the other players showed a lot of confidence in me." Mississippi State coach Rockey Felker found out that the Tigers were just too strong for his Bulldogs no matter who was at quarterback. SEE STATE, page 3C AUBURN'S Lawyer Tillman (right) hauls in this 35-yard touchdown pass over Miss. State's Rocky Nabors (23) in Saturday's game.

By PERRY BALLARD GANNETT Newt Service AUBURN, Ala. Unfortunately for Mississippi State, powerful Auburn didn't skip a beat Saturday despite the absence of two of its best players. With quarterback Jeff Burger, the top passer in the Southeastern Conference, held out because of a possible NCAA rules violation, Auburn turned to second-stringer Reggie Slack against the Bulldogs. Slack, in his first collegiate start, responded by throwing three touchdown passes as the Tigers built a 28-0 halftime lead and cruised to a 38-7 victory at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Slack completed 11 of 17 passes for 185 yards as Auburn used a youth movement offense to pile up 417 yards.

Freshman tailback Harry Mose added 106 yards on the ground Auburn's first 100-yard rushing performance as the Tigers breezed yard pass play to Ronald Lewis in the third period. The JSU defense then came into play for JSU after that. On GSU's next series, linebacker Darion Conner swiped an Allen pass and carried it 52 yards for a score and just like that, JSU was back in the game at 17-14. Another interception, this one by cornerback Stanley Pigott, set Tillman up for his scoring drive. "They harassed our quarterback and we didn't give him very good protection," Robinson said.

"We were not able to move it on the ground at all and they outplayed us on offense in the second half." Uriri added a 41-yard field goal By STEVE HAWKINS AMERICAN Correspondent OXFORD The Ole Miss Rebel offense tallied 42 points against Vanderbilt Saturday afternoon, but the Rebel defense keyed a 42-14 victory over the Commodores at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium before a crowd of 31,000. Head coach Billy Brewer's squad went on to its second straight victory as the Rebels converted five Vandy turnovers into 25 points. This all came despite four Ole Miss turnovers as the Commodores were only able to convert those into eight points. "We still dropped the ball several times today, but we ran and threw well enough to overcome those mistakes," Brewer said. "The line play on defense and offense was a big factor in the outcome." Offensively, the Rebels tallied 456 yards, the third time the squad has Jackson By STAN CALDWELL AMERICAN Sports Writer JACKSON Give Jackson State credit for owning a cast-iron jaw.

Prostrate and left for dead in the first half, JSU bounced off the canvas in the second half Saturday night to score a 31-17 Southwestern Athletic Conference victory over Grambling before 39,000 at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium. "The kids really sucked it up," JSU coach W.C. Gorden said. "It was a matter of discipline. We were very undisciplined in the first half, but in the second half, we came back and played our ball game." JSU, now 6-0-1 and in the SWAC, turned to some old reliables, State preps for USM with 31-17 victory with 9:39 left in the game to make it 24-17 before linebacker Andre Lloyd made the play of the night to cinch the win for JSU.

Grambling took the kickoff and moved briskly down the field, as Allen hit Crosby for 32 yards and Jones for 38 yards to set it up at the JSU 12. Allen tried to dump it over the middle, but Lloyd stepped in f-ont of the pass and rambled 94 yards for the score that made it 31-17. This makes three years in a row Jackson State has defeated Grambling and this one might have been the sweetest of them all for Gorden. Allen found wide receiver Fred Jones streaking open over the middle and Jones took it 64 yards to the JSU 4. Carl Johnson saved the TD on that play, but two plays later, Allen and tight end Lionel Henderson hooked up in the deep right corner of the end zone for the score.

"We wanted to get on them early with the passing game and it worked for a while, but it got so we were not consistent with what we were doing offensively," said Grambling coach Eddie Robinson. "We won the first half, but they won the second half and put more scores on the board." Shawn Cramer made it 104 on a 37-yard field goal after JSU went three downs and punted, and the G-men made it 174 after back-to-back turnovers set Grambling up at the JSU 36. Gorden insisted that JSU wasn't looking ahead to next week's confrontation with USM. "Oh, no, we weren't looking ahead," Gorden said. "We have too much respect for Grambling for that." The real JSU the one that was undefeated coming in finally showed up in the second quarter as the Tigers stiffened defensively and the offense finally got out of neutral.

After intermission, JSU came out with fire in its eyes. Boyd shook off his first-half woes to get JSU on the scoreboard with a spectacular 35- COMING MONDAY JSU alumni eye USM game Lewis Tillman and big defense, to forge its big comeback win. Tillman ran 28 times for 136 yards yards and scored the winning touchdown in the third quarter, and the Tigers' defense scored twice on interceptions and generally stuffed the Grambling attack from the second quarter on. In the first quarter, though, JSU took the eight-count as Grambling, now 4-3 and 2-2, shocked the Tigers with a 17-point blitz. On the first play from scrimmage, Grambling quarterback Chauncey.