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4B Sunday, October 16, 1994 Hattlesburg AMERICAN COLLEGE FOOTBALL Arkansas emmbairrasses Ole Ml 1 1'u WHO: Ole Miss vs. Alabama WHERE: Bryant-Denny Stadium, Tuscaloosa, Ala. WHEN: 1:30 p.m. Saturday 15 and 36 yards. Arkansas' 264 yards was the third-lowest allowed by Ole Miss this season: The Razorbacks' leading rusher had 31 yards.

Arkansas had one scoring drive that started in Ole Miss territory. "We were looking for some help from our offense," said Rebel defensive end Stacy Wilson. "But things are just not going their way. Bad luck seems to be on their side." Arkansas forced five turnovers last week at Tennessee, but committed seven of its own in a 38-21 loss. This week, things were different.

"That's the way it's supposed to be," said Lunney. "We keep going on a roller coaster ride. Hopefully, it is over. This is a big point in our season." By Gannett News Service FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. Ole Miss had an extra week to prepare for Saturday's game against Arkansas.

But the Rebels looked anything but prepared during their 31-7 loss to the Razorbacks. Ole Miss committed four turnovers, lost 52 yards on a field-goal attempt, twice jumped offsides on fourth-down plays, and was held to 156 net yards, just 30 in the second half. Interim coach Joe Lee Dunn, who served as defensive coordinator the last two years, called the defeat his most embarrassing at Ole Miss. "We've been beaten worse by teams that were just a lot better than us," he said. "What bothers me is we are just as good as Arkansas, and we didn't answer the bell today." yard touchdown pass on the third play of the game.

But after that, Ole Miss had 86 yards net offense on 57 plays. That figure was skewed somewhat by the botched field goal. David Vinson's snap zoomed past holder Bubba Bonds and didn't stop until it reached the Ole Miss 26. Dou Innocent (14 carries, 108 yards) became the first Rebel to gain more than 100 yards in a game since Cory Philpot against Ole Miss State in 1992, but as a team, the Rebels had 13 net yards on the ground. Arkansas quarterback Barry Lunney threw three touchdown passes, but at times the Razorbacks didn't have to work too hard for their points.

Seventeen came following Ole Miss turnovers. The Hogs scored their 17 second-half points in a span of 7:35 on drives of 4, The loss was Ole Miss third in a row and dropped its record to 2-4 overall and 1-4 in the SEC. Arkansas is 3-4 and 2-4. The Rebels haven't been 2-4 since the 1987 season, when they finished 3-8. That was also the last time Ole Miss lost by at least 24 points in consecutive games.

The Rebels must win their final five games to qualify for a bowl trip. Quarterback Josh Nelson was sacked seven times and had his worst game, completing just 12 of 30 passes for 143 yards. He lost a fumbled snap, threw an interception and lost a fumble when hit while scrambling. Nelson and center Darrell Moncus said Arkansas played a defense the Rebels didn't practice against. "They didn't necessarily physically whip us," said Moncus.

"They just caused some mixups in our protections that made it hard to protect." That made it another rough day for Nelson, who had his left elbow wrapped with an ice pack after the game. "I did get a little less time today than usual," he said. "We had some breakdowns," said guard David Evans. "We all did. The defense gave up 30 points and we didn't get but seven.

It was an old-fashioned whipping." It didn't start that way. Nelson hit Roell Preston with a 70- Summary, 2B Perm State win over Michigan may be golden i vvy yen him, made a 16-yard catch with one foot inbounds. Carter ran a delay for 26 yards to the Wol-verine 15. Three plays later, on third-', and-11, Paterno refused to run a 1 safe play and go for the field z'' goal. He called a pass, sending Milra AmViia in mntinn If Mirhi- Vf Js-' By Gannett News Service ANN ARBOR, Mich.

Penn State came in as an unbeaten powerhouse with promises to keep. In an early-season reign of terror, the No. 3 Nittany Lions never had answered how they would do when the heat was on, and the stakes were high, and the game was close. They have now. In a hostile land 106,000 strong, Penn State let a 16-0 lead get away and then grabbed a crucial game back Saturday, beating No.

5 Michigan 31-24 on Kerry Collins' 16-yard TD pass to Bobby Engram with 2:53 left. For the 6-0 Nittany Lions, the future far and near could be golden. With Florida's loss to Auburn, they gan was in man-to-man, it would 1 draw all but one cornerback: away from Engram's side. Ot" Unfortunately for the verines, they were man-to-man. "Once I saw the safety slide over with Archie, I knew I would the middle of the field to work with," Engram said.

Engram sliced into the middle and beat Deon Johnson. Collins found him. "Not the prettiest pass," the quar- -kJS terback said, 4 Jot, "but it got may move to No. 1 today in one poll or another. And they are one huge step closer to the Rose Bowl, the lone hole on coach Joe Paterno's resume.

"Michigan is a great team. Just beating It's been a while since we won a very, very big game. We needed this to put us back in the elite of the country. KERRY COLLINS Penn State quarterback Nebraska defense stops KSU MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) Nebraska coach Tom Osborne doubted the Huskers could win here.

Defensive coordinator Charlie McBride couldn't believe Kansas State was held to six points. A strong defensive performance and the running of Lawrence Phillips made believers out of both of them as the second-ranked Huskers beat No. 16 Kansas State 17-6 on a dreary, rainy Saturday. Nebraska clung to a 7-6 lead until a 15-yard run by Jeff Mak-ovica with about 11 minutes to play broke the game open. The Huskers won their 21st straight regular season game and beat Kansas State for the 26th consecutive time.

"Our secondary really played outstanding because they have got a great quarterback," McBride said. "If you would have told me we'd hold them to six points, I wouldn't have believed you. "I heard some guy in the hotel say last night that we were OK, but that our only problem was the secondary. Well, today it wasn't." Lawrence Phillips ran for 126 yards on 31 carries for his seventh straight 100-yard game and scored the first touchdown of the game. The Nebraska defense made it stand up until Makov-icka burst through a big hole in the fourth quarter.

"It's my first TD of the season. I guess it was a good place to get it," Makovicka said. "We came into their lair and they played well against us. But it was the offensive line who opened the hole." "They are called the pipeline. We have the best offensive line in the nation.

There's a feeling at Nebraska that if we stay in the game until the fourth quarter, we're going to in. I had that feeling on the sidelines today." Sophomore walk-on quarterback Matt Turman started the game and played most of the first half, spending his time handing off to Phillips. The Huskers (7-0, 2-0 Big Eight) had only 18 passing yards by the end of the third quarter. Brook Berringer played the final series of the first half and the second half as the Huskers try to replace Tommie Frazier, out for the season with blood clots in his leg. The Huskers blocked Martin Gramatica's extra-point try after holder Matt Miller fumbled the snap following the only touchdown by the Wildcats (4-1, 1-1).

"We had problems with penalties and that put us in a hole," KSU coach Bill Snyder said. Summary, 2B It was the last blow of a -frustrating day for the Michi- gan which held the -nation's top- scoring offense 20 points under its average. i "We weren't The Associated Press HIGH STEPPERS: Michigan defender Deon Johnson breaks up a pass in the end zone intended for Penn State's Bobby Engram (10) Saturday in Ann Arbor, Mich. Irish's Holtz out of answers after losing to BYU, 21-14 them answered all the ques- Hons," said linebacker Phil Yeboah-Kodie. "It's been a while since we won a very, very big game.

We needed this to put us back in the elite of the country," added Collins, who was 20-for-32 for 231 yards. And the No. 1 spot? "I don't really worry about the polls right now," Paterno said. "We have five tough games to play. We'll worry about what the polls say after the next five games." On this critical afternoon, Penn State did not have a turnover.

"I think we proved how good we are," said Ki-Jana Carter, who returned from thumb surgery to rush for 165 yards. Poll questions are no longer a worry for the Wolverines (4-2), who lost at home on the last play to Colorado and in the last minutes to Penn State. Tyrone Wheatley rushed for 144 yards, Amani Toomer had seven catches for 157 yards and Todd Collins passed for 221 yards, and none of it was enough. Penn State's winning drive began at its own 45 with 4:46 left of a 24-24 game. Engram, silenced most of the way by a Wolverine secondary geared to stop playing a bad team," Michi: gan coach Moeller said, "but I didn't think they'd do that to our defense." At first, Penn State appeared on its way to another victory with the greatest of ease, scoring on its first four possessions for -the 16-0 lead.

But the Nittany i Lions had left a door open for the Wolverines, scoring field goals i and not touchdowns, missing the(f chance to open a shocking, un- bridgeable gap. A holding penalty nullified one touchdown. A spearing penalty gave Michigan a chance at a field goal as the first half ended to make it 16-3. The missed opportunities left Paterno concerned, knowing that such things "often come back to haunt you." And he had only to think back to last season, when Penn State lost 21-13 to Michigan after an early 10-0 lead. if' "Our kids knew Michigan was going to come out tough (in the second half)," he said.

"I didn't1 have to convince them of that." But Wheatley ran 67 yards for a touchdown one minute into the third period, and added another from 21 yards 3:19 later. Summary, 2B SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) The biggest day of John Walsh's career at Brigham Young has Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz looking for answers. "This is probably the best win that I've ever had," said Walsh, who passed for 216 yards and one touchdown as BYU stopped Notre Dame twice inside the 10 on the way to beating the 17th-ranked Irish 21-14 on Saturday. "Nobody gave us a chance in this game, but we believed in ourselves and that's all that matters.

We came out here and put the fight to them and came out with the win," said Walsh, who had Notre Dame's defense guessing most of the afternoon as he completed 17-of-30 passes while increasing his career passing yardage to 6,702. The Irish also missed three field goals and were held to 115 yards rushing by an aggressive BYU defense that produced four sacks for 45 yards, recovered one fumble, had an interception and seven tackles for 21 yards in losses. Brigham Young (6-1) overcame near disaster at the start of the game to defeat the Irish (4-3), who hadn't lost so many games this early in a season since going 5-6 in Holtz's first season in 1986. "Please don't ask me for any answers. I don't have any," Holtz said.

Walsh moved his team 77 yards in 13 plays for the winning score with Jamal Willis plunging over the middle of the line from 2 yards out. Walsh then hit Hema Heimul with a conversion pass. Notre Dame moved 62 yards in six plays follow ing the opening kickoff to score on Randy Kinder's 41-yard run. Notre Dame wasted an opportunity to break the game open after BYlTs Jason Cooper fumbled the ensuing kickoff and Bill Mitoulas recovered at the 11. After two rushes netted 5 yards, Ron Powlus pitched wildly to Kinder who managed to fall on the loose ball at the 19.

Stefan Schroffner attempted a 37-yard field goal, but the snap was bobbled and the kick was short and to the right. Brigham Young scored the next 13 points. David Lauder booted field goals of 49 and 48 yards. Powlus gave the Cougars the ball on their 45 following the second fumble. Six plays later, Walsh connected with Willis and he went into the end zone by eluding Jeremy Sample's tackle.

Early in the third quarter, Notre Dame drove from its 15 to a first-and-goal at the BYU 3. But Marc Edwards was stopped for no gain on first down and a sweep by Kinder also produced no gain. On third down, Powlus was sacked for an 18-yard loss by Jon Pollock on a safety blitz and Scott Cengia's 39-yard field goal attempt was blocked. The Irish later moved from their 22 to get a first down on the Brigham Young 18, but gained only 4 yards on three plays. Schroffner's 32-yard field goal attempt was wide left.

Powlus was injured late in the game and Tom Krug took over on the last Irish possession. Summary, 2B Jones downs Gulf Coast, looks ahead to Hinds Smith, Dean run PRCC past Holmes By SCOTT WALTERS AMERICAN Sports Writer ELLISVILLE There are no more fake contenders in the Mississippi junior college South Division race. Three wins against teams with losing records had quietly made Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College 3-0 and a front runner in the South Division. The fifth-ranked Jones Junior College Bobcats, though, took Gulf Coast out of the race with a 38-21 thrashing during homecoming activities Saturday at Bush-Young Stadium. "Now it comes down to Hinds (4-0 South Division, 6-1 overall) and Jones (4-0, 7-0)," Jones coach Parker Dykes said.

That's the bare facts. It doesn't matter if Gulf Coast does beat Hinds next week." Dykes almost forgot about East Central, the Bobcats' next South Division foe, Thursday night in Decatur. "We've got a trip to Decatur and we will have to get up for East Central a little bit," Dykes said. "Or maybe a little more than a little bit." Any bit would be more than the Bobcats did last year against East Central. The Warriors, who are 2-24-1 under third-year coach Reese Bridgman, played their best ballgame in a 24-10 loss last year in Ellisville.

"But after East Central, it's on to Raymond and a good game for first." The Hinds game may be like no other Jones has played in this season. But as far as Gulf Coast, other than the color of the uniform changing, not much was different on this Saturday than from the first six wins for Jones. For the fifth time this season, Jones shut out an opponent in the first quarter. It was 3-0, Jones, at the quarter. For the fourth time this season, Jones intercepted three passes in a game.

The usual suspects Jabbar Gammage, Kevin Bolton and Nario Owens all got a pick. For the seventh time this season, Jones enjoyed a lead of 14 or more points at half-time. The Bobcats led 31-0 at the intermission. For the fourth time this season, the Jones defense held an opponent under 175 yards of total offense. Perk finished with 161 yards.

The Bulldogs snapped Jones' streak of two straight games of holding an opponent under 100 yards. However, Gulf Coast gained its 100th yard with 13:47 left in the game, trailing 38-7. "I tell you what, it was more of the same," Dykes said. "It's what we've done all year. I was glad it was 31-0 at the half.

But I think, had it been 14-7, our kids would have still come out and won the ballgame. "But we did play a lot of second-stringers there in the second half." Ted Ducksworth moved Jones 75 yards on its first possession and Jade Stillings drilled a 22-yard field goal. The next drive ended on a 40-yard touchdown pass from Hattiesburg's Richard Lucas to Ducksworth. Stillings' kick made it 10-0. Again, defense set the tone for the Bobcats.

Gulf Coast had 30 yards on 29 offensive plays in the opening half. "We had not seen anything like that this year," Gulf Coast coach J.C. Arban said. Eric Hines, who played sparingly after suffering a sprained ankle two weeks ago, scored next on an 11-yard run. Stringer's J.J.

Thigpen scored on an 18-yard run and an 83-yard punt return by Yahmani Adams capped the first half outburst "He's just a freshman," Dykes said of Adams. "He fair caught the first one and I fussed at him. We don't fair catch punts around here." "It felt good to finally get one," said Adams, who this season has had two punt returns for apparent touchdowns nullified by penalties. This time, the penalty was his. It was for celebrating.

Then again, Jones has been doing a lot of celebrating in previous games, too. JuCo summaries, 2B From Special Reports POPLARVILLE Pearl River Community College scored three touchdowns in the fourth quarter to win its homecoming game over Holmes 21-3 Saturday. PRCC freshman tailback Kenshun Smith raced for 205 yards on 23 attempts as the Wildcats improved to 3-4. But it was Petal's Dexter Dean who scored twice from 1 yard out to ice the contest midway through the final quarter. Holmes, 3-3-1, took a 3-0 lead with 4:12 to go in the third period on a 30-yard field goal by Jeremy Gunsalda.

PRCC then put together a 10-play drive covering 55 yards. Jerel Posey gave the Wildcats the lead on the first play of the fourth when he passed to Kahri Walker. Holmes fumbled immediately after the Wildcats kicked off, with PRCC taking over at the Bulldog's 31. Dean scored his first touchdown with 10 minutes remaining. Holmes fumbled again on its next drive, and it took the Wildcats only four plays to cover 19 yards, scoring Dean.

Smith had runs of 62 and 59 yards. Walker caught two passes for 40 yards. Holmes' Paul Miranda had 10 catches for 136 yards. Pearl River will attempt to even its record Saturday when the Wildcats entertain Southwest in a 6 p.m. contest..