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Sports Ml Scoreboard, 2D NFL, 5D U.S Open, 9D The Jackson Sun, Jackson, Sunday, Sept. 13, 1987 Vandy upends Tigers Vols overwhelm Mississippi State By David Climer Gannett News Service STARKVILLE, Miss. He runs. He catches. He scores.

Reggie Cobb, Tennessee's version of Mister September, triple-threated the Vols past Mississippi State 38-10 Gentry is a key player in rally Saturday in a re Tennessee 38, Mississippi State 10 Tonnaiiaa 7 7 21- Mm State I 714 Tenn Cobb 3 pass from Francis (Reich kick) Tenn-FG Reich 37 Tenn Cobb 23 run (Reich kick) MSU FG Logan 31 Tenn Cobb 4 run (Reich kick) Tenn Poles 1 run (Reich kick) Tenn Hlnton 4 run Reich kick) MSU Fair 9 run (Logan kick) stourtis Odd ay Yw 3 jP I 'tt i i J. 4 id n.312 markable show of versatility. Cobb scored three touchdowns and produced 217 yards in all-purpose running as 14th-ranked Tennessee used a dominating second half to win its Southeastern Conference opener. The victory, the Vols' eighth in a row over the last two years, ran UT's record to 3-0 and marked the first time since 1979 that Johnny Majors' team has won its three opening games. TOP MSU 22 IS 44-201 44-309 277 10 24 4 14-24-0 1-20-1 2-11 2-34 04 2-2 1-55 4-52 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards 39 27:21 Time of possession INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING Tennessee, Cobb 15-11, Howard 7-21, Oavls 10-47.

Mississippi Phillips 4-76, Peters 4-JJ, Fair 12-133, Williams 11-34. PASSING Tennessee, Francis 13-23-0 227, Hlnton 1-1-0 50. Mississippi Williams t-20-1 109. RECEIVING Tennessee, Cobb M7, Harper 1-37, Woods 1-11. Mississippi Anderson 1-7, Hadley 2-40, Kennay-brew 1-21.

By Dan Evans Sun sports reporter NASHVILLE Vanderbilt and Mem-phis State both turned over new leaves here Saturday night. The Commodores changed for the better, while the Tigers were left hanging in a 27-17 Vandy victory. Vanderbilt spotted Memphis State 17 first-half points. Then the Commodores scored all of their 27 in the second half at Vandy's Dudley Field. The game was played in front of a near-capacity crowd of 40,694.

"To come back like that and keep their poise, I'm just as proud as I can be," Vandy Coach Watson Brown said. Like his counterpart, Charlie Bailey at Memphis State, Brown won the first game of his second season at Vandyafter a MO season a year ago. Whereas the Tigers, 1-1, showed poise in their opening win last week against Ole Miss, they unraveled in Nashville. Five second-half turnovers did in Memphis State. "You can't win football games when you turn the football over," a terse Bailey said.

For Vanderbilt, Brown said he hoped the win quieted some of his team's critics. "There is only one way to get over it (the hump)," Brown said. "Win a few games." The Commodores scored twice in a span of one minute, 40 seconds in the fourth quarter on touchdowns by Eric Jones and Please see VANDY, next page. This one came largely through the efforts of Cobb and a Vol defense that held on until the offense started clicking after intermission in a game that was telecast nationally via cable station WTBS. "In the second half, we were fortunate that we were able to control the ball," Majors said.

"Mississippi State has a lot of talented players on offense and it was awfully important that we were able to control the ball under those circumstances." Often as not, Cobb was the man in control for the Vols. He turned a short pass pattern into a 39-y ard touchdown in the first quarter and added scoring runs of 23 and four yards in the second half when UT padded its 10-0 halftime lead. Please see VOLS, next page. AP Laserphoto during the first quarter of Saturday's game at Starkville, Miss. The Vols recovered the ball.

Tennessee's Terry McDaniel strips the football from Mississippi State's Hank Phillips ikes helps UTSVi upset Austin Peay Vanderbilt 27, Memphis State 17 it. IS t-n VaMarttM MSU FG Butler inside MSU Prvor I run (Butler kick) MSU Morman 1 run (Butltr kick) VU Jonn I run (CUrk kick) VU earraft 1 pass from Jonn (Clerk kick) VU-Johnson 14 run (Clark kick) VU FG Clark VU FG Clark JO MARTIN John Burch had a school-record 98-yard touchdown run, and quarterback Trey Sikes threw three touchdown passes to lead Tennessee-Martin to a 30-10 upset victory against Austin Peay State University here Saturday night. It was UTM's first win against the Ohio Valley Conference Governors since 1982. A crowd of 5,900 attended the game in UTM's reno- vated Pacer statistics Stadium. ap utm Ruroh's ltDoni 15 11 First MS VU i a SS-23a 44-332 TO 23 4 a e-la-l 4-104 a-w 1-42 4-1 4-3 5-57 5-37 MM 11:11 Rushes-yards Passing Return Yards Come-Atl-Int Punts FumMes-Lest Ponalllas-Yardi Levon Johnson picked off two Governor passes.

Junior tackle Emanuel McNeil led the Pacer defense with eight solo tackles, 11 assists, a fumble recovery, a deflected pass and a quarterback sack. APSU scored 10 first-quarter points but was shut out the rest of the game. Austin Peay HIM -10 UT-Martiii (1-1) APSU Rico Ransoa It pass from Dale Edwards (Tom McMllUan kick); UTM Joha Burch 11 pass from Trey Sikes (Kl Tok an kick); APSU McMiUlan 22 FG; UTM William Mackall 17 pass from Sikes (kick faUed); UTM Cho 31 FG; UTM Demetres Brown 31 pass from Sikes (Cho kick); UTM Burch 18 run (Cho kick). gest run from scrimmage in a game. The 6-foot, 205-pound junior from St.

Augustine, broke free on a dive play up the middle. He erased a UTM record run of 88 yards by Bobby Fowler against West Georgia in the late 1950s. Sikes, a senior from Jackson North Side High, completed 25 of 42 passes for 235 yards, including touchdown tosses of 11, 17 and 30 yards. He threw three interceptions. APSU, which upset Kansas State 26-22 a week earlier in Kansas; committed nine turnovers against UTM, including five interceptions.

UTM defensive back Tims of possession Collegs) scores, SEC stand ings. Page 2D. Bobby Humphrey leads Ala bama to 24-13 victory vs. Penn State. Page 3D.

Mississippi loses, to Arkansas 3110. Page 3D. Top-ranked Oklahoma, No. 2 Nebraska prevail. Page 4D.

Notre Dame knocks off host Michigan. Page 4D. INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING Memphis St WW lf-100. Prvor 10. 44.

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Trail 1-44. Whlto 1-1-0-12. Vandorblll. Jonas 3-437. Clark l-l-o-lmlnus 14).

RECEIVING Momenta Martin 1-24. Parkins 114. Trail 112. Vanderbilt, Parker Ml, Barrett 1-2, McCarrall 1-4. 121 155 184 23S 14-27-5 ZS-424 4-t 44 545 f-39 (-45 t-M Yds Rash fourth-quarter Ydi pu sprint set UTM Pum and Gulf South Conference records for Ion- Lambuth yields big yards, loses opener Big plays lead Lane past Miles By Jeff Burke Sun sports reporter SEWANEE University of the South rolled up 405 yards total offense and defeated Lambuth College 37-19 here Saturday in the football season opener for both schools.

University quarterback Bobby Morales passed for 223 yards, including three touchdowns, kicked two field goals and two extra points and threw a two-point conversion pass to lead the Tigers. Lane College's big-play offense shifted into high gear Saturday night to produce a 20h6 victory against Miles College in the Dragons' home opener at Rothrock Stadium. Fullback Jodie Chambers scored on runs of 43 and 42 yards in the fourth guar-ter, and tail- "I was really disappointed in Statistics LAM uos 7" it's back Reginald statistics Mc Lambuth scored two touchdowns in the last five minutes of the second quarter to pull within 16-13 at halftime. Chris Nash caught an 11-yard scoring pass from Brad Garner with 4:57 remaining. Then Kenny Haggard scored on a 1-yard run with 27 seconds left.

But the Eagles lost the momentum in the third quarter, giving up 11 points. Lambuth's third touchdown came with 14:03 left to play when Mike Overbey caught a 27-yard pass from Garner, who completed 13 of 26 passes for 138 yards. Overbey had four receptions for 81 yards, including a 45-yard gainer. Another bright spot for Lambuth was the punting of freshman Kevin Ward of Milan. He averaged 38 yards a punt on five attempts.

Lambuth plays its home opener at 1:30 Saturday against McMurry Col-ege. Lambuth (1-1). HI -1 u.fs.(i-) tu in -n SEW Bucbanaa 11 ma (kick failed) SEW Morales 21 field goal; SEW Jones II pass from Morales (Morale kick I LAM Chris Nash 11 pass from Brad Garner (Hal GoMber kick); LAM Kenny Hauard I ran (kkk failed); SEW Morales 2t FG; SEW Meadows II pass from Morales (Jones pais from Morales); LAM Mike Overaey 27 pass from Garner (pass failed); SEW Meadows II pass from Morales (Morales kick). LC our total defen- noowas sive effort, and Yds Rush I take theYdsPass "lame for, everything," pt, first-year Lam- Penalties i a in IB IS lJ-JS-l 14-31-1 1-2 2-1 US 2-34 1-lS 7-tS Hughes added a isidoww 76-yard scoring run on Lane's second play Famb-uit from PeMUk 17 11 in in 151 SI l-lt-f t-lM 1-37 It 7-s t- Sun photo by Larry Atherton Lane College defenders Timothy Wright (11), Leon Johnson (66) and John Carpten (88) stop a Miles College runner for no gain in Saturday night's game at Jackson's Rothrock Stadium. The Dragons won 20-6.

Lane's rec- buth Coach 1 Jim Hardegree said. "I really felt like our team was ready to play. But we weren't. "(University) just took the ball and drove it on us in the third quarter. That's when you're supposed to set the tempo for the second half, and our players have got to understand that.

We've got to do the job the whole game, and we didn't get it done when we had to." the game. Chambers' run was set up by Ed Winder's second pass interception of the game and 32-yard return. Michael James extra-point attempt sailed wide to the right. With 29 seconds remaining in the contest, Chambers took quarterback James Sewell's handoff and ran through a hole opened by linemen Trevor Emory and Aric Dale into the end zone from 42 yards out. James' kick was good, producing the game's final margin.

"The offensive line worked really hard this week to improve their run blocking," Please see DRAGONS, next page. ord improves to 1-0-1. Miles drops to 0-2. "Our kids rose to the occasion," Lane Coach Neal McCall said, "We've just got a scrappy football team." Chambers, a 6-foot, 220-pound Junior from Memphis, opened the fourth quarter by galloping 43 yards into the end zone to spot Lane a 13-6 lead with 7:07 left in Cards' Mathews, hitters hand Mets heavy loss By Jim Bailey Gannett News Service NL EAST RACE The Cardinals, on a high after their dramatic 6-4 win the previous night, handed him six earned runs against Dwight Gooden the first two innings. Held to one hit for 8-plus innings Friday, St.

Louis batted around Saturday for five runs in the first against Gooden, but never really hit a ball hard. The strikeout Doctor never had a briefer or less effective appearance In the big leagues. "I decided I'd better bear down and make my pitches like it was 0-0 all day," Mathews said. Stricken, slump-ridden and ready to be written off Friday, St. Louis takes a 3Vj-game lead over the Mets into the final game today of a series New York had earmarked for the grand turnaround weeRend of 1987.

The Montreal Expos, 7-1 winners against the Chicago Cubs, are GB 83 57 80 60 3 80 61 3V2 in second place, three games out. Gooden struck out Vince Coleman to open the game, but Ozzie Smith slapped a double down the first base line. Gooden walked Tom Herr and Dan Driessen. Witli the bases loaded, he walked Willie McGee and forced in the first run. Gene Walter, Terry Leach, Bobby Ojeda and Doug Sisk held St.

Louis to three hits and two runs the rest of the way. St. Louis Montreal New York NEW YORK On a mission to take first place from the St. Louis Cardinals, the New York Mets instead wrestled third place away from Montreal. Greg Mathews, a young left-hander whose recent history is littered with blown leads, went the distance Saturday and beat the Mets 8-1.

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