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18 The Sundav Star Suhdav October 15, 1978 Ohio College Football Roundup for the first touchdown of the game and added an eightyard scoring pass to Mike Cira. With Mount Union, 1-3-1 and 0-2. respectively, trailing 25-13 early in the fourth period, Surniak put the game out of reach with a 31 -yard touchdown pass to Matt Degyansky. Tom Froelich scored Mount Union's first touchdown on a one-yard run and led game rushers with 121 yards in 15 carries. John Sanner topped Baldwin-Wallace with 101 yards in 10 carries.

Ashland-Slippery Rock ASHLAND; Ohio (AP) -Cliff Hunter's 65-yard punt return for a touchdown in the third quarter Saturday for Slippery Rock wrapped up a 26-17 non-conference college football triumph by the Rockets over Ashland. Hunter's return gave the Rockets a 26-10 lead and pushed their record to 4-1. Ashland fell to a 1-5 mark. Ashland lost two of six fumbles and had four passes intercepted. Rick Snodgrass kicked field goals of 37 and 22 yards, Doug Young ran 1 yard and Mike Sachire went 4 yards for touchdowns for Slippery Rock.

For Ashland, Tim Burns ran 4 yards and Jo Jo McRae caught a 25-yard pass from Jim Leitch for touchdowns. Frank Szocs booted a 21-yard field goal for the Eagles. conference play and overall, held a 14-0 lead at the end of the first half, with touchdowns by Bolden on two-and five-yard runs. After scoreless third quarter, Findlay burst forth with four touchdowns. Bolden dove over -from the 1 for the first in the series.

Rick Hatfield grabbed a 22-yard pass from Paul Trina for the score and then Ken Agee ran 35 yards for another touchdown. Ben Finch was the last to score, running 30 yards after blocking a Quaker punt. Earlham is now 1-4 for the year and in the conference. Akron' E.Michigan YPISUANTI, Mich. (AP) -Quarterback Burt Beaney had a field day.

completing 11 of 16 passes for 195 yards and two touchdowns and running for two scores himself, as Eastern Michigan downed Akron 25-14 in a non-conference college football game Saturday. Receiver Greg David caught scoring passes of 43 and 29 yards from Beaney. The Huron quarterback opened the scoring with a 1-yard run. followed by a 43-yard pass to David that was good for a touchdown. Later, Beaney again scored from a yard out before tossing a 29-yard touchdown pass to David.

Dan Simon scored- both touchdowns for the Zips on runs of I and 3 yards. Eastern Michigan now stands 3-3 for the season, while Akron is 4 2. touchdowns in 29 carries to ignite John Carroll to a 34-27 President's Athletic Conference football victory over Bethany, W.Va., College Saturday. Niec got John Carroll, 4-2 overall and 3-1 in the PAC, started with a four-yard touchdown run. Bethany, 0-4 overall and in the PAC, tied it up on Jeff Beer's 69-yard pass to Jeff Severino, but Niec then ran 80 yards to put the Blue Streaks ahead to stay at 14-7 in the second period.

Cincinnati--. Temple PHILADELPHIA (AP) An-' thony Anderson rushed for 80 yards and a touchdown Saturday night as Temple edged Cincinnati 16-13 in college football. Mark Bright's 1-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter decided the game. Temple's victory gave the Owls a 3-2-1 record and dropped the visiting Bearcats to a 1-4 mark. The Owls totaled 353 yards rushing and only 57 in the air.

Cincinnati had 182 rushing yards out of a total offense of 210 yards. a senior, broke Temple's career rushing record. He now has run for a total of 2.252 yards in his four-year career, breaking the old Temple career mark of 2.218 set bv Henry Hynoski from 1972-74. Meanwhile, Zachary Dixon broke Anderson's one-year-old game rushing mark, picking up 241 yards in 33 carries. Anderson's set the old record of 217 vards on Sept.

7, 1977, against Drake. 22-7 in Ohio Conference Blue Division college football. Cumberlander, a junior tailback from Grove City, Ohio, ran 6, 3 and 4 yards for his scores, helping the Cardinals to a 2-2-1 overall record and a l-l-o division mark. Gary Martin returned a punt 73 yards for the only touchdown for Muskingum, which is 1-3-1 overall and 0-2-1 in the conference. Youngstown- Central St.

WTLBERFORCE, Ohio (AP) Junior flanker Jim Ferranti scored a school-record four touchdowns as. Youngstown State defeated Central State 56-33 Saturday and extended its winning streak to nine games. Ferranti 's exploits set a new Youngstown State single-game mark, breaking the old record of three touohdowns shared by Paul Ceremuga in 1957 and Dave Del Signore in 1969. Ferranti scored all four times on passes from quarterback Keith Snoddy and grabbed a total of nine aerials for 187 yards. Snoddy completed 14 of 23 passes for 227 yards.

Heidelberg-, Denison TIFFIN, Ohio (API Backs Clay Sampson and Bryan Johnson combined for 315 yards rushing and each scored a touchdown as Denison defeated Heidelberg 13-7 in college football Saturday. Sampson piled up 158 yards in 31 carries, including a 68-yard scoring run, and Johnson bad 157 yards in 31 attempts, with his touchdown coming on a 1-yard plunge. The victory lifted Denison's record to 2-2-1. Heidelberg is winless in five games. Heidelberg's only score came in the fourth quarter when quarterback Dean Supan completed a 31-yard pass to Brian Regan.

Overall, Supan connected on 16 of 36 aerials for 197 yards. star and his mates fell short, as their hosts raced to a 24-7 non-conference victory. (AP Laserphoto) added yardage Saturday, as his Ohio University pigskin club battled South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. The efforts of the former Mohawk FORMER WARRIOR Former Mohawk Warrior Kevin Bab-cock who used to do his running in the North Central Conference, twists and turns for Six Top-Ranked Teams Clipped In Day Of Upsets By The Associated Press Fifth-ranked Michigan and ninth-ranked Pitt were among the victims as upsets shook the nation's Top Twenty college football teams Saturday. Michigan was stunned by Big Ten colleague Michigan State Pitt lost a 26-17 decision to signaling a rash of upsets for six teams and a near-upset of topranked Oklahoma.

"Along with the Michigan and Pitt shockers. No. 13 Colorado --dropped a 24-20 decision to -winless Oklahoma. State; Mississippi State stunned No. 15 Carolina COLUMBIA, SC.

(AP) -Johnnie Wright rushed for two touchdowns and reserve quarterback Skip Ramsey rejuvenated a lethargic South Carolina offense in the third period to lead the independent Gamecocks to a 24-7 college football victory Saturday over Ohio University. South Carolina improved its record to 3-2-1 with the homecoming while Ohio of the Mid-American Conference fell to 1-4. The Gamecocks were leading 10-7 late in the third period when Ramsey, a junior transfer from Alabama, replaced starter Garry Harper, a sophomore. Ramsey marched South Carolina 64 yards in nine plays, with Steve Dorsey scoring on a 2-yard pitch from Ramsey with 2: 14 left in the quarter. Bowling Green- Kent State BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) Jeff Groth set a school single-game record with 188 receiving yards, with a 78-yard scoring bomb from Mike Wright included, to help Bowling Green to a 28-20 Mid-American Conference college football victory over Kent State, keeping the Falcons in contention for the conference title.

Groth, a senior flanker from Chagrin Falls, Ohio, caught eight passes. His yardage total wiped out the old school mark of 164 yards set by Bob Zimpfer against West Texas State in 1969. DAYTON, Ohio (AP) A 29-yard field goal by Dave Flores in the fourth quarter provided the winning margin as Eastern Kentucky edged Dayton 17-16 in college football Saturday. The victory extended Eastern Kentucky's winning streak to four games while the loss was the Flyers' fir-t in games. Eastern Kentucky now is 4-1.

Dayton is 5-1-1. Dayton held a 16-14 lead until Flores booted his three-pointer on the first play of the fourth quarter. The Flyers' Hartmut Strecker, who kicked a 19-yarder earlier in the game, missed a 43-yard field goal attempt midway through the final period which would have given Dayton the lead. Bluff ton-Hanoter HANOVER, Ind. (AP)' -Junior fullback Bruce Hoopingarner drove for a pair of touchdowns and quarterback Cliff Hellyer tossed two scoring passes Saturday as Hanover routed Bluffton, 31-0, in a Hoosier-Buckeye Conference college football game.

Hoopingarner scored on one-yard runs in the first and second quarter and Hellyer hit split end Jim Wilson with a 15-yard touchdown pass in the first period as the Panthers took a 24-Ohalftimelead. Hellyer 's second scoring pass went to Ray Kwasny in the third quarter. Hanover, celebrating its homecoming, raised its record to 3-1-1 overall and 3-1 in the HBC, while Bluffton's Beavers dropped to 2-4 overall and 2-3 in the conference. Findlay-Earlham RICHMOND. Ind.

(AP) -Fullback Nelson Bolden ran for three touchdowns Saturday to lead Findlay to a 42-0 drubbing of Earlham in a Hoosier-Buckeye Conference football game. The league-leading Oilers, with identical 5-0 records in Wooster- Marietta WOOSTER, Ohio (AP) Junior tailback George Anderson rushed for 114 yards Saturday, leading Wooster to its eighth straight regular season victory, 24-0 over Marietta in Ohio Conerence Blue Division college football. The Scots' S-O-0 start this season is their best since 1971 and the winning string is their longest in 41 seasons. Wooster, 2-0 in the division, limited Marietta, 3-2 overall and 1-1 in the division, to 153 total yards while rolling up 373 yards. The Scots are nationally ranked on both offense and defense in Division III.

Anderson scored on a 13-yard run while Jim Powers ran 1 yard and Vince Cellini caught a 5-yard pass from Tim Raffel for the other Scots touchdowns. Kevin Lynch booted a 35-yard Wooster field goal. Muskingum-Otterbein WESTERVILLE. Ohio (AP) Wayne Cumberlander shattered his school record for carries in a single game Saturday with 42 rushes for 205 yards and three touchdowns as Otterbein whipped Muskingum Vmp Has Difficulty Expla Mil s. Case Western-Allegheny MEADVILLE, Pa.

(AP) Senior Chuck Lazar scored two touchdowns in leading Allegheny to a 24-6 win over Case Western Reserve in college football Saturday. Lazar intercepted a Case Western pass and ran 35 yards for his first score in the opening quarter. His second score came on an 84-yard punt return in the second period. Allegheny, which kept Case Western scoreless until the final quarter, also scored on a 25-yard field goal by Nick Nardone and a 1-yard touchdown run by PrJ.Blythe. Jeff Kleck scored Case Western's only touchdown on a 41-yard pass from quarterback Tim Butler.

The win gives Allegheny a 2-1-1 record in the President's Athletic Conference. Case Western's conference record dropped to 0-4. Wilmington- Taylor UPLAND, Ind. (AP) Two field goals by Max Holman led to a 12-0 Hoosier-Buckeye Conference football victory over Taylor on Saturday. The second quarter was the big one for ilmington, now 3-2 in the conference and 4-2 overall.

Holman booted a 26-yarder for the first score, and moments later lofted a 22-yard kick between the uprights. Wilmington's Reinhold Finkes provided the game's lone touchdown, when he went over from the 3. The defeat leaves Taylor at 1-3 in the conference and 1-4 overall. BW-MuUnion BEREA. Ohio (AP) Quarterback Joe Surniak ran for a touchdown and passed for two other scores Saturday to pace Baldwin-Wallace to a 32-13 Ohio Conference college football victory over Mount Union.

Surniak helped the unbeaten Yellow Jackets, 5-0 overall and 24 in the OAC. to a 14-0 first-period lead as he ran four yards Spartans needed to win. Joe Montana rallied Notre Dame to three fourth-quarter touchdowns and Jerome Heavens broke George Gipp's career rushing record as the Irish defeated previously unbeaten Pitt. Heavens chalked up 120 yards, giving him a career total of 2.363 yards to eclipse Gipp's total from 1917-1920. The superb kicking of punter Kris Lundgaard and the running of Yince Orange and Scott Burk led Oklahoma State over Colorado.

Tailback James Jones scored four touchdowns and passed for a fifth as Mississippi State whipped Florida State. Quarterback Mark Herrmann set up two touchdowns in the third quarter and passed for another score in the fourth period as the Boilermakers Ohio State. Washington got a crucial 40-yard pass completion from Tom Porras in the final minute and beat Stanford on Mike Lansford's 22-yard field goal with 22 seconds remaining. Billy Sims rushed for 192 yards and scored the winning TD as Oklahoma subdued Kansas after the Jayhawks failed twice on a two-point conversion play with 15 seconds left. Elsewhere, Billy Jackson ripped off an 87-yard touchdown run in the second period to lead seventh-ranked Alabama over Florida 23-12.

Quarterback Tom Sorley ran for one touchdown and passed for two others as No. 8 Nebraska walloped Kansas State 48-14. Don Dotter ran 23 yards on a reverse for one touchdown while Mickey Dudish and Jan Carinci also scored third-quarter TDs as 10th -ranked Maryland came from behind to beat Syracuse 24-9. Phil Bradley scored one touchdown and passed for another in the second quarter to trigger No. 19 Missouri to a 26-13 triumph over 20th-ranked Iowa State.

In night action. No. 2 Southern Cal played Arizona State; No. 6 Texas A4M met No. 17 Houston; No.

11 LSU tackled Georgia; No. 12 Texas took on North Texas State and No. 14 UCLA hosted Washington State. Capital-Wittenberg SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) -Dave Merritt scored three touchdowns and rolled up 195 yards rushing Saturday, propelling undefeated Wittenberg to a 49-9 Ohio Conference college football rout of Capital. Merritt, a senior tailback, shook loose on runs of 6, 33 and 45 yards as the Tigers posted their fifth straight victory and second in a row in the conference's Blue Division race.

Chuck Delaney threw a pair of scoring strikes, a 48-yard bomb to Cliff Davis and an 11 yard touchdown to Dalon Myricks. Watching the men's doubles Miami-Marshall HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) Miami's Greg Jones is one of the smallest fullbacks in college football, but he had a big day Saturday, scoring twice and running for 190 yards as the Redskins routed Marshall, 29-3. A 171-pound sophomore from Elyria, Ohio, Jones got his yardage on 19 carries. He also scored Miami's first two His first touchdown came on the third play from scrimmage when he took a pkchout from Larry Fortner and raced untouched 63 yards down the left sideline.

And he scored again im a 54-yard run on Miami's first possession in the second half. Marshall, which had gotten, on the scoreboard in the second quarter via Ed Hamrick's 35-yard field goal, trailed 14-3 after Jones' second touchdown. The Redskins added a field goal a few minutes later and then broke open the game in the fourth quarter with two more touchdowns on runs by Fortner and reserve quarterback John Conerty. KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) -Quarterback Albert Little passed 65 yards for one touchdown and ran for another Saturday as Western Michigan overcame an offensively green and defensively tough Toledo squad 17-7 in a Mid-American Conference college football game.

With Western Michigan down 7-0 as the third quarter opened. Little was thrown for a 4-yard loss on the first play of the second half to put the ball on his own 35. He then called a bogus double-handoff play that faked out the Toledo defense and left wingback Craig Frazier all alone deep in the secondary to gather in a touchdown pass. Senior co-captain Greg Williams returned a punt 40 yards to the Toledo 24 to set up Western Michigan's second touchdown, which was scored by Little from 2 yards out. John Carroll-Bethany CLEVELAND (AP) Brian Niec ran for 192 yards and two grW'O" claoronc.

fully circulating fircploc twwn nav ib i ar i na a trmr Florida State 55-27; Purdue defeated No. 16 Ohio State 27-16 and Washington whipped No. 18 Stanford 34-31. Oklahoma, meanwhile, hung on to edge Kansas 17-16 in a Big Eight thriller. Quarterback Ed Smith fired' two touchdown passes and Michigan intercepted three Rick Leach aerials as the Spartans beat Michigan.

Smith hit on 20 of 36 passes for 248 yards and directed a runaway offense that helped Michigan State build up a 17-0 lead the half, actually all the points the Jackson and deflected away, allowing Munson to score the second run of the inning. Tom Lasorda, the Dodgers manager, came out and argued interference on Jackson. "From the angle I had, I couldn't tell whether Reggie moved into the ball," Pulli said. "I saw it as not intentional interference on Reggie's part." Pulli said he asked second base umpire Joe Brinkman of the American League if Jackson had interfered with the play. "I looked hard at the base (second.) I didn't see Jackson," said Brinkman.

Jackson was asked if he attempted to get out of the way of Russell's throw. "I saw the ball coming at me," said Jackson, a big smile crossing his face. "And 1 froze." Another rule, under section 6.05, states: "A batter is out when (m) a preceding runner shall, in the umpire's judgment, intentionally interfere with a fielder who is attempting to catch a thrown ball or to throw a ball in an attempt to complete any play." This rule clearly states the need for intentional interference. When Pulli was pursued on the difference between the two rules, he refused to answer the question. throw first.

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