The Central New Jersey Home News from New Brunswick, New Jersey • 29

SPORTS DOLLARS SENSE STOCKS ARTS HOBBIES BOOXS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1978 Bl Group IV runners take off In the Central Jersey cross country championships held at Buccleuch Park yesterday. Mary Banks of Rarltan won this race setting a meet record. Story on B8. rJi llwl(l)iuS Owls no match for South River By TOM PALL Home News correspondent HIGHLAND PARK The tide is starting to turn for South River High School in its long and continuous 18-game series with arch-rival Highland Park. Losing the first five confrontations in a series that was initiated in 1961, the Rams completed a turnaround by knotting the series at nine games apiece with yesterday's thunderous 35-0 thumping of the Owls in the battle of Middlesex County's only unbeaten teams.

Holding Highland Park without a first down until the third quarter, the Rams, behind the three-touchdown pass performance of quarterback Keith Hudak, rolled to a 28-0 lead in the first in the first period, the Rams exploded for four touchdowns on their next four possessions. Premier halfback Troy Hill, who destroyed the Owls last year as a sophomore, got the ball rolling for the Rams by sweeping left end from 16 yards out for the game's first touchdown. Hill, who also booted five perfect placements, preceded his touchdown jaunt with a 30-yard scamper on an off-tackle play. Hill, who rambled for 74 yards in the first half, carried the ball only once in the second half and ended with game-high 81 yards on nine carries. South River lifted its margin to 14-0 in the second quarter as halfback Ber-nie Jackson capped a 76-yard march by See S.

RIVER, page B4 off the ball very well and after we got the big lead, we just wanted to ground it out and chew up as much of the clock as possible." "South River has a fantastic football team," said Owls' coach Joe Pollcas-tro. "They are very well coached and Bill Csatari should be very proud of them. "We just couldn't do a thing against them. Their line just wouldn't let us put a rush on (Keith) Hudak," continued the first-year coach. Hudak, regarded as one of the top passers in Middlesex County, was on target throughout the game, rifling 10 completions in 16 attempts for 218 yards.

Five of those passes went to Ken Jackson for 119 yards and three touchdowns. After punting on their initial series half and coasted the remainder of the way. The victory boosted South River's winning streak to 17 games while the loss ended the Owls' win skein at 10. "Our defense was Just terrific," beamed South River coach Bill Csatari. "They had to come through with a big effort to shut out Highland Park." Headed by stalwarts Tom Chergey, Doug Susan, Ed Malinowski and Mike Fisezi, South River (7-0) restricted the Owls (6-1 to 95 net yards, 16 in the first half.

The Rams, who have allowed but 10 points on the year, registered their fifth shut out. While the defense was throttling the Owls, the offense was rolling to the tune of 411 net yards. "Our line was just driving them out," noted Csatari. "We were coming I. Knights top UMass for 7th straight My i jf? rrTT v-r 1 i A i Home News photo by Pat Ferreioli BUCK LOGAN time- (..., CENTRAL JERSEY X-C ihj i With 1:48 remaining in the second period, Massachusetts (5-3) got on the scoreboard on a 44-yard field goal by Sandro Vitiello.

The Minutemen had marched from their own 29 to the Rutgers 26 before the Scarlet defense stiffened to force the field goal. In that drive, UMass quarterback Mike McEvilly completed a third-down pass to Chris Kurts for 14 yards to the 43, fullback Hank Sareault lugged 16 yards on the next play to the Rutgers 41 and the Minutemen picked up another first down at the 26 following an unsportsmanlike conduct call against the Scarlet. Until the closing minutes of the third quarter, neither team had managed a first down until Rutgers began a drive of 48 yards that led to a fourth-quarter touchdown. Junior Paul Fego returned a UMass punt to set up the Scarlet with excellent field position at the Massachusetts 48. Rutgers received a first down on the first play when the Minutemen were called for a 15-yard personal foul infraction, Blackwell carried for 11 yards on the next play for another first down at the 13 but when it became fourth-and-one at the 4, Kennan Startzell was sent in for a 22-yard field goal try that went wide left.

But offsides was called against Massachusetts on the play and the Scarlet had a first down at the 3. On second down, quarterback Ed Mc-Michael who had replaced Hering in the third quarter passed to tight end George Carter for the score and a 14-3 lead. Rutgers scored another touchdown two minutes later after linebacker Jim Hughes, playing with an injured back. By KEN O'BRIEN Home News sports writer AMHERST, Mass. It wasn't easy, but Rutgers defeated Massachusetts, 21-11, yesterday when the Scarlet Knights posted their seventh straight victory in a penalty-filled game before a Parents Day crowd of 9,800 in Alumni Stadium.

When it was over, Rutgers had been penalized 12 times for a total of 137 yards and coach Frank Burns was seg-ing red because of those bright yellow flags the officials had been dropping. "I'm not going to comment about the officiating," Burns snorted, "but you can't play consistent football when there are so many penalties. The flags dropped on everything we did. You can't play football when you're getting 15-yard penalties all the The Scarlet Knights (7-1 led by only 7-3 at halftime despite netting 252 yards in -total offense. Following a scoreless first quarter, Rutgers drove 80 yards in eight plays in the second period with quarterback Bob Hering hooking up with sophomore flanker Dave Dorn who caught the bomb at about the 4-yard line and tight-roped the right sideline into the end zone on a play covering 46 yards.

Fullback Glen Kehler, who led all rushers with 100 yards on 23 carries, opened that drive with a 10-yard run and halfback Ted Blackwell, continuing to fill in for the injured Lester Johnson, picked up a first down on a fourth-down gamble at midfield where the Knights needed only a yard to keep the march alive. Blackwell picked up four yards on the play to the UMass 46 and Hering leashed the bomb to Dom on the next play for a 7-0 lead which- put the Minutemen behind to stay. ogan was I ft 4 JL- vrl' A I jf took the Group III crown and John McCarthy of Holmdel was the Group winner. "I tried to set a fast pace," said Logan, after Bernards finished first among 10 teams. "I like to do that.

Today, I felt pretty quick." Logan's time for the three-mile course was 13 seconds off the record held by Chris Hallahan of Bernards. He crossed the halfway point with a time of 7:25. The second-place runner was clocked at 7:47 at the midway point. "This was easy," said Logan. "I even ad something left at the end.

See HINES, page B8 By ERIKA WEITZNER Home News correspondent NEW BRUNSWICK Buck Logan wanted to set a fast pace yesterday in the Central Jersey cross country championship at Buccleuch Park. To say he succeeded would be a gross understatement. The Bernards High School runner, winner of the Somerset County championship, won the Group I race with a time of 15:03, over a minute ahead of second-place finisher, teammate Drew Taylor. Jeff Hines of Bridge water East won the Group IV title, Bill Wells of Howell Home News pnoto flichaf a Costello RUSHES ON Bruce Kehler (30) of Rutgers run9 around end for 14 yards during yesterday football game against the University See RUTGERS, page B2 Massachusetts. The Scarlet Knights won, 21-1 1.

Chiefs scalp Pioneers Crissy, Barrett lead Tigers past Penn By JIM ADAMCZYK Home News correspondent SOMERVILLE Piscataway High School will not be going to the state playoffs and they will not win the Mid-State Conference, but what they accomplished yesterday afternoon was knock off highly regarded Somerville, 12-8, and proved to a lot of people that they do belong with the best. "We have to be the best 4-3 team in the state," a jubilant head coach Tom Higgins remarked after the bruising contest. "This is the best team I've ever had here. It is a shame we won't have the opportunity to show them off in the playoffs." The Chiefs came out with fire in their eyes scoring touchdowns the first two times they had the ball and held off a frantic Pioneer rally in the closing minutes to gain their third victory in four MSC games. "They came out sky high with nothing to lose," Somerville head coach Jerry Moore added.

"They were playing well and making no mistakes." See SOMERVILLE, page B4 "running quarterback" and Barrett is the "passing quarterback," Navarro stuck with the original run-oriented game plan. "Barrett got red-necked and said he could do what the plan calls for," Navarro recalled of their pre-game meeting. Barrett, who admitted to feeling like the forgotten quarterback as he rode the bench the last two weeks, said he See FIRST, page B2 big day in which he connected on nine of 12 passes for 138 yards and also rushed for 40 yards in 14 carries. Barrett didn't learn until 20 minutes before game time that he would be stauing. Reynolds pulled a hamstring in practice on Wednesday.

Though Reynolds was cleared to play, coach Frank Navarro felt he wasn't 100 percent and decided to go with Barrett, a product of Watchung Hills High School who had started the first three games of the season. Though Reynolds is the Tigers' injured Steve Reynolds, the Tigers rolled to a 21-0 victory over the Quakers who never got their Wishbone offense in high gear against the tenacious Princeton defense. Crissy rushed for 143 yards in 20 carries and scored on runs of 27 and 19 yards in the first half. He also caught four passes for 71 yards, including a 19-yarder to the Penn one in the fourth period to set up the Tigers' final touchdown. Barrett scored that touchdown himself on a quarterback sneak to cap a By JOHN BRUNS Home News sports writer PRINCETON It was a big day for Princeton football yesterday.

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