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H.S. grid Colleges Overtime Scoreboard 8-9 4 10 11 Army one drive better than RU Cadet wishbone delivers at 0:46 to defeat Scarlet .1. 4 111 IN THE SCHOOLS Jason Herrick's 34-yard field goal with one second left on the clock gave the Monroe High football team a 23-20 upset win over Metuchen. E9 Cedar Ridge standout Mi-Young Ro won the Greater Middlesex Conference girls cross country championship yesterday at Thompson Park. E7 This afternoon, the South Plainfield and Sayreville High field hockey teams will meet in the finals of the Middlesex County Coaches' Tournament.

E7 THE NFL Will Jeff George be the quarterback facing the Giants tomorrow night in the Indianapolis Hoosier Dome? E3 COLLEGES Georgia Tech beat No. 1 Virginia 4 1 -38 yesterday in a battle of unbeaten teams and spoiled the Cavaliers' bid for a national championship. E4 West Virginia won the statistical battle, but Penn State won the game as Tom Bill passed for one touchdown and ran for another yesterday to lead the 24th-ranked Nittany Lions past West Virginia 31-19. E4 OVERTIME Readers offer opinions on Derrick Coleman and his value to the New ji By BRIAN VANDERBEEK Home News senior sports writer WEST POINT, N.Y. Once again, the pull of the wishbone has left Rutgers University holding the short end.

Army's wishbone offense rolled up 342 yards on the Army 35 ground, and came Rutgers 31 through in a very unbone-like manner late in the game to pull out a thrilling 35-31 college football victory at Michie Stadium. The Cadets' winning score, a four-yard run by quarterback Willie McMillian with 46 seconds remaining, capped a 76-yard drive that included Army's only two pass completions of the game. The drive was a direct response to Rutgers' own heroics. The Scarlet took a 31-28 lead with 2:09 left, with Tekay Dorsey grabbing a nine-yard fourth-down scoring pass from Tom Tarver to cap an 80-yard march. Catch your breath yet? If you happened to be one of the estimated 5,000 RD fans in the crowd of 38,945, you still might be gasping for air.

It was that kind of game, fittingly played on a day in which the academy chose to honor the players in its first century of football. "It got to be a matter in the second half of just who had the ball last," said Rutgers coach Doug Graber, whose team fell to 3-6 with its sixth defeat in seven weeks. In short, the Rutgers offense did everything possible to win the game, but the Scarlet defense never found a way to stop See RU, Page E6 i Walt RadomtkyThe Home News Tight end James Jenkins scores Rutgers' first touchdown in yesterday's game against Army at West Point, as the Cadets' Jimmi Shinn can't haul Jenkins down. Jersey Nets. E10 SPORTSPHONE E.

Brunswick, Franklin may host playoffs This week's question: Does 43-year-old George Foreman deserve a title shot against newly-crowned heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield? In your opinion, does he have a legitimate chance of regaining the championship he held in 1974-75? Brunswick can begin selling tickets. More than likely, they will be home teams in the first round which will be played on Nov. 24. Middletown South has only to get by Howell, a team with one win, while the Bears have winless Madison Central on tap. Who the two will play is up for grabs.

Trenton is third in power points with 64.0 but has Notre Dame this weekend. Edison is fourth with 62.0 points, and needs only to beat J.F. Kennedy on Saturday to clinch. Two other clubs have a shot should Tren By GENE HALEY Home News sports writer The countdown is on in earnest this week for the NJSIAA football playoffs. Saturday is the cutoff date for the eligible teams to make the four-team bracket in each section.

Let's take a look at how things shape up after yesterday's action. In Central Jersey Group IV, defending champion Middletown South and East course, if they beat Warren Hills this week, they are a lock. Group II suddenly looks like the most interesting race going into the weekend. Unbeaten Manasquarr is home free with 55.0 points. Princeton is second with 43.0, but the Little Tigers have played their eight games and have a 6-2 record.

All they can do is sit and watch the scoreboard. And they won't like what they see if South Plain-field, J.F. Kennedy and Somerville all win See POWER, Page 9 ton and Edison stumble. Hunterdon Central is at 58.5 points while Manalapan is at 56.25. In Group III, Ocean, Franklin and Neptune have spots locked up.

Ocean is the top dog at the moment with 62.0 points, with Franklin second at 60.0 Those two should be the home teams in the first round if they win Saturday. Neptune is third, with Hillsborough fourth. The Raiders lead their nearset competitor, Hamilton West, by 10.5 power points and look like a cinch. Of To answer the Sportsphone Question of the Week, call 246-5536 any time, night or day, and follow the recorded instructions. New York Marathon today Ikangaa, Waitz are favorites in field of 25,000 Irish top Navy with 2nd half explosion cially signaling the start of the marathon.

The 26.2-mile race will be televised by ABC, with the top men's and women's finishers each receiving $26,385 (American winners would receive $35,000.) Ikangaa's time was the world's fastest in 1989 and vaulted him to a No. 1 ranking by Track Field News. Had he followed the route more carefully, his time would have been even faster. "From looking at the film, he definitely would have been able to do 2:07:58," said Fred Lebow, the director and founder of the race. This year, a blue dotted line has been painted along the course to show runners the most direct route.

To better prepare himself this year, Ikangaa has done considerable sprint work in Alamosa, in altitudes of up to 10,000 feet "It gave me high confidence that I can run fast," Ikangaa said. Ikangaa is expected to be challenged by Doug Wakiihuri, the 27-year-old Kenyan who, in the last three years, has picked up two gold 1 By TIM PANACCIO Knight-Ridder Newspapers NEW YORK Few people took Juma Ikangaa seriously last year when the soft-spoken army major from Tanzania boldly predicted that he not only would win the New York City Marathon but do it in record- breaking True to his word, Ikangaa, among the top marathoners in the world, broke from the pack midway through the race, clicked off a series of 4-minute, 45-second miles, and won in a course-record 2 hours, 8 minutes, 1 second 12 seconds faster than Alberto Salazar's 1981 record. So what does the 30-year-old Ikangaa have in mind for today's 21st running of the New York City Marathon? "I wish you would be patient and wait until Sunday," Ikangaa, who has run six marathons, said sheepishly. About 25,000 runners will cross the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, offi medals and one silver medal in world-class marathons. Wakiihuri's best effort in 1990 was his 2:10:27 victory at Auckland, New Zealand, in January.

"I'll be running with Wakiihuri, but my main opponent will be the distance itself," Ikangaa said. "We are in need of beating the distance." Mark Plaatjes, 27, a three-time South African champion who resides in Lake Forest, 111., did not finish last year's race, but he is expected to challenge Sunday. Plaatjes, who could become a U.S. citizen as early as January, owns a career best of 2:08:58 (1985, Port Elizabeth, South Africa). If the race goes down to the final mile, near the southern end of Central Park, watch out for Ken Martin.

The 32-year-old Dallas resident staged one of the best finishes ever last year, when he outsprinted Italy's Gelindo Bordin, this year's winner at Boston, by two seconds to nail down second place in 2:09:38 See RACE, Page E6 By JOHN BRUNS Home News sports writer EAST RUTHERFORD It was exciting while it lasted and that was for one half, which was longer than most people anticipated. Navy, crossing up Notre Dame by" using the wishbone formation, battled the heavily favored Figthing Irish on even terms in the first half, but the Irish scored the first three times they had the ball in the third period en route to a 52-31 victory before 70,382 fans at sunny Giants' Stadium yesterday. Seven different players scored as Notre Dame upped its record to 7-1 with its 27th consecutive victory over Navy (3-5), which trails 54-9-1 in the series and has not won since 1963 when Roger Staubach was the quarterback. The victory will probably return Notre Dame to the number one position in the college football rankings. Virginia, which occupied the top spot last week, was handed its first loss by Georgia Tech yesterday.

The Irish scored 42 points in the second half, and the two teams combined for 63 points in the final 30 minutes after being tied at 10-10 at the half. The scoring explosion kept the interest of the fans, but the Irish had the game in hand once they blitzed the Middies for three touchdowns in the first 10 minutes of the third period to take a 31-10 lead. Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz admitted that the game plan put together by his Navy counterpart George Chaump caught the Irish off guard. "Chaump is a smart guyl We didn't expect the wishbone," he said. Chaump was quick to point out that except for a couple of option See IRISH, Page E6 Tigers strike early, beat Penn ft I Y- tt I J.J: yards with the Tigers first kickoff return for a touchdown since Ralph Ferraro's in 1982 against Cornell.

It's the first time since 1962 that anybody has turned the trick against the Quakers. "I went up the middle and bounced to the outside," explained Bents, who also gained 30 yards on seven carries. "I wanted to outrun the kicker, so I cut back inside." Three minutes later on third down and short yardage the 18,534 fans watched Hamilton try to dive over the middle of the line, bounce off, and sprint around the left side for a 58-yard touchdown. And 2V4 minutes after that it was Hamilton again, this time rushing left, hitting trouble, reversing direction and racing seven yards for the See TIGERS, Page E6 the game. The running start came in handy because the Quakers outscored Princeton 20-13 over the final 54 minutes before falling 34-20 at Palmer Stadium.

The victory was sweet for the; Tigers 3-5 overall and 2-3 in the Ivy League who have been re-' duced to spoilers and ended Perm's outside shot at a share of the conference title. The Quakers are 2-6 and also 2-3 in the Ivy. "We didn't give ourselves a chance today," lamented Quakers coach Gary Steele. "We shot ourselves in the foot. I was afraid we'd pack our tents early, but I'm proud of the way we came back." Bents, a senior who has shared tailback duties with Hamilton, set the tone quickly when he raced 82 By BOB KNOBELMAN Home News sports writer PRINCETON BOROUGH Three quick touchdowns during the first six minutes of a game are tonic 1 for any football coach.

So Princeton Universirycoach Steve Tosches could only smile about the Tigers early 21-0 cushion over Pennsylvania yesterday that made the rest of the afternoon so much more pleasant. "The coaching staff would like to take the credit, but it came down to great individual efforts," said Tosches about Dan Bents' 82-yard return for a touchdown on the opening kickoff and Erick Hamilton's 58 and seven-yard touchdown runs that gave the Tigers their wide early margin only six minutes into Andrea KaneThe Koine News AHEAD OF THE FIELD Matt Doherty of St. Joseph's leads Joseph Ruvolo of J.P. Stevens in the late stages of yesterday's Greater Middlesex Conference championship race. See story, page E8..