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Baseball 6 Columns 8 Scoreboard 10 I ffairstt wiin a matter off 6tw9 1 7 rAV f- V''fvM-- ti' TV I 1 MA 7 is Andrea KaneThe Home News Rutgers quarterback Ray Lucas scrambles in the backfield in search of a receiver in Knights' 41-0 win over Colgate. Scarlet Knights roll over Colgate 41 -0 Quarterbacks reverse roies as Lucas leads rout By BRIAN VANDERBEEK Home News senior sports writer PISCATAWAY The first win of Rutgers' football season was so decisive, it had to make Colgate think it was playing against two teams at once. The Scarlet Knights yesterday confirmed they had two solid quarterbacks, reestablished their boast of two quality tailbacks, increased their defensive intensity twofold, and got two huge plays from senior Marshall Roberts. The result was a 41-0 blasting of the Division I-M Red Raiders before 20,096 at sundrenched Rutgers Stadium, giving RU its second straight home-field victory by that exact score, following the 41-0 win over Temple in last year's finale. But the final count, while impressive, won't remain as the lasting image of the Scarlet win.

This will be the game remembered only for two vivid moments. The first came with 8:35 left in the second quarter. After Roberts intercepted a pass and returned it to the Colgate 25, redshirt freshman quarterback Ray Lucas trotted on the field to replace a struggling Bryan For-tay. Two plays later, Rutgers was in the end zone with its first score. The second came very early in the third quarter, when Roberts fielded a punt at the Rutgers 15 and sprinted 85 yards for the touchdown that took the remaining steam out of the Red Raiders.

Those both were very happy moments for the Scarlet Knights and their fans, but neither group will have much time to relish the feeling, since Pittsburgh a team RU never has defeated invades Rutgers Stadium in four days for a nationally televised game. And at some point between yesterday's fi nal gun and Thursday's kickoff, Head Coach Doug Graber has to decide whether Lucas or Fortay will be his quarterback. One thing is sure Graber won't lose any sleep while ponderding the verdict. "I'll feel good either way," said Graber. "And if we're struggling, I feel confident when I go to the bullpen." In short, Graber wasn't about to make a decision on Thursday's starter during yesterday's post-game conversation, and he hinted that his final decision on the Pitt starter may not be announced until game day.

He doesn't see it as a problem, and the statistics bear him out. Lucas, playing a little less than lVfe quarters, completed seven of 11 passes for 107 yards and a touchdown, and ran for an additional 28 yards. He led the team to scores in five of his six possessions, and was halted only when battling the clock See TWO, Page E2 a scoreless game, Lucas took the field to replace junior Bryan Fortay, the heralded transfer from Miami. Fortay and the Rutgers offense had struggled to that point, but Lucas' entrance was a surprise. His time to play figured to come later in the game when the team was comfortably ahead.

And the Harrison High graduate's time to star didn't figure to happen until 1994, after Fortay, had graduated. Instead, in a reversal of roles, it was See QB, Page E2 By TOM IERUBINO Home News sports writer PISCATAWAY When the fans filed into Rutgers Stadium yesterday for the Scarlet Knights' football home opener with Colgate, two things they hoped to see were an RU rout and red-shirt freshman Raymond Lucas get some playing time at quarterback. They got to see both in the Knights' 41-0 victory, but certainly not in a manner anyone could have imagined. With 8:35 left in the second quarter of IT Elias will make noise on fie If 1 f0 -'r 'fm" Seles shows she's No. 1 at the Open Princeton RB feels team has set groundwork for '92 Last year we had something to prove.

This year, we're just going to go out and play." Keith Elias 4.2 yards in gaining 572 yards. Neither back is particuclarry happy with sharing the position and Tosches can understand that He's hinted that this year he may go more with the back who has the hot hand rather than following a predetermined rotation as was the case last season. "We're going to play both of them in the course of a ball game. Is it going to be one to one or two to two as it was a year ago, I'm not ready to state that right now," Tosches said. "We'll probably wait until the middle of the week and make sure both of them are healthy." Both want to play, but put the team first "Any athlete in any sport, no one wants to share time.

I know Eric is not happy sharing time. It's one of those things you have to do to help the team," Elias said, adding yhat he rarely thnks about it. "I think about getting as far as I can on each play. Whatever the coach wants to do is fine. I just want to help the team as much as I can in any given capacity," he said.

Hamilton echoed, "It's in everybody's mind to win the starting role I try to give them the best Erick Hamilton I can give them." Opponents can be expected to stack their defenses to stop Elias and Hamilton. See ELIAS, Page E2 By JOHN BRUNS Home News sports writer PRINCETON Princeton football fans will see a different Keith Elias this fall. No, that's not quite right Hopefully, the junior tailback from Lacey will be the same slashing runner he was a year ago when he amassed 902 yards while sharing the position with Erick Hamilton. Princeton fans will hear a different Keith Elias this fall. No, that's not quite right either.

Princeton fans won't hear Keith Elias this fall. That's got it Elias, who burst on the Ivy League scene last fall as a brash, shoot-from-the-lip sopho- 'more last year, says he'll be content to let his play do the talking for him. Not that he regrets being lippy last year. iHe felt the team needed that. KJHe said the team attitude is the same, but phis year the Tigers don't have to be loud tflbout it K''Last year we had to make noise to wake Everything up here," he said.

"Everybody felt the program looked like it was going to take a turn for the worse. We wanted to generate lot of energy, a lot of feeling and a lot of demotion. Especially myself, I talked a lot. We ffJefinitely tried to cultivate an image. We felt that would help us during the season." By BOB GREENE AP sports writer NEW YORK With her razor-sharp groundstrokes once again accompanied by grunts, Monica Seles continued her Grand Slam domination yesterday, capturing the U.S.

Open with a 6-3, 6-3 victory against Arantxa Sanchez Vicario. The victory, Seles' second straight at the National Tennis Center, was her seventh Grand Slam title, including her third of 1992. She also captured the Australian and French opens earlier this year. The victory was worth $500,000, the largest prize in tennis for women. Sanchez Vicario collected $250,000 as runner-up.

"It is nice," Seles said of the victory. "I can play some great tennis. I think my game just kind of played a lot better." This from the top-seeded woman who raced through the two-week tournament without dropping a set. This was the 13th Grand Slam tournament Seles has played, and the eighth time she has reached the final. At Wimbledon in See SELES, Page E5 As for this year, Elias feels the Tigers have to act differently because they're the preseason favorites to win the league.

"This year will be different We're just going to go out and get the job done," he said. "We're not going to do any talking before the game. I for one am not going to do any talking. We're just going to go in to play the game and do our talking on the field. "That's what we're about this year.

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