Enterprise-Journal du lieu suivant : McComb, Mississippi • 9

Spouts Enterpir ise-Journal Sunday, Sept. 12, 1993 1-B Hallman's decision pays off in LSU win v. ZT 1 i yard touchdown pass to a wide-open Kendall Watkins with 2:07 remaining. Mississippi State (0-2, 0-1), which lost 24-3 at LSU last season, missed the two-point conversion when Jordan short-hopped a pass. LSU took a short kickoff at its 39 with 1:53 to play and drove to the Bulldogs' 8 in nine plays.

Sophomore Jamie Howard, who was 21-for-39 for 248 yards, hit Chris Hill for 20 and 19 yards on the final drive. "We kicked a deep onside the last kick, and we didn't place the ball where we were supposed to and our coverage was not very Sood," MSU third-year coach ackie Sherrill said. "Going for two. if we had made that, we had a chance to do some things. "It's kind of disheartening when you have a chance to go up by three and they have to kick a field goal to tie.

It makes a big difference." Instead, Lafleur, who said he kicked just two field goals in high school, split the uprights after holder Chad Loup recovered a low snap. The kick won the game after the failed MSU conversion. "Chad held up great. We were so close it was like hitting the side of a barn," Lafleur said. "I'm glad I did well for LSU.

The Tigers won this game, not me." LSU had good field position STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) -LSU coach Curley Hallman decided at halftime to give his No. 2 field goal kicker a shot. It paid off with a rare Southeastern Conference victory for the Tigers. Sophomore Andre Lafleur, a walk-on in his first collegiate game, kicked three field goals in the second half, including the 26-yard game-winner with 10 seconds remaining, as LSU beat Mississippi State 18-16 Saturday.

The victory was the Tigers' (1-1 overall, 1-0 SEC) second in their last 12 conference games. Lafleur had field goals of 32 and 49 yards in the third quarter as the Tigers took a 15-10 lead. LSU trailed 10-9 at halftime after Matt Huerkamp missed field goal attempts of 26 and 32 yards. In between, he made a 41-yarder but the kicking duties were passed in the second half to Lafleur. "Andre has worked in practice and we have never been afraid to go with him," Hallman said.

"We just felt like it was something we needed to do." Lafleur's game-winning field goal came after Mississippi State had taken the lead following a blocked 32-yard attempt by Lafleur. LatefT Travis picked up the blocked kick and returned it to the LSU 43-yard line. Three plays later, Todd Jordan threw a 15- if 5 I i frr CJ Mississippi State running back Calais (56) reaches for a piece Grant kicks 4 in Ole Miss win I ''I, I YV- Kevin Boule (34) steps over a of Jersey Saturday afternoon. quarter points and Grant's field goals to take command. "We're still not where we want to be at this point," said Brewer, "By next Saturday night (against; Vanderbilt), we better be there.

From here out, the competition gets tougher." Adams, a sophomore making only his second start, ran 6 yards to cap a 9-play, 64-yard drive late in the first quarter to give the Rebels a 7-0 lead and completed several key passes to set up three other scores. Grant, a junior college transfer, booted field goals of 30, 50, 23 and 21 yards. He became only the fourth Rebel to kick four or more field goals in a game and matched the school single game mark of 16 points by a kicker set by Brian Lee against Tulane in 1991. "It felt real good to get some confidence after having that miss against Auburn (a 32-yarder in a 16-14 loss nine days ago)," said Grant. "I'm glad I could get the fans' confidence tonight." Tailback Marvin Courtney ran 19 yards to finish off a 79-yard, 10-play drive that gave Ole Miss a 20-0 lead with 10:55 to play in third quarter.

Backup quarterback Paul Head, in his first college game, ran 1 yard for a third quarter touchdown and threw a 20-yard TD pass to Deano Orr in the final throughout the game, starting at its own 35 or better on nine of 11 drives. The Tigers didn't punt until the first play of the fourth quarter, but had first-half drives end on two missed field goals and Howard's only interception. "We should have scored more than we did," Howard said. "The biggest thing the whole game was field position," said Sherrill, whose teams had an average start at its own 19. Shut out in its season opener at Texas LSU opened the game with a 14-play, 65-yard scoring drive.

The Tigers converted three third-down conversions before scoring on third-and-goal when Howard hit Hill for a 6-yard TD pass. Mississippi State got its first touchdown when Jordan faked a handoff, then hit sophomore Eric Moulds on the dead run for a 72-yard scoring pass on the Bulldogs' fourth offensive play. State, which has lost five straight games, had a 10-6 lead after Tom Burke's 42-yard field goal with 11:20 to go in the half. Jordan, ll-for-23 for 185 yards, converted a third-and-12 with a 21-yard dump pass to Kevin Bouie, but his third-and-17 pass to Darrin Clark before the field goal came up 2 yards short. Mississippi State's running game was limited to 96 yards.

McNair leads Braves By The Associated Press Steve McNair accounted for 570 yards offense, including the game-winning 50-yard touchdown pass with 18 seconds left, to give Alcorn State a 44-41 Southwestern Athletic Conference vic-tory over Texas Southern Saturday. McNair, who also rushed for 146 yards and a touchdown, finished the night with 424 yards passing and two touchdown pas-: ses, both to Marcus Hinton. Alcorn State (2-0, 2-0 SWAC) -battled Texas Southern to a 21-21 tie in the first half. McNair passed 28 yards to Hinton for one score and ran 8 yards for another, while Betrelle Shelby scored on a 2-yard run for the Braves' first-half points. Texas Southern (1-1, 1-1 SWAC) took the opening yard kickoff 75 yards, capped by Car-nell White's 2-yard scoring run.

Dominick Jackson also scored on a 2-yard run and Schmanisky Peyton passed 28 yards to Joe Rogers to even the score at the half. Both teams exchanged touchdown after touchdown in the second half with Alcorn's Harry Brown scoring on runs of 8 and 15 yards while Peyton passed 28 and 12 yards, both to Rogers, for Texas Southern. Delta St. 20, SW Baptist 0: Reserve quarterback David Crowe jumpstarted Delta State as the Statesmen beat Southwest Baptist 20-0 in Todd Knight's debut as coach. Starting quarterback Spence Shepherd completed just five of 14 passes for the Statesmen, but Crowe sparked the DSU attack, connecting on seven of 18 pass attempts for 103 yards and one TD, All-Gulf South Conference tailback Greg Walker rushed for 196 yards on 25 carries and pulled down one 18-yard reception for Delta State.

Delta State compiled 453 yards total offensive in its season opener under the 29-year-old Knight. They allowed visiting SBU (0-2) just 163 yards total. Running back Redgie Franklin had 109 yards rushing to lead the Bearcats. There were four former South west Mississippi Community College players in the game. For DSU, there was Fredrick Brister, and Curtis Spears; for SW Baptist, Rodney Jackson and Buck Faust.

Millsaps 30, Austin College 20: Kelvin Gladney rushed for 270 yards, scoring on runs of 16, 7 and 16 yards Saturday, leading Millsaps College past Austin College, 30-20. 7 of Brookhaven, tries to shake Ole Miss 40-7 win Saturday. Luke Holcombe to Nick Ross pass. "We played soft at times and waited. We waited for something to happen on both sides of the ball," said Tennessee-Chattanooga coach Tommy West.

"We just didn't force it." Kenny Earl connected with SSJLJ OXFORD, Miss. (AP) Billy Brewer wanted some answers Saturday night as his Ole Miss a And if it was big numbers he sought, Brewer had a lot to smile about. The Rebels came away with a 40-7 victory and en route rolled up 529 yards offense and 33 first downs three short of the school record. But he wasn't entirely satisfied. "We got to see a lot of people play three quarterbacks, four tailbacks and four fullbacks," said Brewer.

"That gives us a lot to look at to build a team to get back into conference play." After the respite against i Division I-AA Tennessee-I Chattanooga, Ole Miss fa3S six straight games back in the rugged Southeastern Conference. "We wanted to play with inten-! sity and cut down on our mis-! takes. We didn't do that all night and we gave up a couple of big plays," Brewer said. Lawrence Adams ran for a touchdown and threw for 186 yards and former SMCC kicker Walter Grant kicked four field goals as Ole Miss won the 14th straight time against the Moccasins. After a sluggish start, the Rebels (1-1) used 17 third- At I 1 1 rJ Associated Press photo teammate as LSU defender Mike rr Ole Miss fullback Renard Brown Parks during first half action of quarter.

Substitutes played most of the way for Ole Miss after it built a 20-0 lead. Tennessee-Chattanooga, which ended a nine-game losing streak with an opening game victory a week ago, had only two real scoring threats until a late fourth-quarter touchdown on an 5-yard Photo by Randy Hammons Mr I Saints prepared to meet Falcons Associated Press photo free from Ut-Chatanooga's Jack flanker Bobby Acree on a 78-yard pass midway in the second quarter to take the ball to Kebel 7, but an incomplete pass and three runs got the ball only to the Ole Miss 1. Rob Godoy missed a 46-yard field goal early in the third quarter after Ole Miss went up 20-0. way you can get in the huddle. That's not factual." "I think people think that you get more out of that kind of stuff than you really do," Mora said.

"I don't think that whatever information Bobby has told Atlanta about our offense, or whatever and it's been very little Wade has contributed to our defensive planning, I don't think that's going to have anything to do whatsoever with the outcome of the game." Wilson said there wasn't much he could tell the New Orleans defensive staff about the Falcons run-and-shoot offense. "Being in the same division and facing the run-and-shoot over the years, I think they're pretty familiar with it," said Wilson, who spent one season with the Falcons before signing as a free agent with New Orleans. The two NFC West rivals will be meeting for the 49th time, with the Falcons holding a 27-21 lead that has dwindled quite a bit the past six years. The Saints. hav.ewon.

10 of-theiast 13 meet ings. ML. jfjl ill LV ATLANTA (AP) Jim Mora and Jerry Glanville agree there isn't much usable information to be gleaned from a player who spent the previous season with the opposition. "There's no question in my mind that it's overrated," Mora said. "That's so overrated it's a joke," Glanville said.

When Mora's New Orleans Saints take on Glanville's Atlanta Falcons in the Georgia Dome on Sunday, each coach can look at the other sideline and see a quarterback who started for him last season. Wade Wilson, a backup in Atlanta for much of the year before starting down the stretch, will start for the Saints. Bobby Hebert, who completed his seventh season as the New Orleans starter last year, is now a backup to Chris Miller with the Falcons. "Hebert could help me immensely if I could get in the (Saints) huddle," Glanville said. "Hebert knows what they say in the.wid--dle and what they do.

There's no "V- McCallum inks with SMCC Tylertown's Donnie McCallum, far left, recently became Southwest Mississippi Community College's latest tennis scholarship recipient. As a 17-year old, McCallum was ranked in the Top 10 in the state Junior 1 8's. Because of an automobile ac cident, he wasn't able to compete in the division. A sophomore, Donnie played No. 1 singles doubles for SMCC last year and reached the state semifinals in both divisions.

Witnessing the signing are his parents, Susie and Don McCallum..