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1 Sl 3 uu L1L1L 3d iu'L Li "W-J .11 because the Sioux on This time UND thwarts arch-rival NDSU in overtime 7 quarterback John tktwenkamp on third down. Under college overtime rules, the Bison then received their shot hum the 25-yard line. Three netted nine yards and then the Bison tried a pitchout to the right to tailback Bod MJone. But Digger Anderson submarined the blocker and hit Malone low. with fellow linebacker Lric 1 lalstenson finishing him off.

"They had run the same play on fourth-and-l earlier and got the first down," Anderson said. "I dove right through him and got him in the knees. 1 was just trying to get his legs out from underneath him." Anderson was knocked silly by the tac kle alter taking a knee in the" face. He remained on the turf for about a minute after the game-ending play. But his head cleared.

"Beforehand, I figured the came would go down to the wire," lie said. "We had come from way back twice to win, hut the co-Tie h.uk from a dtficit tu deleat V.unutta, too. I knew there was no in them, but also tli.it there was no quit in us." The Bison took a pace out of UNO's final-act script bv scoring two touchdowns in the grimes last UND looked to be in control when wide receiver Tiavis Lueck scored his second touchdown of the day with 9:. '4 left on a 59-yarJ pass from Bowenkamp fur a 21-7 lend. The next two NDSU possessions ended with fourth-down stops by the Sioux.

But the Bison gained life when Craig Dahl blinked a Bret Bentow punt and recovered the ball at UNO's 29 with 4:30 remaining. Converting a fourth-and-13 along the way, the Bison drove the 29 yards in seven plays. Wide receiver Allen Burrell scored the first of Ins two touchdow ns with 2:24 left to pull NDSU within 21-14. SIOUX: QmrituMlonSD By RYAN BAKKEN Fvr the Tribune GRAND FORKS This time, the defense provided the game-ending heroics. In the previous two winks, the University of North Dakota football team had turned losses into wins on scores ish three seconds left and two seconds left.

The Sioux had two wins despite leading in the games for a combined total of five seconds. i' seemingly impossible. Saturday's again'rival North Dakota State was, even more dramatic. That's 9 i 4 in overtime the NCC football linai play neir.c a fourth-and-l defensive stop for a 23-21 victory in what could he the last game between the two rivals. Not only was it a big win in the storied rivalry, but it had immense conference and playoff implications.

The Sioux are now the only unbeaten team in North Central Conference play at 4-0, ind are 6-1 overall 4 UND 23, NDSU 21, OT- with three regular sea- son games remaining. NDSU fell to 3-1 and 3-2. The Sioux scored first fn overtime, Caleb Johnson hauling in a 3- ard bullet i DAC-10 football 1 U-Mary 41, Jamestown 3 MIKE McCLEARYTribune U-Mary football player Jacob Pfau and the rest of the Marauders wear stickers on their helmets bearing the Initials' Of of teammates Anthony Latum and Dustin Gailey. Latum and'Gailey died in separate incidents last week. Mar Aiders set 4 vjodi of S2101 AP Nc York Yankees batter Derek Jeter groans during a strikeout by Florida Marlins pitcher Dontrelle Willis in the eighth inning.

Florida tough in Game 1 By BEN WALKER AP BasebaUWriter NEW YORK (AP) These fish can fly. Juan Pierre and the Florida Marlins had the Yankees on the run from the very start, stealing the World Series opener 3-2 Saturday night from a New York team that looked as if it was still recovering from its last game. "We're going to try to create hav oc for the rest of the series," Pierre World Series said. "We let them i know i what we're about, that we're coine to keep pressure on them all Series." True to form, the Yankees showed up in the Marlins 3, Yankees 2 ninth inning and threatened after drawing a pair of walks. But somehow the Marlins held on, and it was speed that made the difference.

After a pair of walks, Ugueth Urbina got Alfonso Soriano on a called third strike and then retired Nick Johnson on a fly ball when Pierre streaked in from center field to end it. "Speed definitely makes the difference," Yankees manager Joe Torre said. "We got a first-hand look at it tonight." Pierre led the majors with 65 steals this season and the Marlins had the most overall. They showed off their speed in a hurry with Pierre leading off with a bunt single and Luis Castillo following with a hit-and-run single. "When you have one of those speed guys on, you certainly don't ant a merry-go-round," Torre said.

With that, the wild-card Marlins were off in this 100th anniversary Series. Pierre later added a two-run single and a stolen base as Florida defeated David Wells and ended New York's record string of 10 straight home Series wins. "1 don't know why we should be awed. It's a credit to the players. They don't worry about where they're playing," Marlins manager Jack McKeon said.

Brad Penny, Dontrelle Willis and Urbina made the lead stand up something that San Diego, the New York Mets and Arizona could not do in the late innings of previous Octobers at Yankee Stadium. These Yankees seemed spent, wrestled Boston to a. training but SERIES: isi on 6D f-ym- It 1 mother died unexpectedly, radio broadcaster Rog I Iiggins has missed the entire season due to illness; and now two players have died. As far as outside influences, it's been the toughest of Schulz's five seasons. "Easily," Schulz said.

"A lot of the things I used to worry about I don't anymore. I just want the kids to be safe. You worry about the players and they worry about you. You start viewing this as a game, and that it's not real important. U-Mary defensive coordinator Paul Schaffncr watched his plavers completely control the game, and their emotions.

"Football is football and life is life," Schaffner said. "Those two individuals were more important than this game. Our kids showed their emotional maturity." Speakinj a 1 rattled this week." the game, the Marauders huddled on the field, broke and left the field with less fanfare than that following a typical win. Few felt celebrating, with the deaths teammates Anthony Lalum Dusten Gailey still fresh in minds. Gailey died early morning in his dorm and Lalum died later in week from injuries suffered traffic accident on Sunday.

wanted to dedicate this to them," said Garcia. "It rough at the beginning of Continued on 4D By SCOOTER PURSLEY For the Tribune After dwelling on nothing but losses for the past six days, the University of Mary football team picked up an emotional win on Saturday. The Marauders, still reeling from the deaths of two teammates earlier in the week, put together four solid quarters in beating Jamestown College 41-3 Saturday in a DAC-10 game at the Bismarck Community Bowl. Quarterback Tim Garcia and the U-Mary defensive unit set the tone for the lOth-rankcd Marauders. Garcia completed 19 of 23 passes for 269 yards and four touchdown passes in the first half, then sat out the last two quarters.

The Marauder defense held the Jimmies to 17 yards of total offense and no first downs en route to a 38-0 halftime lead. "I didn't know how they would react," U-Mary coach Myron Schulz "Their souls Football takes By SCOOTER PURSLEY For the Tribune For three hours on Saturday, the so-called gridiron became a sanctuary for the University of Mary football team. For three hours, the Marauders were able to put the events of the last week the last two months really out of their minds and focus on one thing they could control: The game. "The great thing about today was that they got to go out and play a game. Not football, but a game and be kids again," U-Mary coach Myron Schulz said after the Marauders beat the Jamestown College Jimmies 41-3 at the Community Bowl.

For the past week, the players had been haunted by the deatns of team were After ranks much like of and their Sunday room, the in a "We game was U-MARY: MIKE McCLEARYTnbune U-Mary football players walk onto the field with two flags bearing the names and jersey numbers of teammates Dusten Gailey and Anthonly Lalum before Saturday's game with Jamestown College. U-Mary players' minds off troubled autumn "You see people in class and at home and they are just zoned out," Garcia said. "When they come out on the field, people find relief." That doesn't mean they forget completely "It still pretty rough," Garcia said. "I think about my mom every day. and this thing has reinforced that Football has been an outlet for me, but on down time it's still tough.

It's going to take a long time." The players' deaths were only the latest in a series of events that have affected the U-Marv athletic department this fall. Athletic director Al Bortke has been ill and undergoing tests; athletic secretary Louise Wetzel underwent brain surgery and recently returned to school; Garcia mates Dusten Gailey and Anthony Lalum. Gailey was found dead in his dorm room, Lalum died from injuries suffered in an automobile accident. Sadly, alcohol was said to have played a role In both deaths. The game began with the Marauders entering the stadium carrying flags with the names and numbers of tneir teammates.

The postgame huddle on the field following the victory was subdued. In between, the Marauders were typical U-Marv, dominating from the outset. Those three hours were a release the layers needed, according to quarter-ackTim Garcia. And Garcia, of all people, would know. His mother passed away before the season opener.

New England tops Strasburg-Zeeland Trerrton-Trinity Christian, Divide County, Vott-Regent Slso in in first round of 9-man football playoffs 3D Spartans No. 1 Fargo North defeats St Mary's 2-0 for state high school boys soccer championship 6D "It wasn't something I set my goals to do. Joe's probjfc'ytte sae vov. We've both coached all our lives, and there's still a lot of football in both of bfcy Bowden, Florida State coach, on tvng Joe Patent? on the l-A football coaching wins list at 338 with a 19-14 win over Virginia Saturday. (Story, 4D).