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1 THE SUNDAY journal 1 DEL NORTE DOES TT Deaths 14 Weather 14 A warming defense and a bey of ballcarriers lift the Del Norte Knights er the Los Lunas Tigers 23-14 at Milne Stadium 8 LOBOS HOOPS Fran Fraschilla says his scheduling efforts won 't come to full fruition until 2001-2002 1 LH yJ 1 I UPSET WEEK 2 SCOREBOARD at I-1 Chester Taylor rushed for 141 yards and two touchdowns as Air Fort 5, Cal St Northrk! 6 Colorado State 23, Colorado 24 Florida 40, Bafl State 19 Michigan 42, Bowting Green 7 Nebraska 49, San Jose State 13 Notre Dame 24, Texas 10 Ohio State 43, Fresno State 19 DeShaun Foster gained 187 yards on a school recorcRying 42 carries and scored three touchdowns as UCLA upset to. 3 Alabama 3S24 More coverage on D2-05 Oklahoma 55, Texas-O Paso 14 Oregon 38, Nevada 7 Oregon St. 21, E. Washington 19 Tennessee 19, S. Mississippi 18 Texas Tech 33, Utah State IS UCLA 35, Alabama 24 Virginia Tedi 2, Akron 23 Toledo knocked off Penn State 24-6 Page D2 DOWN FOR THE COUNT RICK WRIGHT IYA Of the Journal tt JIT I Of Coaches, Continuity St MARY AMN CHASTAIN.TME ASSOCIATED PRESS UP AND DOWN: NMSU quarterback K.C.

Enzmlnger (17) is upended by South Carolina's Kallmba Edwards Saturday. Aggies Go Blank In Carolina USC Convincingly Ends Long Losing Skid A 0- rs Is it the coaching? You bet your Boise it is. And, no, this is not a Rocky Long Must Go column. It's a Rocky Long Must Go Forward (and not in circles) column. Back in 1997, Boise State University and the University of New Mexico both lost their football head coaches.

The Broncos' Houston Nutt was hired away by Arkansas; the Lobos' Dennis Franchione left for Texas Christian. In finding replacements, BSU and UNM both reached out for returning heroes. Dirk Koetter, hired at Boise State, was a former Idaho high school and college hero. Rocky Long, hired at New Mexico, was a former Lobos star quarterback. Koetter had made a name for himself as an offensive coordinator, Long as a defensive coordinator.

Equal footing? Not quite, perhaps. Koetter took over a MIKE STEWARTJOURNAL Lobos safety Scott Gerhardt drops to one knee In the end zone after Boise State's Andre Banks (4) scores a touchdown In the second quarter during Saturday night's game at University Stadium. The Broncos beat UNM for the second straight season. By Dennis Latta Journal Staff Writer COLUMBIA, S.C. The South Carolina Gamecocks got their money's worth Saturday night.

The Gamecocks had a 21-game losing streak going and needed a team they could beat. They found that team in the New Mexico State Aggies. South Carolina blanked the Aggies 31-0 for the first shutout ever suffered at NMSU team that had bottomed out in by coach Tony SamueL who is starting his Baffled Long Pulls Denson in Second Half 1996 and was on its way back under Nutt; Long inherited a program that had peaked in 7 under Franchione. New Mexico competed in a tougher conference. Still, the situations generally were comparable.

Early last week, in fact, as UNM and BSU prepared to meet Saturday night, Long pronounced the talent on the two teams "about Saturday Boise St. 31 New Mexico 14 fourth season. The $375,000 that USC paid for the game was money well-spent. New Mexico State has long had a reputation for potent offense and suspect defense. Now, there are suspicions on both side of the football.

The Gamecocks averaged 7.9 points a game last season but finished with four touchdowns, a field goal and 353 yards total offense in their 2000 season opener. USC rushed for 240 yards, with Derek Watson gaining 114 yards on 14 carries. The Aggies had only Saturday S. Carolina 31 NMSU 0 Up next Sept. 16: New Mexico State vs.

New Mexico, Aggie Memorial Stadium, 7 p.m. Radio: KOB-AM (770) Online: www.NMSTATE SPORTS.com By Greg Archuleta Journal Staff Writer Boise State certainly lived up to its "Broncos" moniker because it stomped all over the University of New Mexico football team Saturday night. By the time UNM's defense figured out the Broncos' offense, the Lobos were removing hooves from their backsides in a 31-14 Boise State victory before 22,090 fans at University Stadium. At least in this game, UNM's offense didn't get outscored by the opponent's defense as it did by a 7-3 count in the season opener. The Lobos outscored Boise State's defense 14-7 on Saturday.

Too bad for those 24 points by the Broncos' offense. "We played like a very bad football team in the first half," Lobos coach Rocky Long said. "I think it was a combination that they're a pretty experienced football team that executed real well, and we didn't play very well for whatever reason. I don't know what that reason is." UNM again struggled mightily on offense with junior quarterback Jeremy Denson at the helm. The Up next jSept: Mexico vs.

Oregon State, University Stadium, 6 p.m. Radio: KOB-AM (770) Lobos, 0-2 on the season, might have opened a controversy at the position. Long, who earlier this past week said he didn't plan on replacing quarterback Denson if he were to struggle, did just that late in the third quarter, putting in sophomore Rudy Caamano. "I think we have a tough decision to make this week in practice," Long said when asked who'll start in six days against Oregon State. "I'll have to watch (game) tape to find out" Denson drove the Lobos 80 yards in 11 plays for a second-quarter score that cut the BSU lead to 28-7 at the time.

Using the athletic ability the Lobos were counting orr, Denson scrambled for 28 in the drive that resulted in a 32-yard run by fullback Jarrod Baxter into the end See LOBOS on PAGE D10 An embarrassing contrast There was nothing equal, however, about Saturday's 31-14 Boise State victory at University Stadium an outcome that had fans booing in the first quarter and streaming toward the exits by early in the fourth. Nor is there anything equal about Koetter's 17-8 career record at BSU and Long's 7-18 mark at UNM. Where has Koetter done right, and where has Long gone wrong? Those are questions it might take this entire section to examine fully, but there's one word that effectively Continuity. At Boise State, Koetter installed his own off ense and hired Brent Guy to coach the See LONG on PAGE D10 121 yards rushing. Actually, they ran for 187 yards but had several plays for minus yardage.

Most notably, quarterback K.C Enzminger was sacked four times and lost 49 yards. New Mexico State now has a week off before playing up-state rival New Mexico in Las Cruces on Sept. 16. "After you get shut out 31-0, you'd like to get up and play tomorrow," said SamueL "I think this will be a good week for us to find out as a team exactly where we're going." See AGGIES on PAGE D1 0 JIM THOMPSONJOURNAL ALMOST BEHEADED: Lobos quarterback Jeremy Denson gets smothered by Boise State's Bradly Phillips during Saturday night's game. Denson was pulled In the second half.

Qualifier Poised To Take on Sampras Today U.S. Open, women's fourth round, men's third round TV: USA, 10 a.m., 5:30 p.m. urn Attention, GO! readers The Journal Is offering a new, convenient method for submitting "items for its Recreation Calendar, which runs every Thursday. You now can visit and submit calendar announcements via an easy-to-use Web form. You also can mail them to P.O.

Drawer Albuquerque, 87103, or drop them by the Journal at 7777 Jefferson NE. As always, the Recreation Calendar is free to non- profit organizations or anyone sponsoring a charitable event a good fight," Lee said through a translator. Sampras, like virtually everyone else on the tour, never heard of Lee before this week. Nor had Sampras ever heard of the guy he struggled against in the steamy heat Saturday, Argentina's Agustin Calleri, in a 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3), 6-3 win. "I was told by someone in the locker room that he was a lefty that stays back," Sampras said.

"He was a righty that hits the ball big. Bad information." In a tournament that has seen See QUALIFIER on PAGE D16 first major tournament fresh from a victory on the second-tier Challenger circuit, reached the round-of-16 in this $15 million Grand Slam event Saturday by beating Germany's Rainer Schuttler 6-2, 3-6, V''-. From the far edge of the National Tennis Center on Court 10, where Koreans crowded around to cheer him, the No. 182-ranked Lee will move over to towering Arthur Ashe Stadium on Monday to play Sampras. "If I'm not in awe of the crowd and the stadium, I'm going to put up Lee Playing 1 st Major, Reaches Round of 16 By Steve Wilstein The Associated Press NEW YORK The latest hero in this melting pot of a U.S.

Open, and the next to face four-time champion Pete Sampras, is a South Korean qualifier from a small, rural town who speaks little English and whose only friend in New York owns a dry cleaning shop. Hyung-Taik Lee, playing in his AMY SANCETT ATHE ASSOCIATED PRESS BACK AT YOU: Fourth seed Pete Sampras returns a ball against Agustln Called in his 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3), 6-3 victory Saturday at the U.S. Open. 4-.