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NFL5C Outdoors9C SUNDAY piri OCTOBER 22, 1989 PREPCOLLEGEPROAMATEUR MESSENQER-INQUIRER1 Louisville loses4C ri Runs by Rawls keep Kentucky 27-21 tSU 21 -si I rolling, By Mlka Embry Associated Press LEXINGTON Alfred Rawls kept Kentucky on the winning track while derailing Louisiana State on Saturday night. The senior tailback from Pitts, raced 73 yards for a touchdown with three minutes remaining as Kentucky turned back a late Louisiana State rally tq post a 27-21 Southeastern Conference victory. "I was supposed to go up the middle but I broke it outside," Rawls said of the scamper. "Then I used my speed to get into the end zone. Andy Murray also made a great block." Rawls, who also had a 43-yard TD run in the third quarter, finished with career-high 192 yards on 19 carries as Kentucky (4-2 overall and 1-2 in SEC) handed LSU (1-5 and 0-3) its third consecutive setback.

"The line blocked well tonight," Rawls said. "We practiced hard all week for this game. No we are on the right track. You have to give credit to our offensive line. They did a great job." LSU, which had trailed 21-0 after Owensboro's Ken Willis kicked a 31-yard field goal with 7:27 left in the third quarter, put on a furious charge behind quarterback Tommy Hodson.

"If we had come in and played better the first half, we wouldn't have had to do so much later," said Hod-son. "We couldn't get it going the first two quarters." LSU trimmed the lead to 21-14 after Victor Jones scored on a 1-yard run with 11 seconds left in the third period and Hodson's 21-yard TD strike to Tony Moss with 8:59 left in the game. Bob BrucK, Messenger-Inquirer Receiver Trent Crawl of Kentucky Wesleyan loses hold of the ball during a klckoff return at Rash Stadium Lambuth leaves Wesleyan blanked and bewildered IIU ..0 0 7 14-21 KENTUCKY 0 12 M7 KYFG Willi 44 KY-FOWIM KYHtndtmon 3 put from MHwti (put Mad) KY-RiU43wi(piuMlit KY-FQWM L80Jon 1 run (Brawn! kk) LSU-MoMi1pHarmHi(Browndyt(ikld4 KY ftowta 73 run Adek feHtd) UHM.MptMlromHodMn(IfOmMWI LIU KY Flntdowm RuihH-ytm Putlng RatumYvot Comp-AlMnl, Pur Fumblw-Loit Panallm-Ylrtl 19 17 3M00 4(441 283 1M 1017-1 HO S-37 3-1 544 M8 19:01 30:87 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RU8HIN8-LSU, FuHtr 1M0, Jonw 3-10, Kerrtueky, 1M92 PASSINQ LSU, Hodmn 23-3H-JM, KtntueKy, Mqgiri 10-1M-1M. BECEMNO-L8U, FuUr t-St, Lm 4-73, Mow 44. Km-tueky, Bottm 443, Hmdmon 3-3S, Hodson had LSU threatening again, completing four passes while moving the Tigers from their own 25 to the Kentucky 24 in eight plays.

But linebacker Billy Swanson intercepted his next pass on the 24 and returned it 3 yards to kill the drive. On the next play, Rawls went off right tackle on his 73-yard scamper to give Kentucky a 27-14 cushion. "Rawls runs were critical," said Kentucky coach Jerry Claiborne. "He got good blocking at the line of scrimmage and he had the speed to break away and that's what he did." LSU came back when Hodson completed a 45-yard TD pass to Alvin Lee with 2:22 to go for the final tally. It See RAWLSBACK PAGE MARK C.

MATHIS Sportswrlter 1 "They started hitting those short passes," UK coach Jerry Claiborne said after UK went to 4-2 and won its first SEC game this year after two losses. "We were trying to keep them from hitting anything long on us. We had several opportunities to make the interception, and we didn't get them." Hodson hit 23 of 39 passes for 283 yards, including a medium touchdown pass to Tony Moss (21 yards) and another long one (45 yards) to Alvin Lee, that coming with 2:22 to play and cutting UK's lead to 27-21. The Moss touchdown made it 21-14, UK, with 8:59 to go. The second touchdown happened, in part, because UK had the wrong players on the field, although it had 12 men on the field at the time.

"We were trying to get our guards out of the game," Claiborne said. "The people we were trying to get in the ball game weren't in right there where we wanted them to play some man-to-man defense. We had some See WILDCATSBACK PAGE Wildcats wind up with another turnmy-churner day. Maybe I should've gone with the other quarterback." When Abney turned the offense over to Apollo High product Kevin Thompson, KWC trailed 19-0 in the middle of the third period. The offense continued to struggle although Thompson completed 5 of 11 passes for 48 yards with one interception.

Wesleyan turned the ball over four times two fumbles and two interceptions while Lambuth played error-free. With Lambuth's 6-foot-2, 340-pound noseguard De-wayne Dickerson clogging up the middle, the Panthers never got closer than the Eagles' 44-yard line. "It didn't look like we got it done in the trenches," Mitchell said. See WESLEYANBACK PAGE It's not making anything happen," said KWC head coach Billy Mitchell. "We have to go back and find something that'll work.

I didn't realize we were this bad. Maybe we were playing better teams than I thought." Last week, Union College beat Wesleyan, 34-0. Wesleyan tried to spread the Lambuth defense by using two wide receivers and two tight ends, but of quarterback Chris Abney's first five passes, three were incomplete, one was a screen pass good for 2 yards and another was intercepted. Abney finished the day completing 3 of 10 passes for 21 yards. "Chris' grandfather died this week and he left campus and didn't practice until Thursday," Mitchell said; "His timing wasn't there to SMU by 74 points Saturday.

LAMBUTH 6 7 8-27 KY.WESLIYAN 0 0-0 Johnson 2 run (kick blocked), I Johnson 11 run (pass failed) Johnson 88 run (Hardwek kick). Crockett 42 pass from Cash (Cox pass from Cash), Attendance 1 ,450 (est.) LAM KWC First downs 17 11 Rushes-yards 47-239 41-129 Passing yards 164 69 Return yards 22 13 12-22-0 8-23-2 Punts 6-36 8-37 Fumbles-lost 3-0 6-2 Penalties-yards 11-100 6-73 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING KWC: Poythress 14-66, Mebert 13-35, Abney 7-19. 17-134, Thaxter 12-82. PASSING KWC: Thompson 6-11- 1- 48, Abney 3-10-1-21, Hebert 0-2-0-0. Cash 10-17-0-139.

Brantloy 2-4-0-25, Johnson 0-1-0-0. RECEIVING KWC: T. Allen 2-18, Hebert 2-12, Poythress 2-19, Wright 1-1 1 Tanner 1 -9. Crocket 3-71 J. Allen 2- 18, Thaxter 2-21, Johnson 2-15, Cisco 1-14, Clark 1-16, Murphy 1-9.

The high score hardly had the approval of SMU coach Forrest Gregg. "They had their second and third defense in there in the second and third quarter, but I didn't see any reason to keep putting in fresh receivers to keep running by our kidst" Gregg said. "I don't know who was responsible for it but I don't appreciate it. 'I know this, I'd never run up the score like that on a group of freshmen and sophomores. If it was an even team, that's different.

"It's over and I guess I should be happy they didn't get 100." "We wanted to get Andre 40, 45 snaps to get over the game," Houston coach Jack Pardee said. "We had to work on getting the ball deep because we'll face blitzes again this year from teams that aren't playing freshmen and sophomores." See HOUSTONBACK PAGE tice players. But with Pitino's fast-break style and the limited manpower, walk-ons will play a bigger role this season. "They're going to have to be part of the rotation," Pitino said. "He's been known to play 10 guys in a game," Parks said.

But so far, It's just been fun for Parks to be out on the floor in blue and white. "It takes a lot of time. Like after this first week, you think about if it's worth it or not," Parks said. "But in the long run, it will pay off." LAMOUTH 27 By Rich Suwanskl Messenger-Inquirer The Kentucky Wesleyan football team not only is finding it hard to win; the Panthers are also having trouble scoring. For the second week in a row, KWC was shut out, falling to Lambuth, 27-0, Saturday afternoon at Rash Stadium.

Wesleyan, which won its season opener, has slumped to a 1-5-1 record with three games to go, guaranteeing its seventh consecutive losing season. Against Lambuth, the Panthers generated 198 yards total offense, a little less than half of the Eagles' total of 403. KWC's output was also a far cry from its first five games, when the offense produced an average of 19 points per game. "The offense has fallen apart Houston Top 253C By Michael A. Lutx Associated Press HOUSTON The refurbished Astrodome has new scoreboards, and 16th-ranked Houston kept them flashing at a record pace Saturday.

Houston became the first team in NCAA history to surpass 1,000 total offensive yards and Andre Ware threw six touchdown passes, setting three NCAA records, as the Cougars beat Southern Methodist 95-21. Kimble Anders 16-yard run put Houston over 1,000 total yards in the closing minutes of the game and the Cougars finished with 1,021 total yards. Ware set NCAA standards of five touchdown passes in one quarter, 340 yards in one quarter and 517 yards in a half. "We needed something good to about five or six calls," Parks said during Saturday's media day activities at Memorial Coliseum. "I know it was bugging my roommate, but it felt good." It must, indeed.

Parks wasn't exactly a budding superstar his senior season at Breckinridge County, the only year he started and a season in which he averaged 8.7 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.3 assists, making the all-district Parks went to Western Kentucky University out of high school, overdosing on pickup games. hammers HOUSTON HZCORDS NCAA records set by Houston In Its 95-21 victory over Southern Methodist on Saturday: Total yards, gam 1,021 (previous record, 883 Nebraska against New Mexico State In 1982). Total passing yard, gam 771 (previous record, 698, Tulsa against Idaho State In 1967). Total paaalng yards, half 617, Andre Ware (previous record, 372, Jim McMahon, Brlgham Young, 1980). Total paaalng yard, quarter 340, second quarter, Andre Ware (previous record, 304, Brooks Dawson, Texas-El Paso, 1968).

Passing touchdowns, quarter 6, second quarter, Andre Ware (previous record, 4, held by eight others). happen after last week," Ware said of a 17-13 loss to Texas "We got This one was getting ugly, and it was only the middle of the third quarter. One team had a three-touchdown lead, and the sky looked like it was ready to fall in. It was reminiscent of many University of Kentucky football games. A Southeastern Conference matchup gone awry.

But instead of Louisiana State, a traditional Southeastern Conference power, running over UK, the Wildcats were making the Tigers miserable. "We made them look like the Chicago Bears in the first half," said Tommy Hodson, LSU's talented quarterback. UK was up 12-0 at the half, 21-0 halfway through the third quarter. Over with, right? Put this one in the books, right? A big UK blowout, right? Don't forget, this is UK football. And, just as UK football games often turn out, this one on a chilly Saturday night at Commonwealth Stadium would make you reach for the Rolaids.

The final was UK 27, LSU 21. I UK should've won by a ton, but against 1-4, now 1-5 and 0-3 in the SEC, LSU, the Wildcats were holding on even as of the 53,967 fans were making a hasty exit after Alfred Rawls' 73-yard scoring jaunt seemingly put the Wildcats in command, 27-14, with three minutes to play. Walk-on By Mark Mathls Messenger-inquirer LEXINGTON 'Michael' Parks has been getting a lot of phone calls this week. It's not often that a guy is picked to be a walk-on basketball player at the University of Kentucky. Michael Parka I know this, I'd never run up the score like that on a group of freshmen and Forrest Gregg, SMU coach back to fundamentals, did our job and executed well.

"We feel like we can explode at any time and tonight it happened in the second quarter" when Houston scored 35 points. Ware, who leads the nation in total offense, completed 25 of 41 passes, all in the first half. David Klingler took over in the second half and threw four more touchdown passes, "I transferred intending on walking on," Parks said. "I figured this would be my best chance, this year." If Parks didn't know it before, he learned hustle in. his first week of practice.

Coach Rick Pitino has been noted as a taskmaster in practice. "It's nonstop hustle," Parks said. "When we go to a different session In practice, we always sprint. There's no hands on the side, bending over trying to breathe." Walk-ons at most programs especially high-profile programs such as.UK are nothing more than prac- makes Wildcats, to 1 Breckinridge folks' surprise "I played ball more than I went to class," Parks said. "When I got bored, I went to the gym." He improved with all the action, usually against some of Western's players, and grew 3 inches.

"I guess I was a late bloomer," Parks said. Under the dire circumstances UK faces NCAA probation and a squad depleted to eight scholarship players Parks decided if he was ever going to follow his dream of playing not only college basketball, but for UK, the time was now. But Parks, a UK junior from Breckinridge County, was one of five selected from 27 players at a walk-on tryout last week. "I got all kinds of phone calls from people back home," said Parks, a 6-foot-3, 180-pounder from Irvington. "People I hadn't even heard from.

Everybody was really surprised. A lot of people didn't even know I'd tried out." The phone calls started coming after the folks back home read about Parks and the others early last week. "When I got in the room, I got.