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Sunday, December 1, 2002 Section ports o) 0) Sports Desk: 447-4070 irsportshelenair.com Independent Record Smith leads Eastern Oregon over Carroll never looked back. Carroll would go on to hit just seven-of-32 shots from 3-point range as Gary Lynch (l-for-10) and Randy Ranalli (3-11) both had unchar- nine-of-10 from the line. He made four free throws down the stretch to keep the Saints from surging ahead in the late stages. The Saints were up 10-6 early, but Smith's basket with 7:12 to go in the first half gave EOU a 20-19 lead and they By TOM STUBER IR Sports Writer Eastern Oregon's Larry Smith had it going from all over the court, while Carroll College was stopped cold from outside Saturday night in the Mountaineer's 73-69 win at the Carroll College PE Center. "We came out flat and let them get their heads up," said Carroll coach Gary Turcott.

"Eastern's a good team, but we had a lot of shots go in-and-out." Smith finished with 30 points on nine-of-16 shooting from the floor and Bison edge Bruins By FRANCIS DAVIS IR Sports writer It wasn't a win, but Capital will take it. The Class AA Capital girls basketball team began its season with a 56-53 defeat at the hands of non-conference foe Great Falls High Saturday at the Capital gymnasium, but the young Bruins showed E. Oregon 73 Carroll 69 CARROLL COLLEGE FOGY ALL a '1 Xf pi Tiivi 1 i 1 i l'7n More CARROLL, page 3B Jon Ebett Sflft Photographer NAIA Football Playoffs First Round Carroll, Mont. 42, Dickinson State, N.D. 23 Mary, N.D.

21 Minot State, N.D. 1 8 St. Francis, Ind. 34, St. Xavier, III.

30 Siou Falls, S.D. 45, Kansas Wesleyan 7 Northwestern Oklahoma State 22, Benedictine, Kan. 7 McKendree, III. 21, MidAmerica Nazarene, Kan. 1 3 Georgetown, Ky.

35, St. Ambrose, Iowa 14 Southern Oregon 30, Montana-Western 12 Quarterfinals Sioux Falls, S.D. 1 3, Mary, N.D. 1 0 Georgetown, Ky. 24, St.

Francis, Ind. 0 McKendree, III. 32, Northwestern Oklahoma State 27 Carroll, Mont. 35, Southern Oregon 31 Semifinals Saturday, Dec 7 Pairings, sites and times TBA in first round. Pendarvis' touchdowns passes went for 9 yards to Vick King and 8 yards to McNeese 21 MSU 14 Marcus Trahan.

Pendarvis ran in the eventual game-winning score on a 1-yard run that capped a 10-play, 66-yard drive early in the fourth quarter. Jacob Prim ran for 61 yards to lead a McNeese running game that compiled 110 yards total, or about 115 yards short of its average for the regular season. Carroll College quarterback Robb Latrielle (7) came in relief of the Saints over Southern Oregon Saturday. enough pluck to please coach Tim Kelly. "We played pretty well for a first game," Kelly said.

"We made mistakes and Gilham that's going to happen, especially with our inexperience on varsity. We just need to learn from this and get better." The Bruins were led by senior Elaine Gilham's 11 points. Sophomore guard Danika Kiesling added 10 points and senior Randi Shires added nine. All three players fueled a Helena rally after Holly Etherington fouled out with 2:56 to go in the third quarter with Capital trailing 41-33. Shires was especially big at the end of the third quarter and the beginning of the fourth when she scored eight straight points from the field to pull the Bruins to within 43-41 with 7:41 to play.

"This was Randi's first varsity game and she played great," Kelly said. "Bobbi (Allard) and Danika are two sophomores who started for us and they played well too. I was happy with out transition offense." Great Falls never lost its lead in the fourth quarter, but the Bison could not pull" away from the determined Bruins. "They played aggressive and went to the boards hard," Great Falls coach Chris Lander explained. "Capital is a real solid team." Capital pulled to within 50-49 with 3:09 to play on an inside bucket by Gilham, but Lauren Beck made perhaps the game's biggest shot by nailing a 3-pointer from the More CAPITAL, page 3B Bengals run past CMR in season opener By IR STAFF GREAT FALLS Helena High begun its season in high style with a 59-49 win over CM.

Russell in a Class AA non-conference girls basketball game Saturday. Senior center Amy Brooks led the Bengals with 23 points, six rebounds and three assists. Shannon Puck-ett added 12 points and Miranda Broadbrooks scored 11. The game was tied at 30 at halftime and Helena led More BENGALS, page 2B round Pendarvis did his damage with short passes. The longest of his 12 completions was a 19-yarder to Jer-maine Martin, who finished as the Cowboys' leading receiver with 43 yards on three catches.

Lulay's first TD pass went for 36 yards to Aaron Hill in the second quarter to tie the score at 7 going into halftime. He hit Junior Adams with an 8-yard pass to finish off a seven-play 73-yard drive that tied the score at 14 with 14:16 left in the game. Lulay's top target was Scott Turnquist, who caught five passes for 118 yards, including one for 41 yards. JU, injured starter Tyler Emmert to lead Carroll 35 S. Oregon 31 down.

Rhett on PA's, split game at 7 with quarter. The two in the second took a 17-14 when Steve goal with 1:40 The offensive offensive MVP for his efforts. "It all happened so fast I didn't real ly have time to be nervous," Latrielle said. "Ty's a good quarterback. I've been waiting all year for this Crites, who was perfect the uprights to tie the 7:35 left in the first teams traded touchdowns quarter but the Raiders lead into intermission Baker hit a 22-yard field left in the half.

fireworks that came in the first half disappeared in the third quarter. The only score of the quarter came when Dusty McGrorty, SOU'S all-everything running bac.k broke away for his first big gain of the day. He scored from his own 48 to give SOU a More SAINTS, page 3B By SANDRA KELLY IR Sports Writer For the third year in a row, the Carroll College football team is headed to the NAIA semifinals. The Fighting Saints scored three touchdowns in the last 10:25 to stun Southern Oregon University 35-31. Quarterback Robb Latrielle, who came when starter Tyler Emmert injured his shoulder on Carroll's first drive of the game, was 24-of-44 and had three touchdown passes.

He also had a hand in all three of the Saint's fourth-quarter scores. The junior from Missoula passed for two scores and rushed for another in the fourth stanza. He was named the game's chance. I just kept to my reads. We had some adversity early but we finished up and stuck together and it turned out alright." Latrielle completed Carroll's first drive of the game when he handed, off to D.J.

Dearcorn, who ran it in from the 1-yard line for the touch- DIVISION 1-AA PLAYOFFS Grizzlies win, Bobcats fall LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) Scott Pendarvis threw for two touchdowns and ran for another as McNeese State defeated Montana State 21-14 in the first round of the Division I-AA playoffs Saturday. Travis Lulay threw for 220 yards and two touchdowns for Montana State (7-6), but the McNeese defense held the Montana State running game to minus 3 yards. The victory means McNeese (11-1), the No. 1 seed in the 16-team national playoffs, will play host to defending national champion Montana (11-2) in the next weekend's second "Just their spirit they're resilient," Glenn said.

"That's as low as I've ever Montana 45 NW State 14 seen any team in any sport, anyhow, a week ago after our game," Glenn said. "But to their credit, they bounced back. "Today, everything went our way offense, defense, special teams." Herb Fernandez returned an interception for a touchdown and Jefferson Heidel-berger returned both a punt and a kickoff for a score. By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press Writer MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) The University of Montana football team regrouped after a two-game losing streak and overcame continuing injuries to beat Northwestern State 45-14 Saturday in the first round of the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs.

Coach Joe Glenn, who led the team to the I-AA title game in 2000 and to the national championship in 2001, said he learned something about his team in the week since its heartbreaking 10-7 loss at home to Montana State. "Between Herbert and Jefferson, they came in and sealed the Demons' fate," Glenn said. Montana (11-2), co-champion of the Big Sky Conference, plays at McNeese State in next weekend's quarterfinal, after the top-seeded Cowboys downed Montana State 21-14. Fernandez, a senior defensive end making just his third start, played in place of Tim Bush, who was out with a concussion. Fernandez tipped a pass by Kevin Magee and returned it 16 yards for a 21-0 lead with 7:06 left in the second quar- More GRIZZLIES, page 2B.