Dayton Daily News from Dayton, Ohio • 29

Nov, 1986 Dayton Daily New and Jojrnal Herald Y-C COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Miami, Penn State stay unbeaten2 HOME: A clear look at windows 17 jpirt raHtoar backs up it; stromig talk EDITOR Centerville falls victim on home turf Iish rout brings smile from past era it KiJ1- 5 :7 J.V lit I I jT ri Nv If It 'V By Chick Ludwig STAFF SPORTS WRITER The Dunbar Wolverines were right after all. They said they were not going to be intimidated by Centerville. They said they would win and do it legitimately no flukes involved. It happened. Dunbar, behind running back Ricky Smith, corralled the giant, Centerville, and brought the state's No.

1 -ranked Class AAA team to Its knees, 19-14, in a dramatic, first-round Division I state playoff game at Centerville Stadium Saturday night. Smith, a 5-foot-9, 162-pound sophomore, scored on an 80-yard punt return in the first quarter and dashed 27 yards around left end for the winning touchdown with 1:08 to play. Dunbar then slammed the door shut when safety Tim Rainey intercepted a pass near midfield by Centerville quarterback Kirk Herbstreit, "I saw no vision of us losing this game," said Dunbar Coach Tom Montgomery, who called it the greatest moment in his 22-year coaching career. "It was magnificent. "This group doesn't get tight.

It's loose and relaxed." The victory pushed Dunbar's record to 10-1 and earned the Wolverines a berth in the Division Region 4 title 'game next weekend against Fairfield, a '21-6 winner over Milf ord. Centerville, their dream of a state'ti-tle dead in the rain and mud of its home field, closes at 10-1. Centerville Coach Bob Gregg was asked to make a comment afterward. "No, nothing. Not anything," he said.

Dunbar's passing game couldn't click on the soggy field, so the Wolverines chose to run the ball down Centervllle's throat. They survived three second-half fumbles the most criticial coming at 3:06 of the third quarter with Dunbar ahead, 13-7. Dunbar quarterback Derrick Banks flipped a third down pass to fullback Billy Goodman In the left flat. Goodman was drilled, the ball popped loose and the mid-air fumble landed in the hands of defensive back Ross Jaehn, who sprinted 24 yards for the touchdown to give Centerville a 14- '4 fef A'tt 1 1 i trn it linn n7i ih it tiotmi Mff HMHiiifiifinnw i rtimr Jimif BILL WAUGHSTAFF PHOTOGRAPHER As Dunbar's Ricky Smith crosses the line with a punt return, the band joined jn the celebration and played on ,13 lead. Goodman coughed it up again at his 58 on the next series and Centerville drve to the 22, but Jon Berger's 38-yard field goal attempt failed.

Banks fumbled a pitch at Dunbar's 28 on the next series, but the Elks went nowhere and the Wolverines' set up for the game-winning drive on their 24 with 5:53 to go. A Banks-to-Carl Carson middle screen on a third-and-six play gained 21 yards to midfield. Smith bulled to Centerville's 42 on the next play, Banks Playoff winners Dunbar 19, Centerville 14 Tol.Whitmer31.Troy 17 Lemon-Monroe 17, Gallon 7 t. Henry 28. CedarvilleO Game stories 5C Score Kent tops Miami, 24-23 3 teams now tied in MAC title chase SEE DUNBAR5 Thoughts of a Saturday button-pusher acquiring his football savvy from television and radio; plus other items from the adds and ends zone: When I heard the score of Notre Dame's destruction of SMU by a 61-29 score, I recalled a sto-.

ry told years ago when the Irish played the Mustangs in Dallas. This was in the early days of two-platoon football. A Notre Dame fan standing outside the hotel where the Irish were lodged watched intently as the athletes boarded buses that would transport them to the field of strife. Finally, the gentleman asked a student manager, "Can you tell me where I can find the team chaplain?" "Which one do you fellow replied. "The offensive or defensive chaplain?" Anyway, it looks as if Lou Hultz has Notre Dame back on the right track.

The Irish are 4-4 but the road ahead is anything but easy against Penn State, LSU and USC. 9 By the wayi isn't it nice that Gerry Faust haj found the winning formula oij his new job at Akron? The Zipfc stand 7-2 after beating Austin Pjeay Saturday. Sure, it's a different kind of competition, different- strokes, but Gerry is proving again he is a winner and that's what counts. 4 Fears off Ferrum Mike Kelly, Dayton's coach, sounded all last week like a guy who feared his team might take unknown Ferrum College too lightly. Whoever heard of Ferrum? Am I spelling it right? It was Farrum with an In one part of our paper Saturday.

For 30 minutes, Mike's worst fears were realized Saturday when the Flyers, unbeaten, No. 1 in the nation among Division III college teams, left the field at half time trailing the unknowns. I'd like to have heard nice-guy Kelly's halftime oration. Happily for Dayton fans, whatever he said had a positive effect and the Flyers dominated the second half to win as expected. Rather easily at that.

Now that Ohio State and Michigan are in control of the Big Ten, each 6-0 in league competition, it's reasonable to think in terms of that old phrase the Big Two and the Little Eight. Some of the lesser schools, I'm happy to report, have gained strength and respect. For instance, Bill Mallory's Indiana Hoosiers upset Michigan State. Remember, It was only a few weeks ago that the Buckeyes barely escaped a bitter form reversal, beating the long-time Hoosier doormats by a frightening 24-22 margin. Nor did Northwestern succumb easily in Saturday's loss in Columbus.

From what I heard, it was a game, not a rout. On Leonard's return Off on another subject, I confess it makes me a little ill to think of that attractive man, Sugar Ray Leonard, returning to the ring some five years after having surgery performed on his left eye for a detached retina. Two years later, when he first considered a comeback, promoters booked him against someone named Kevin Howard. That had to be postponed because of retinal weakness of the right eye. Later, the "sweet guy" did fight Howard and scored what was described as a "clumsy and controversial victory." Now, on April 6 at Las Vegas, he's going against that rugged competitor, Marvelous Marvin Hagler.

It isn't the money, Sugar Ray Insists. It's just that he wants to do it. If I remember the announcement, Hagler has a $12 million guarantee; Leonard (11 SEE BURICK6 Flyers win, but that's only half the story developing. ball history. The season's first basket- this: Dayton scored, and Ferrum kept the Thii final was Dayton 45, Ferrum 1 4, ball victory will be Donoher's 400th.

The Flyers now must wait a week to as the Flyers finished their regular sea- ball for 53 seconds. Davton scored aeain. and Ferrum kept son at 1 0-0 before 6,211 at Welcome Sta- find out their playoff opponent They the ball for one minute. dium. ferrum, a second-year Division III don't play Saturday, while many other Dayton scored again, and Ferrum kept school from west central Virginia, is 3-7.

Division III teams are finishing their sea- In th process, the football Flyers beat the ball for a minute, 1 2 seconds. Don Dt noher to the 400 level. It the 400th victory in UD foot- Dayton scored again, There was a definite trend SEE FLYERS6 ByGaryNuhn STAFF SPORTS WRITER It was a game for a half. Ferrum led Dayton 7-3. The No.

1 team In the country was In trouble. Or was It? Well.no. The third quarter went something like Turnovers help OSU win 8th 11 OHIO STATE IK 'f s' By Dave Long STAFF SPORTS WRITER KENT A myriad of possibilities. That is the only way to describe the situation regarding the standings In Mid-American Conference, and teams that could win or share the title and gain a trip to the Dec. 13 California Bowl.

There is only one concrete fact. Miami blew its chance for a trip to the bowl and a share of the championship by losing to Kent State, 24-23, Saturday. A 14-yard pass from freshman quarterback Pat Young to sophomore wida receiver Fermin Olivera with 25 sec-! onds left in the game and Larry Stein berg's extra point capped an 84-yard; 13-play drive that gave Kent the win ning points. Following the game the Kent State students celebrated by tearing down the goal posts as their Golden Flashes; picked to finish dead last in the MAC, moved into a three-way tie for the con-! ference lead with Bowling Green and; Miami. All are 5-2 in the conference with; one game remaining.

Miami hosts EasM em Michigan next week, Kent is af Western Michigan and Bowling Green is at Toledo. There are at least five possibilities' regarding the race: if one team wins and the othen two lose, the winner is champion anJ goes to the bowl. If two of the teams win and one loses, it goes to head-to-head competj-' tion. Miami beat BG and lost to Kent. BG lost to Miami and beat Kent.

If all three teams win, it goes to tie-breaking procedure that considers how the teams did vs. the rest of the MAC teams in order of standings. If. that happens Miami goes to the bowl game. If all three lose It could create five-way tie for the title with Eastern Michigan and Toledo in the picture.

lit that case Kent State goes because of It record against the rest of the MAC. If all three teams lose and Central Michigan beats Ball State it becomes a six-way tie and Miami goes because of 4 98 By Marc Katz STAFF SPORTS WRITER COLUMBUS Northwestern stayed with Ohio State on the ground. Northwestern stayed with Ohio State in the air. It was on the scoreboard where the Wildcats could not keep up In a 30-9 Big Ten victory for OSU in front of 89,808 fans in Ohio Stadium Saturday afternoon. In all, Northwestern outgained the Buckeyes 4S7 yards to 450, but aelt-destrucled when the goal line neared, once fumbling the ball away at the OSU 1.

Ohio State, 8-2 and 6-0 in the Big Ten, has now won eight straight games in the same season for the first time since 1979, when Coach Earle Bruce's team went 11-0. Northwestern is 2-7 and 0-6. Ultimately, Northwestern burned Itself out on turnovers, throwing three Interceptions and losing two fumbles. V- vf- ew I KIP BTSRONCHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER "see osu7 Ed Taggart (No. 80) coughs up ball after catching a pass, as Northwestem's Alan Brown (66) tackles him SEE KENT7.