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Dayton Daily News Sunday, November 12, 1978 Page 1-D St. Norbert falls, 27-14 Si Burick offs next 1 1 54. Hfc. jr. HVjtv for 9-1-1 UD If It 4 1 Side trip to Nikko reveals breathtaking art NIKKO, Japan When the touring Cincinnati Reds flew off the other day to Sapporo, scene of the 1976 Winter Olympics, a friend advised taking the zipper lining for my coat, a sweater, heavy socks and other wanning clothes.

"Otherwise," he said, "go somewhere else." Being a person with naturally cold feet, I passed up Sapporo for a two-hour train ride. Destination, Nikko, a natural reserve of mountains, lakes, forests, rivers and cascades. Shrines, built centuries ago on various mountain tops, indicate that Shinto priests lived In the belief that nothing on earth could be closer to Heaven. Stifle your envy, Messrs. Bill Patterson, Harry Price, Don Schmidt and other fellow-travelers of the Dayton-Montgomery County Park Commission.

Nikko National Park, a mere 93 miles north of Tokyo, covers 543 square miles. In 776, a mere thousand years before U.S. Independence, a priest named Shodo dedicated a sanctuary to the "Mountain God" there. Imagine taking a bus ride up a mountainside that features 48 hairpin curves? The Japanese are wise. There's a one-way road up; another down.

prep games would be necessary so it still seems in the realm of possibility that a last-moment resolution could be made to allow the Flyers to play at home. It is.also possible that the NCAA might relent and let the Flyers play Sunday, Nov. 19. Either way, the Flyers are definitely in the playoffs, making the final deposit Saturday as 8,512 watched. It wasn't as easy as it was supposed to have been.

St. Norbert entered with a 3-6 record and, according to the Dunkel Index, 36-point underdogs. But Howard Kol-stadt was coaching the last game of a 19-year career and the Green Knights reacted accordingly. Stunting on defense, they outguessed the Flyers throughout the first half and left at halftime trailing just 10-7. By GARY NUHN Daily News Sports Writer Dayton's football team ended its regular season assault on the school, record books Saturday, whipping St.

Norbert of Wisconsin, 27-14, at Welcome Stadium and Insuring a spot in the NCAA Division III playoffs. The victory, keyed again by the big-play antics of senior quarterback Claude Chaney, lifted the Flyers to 9-1-1, most victories by a UD team in 46 years. Seven other team or individual records were broken. The Flyers will accept a bid to the NCAA playoffs this afternoon in what is now only a formality. UD will apparently play on the road since the playoffs begin Nov.

18 and Welcome Stadium is occupied by three high school games that day. BUT A SWITCH of just one of the Wally NdsimDailv News See ST. NORBERT, Page 4D UD flanker ScoSt Terry looks for oj)enlng and cls bl(K'ker in Gary Gtopr (62) Beautiful scene Three faces of Woody defeat Willi, 4o-7 Inside Sports Purdue tie gives OSU hope By MARC KATZ flirty V3rw5'" There probably were some inner fears of the horrendous curves among some in our busload, which was made up mainly of the wives of club officials and players plus a couple of newsmen and their intrepid spouses. Colors? Is it possible to out-hue a lovely rainbow after a storm? I would almost bet on the autumn foliage here against the rainbow. All I know is that if I were an artist, I would be compelled to stop at one of the scenic viewing spots.

1 would bring out brush, canvas and oils, or a drawing pencil, and interpret the scene, perhaps for posterity. Art is what pleases the eye. This was true art; the artistry of raw nature. We passed a' lake, 4,200 feet up on the slopes of Mt. Notain.

It was formed millenia ago by the lava from a volcano that erupted nearby. Sailboats glided gracefully across the deep, crystal-cleariwaters. Some persons fished out of rowboats. On warmer days, we were told, there were many swimmers. People camp here.

Families come to picnic. Everything else forgotten We made one stop, among many, where, for a modern touch, high-speed elevators, limited to 31 persons, dropped us to the bottom of what must be some of the most beautiful falls God ever created. An old player on words brought groans by suggesting, "Bottom of the falls? I hope they don't have false bottoms." Please excuse. Nikko took us a million miles from home, business, Wall Street, the value of the dollar against the yen, international political intrigue, and, I must confess, even the baseball purpose that brought us here. A memorable sight; an unforgettable experience for all of us; God's creation superseding everything else.

IFWsA'o. note? Maybe its Penn Slate No. 4 Nebraska broke a tie with 11:51 left on a 24-yard field goal by Billy Todd to upset No. 1 Oklahoma, 17-14, in a major college football upset Saturday. Page 2D.

PENN STATE, which could move into the No. 1 position, used four field goals to edge North Carolina State, 19-10. Page 7D. TEXAS WON'T be moving up. The Longhorns were defeated by Houston, 10-7, in a Southwest Conference showdown.

Page 3D. PURDUE WON'T either. The Big 10 leader was tied by Wisconsin, 24-24, and is at Michigan, a 59-14 winner over Northwestern, next Saturday. Michigan State stayed in the running lor the Big 10 title with a 33-9 victory over Minnesota. Indiana beat Iowa, 34-14.

Page 2D. SEATTLE SLEW went out in style, winning the Stuyvesant Handicap, but not in record time. Page. 1 ID. SCORES, SUMMARIES from Saturday's sports activities, page 6D.

Capitol whips Denison, 10-7 GRANVILLE (AP) A 40-yard field goal by Brian Speelman with 4:19 left in the game gave Capital a 10-7 victory over Denison in Ohio Conference college football action Saturday. Kenyon ekes by Bethany, i 1-33 GAMBIER (AP) Quarterback Terry Brog rifled three touchdown passes and ran for two more scores as Kenyon outlasted Bethany 34-33 in college football Saturday. "Ifw 5V Daily News Sports Writer COLUMBUS There was lots of old Woody, some new Woody and a little surprising Woody Hayes during Ohio State University's 45-7 mismatch victory over Illinois Saturday afternoon before 87,719 inside warm Ohio Stadium. The effort, coupled with a stunning 24-24 Wisconsin tie with Purdue, put the Buckeyes back into the Rose Bowl picture if they can win their final two games, at Indiana next Saturday and here against Michigan the following week. The Bucks scored all six of their touchdowns the old Hayes running way, but set up- their second score near the end of the first half using five straight passes, completing four in a row.

FOR THE SURPRISE, Hayes back Rod Gerald as his quarterback for two series just so he would be ready, if he needed. Gerald, the two-year incumbent at the position, moved out to split end this season to make way for freshman Art Schlichter. But Schlichter, who scored three times this game, has been bumped around quite a bit, and Hayes apparently has more confidence in Gerald than Greg Castignola, who had been spelling Schlichter earlier. See BUCKS, Page 4D MAWS a.i.1' ft LI ft Ski; PtttrnDllv Nwl First of 3 Schlichter TDs in the bank, as Buckeye dives for 7 yards Tbolts face Cincinnati Anderson Wittenberg plays for tie in OC title showdown today in state soccer finals Northmont blanks Padua, 3-0 SpkHI to Tht Daily Nvi BEREA Wittenberg scored with 13 seconds left and then settled for a one-point conversion that produced a 17-17 tie with Baldwin-Wallace in i 3 4 hr I In, itir-Jl mm Maurer Saturday's Ohio Conference championship game. The deadlock apparently put both teams in the NCAA Division III playoffs.

Wittenberg and B-W both finished the regular season with 8-0-1 records, thus tying for the OC title. In previous years, only one team from a conference was permitted to 1 I By DAVE LONG Daily News Sports Writer COLUMBUS The Northmont players just couldn't believe it. They wandered around in stunned silence for a few moments in their locker-room and then began to realize that they had made the state boys high school soccer finals. The Thunderbolts defeated Parma Padua of suburban Cleveland, 3-0, in the semi-finals of the Ohio High School boys tournament here Saturday afternoon before 2,700 fans. Now the top-ranked team in the state with 21-1-1 record takes on Cincinnati Anderson this afternoon at 2 p.m.

for the championship. Anderson defeated Worthlngton, 3-1 in the other semi-final game. Northmont is the first soccer team from the Dayton area to make the state championship finals. This Is also the first Northmont team to make the state finals in any sport. "I guess I won't really believe it until tomorrow," said fullback Jo-hann Schneider.

"But when we all wake up, we'll know that we're ready to play for the state championship." IT WAS A GAME typical of Northmont's other performances In the tournament. It was more aggressive and a better passing team offensively and was again outstanding defensively. In seven tournament games, the Thunderbolts have outscored their opponents 53-1. The only goal given up was a penalty kick in the first tournament game. "What can I tell you," said Padua Coach John Uhrian, whose team finished with a 14-6-1 record.

"They were everything we were told they were. They were very fast and aggressive and are very, very fine on defense. They are just an outstanding team." Uhrian would not talk about his own team. But if was obvious he was upset over the failure of his club to maintain its poise and attack after Northmont's Andy DeVincent scored with 3:54 left in the first quarter. After his goal, the Parma team seemed to wilt.

Schneider set up DeVincent on the goal with a 30-yard kick. "I just tried to get to the ball before the defender," said DeVincent. "I saw an opening on the left side of the goal about this wide (holding his hands about two feet apart). When I got to the ball I just ripped It." The ball zipped by Padua goalie Don Weber for the goal and DeVincent galloped across the field. As he passed the Padua bench, he was jumping and yelling and holding up his finger In a No.

1 challenge. He appeared to almost Intimidate the Cleveland crowd despite his 5-6 stature. "That just felt great," he said. "We were pretty nervous and I think that goal sort of relaxed us." Wittenberg needed almost all of the remaining 3:43 to move into position for Dave Merritt's two-yard touchdown run. The big play of the drive was an eight-yard burst by fullback Skip Buckley on fourth and seven at the B-W 37.

After Merritt scored, Tiger Coach Dave Maurer, well aware of the NCAA ruling, never hesitated in calling for kicker Steve Jefferis, who earlier in the game had delivered a 46-yard field goal. Maurer said he never considered going for two points and a victory because "there was too much on the line for both teams. We felt the tie was not bad because nobody has ever beaten Baldwin-Wallace at home except Wittenberg. We (the coaches) had discussed during the week what we would do in that situation and had already decided to go for the tie." ANDRACHIK LED ALL rushers with 135 yards in 22 carries, but Merritt, who entered the game as the top rusher in Division III, was held to 75 yards in 19 tries and finished 10 yards shy of his second straight season. The Yellow Jackets" are now 35-3-1 In their modern George Flnne Stadium.

All three of the losses and the tie were admin-Isted by Wittenberg. Wittenberg 17, Baldwin-Wallace 17 WHtBUMTi I 0 J-IJ MldwIn-WtllKi 1 B-W Surniak 57 run (Koblnion hi) Win JtHKli r-a Wltttlr 11 pail from Dttfv (Jitfwii icK) B-VY-Hoblntw 41 FO B-W OwvinWy pail from Surniak IRoblnion kick) Wllt-Mtrrllt 1 run Uarfltrl kick) At advance to the eight-team playoffs. However, the NCAA had already indicated that two teams from the same conference and as many as three teams from the same state could participate in the post-season tournament. Since Dayton (8-1-1), B-W and Wittenberg were ranked 2-3-4 in the latest Division III rankings, all three are expected to receive bids when the NCAA starts lining up the field today. BALDWIN-WALLACE HAD a seven-point lead and possession of the ball in Wittenberg territory with just under four minutes left Saturday, but All-Conference fullback Roger Andrachik fumbled and Mike Earley recovered at the Tiger 47.

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