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John's 67 Ball State 50 Penn State 66 Princeton 58 Temple 60 Xavler 52 Bloomsburg 34 PAGE 13D i 4X DETAILS, 6D-7D DETAILS. 9D SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2000 Dayton Daily News SECTION One or the einke wins I Florida State QB nips Oklahoma's Heupel forlleisman Trophy returning to school in 1997, finished off a record-setting season by leading the Seminoles into an Orange Bowl matchup against No.l Oklahoma with a chance for a second straight national championship. apologies to Lou Gehrig, I feel like I'm the luckiest man in the world," Weinke said. "I got to pursue two dreams. The first one, baseball, didn't work out the way I would have liked.

But the second one, football, did." The 6-foot-5, 229-pounder led the nation 'with a school-record 4,167 yards passing, threw 33 touchdown passes and had' only 11 interceptions. He recovered from a serious neck injury late in the '98 season to become the Atlantic Coast Conference's career passing leader with 9,839 yards. Weinke edged Oklahoma quarterback Josh Heupel for college football's most coveted individual prize by 76 points in the seventh tightest Heisman race. Weinke had 369 first-place votes and 1,628 points; Heupel, who led the Sooners to the title game against the Seminoles by passing for 3,392 yards and 20 touchdowns, had 286 first-place votes and 1,552 points. Purdue quarterback Drew Brees was third and TCU running back LaDainian Tomlinson fourth in balloting by the 922 Heisman voters.

Over the past six weeks, Weinke's age became a Heisman issue, Some voters indicated they would leave Weinke's name off the ballot because the quarterback's age gave him an unfair advantage over his younger rivals. "Success in college football is not about age but about experience," Weinke said. "Had I stayed at Florida State when I was first recruited in 1990, I might not have played a VOTING RESULTS, 15D 1 Jit By Richard Rosenblatt Associated ftrss NEW YORK Chris Weinke capped a remarkable back-to-school story Saturday when the 28-year-old Florida State quarterback won the Heisman Trophy in one of the closest votes in the history of the award. Weinke, who spent six years playing minor league baseball before 7 STUART RAMSQWASSOCIATED PRESS FLORIDA STATE'S CHRIS WEINKE displays his latest hardware the Heisman Trophy he claimed Saturday. 'i Matchup: Dayton (4-3) at Saint Louis (5-2) I When: 2:10 p.m.

Saturday TV: Radio: WHIO-AM( 1290) PHOTOS ON WEB SITE A gallery of additional photos from this game is available at our Website: www.daytondallynws.coi didn't get rattled. What happens with a situation like that is you have an upset." Dayton dominated the Panthers, -now 1-5, as everyone expected in the early part of the game. The Flyers built a 17-point lead (25-8) in less than nine minutes, and it appeared that a rout was in progress. Then the Flyers failed to get back on defense in transition, failed to defend perimeter shots, failed to Work the ball wisely against a Prairie View zone and watched the Panthers outscore them, 26-9, to walk off the court in a tie game. "It was a mental letdown, a mental letdown by several guys," Purnell said.

"We have to have five cylinders kicking in and when we do that, we can beat anybody. This is Division I Please see FLYERS6D talk about the fans exhale. Why was there drama in a game which should have been a rout? Let's start with the offense. After thrusting to a 27-10 lead midway through the first half, the Flyers offense refused to work the ball inside. Passes outside the arc typically led to long-range jumpers.

And when they started misfiringregularly, the Panthers rallied. "In this game there was no reason Please see ROCK6D Splines TODAY'S SPORTS AT A GLANCE Purple Raiders rumble into D-lll title game Mt. Union blasts past Widener, 70-30, to reach the NCAA Division III football championship game. Story, 9D. INDEX Headlines, 2D Golf 2D Auto racing, 2D Tennis, 2D Baseball, 3D High schools, 4D-5D College basketball, 6D-7D Outdoors, 8D College football, 9D Pro hockey, 10D Pro basketball, 1 1D Pro football, 1 2D-1 3D Speak Up, 14D Scoreboard, 15D JOE RAYMONDASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI'S MIKE ENSMINGER waves to the crowd after he scored a career-high 16 points and grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds in the RedHawks' 73-64 win at Notre Dame.

'Hawks upset Irish Miami dominates on the boards as it upsets Notre Dame By Marty Williams Dayton Daily News SOUTH BEND, I than 12 hours after Wednesday night's one-point loss to Dayton, Miami coach Charlie Coles gathered the RedHawks for their customary pre-sunrise workout at Millett Hall. "I felt sorry for my players because they felt so bad after that loss," Coles said, "but I saw in their faces that they were going to play pretty good against Notre Dame (on Saturday). I just didn't think they would play this good." i a i mauled the lOth-ranked Irish on the boards, took control with a 12-0 run midway through the second half and rolled to a 73-64 victory before 10,700 stunned witnesses at Joyce Center. "Losing to Dayton stung us," said burly RedHawk Mike Ensminger, who matched his career high with 16 points and added a game-high 10 rebounds. "Our game plan was to be aggressive and we did that.

We were really focused." Despite a decided height disadvantage, Miami had a punishing 44-26 edge on the boards. In addition to Ensminger's 10, Alex Shorts and Please see MIAM16D Matchup: Miami (4-4) at Wright State (5-1) When: 9 p.m. Dec. 19 Radio: WONE-AM (980), WMQH-AMO450), WCKY-AM(1360), TV: Fox Sports Ohio DAMON HIGGINSDAYTON DAILY NEWS DAVE RAIMEY was a former standout in the Canadian Football League and voted recently into the league's Hall of Fame. He also played at Roosevelt High School, Michigan and, briefly, with the Cleveland Browns.

i V. DAYTON'S SEAN FINN (right) battles with Prairie View ASM's Jamar Miles for a Arena. The Flyers were flat in the first half, but came to life in the second half and gu Flyers awaken in second half to rout Prairie View By Bucky Albers Dayton Daily News DAYTON Tony Stanley won't have too many fond memories of the night he became the University of Dayton's all-time leader in 3-point field goals. Within a few minutes after the UD Arena crowd of 11,532 gave Stanley a standing ovation during a timeout, the fans were booing the Flyers as they walked off the court at halftime in a 36-36 deadlock with Prairie View Panthers. It got even worse.

Prairie View, the team that took an 85-60 drubbing from Wright State Thursday night, built a seven-point lead with 14:44 remaining, and thousands of UD fans were beginning to wonder how they would explain this one. Unable to stop the red hot Pan-' thers, Dayton finally broke them down with a full court press that forced numerous turnovers and resulted in an 86-63 victory. "It was scary," UD coach Oliver: Purnell said. "We gave a team an opportunity get a big win. They got hot and there wasn't a whole lot we could do to defend them after that.

I am pleased with the fact that we well-deserved recipient. Saturday night the operation failed, but the patient still lived. Dayton played 20 minutes of stand-around-and-see-what-happens-next offense, and by doing so, allowed the 1-5 Panthers to stay close. What was supposed to be an "everyone plays at least 10 minutes" game turned into a "crowd yelling at the refs on close calls" contest. Not until Tony Stanley's 3-pointer with seven minutes left to play, giving the Flyers a 7-point lead, did 1 It's been a big year in local sports.

The inaugural season for the Dayton Dragons, the Marion Local Flyers won the state tnampunsti'p in lootUtil, the Davton Flyers went to the NCAA tournament and the Reas and the Bengals chanijod their head coaches. But we want to hear from you. What do you think were the top local sports stories" -this past year? To cnmin-G astory, call. and enter cede 2449 or your rc-sponses to sportscoxchioxom. The tioaclime is Doc.

24. We'll pubithe list on Dec. 31. Inconsistent Flyers giving fans something to Hi.i i I DAMON HIGGINSDAYTON DAILY NEWS rebound during Saturday's game at UD pulled away to post an 86-63 win. That can't be right, can it? We jackham-mered those clowns.

Boy, can't be you guys are too good this year. Maui must've been a fluke. Must be you're only decent outside the contiguous United States. Get the picture? Endless ribbing found its way to breakfast tables this morning. And the object of ridicule Oliver Purnell's Flyers were a in Dayton telling a few football tales the other morning as he sat in the West Third Street storefront he's renovating in the Wright Dunbar Historic District.

In the next month or so, he said he'll open a shop Safari Things Interiors where he'll sell African crafts along with reuphol-stering furniture. As he talked about his plans how forgotten treasures will be refitted, padded and covered over you couldn't help going back to those football memories and thinking this was one forgotten treasure that needs to be uncovered. 1 Raimey is one of the most honored pro athletes Dayton has ever produced and yet most of the general public knows nothing of him. The reasons have to do with time and place and personality. He was a football star in the late 1950s Please see ARCHDEACON14D Kli ticket holder, too.

Dayton Fan (getting uneasy): Yeah, well, heh, heh, you know how it gets this time of year with holiday shopping. Wright State Fan: Sure I do. Ohhhh, what do we have here a Sunday copy of the Dayton Daily News. Unbelievable! Says here you won, 86-63, but trailed at the midway point of the second half. gem hidden Raimey, who had been a standout running back and defensive back for the Wolverines.

"At our first scrimmage on the very first play they ran a draw play with Jim Brown. The whole middle seemed to open up and my first reaction was to fill that hole. That's when he started toward me. He had always been my idol, but at that moment he scared me. "But as he came barrelling through, I went for his legs, hung on and brought him down.

He got up and went over to the coaches and played me up real big to 'em. And I think that moment right there getting endorsed by Jim Brown is why I made the Cleveland Browns that year." Raimey had to be coaxed into DAYTON What's likely to be overheard at the coffee shops this Wright State Fan: Yeah, we spanked Prairie View by 25 points. In the spirit of the holidays, we didn't want to run it up, so we only opened up the 5-gallon drum of whoop butt. How much did you beat those scrubs by? Dayton Fan: Ummm, I'm not sure. I didn't go to the game last night.

Wright State Fan: Oh, really? Thought you were a big fan? Season Forgotten Jim Brown saw the startled look on the rookie's face and later laughed about it with him: "Dave, those eyes of yours, they were as big as saucers." That's how it was the first time Dave Raimey met the Cleveland Brown freight train running back. It happened on the team's practice field in the preseason of 1964. Brown was the league's most awesome force, the perennial rushing leader whose bruising style got more knockouts than most heavyweight champs. Raimey was a first year player out of the University of Michigan and, before that, Dayton Roosevelt High. "As soon as I'd come to camp, the Browns made me a free safety," said A 7.