Baxter Bulletin from Mountain Home, Arkansas • 9

Monday. September 18, 2000 Mountain Home, Ark, Page 9 (The Rnxtcr Italic tin Razorbacks hold off Broncos, 38-31 lTrig) Arkansas beat the Broncos 38-31 Saturday night. "When he fell dow I just knew I had to, quick, get it out there," Hampton said, "1 didn't want to overthrow it, 1 didn't want to undorthrow it, and Boo did the rest." LITTLE ROCK (AP) Boo Williams was so open it was scary. Boise State defensive back I). Ross, fooled by Hobby Hampton's pump fake, fell as he switched directions and Williams trotted into the end zone with a 54-yard touchdown pass that helped The touchdown broke a 31-31 tie with 6:12 to play.

Boise State (2-1) reached the Arkansas 9 with slightly more than a minute to play. On fourth-and-goal from the 9, Arkansas (2-0) called time and then Boise State followed suit. The Broncos came yards behind him for Hendricks' 42-yard touchdown pass that tied the game. Hendricks was 8-of-21 in the first half against Arkansas, including 2-of-10 in the first quarter, but wound up 23-of-48 for 304 yards. After it was over, Arkansas coach Houston Nutt sought out Hendricks and gave him a hug and a pat on the head.

Nutt coached or recruited 18 of the Broncos' top 44 players before he left Boise three years ago and that was the theme of much of the pre-game publicity. Jackson returned an interception 39 yards for a touchdown and fellow first-time starter Corey Harris set up a touchdown with an interception seconds later as Arkansas jumped in front 14-0. The Razorbacks' winning drive included three Cobbs runs for 16 yards and a 14-yard pass from Hampton to Richard Smith. Cobbs finished with 174 yards on 34 attempts. On the touchdown pass, Williams was wide left and Ross had single coverage.

After Ross bit on Hampton's fake, Williams caught the floater at the Broncos' 30. It was Hampton to Williams for 75 yards that made it 24-0. Williams slapped aside defensive back Dempsey Dees twice in the final 30 yards. The next 20 minutes belonged to the Broncos. Calaycay kicked two second-quarter field goals and Boise started the second half with a seven-play, 56-yard drive that resulted in the first touchdown Arkansas had allowed in 10 quarters.

Boise went for two and the Razorbacks lost Lou Fanucchi, who waited on the right side and then headed left for Hendricks' pass. out with four wide receivers and Hart Hendricks threw to Jay Swillie on the left sideline, Cor-nerback Eddie Jackson wrestled Swillie out of bounds at the 1. "We used the best play we had," said Boise State coach Dirk Koet-ter. "It was an 8-yard play. We needed 8 12 yards." "1 was trying to keep him outside and I turned around and saw the ball coming and 1 saw he was on the 1-yard line so I just had to basically keep him from getting in the end zone," Jackson said, Arkansas led 24-0 one play deep in the second quarter and 31-14 in the third quarter, but Boise rallied as the Razorbacks suffered three straight breakdowns in the kicking game.

"We got a lead and some of our players said, 'Well, we've got a big lead, I'm getting ready to have a little mop-up Arkansas coach Houston Nutt said. "I'm just glad to get out of here and go home." Hampton said the Razorbacks' relaxing after building the big lead "showed our immaturity and inexperience." Alter Cedric Cobbs' second touchdown for Arkansas, Boise's Quintin Mikell returned the kick-off 98 yards. Moments later, Richie Butler was slow to pull the trigger on a punt and Travis Burgher blocked it. That led to Nick Calaycay's field goal that made it 31-24." Matt Swartz didn't come close on a 41-yard field goal attempt that would have put Arkansas ahead by 10 and the Broncos immediately covered 74 yards for a tie. On third-and-two, Arkansas cor-nerback Orlando Green took a couple of steps toward the line of scrimmage and Brock Forsey was 7 tW; Zf! 31 AP Photo Arkansas' Boo Williams runs for the game-winning 54-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter against Boise State Saturday evening at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock.

Arkansas won 38-31 Memphis uses late field goal to top A-State JONESBOKO (AP) Ryan White's toe gave Memphis a 19-17 victory Saturday over Arkansas State, The Tigers i2-l) scored just one touchdown to a pair of TDs tallied by the Indians, but White kicked four field goals, from 19, 26, 42 and 35 yards. White kicked his final FG with just 49 seconds left in the game, with Arkansas State (0-3) on top 17-16. Memphis scored first, on a 12-yard pass play from Travis Anglin to Hilly Kendall with 12:13 on the clock in the opening period. Nick Gatto of ASU kicked his onlv field goal of the evening to make it 7-3 with 7:08 left in the first quarter. White then went to work.

He kicked field goals of 19 and 26 yards in the second quarter to give the Tigers a 13-3 lead at intermission. After the half, he booted his 42-yarder and Memphis was up 16-3. Hut ASU came back with two touchdowns in the final period. Jacquis Walker ran the ball in from 8 yards out in the fourth quarter's first minute. Robert Kilow then caught a pass from Cleo Ix-mon and made it 50 yards to the end xonc to put the Indians on top, 17-16.

White's 35-yard field goal in the final minute gave the Tigers the win. Lemon outpassed the two quarterbacks Memphis used, Anglin and Neil Suber, completing 17-of-30 for 222 yards with only one interception. Suber and Anglin combined for 122 yards. The Tigers outgainod ASU on the ground, however, 147 yards to 102. Rut that left Arkansas State with a 321-269 edge in total offense.

Sugar Sanders led the Tiger rushing effort, gaining 96 yards on 31 carries, DiMarco garners first PGA title PAOIJ. Pa. (AIM Chris DiMarco is glad the PGA Tour returned to Pennsylvania after a 20-year absence. DiMarco shot a 2-under 69 Sunday to win the inaugural Pennsylvania Classic by six strokes and earn his first victory on the tour in 159 career starts. DiMarco finished at 14-under-par 270.

Scott Hoch shot his best round of the tournament, a 65 that included 4-under on the back nine, to finish in a five-way tie for second at 8-under 276. Chris Perry (70), Brad Elder (70), Jonathan Kaye (71) and Mark Calcavecchia (72) also finished at 276. The tournament was missing many of the big names, including Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Krnie Els, as none of the top seven money-winners competed. DiMarco got off to a quick start on the Waynesborough Country Club course and distanced himself from the group. He eagled No.

3 to take a four- Browns finally win at home Cub error gives victory to Cards 1 4w fx i By The Associated Press After nearly five years, several heart-stopping seconds and a chaotic finish, the Cleveland Browns Finally won a home game. Phil Dawson kicked a 19-yard field goal with 2:45 left and Pittsburgh couldn't get off a last-second attempt, giving the Browns a 23-20 victory Sunday. "Oh, my goodness linebacker Wali Rainer said. "We did it." The expansion Browns (2-1) went 0-8 in their new stadium last season and dropped their home opener against Jacksonville. They beat Cincinnati on the road last week.

Pittsburgh had a first-and-goal at the Browns' 9 with 35 seconds left, but after two running plays, rookie defensive end Courtney Brown sacked Kent Graham with eight seconds left. The Steelers K)-2, who had to burn some early timeouts, tried to line up for a game-tying field goal, but the clock ran out and the Browns and their fans celebrated Cleveland's first home since Dec. 17, 1995, in the final game at the Cleveland Stadium. "That clock doesn't tick fast enough," Browns quarterhack Tim Couch said. "It seemed like an eternity." Couch finished 23-of-3l for 316 yards and two TDs.

and Brown had his first three career sacks. Jerome Bettis rushed for 123 yards and one Tl) for Pittsburgh. In other games, it was the New York Jets 27, Buffalo 14, Atlanta 15, Carolina 10; St. Louis 41, San Francisco 24; Green Bay 6, Philadelphia Tampa Bay 31, Detroit 10; Jacksonville 13, Cincinnati Cleveland 23, Pittsburgh 20; Denver 33, Oakland 24; Kansas Citv 42. San Diego 10; New York Giants 14, Chicago Seattle 20.

last out, completing a combined four-hitter and closing out Montreal's third shutout in the last nine games. Blue Javs 14. White Sox 1 CHICAGO (AP) Carlos Del-gado hit a grand slam to end a 17-game homerless streak, reaching 40 homers for the second straight season. Brad Fullmer hit a three-run homer, Jose Cruz Jr. hit a two-run shot and Tony Batista had a three-run double as Toronto remained three games behind Cleveland.

Lance Painter (2-0) pitched three innings of two-hit relief. Starter Joey Hamilton left after three innings because of a strained right shoulder. Rookie Kip Wells (5-9), battling for a spot in Chicago's postseason rotation, gave up six runs, nine hits and four walks in five innings. Braves 7, Diamondbacks 1 PHOENIX (AP) Andruw Jones homered and tripled, and Kevin Millwood outpitched Curt Schilling as the Atlanta Braves beat the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Braves took a three-game lead in the NL East over New York, which lost to Montreal 5-0.

The Mets start a three-game series at Turner Field on Monday night. The Diamondbacks stayed five games behind the Mets in the wild card race. Millwood (10-11) pitched seven stingy innings to beat the Diamondbacks for the third time this season. ST. LOUIS (AP) Right fielder Sammy Sosa's three-base error allowed three runs to score in the eighth inning and the St.

Louis Cardinals boat the Chicago Cubs 4-2 Sunday. The Cardinals won their seventh in a row, completing a four-game sweep of the Cubs for the first time since 1963. St. Louis cut its magic number for clinching the NL Central to two over Cincinnati. Sosa dropped Edgar Renteria's fly ball with the bases loaded and two outs, sending Chicago to its fifth straight loss.

The Cubs have dropped 15 of 17. Darryl Kile (19-9) won his fifth straight decision, allowing two runs and six hits in eight innings. Matt Morris struck out three for his third save. Cubs starter Kerry Wood, coming off his first complete game since elbow surgery, allowed one run and two hits in six innings. Tim Worrell (3-4) took the loss.

Expos 5, Mets 0 MONTREAL (AP) Vladimir Guerrero homered twice and doubled, leading Tony Armas Jr. and the Montreal Expos over the New York Mets. The Mets fell 2 12 games behind NL East-leading Atlanta. New York's lead over Arizona for the wild card spot dropped to 4 1'2 games. Armas (6-8) allowed three hits in seven-plus innings, extending his scoreless streak to 14 innings.

Guillernio Mota pitched 1 2-3 innings and Steve Kline got the )1 AP Photo St. Louis Rams' Marshall Faulk is brought down by San Francisco 49ers' Jeff Ulbrich while teammates Julian Peterson (98) and Jeff Posey (96) pursue the play in the first half Sunday afternoon at the Trans World Dome in St. Louis. New Orleans 10; and Minnesota 21, down passes, the most by a Kansas New England 13. In the night City quarterback since Hall of game, Baltimore was at Miami.

On Famer Len Dawson had five Monday night, Dallas is at Wash- against Miami in 1967. ington. Grbac was 20-of-33 for 235 yards. Chiefs 42, Chargers 10 Elvis Grbac threw five touch- See NFL Page 10 stroke lead over the fast-charging Kaye, who birdied Nos. 1 and 2.

DiMarco nailed an eight-iron 143 vards directly into the bole for his only eagle of the tournament Bombers place second, Lady Bombers seventh at Stampede can produce some fatigue. "This was also our third race in eight days, that might be the only thing I would change. So 1 can see if our guys were running a little tired, you usually risk people getting sick or injured when that happens," he said. "There is a fine line between your training intensity and injury or sickness. That's the pressure I have as a coach, to find and push that edge without sending people over the edge.

"Now we're going to get back to some higher mileage this week. Well have another build up and then well cut our mileage again," Pevril added. "Hopefully, well see similar results when we get to the state meet. That's what our next phase of training will be. All in all, Pevril feels the team's training has been outstanding and that it is on pace for an outstanding finish to the season.

"The guys are really believing in what they do, that's real important in training," he said. "As a coach, 1 can give them all the workouts that I want, but unless thev good things training-wise. Even though they were sick, Derek (Curry) and Barry i Hollandt still got personal bests. They could've run a lot faster and we're all thinking we can be faster In their previous week of training, the Bombers had put in some very high mileage work outs. Last week Pevnl trimmed down the mileage and was very pleased with the fresh legs his runners featured.

"Most of our guys could sense some freshness in their legs. They finished with a lot more zip and finished a lot harder than they did last Tuesday up at West Plains he explained. That's one of the few criticisms of our team that I've had of this team, that we didn't finish that strong up at West Plains. "We finished it on this one. For our guys, the race couldn't have gone any better, whether we beat West Plains or lost to them," Pevril added.

"We couldn't have run any better." The meet was Mountain Home's third in the previous eight days, which Pevril said "It was good we finished as close as we did Tuesday up at their place, but it's still our goal to beat them," he added. "West Plains' standards are extremely high and that's where we're setting ours" All eight Bomber runners recorded a personal best in the meet, led by Eric Gross 15:20. Gross pulled away early, running 4:52 for the first mile and hitting the second-mile split at 9.50 on his way to victory. Logan Thomas was second at 15:53 to hold off West Plains' Dustin Collins (16 001. lVter Marston finished fifth at 16.05 to round out the Bombers' top-ten finishers, Barry Holland finished 25th at 16.53.

Derek Curry was 26th at 16:59, Patrick Carter placed 47th at 17:37, Chance Holland finished 99th with an 18.50 and Jason MacDonald placed 142nd with a time of 1954 The eight personal-best finishes really showed IVvril some things about his team. "That shows that they've really been working he said of his team's finish. When you get personal bests this late in the season, that means we're doing some believe in what they are doing, it's not going to be effective. "If they believe in what they are doing, the race will reflect it," Pevril added. "I'm seeing that confidence come out in their racing.

It doesn't matter if its West Plains or not, they are going to go out and try to win the race." Mountain Home's Lady Bombers didn't have as successful of an outing as their male counterparts, but posted a seventh-place finish against a very tough field of teams. West Plains rolled to the win in the meet, finishing with 42 points. St. Thomas Aquinas finished second with 82 points and defending Arkansas Class AAAAA Champion Bentonville (83 points) was third. Harrison placed sixth with 164 points and Mountain Home finished just seven points back of the Lady Goblins with a 171 total in the 14-team field.

"Both West Plains, St. Thomas Aquinas of Kansas and Bentonville are all state See CROSS COUNTRY Page 11 JOPL1N. MO. The Mountain Home Bombers and Lady Bombers cross country teams returned to action on Saturday afternoon, finishing well in Missouri Southern University's Southern Stampede. In the boy's race, Mountain Home finished a close second to Missouri powerhouse West Plains.

The Zizzers took the meet by a 37-55 count. Fayetteville took third at 122. with St. Thomas Aquinas of Kansas 1 142) placing fourth in the 13-team event. The Bombers had three finishers in the top five and went 1-2-5-25-26 in the scoring finishes.

West Plains won out on its depth, finishing its five scorers at 3-4-8-9-13. Mountain Home head coach Clint Pevnl was quite pleased with his team's runner-up finish as the Bombers continue to close in on West Plains "This shows that we are very consistent." Pevril said. "We haven't had just one good meet, we've been very consistent with our performance. W'e know that West Tlains is consistently great and is usually the favorite to win every meet they are in..