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NFL playoffs: Mohteha-Marino: matchuin, Miami livens up opening round 4E El Paso Times I Section 2E Printout 3E Sun Bowl 4E NFL 6E Basketball Saturday Dec 31, 1994 Sports Editor Lee Williams, mm MM Record crowd ofr 50,612 fills Sun BoVvl for 61st classic Longhorn tailback makes the difference in fourth quarter Texas rallies from 10-point deficit to beat North Carolina COLLEGE BASKETBALL TT Tl 9 w3ewr em Item oiMBnwamninK-nBHimffai i n.i. ni.i n.n 1 llT tl if ffl 1 1" i Big plays give iCAaa Bowl By Don El Paso Times Mn's Top 25 --Arkansas vs. Iowa, late '7-Duke 76, 17-5eorgia Tech 69 8- Connecticut 88, Northeastern 70 9-Maryland 98, American U. 77 10- Arizona 88, Texas Tech 82 87, Si Francis, Pa. 72 St 70, Long Beach St 60 Forest 95, Marshall 59 Hawaii 75, 20-Cincinnati 66 85, Bethune-Cookman 55 Women Mr.

Cooklef ace Classic -St Peter's 76, UTEP 52 Top25 3-lbuisiana Tech 92, Marquette 73 57. Virginia Tech 52 "5-Penn St 99, Michigan St 70 -Stanford 96, San Diego 54 84, UC Irvine 47 94, Manhattan 54 91, Central Florida 52 85, Baylor 78 Hall 89, California 54 21-USC 84, N.Carolina-Charlotte 69 225.Miss. 90, TX Pan American 66 Arkansas St 85, 23-Texas 80 nba San Antonio 115, Washington 101 Orlando 116, LA Dippers 105, 0T Cleveland 87, Atlanta 85 Indiana 96, New Jersey 79 Boston 124, Detroit 107 New York 90, Minnesota 81 Chicago 133, Miami 88 Charlotte i01, Milwaukee 94 Pallas 110, Golden State 94 A. Lakers 127. Phoenix 112 penver 118, Portland 114 Houston 111, Utah 103 "Sacramento 85, Philadelphia 82 COLLEGE FOOTBALL I Sun Bowl Texas 35, 31 Heritage Bowl S.Carolina St 31, Grambling St 27 Gator Bowl Tennessee 45, 17-Virginia Tech 23 Holiday Bowl 20-Michigan 24.

lCKtolorado St 14 UNC 31 TEXAS 35 On a Wtmtery. downright tensive Friday afternoon, Tex as used a defen for- TO 1 14 sive play to hold off North Carolina 35-31 in the 61st Sualiowl. Few, if any, of the previous 60 Sun Bowls have been more ex-' citing. For sure, none wafl-ver better attended. Texas' Priest Holmes overshadowed a pair of Norfh Caro lina tailbacks, piercing the-Tar Heels' defense for Kit) yards and four touchdowns to earn MVP honors and the Longhoj-ns their first bowl victory since the 1987 Bluehonnet Bowl.

"This victory reflects our season," Longhorn coacTV John Mackovic said of the up-and-down, hack and forth offensive afternoon. "The way we 'Wort it is more fitting than if we hd been ahead 31-17 and they we're' battling back to catch us. 1 "We've been aheajjwg've been behind, we have just hung in all year long. "We didn't say this, was the culmination of the 1991 season, or the start of the '95 season. This was a one game season, and we're undefeated." Still that one game season looked shaky as the clock entered its final minute.

The Longhorns, who led 21-10 Please see Texas 3E J. AHMi. i i.v Rudy Gutierrez tl Paso Times Texas' Priest Holmes was stopped on this play by North Carolina's Sean Boyd, but overall, the Longhorn tailback pretty much had his way with the Tar Heels Friday, rushing for 161 yards and four touchdowns. Lady Miners fall in finals Times staff reports JERSEY CITY. N.J.

"-r- Tonia Collier scored 23 points Friday night -in leading host St. Pewter's College to a 76-52 victory over the UTEP Lady Miners in the championship game of the Mr. Cookie Face Classic. The loss dropped the Lady Miners' record to 5-5 for the year and St. Peter's improved to 7-3.

Kevia Ford scored 20 points and grabbed seven rebounds for UTEP. Amy was the only other Lady 31iner in double figures, scoring 12 points. St. Peter's jumped to 3 37-20 lead at the half. UTEP committed 19 -turnovers, eight more St.

Peter's. UTEP only 35.1 percent. 4 MVP Holmes refuses to let Longhorns lose i 7T 5 'iiH 4 Dill Knight Dark clouds began blowing in over the Sun Bowl late Friday afternoon. Texas watched as a four-point lead disappeared in the fourth quarter. With the wind whipping Longhorn hopes all around the artificial turf, yet another Texas football season appeared headed toward yet another unhappy ending.

It was almost eerily like a cold, windy December day in 1982, when Texas watched a fourth quarter, four-point lead over North Carolina blow away into the wind and snow. North Carolina stormed away to win that 1982 affair. 210. This time it did not snow and one Mr. Priest Holmes kept slamming his body at, around and through Tar Heel defenders.

This time no unhappy ending. This time, Texas 35, North Carolina 31. In a day when the once high and mighty Southwest Conference is just glad to win a bowl game any bowl game, the Longhorns were more than a lit MORE ON THE GAME On the run: Tar Heels shut down the pass, but1 not the run3E Notebook: Texas backup quarterback Shea Morenz says he'll be back next year 3E Summary: Complete team and individual statistics 3E QUOTE OF THE DAY "This was one of the best college football games I've ever been involved in." North Carolina head coach Mack Brown. (at 1 tie excited to claim this victory. In a day where bite your tongue the Atlantic Coast Conference carries far more bowl clout than the now teetering SWC, Texas gripped the Sun Bowl title trophy with tight, white knuckles.

Much of the thanks for this victory can be handed to some halftime defensive adjustments by the Longhorns. Much can be handed to the huge Texas offensive line. Freshman quarterback James Brown deserves his share of credit, too. But the man who simply Please see Knight 4E Bill Hslnes El Paso Times North Carolina's Octavus Barnes fought his way past Texas' Chris Carter for a first down in the first quarter. Barnes caught 9 passes for 165 yards, a Sun Bowl record.

BORDERLAND El Pasoarts In finals: El Pasoans Lindsay Deason and Sara Walker moved into today's finals of their respective, age groups in the Reebok Fiesta Bowl National Junior Tennis Championship at Phoenix Friday. Deason, the ninth seed in the girls 12 division, defeated fifth-seeded Megan Caldwell ofXake Oswego, 6-4, 6-3. Deason will meet top-seeded Hillary Adams of Bloomfield Hills, today. Walker, the second seed in the girls 14 division, defeated Julie Anna Chidley of Riverside, 6-3, 6-1. Walker will meet top-seeded Lea Kil- len-of Detroit today.

Sunland Fall Futurity: Her- ewego continued his dominat-. irig ways by winning the Sun-land Park Fall Thoroughbred Futurity Friday at Sunland Park Race Track. The classy son of Bold Ego is an early candidate for Horse Of The Meet honors. ELSEWHERE Navy names coach: Charlie Weatherbie, who turned a struggling Utah State football program into a winner in just two seasons, expects to do the same at Navy in half the time. Weatherbie was named the 31th coach in Navy's 114-year history Friday.

"1 Timet taff, wire report NMSU No. 22 Aggies ready for next week's Big West opener said. "Mv wind wasn't up after the hrenk and all the running NMSU box: Complete stats from Friday's game 2E WAC Hawaii downs No. 20 Cincinnati 4E weight and now I'm dowji.JJQ. pounds," he said.

'It's ar mendous difference." Bethune-Cookman was in the thick of it with 5:12 left in the first half, trailing Tonly. 24 22, then fell apart. "We had five turnovers in a row and before you know it, we were behind 13 at the half." Wildcats coach Maurice "Tony" Shields said. The victory improved NMSU's season record to- 9 2'-going into next week's Big West Conference road trip--to-California. Bethune Cookman, a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, fell to 2 6.

By Dan William El Paso Times LAS CRUCES The outcome was but the cast of characters was different for New Mexico State on day as the 22nd-ranked Aggies sloppily but steadily wore down Bethune-Cookman, 85-55. Three NMSU players started for the first time this season, a switch Coach Neil McCarthy said was made because the regular starters showed up a day late from their Christmas vacations. Juniors Troy Brewer, Craf- thought it would bo a good time to start some of the other players." Selvie and Jordan still got a fair share of playing time as reserves, but Wyatt, the team's leading scorer this season, never took off his warmups. Jordan pulled down a career-high 16 rebounds, 11 of them in the second half as the Aggies steadily built on their 36-23 halftime lead. He also led the team with 17 points.

"Tonight was more of a physical challenge for me," Jordan we've been doing in practice this week." Brewer hit a pair of 3-point-ers and finished with 12 points. Ferguson scored 11 and Jarrett broke out of a scoring slump, hit three 3-pointers and scoring 11 points. Jarrett also had eight rebounds in helping the Aggies swamp the Wildcats 54 41 on the boards, a feat he attributed to a loss in weight. "I came in 30 pounds over ton Ferguson and Paul Jarrett made the most of the opportunity, each scoring in double figures as regulars Thomas Wy-att, Johnny Selvie and Clyde Jordan sat out a spell. "Some of the guys got back a day it screwed up my practices," McCarthy said.

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