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82 THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE SEPTEMBER 25. 1988 UNH alters IWIT 44-23 'A (fW jVCV; 4 4 -JL V-' jkv fo 1,111 Maine 9 By Allen Lessels Globe Staff ORONO, Maine From Orono to Durham, N.H. and points in between the University of Maine football team had made life miserable for the University of New Hampshire the last three years. But yesterday, quarterback Bob Jean and UNH got a measure of revenge, calming down and storming back from a 21-10 deficit with 34 points in the last 21 'A minutes, taking advantage of six Maine turnovers for a 44-23 win. UNH coach Bill Bowes said Jean was jittery, not reading the defenses well and not setting up properly in the first half.

Jean said he wasn't the only one who was a little nervous. "Everyone was a little shaky and nervous, even the coaches," said Jean of the first half. "They had a hard time getting plays in and couldn't make up their mind what play they wanted." Bowes called Jean "awesome" in the second half. UNH scored on its first five possessions and Jean was 20 of 23 for 155 yards and 4 touchdowns. For the game, he matched the school record of 31 completions he set a week earlier and had a total of 310 yards.

In each of the last three years. New Hampshire had its title and NCAA playoff hopes destroyed by Maine. In 1985, UNH was 6-2 when it lost to Maine, 45-40, in Orono. In 1986. UNH was 7-1 before losing to Maine in Durham, 14-13.

Last year, even going to a neutral site (Portland) didn't help and 7-1 New Hampshire lost, 28-14. Yesterday's loss dealt Maine a nasty blow. The Black Bears, who tied Richmond for the Yankee Conference title last yesr at 6-1 and went to the NCAA playoffs, dropped to 1-2, 0-2 in the conference. New Hampshire is 3-0, 2-0. "They really put it to us last year," said UNH free safety Garry Jordan.

"This one felt real good." Jordan intercepted two Mike Buck passes, one on Maine's first play of the game and the other on Maine's last play. Buck, who passed for nearly 700 yards in his first two games and was 19 of 23 for 364 yards and 5 touchdowns last week against Northeastern, was 15 for 32 with 3 interceptions for 229 yards. Buck and the Bears took the second-half kickoff and for the third straight series marched for a touchdown. Buck finished the drive by rolling left and hooking up with a diving Steve Roth, well-covered by Ryan Jones, for a 27-yard touchdown Roth's 4 catches for 62 yards were his first receptions in two years. He sat out last year with a knee injury.

UNH and Jean went right back Globe staff photoGeorge Rlzer Northeastern defensive tackle Jim Marshall (right) had his hands Morra, who was listed on the program at 6-foot-l-inch and 305 full yesterday as he lined up opposite Central Connecticut's Dan pounds. Lubischer, NU run smoothly Freshman quarterback helps Huskies rumble over Central Conn. True. The Huskies completely dominated the second quarter, rolling up three touchdowns for a 31-7 halftime lead. Lubischer drove the Huskies 61 yards in five plays for a score on his pass to Williams.

Northeastern cornerback Dan Daponde intercepted a pass at the Central 33, and after Harold Scott reeled off gainers of 14 and 15 yards, Brian Walker carried it in from the 4. Staying on the ground. Northeastern marched 91 yards on 13 plays for the third touchdown of the quarter, with Calvin Johnson scoring from the 1 Northeastern added three more scores in the second half, two of them with LUbischer directing the offense, the other with Rodriguez steering a seven-play scoring drive. Lance Gordon, the Huskies' "Mr. Automatic," was 7 for 7 on point-after tries (he's 13 for 13 for the season) and also provided the first points of the day with a 22-yard field goal.

Rich Rodriguez and Byron Hurt can throw when we feel it is warranted but keeping the ball on the ground is our forte." Keeping the ball on the ground netted the Huskies 501 yards yesterday. Pawlak agreed that Lubischer ran the offense very well, and he was also pleased with the aroused Husky defense. "We have been giving away too many points," he said. "Today, I felt that we contained them very well except once." That exception occured midway though the first period when Central Connecticut speedster Rodney Baron burst around the Huskies' left flank and raced 66 yards for a touchdown on the prettiest run of the day by either team. "I was pleased with the way we kept our poise after that," Pawlak noted.

"I was really concerned at the time. With the score only 10-7, they were very much in the ball-game, but we came back and regained the momentum. By Art Ballou Special to the Globe Tony Lubischer, a 180-pound freshman out of Manchester, N.J., gave a "Cool Hand Luke" performance in his first start as North-eastern's quarterback, as the Huskies trounced Central Connecticut, 52-7, in their home opener at Parsons Field yesterday. With Lubischer at the controls, Northeastern's explosive wishbone offense functioned with the balance it lacked in two previous games. Lubischer effectively mixed handoffs to a cordon of fleet running backs with keepers of his own.

The freshman carried the ball 17 times, amassing a total of 164 yards, including a 28-yard scamper for the Huskies' first touchdown. Lubischer threw only five passes, connecting on three of them, including a 31 -yard touchdown shot to Mike Williams. "We don't throw very much," said NU coach Paul Pawlak. "All of our quarterbacks Lubischer, Northeastern, 52-7 at Parsons Flsld, Brookllrw Northeastern 10 21 7 14 52 Central Conn 7 0 0 0 7 Lance Gordon 22 FG Tony Lubischer 28 run (Gordon kick) CC Rodney Baron 66 run (Paul Flynn kick) Mike Williams 31 pass from Lubischer (Gordon kick) Brian Walker 4 run (Gordon kick) Calvin Johnson 1 run (Gordon kick) Johnson 3 run (Gordon kick) Johnson 2 run (Gordon kick) Peter Glvens 2 run (Gordon kick) Attendance 4,050 CC NU First downs 6 28 Rushes-yards 26-118 78-516 Passing yards 101 79 Return yards 100 63 Passes 9-20-1 4-6-0 Funis 7-33 6 4-43 0 Fumbles-lost 3-2 2-0 Penalties-yards 7-65 8-90 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing Att. Yds.

Avg. LG Lubischer, NU 17 167 9.8 32 Scott, NU 17 95 5.5 16 C. Johnson, NU 14 82 5.8 11 Givens, NU 8 57 7.0 15 Smith, NU 12 56 4.6 12 Baron, CC 10 88 8.8 66 Passing Com. Att. Yds.

TD Int. Lubisher, NU 3 5 63 1 0 Hannon, CC 20 9 101 0 1 Receiving No. Yds. TD M. Williams.

NU 3 63 1 West. CC 7 80 0 UNH, 44-23 at Orono New Hampshire 0 10 14 20 44 Maine 0 14 7 2 23 NH Bob Jean (Pete Lane kick) Carl Smith 1 1 run (Pale Borjesdt kick) Mike Buck 9 run (Bonesdt kick) NH Lane 28 FG Steve Roth 27 pass from Buck (Bor-kndtkk) NH Rob Spittle 4 pass from Jean (Lane kick) NH Curtis Olds 6 pass from Jean (Lane kick) NH Norm Ford 44 run (Lane kick) NH Olds 26 pass from Jean (kick blocked) Claude Pettaway 90 return blocked PAT NH Matt Banbury 6 pass from Jean (Lane kick) Attendance 11.138 UNH Maine First downs 25 21 Rushes-yards 39-121 39-129 Passing yards 310 229 Return yards 39 3 Passes 31-46-0 15-32-3 Punts 4-28 0 3-30 6 Fumbles-lost 2-1 3-3 Penalties-yards 11-100 7-49 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing Att. Yds. Avg. LG Ford, NH 24 98 4 0 44 Banbury.

NH 6 31 5.1 13 Todd Urbanik. NH 3 12 4.0 7 Com. Att. Yds. TD Int.

Jean. NH 31 46 310 1 0 Buck, 15 32 229 1 3 Receiving No. Yds. TD Olds. NH 12 95 2 Banbury, NH 8 76 1 Scott Venditto.

5 66 0 Roth, ......4 62 1 to work with their controlled passing game. Jean was 8 for 8 in the. 11 -play drive. Tight end Rob Spit-tel went high for a 5-yard recep-: tion and the score. i Maine freshman Carl Smith took Shawn Lane's kickoff at the 5, brought it out to the 30, and, for the second time in the game, was stripped of the ball.

Bill Farrell did the stripping, UNH's Dwayne Saab recovered. Nine plays "later, Curtis Olds slanted in for a 6-yard touchdown pass from Jean and New Hamp-. shire led, 24-21. Buck completed passes of 15 yards to Roth and 19 yards to Dan Gordon and Maine was marching back until Buck floated a ball and. Ryan Jones picked it off on the 4-yard line.

"At 21-10 it was great and I felt really good about what we were doing," Maine coach Tim Murphy, said. "But then we turned it over, twice and the momentum shifted. It never really swung back and we never legitimately got back in the. game." Three plays after the Jones in-, terception. Norm Ford went right, made a nice cut back to the middle and outraced the secondary to put' New Hampshire up, 31-21.

Jean went to Olds again from 25 yards out to put it away at 37-21 Claude Pettaway picked up a blocked Lane conversion kick and ran it-90 yards for two points for one of the few Maine second-half high-', lights. UNH picked up 7 easy points when Maine gave the ball up on, downs on its own 5. Rogers scores pair of TDs toleadURI Associated Press KINGSTON, R.I. Running back Mike Rogers scored first-, quarter touchdowns on runs of 27 and 8 yards to lead the University of Rhode Island to a 17-10 victory over Brown yesterday. After a scoreless second period," Chris Cassara kicked a 39-yard' field goal in the third quarter to.

give Rhode Island a 17-0 lead. Brown scored on a 3-yard run by Lane Wood and a 47-yard field goal by Stephan Lins. Rogers finished with 189 yards on 21 carries and also caught 4'. passes for 62 yards. Rhode Island, 17-10 Brown 7 310 Rhode Island 14 3 017 Rl Rogers 27 run (Cassara kick) Rl Rogers 8 run (Cassara kick) Rl FG Cassara 39 Br Wood 3 run (Lins kick) Br FG Lins 47 A 7,455 Rl First downs 2) 17 Rushes-yards 57-251 42-m Passing 91 106 Return Yards 117 35 Comp-Att-mt 10-26-2 10-16-1 Punts 2-35 4-41 Fumbles-Lost 3-1 o-o Penalties-Yards 6-35 2-1S Possession 33:25 26:35 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing Att.

Yds. Avg. LG Mike Rogers. URI 21 100 4.8 27 Rodney Vincent, 19 83 4 4 14 Lane Wood. 16 72 4 5 9 Sean Donavan, URI ...10 70 7.0 17 Passing Com.

All. Yds. TD Int. Monaco. URI 10 16 106 0 1 Clark.

9 25 89 0 2 Receiving No. Yds. TD Rogers, URI 4 62 0 Man Merrick. 4 35 0 Steve Harrison. 2 27 0 Steve Schwab, URI 3 18 0 I Villanova fakes out BU 1 1 1 i ay js" v- I in the right corner of the end zone.

That was a 12-play, 75-yard drive highlighted by a pair of runs by Peter Lombardi and a 14-yard pass from Schulz to the sure-handed Brady. BU had a drive going midway through the second but it ended when a Schuman pass was picked off by Art Condodina. Villanova, however, couldn't get anything going and had to punt. BU went up again at 12:52 of the second when cornerback Pat Faucette picked off a Schulz pass and returned it 32 yards for a touchdown. Faucette caught the ball in a crowd and found the end zone quickly for his first varsity TD on an interception return.

It appeared BU would go into the locker room with an -edge, but Villanova scored at 14:47 when Ron Sency scored on a 13-yard pass from Schulz. That score ended a nine-play, 64-yard drive, in which the big play was a 17-yard pass from Schulz to Brady to the BU 13. Villanova had a possession edge in the first half. The Wildcats stopped BU after the second-half kickoff and then put together an eight-play, 64-yard scoring drive that was climaxed by Lombardi's 1-yard leap over left tackle. (The Wildcats displayed great ball control in the fourth quarter when they took possession on their 32 and kept the ball for 7:23 before settling for a 20-yard field goal by Tom Withka.

Then came the valiant come-from-behind play by the Terriers that forced overtime. By Bob Monahan Globe Staff Villanova split end Bob Brady threw a 10-yard scoring pass to tight end Rich Lage on a fake field goal to give the Wildcats a 31-24 wertime victory over Boston University before 5,153 yesterday at Vickerson Field. Under Yankee Conference tiebreaker rules, BU had a chance to but when it got possession ifter Lage's score, it was held on downs. Jay Hillman was stopped oy the middle of the Villanova line on fourth and inches. It was a tremendous blow to Terriers (1-2), who climbed sack from a 24-14 deficit by scor-ng 10 points in the fourth Matt LaPolice kicked a 30-yard ield goal at 11:28, and with 26 seconds left in regulation, Darvell Huffman scored on a 49-yard pass "rom Jim Schuman to cut the nargin to a point.

LaPolice kicked Jie point-after for the tie. "I have to admire the way BU back, but then I have to ad-nire the way my people reacted in overtime," said Villanova Andy Tulley. "It was a very 3ig win for us and I'm proud of member of my club." Hillman initiated the scoring at 14:54 of the first quarter when he leaped over left tackle from the 3-ard line. That climaxed an 11-play, 89-yard drive that had a few highlights. To wit: Steve Kennel-ley caught a big 1 1-yard pass from Bchuman: Hillman made three runs totaling 15 yards: Kennelley another pass for an 8-yard Jiffa and a first down on the Vil-anova 35.

and then came the big Villanova, 31-24 at Nlcksrson Flsld, Boston Villanova (2-1) 0 14 7 3 7 31 BU(1-2) 7 7 0 10 0-24 Jay Hillman, 3 run (Matt LaPolice kick) Bob Brady 16 pass from Kirk Schulz (Tom Withka kick) Pat Faucette 32 interception return (LaPolice kick) Ron Sency 13 pass from Schutz (Withka kick) Peter Lombardl 1 run (Withka kick) Tom Withka 20 FG Matt LaPolice 30 FG Darvell Huffman 49 pass from Jim Schuman (LaPolice kick) Rick Lage 10 pass from Brady (Withka kick) Attendance 5,153 TEAM STATISTICS BU First downs 33 23 Rushes-yards 26-24 56-190 Passsing yards .258 25 Return yards 114 79 Passes 24-41-2 25-41-2 Punts. 3-34 7 Fumbles-lost 1-1 1-1 Penalties-yards -8-57 12-105 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing Att. Yds. Avg. LG Jeff Dingle.

22 82 3.9 12 Peter Lombard), 25 110 4.3 11 Jay Hillman, 22 80 3.9 Passing Com. Att. Yds. TD Int. Jim Schuman.

.24 41 158 1 2 Kirk Schult 24 40 247 2 2 Receiving No. Yds. TD Darvell Huffman.B 6 112 1 Brian Straughter 7 40 Bob Brady. 6 77 1 Jim Cashman, ..3 37 0 Delaware, 27-10 Delaware 7 3 7 10 27 3 0 7 010 Rich FG Courier 37 Del Sierer 2 run (O'Brien kick) Del FG O'Brien 37 Del Anderson 65 pass from Sierer (O'Brien) Rich Jordan 84 run (Courier kick) Del Sierer 1 run (CSrten kick) Del FG O'Brien 2 A 15,026 play. Schuman and Huffman combined for a 35-yard pass to the 3.

Villanova answered at 4:15 of the second when Brady scored on a 16-yard pass from Kirk Schulz p4 i Globe stall photo, irry Cnin BU's Dennis Carson upends Villanova's Peter Lombardi..