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SPORTS 1 1 Santa Maria 1IMES TUESDAY NOV. 29, 1994 PRO FOOTBALL ON SPORTS 49ers not satisfied with title Peter Hartlaub Lompoc High fields team of carnivores Animal rights activists take heed. Tonight, members of the Lompoc High football team will be responsible for hacking up cattle into tiny bits and eating the dismembered flesh. Cold-blooded, all-you-can-eat killers. The Braves travel to Mira Costa Saturday night for aGF-Southern Section Division VII semifinal game, but not before the offensive linemen have a feeding frenzy at one of Lompoc' premier red meat emporiums the Outpost Restaurant.

Slaughter is nothing new to the Braves, who trounced Sunny Hills "UJ lot EriHai BSSJBBS BBa aSJSBBBJ BBjJJJJJ IJJJJJJJ BBjB' iSSSSS BSSSSS 3sSSx gr SaS BBSfc BH Kssss JKtLL Wm LmmJlmimmmmmmmmmrm '1H Vassal B. sssaWl wf sM ssmSbkl Sssaaafr. PaBPijagMhsjsBMafrtffr, -B lmmVI bk BSSPSBBBHjtl' SBSSSSrjhx hrSsl BBBBSBBBBBBWSBnLfl JlaBBsBH ''SBBBBBsaaBB Hr BBBBBav 'leasssss, RV mitt Mas4ni BBBsl BSaswesBBBs BaSusssl Lasa AP San Francisco secures NFC West with 35-14 victory By John Schumacher McClatchy News Service NEW ORLEANS The first goal is safely in the bag. Now comes the hard part. The San Francisco 49ers clinched their third consecutive NfC title and 11th division crown in 14 years Monday night, overcoming two costly turnovers to post a 35-14 victory over the New Orleans Saints at the Superdome.

But San Francisco (10-2) might have to win its four remaining games against Atlanta, San Diego, Denver and Minnesota to maintain its tiebreaker edge over Dallas (10-2) in the race for home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs. And it's what happens in the postseason that countsWhich is why many of the 49ers took a business-like approach to winning the division championship. "We're just a bunch of hungry guys," safety Tim McDonald said. "Guys came here to get to the Super Bowl. We didn't come here to be division champs." Tight end Brent Jones echoed that theme.

"This team has lofty goals," he said. "We won't be happy about that (the division title) from this week on. "We're in the driver's seat. It's nice to control our destiny." Quarterback Steve Young, who completed 24 of 30 passes for 281 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions, offered the minority opinion. He just wanted to savor becoming the first team in the NFL to win a division championship.

"To be the champions in November, it's a great accomplishment," Young said. "1 think we should kind of pal ourselves on the back and kind of enjoy it." The 4sers rolled up 461 yards in total offense, enjoyed nearly a 1 7-minute edge in time of possession and took advantage of three New Orleans turnovers. But they still needed a big second half to put the Saints (4-8) away and land that title. San Francisco built a 2(V-14 halftime lead, then took control in the second half. For the first time in the last eight years, a 49ers-Saints game at the Superdome was decided by more than seven Ricky Waters slides past Saints Winfred Tubbs and Sean Lumpkin, right, in the 49ers' 35-14 victory.

shot, but then they took the second-half kickoff and went down to score. "They're as good an offense as I've ever seen." On the first play of the fourth quarter, Deion Sanders intercepted a Jim Everett bomb in the end one and returned the ball to the 44ers' 34. Five plays later, Young threw a 43-yard touchdown pass to Nate Singleton, giving the 49ers a 35-14 lead with 11:57 left Singleton, who is from New Orleans, ran a slant pattern, caught the bali at the 34 and raced into the end zone. "That was my opportunity," Singleton said. "I don't think Deion would have caught me." San Francisco spread its offensive wealth around.

Ricky Watters carried 26 times for 105 yards. Young ran seven times for 43 yards and eight 49ers caught at least one pass. points. But it wasn't easy. The 49ers struggled until Young threw a six-yard touchdown pass to Jones with 5:58 left in the third quarter.

Young's pass to Jerry Rice for the two-point conversion gave the 49ers a 28-14 cushion. The score ended a 14-play drive that ate up the first 9:02 of the second half "We couldn't get them stopped." Saints coach Jim Mora said. "We had a COLLEGE FOOTBALL PREP BOYS BASKETBALL PREVIEW No clear-cut stars or favorite in LPL Torres sets high goals in first year "I told them, 'OK guys, if we gain over 300 yards, I'M take you to the Outpost for Lompoc coach Robin Luken said at Monday's Northern Santa Barbara County Athletic Roundtable. More than 370 yards' Jatcr, 12 of the area's biggest eaters arc headed for a carnivore's nirvana. "I hope the Outpost has killed enough cows before we get there," Luken said.

"Our guys they're porkers." Manager Barbara Sattcrficld 'says in the seven years since the Outpost opened, the title of "biggest eaters" has a clear winner: "The Lompoc football team," Sattcrfield said, without any hesitation. This ye'qiVSaflcrfield said, she's hosted three sets of about six Braves for Tuesday night's all-you-can-cal special. "Their ftrsl group ale about 10 ribs each." Sattcrfield said. "The second two groups weren't as aggressive." Satterficld sjid the average Tuesday night patron eats "about four ribs." At press time, a local butcher or a Cal Poly Dairy Science professor was not available to comment on the precise ratio of ribs-per-cow. But Margaret Price at the Arroyo Grande Public Library reference desk was nice enough to look it up for me.

She got the count from a picture in the Skeleton Guide to Mammals. "One We had to go with an estimate. "About 14 ribs," Price said. Twelve players and one coach eating about 10 ribs each, at about 28 ribs a cow. That equals approximately 4.6 dead cows.

It 's not enough for the Lompoc High football team to keep knocking team after team out of the playoffs They've got to try and knock local restaurants out of business, too. Sattcrfield doesn't mind. She said most of the Outpost staff are Lompoc football fans. "They 're a good group of kids and we love to have them." Sattcrfield said. If they do indeed eat as much as Luken boasts, his linemen must have metabolisms of hummingbirds.

The Braves only have one lineman weighing more than 220 pounds (John Hauenstein. 230) and several in the 180-pound range. Size mismatches haven't hurt productivity. At 5-foot-! 1. 175 pounds.

Lompoc defensive end Blue Rogers had to face a rVfoot-6. 290-pound offensive tackle Friday He ended the Sumy Hills By Cam Inman Times Assistant Sports Editor 35 fl I JBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBbJt BBBBBBBBBBBBBB mm aflML 1 mm LassBL Jasssfl LbbbLbbbbV IP assart JS JjVf jHb. SJBBBb! BassB Final 1993 94 Standings Paso Robles 10 0 St. Joseph 5 5 Atascadero 4 6 Santa Ynez 4 6 Morro Bay 4 6 Calx-io 3 7 19 6 12 13 5 17 10 12 9 15 6 16 As AM Aziz and Matl Williams duked it out during summer-league play, it looked like the makings of the marquee rivalry for the upcoming Iais Padres League season. "It sure St Joseph coach Ed Torres says "It was going to be a great matchup Did1 Was1 Yep.

it won't happen. Aziz saw his final action in a Si Joseph High uniform a month ago when he suffered a serious knee injury on the gridiron. "If there was one guy I was worried about it was him." Atascadero coach Jerry Tamelier says of Azziz "He was going to present problems Williams, a first-team all-league center last year for Santa Ynez, Moved to Central Coast League has since transferred to Dos Pueblos. Which leaves the LPL looking for new superstars Torres hopes he'll be one of them as he takes over the knitfhts following Richard King's departure to coach in Spokane. Wash.

Torres coached the Hancock College women's basketball team the last three years guiding it to the 1 993 state finals before returning this year to St. Joseph, where he led the Knight girls to See LPL PREVIEW, page C-2 Bill Walsh resigns after posting 17-17-1 mark In the post thrsa yean at Stanford. Walsh retires, feeling old Hon. 'How long are you going to That started as soon as I came back to Stanford, and has become more critical this year," he said. Could I logically and PREP ROUNDUP ly recruit while feeling I was soon going to leave Warriors down Knights in girls' hoop opener Colorado hires youthful coach BOULDER.

Colo (AP) Rick Neuheisel figures he is eligible to run for president in two years, so he should be able to handle his new position as head coach at the University of Colorado. "There's lots of young people across our nation that are doing fantastic things in all sorts of endeavors," Sss COLORADO pegs C-2 STANFORD (AP) Bill Walsh decided that even with his knowledge and experience, he's gotten too old for the rigors of college coaching I just felt that this was an appropriate time to move to another stage of my life." Walsh said Monday in announcing his resignation as Stanford's coach "Anyone who looks at my chronological age can under staod tkal. I love football and have thrived on it But the job of bead cOadi is an exhausting job, and at this stage in my life it 's time for somebody else to do it." Walsh, who tarss 6.1 Wednesday, returned to Stanford is 1992 after coaching the Sas Francisco 49ers to three Saper Bowl titles He left after two Cardinal The white haired coach had with a sack and two knock Oliveira said "We just pounded the ball inside." Knight Lauren Merrill led all scorers with 1 7 points. Anikka Dell led (he Warriors with 15 points. Teammate Melinda Smith added nine.

Boys soccer VANDENBERG VILLAGE the job?" But his players, who learned of the decisioa in a team meeting shortly before Walsh announced his retirement at a new nnfcr eoce, stkl use coach's age was sot important to them. "1 ftaak he's a genius I feel fortunate to be here," said Jeff Buckey, 20, a junior offensive tackle "I didn't get any feeling he was too old. Knowledge sever gets old Walsh's departure was rumored ia recent weeks. He Steal he poke with Lekaad about his future during the past four to five weeks Lelaad. as assistant coach amder Walsh at Stamford is the Laic 1970s, said a nationwide "Blue got around and used his Luken said.

Rogers agrees with lac assessment "Speed. That's just about the only thing thai will work. Rogers said "We also try to outsmart them Lakes doesn't know the secret to his team's success "I wish I conW pal my finger focus on With tbe first game of the By Times Staff The St Joseph High and Righetti girls basketball teams opened Oie season Monday with one winner and two happy coaches Righetti coach Harold Oliveira's team started the season with a 45-42 non-league win at Hofschuhe Gym. John Beasley considered his first game as the Knights' coach a "very encouraging'' loss. "I wasn't at all unhappy with our play," Beasley said.

St. Joseph led 31-29 entering the fourth quarter, when Righetti 's inside game took over. "What gave as the boost is hast we were able to break then press," creatioa of a carae the first shutout as outscored Cabrilko, 2-0. meat program aad a sports research institute at Stanford Bat Walsh said he II also he The Warriors were led by was (thai two vears remaining a year Ben Cbedte aad sophomore Jose Ramirez, each with a goal. WetshsBsflhrnasewatl Ha kea said.

"The i out sad jest sort of "We have a brand new ew squad dal with only one for a saw coach already iagasaat of an ease as he tned men aroand the noaeary. JStng ski the qv Warrior coach Ed feat rafSWjbr have a lot of yoamg talent.