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Sunday. October 4. 1998 C-7 A ledion of tr Sen Fianciico Sunday Examiner and Chronic! SAN FRANCISCO F.XAMINER I cctolitUttcl: WoWiWIt I Umm mm' task mmm to ft Wst IE '-'Sv -Cv i-f I. (i I 4 Columbia's 64-year wait results in loss for Gaels By Dwight Chapin EXAMINER SENIOR WRITER MORAGA With a reception and a result like this, the Columbia Lions may decide not to wait another 64 years before they come West again. Buoyed by a crowd of 4,967 that who would later leave the game against Columbia with an injury, is sacked less streak when backup quarterback Joe Lilley playing in place of the injured Chad Thomas passed 47 yards down the middle for a touchdown to Bruce Rhode with 6:04 remaining.

After Reed Mokler's extra point, the Gaels were ahead 17-13. St. Mary's got the ball back again with only 3:40 to play, but on third down from its 32, coach Mike Rasmussen called for a quick kick and Lilley's boot made it to only the Columbia 48. "I wish I had it back," Rasmus-sen said after the game. "It's something we do very well in practice, and it's definitely a good call when it works." "I just missed it," Lilley said.

"I was surprised by it," Columbia coach Ray Tellier said. "But if he kicks it good and it bounces the way it should, we're probably at our 10-yard line." That didn't happen, however. And then the Gaels handed Columbia very much a run-oriented team the second break it needed. Lions backup quarterback Ted Schroeder, who came on in the I Devine of Alameda, who was helping his friend Chris Kidd, whose lawyer dad, Robert, is Columbia class of 1970. One guy who didn't need special identifying garb was Len Thompson, who was wearing a "Columbia Dad" shirt.

His son, Lendell Thompson, is the Lions' starting fullback, after a prep career at St. Patrick-St. Vincent high in Vallejo. "Lendell is so excited about coming back and playing before friends and family," his father said. "We're going to have 20 or 25 people up there rooting for him." Columbia has 23 California players 10 from the Bay Area, PAC-10 EXAMWERCRAK3 LEE in the first half.

including starters Thompson and Norman Hayes and Jason Bivens, who played at St Mary's College High of Berkeley. Hayes rushed for 75 of the Lions' 179 ground yards Saturday. "I tried to block out being back close to home," he said, "and treat this as a business trip. Really, it is. I haven't had time to see my friends.

But I know that quite a few of my former teammates and coaches were here today. There were a lot of friendly people here for Columbia." Including, as it turned out, the St. Mary's Gaels, who couldn't have been nicer to their guests. St. Mary's quarterback Chad Thomas, second quarter to replace injured starter Paris Childress, was hit late on a scramble, and the resulting 15-yard penalty gave Columbia a first down on the St.

Mary's 18. There was just enough time left (1:52) for Schroeder to drive his team the rest of the way, on four more runs and a pass, with Kirby Mack ramming over from the 1-yard line with 15 seconds on the clock. "Just a regular off-tackle play," said Mack, a transfer from Virginia. The whole day went well for the Lions, who are 2-0 in California, following that 7-0 victory in the ippi. wiqawm wwnj WHmn JtWy 1 eyrwrif' wnw a i Wildcats pull out a last-second win 5 Conference) AH Gamea Team I Arizona 2 0 5 0 USC 2 0 4 1 Oregon 10 4 0 UCLA 10 3 6 California 10 3 1 Washington 11 2 2 Arizona SI.

12 2 3 Washington St. 0 2 3 2 Oregon St. 0 2 3 2 Stanford 0 2 14 Aaron Focht combine to upend Dan O'Leary in the second quarter. Rose Bowl over Stanford's Vow Boys in 1934, and their 400-500 California alumni who showed up (some of them looking as if they might have been in Pasadena in 34). A threat of rain moved the alums' pregame celebration inside to the Soda Center on Saturday, but the precipitation never materialized.

It turned out to be an absolutely gorgeous day for homecoming on the St. Mary's campus, which certainly helped the sale of Columbia hats ($18) and shirts "The hats are selling a lot better than the shirts," said vendor Joey AP FRANK POUCH you could blink," Wiliingham said. "We have done that two weeks in a row, which makes it difficult to come back." This was such a far cry from last year, when Notre Dame came to Stanford and was simply hammered in a 33-15 loss. Really, though, the Cardinal look to be headed where their second half took them last year, when they lost five of their final six games. The score Saturday was 35-3 before the Cardinal added a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns, one with backup Randy Fasani doing mop-up duty.

Where last year Stanford rushed for 322 yards in the win over the Irish, the Cardinal mustered just 63 yards Saturday and had only 16 yards on 16 carries in the first half. "I think winning gives birth to more winning," said Husak. "Right now, we're just not in the right groove." ATTENDANCE: 80,012 Team statistics SIM. NO First downs Rushes-yards Passing Total yards Comp-Att-Int Return Yards Punts Penalties-Yards Time ot Possession 20 29-63 284 347 29-50-0 88 4-390 0-0 7-45 27 54 25 55-309 163 472 11-15-1 60 3-270 7-51 32 06 Individual leaders Rushing STANFORD: Wire 19-76, Fasani 2-6. Lacey 2-4.

Allen 1-2. Stevenson 1-2. Daws 1-(rrnus 6). Husak 3-(rr-nus21) NOTRE DAME: Jackson 18-100. Denson 20-88.

Spencer 10-80. Fisher 2-15. Goodspeed 2-13. Gether-a 1-7. Murray 2-6 Passing STANFORD: Husak 24-41-0-226, Fasani 50-58, Wire 0-1-04) NOTRE DAME: Jackson 1 1-15-1-163 Receiving STANFORD: Pitts 8-112, Dame 7-78 Wre 7-29 At-Ien441 Stewart 3-24 NOTRE DAME: Johnson 7-113 Oteary 1-16.

J.Jornson 1-16. HotOMy 1-9. Oefherat 1-9 was liberally a sprinkled with Columbia blue, Saturday's score and aided by the generosity of the host St. Mary's Gaels, the New Yorkers staged a last-minute rally to win west of the Mississippi for the first time since the 1934 Rose Bowl. Their 20-17 victory at St.

Mary's Stadium gave the Lions a 2-1 record, and sent the luckless Gaels to 0-5. It looked very much as if St. Mary's would finally end its win- Walters should be in full swing By Mark Fainaru-Wada OF THE EXAMINER STAFF SOUTH BEND, Ind. Desperately in need of a boost, the Cardinal are expected to get the full-fledged return of wide receivermultipurpose man Troy Walter next Saturday when Oregon State comes to Stanford. Coach Tyrone Wiliingham said Walters, who was in for only two plays in Saturday's loss to Notre Dame, might have seen more action had the game not gotten so out of hand.

Walters is nursing an ankle sprain he incurred in the first quarter against Arizona on Sept. 12, and this was his first action since then. His two plays came in the first half, but he seemed more a decoy than anything else. The receiving corps has played quite well during his absence, but his presence should provide a huge boost to Stanford's big-play prospect. CHANGE, CHANGE, Quarterback Todd Husak hardly has been the problem for the Cardinal.

In fact, beyond the receivers, the first-year starter probably has been their most consistent player. Still, with Stanford struggling at 1-4, would the coaches consider a change? "If he wasn't effective and doing what we're really wanting him to do, then you might say that's something to look at," said offensive coordinator Bill Diedrick. "But he's doing all the things we've been asking him to do. "(Making a change) would be like in baseball, if the team was not hitting well, do you bench Randy Johnson or Greg Maddux?" THE N.D. SCENE: Stanford running backs coach Earle Moseley, who spent five seasons as an assistant at Notre Dame and who last year testified in an age-discrimination lawsuit brought against Notre Dame by former offensive line coach Joe Moore, said he received some nice greetings from many of his former players.

Moore and Moseley were the only assistant coaches not retained by Bob Davie when he was hired to replace Lou Holtz as the Irish's head coach in November 1996. "You can fool some people, but you can't fool the players. They know what's going on," Moseley said. Seauence that says it all: Stanford starts the second half with first-and-10 at the 50 and doesn't score; the Irish take over at their own 1 after a mint and ro 99 yards on 15 plays. Jarlou Jackson three touchdowns marked the first time I9f.fi a Notre Dame Quarterback has scored three TDs in a game.

Peul Hornung was the last to do it and he olan kicked all three extra poinU in that. 21-14 victorv over North Caroli na. Vinny Cerrato, the director of player personnel for the 49ers ana a former Notre Dame recruiung coorm STANFORD back Washington loses star QB Huard ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE Ortege Jenkins scored on a 9-yard run somersaulting over three defenders into the end zone with four seconds left to give No. 14 Arizona a 31-28 victory over No. 20 Washington on Saturday night.

The Wildcats (5-0, 2-0 Pac-10) won their ninth game in a row over two seasons. Washington fell to 2-2, 1-1. Arizona, winning for the first time since 1988 in Seattle, drove 80 yards for its winning score to ruin Marques Tuiasosopo's big night as Washington's replacement quarterback. Washington starting quarterback Brock Huard incurred a bruised shoulder near the end of the first half. He was knocked hard to the artificial turf by defensive tackle Daniel Greer on a passing play from the Arizona 15.

It was not immediately known how long Huard will be out. The game had some other scary minutes when Arizona linebacker Marcus Bell, who finished with 21 tackles, ran into Wildcats comer-back Leland Gayles in the third quarter. Gayles lay on the Husky Stadium artificial turf for about 15 minutes before being taken off on a stretcher to an ambulance. But Arizona team officials said Gayles' iniurv turned out to be a stinger, a bruised neck, that caused his left arm to go numb. He later was able to move his arm, they said.

UCLA 49, Washington State 17: Jermaine Lewis, who made a key mistake in the closing minutes of UCLA's loss to Washington State last season, rushed for 94 yards and two touchdowns in the Rose Bowl. Washington State beat UCLA, 37-34, to start last season, ultimately enabling the Cougars to play in the Rose Bowl game since the schools were Pac-10 co-champions with 7-1 records. Then a freshman playing in his first college game, Lewis hit the wrong hole on fourth-and-goal from the 1-yard line and was stopped with less than three minutes remaining, snuffing out UCLA's final hope. "It's still in the back of my mind," said Lewis, who has eight touchdowns in three games this year. "It's good to finally clear my name.

"We were on all cylinders when the game started, and emotions were very high. We wanted payback. Personally, I wanted to come out and destroy this team." Keith Brown also ran for two TDs for UCLA, and Cade McNown ran for one score and passed for another. McNown completed 14 of 27 passes for 205 yards his school-record 18th straight game with over 200 yards passing. The Bruins (3-0, 1-0 Pac-10) extended their school-record winning streak to 13 and won a league opener for just the second time in eight years.

WSU (3-2, 0-2) came in leading the conference in total defense, and none of its previous opponents had scored more than 24 points. No. 21 USC 35, Arizona St 24: Ifeanyi Ohalete returned a blocked punt 14 yards for a touchdown early in the fourth quarter, putting the Trojans ahead for good against visiting Arizona State. J.R. Redmond had a school-record 350 all-purpose yards and scored a touchdown for the Sun Devils (2-3, 1-2 Pac-10), who were outscored 21-0 in the final period.

Antuan Simmons blocked Stephen Baker's punt, and Ohalete scooped it up and ran untouched into the end zone with 13:16 remaining to give USC (4-1, 2-0) a 28-24 lead. Oregon State 20, Utah Stat. 16: Former CCSF quarterback Terrance Bryant ran for one touchdown and threw for another to lead Oregon State (3-2) over host Utah State (1-4). Ricky Walker snagged an interception early in the fourth quarter, setting up an 18-yard touchdown pass from Bryant to Greg Ains-worth to give Oregon State a 20-13 lead. Bryant, who completed 22 of 40 passes for 258 yards, also scored on a 1-yard quarterback sneak in the third quarter.

Stanford's Sharcus Steen, left, and STANFORD from C-l Irish steamroll the rebuilding Cardinal ther so typical nor so awful this season and which will hardly be a walkover. Still, the game at Stan ford Stadium will be a winnable one for the Cardinal particularly with Walters expected to return to his full-time duties and Stanford desperately will need it, what with road trips to Arizona State and UCLA to follow. Meanwhile, under the backdrop of Touchdown Jesus, there is little for Stanford to hang its hat on at the moment. The defense, which came into the game ranked last in the nation against the pass and 109th out of 1 12 teams overall, just couldn't handle the Irish. Last week, it was a 63-28 loss to Oregon in which quarterback Akili Smith was pass-happy and running back Reuben Droughns had a runaway day.

This week, it was Notre Dame quarterback Jarious Jackson doing both, passing not much but quite effectively and running the option well enough to score three touchdowns and rush for 100 yards on 18 carries. "They were able to mix it up and never allowed us to turn them into a one-dimensional team," said Stanford coach Tyrone Willing-ham. Perhaps that was what was most galling to the Cardinal (in addition to continued tackling troubles). Coming in, this looked like a much better matchup than last week, as well as a chance for their beleaguered secondary to catch a break. Instead, using play-action quite well, Jackson completed 11 of 15 passes for 163 yards.

And just as in Eugene, where Oregon blasted off to a 21-0 lead before the first quarter was halfway done, the Cardinal trailed by three touchdowns in a hurry. Notre Dame took the opening drive and covered 65 yards on eight plays, with Jackson scoring on a 22-yard jaunt in which he was barely touched. The Cardinal went three-and-out on their first possession, and Notre Dame covered 60 yards in four plays to take a 14-0 lead. Running back Autry Denson, who wound up with 88 yards on 20 carries, accounted for 34 yards on the drive, including a 2-yard scoring run. When Stanford got the ball back, it promptly turned it over, with quarterback Todd Husak fumbling when he was stripped from behind by Deveron Harper.

Brad Williams recovered for the Irish at the Stanford 16, and Notre Dame fullback Jamie Spencer covered that distance in two carries. With 7 minutes, 20 seconds still remaining in the first quarter, it was 21-0. "We were down 21 points before Score by quarters Stafford Noli Dam 1 II 1 36 Scoring First quarter NO: Jackson 22 run (Sanson kick), 11 S3 led 65 yards, eight plays Key play Johnson llpassfrom Jackson on tourth and lour Notre Dame 7, Stan-lord a NO: Denson 2 run (Sanson kick). 9 06 left 60 raids, lour plays Key play Denson 30 run Notre 0ame14, JlanlordO. NO: Spencer 6 run (Sanson kick).

7:20 lefl 16 yards. 2 plays Key play Husak tumble, Wikams recover at Stanlord 16 Notre Dame tl, Stanford 0. (TAN: MSer 25 FQ. 2 49 left S7 yards, 1 1 plays. Key play Pits 2B pass from Husak on third and 12 Notre Dame 1 1, Stanlord 1.

Second quarter NO: Jackson 7 run (Sanson kick), 158 Mt 60 yards, 6 plays Key play Spencer 37 run Notre Dame 28, Stanlord J. Third quarter 99 yards. 15 plays Notre Dame 35, Stanford 1. Fourth quarter STAN: Stewart 5 pass from Husak (pass laM 659 left 30 yards. 8 plays Notre Dame 14, Stanford 9.

STAN: Fasan run (Dam pass from Feeeni). 1 07 left 72 yards. t2 plays Key play Davis 13 pass from Fasan on thrd and eight Notre Dame It, Stanford 17. nator, was at the game..