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III! I luml-KY J'M SIGNAL Regiiniois Pert ire UETQ ON1 i -q i i Jeff Mecbe and Shane Spallmo were effective, leading Pioneer tacklers. Meche also had two blocked punts to his credit, the latter leading to ND's touchdown. Chet Oliver and Wayne Hornsby were also mentioned for good per-formances. Offensively Stephen Vttitier was congratulated for his pressure PAT which proved to be the winning point. Voider also punted for a 38 yard average.

Johnny Casanova recorded all three Pio pass receptions, two of them leaping grabs in a crowd, His 11-yard TD reception from Gerald Greenman was the only routine snare, David Thibodeaux worked hard for his 70 yards on the ground. Tony has five field goals to his cretin ami averaged over 37 yards punt Hi duel with stepiwn Vomer should I an interesting sidelight to the game The Bulldogs employ a 6 1 defense with Sdnnelling Thomas in the spotlight as Use middle linebacker. The Bulldogs are currently H-2 with a bye lust week. Ville Platte and ND had one common foe this season. Opelousas Catholic, The Pioneers edged the Vikings 20 while the Dogs dropped a 2013 double-overtime decision to OC.

VP's other loss (7-0) came at the hands of Runkie. The Pioneer coaches felt their defensive unit did a fine job in holding ED White to six points. Linebackers wore. Tl Hulld'Hs aln have four oilrr rnvers with five ur morecaU'he. Ville Platte has put the ball in the air between II and 12 times per game in l'JW) Schmelling Thomas (44) was Ville 1'tatte'i leading rusher last year with over 1.000 yards.

The 185 pounder has been troubled by a knee Injury this season and lias accounted for only 347 yards on 11 carries. Brother, James Thomas, has taken up the slack, carving out over BOO stripes, Roth have scored four times and could give ND some trouble. Bruising fullback Tony Fontenot (210) is a punishing blocker and good short-yardage man, Fontenot also handles the Ville Platte kicking chores. Platte vere lias become popular is of late around the bulldog campus and wherever tltey travel "I'm so glad I go to Ville Platte High." The mo liulldog squad is almost completely Intact from last year, Laf Jew lost only two itarteri to graduation, both from his defensive unit. Quarterback Craig Hitter (14) returns to direct the slut offense.

The 6 2, 190 pounder threw for over floo yards and lOTDson SI of 114 aerials during the regular season. The big also recorded four rushing TPs. Hitler's favorite target, Kfton Jack (82), is also back. The slender speedster had some 20 receptions, for In excess of 300 yards and three 11 H)l'i OAIGI.K Who dat talkin' bout be tin' dem Dogs? Who dat? Ttus familiar Ville Platte cheer will be ringing throughout Gardiner Memorial Stadium Friday night when Glenn Ifleur'i Bulldogs invade the Rice capital. Actually quite a few teams talk about beating those Bulldogs but not many foes have turned the trick in the past two yean.

Lafleur, who spent one semester at ND as an assistant coach, guided his club to the quarterfinals last year before losing to John Curtis 12 7. En route to a 12-1 mark, the Bulldogs eliminated Notre Dame 14 6 In the bl-district round. Another patented Ville Chargers Gaining Confidence In San Diego Chargers' Coach Don Coryell is none too happy about the transcontinental trek his team Walker Among Sportswriter's All OKLAHOMA CITY UPl) Five schools, including nationally top-ranked Georgia, placed two players each on the Football Writers Association of America's 37th annual All-America team, announced Wednesday, Gerald Greenman Shane Spollino USL-McNeese Fact Sheet IT'S THE BIG ONE: USL's Ragin' Cajun football squad (7-3, 4-0) will play its biggest football game In several yean Saturday night when the Cajuns shoot for a Southland Conference title and a berth in the Independence Bowl against the Cowboys of McNeese State (91, 4-01 in Lake Charles. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. HUGE CROWD: Cowboy Stadium is already a sellout, and the only tickets left are general admission tickets.

The capacity of Cowboy Stadium is listed as 20.ooo, but total of 27,500 jammed into the facility in 1976 when these two teams met. That figure could be even higher this time. LOT RIDING ON THISONE: The Cajuns have never won an outright Southland Conference championship since joining the league in 1971 and have never participated in the Independence Fowl in its four years of existence. USLand McNeese tied for the conference title in 1976, but the Cowboys got the bowl berth in the event's first year of existence courtesy of a 20-19 win over the Cajuns in front of that record crowd. THEY'RE BOTH PERFECT: Both teams come into the contest with unbeaten 4-0 records in league play, and the Cajuns have never had a perfect mark in SLC play over a full season, either, so that will also be on the line.

This game has been pointed to for two full weeks, because even if both teams had lost last weekend this game would still have determined the 51 champion and the bowl representative. A PAIR OF STREAKS: USL has won five straight games since getting off to a 2-3 start, while the Cowboys have done even better with a six-game winning streak since a 13-10 upset at the hands of Northwestern back on Sept. 27. Four of the Cajuns' five wins in the streak have come in Cajun Field, where USL put together an unbeaten 5-0 mark during the season. CAJUNS WRECKED TECH USL is coming off an easy 27-9 win over La.

Tech in Cajun Field in front of a season-high 22,638 fans for Homecoming. The Cajuns were ahead 14-0 with only two minutes gone on the scoreboard and scored in the first six seconds of the game when Mike Selcer picked up an Austin Kattenbraker fumble on the opening kickoff and raced 1 1 yards for a touchdown. Quarterback Phil Reynolds threw touchdown passes to Curtis Calhoun and Barry Herbert and Ed Blanco raced 40 yards for the other USI scores. Duran To Have Biggest Payday practice schedule to three workouts. "But there's nothing we can do about it.

If they were coming out here Amcrican standing interior lineman in the nation. Other members of the writers' team in the running for the Outland were Notre Dame center John Scully, offensive linemen Nick Eyre of Brigham Young and Louis Oubre of Oklahoma, and defensive linemen Kenneth Sims of Texas and Jose Taylor of Houston. Others on the 24-man team included Stanford receiver Ken Margerum; South Carolina running back George Rogers; defensive linemen E.J. Junior of Alabama and Derrie Nelson of Nebraksa; linebackers David Little of Florida, Mike Singletary of Baylor and Lawrence Taylor of North Carolina; defensive back John Simmons of SMU, and punter Rohn Stark of Florida State. Wins First bing a two-point lead after the first stanza, but OLI came back to tie it up early in the second quarter.

After taking a three point lead into the second half, St. Mikes opened up a seven point lead to begin the final stanza. OLI came to life at the beginning of the curtain canto and closed within two points of the Saints. The Saints regained their composure to break the Crusader press easily to score easy basket and register their first win of the season. St.

Michael's next contest is against Maltrait of Kaplan Thursday night. COW BOYS CRUNCHED CARPS: McNeese State Used big Second and fourth quartefl foTliWway with a 35-3 win ovty If Roberto Duran had been paid the money usually offered to more prominent champions, he might own the Panamanian mint today. Consider the fact that Duran has never lost a title fight. He won 13 in the lightweight class and beat Sugar Ray Leonard in his first effort at a welterweight title match. Despite his ring prominence, Duran snare of the receipts in the Leonard fight was $1.5 million, compared to about $9 million for Sugar Ray.

The second Duran-Leonard fight, commanding a top-scaled price of $1,000 for 1,200 ringside seats in the Louisiana Superdome, assures Roberto of his best financial fight night since he turned pro in 1967. If one were to guess at $8 million for Duran, that person would probably be in the right neighborhood. A $6 million figure has been mentioned for Leonard. The battle is set for Tuesday evening, November 25. Poverty is a forgotten Game to play us, we'd think it was great." The 7-4 Chargers, who are one game behind the Oakland Raiders In the AFC West, flew into Miami Wednesday night, but they figure to test their rejuvenated rushing attack early against the Dolphins, who at 6-5 are seeking to keep their playoff hopes alive.

In the last five games, the Chargers have stuck to their pass-first-worry-later offensive philsophy, throwing 59 percent of the lime. But San Diego runners have shown fresh zip in gaining 111, 108, 126, 135 and 171 yards in those games more than 4 yards per carry. "It's a combination of everything," said Chargers' offensive coordinator Joe Gibbs. "The line's been doing a heckuva job, and it goes without saying that Chuck Muncie ind Mike Thomas are running well. We have confidence in our running, which we never had last year." Of course, the Chargers' offensive wizard, quar- terDacK Dan routs, is searching for new records to shatter.

With five games to play, Fouts already has thrown for 3,300 yards and 23 touchdowns. If he keeps the same pace he would surpass his NFL record of 4,082 yards' passing in a season, by more than 700 yards. The Maimi defense, which did not a completion of more than 19 yards to San Francisco last week, knows it will be in against a master. "It's going to be a tough game," Woodley said. "We're just going to have to play the best we can and hope we get the breaks." decision," Stovall said.

"This team knows that I'm not going to tell them they can't go to a bowl game. I told the seniors that if they voted to go, I'd go with them, but they decided against it. "My senior year at LSU, I voted against going to the Cotton Bowl because I was just so beaten up, I wanted to go home and rest. But the team voted to go and I went and did my best. I didn't do too well, but I tried." Attending the Peach Bowl would've extended LSU's season an additional month and could have prohibited several of the seniors from participating in the Blue-Gray all-star game on Dec.

25. Lamar in Lake Charles in its last outing. The 'Pokes got two touchdowns from Puford Jordan on runs of 10 and 49 yards and one TD run each from Theron McClendon and Tony Burlingame, and Carlton Briscoe returned an interception 85 yards in the final minute for the other tally. GOLDEN EAGLES AWAIT THE WINNER The winner of Saturday's game will have the honor (or the problem) of facing powerful Southern Mississippi in the Independence Bowl, which is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 13, at 7 p.m.

in Shreveport's State Fair Stadium. The Golden Eagles, who downed Richmond 33-12 Saturday to boost their record to 8-2 on the season, have only Louisville remaining on their schedule this year, and USM already holds wins over three Southland Conference teams this season: I a. Tech, Lamar and Arkansas State. The announcement of Southern Mississippi's invitation and acceptance was made in Shreveport Sunday night. PR ETTY GOOD RECORD: A win Saturday night would give the Cajuns an 8-3 record on the season, and the last time the Cajuns won that many games was in 1976 when USL had a 9-2 record.

USI, later had to forfeit the first two wins from that season, though, when it was found that the Cajuns had an ineligible player, so if you count those as losses you've got to go all the way back to the 9-3 season of 1970 to find eight or more wins. A win Saturday would aisi, be seven straight wins, and the last time that happened was also in 1976, ever when you don't include the forfeited games. The last time a USL team won seven in a row was in that 1970 season during a 9-3 campaign. May Wins Outland Award took to meet the Dolphins tonight Orange Bowl, it's not fair," Miami in the Coryell Other schools with two players on the writers' squad included Pittsburgh, UCLA and Purdue, Representing Georgia were kicker Rex Robinson and running back Herschel Walker, the first freshman ever honored by the football word to Duran, except when he signs checks for the needy in his native Panama. The second of nine children, Duran had to learn the game of survival in the tough streets of Chorillo.

He earned money to ease the family's plight by dancing on street corners for a few pennies, shining shoes and then protecting his meager horde of coins by fighting off the local talent who listened to the sounds of his jingling pockets. "I like money," Duran says frankly. "I make money now. I save it." There is no home TV or radio for this fight. Ticket information for the Superdome is available by calling 1-800-535-7918.

Tickets for the Super fight at the Superdome are on sale at all Ticketmaster and Ticketron outlets' throughout the country. Tickets for the fight are. priced at $40, $50, $75, $100, $150, $200, $300, $500 and $1,000. There is no live home TV or radio for this 15-round championship. has beaten Purdue and been invited to the Peach Bowl?" Stovall asked.

"What kind of situation is that going to create for our kids? "We're going to have 40 or 50 high school recruits in for this game, and I'm not sure about what kind of atmosphere we're going to have here if we were to lose the bid before the kickoff, Our players are our best recruiters and I'm not sure how they would feel. I just though it was becoming too much of a distraction, I discussed it with the seniors on this team and they all agreed it would be better if we just made Tulane our bowl game. "I told the seniors how I felt, but I also told them that I wouldn't decide whether we went to a bowl or not. The decision was up to them and they agreed we should withdraw our name from consideration." The decision was made public in a release from LSU athletic director Paul Dietzel's office late Wednesday afternoon and Stovall broke the news to the remainder of the squad after practice Wednesday evening. "It probably hasn't hit everybody yet," senior running back Hokie Gajan said after the announcement.

"Some of the freshmen were probably disappointed that they're said of the disruption caused by the midweek, nationally televised game that reduced the Chargers' normal writers, who have been picking All-America teams since 1944. USC placed offensive lineman Keith Van Horne and defensive back Ronnie Lott on the squad and Pittsburgh's players were defensive end Hugh Green and offensive lineman Mark May. UCLA's choices were defensive back Ken Easley, who made the team for the third time, and running back Freeman McNeip. Purdue honoreeswere the record-setting combination of quarterback Mark Herrmann and receiver Dave Young. May and Van Horne were among seven interior linemen eligible to win the Outland Award, which goes to the center, guard or tackle judged by the football writers to be the out St.

Mike's The St. Michael Saints opened their season with a league win over the OLI Crusaders of Jennings by a score of 36-26. Twins Kevin and Keith Seilhan led the way for coach Ed Duthile's roundballers as they registered 15 and 10 markers respectively. Todd John aided the cause with eight points. Russ Cassedy (2) and Bubba Mackey (1) also contributed.

Scott Carter and David Rinquet each scored 10 points for OLI in the losing effort. The game started on even terms with St. Mike grab not going to a bowl their first year. "Of course, we (the seniors) wanted to go to a bowl, but when Coach Stovall explained that the Peach Bowl couldn't guarantee an invitation if beat Tulane, we decided that it wouldn't be good for the team to wait like that. "For the seniors, we've been to bowls the last three years, so it seems like this season is getting cut short, but we're just going to go out and make Tulane our bowl game this year." LSU, 6-4 so far this season, announced earlier that it preferred not to be considered for an invitation to the Garden State Bowl in New Jersey because the Dec.

14 date conflicted with the Southeastern Conference recruit signing date and LSU exam week. Other bowls reportedly shied away from the Tigers after last weekend's 55-31 loss to Mississippi State. "We told the Peach Bowl people that we were very grateful to them for their interest in our team," Stovall said. "And we hope they will consider us in the future but that we didn't wish to be considered this year. "Nobody wanted to go to a bowl game any worse than I did, but I didn't feel it would be fair to the team.

Of course we wanted to go to Bengals Reject Peach Bowl Invitation LSU ended speculation about its possible invitation to the Peach Bowl Wednesday by requesting the school be dropped from consideration as an opponent for Virginia Tech in the Jan. 2 game in Atlanta. Tiger coach Jerry Stovall said LSU made the request after he met with the team's 14 seniors on Tuesday. Stovall said he informed the seniors of what he considered to be problems created by the fact the Peach Bowl would not guarantee an invitation even should the Tigers defeat Tulane in their final game of the season at Tiger Stadium Saturday. Stanford, Indiana, Kansas and Miami of Florida are also being considered for the only bowl berth still remaining.

Peach Bowl officials have announced that a loss by any of the teams this Saturday will mean elimination from consideration but a win will not necessarily ensure an invitation. The other teams on the Peach list play afternoon games Saturday, while LSU meets Tulane at 7:30 p.m. and Stovall was concerned that a bid might be extended prior to LSU taking the field Saturday. "What if we're getting ready to go out and play Tulane and word comes over the radio that Indiana the Sugar Bowl (as SEC champions), but when that didn't happen we were flattered to be considered for the Peach Bowl. It's a fine bowl.

I have nothing but good things to say about the Peach Bowl. "But this team has a chance to go 7-4 if we should beat Tulane and that's a lot better than what people figured we would do before the season started." Stovall has repeatedly defined bowl games as a reward for a season's work, but said he did not feel that the individual players were being penalized by removing the team from consideration. "In the end, they are the ones who made the 76ers By PETER FINNEY JR. UPI Sports Writer It's tough to win any basketball game with 28 turnovers, but it's impossible in a game with the Philadelphia 76ers. The Golden State Warriors were manhandled Wednesday night by the 76ers' full-court press, and the result was a 110-101 loss that snapped the Warriors' four-game winning streak.

"The full-court press really helped us," said Philadelphia Coach Billy OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) Offensive tackle Mark May of Pittsburgh has been named 1980 winner of the Outland Award, presented by the Football Writers Association of America to college football's outstanding interior lineman. May, a 6-foot-6, 280-pound senior, was elected over six other interior linemen eligible for the award by virtue of having been named to the writers' All-America team announced Wednesday. The others were Notre Dame center John Scully, offensive linemen Nick Eyre of Brigham Young, Louis 84-72 lead with 52 seconds left in the period. Golden State never threatened again. Bernard King, who was the game's high scorer with 29 points, helped Golden State take a 55-52 halftime lead.

Lloyd Free added 23, but the second-half press did the Warriors in. "It was bad execution on our part or it wouldn't have bothered us," said Golden State Coach Al Attles. "It was mostly a lack of concentration." Oubre of Oklahoma and Keith Van Horne of Southern Cal, and defensive linemen Kenneth Sims of Texas and Jose Taylor of Houston, "I'm very ecstatic about winning this prestigious award," May said. "It wasn't a one-man show, it was a team effort. "This is the first time a Pitt player has ever won the Outland Award and it will be an honor for me to accept it.

Now future Pitt linemen can realize it's not an impossible dream." Formal presentation of the award will be made at the Gold Helmet Banquet in In other games, Boston defeated Indiana, 103-91, and San Antonio beat New Jersey, 112-104, in overtime. CELTICS 103, PACERS 91 Larry Bird scored 19 points and grabbed 18 rebounds as the Celtics led by 15 points in the first quarter. While Bird was on the bench, the Pacers managed a 10-point streak to cut the deficit to nine. But when Bird returned, the Seattle early next year. The exact date has not been set.

May has been an outstanding player in Pittsburgh's offense for 32 years and has earned the nickname "May Day" he international distress sigpal from his teammates, As part of the forward wall for a team that averages 30 passes per game, he has never let tjie defensive man playihg opposite him through the line for a quarterback sack on a passing play. In addition, he has graded i93 percent on running play blocking. 5 1 Sfreaff Celtics built a 54-39 lead. SPURS 112, NETS 104 i Dave Corzine scored eight of his 19 points overtime and George Gervin had a game-high 38 points to lift the Spues. Gervin hit two free throwslto start a 14-6 San Antotlio outburst in overtime, then Corzine then scored eight consecutive points.

Mike Newlin scored 35 for NeSv Jersey. Snap Warrior Win Cunningham. "Even if Golden State got the ball past our initial defense, they were still having trouble when hey got to the front court." The 76ers, who now have won 16 of their last 17 games, got 21 points from Julius Erving and 16 from Steve Mix, and broke open a close game in the third quarter. Golden State led, 70-68, with 5:03 left in the third, but the 76ers outscored the Warriors, 16-2, to taken an.