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Outdoors f)PLrS C5 Page C1 llic Daily Ilctn Sunday, November 23, 1997 NFL preview C7 Scoreboard C10 MrmV a.a.: i mini u-jiiiiiiihi iwiijjUiii.n jr--iTWi Peine State offense badgers Wisconsin In this week's SPOTLIGHT Major bowl picture looks brighter for Lions Jurevicius makes four catches for 1 01 yards; Enis rushes for 1 38 yards By Michael Raphael I he Associated Press: By Charlie Lentz Sports reporter NIVERSITY PARK The Rose-Bowl bid is now long gone for quarterback Mike McQueary and his Perm State teammates. Undefeated 1 No. 4 Ohio State 20-14. The Nittany Lions are in line for a major bowl, however. "It was big.

You always look for the, big play," Jurevicius said of the leaping catch. The TD put Penn State in the locker room up 21-3, and Wisconsin never recovered. McQueary, who was also struggling lately, put togetheran almost perfect first half, missing just one receiver and tallying 219 yards a school record. "It's a great way to go out in the'sta-dium," he said. "If I could have dreamt it I couldn't have dreamt it better." McQueary completed 16-of-19 passes for 269 yards and three touchdowns.

"He made a couple of great throws under pressure," coach Joe Paterno said. Please see JUREVICIUS, C2 Beth Balatincz Shelbl Bordner Mlfflinburg Sellnsgrove UNIVERSITY PARK The nection is wired again. Joe Jurevicius, Penn State's top receiver, hikln't topped the 100-yard mark since a 150-yard day against Louisville in September. He was empty on touchdowns since Illinois, the fourth game of the season. On Saturday, he hooked up with quarterback Mike McQueary for four catches for 101 yards and two touchdowns one a 42-yard Hail Mary pass with second remaining in the first half as No.

6 Penn State beat No. 24 Wisconsin 35-10. Despite the win, Penn State (9-1, 6-1 Big Ten) lost its chance at a piece of the Big Ten title when No. 1 Michigan beat IV' Michigan took care of that by blowing apart the Nittany Lions two weeks' ago and closing its regu-lar' season with a win over Ohio State Saturday. But amid the debris of the sixth-ranked Lions' shattering 34-8 loss to the Wolverines on Nov.

8 lay an opportunity, a chance to pick up the pieces. Along with 15 fellow seniors, McQueary played his final home game at Beaver Stadium Saturday against 24th-ranked Wisconsin. And they took another step toward salvaging the season with a 35-10 Big Ten win over the Badgers. "After that Michigan game, the seniors kind of Please see LIONS, C2 4. i Photo by The Associated Press Wisconsin's Jason Doering stretches to stop Penn State's Curtis Enis after Enis ran for a first down in the first quarter of Saturday's game.

Ben Kettlewell Danville Ryan Feger Line Mountain less than perfect Colgate brushes back Bison's bid for unbeaten year By Wayne Baker Sports reporter I' HAMILTON, N.Y. With its opening drive on Colgate's muddy Andy Kerr Stadium on Saturday, Bucknell's football team drove to the Red Raider 1-yard line. It was first and goal. A touchdown and a start to a second straight Patriot League title seemed upcoming. But Jeremy Myers was stopped after getting 2 yards to Colgate's 3.

Three plays later, a snap on a field goal was high and that play lost two yards. Bucknell never recovered. Colgate needed two more offensive series to get going, but when the Red Raiders did, they were unstopable. Fullback Damon Smith rushed for 155 yards and two touchdowns, 5-4, 168-pound tailback Ed Weiss contributed 87 yards and wide receiver Corey Hill made nine catches for 139 yards and 2 touchdowns as the Red Raiders rolled to a 48-14 win. The loss snapped Bucknell's perfect season at 10-1, 5-1 Patriot League and gave the Red Raiders, 7-4, 6-0 Patriot, the league's first-ever automatic berth in the NCAA Division 1-AA playoffs.

"We didn't cash in on our chances; we didn't get that field goal off," Bucknell Coach Tom Gadd said. "We stopped them again and didn't score, and then Colgate did score. Then the balls started to go their way, and that's hard to stop once that gets going." "They were getting five and six yards a carry. They won the physical battle. The footing went to their bigger kids.

That Smith (5-8, 220) has a low center of gravity and he's hard stop." But, Gadd noted, "I told the kids I was proud of the year they Please see BISON, C9 rr '4K BETH BALATINCZ Wildcats' career scoring leader also used defense By John Huckaby Sports editor MIFFLINBURG Mifflinburg High girls soccer Coach Larry Barnhart says Beth Balatincz has a feel for the goal. That may be somewhat of an understatement as Balatincz, a senior, holds the Mifflinburg scoring record, for boys and girls, with 62 career goals. Those goals came in four years of starting for the Wildcats. What is amazing, Barnhart said, is that Balatincz scored on 21 percent of her shots. This past season, Balatincz was named to the first team of the Susquehanna Valley Conference West Division as a striker.

She had 17 goals this season and added five assists. For her career, she had 24 assists. Barnhart said Balatincz has "determination and she is physical. You need that up front. She also has a good shot and a good feel for the goal." The coach said that at times Balatincz was called on to play a good bit of defense as a second stopper.

"Sometimes scorers don't want to do that, but she was willing. In fact, sometimes she volunteered," he said. Barnhart said that the senior also provided a good bit of leadership for his team. "She would not be afraid to speak up," he said. SHELBI BORDNER Senior's offense, defense helped Seals' season By Wayne Baker Sports reporter SEL1NSGR0VE Senior Shelbi Bordner gave the Selinsgrove High field hockey team her all, at both ends of the field all the time this year.

Coach Cathy keiser of the Seals, who went 14-3-3 on the season, said that Bordner improved defensively a great deal from the start of the year to the finish. "Shelbi was always there for us offensively," Keiser said.of her right midfielder, "She did a good job getting the ball down the right side and supporting the wing. She did a good job setting up teammates, and getting into position for passes or shots." She also had a solid shot and was accurate with her free hits, Keiser said. Bordner became an option on the Seals' offensive penalty corners, arid got most of her six goals on corner plays. She also notched seven assists.

Defensively, Keiser said, "Shelbi also was in good position. She always hustled, always had her stick down and gave us consistently good play on defense. She was always hustling and getting into good position." Bordner scored a goal that lifted the Seals to an overtime win over eventual SVL champ Line Mountain in September: and she Please see SPOTLIGHT, C12 -5 Photo by The Associated Press Colgate tailback Ed Weiss heads toward the goal line and a Bucknell defender on a play in which Weiss was stopped short of a touchdown. Colgate went on to defeat Bucknell 48-14 for the Patriot League championship. at Gators win heated rivalry in Florida Florida State loss ends perfect season Michigan can smell the roses Wolverines earn Pasadena berth By Doug Ferguson The Associated Press INSIDE 0 By Richard Rosenblatt The Associated Press Top 25 roundupPage C3 Florida in the Sugar Bowl that cost them a national title 11 months ago, the Gators (9-2) struck with alarming speed.

With 2:33 left and the ball on their own 20. Johnson, who spent the entire game alternating plays with Noah Brindise. threw a perfect pass that Green caught in stride at midfield and ran to the 18. Taylor, who ran 162 yards against the nation's best run Please see GATORS, C3 ANN ARBOR, Mich. With a rose in his hand and a Big Ten championship hat on his head, Charles Woodson walked through the tunnel at Michigan Stadium and into the locker room.

After a rousing team rendition of "The Victors." Woodson entered the interview area, sat up on the podium and held the rose aloft: "Can you all smell that?" Woodson produced one of the sweetest performances in the history of the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry, leading theiop-ranked Wolverines to a 20-14 victory over the fourth-ranked Buckeyes on Saturday. The win gave Michigan (11-0, 8-0 Big Ten) its first Please see MICHIGAN, C3 GAINESVILLE. Fla. Florida and quarterback Doug Johnson salvaged a lost season by ruining a perfect one for No. 2 Florida State.

Johnson threw a 63-yard pass to Jacquez Green to set up Fred Taylor's fourth touchdown run of the game with 1:50 left Saturday, giving the No. 10 Gators a 32-29 victory and denying the Seminoles a shot at the national championship. Just when it seemed, as though the Seminoles (10-1 would exact revenge from its 52-20 loss to Photo by The Associated Press Ohio State's Dee Miller is stopped after his reception by Michigan's Charles Woodson during the third quarter of Saturday's game. V0.