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Jiwai stums ILnajims In this week's SPOTLIGHT Hawkeyes defense exacts its revenge Despite upset loss, Paterno stands by his signal caller By Charlie Lentz Sports reporter NIVERSITY PARK It didn't cross Joe Paterno ByDavetvey Associated Press Michelle Huff Ted Keister C- Warrior Run Middleburg 1 I lips. Penn State's football coach "won't say quarter-? back, Wally Richardson cannot do his job. But for one brief during Penn State's 2i-'. 20 Big Ten loss to Iowa Saturday! the thought may have crossed his mind. Why else would he have asked backup quarterback Mike McQueary to warm lip on the sidelines with the Lions trail' ing late in the fourth quarter? Paterno was one decision away from lifting Richardson.

"I was thinking about it," Paterno said. Richardson almost got the hook when the Lions took possession on their own 33-yard line, trailing the Hawkeyes 21- See PATERNO, Page C2 UNIVERSITY PARK Maybe Joe Paterno needs a new halftime speech. His No. 10 Penn State team was sluggish in the second half again and against Iowa's stingy secondrhalf defense, it Lions dearly; The Hawkeyes (5-1, 3-0 Big. Ten) shut out and shut down Penn State (6-2, 2-2) after half- time for a 21-20 upset in rainy conditions Saturday.

Iowa, which has given up just three fourth-quarter points all year, only allowed four first downs and 76 total yards in the second half. This season, Penn State has scored just 58 of its 219 points in the second half. See PENN STATE, Page C2 Photo by Th Associated Pni Iowa's Tim Dwight (6) leap onto teammate Michael Burger to celebrate the Hawkeyes' 21-20 victory against No. 10 Penn Stats at University Park on Saturday. Robert Miller Milton "Jamie Bailey Wifflinburg i Daily Item photo by Butch Comegyt Susquehanna's Jason Semaski (66, top) and Jeremy Wells sandwich Moravian quarterback Rob Petrosky for a sack in Saturday's gams at Selinsgrovs.

Susquehanna clobbers Moravian MICHELLE HUFF Has been catalyst on offense -vkh six goals, 13 assists By pharlle Lentz Spans reporter TURBOTVILLE Michelle Huff has been a stabilizing force for the Warrior Run girls1 soccer team this season. She's been a rock at midfield for Coach Kathy Hillard's Defenders. "Her forte is that she can settle the offense down and set up the play," Hillard said. "She can tackle and control the midfield. She's very -aggressive in the midfield and very dominating defensively." The Defenders went 18-1 through their first 19 games.

During that stretch, Huff scored six goals and notched 13 assists. And Huff, a senior midfielder, has helped to make the players around her better with her accurate passes. "She's good at reading the opponent. She's also good at setting up our offense," Hillard said. "Watching for who's running into a space and sending the ball.

She can get the ball to where it needs to be." Huff is a dangerous scorer herself with a strong" and an accurate foot. "She has become more accurate on key plays like corners and direct kicks," Hillard said. On corner kicks, she's curved the ball into the goal on numerous occasions. "On corner kicks she has banana-kicked several kicks in. She can core directly from the corner.

She's done that several times over the years," Hillard said. "And she's scored often on direct kicks. She's very accurate as'far as shooting from long distances." Huff has started throughout her four-year career on the varsity at Warrior Run. TED KEISTER Senior has been the guy with the hot foot for MiddUeburg By Harold Raker 'Sports reporter MIDDLEBURG When he needed a scorer to replace the grad-uated Nick Folk, Middleburg boys soccer Coach Dave Klinger knew he needed to look no further than Ted Keister. And Keister has filled the bill this season.

The senior striker and offensive midfielder, whom Klinger said is very versatile, is the Middies' leading scorer this season. Through 20 games, not including Friday's Tri-Valley League playoff, Kejster had 20 goals and three assists to lead the Middies in both 'goals and points. Keister is a team co-captain and Klinger said, "I like to call him my offensive quarterback. He calls and coordinates the restarts, sets them up-and often takes them. He calls in 'alllhe direct and indirect kicks and takes all our penalty kicks." i Klinger said Keister, who goes about 5-9, 135 pounds, "has got an extremely powerful shot." "He shoots the ball well and is very accurate," Klinger said.

Klinger also likes another of iKeister's characteristics. got a lot of spunk. He's lextremely competitive. I like his fire See SPOLTUGHTS, Page C12 Crusaders return two interceptions for scores in 33-0 victory By Harold Raker Sports reporter Crusaders' 1986 and 1991 NCAA Division III playoff teams. Dapp was an SU assistant on the 1986 squad.

The Crusaders didn't exactly make Dapp feel at home at Amos Alonzo Stagg Field as their defense picked off three passes, returning two of them for touchdowns, and recovered three fumbles, to send JDapp's Greyhounds staggering back to Allentown with a 33-0 defeat. Dapp said, "Turnovers, big plays, you can't allow those things to work at you so much that you stop playing." "I guess I should forget about a (pregame) pep talk because obviously the pep wasn't there," he "Susquehanna deserved to win today. They played harder. They thrived on mistakes that we made," he added. The win for the Crusaders (4-2, 2-0 MAC-CL) snapped a three-game losing streak to Moravian and gave them their first shutout since Sept.

21, 1991. Ironically, that was a 10-0 win over Dapp and Moravian. The Greyhounds fell to 3-3, 1-3. Susquehanna Coach Steve Briggs said, "It was total domination, exactly what we wanted. The kids came out ready to play right from the start, in every aspect of the game, and we beat a pretty darned good team." The Crusaders scored on their second possession, on a nine-play, 36-yard drive, with sophomore quarterback Ken Eisenhard rolling right, looking to pass, then cutting back to the left for a four-yard touchdown with 3:27 left in the first period.

The extra point try was blocked. Three plays later, SU senior cornerback Jeremy See CRUSADERS, Page C4 COLLECZ FOOTDALL IKSIPS Irish, Powtus fum- ble to Air Force in overtimePage C3 Bloomsburg's comeback tops MillersvillelnPSAC showdownPage C4 Lycoming mauls Delaware Valley in MAC actionPage C4 SELINSGROVE If Moravian College football Coach Scot Dapp gets invited to a reunion anytime soon, he can be forgiven for becoming a bit squeamish. He might fear someone picking his pocket 4 Saturday's key Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth League game between Moravian and Susquehanna featured a reunion of the BisoA slide past Tigers Seals' star Smith continues to hone already-top skills By Todd Hummel Correspondent By Wayne Baker Sports reporter ELINSGROVE -r- The Selinsgrove hockey team's late September game with Shikellamy was decidedly lopsided in favor of the Seals when senior forward LEWISBURG It's not a game the Princeton University or Bucknell University football teams would put in a time capsule to watch again in 100 years. "It was an ugly, dirty game," Princeton Coach Steve Tosches said. But whether it's ugly or not isn't what counts, it's if you win, which is what both teams needed, entering the contest with identical 1-3 records.

Bucknell used a stellar defensive effort and just enough offense to pull out a 10-6 win over Princeton in at times torrential rain at Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium. See BUCKNELL, Page C5 Keli Smith managed to get the ball around several flailing defenders and score on a tough, backhanded shot. Ait interested spectator was her father, Neal, an AU-American defensive back for the Penn State football team in the late 1960s. Tf "Keli never feels she's done as good as she should. She's pretty hard on herself," he said after Keli had pushed her career goal-scoring totals to 107 at that time, double the previous career record.

See SMITH, Page C4 Daily Hem photo by Jo Htctnm Selinsgrove's Smith, right, has been driving opponents batty with her superb scoring and offensive skills. Smith, one of the nation's top college prospects, has scored 37 times this year, bringing her career total to 120..