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Motorsports C2 Pro Football C6 Outdoors C7 Page C1 Tlie Daily Ilem Sunday, November 7, 1999 comes to forefront I .1 i i. mmm p. Ill II Bucknell bac JL Phillips throws three TD passes as Bison top Holy Cross By Todd Hummel For The DjiIv Item bullpen. Junior backup quarterback Lucas-Phillips came on and threw three touchdowns to lead the Bison to.a 33-21 win over Holy Cross in a League football matchup at Christy at hewson Stadium f'y We made a decision when we ft- Holy Cross lead to 7-6 with 10.57 left in the first half. Phillips was 3-of-3 passing on the 'I've been waiting to play for so long and it was so much fun to get in," Phillips said.

"It was to mv advantage to watch the first three series, because I was able lev studv the defense Please see BACKUP PageC4, Bucknell safety Kevin Eiben tackles Holy Cross receiver Kendy Hall near the Bucknell ehd zone in the fourth quarter of Saturday's game. LEW I SB I RG can compare a baseball pitcher and a football as both positions control the flow of the game. And in baseball, when your starting pitcher is 'Struggling, you go tQ the bullpen. weeks ago, but you don't -like to makca change in a game vou're win- 1 ning." The Bison. (6-3 overall, 2-2 Patriot) fell behind early and strug-gled'offensively as thev garnered only one- first down in their first -three possessions: 4 "We needed tobe able to make some third-down passes' Gadd said.

Phillips came on in the fourth; series of the game and directed a 10-play, 72-yard drive. Capped by a 15-yard pass to Jim Horan to cut the put the game plan in for this game On Saturday. Bucknell football; that we were going to put.LucasTn coach Tom Gadd saw hi! starter aK'. after three or Gadd J. quarterback struggling in senior Don said.

"Maybe it was something we McDowell, and Gadd, went to his should have done at Lafavette two Daily Item photo by Peter Halt 7 oj oj Loss puts damper on day in honor of Crusader greats Minnesota discovers miracles dHappen Field goal as time runs out ruins Penn State's hope for national title By David Kinney I he Associated STATE COLLEGE ith one miracle play. Minnesota tipped over No. 2 Penn State's national championship hopes. The Gophers completed a tipped pass on fourth-arid-16 with 1:22 left, setting up Dan Nystrom's 32-yard field goal as time ran out. to beat the Nittanv Lions 24-23 Saturday.

By Harold Raker Sports reporter SELINSGROVE It was a great day for Susquehanna University football. They paid tribuje to the top 100 SU football players of the. century and broke" ground for the new Nicholas A. Lopardo Stadium. An overflow crowd of 5,000 witnessed the pomp and circumstance.

But then, unfortunately for the Susquehanna faithful, they played a football game. And this one was over quicker than a Dennis Rodman marriage. Unbeaten INSIDE INSIDE Lycoming College took a 24-0 first-period lead en route to a 36-7 Middle Atlantic Conference win. denying the Crusaders Susquehanna honors its top 100 players of first 100 seasonsPage C5 A pass by Billy a bounced off receiver Rort Johnson's hands and Arland Bruce dived to scoop it up at the 13-yard line. Three plays later, Nystrom split the uprights to spoil Joe' Paterno's bid for a third national title.

"We worked so stinkine hard dur No. 3 Virginia Tech defeats West Virginia i( Bloomsburg has easy time against- Mansfield, Colgate hands Lehigh first loss of season Page C3 chance for the overall MAC title and automatic NCAA Division III playoff berth. Billed as the "Brawl in the Fall." this one soon became the "Maul in the Fall." Although the W'arriors (8-0) didn't set the world on fire with their offense, their defense pounced on the Crusaders like Pavarotti at the buffet table. After the W'arriors took a 3-0 lead on a 28-yard field goal by John Shaffer On the game's opening series, Sean Graf and John Scanlan sandwiched interception returns for touchdowns around a Tim Dumas 54-yard TD catch. The Lycoming defense looked like it was playing the SU scout team.

It must have seemed that way-to Scanlon, a 6-1, 180-pound free safety from Sharon Hill. "We knew that the quarterback was going to look where he was throwing, and mv job is to play center field and read the quarterback's eyes." he said. "That's the way Iplay I'm a gambler. Sometimes it doesn't work out, but you just keep playing your game." he said. Linebacker Sean Graf intercepted quarterback Mike Bowman's pass and returned it 32 yards for a score to put Lyco up 10-0 with 6:45 left in the first, then Scanlon took the first of his two picks back 27 yards for a score.

In all. Bowman was picked off five times, and the Crusaders also lost a fumble. On his TD. Scanlon said. "As soon as I picked it off.

I Inew I had to get in the end zone because my boy (Graf) got in and if I didn't. I was going to hear about it." Lycoming coach Frank Girardi said. "Our coaches really prepared our defense this week. (The Crusaders) execute that offense so well. I think we had our people ing the offseason.

You're sore, your body's absolutely shot, and it comes down to this a field goal." said Penn State's Mike Cerimclc. Considering penn State's close calls all season and the upset-happy Big he might have seen it coming. But not on a wacky play like this. "I seen it hanging in the air. like, 'Come get me! Come get Bruce said.

"I just grabbed it. I don't know how I did it Watching -from 'across the field. Paterno thought the pa-s was incomplete. "i though we batted it down." Paterno said after his 400th game as head coach. "Then all of a sudden, on the sideline they were yelling, lie caiight it'.

He caught Nvstrom. a freshman who earlier missed an extra point, said he w.iv confident as he prepared for his tame winning field goal, 's beeiuse he had been practicing with a ladder si v.irjs awav to stand in foi Penn State linebacker LaVar Arrmgton. who had bkxked two kicks this season tell like I was prepared fur that in practice." Nystrom said After Nvstrom's kick, the Gophers 3. 3-3 Big Ten) jumped for joy as as the stunned players from Penn 'State (vT 1) walked off the field The Gophers' sixth win clinched then first winning season since 19W made them eligible for a bowl for the first time since 19S6 It was Minnc-'ta' first win over Penn State in tne tries Please see MINNESOTA Paa C3 i j. I Dai'y Iter" pfKito by Jason GeV Lycoming wide receiver Joe Hanna is met by Susquehanna defenders Antonio Nash (16) and Dan Gilroy (22) after Hanna made a reception during Saturday's game at Amos Alonzo Stagg Field.

back all year and they're young. 'Sou learn from your mistakes." But SU's lone TD came with just left, a five-yard pass from Bowman to tight end John Smith. Girardi said. "I'm really pleased with our intensity level. The game meant Please see LOSS, Page C5 A 30-varJ Shaffer field goal made it 27-0 at the hall.

Susquehanna coach Steve Briggs told his players at halltime. "They scored 27 points in the first half and if we get out there and play our game and not make mistakes, we can score 28 and win this football e.ime. These kids have battled in the right place most of the time: we got the pressure on Michael fairly early and I think that was critical." Susquehanna (6-3) won the coin toss and deferred to take the wind. But the W'arriors foiled that strategy with their big first quarter, and Girardi said that was a kev to the in. Saterstad, Hillard shine at state cross country meet i By Gary Glancy i INSIDE Josianne Lauber of Oxford High School (District 1) wins the state Class AAA girls cross country title with a time of 18:00:39 at Lehigh University in Bethlehem on Saturday.

"The start wa-n't the best that we talked about." lane Mountain eoaeh Pamian Hom.tiki s.i'd We t.nkeu aKait s's)v mg lht kti r. vj. I the inside ''t the She did that, but she was K.ek. somp.iicd to where we wanted her to "so were a hole worried at th at hen we (sjw he at the rv'e I mark, she was bask in the 3 or 4- (p! HeC I didn't know what was 'I tig on She looked I'ke she a'ti in the race at that point." Hut as any runner or tvehst wii) tell Viui. -a hen it cwt hrlH.

rhete h- piease see MEET. Paae C3 earlier to cap a rugged, four-game district playoff run. ran a personal-best jq sg 5o ,0 3Mn out 0f 27fc runners in the AA race Hillard missed earning ajHieda! bv 13 plaees. as the 25 garner suih honors. DespHe the rvugh start.

Saterstad had no pr Mems mcdahne In the beginning. I wouldn't get around evcrvhodv," Saterstad said, refcinng to the mass start i-f 23 runners "Curls kept kkkme my legs, and they kn-Kked me cff balance. And I got clhowed a lot The first mile I wa in. like. N'th place But then g(ine up that lane hill started pa-sing Lis of the Quick start propels Bloomsburg's Stephens in PIAA boys cross count's competition Page C9 4 ihampi'm who complies with Line Mountain ihioueh a cooperative pro-cram with the sebool.

as mauled at the start, vet brushed ihc 5 kilometer (3 1-niilcl course a persona! best I ninnies seconds Meanwhile Hillard. who led the W.irnor Rai 'uci team to the 4 li-s AA tide -K hours BLTHl riU Perhaps the only thirg more impressive than the performances of Aneie Saterstad and Katv Hillard on Saturday morning wer; the obstacles taeh of them overcame. Size and inexperience didn't deter Saterstad. a 14-year-old freshnun dynamo from I'pper Dauphin, who stepped on her gas pedal the fin.il 1 1 2 miles and roared to a sixth plate finish in the Classs AAA r.iee at the PI A A cross country championships at Lc hiuh I'niversity. The the I nt.