The Daily Item from Sunbury, Pennsylvania • 35

Inside today Edwards wins NASCAR pole D3 Inside today James Blake upsets Rafael Nadal at U.S. Open D10 POETS Monday NASCAR Tuesday High school soccer Wednesday school field hockey Thursday Pro golf Friday I Moiorsports Saturday; school football Sunday, September 4, 2005 HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL Indians edge Tigers in overtime thriller COLLEGE FOOTBALL The Daily Item By Chuck Souders "This was about respect." 'said Krebs; who pan for "72' yards, scored on 20-yard touchdown and kicked a 32-yard go-ahead field goal with 4:17 left in regulation: "I read seven papers and I think a total of 42 picks, and everybody picked Southern. No one gave us a chance." That's probably not literally true, but Krebs' point was well-taken, and Shamokin coach Carm DeFrancesco echoed 1 Please see INDIANS, D3 trr -fit uui iirri CATAWISSA chip on the shoulder can make for some vcrmspired football Resuming a local rivalry after a 40-year break. Sham- okin and Southern Columbias opened the 2005 season with an instant classic on Saturday, which the Indians won 19-16 on Tim Krebs' 26-yard overtime field goal before a standing-room only crowd at Southern. The Indians stopped the 27- game winning streak of the the three-time defending Class A state champion Tigers, but only alter the teams traded blows for almost three hours.

It ended abruptly when Sham-okin defensive end Nate Yoder intercepted Southern quarterback Ted Heitzman's pass on the Tigers' first offensive play in overtime. Photd by Michael BaveroThe Daily Item Shamokin's Nate Yoder carries the ball during Saturday night's game against Southern Columbia. COLLEGE FOOTBALL toErMS sire 1 Lions use big plays to win opener touchdown plunge early in the second quarter to give the Nittany Lions a 17-0 lead. He added a 70-yard run midway through the fourth quarter that set up a 4-yard touchdown run by quarterback Michael Robinson to help seal the win. Johnny Peyton had two touchdown catches for the Bulls (0-1), including a 4-yard late in the fourth ter.

V. Homing to open up an offense that sputtered last sea rallies for win By Matt Corbett The Daily Item SELINSGROVE Winning cures a lot of things, including the aggravating first half Susquehanna played in its scasoffopener against Ursinus on Saturday night. Trailing by 13 points through most of the third quarter, the Cru-s -a came alive in the final 20 minutes to rally for a 24-16 nonconfer-ence victory at Lopardo Sta dium. Tailback Anthony Edwards exploded for a career-high 139 yards, nearly all of it in the fourth quarter, and Supplied the capper with a 21-yard touchdown burst with 1:04 remaining as Susquehanna defeated the Bears in their opener for the second straight year. But it took a major second-half effort as the Crusaders, who were 0-for-7 on third-down plays in the first half, went into the locker room trailing 3-0.

"We (the coaches) staved calm on the. sideline and we were calm at halltime. We said Guys, let's play our Crusaders coach Steve Bnggs said. "The tribute here goes to the defense and the way they played in the second half. This was a character-building win for this team." The comeback began with 5:17 left in the third quarter when junior quarterback Justin Wutti engineered the first SU scoring drive; The Crusaders drove S6 yards in 8 plays, with Wutti just reaching the end zone from four yards out on a sweep left to cut the deficit to 13-7.

On the Bears' second play from scrimmage after the kick-off, cornerback Jeff Hauser intercepted Vince Gallagher's pass and returned it to the Ursinus 40. Seven plays later, Wutti hooked up with Nick Macia in the right Corner of the end zone with 13:27 left, and senior kicker Dwight Swaney of Mif-flinburg made it 14-13 Crusad ers with his extra point. The Bears retook the lead on Matt Baney's third field goal, a 23-yarder, with 10:17 remaining. Starting from their 20, the Crusaders marched to the Ur- Please see RALLIES, D4 Bucknell's Terrance Wilson battles for yardage during Saturday's game against Georgetown. The Daily Item mmm )if I 1 1 Penn State freshman comerback Justin King runs for a South Florida free safety Carlton Williams gives chase College on Saturday.

Penn State won 23-13. class doesn't disappoint Penn State faithful By Genaro C. Armas 1 he Associated Press STATE COLLEGE -4 Alan Zemaitis returned a fumble 16 yards for a score and Tony Hunt rushed for a touchdown and set up another score with a long run as Penn State's new-look offense clicked early before struggling late in a 23-13 win over Sotith Florida, on Saturday. was when South Florida quarterback Courtney Denson was hit in -the back-field by Tim Shaw. Zemaitis scooped up the loose ball and ran untouched into the end zone, holding the ball over his head as he crossed the goal line to give Penn State a 10-0 lead.

Teammates mobbed Zemaitis in the left corner of the end zone as fans clad in blue and white cheered on the warm, sunny afternoon that marked the beginning of Joe Paterno's 40th season as Penn State's head coach. Hunt scored on a 1-yard three passes for 38 yards and ran twice for six yards. "I was real impressed with Derrick Williams," Penn State "comerback 'Alan' Zemaitis said. "From what I saw on the sidelines, he didn't make any freshman mistakes." Williams' numbers might have been more gaudy, but with Penn State leading 17-0 for most of the first half, Paterno and the coaching staff made breaker things go against us." Bucknell has seen its share of strange happenings work against it. Still, the Bison had a chance to win the game on the final play of regulation, only to have Ryan Korn have his 42-yard field goal blocked at the line of scrimmage.

It was the fourth potential game-winning field goal Korn. a junior, has missed. Earlier in the game, he made three field goals (42, 47. 25) to match his career high. The Hoyas stayed within Please see BISON, D4 I 1 was up 3-0 Freshman By Todd Hummel for The Daily Item STATE COLLEGE Saturday afternoon was like Christmas for Penn State University football fans.

They've been hearing for nine months about the speed the freshman class was going to bring to a stagnant Nittany Lions offense. A bright sunny day at Beaver Stadium on Saturday against COLLEGE FOOTBALL son, Paterno toyed in practice with different formations, in eluding multiple-receiver sets to stretch defenses. The new looks paid olf early and excited the Beaver Stadium crowd; Freshman Justin King, one of Paterno's star recruits in the offseason, had a 61-vard run off a reverse after Penn State lined up in a two-back, two-wideout format ion i ng el uded several tacklers, then found a hole aqd darted down the left sideline before being pulled down from behind. Kevin Kelly kicked a 23-yard field goal five plays later to give Penn State a 3-0 lead. Please see LIONS, D4 a concerted effort to work on some things in the passing game, instead of taking what the Bulls were giving; "After Williams got deep on that first play, they started to play off the receivers," Paterno said.

"The guys in the press box wanted to run hitches for short gains, but that's not going to help our passing improve for Please see FROSH, D4 Photo by Art Foxall For Photo by The Associated Press 61 yard gain on a reverse as during the first half in State "We wanted to gel the young kids involved early in the game," Penn State coach Joe Paterno said. "We decided to go deep early because we wanted South Florida to be aware of how fast those young kids are." Williams was the youngster most involved in the offense on Saturday. He started at flanker and stayed on the field for most of the game. Williams caught 31. The one play that seemed to turn the momentum in Georgetown's favor occurred at the 11:28 mark of the third quarter when quarterback Nick Cange- losi hit Loyalsock's Kyle Van Fleet for a 22-yard completion.

Van Fleet was stripped from behind and the ball rolled forward. Hoyas teammate Kentiy Mitchell scooped it up and sprinted untouched to complete the 70-yard play, Bucknell never recovered. "I've seen some strange stuff," Benson said. "It was a fortunate bounce for us. We'll take it.

We've had a lot of those Bison lose another heart South Florida was a perfect backdrop for Derrick Williams, Justin King, Lydell Sargent and others to make their debut. Penn State didn't waste any time getting the youngsters involved. The Lions tried a long pass to Williams oh their first offensive play from scrimmage that resulted in a holding call when the Bulls' defensive back just grabbed onto Williams' jersey. Stadium. "I thought for sure that we were going to win," senior defensive end Sean Conovet admitted.

So did most everyone who watched Bucknell build a 16-0 third-quarter lead, only to allow Georgetown to rally for its fourth Patriot League victory in 27 games since joining the league in 2001. "This is the best team we've had in five years," Hoyas coach Bob Benson said. "It's just a matter of them believing." It is the second win for Georgetown against Bucknell, winriing the 2002 meeting 32- By Tom Housenick The Daily Item LEWISBURG Bucknell coach Tim Landis said Saturday night's season opener went as expected except one thing: Georgetown won. I Hoyas rallied from 16 points down in the second half IKJ Will VJil Eric Bjonerud's 33-yard field goal in overtime, 19-16, in front of 6,802 stunned fans at Christy Malhewson-Memorial mm i-ffWfi I).