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-NOVEMBER 15, 1992 COLLEGE FOOTBALL THE SUNDAY RECORD S-13 itser door open for MM defense holds S'H bowl bid r. i i 1 i. -r -if Rutgers 13 Rutgers' Ray Lucas throwing on the run while West Virginia's Tom DIG EAST STAriDSfiGSf SCOHEDOOIC Conference PF PA Pf PA 10-Syracuse 6 0 0 204 81 9 1 0 304 167 1-Mlaml 3 0 0 126 46 9 0 0 277 100 17-Boston College 2 1 1 116 77 7 2 1 266 176 RUTGERS 3 2 0 132 161 6 4 0 306 235 West Virginia 2 3 1 133 105 4 4 2 263 235 Pittsburgh 1 3 0 59 126 3 7 0 253 336 Virginia Tech 1 4 0 114 144 2 7 1 232 241 Temple 0 5 0 40 184 1 9 0 122 348 By GERRY ECUREEAU Special to The Record PISCATAWAY Rutgers got its best defensive effort of the year Saturday and just enough offense to defeat West Virginia, 13-9, in front of 22,295 fans at Rutgers Stadium. It was the Scarlet Knights' first victory over the Mountaineers since 1984 and their third in 20 meetings. But it will be their last game at Rutgers Stadium for a while.

Renovation plans will move all home games next year to Giants Stadium, with the Knights returning in 1994 to play at an enlarged Rutgers Stadium. The Knights would like to think that they left some bad habits behind in the old stadium. "It's just like when we beat Pitt," said senior cornerback Marshall Roberts, referring the Rutgers' first-ever win over the Panthers in September. "I mean, we've been losing to these two schools for years, we just couldn't get over the hump. A win like this one, especially, takes the program to another level.

This is not the same old Rutgers football team, and this win is an example of that." A victory next week at Temple would give Rutgers (6-4) its first seven-win season since 1984. The victory also puts the Knights in fourth place in the Big East at 3-3. Independence Bowl representative Tony Sardisco, who was in the press box Saturday, said Rutgers is in the running for a berth in the New Year's Eve game in Shreve-port, La. "I'm really proud of these kids," said Knights coach Doug Graber, who is 10-0 at Rutgers Stadium. 'This victory says a lot for their personal beliefs, they just don't think anybody can beat them here." for this one." In the fourth quarter, Beckett and his buddies stood up to their greatest challenge.

With less than three minutes to go and Rutgers clinging to four-point advantage, West Virginia's Harold Kidd blocked a punt by David Lipetz of Spring Valley, N.Y., and the Mountaineers recovered the ball at the Rutgers 15. But the Knights held them there. The Rutgers offense, sporadic for most of the day, came through went it needed to.Quarterback Ray Lucas of Harrison, reclaiming the starting job from Bryan For-tay, completed 15 of 29 passes for 191 yards. The biggest was a 32-yard touchdown pass to Lodi's Jim Guarantano that gave Rutgers its first lead, 7-3, with 1:56 left in the first quarter. On that play, Lucas rolled to his left and found Guarantano, who had run a hook pattern, at the West Virginia 20.

Guarantano made the catch, spun off defensive back Aaron Beasley, picked up a block from Teaneck's Chris Brantley, and raced the rest of the way for the score. It was Rutgers first touchdown against West Virginia (4-4-2) since 1989. The Knights had a chance to put away the Mountaineers in the third quarter, but they could manage only a John Benestad field goal. They finally put the Mountaineers away with less than a minute to go. Tailback Bruce Presley ran 4 yards for a first down on a third-down play from the Rutgers 21 that ended all hope for West Virginia.

Presley had his second-straight 100-yard rushing performance, carrying a season-high 27 times for 105 yards. Guarantano had five catches for 73 yards, ASSOCIATED PRESS Briggs applies second-half pressure. All Game Southern Mississippi 3 8 7 1 13 Virginia Ttch 8 8 12 SM FG Lomoro 45 VT Rivers 5 pass from DeShazo (kick failed) VT FG Williams 31 VT FG WMIams 35 SM Ben Hey 64 pass from Welch (Nations kick) SM FG Nations 22 A 27,342 Louisville Pittsburgh 7 1 14 7-31 8 7 3 4 Lou Shelman 1 run (Harnden kick) Lou FG Harnden 28 Pitt Jells 10 pass from Van Pelt (Contev kick) Pitt FG Contev 28 Lou Shelman 10 run (Harnden kick) Lou Shelman 3 run (Harnden kick) Lou Bridges 77 Interception return (Harnden kick) Pltt-NottoH 41 pass from Ryan (kick failed) A 14,065 Hot Torretta to savor tosses Temple Syracuse 1 1 7 Best College ON II Syr Graves 3 run (Blskup kick) BC Boyd 10 pass from Foley (Wright kick) Syr FG Blskup 29 BC FG Wright 22 Syr FG Blskup 35 Syr Chenoweth 1 pass from Graves (Blskup kick) Syr-Graves 1 run (Blskup kick) A 33,298 Syracuse 25 52-231 138 0 13-19-0 2-36 2-1 6-42 34:54 Best. CeH. 17 27-111 275 0 19-32-3 2-37 0-0 12-86 25:06 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Comp-att-lnt Punts-average Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards Time of possession INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING Syracuse, Walker 17-99, Ismail 3-35, Graves 14-32, Richardson 5-23, Brown 1-15, Lee 3-14, Woolen 7-10, Plcuccl 2-3.

Boston College, Dukes 19-108, Shirley 6-7, Foley 2-minus4. PASSING Syracuse, Graves 13-19-0-138. Boston College, Foley 19-32-3-275. RECEIVING Syracuse, Ismail 6-69, Hill 2-22, Johnson 2-19, Gedney 1-18, FerreU 1-9, Chenoweth 1-1. Boston College, Dukes 6-64, 1.

Boyd 4-54, Cannon 3-92, Mitchell 3-24, Grlce 1-26, Miller 1-9, Shirley 1-6. Temple I 0 8 Miami 13 14 14 7 4i Mia FG Prewltt 42 Mia Bennett 14 run (Prewltt kick) Mia FG Prewltt 37 and had a punt blocked. S. MISSISSIPPI 13, VIRGINIA TECH 12 (at Blacksburg, Va.) Lance Nations' 22-yard field goal with 1:34 to play gave the Golden Eagles the victory over the Hokies and maintained their shot at a bowl berth. It was the seventh straight loss for Virginia Tech, and the fifth time the Hokies had blown a late lead and lost a game.

Number before team Indicates AP ranking. Mia Tucker 5 pass from Torretta (Prewltt kick) Mia Selgler 89 Interception return (Prewltt kick) Mia Klrkekte 3 pass from Torretta (Prewltt kick) Mia Copeland 15 pass from Cosla (Prewltt kick) Mia Ferguson 1 run (Swartz kick) A 41,212 Temple 12 36-126 77 10-26-2 7-33 1-1 10-106 2940 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Comp-alt-lnt Punts-average Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards Time of possession Miami 22 40-178 286 93 20-32-0 1- 49 2- 1 11-109 31:00 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICAL LEADERS RUSHING Temple, Cabrera 17-55, Mack 10-43, Hale 2-25. Miami, Ferguson 8-48, McGuire 11-47, Ma rued 8-37, L. Jones 7-28, Bennett 3-21 PASSING Temple, Pallscak 9-17-2-70, Llnhart 1-9-0-7. Miami, Torretta 16-23-0-221, Cosla 4-8-0-65, Collins 0-1-0-0.

RECEIVING Temple, Frederick 3-44, Cook 3-14. Miami, Thomas 4-116, Spencer 3-43, Copeland 3-40, Williams 2-31, Bell 2-24. Trie Associated Press BOSTON Syracuse wanted to enjoy its 27-10 victory over Boston College for at least one night before worrying about next week's battle with top-ranked Miami and its place in the bowl lineup. After its second straight weekend of disappointment, however, Boston College was left with little choice but to look to the future. The No.

10 Orangemen wrapped up the Lambert Trophy as the best team in the East on Saturday by holding the No. 17 Eagles to 111 rushing yards, less than half their season average of 248. Marvin Graves scored twice and threw for another touchdown as Syracuse (9-1) won its seventh straight game and moved closer to a New Year's Day bowl berth. Boston College (7-2-1) is heading for the Hall of Fame Bowl. The Orangemen said they were not ready to look ahead to next week's home battle with Miami, a game that will significantly affect the major bowl picture.

"I can't really think about that one right now, because I'm going to enjoy this one," said Qadry Ismail, who caught six passes for 69 yards. "We've got the Lambert Trophy. No BC alumni, no anybody from the East can take it away from me." Graves, who entered the game leading the nation in passing effi- A win for Syr Virginia 9 st Virginia 1 Mil' RUTGERS WVa FG Vsnderleg 34 RUTGERS-Guaranlano 32 (Benejlad Kick) RUTGERS F6 Benestad WVa FG Vanderlagl 22 WVa-FG VSnderlaat 24 RUTGERS FG Benestad 24 A 22,295 pass from Lucas W. Virginia 22 47-133 I7S 6 21-34-1 6-40 3-2 -45 31:31 Ringers 17 40-122 Wl 2 15-30-g 7-27 e-fl -53 2S2 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Comp-att-lnt Punts -overage Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards Time of possession INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING West Virginia, Jones 11-56, Freeman 12-54, Murrell 14-2, Sludstill 4-13, Jett l-mlnus7, Kelchner 5-mlnus II. RUTGERS, Presley 27-105, Lucas 10-12, Oorsey 1-4, Moore 2-1.

PASSING West Virginia, SludstM 14-24-1-127, Kelchner 7-12-0-51. RUTGERS, Lucas 15-29-0-191, Brantley 0-1-0-0. RECEIVING West Virginia, Kearney 9-90, A. Johnson 4-42, Murrell 3-16, Kearney 2-16, Jett 1-9, Freeman 1-3, Jones 1-2. RUTGERS, Guarantano 5-73, Baltaglla 4-31, Brantley 2-20, Evina 1-25, Presley 1-20, Stolle 1-16, Bailey 1-6.

Defensive intensity made the difference Saturday. The Knights held one of the nation's most dangerous tailbacks, Adrian Murrell, to 28 yards on 14 carries before he left with an injury in the third quarter. They limited the Mountaineers to 133 rushing yards on 47 tries and forced three turnovers. In the first half, Rutgers stopped West Virginia drives inside the 10 and inside the 20. The Mountaineers settled for three Mike Vanderjagt field goals as the Knights took a 10-9 halftime lead.

The Knights defense stepped it up a notch in the third quarter. The Mountaineers' first three possessions ended in turnovers. "There was a lot of emotion out there," said defensive back Andrew Beckett. "We'd never lost a home game, this was the last game at Rutgers Stadium, last home game for the seniors, we'd never beaten West Virginia. There were just a lot of things that got us up BIG EAST Temple administration has told me other than that." The Owls finish their season Saturday against Rutgers.

Doing nothing to strengthen Berndt's job security, Torretta completed 16 of 23 passes, including nine in a row in the first half. The senior quarterback extended his string of passes without an interception to 122, breaking the school record of 116 held by George Mira and Vinny Testa-verde. Though impressive statistics would help Torretta's Heisman chances, he took himself out of the game midway through the third quarter with Miami ahead, 34-0. "I asked to come out," he said. "I know when I was playing with the second team, I always wanted to play a lot." LOUISVILLE 31, PITTSBURGH 16 (at Pittsburgh) The Cardinals came up with seven Panthers turnovers and turned three second-half interceptions of Alex Van Pelt into touchdowns including a 77-yard return by Anthony Bridges.

Anthony Shelman, who ran for three touchdowns, scored twice in a two-minute span of the third quarter following Van Pelt interceptions to break a 10-10 tie. IVY berger's mark of 16 rushing touchdowns in a season. Elias has 1,368 yards rushing with one game left. The Tigers amassed 565 yards of total offense, averaging 6.6 yards a play. The Elis' lone touchdown came on an 8-yard fumble return by Darryl Simchak in the fourth quarter.

COLUMBIA 35, CORNELL 30 (at New York) Chad Andrze-jewski riddled the Big Red for 33 completions and 294 yards and versatile Des Werthman scored 16 points to lead the Lions to an Ivy upset. Andrzejewski's completions were the most ever against Cornell, which had a seven-game winning streak snapped. The Big Rfd drew within 21-10 early in the third quarter before actise 10 Syracuse 27 17 Boston College 10 ciency, completed 13 of 19 passes for 138 yards and had a 1-yard scoring toss to Eric Chenoweth in the third quarter. "We just executed," Graves said. "If we execute, you have to be a pretty damn good defense to stop us." Syracuse dominated the second half with a pair of long scoring drives, the last a 99-yard march that ended with a 1-yard Graves plunge.

Two interceptions by Tony Jones and one by Darrell Parker stymied Boston College drives in the second half. Chuckie Dukes had his eighth 100-yard game of the year for Boston College, gaining 108 yards on 19 carries, and Glenn Foley completed 19 of 32 passes for 275 yards. But BC's only touchdown came on a 10-yard pass from Foley to Ivan Boyd. Though the Eagles were embarrassed, 54-7, last week at Notre Dame, an angry coach Tom Coughlin said the loss to Syracuse hurt even more. "The game last week was a drop in the bucket compared to this one," Coughlin said.

"We had them at home, a full crowd. We were prepared, but they won. I'm definitely upset." From The Record's news services The. Miami Hurricanes were supposed to win easily, and Gino Torretta made sure they did. Continuing his late charge in the Heisman Trophy race, Tor- retta threw for 221 yards and two touchdowns to help i top-ranked Miami beat lowly Temple, 48-0, Saturday in Miami.

A six-touchdown favorite, the i Hurricanes (9-0) extended the na-I tion's longest winning streak to 27 games and won their 51st in a row at the Orange Bowl. i A reporter asked Torretta about speculation that he's the Heisman front-runner. i "Hopefully, the popular opinion is right," Torretta said with a laugh. "It's an honor to be men- tioned for the award, but I'm not 1 going to change my game plan to I try to get the award, because that's not what our team is all about. Our team is all about winning games and national championships." The game was the first for Tem-i pie (1-9) since reports last week 1 that the school plans to fire coach Jerry Berndt after the season.

Clemson defensive coordinator Ron Dickerson confirmed that he has interviewed for the job. "It was one of the most difficult weeks of my life," Bemdt said. "As I sit here today, I have not been relieved of my duties. I am still the coach at Temple. No one in the ASSOCIATED PRESS Louisville's Kevin Gaines, despite the best efforts of Pittsburgh wide receiver Chad Askew, pulling in one of the Cardinals' five interceptions.

BU finds a spark off bench Princeton clinches title Columbia shreds Cornell defense in upset Bridges sealed Louisville's season-ending victory with his long return of a pass that was tipped first by a Cardinals lineman, then by Pitt running back Curtis Martin. Van Pelt, one of only six quarterbacks in college football history to throw for more than 10,000 yards, had a miserable day in his final home game, going 19-of-38 for 162 yards and five interceptions. Pitt also lost two fumbles Andrzejewski scored on a 7-yard run, then threw a fourth-quarter touchdown pass to assure the Lions of their second multiple-win season since 1978. DARTMOUTH 51, BROWN 28 (at Providence, R.I.) Jay Fiedler threw for two touchdowns and 234 yards to lead the Big Green over the winless Bears. The win kept Dartmouth in the hunt for a share of its third straight Ivy League title.

The Big Green face Princeton next week, and a win would tie the teams with 6-1 league records. PENN 21, HARVARD 19 (at Philadelphia) Sundiata Rush ran for 164 yards and a touchdown for the Quakers before breaking his ankle, and a last-minute, 50-yard field goal attempt by the Crimson fell short. Rush had a career-long 73-yard TD run in the first quarter and finished with 21 carries. From The Record's news services Walter Norton came off the bench to run for a touchdown and pass for another as Boston University took advantage of six Connecticut turnovers in a 30-25 Yankee Conference victory Saturday in Boston. Pablo Rodriguez intercepted two passes and caused a Huskies fumble in the third quarter as the Terriers took a 30-12 lead on TDs by Jason An-drade and Brett Dedman.

Norton, who came in late in the second quarter, was ll-of-16 for 137 yards, and Zack Burwell ran 23 times for 117 yards for BU. Bergen Catholic product Zeke Rodgers, with 26 completions on 41 attempts for 360 yards, mounted a comeback for UConn in the fourth quarter, passing to Alex Davis for one touchdown and running in another. MAINE 21, MASSACHUSETTS 13 (at Amherst, Mass.) Gordon Willey ran for two touchdowns and Ben Simians rushed for a career-high 165 yards as the Black Bears surprised the Minute-men. The setback snapped a seven-game winning streak for UMass and ended its conference title chances. Maine had a 367-228 edge in total offense as the Bears won on the road for the first time since 1989.

RICHMOND 29, DELAWARE 21 (at Richmond, i From The Record's news services The Princeton Tigers clinched a 'share of the Ivy League title be-Ihind Joel Foote's 233 yards pass-ling and Keith Elias' 140 yards rushing in a 36-7 victory over Yale ion Saturday at New Haven, Conn. I The Princeton defense held Yale (to 125 total yards, 48 on the ground, and didn't surrender a 'point as the Tigers, who beat Harvard, 21-6, three weeks ago, cap-Jtured the Big Three title, Princeton (8-1, 6-0), which last ishared the league title in 1989 with jYale, must beat Dartmouth next week to earn its first outright jleague title in 28 years. Dartmouth idenied the Tigers a share of the Jtitle in the final game last season, Elias' 23-yard touchdown run arly in the fourth quarter, his sec-Jond of the game, broke Princeton's jsingle-season rushing record of 1,347 yards set by in 1989 and tied Walt Va.) Greg Lilly passed for 374 yards as the Spiders snapped the Blue Hens' 12-game Yankee Conference winning streak. Despite the loss, Delaware still clinched its first undisputed conference title because of Massachu- setts' loss to Maine. 1 NEW HAMPSHIRE 20, RHODE ISLAND 13 (at Kingston, R.I.) Tailback Barry Bourassa ran' for 170 yards and the go-ahead touchdown as the' Wildcats came back from a halftime deficit to' hand the Rams their ninth straight loss.

Patriot League HOLY CROSS 18, COLGATE 17 (at Hamilton, N.Y.) Andy Fitzpatrick rallied the Crusaders with two second-half touchdown passes and Rick Brown's potential game-winning field goal for the Red Raiders fell short. Colgate had a chance to win with 15 seconds left 1 in the game, but Brown, who had missed six of his last seven attempts, was short from 20 yards out 1 LAFAYETTE 49, BUCKNELL 7 (at Lewlsburg, Pa.) Tom Kirchhoff threw for three touchdowns and Erik Marsh ran for two more as the Xeopards handed the Bison their fourth straight defeat. llHii Luteal.