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.73 20PHt 38 ...3 Pacific 3 17WVU 35 24NCSU lO Ball St. lO Maryland 6 3Uje Abtiertfter Sunday, September 3, 1989 Sports Pace 19 SI On the Line By Brurr Brown Brown, Bulldogs run past Cajuns Louisiana Tach 40, USL Ragin' Coun. 14 La TMk II ll USI 1 I -M TECH -F0 Slow 44 TECH Douglas 1 ran I Slow kick) USL Butlar pass from Mitchell (lemolne kick) TECH Brown pass from Johnson (Stow kick) TECH -FG Slow 14 USL Scott 51 punt return (Lemoins kick) TECH MM kickoff return (Stow Wc) TECH FG Stow 27 TECH FG Slow 41 TECH Smith interception return (Stow kick) ft TKk USL Fir Osama. Zl Rushes yards 4174 35 141 Passing 113 Return yards. at Comp-Afl lot 14-Ja-l ll-SW Punts -4 Ml Fumbtet Mat Penaltles-tar 14-17 413 Tlrm of Possession .14:00 2 INMVIOUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Loulslane Tad), Douglas la.

Davis 7 24; USL, Parquet 2, Sroussard 7 22. Eager aV3t. PASSING Louisiana Tecfl, Johnson 14-2-! 12a; USL, Mitchell 11 II 1 112, Miller I t. RECEIVING Louisiana Tacit, Brown 6 30, Slaughter 5 54, USL, Butler 447, Broussard 3-24 By BRUCE BROWN Sports Editor Eddie Brown had two chances to finish off USL's Ragin' Cajuns Saturday night at Cajun Field two chances to announce Louisiana Tech's arrival in Division 1-A football with an exclamation point. The first chance was foiled by a penalty flag for clipping, negating a 55-yard punt return that would have given LTU an early lead on the favored Cajuns.

The second opportunity came seconds after USL's Todd Scott had dazzled the crowd with a 58-yard punt return to draw the Cajuns within 20-14 of the visitors in the third quarter, and another penalty hankie was thrown. "As long as I've played football," said Brown, "I always dreamed of returning a punt for a touchdown. Then when I finally got the opportunity it was taken away from me. 'Then when I saw a flag on the kickoff return, I said 'Please don't do this to me a second time not two, not in a But this time Brown, whose 19-yard touchdown catch had given LTU a 17-7 lead in the first half, got lucky when the flag was for facemask on USL's coverage team. That meant his 85-yard touchdown runback stood.

That also meant that Coach Nelson Stokley Ragin' Cajuns were doomed to lose to Tech for their third straight time. "I'd have bet you a million dollars we would win the game after Todd's return, "said Stokley, "but thenwe let them have that kickoff return and we were never in it after that." And, before it was over, it was ugly. Like 40-14 ugly. Like the first time since 1969 and 4(6 at North Texas State that USL i wm!" 1 a3a EjM aa had allowed 40 points in an season opener. Like before it was over, it looked like USL was the team making its debut in 1-A.

Stokley said Tech made the Cajuns look like a very poor team in a 19-16 upset a year ago in us ton. Saturday night looked far worse. "You saw just about all of it," said Stokley. "I'm embarrassed for myself. I was the one who got beat.

I was outcoacbed. It was a poor job on my part getting the team ready to play. "But I won't have to apologize the rest of the season. "Right now we're looking at 0-11. 1 don't see anybody on our schedule we can beat.

There might not be Made-for-TV pro football BOO! Yea! Are you kidding me? Has it come to this? MIGHT as well gather all your pro football fans in studios around the country and provide neon APPLAUSE signs that will light up when it's OK to cheer. Might as well replace coaches with Monte Hail or Bob Barker Might as well have Vanna White turn the letters BOO or Y-E-A at the appropriate moment FIRST they told players they couldn't hold block parties in the end zone after scoring a touchdown, and I admit some of those choreographed affairs looked pretty foolish Then they said defensive ends shouldn't act like Tarzan after sacking a quarterback, and I could go along with that one because, well, because Mark "BrigitteTatoo" Gastineau was the only one doing it. Then they said Ickey is that a name, or what? Woods couldn't do his shuffle unless he was on the sidelines THOSE kinds of moves rank right up there with telling the Cincinnati Bengals they couldn't run a no huddle offense, or telling barefoot kickers they had to wear half a uniform sock to uphold the integrity of the league Halfbacks and fullbacks have been homogenized into running backs Flankers and split ends are all wide receivers They've long since done away with off-the-wall numbers, like No 19 for a wide receiver, for instance Now everyone has to have an 80 something if he expects to catch a pass AND now the National Football league has taken things the next logical step. They've told fans they can't raise holy Hades when things go badly This noise rule business, the one first enforced last Monday night in New Orleans and then again in Seattle last Friday night, goes beyond taming the emotions of players and coaches in an emotionally -charged game. This latest business is a direct slap in the face of people who shell out their hard-earned pay to watch a bunch of large, rich guys cavort around for three hours trying to KO each other.

A BE we ha ve something here in that three-hour mention. Network TV has these time slots that they work with, and woe be unto someone or something who makes a show go over the top of the hour. They've been known to leave a golf tournament if it's running long Dan Rather once walked off the CBS News set in a huff THE ADVERTISER C. Piazza Holding on game Saturday night at Cajun Field. Slaughter and the Bulldogs went on to rout the Ragin' Cajuns 40-14 in the season opener for both teams.

Louisiana Tech Bulldog strong safety Michael Slaughter tnes to hold on to a tackle on USL Ragin' Cajun running back P.D Broussard during their (See Cm us, page 2 1 Tech continues to frustrate Mitchell Bulldogs' pressure turns season opener into a nightmare "It looked like we thought we were better than we were. We looked like we were in slow motion, and they were at full speed. We had so many people banged up that we tried to go in shorts and shoulder pads this last week, but sometimes when you get well you don't play as hard, and that's our fault." Stokley Uiought the Cajuns were ready. "I didn't see this coming at all," Stokley said. "We tried to make sure we were fresh, and the kids looked like they wanted to play.

I just didn't get them ready." It was the opposite of the 1987 opener when USL fell 31 -6 at Mississippi State, that time due to heavy legs from too much work. When the Cajuns put the pads on on Monday, it will be rugged. Asked if it would be akin to a death march, (See Mitchell, page 21) who overthrew open receivers on several occasions. "I was thinking too much, trying to force the ball. I was over-striding, and when you do that you overthrow.

I wasn't consistent. "No matter what," he added, "I have to keep a cool head. I need to be calm, and I didn't do that." It was a humbling experience. "I felt like a freshman out there tonight," admitted Mitchell, who was defended by Coach Nelson Stokley. "It's the same old tiling," said Stokley.

"He was scrambling for his life, trying to make something happen. He was exhausted at the end. There's just no way to do it all by himself." "We knew what to expect, "said Offensive Coordinator Barry Wilson. "Tech just did a great job. Brian didn't get any help from anywhere.

They just out phy sica 1 led us up front. By BRUCE BROWN Sports Editor Brian Mitchell doesn't know what it is about Louisiana Tech, but he knows he's glad to be done with the Bulldogs after LTU's 40-14 ripping of USL's Ragin' Cajuns Saturday night at Cajun Field. 'Whatever we tried, "said Mitchell, "they were waiting for us. No team has ever played us Tike Tech has. "Most teams aren't as quick as they are.

Every time I looked up, there were three or four people waiting for me." Mitchell, held to minus yards on the ground in two previous meetings with Tech, hit only 1 1 of 31 passes for 112 yards, one touchdown and three interceptions in the loss. He netted five yards overland and lost a pair of fumbles. "When the offensive line did their job, I messed up," said Mitchell, aal aaaaaaaV. aasr fjj bbbbbbbW saaa aB Law BBBBBanEaaa BvJaM USL's Keith Annulis collides with a Tech ball carrier Unknowns help subdue ranked LSU Redskins cripple Saints aaaaaaaaa! WF aaaSarPaW. TB WFWM 1 bbbbbI I 4bbbbbbbbB MSI I '3k all WrW Htftt HaaV 'mm when U.S.

Open tennis had the temerity to barge into the news slot. The NFL has done its dead-level best to cooperate with the networks, who shell out such huge sums to each team to carry the games. They've snipped here and snipped there, mortally concerned that the average gametime had crept up over 3: 10, or whatever. "THEY'VE done all these things to shorten the game, said New Orleans Saints quarterback Bobby Hebert, "and now this rule is going to slow it down worse. It'll make games longer." It certainly did last Monday, stretching the time by some 30 minutes as angry fans protested a call against their team, and subsequent flags and lost time out chances because of the noise they raised.

Noise? If Boomer Esiason thought that was noisy, wait until he hits the Dome in a regular season game when fans get serious. BETTER YET, he should step back in time to old Tulane Stadium, back when fans really held up games. Such as the time a Saints punt sailed over the head of Dallas's Mel Renf ro, and he touched it (Set By MICHAEL A. LUTZ AP Sports Writer COLLEGE STATION, Texas AP) Texas unknowns Larry Horton and Robert Wilson replaced the glamour runners Saturday night, leading the Aggies to a 28-16 upset of seventh-ranked LSU. Horton returned the opening kickoff 92 yards for a touchdown and Wilson upstaged Ail-American teammate Darren Lewis and LSU's Harvey Williams by leading all rushers with a career-high 121 yards on IS carries, including a 20-yard touchdown with 2 58 left in the game that gave the Aggies a 21-10 lead.

Lewis, the top returning rusher in the nation, rushed for 55 yards on 17 carries while the talkative Williams, who predicted a 35-6 LSU victory, managed only 32 on 13 rushes. Williams missed the entire 1988 season after suffering a knee injury in the 1987 regular-season finale. "It's a big win for me personally, not because of the yardage, but because we knocked off a top 10 team," said Wilson, the Aggies' sophomore fullback. "They weren't looking for me to do anything. They were looking for either Darren, or the sweep when Keith) McAfee was in there.

Horton brought the season-opening crowd of 61,733 to its feet with a 13-second dash to open the game. He took the kickoff at his 8-yard line, headed toward the right sideline and cut behind the block of Cornelius Patterson, who knocked down the last would-be tackier. "I just squirted to the right and one person touched me on the thigh pad, that's how open it was," Horton said. "I did think I was going to get caught at the end." It was first kickoff return for a touchdown since Sept. 29, 1973, when Carl Roaches ran 100 yards against Boston College.

LSU last allowed a kickoff return for a score in 1986 when Notre Dame's Tim Brown ran 96 yards. R.C. Slocum got credit for his first official victory as Texas head coach, although be led the Aggies to an 18-0 victory over Texas Christian last year as interim head coach when Jackie Sherrill sat out a game in the wake of an NCAA investigation. "Coach (Bob) Toledo did an excellent job of preparing our offensive players," Slocum said of his offensive coordinator. "We were able to keep them off balance most of the night.

Against such a good defensive team as LSU, you can't go shoot and shoot against them." LSU coach Mike Archer credited (See LSU, page 2 1 NEW ORLEANS AP) The New Orleans Saints lost more than just their last preseason football game when the Washington Redskins beat them 26-21, they also lost a safety, a wide receiver, and a linebacker. The Saints, already hit hard by injuries, saw strong Safety Gene Atkins, wide receive Brett Perriman and inside linebacker Joe Kohlbrand sit out the second half with injuries. Atkins, who dislocated his right shoulder, was lost on the Redskins sixth offensive snap of the first quarter when he dived into a pileup searching from running back Gerald Riggs' fumble. Atkins will probably miss two games, Coach Jim Mora said Saturday. Perriman, who sprained his left knee on the Saints sixth offensive snap of the first quarter, will probably miss three games, Mora said.

Kohlbrand, who replaced starter Vaughan Johnson after Johnson was sidelined with a sprained ankle, twisted his left ankle during the second quarter. He will be evaluated on a day to day basis, Mora said. (See Sa tats, page 2S) Hanging on action Saturday evening in College Station, Texas. The Aggies beat the seventh ranked LSU Tigers 28-16. Texas fullback Doug Carter (32) barely hangs on to the football while being tackle by LSU's Verge Ausberry (98) during.