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Sports Tuesday, Spokane Dec. 4, Chronicle 1984 B1 Lynch named first-team All- Coug in spotlight By VINCE DEVLIN Staff writer It was something Dan Lynch did not have to do often, helping his quarterback up from the turf, behind the line of scrimmage. He realized Mark Rypien had been taken down in the end zone, a safety. He realized, too, that it had happened on the last play of last game of five years of blood, sweat, tears and cheers. Lynch turned, 120 yards from the tunnel at Martin Stadium, and focused on it 40,000 fans, the scoreboard, the tunnel and tried to concentrate on what the sight meant.

It wouldn't sink in. So he started walking. He looked for Washington's outstanding defensive lineman, Ron Holmes, because Lynch always looked for the man he had gone up against after the gun had ended that week's war. Win or lose, he always did that. He found Holmes near midfield, shook his hand, wished him well.

Then he started for the tunnel. Twenty yards away from his final trip through the corrugated metal, 20 measley yards, it sank in. Last play. Last game. Final season.

And 6-foot-3, 265-pound Dan Lynch had to struggle to get inside de the tunnel before losing control. Washington State coach Jim Walden came along, and helped Lynch mak, it the final few yards into Bohler Gym and the safety of the locker room. There, the emotions over what Lynch left on the Martin Stadium side of that tunnel overwhelmed him. PULLMAN Little did Dan Lynch know what awaited him on the other side of the tunnel. Bob Hope, for instance.

Yep, Bob "ButIwannatellya" Hope. Swimmin' pools. Movie stars. An appearance on the comedian's Christmas TV special may be the least of what Lynch reaps from being named an Associated Press All -America first-team football player only the third AP AllAmerican in Cougar history, and the first in 20 years. Lynch's reaction? Just what you might expect from a three-time All Pac-10 Academic winner.

"I've got finals coming up. A lot of studying do. It's kind of hard to concentrate," he said. "It hit me like a ton of bricks," Lynch continued. "All Pac-10 (he's that, too) is something you think about before the team is picked.

All-American isn't." Lynch, a product of Spokane's at end of tunnel ALL-AMERICANS First team Dan Lynch, WSU, OG Second team Rueben Mayes, WSU, RB Ron Holmes, UW, DT Third team Tim Meamber, UW, LB Hon. Mention Mark Rypien, WSU, QB Fred Small, UW, Lewis and Clark High who becomes a Cougar soon as finals are finished in altew days, learned of his selection to the AP team Monday morning from WSU Sports Information Director Rod Commons, who told him, "Congratulations, your dreams have come "What I'm a Seahawk?" Lynch shot back. Lynch will get his chance to be a something in the National Football League. And his invitations to post-season all-star games he's already got two, the Senior Bowl and Shrine Game should increase dramatically in the next few days. To understand the magnitude of all this, remember: Lynch is the guy who almost signed with Montana State because he didn't think he could play at Washington State's level.

Walden normally must convince players that WSU is good enough for them. How did he recruit his future All-American wasn't sure he was good enough WSU? who. "When he told me he couldn't decide between Montana State and Washington State, I told him, 'Pal, I'll give you, 30 seconds to make that The only other Washington State players named AP AllAmericans were Glenn "Turk" Edwards in 1930 and Clancy Williams in 1964. The Cougars have had five players named to the wire service's second team: Mel Hein in 1930, George Sander in '32, Bob Kennedy in '42, Bill Steiger in '56 and Hugh Campbell in '62. Seven have been third-teamers through the years, including Campbell, now coach of the Houston Oilers, twice.

Add running back Rueben Mayes to the list of second-teamers. He was honored on that unit today, along with Lynch's UW opponent, Husky defensive tackle Holmes. Cougar quarterback Mark Rypien was an honorable mention choice. "A lot of the credit has to go to my line coaches Pat Ruel (now at Texas the first two years, Steve Morton the last three Coach Walden through it all," All-American Dan Lynch has Lynch said. "Plus, when your running backs are guys like Kerry (Porter) and Rueben, and Mark's your quarterback they're easy to block for." But for Lynch, who thought he had played his last down a year ago, then won an extra year did many players across the country on an NCAA ruling, the AllAmerica news was bittersweet.

Lynch played in last year's Senior Bowl in Mobile, then learned he could return for a fifth year. He did so because he believed played his final down for the Cougars had a shot at a bowl game, Rose Bowl included. It didn't happen. "Football is a team sport, and this team the past two years should have been to a bowl game," Lynch said. "They had the talent, the character, the desire everything but a little luck.

"Look at my recruiting class Jamie White, Kirk Samuelson, Lee Blakeney, Eric Williams, Keith Millard, Milford Hodge, Brent White, Pili Tutuvanu and the rest of them. Jamie White's still the best Just call the Zags 'Comeback Kids' Rally strongly to nip Boise St. By JOHN BLANCHETTE Staff writer A week into the basketball season and already the Gonzaga Bulldogs are shedding labels. Monday night they bagged the "not-a-good-come-from-behindteam" label showing remarkable recovery powers in a wild 55-54 triumph over Boise State at Kennedy Pavilion, a game which threatened to be a Boise blowout midway through the second half. The Broncos retooled this season by Coach Bobby Dye into a harder working team than any coming out of Boise in years led 47-36 with nine minutes to play and had already weathered what seemed to be the best comeback Gonzaga had to offer.

It wasn't. With forward John Hobus contributing 10 points in the final 7:13 and Dwan Hurt and Jeff Condill leading a hounding Bulldog defense, the Zags held Boise to just seven points the rest of the way survivtwo potential disasters after Hobus' free throws with 56 seconds left had accounted for the final points. "I don't know how we won this game," confessed Bulldog coach Jay Hillock. "At this point, I'm not even sure that we won it." Oh, the Zags won it. Condill saved it once his check turning a Craig Spjute jumper into an air ball.

Bryce McPhee controlled it with 22 seconds remaining and was fouled, but missed the one-and-one to give Boise another chance. Frank Jackson tried again with Hurt in his face, and Jeff Reinert dove on the rebound as the buzzer sounded. "It was important for us to win that one," said Hobus, whose arrival into the game with minutes remaining was a visable spark. "We really needed this for confidence. "After the Central game Friday, we practiced at midnight and 1 think it meant a lot.

It was a good practice and we felt a lot better after it than did after the game, Flutie top QB on AP A-A list Staff photo by SHAWN JACOBSON GU's Bryce McPhee scores two from underneath. us hard and doing a lot of body banging." Aiding the Bulldog comeback was the foul shooting problems of Boise forward Bruce Bolden. His right hand heavily wrapped after injuring a thumb against EWU, Bolden missed three free throws in the late going including the front the door for Gonzaga clock end of a one-and-one that, opened dipped under four minutes. Condill's steal and layup tied the game at 51 with 3:19 left and then the teams played seesaw Bolden hitting a free throw, Hobus canning two, Jackson knocking in a jumper and Hobus countering with the final free throws. GU made the most of its chances, canning 11 of 17 shots in the second half while Boise went 9 for 25.

NEW YORK (AP) Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie, the only player in major-college history to pass for more than 10,000 yards in a career, was named to The Associated Press All-America football team today, along with two repeaters offensive tackle Bill Fralic of Pitt and free safety Jerry Gray of Texas. On the local front, Washington State University earned its first first-team All-American in 20 years as senior offensive guard Dan Lynch won that honor. Lynch was joined on the AP teams by junior running back Rueben Mayes, named to the second team, and junior quarterback Mark Rypien, who earned an honorable mention. Flutie, the magical rifle-armed scrambler who captured the nation's fancy and became the first quarterback in 13 years to win the Heisman Trophy, passed for 10,579 yards and also set an NCAA career total offense mark of 11,317 yards. Joining Flutie on the offensive unit are running backs Keith Byars of Ohio State, the nation's leading rusher, and Kenneth Davis of Texas Christian, along with wide receiver David Williams of Illinois, the nation's leading receiver, whose 101 catches and 1,278 yards were Big Ten records.

The 101 receptions were the second highest in major college history and eight of them went for touchdowns. The rest of the offensive unit consists of tight end Mark Bavaro of Notre Dame, wide receiver Eddie Brown of Miami tackles Fralic and Lomas Brown of Florida, guards Del Wilkes of South Carolina and Lynch, center, Mark Traynowiez of Nebraska and placekicker John Lee of UCLA. Fralic made first-team All-America for the third year in a row. Named to the defensive unit were tackles Leslie O'Neal of Oklahoma State and Bruce Smith of Virginia Tech, middle guard Tony Casillas of Oklahoma, linebackers Gregg Carr of Auburn, Jack Del Rio of Southern California, James Seawright of South Carolina and Larry Station of Iowa and deep backs Gray, David Fulcher of Arizona State, Kyle Morrell of Brigham Young and Tony Thurman of Boston College, along with Ricky Anderson of Vanderbilt, the nation's leading punter with a 48.2- yard average. Three players who made the first team a year ago failed to repeat running back Bo Jackson of Auburn, placekicker Luis Zendejas of Arizona State and nose guard William Perry of Clemson.

Jackson missed six games with a shoulder injury. The AP All-America team will be featured Sunday, Dec. 16, on Bob Hope's Christmas special entitled "Ho-Ho Hope's 35th Jolly Christmas Hour." Staff photo by CHRIS ANDERSON Washington State. of all of us. It should be him and Bob Hope, and it would be if there was no such thing as injuries.

"But I always felt they deserved the very best. I wanted so much for all of us to share something special together. Getting All-America is a blast, but I'd rather have shared something like the '81 seniors had with the Holiday Bowl. When those guys shake hands, they squeeze a little tighter." Spoken like an All-American boy. Make that man he's on the other side of the tunnel now.

It's been a big realization that we had to be a lot more fired up and play harder." For the Broncos played just as hard, all but shutting out Gonzaga in the first half and not flinching in the face of an equally rugged Bulldog defense. Four straight baskets the first and last by backup guard Mike Hazel shot Boise into a 16-11 lead, and the Broncos hit 11 of their first 17 shots en route to a 30-23 halftime lead. Turnovers helped. The Broncos who forced Eastern Washington into 25 on Saturday night coaxed Gonzaga into eight in the first 20 minutes. Three came in the late going after the Zags had pulled within one on layups by Jason Van Nort and McPhee.

Gonzaga wasted another binge in the second half, cutting the deficit to 34-32 by scoring three hoops layups all in two minutes after managing just seven baskets the entire first half. this time forward Kelvin Rawlins whose shot repertoire ranges from routine dial 9-1-1 banged in three baskets and the Broncos were again, outscoring GU 11-2 in a minute stretch. "I thought we looked a little frazzied for a while," Dye commented, "but we settled down and some good player movement, good shot selection and weathered the storm. But they came back again and we didn't hold them off." That was when Hobus arrived, though the first big Bulldog basket came on a dazzling move down the key by McPhee, whose 18 points led all scorers. Hobus followed with a jumper from the line that pulled GU within six, 47-41.

The Bulldogs then clamped on a full-court press which, while foreing only one turnover directly, served to at least upset Boise's rhythm. "I think early in the year with as many new players as we have, that type of situation is going to be setting to us," Dye admitted. "It's something we'll have to learn to deal with, but they were coming at 24. Hoyas retain No. 1 reign; UW wins two, drops one Associated Press much of the way Monday night in Georgetown remains No.

1 in an 83-61 exhibition loss to Aththe Associated Press college bas- letes in Action. The Cardinals are ketball poll by a voting margin 2-0 in regulation games. every bit as impressive as the Illinois, a 73-70 victor over scores of its last two games. then-10th ranked Oklahoma, reThe defending national cham- mained seventh, followed by 1-0 pions, who last week ripped Ha- Southern Methodist, 2-0 Washingwaii Loa 74-45 and Southern Con- ton (No. 8 last week with an 0-0 necticut 80-46, amassed 55 of 58 record) and North Carolina State, first-place votes in the nation- 3-0 after an 83-46 drubbing of wide balloting of sports writers Hartford Monday night.

and broadcasters. The Hoyas, 3-0, The Second Ten this week is: have 1,157 points to easily outdis- Indiana, Syracuse, Louisiana tance runnerup DePaul. State, Virginia Tech, Georgia DePaul, 3-0 after blasting Tech, North Carolina, Oklahoma, UCLA 80-61 on Saturday and Chi- Alabama-Birmingham, Kansas co State 77-37 on Monday, got and Nevada-Las Vegas. two first-place votes and 1,049 Last week's Second Ten was: points. North Carolina State, Indiana, St.

John's, which nipped St. Alabama-Birmingham, Syracuse, Bonaventure 58-57 in the finals of Virginia Tech, Louisiana State, the Joe Lapchick Memorial Tour- Arkansas, Georgia Tech, North nament to run its record to 2-0, Carolina and a tie for 20th beremained third and Duke, 3-0, tween Kansas and Nevada-Las stayed in fourth and collected the Vegas. other first-place vote. Arkansas, 2-1, which lost to Fifth place went to Memphis Ohio State 85-84 on Saturday was State, 2-0, by a single point over the only team to fall from the Louisville, which used reserves Top Twenty. BYU nips Sooners for No.

1 Associated Press and points as the Top Ten Brigham Young and Oklahoma remained unchanged from last will head into the bowl games as week. the nation's 1-2 college football However, a week ago, with 59 teams. of the 60 voters participating, Despite last weekend's ABC- BYU led Oklahoma in TV telephone poll which branded -place votes and Brigham Young as an also-ran in points. Brigham Young, 191,336 voters said the Cougars the nation's only unbeaten team should not be No. 1 as opposed to at 12-0, will face Michigan in the 166,590 who thought they should Holiday Bowl on Dec.

21 while BYU held onto first place to- Oklahoma, 9-1-1, meets fourthday for the third week in a row in ranked Washington in the Orange The Associated Press' final regu- Bowl on New Year's Night. lar-season poll. Florida, which closed out a 9-1- But again it was close. BYU 1 season by defeating Florida received 331 of 57 first-place State 27-17 for its ninth consecuvotes and of a possible tive victory, remained No. 8 with 1,140 points from a nationwide six first-place votes and 1,033 panel of sports writers and points.

Last week, the Gators sportscasters. Oklahoma, No. 2 were No. 1 on five ballots and for the second week a row, received 1,048 points. Florida is received place votes, ineligible for a bowl game.

"John Hobus and Dwan Hurt get a lot of credit for this one," Hillock said. "I think our pressure hurt them when we got a little more quickness in there. We've still got some offensive problems because we're not getting as much scoring as we need out of our big guys. They can score and we need them to." Van Nort had 14 points and Hobus 12 in the Zag cause, while Condill who has yet to score in double figures this season had big numbers on defense: five steals, two blocked shots. Rawlins and Hazel shared Boise's scoring honors with 12 apiece, Hazel contributing nine rebounds.

The Zags, 3-1, end their home stand Wednesday with a game against Whitworth at 7:30 p.m..