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in Monday December 7 1987 1 Kingsport Times-News 3Bj Saints clinch first-ever playoff berth i I another score to vault the Broncos into first place with 8-3-1 record The Patriots 5-7 fell two games behind the Colts In other games it was the Los Angeles Raiders 34 Buffalo 21 the New York Giants 23 Philadelphia 20 Atlanta 21 Dallas 10 Cincinnati 30 Kansas City 27 and the Los Angeles Rams 37 Detroit 16 Raiders 34 Bills 21 At Los Angeles Marc Wilson outdueled Jim Kelly completing 21 of 32 passes for 337 yards and three touchdowns lift the Raiders The Bills 6-6 dropped from a tie for first the AFC East Giants 23 Eagles 20 (OT) At East Rutherford NJ Raul Allegre whose field-goal attempt minutes earlier was blocked kicked a 28-yarder with 4:18 left in overtime to lift the Giants Falcons 21 Cowboys 10 At Irving Texas Floyd Dixon and Robert Moore scored touchdowns in a 13-second span of the first quarter and Gerald Riggs became leading career rusher to help the Falcons 3-9 snap a six-game losing streak Bengals 30 Chiefs 27 (OT) At Cincinnati Jim Breech capped a 16-play 79-yard drive by kicking a 32-yard field goal with 5:16 left in overtime to lift the Bengals Rams 37 Lions 16 At Pontiac Mich Jim Everett passed for a career-high 324 yards and Charles White became the first NFL rusher this season to exceed 1000 yards to spark the Rams 5-7 to their fourth straight triumph Bears 30 Vikings 24 MINNEAPOLIS Backup Mike Tomczak threw a 38-yard touchdown pass to Dennis Gentry with 40 seconds to play Sunday night rallying the Chicago Bears to a 30-24 victory over the Minnesota Vikings United Press International John Settle (44) stiffarms Bill Bates in game Sunday Falcons upset Dallas 21-10 to end long Atlanta losing streak Vandy eyes cage ranking In brief GENESIS CLUB FINISHES SECOND IN STATE United Press International NASHVILLE Vanderbilt guard Barry Goheen was reluctant to admit it but he says he would like to see the Commodores ranked in the Top 20 this week after a hard-fought 78-76 victory over No 1 North Carolina really even want to think about it (a Top 20 rank- Continued from page IB Saints 44 Bucs 34 At New Orleans Rueben Mayes and John Tice scored two touchdowns each and with a sellout crowd rocking the Superdome Jhe Saints clinched the first playoff berth in their 21-year history with a 44-34 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers The Saints 9-3 have won six straight A three-way tie was forged in the AFC Central when Cleveland was upset by Indianapolis 9-7 Houston crushed San Diego 33-18 and Pittsburgh upset Seattle 13-9 That left the Browns Oilers and Steelers all at 7-5 The victory put them alone in first in the AFC East and Denver defeated New England 31-20 to move ahead of San Diego in the AFC West Colts 9 Browns 7 At Cleveland Dean Biasucci kicked three second-quarter field goals and Mike Prior recovered a fourth-quarter fumble on his 4-yard line helping the Colts improve to 7-5 with their first victory in Cleveland Stadium in 25 years The New York Jets 6-5 can tie the Colts for first with a victory at Miami 5-6 Monday night Oilers 33 Chargers 18 At Houston Robert Lyles returned a fumble 55 yards for a touchdown and Allen Pinkett Mike Rozier and Warren Moon scored on short runs to help the Oilers snap a two-game losing streak and hand the Chargers their third straight loss after an eight-game winning streak San Diego fell to 8-4 Steelers 13 Seahawks 9 At Pittsburgh Frank Pollard rushed 22 times for 106 yards and a touchdown to lift the Steelers The Seahawks fell to 7-5 and face a tough battle for a playoff spot Broncos 31 Patriots 20 At Denver John Elway threw two second-half touchdowns and Mark Haynes returned an interception for Trade talk at baseball Continued from page IB going to do The Reds appear willing to trade Parker with the Yankees and Oakland mentioned as possible takers name has come up often but his big contract and defensive shortcomings limit teams that can use him The Mets are interested in moving Orosco and a club such as Boston could use a lefty reliever Jacoby could solve third-base problem The Blue Jays have pitching to offer in return Another possible scenario begins with the player Minnesota owes Boston for Don Baylor That deal could grow or perhaps Boston might take the player and package him in a different trade The Angels may not be finished either General Manager Damper put From staff reports DALLAS Kingsport Mets officials attending the Winter Baseball Meetings in Dallas said Sunday night that a freeze has been placed on franchise moves and expansions putting on hold plans for the Appalachian League to expand from eight to 10 teams in 1988 Danville Va and Martinsville Va were scheduled to bring teams into the league this year making it a 10-team league but barring a change between now and next spring that happen an to in The Genesis Gymnastics Club won second place in the State Gymnastics meet held in Knoxville Saturday Genesis in its first year of team competition was second to the Let It Shine club from Franklin The local team was led by Kimberly Bradley who finished first place in every event in the Senior Division to lead to the first place all-around award with 3415 points Bradley scored 895 each in the vault and bars 785 in the beam and 84 in the floor exercise In the Division Heather Cretsinger finished in third place in the vault with a 905 score Junior Division results included a second place all-around score of 342 by Amy Easley Easley finished second in the vault (92) sixth in the floor exercise (86) and tied for sixth with teammate Liza Jacobs in the bars (885) Tara Messmore was fifth in the floor exercise (87) Other team members who competed in the meet were Carrie Marek Emily Harrison and Leslie Holcomb Individual Statistics Rushing Jefferson County Matlison 15-162-1 Cunningham 15-124-1 Quarles 8-46-1 Morgan 2-11-0 Gallatin Talley 16-67-1 Mitchell 6-36-0 Nycz 2-14-0 Adams 4-12-0 Passing Jefferson County Quarles 4-7-0 33 yards 1 TO Gallatin Lewis 9-15-1 106 yards Receiving Jefferson County Ensley 2-28 1 TD Collins 1-14 Gallatin Dunn S-69 Nycz 3-37 PLAYHOUSES 44-34 the junior said thUk we got caught up in that too much at one point last yfcafc and it help our But Goheen who scored 13 points and grabbed seven re bounds in Saturday triumph admits a national ranking would be a confidence-" booster sure it would be nice see our team ranked some" where in the Top he said' For Play and Storage Many Sizes Custom Colors Top Quality NOWON SALE! Order Now And Layaway For Christmas Delivery BUILDINGS TRUCK COVERS Jeff County finally wins state Class AAA grid title 100 Stone Dr Kingsport TN 37660 Phone 246-4491 or (61 5) 246-5491 ATTESyTlOW: Continued from page IB lected in the wire-service polls won titles on the field Brentwood a 31-6 winner over Austin-East in Class AA had a wide receiver named Matt MacIntyre the son of former Vanderbilt University football coach George MacIntyre Tennessee athletic director Doug Dickey would like to lure the state playoffs to Tennessee's Neyland Stadium Ronnie Carter executive director of the TSSAA is listening but says it would take a hunk of money plus other considerations The Clinic Bowl is paying $50000 and it might require $75000 and a strong civic group to swing it way sponsoring Junior Chamber of Commerce gets 10-000 man-hours from its 750 members for just one promotion marching band had only 13 students but played in tune The single-wing formation Richland ran was a bit unusual Both the tailback and fullback extended their hands ostensibly to take a direct snap Class AAA State Championships Jell County 28 Gallatin 10 TEC AND HDC EMPLOYEES WE ARE MAKING in wind meetings Mike Port said he would pursue other deals for pitching and predicted several clubs would be willing to talk Detroit GM Bill Lajoie agreed were 17 teams on Aug 15 with a chance to Lajoie said four did The other 13 want to make up the The lone dissent came from Kansas City GM John Schuer-holz who said made our big deal He was referring to a four-player trade with Cincinnati that brought shortstop Kurt Stillwell to the Royals and sent lefty Danny Jackson to the Reds Some trades may hinge on Monday developments Teams have until midnight Dec 7 to either offer arbitration to their free agents or lose negotiating rights to them until May 1 on expansion Mets were planning to pull out of Lynchburg and Boston was coming said Kingsport Mets president Dottie Elsea they even do that The Pirates and Phillies are pretty upset about it They had made commitments to Danville and Martinsville and right now it looks like they bring teams Elsea said the baseball officials gave no reason for the freeze on expansion sure be meeting on it again and again but as things stand right now" said Elsea be project him as a Cashen said ber Davey Johnson (Mets manager) played shortstop his entire minor league career But when he came up with Baltimore we needed a second base-man so we moved him Grich played shortstop his entire time in the minors but when he came up we needed a second baseman so we moved him to second base I envision the same thing for Gregg can play either shortstop second base third base or the outfield I would prefer keeping him at shortstop as long as Mets plan to send Jefferies to Tidewater JEFF Cunningham 44 run (Dockins kick) GALLATIN Hierpe FG 24 GALLATIN Talley 5 run (Cathron kick) JEFF Ensley 28 pass from Quarles (kick blocked) JEFF Mattison 55 run (Madison ran) JEFF Quarles 7 run (Dockins kick) Attendance: 27600 Vols get two commitments KNOXVILLE football team has received two early football commitments Larry Smith a 6-4 300-pound lineman from Milan who is the cousing of former Vol tight end Jeff Smith and Jason Julian a placekicker from Knox Halls have committed Julian was No 16 on the Times-News Super Sixteen list for the state while Smith was unranked but had a very good season Continued from page IB of which came early in the season He played well at third in a brief trial last season but he will be back at short next spring when he is expected to play at Tidewater of the International League The Mets have Howard Johnson and Dave Magadan to play third at the major league level only 20 years New York Mets General Manager Frank Cashen said think he should play at Tidewater next year He needs experience looking at a guy (Cashen) who still thinks he brought up Darryl Strawberry a half-season too soon SSSPIkRIFT 1701 East Stone Drive Kingsport 245-3195 Jim Anderson Manager 1805 North Roan Street Johnson City 926-9332 Bob Snyder Manager.