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BusinessStocks- iQ) Spotlight- General news- Sunday, Nov. 22, 1982 Santa Cruz Sentinel Weird, last-second TD leads Cal over Stanford game had to come down to this," said Wiggin. "In our hearts and in our minds, we know we won the game." Stanford's John Elway passed his team into position for Harmon's field goal in the closing seconds, and he totaled 330 yards passing in the final game of his college career. He was on the sidelines, doing some premature celebrating, when Cal improvised the winning touchdown. "Never in my life will I forget this one.

I still don't believe it," said Richard Rodgers, who handled the football twice for Cat on the bizarre kickoff return. SEE PAGE D2 The final lateral, from Mariet Ford to Moen, was at Stanford's 25-yard line, and Moen had to weave through Stanford band members, cheerleaders and some fans who had streamed onto the Memorial Stadium field, thinking the ball had become dead somewhere along its route to football history. "I wish someone had put a tuba over Moen's head," a member of the Stanford film crew said later. Stanford Coach Paul Wiggin and his players argued that Dwight Garner, the third Cal player to handle the ball, had been stopped by tacklers before he got rid of the ball. "We simply won the game.

It's tragic that a Cal-Stanford "I didn't see what happened. It doesn't matter. It counted for six and we won," said Cal Coach Joe Kapp. "The Bear just would not quit. The Bear would not die." Stanford's Mark Harmon kicked a 35-yard field goal with four seconds remaining, giving the Cardinal a 20-19 lead and seemingly a victory in the 85th Big Game between the neighboring Pacific-10 Conference schools But Moen, a senior defensive back playing on Cal's kickoff return team, fielded the short kickoff from Harmon and began a crazy series of five laterals which took the ball over Stanford's goal line after time had run out.

By The Associated Press BERKELEY The University of California's Kevin Moen ran through the Stanford marching band for one of the oddest touchdowns in college football history, giving the Bears a 25-20 victory Saturday. "I didn't know it was a touchdown until the cannon went off," admitted Moen, referring to the cannon shot which traditionally goes off after Cal victories. This game deserved a 21-gun salute, and films of the winning, controversial 55-yard kickoff return are sure to be rerun as long as football is played. Second-half turnovers Aptos digs its own grave in King City i I 1 fl 1 SAiicocrDv 21-25. il I i W'Vl I I II UMTO TO STOCK 01 HAKB.

II only 16 completions in 35 passes, with four interceptions. The Mariners' attack was hampered even further with an injury to all-SCCAL tight end John Baker, who hurt his left ankle making his only pass reception just seven-and-a-half minutes into the game. Aptos was already without the services of its top receiver, Cal Pierce, who suffered a broken jaw two weeks ago. Losing Baker was the final blow. Besides that, running back Ron Harris, the team's leading rusher, was hobbled by an ankle sprain and, despite breaking off a 42-yard run in the first half, gained a net of zero yards on six more carries before sitting out most of the second half.

"We had second, third and fourth-string players out there in the second half," said Mikaelsen. "That had a big effect. Basically, we were going with the second and third team the whole second half. They tried hard, but the guys we had in there hadn't Dlaved a lot. By ED VYEDA Sentinel Sports Writer KING CITY Committing turnovers in five of its first six possessions of the second half and giving up a safety in the other Aptos High's Mariners dug their own grave Saturday night, then King City buried them in it, 31-10, in the first round of the Central Coast Section Division II South playoffs.

Although Aptos controlled the first half and took a 10-6 lead into the intermission, five second-half pass interceptions one returned for a touchdown and two lost fumbles combined with the Mariners' continued plague of injuries to effectively take them out of the game. "Our defense played well, but with our turnovers, they were on the field the whole time," said Aptos Coach Jim Mikaelsen, whose team failed for the second straight year against King City in the first round of the playoffs. "When you turn the ball over as much as we did, it's the kind of thing where we got their momentum going and we died." Aptos, one of the three co-champions of the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League, wasn't completely dead even after Mustang defensive back Bruce Rianda returned the second of his two interceptions 35 yards for a touchdown. The Mariners found themselves down, 25-10, but still had 11:44 to play and were only two touchdowns behind. But, after driving on their next series to the King City 25-yard line, the Mariners committed their most costly turnover.

Stormy Trevino, King City's leading defensive back the last two seasons, made the first of his two interceptions with eight minutes to play to put the game on ice. For Aptos, a pass-oriented team, the night was a disaster. Freshman quarterback Bobby Verduzco had his worst game since taking over for injured senior Matt Walters. Verduzco, under pressure in the second half, finished with "Baker wanted to play so bad, we taped him twice," Mikaelsen said. "That takes a lot of guts to play when you are injured." Even Walters, who only had the cast taken off his fractured right ankle a week ago, warmed up on the sidelines in the second half.

But, Mikaelsen stayed with Verduczo. King City's victory sets up a rematch with North Monterey County, which eliminated the Mustangs in the playoffs last year. First-year King City Coach Mark McClure had his team going full speed against Aptos even with the game clinched Trevino catching a 48-yard touchdown pass from quarterback John Wiley with only 2:09 to play apparently to give the scouting North County coaching staff a few more things to worry about this week. "At halftime, we felt we were in control of the situation," McClure said, even SEE PAGE D6 Penn State, Georgia to play in Sugar Bowl 9 511 FRONT STRICT 2330 MISSION STREET. I I nnt V-t SANTA CRUZ 453-9041 SANTA CRUZ 423-3477 I.

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Washington's bowl trip also will be determined by what Arizona State does. If the Sun Devils go to the Rose, then Washington plays in the Fiesta. If UCLA goes to the Rose, then Washington gets the Aloha bid. The Orange Bowl will pit No. 12 Louisiana State, which mauled seventh-rated Florida State Saturday night, against the winner of Nebraska-Oklahoma.

Ohio State, which upset Michigan to run its record to 8-3, will meet Brigham Young in the Holiday Bowl in San Diego on Dec. 17. BYU, also 8-3, qualified by downing Utah to clinch the Western Athletic Conference title. Wisconsin, 6-5, qualified for the Independence Bowl on Dec. 11 in Shreveport, where they will meet Kansas State, 6-4-1.

The Wildcats qualified for their first bowl game ever by beating Colorado. Boston College, 7-2-1 downed Holy Cross Saturday and will meet Auburn, 7-3 in the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, on Dec. 18. The Tigers play Alabama next week. SEE PAGE D2 By The Associated Press The Sugar Bowl officially set up what could be a national championship New Year's Day matchup when it tapped third-ranked Penn State to play top-ranked Georgia in the Sugar Bowl.

But the three other major bowls also could have national championship overtones. No. 2 Southern Methodist, for example, would be in line if Georgia slips against Georgia Tech in its season finale. The Mustangs clinched a Cotton Bowl berth by taking advantage of a pass interference penalty and scoring with 2:51 left to tie No. 9 Arkansas 17-17.

The Mustangs will take a 10-0-1 record against 9-1 Pitt, which crushed Rutgers 52-6 Saturday. Sixth-ranked Pitt plays Penn State Friday. The Rose Bowl picture, seemingly clear a week ago, clouded over when Washington State shocked No. 5 Washington. That eliminated the Huskies, who needed a win to qualify, and left No.

8 Arizona State, 9-1, in the driver's seat. The Sun Devils need only a win next week at Arizona to go. If they lose, No. 11 UCLA will be the Pac-10 representative against Big 10 winner Michigan, rated 13th, and ASU will play in the Fiesta on New Year's Day against the loser of Friday's Nebraska- Welcome to vnew' NFL By The Associated Press Welcome to the new National Football League. Welcome to a season without such expressions as "American Conference East" or "National Conference West." Divisions are out; conferences are in.

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Followed by a 16-team playoff field, the most in the league's history. The berths go to the top eight teams in each conference, with division standings thrown out. Today, it's Miami at Buffalo, Detroit at Chicago, Pittsburgh at Houston, San Francisco at St. Louis, Seattle at Denver, Washington at the New York Giants, Baltimore at the New York Jets, Cincinnati at Philadelphia, Kansas City at New Orleans, the Los Angeles Rams at Atlanta, Minnesota vs. Green Bay at Milwaukee, New England at Cleveland and Tampa Bay at Dallas.

Monday night, the Raiders make their home debut in Los Angeles, facing San Diego. For more on the strike-interrupted season, see page D5. Mmwi Sunday in November. fcfctf-tfJ After an eight-week on inv "in-" after the unbeaten Green Bay Packers' 27-19 victory over the winless New York Giants in the gloom of Tuesday morning, Sept. 21, the NFL begins the process -) i 1 -1- -1 1.