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INSIDE NFL matchups C2 Glasson leads PGA event C6 CC Rams win third straight C9 THE FRESNO BEE Sunday September 25 1988 Trick plays pay off big in third win By ANDY BOOGAARD Bee sports writer Fresno State University completed the steak-and-egg portion of its football schedule Saturday night toying with previously unbeaten McNeese State 49-0 before the ninth straight sellout at Bulldog Stadium As was the case against the other over-easy eggs New Mexico and New Mexico State this one was well in hand at halftime (35-0) leaving the crowd of 34503 with little else to do but relax and admire the conspicuous full moon for the rest of the evening or exit the premises and catch the end of the Olympics didn't' want to quit" said Cowboys coach Sonny Jackson wanted us to improve but we still didn't play very well" The Bulldogs who led New Mexico 37-7 and New Mexico State 27-0 at intermission have had to play with concern just once in the second half of a game during a 3-1 season That came against the steak of the schedule Colorado and the Bulldogs were ground into hamburger at Boulder with the Buffaloes turning a 10-3 lead into a 45-3 victory To what extent if any September prepared the Bulldogs for a more challenging October remains to be seen FSU coach Jim Sweeney had his doubts a couple of days ago saying The schedule has not been good for us" As opposed to the first four games which proved little the next tour games will paint a truer picture of the Bulldogs First up will be Oregon State in Corvallis Ore Saturday That's the same team that doubled Arizona in yardage but lost 24-13 beat San Jose State 41-27 and Cal 17-16 and then struck fear into Colorado yesterday before losing 28-21 at Boulder Following will be Fullerton State Utah State and San Jose State the best Big West Conference opponents FSU will face Those teams will be better than McNeese State 3-1 That's a fact Sweeney said McNeese State would be better than New Mexico State which the Bulldogs pummelcd 41-0 That was untrue That or he Freeno BeeUoyd Francis Jr McNeese State quarterback Scott Dieterich is sacked by linebacker Ron Cox while Bulldogs Chuck McCutchen (90) and Tracy Rogers (45) converge FSU's short and medium passing game well enough continue to get away with badly underthrown deep balls against the Oregon States Fullerton States and San Joke Stales awaiting him in ambush? What about the FSU defense? Is this a ferocious band that devours quarterbacks stuffs running backs hijacks everything thrown in the vicinity fully capable of posting one shutout after another? Was Colorado's 45 iT-ftll Bob McCarthy Questions remain Here we are going on Week 5 of the 1988 collegiate football season and so far there's been only one true test on Fresno State University's powdeipuff non-conference schedule Then again the halftime statistics weren't the result of trickery 1 First downs: Fresno 14 McNeese 1 Total offense: Fresno 277 McNeese 19 Yeah it was thpt one-sided 1 Anyone who's been paying close attention to Bulldog football over the past decade came Saturday night anticipating a much rougher test from the Southland Conference Cowboys never mind the Division I-AA label i Not until 1980 when they slipped past Southwestern Louisiana 16-14 at home did a Bulldog team beat one from Cajun See McCarthy Page CIO quizzes that have only raised more questions than supplied answers about Jim Sweeney's Big West Conference favorites The really big puzzler for example: How good is this potentially outstanding Bulldog team? Well it's 98 points better than the state of New Mexico ana 49-0 better than the best Division I-AA team in the state of Louisiana McNeese State Just what does that mean? And how ready is it making these Bulldogs for the rigors that lie immediately ahead? See what I mean? Ask one question and it just raises two more Next big question: Is redshirt freshman quarterback Mark Barsotti getting the kind of seasoning he needs to take Fresno State to the promised bowl land? Or is FSU's passing game still largely an unproven commodity against quality air defense? Can Barsotti who seems to be picking up points and 500-plus yards an indication or an aberration? Questions Tons of them The answers should start coming this week in Corvallis Ore Pac-10 Country Maybe Fresno State wouldn't have destroyed outmanned McNeese State 49-zip Saturday night if it resorted to so many gadget plays (reverses halfback passes) See Bulldogs Page CIO One test (Colorado) and three quickie New Olympic order reigns with Griffith gold Win over SF has Dodgers ready to party But victory keeps LA from clinching outright title I Swimmers kicked off team C4 7 4 4 4 3 6 3 6 Associated Press the status that made her America's best middle-distance runner for a decade just couldn't match speed and endurance with the younger runners "I couldn't hold said Slaney who took last year off to have a baby "But I sort of stumbled again and two days ago when I ran the semis I strained something in my left calf I stumbled again and it just sort of triggered whatever got hurt in the first place tough coming She finished 10th in field of 15 in 8:4713 nearly 21 seconds off the lead Tatyana Samolenko of the Soviet Union won the race in 8 minutes Olympic 2653 seconds and Paula Ivan of Romania was second in 8:2715 al Amadou Dia Ba of Senegal won Yvonne Murray of Britain won the the silver overtaking Moses who faded at the end to third in 4756 bronze in i Slaney will most certainly retire China West Germany Britain Hungary Italy South Korea Australia New Zealand Poland France Japan Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia Finland Sweden Norway Netherlands Denmark Canada Senegal Switzerland Spain' Portugal Suriname Turkey Chile Costa Rica Belgium Greece jJLM 11 a1 Vi K-9 'nfth 9s W's'TP Z'l'Z'k I- jrOw md By JOHN NELSON Associated Press SEOUL South Korea The old order fell at the Summer Games on Saturday Florence Griffith Joyner ended Evelyn Ashford's reign as the fastest woman and age put an end to gold-medal hopes for Edwin Moses Mary Slaney and Chris Evert Griffith Joyner won the women's 100 meters in 1054 seconds five one-hundredths off her own world mark but under the Olympic mark of 1062 she set Saturday in qualify- ing although it will not count be-cause it was wind-aided "I feel so good that it's Griffith Joyner said "That's the first for me in the Olympics I thank God over" Griffith Joyner crossed the finish line raised her: arm and then dropped to her knees Ashford 1984 gold medalist won the silver in 1083 and Heike Drechsler of East Germany took the bronze Andre Phillips in his first Olympics won the 4 00-meter jiurdles in SAN FRANCISCO The Los Angeles Dodgers wanted to celebrate but it was not yet time With a 7-3 victory over the San Francisco Giants Saturday the Dodgers clinched a tie for first place in the National league West Hie team then waited in the clubhouse and watched the game between Cincinnati and Atlanta but the Reds won 2-1 holding off the Dodgers' celebration "It's no big deal" said Dodger catcher Rick Dempsey a veteran of numerous pennant runs with the Baltimore Orjoles "It's just as well We have Timl Belcher going for us tomorrow so we just might as well go out -and do it ourselves" i Until the Reds won Los Angeles manager Tom La-sordu was all set to celebrate in one of his favorite ways by taking the Dodgers out to dinner gratifying to know that this team came back especially after the lust two said Lasorda "Especially after people began to say the Dodgers were "I knew I was going against the without an Olympic medal among odds from the beginning said the the many prizes or her long career 33-year-old Moses who has domi- chance for Olympic gold nated the 400-meter hurdles for in first medal appearance at more than a decade This was only the Olympics since 1924 ended in a his third loss in the last 1 1 years Slaney at age 30 and fading from See Olympics Page C5 See Dodgers Page C3 3 1 For sake! Trojans clobber Sooners 23-7 a Washington holds off Spartans C11 South Carolina routs Georgia C12 Oregon beats Stanford C12 Associated Press Stewart gets 20th victory Oakland Athletics pitcher Dave Stewart left notched his second-straight 20-victory season Saturday when he beat the Milwaukee Brewers 5-2 Also Saturday Montreal's Pascual Perez pitched a no-hitteragainst Philadelphia in a game shortened to five innings because of rain Stories on Pages C3 and C7 Associated Press 86124'Saturday afternoon atthe Coliseum They shut us down all said Holieway a senior from the Los Angeles-area community of Carson "I was very surprised I thought we were capable of getting the ball outside on the pitch and getting it around the comer I think (Trojan safety Cleveland Colter played a great game They have a good defense and an offense that can assault you at any time Tailback Aaron Emanuel scored twice and Peete the senior quarterback became USCs career leader in total offense This was a great great victory and a lot of fun" Peete said To see our line come off the ball like it did and our backs run up there and the receivers catch the ball like they did it's fun when you beata great team like Oklahoma" Peete who already held 13 school records added another as he gained 238 total yards to push his career mark to 6462 surpassing Charles White's record of 6240 from 197o-79 Peete completed 16 of 34 passes for 198 yards with one interception and rushed for 40 yards One of his runs was for 22 yards on Southern Cal's second possession Emanuel then gained 20 yards on a counter two plays later to set up his first touchdown Peete overtook White the 1979 Heisman Trophy winner on the second play of the game when he ran for 11 yards On the first play he See Trojdns Page C9 I vl- LOS ANGELES Jamclle Holieway's homecoming turned into a nightmare as the University of Southern California scoured the Oklahoma Sooners' wishbone clean USC's defense forced six turnovers including three by Holieway that Rodney Peete and the fifth-ranked Trojans turned into 13 points 1 hat boosted the Trojans to a 23-7 football victory over the third-ranked Sooners before a crowd of I.