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Sunday September? 1997 Belleville News-Democrat Page 2 Section Missouri 5A champ smothers Mandela Nebiolo helped Rome lose Olympic bid Belleville East 21-7 at dome By Dean Criddle The sentiment of returning the games to Greece alter snubbing Athens in favor of Atlanta for the Centennial Olympics was the overriding issue in the vote But Mandela and Nebiolo also played significant roles in dimming Rome's bid Italian officials said and the Greeks confirmed that a deal was struck the night before the vote in Mandela's hotel suite in Lausanne The South African president promised that if Cape Town was eliminated from the voting Africa would throw its support to Athens In return Athens would back a South African bid for the 2008 games "He just offered his support to us if Cape Town didn't go to the end" Athens bid chief Gianna Angelopolous-Daskalaki said Saturday "That was very fair and it was an honor for us as well" The strategy worked Once Cape Town went out in the third round 14 votes shifted to Athens in the final round giving the Greeks a resounding victory "Everything happened before the vote" Italian Olympic committee president Mario Pescante said "The electoral strategy was worked out the night before Mandela received verious delegations in his hotel Now Cape Town will have received excellent guarantees on the vote for 2008" IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch who does not vote but was widely believed to favor Athens said he was unaware of any backroom around these kids should be proud of them" The Lancers' defensive effort was more impressive because it came without senior standout Jeremy Halbert who injured his knee The Hawks took advantage of Halbert 's departure and moved the ball near midfield before fumbling it The Lancers failed to get a first down on the possession and were forced to punt Burklow dropped the snap from center and was tackled on East's 25-yard line Four plays later Jerome Kirksey scored on a 1 2-yard run to give Central the lead The Hawks also blocked a punt in the second quarter but were halted once again by the Lancers' defense On the Lancers' next punt Green returned the ball 40 yards to the East 13-yard line Junior fullback Carey Davis did the rest scoring on a 13-yard run "The mistakes we made on special teams were my fault" McGinnis said The Lancers offense awoke in the later stages of the first half EJ Nold run for a 15-yard gain and Scruggs made a 29-yard run which took the ball to the Hawks' 20-yard line The Lancers tried a field goal as time ran out but came up short The Lancers' defense kept its team in the game in the third quarter Six times drives by the potent Hawks offense were halted in Lancers territory After falling behind 21-0 the Lancers marched downfield for their only score Quarterback Tony Patterson completed passes to Dante Brinkley Joe Ireland and Wes Kennedy to take the ball deep into Hawks territory Scruggs then scored on his 5-yard run Associated Press LAUSANNE Switzerland A Greek pact with Nelson Mandela and a backlash against Italy's Primo Nebiolo were key factors that helped Athens beat Rome in the race for the 2004 Olympics While Greece celebrated the return of the games to their birthplace Italian officials Saturday were still trying to come to terms with the humiliating defeat they sustained at the hands of their ancient rivals What most expected would be a close fight turned into a rout for Athens which beat Rome by 25 votes 66-4 1 in the final round of secret ballot by the International Olympic Committee on Friday Cape Town South Africa Stockholm Sweden and Buenos Aires Argentina were eliminated in earlier rounds "The bid was Rome's to lose and they lost it" John Krimsky deputy secretary general of the US Olympic Committee said "The expectations can kill you They were so confident" Anita DeFrantz the IOC vice president from the United States said the Rome delegation might have hurt itself in the final presentation by having all four Italian IOC members speak and by boasting how many Italians are presidents of international federations "It's like the US saying they have a nuclear arsenal" she said Belleville News Democrat ST LOUIS Finding different ways to win helped the llaelwood entral Hawks capture the Missouri Class 5A state title a year ago On Saturday at the Trans World Dome the Hawks were at it again Stymied by a courageous Belleville East defense time and time again the Hawks got a couple of big plays from their special teams to catapult them to a 21-7 nonconference win A fumbled snap by Lancers punter Jason Burklow led to one score and a 40-yard punt return by Karl Green led to a second first-half tally as the Hawks built a 13-0 lead The Hawks put the game away with a third touchdown midway through the fourth quarter The Lancers fighting and clawing to the end averted a shutout when Darrcll Scruggs scored on a 5-yard run with 10 seconds left The Lancers fell to 0-2 for the season as they continued their rugged early-season schedule East lost its season opener to Moline last week "The whole idea about varsity football is that against good people you need to raise your level of play up We accomplished that today" Lancers coach Mike McGinnis said "We wanted to come and be physical and we were We hit right with them all game long "Our defense was just outstanding Time after time we came up with big plays I'm proud as a peacock not about getting beat but the effort extended Anybody Davie wins Irish debut beats Wildcats Leathernecks rout Truman State 45-18 Associated Press downs to lead Trinity of Texas to a win over Millikin in a season-opener for both teams Burton threw 1 5 yards to Brandon Cavazos in the first quarter for one score and 5 yards to Bo Edwards in the third period for another The Big Blue's only touchdown came on a 20-yard scoring pass form Tim Brylka to Chad West in the fourth quarter MISSOURI-ROLLA 40 QUINCY 0: At Quincy Jason Wagoner rushed for 123 yards and one touchdown and Brandon Risner kicked four field goals as Missouri-Rolla beat Quincy in a season-opener for both teams The Miners (1-0) led 31-0 at the half after a Risner field goal and four TDs including a 19-yard run by Wagoner and a 70-yard scoring pass from Matt Brueckner to Sam Petty EUREKA 35 MONMOUTH 12: At Monmouth Chris Koeppel threw for 266 yards and four touchdowns in leading Eureka to a win over Monmouth in the season opener for both teams Koeppel threw two scoring passes to Craig Cutting and one apiece to Curt Barth and Jason Stephan KNOX 35 BELOIT 7: At Galesburg Ryan Stuffelbean rushed for two touchdowns and Jon O'Neil ran an interception back 40 yards for another score as Knox beat Beloit in a season-opener for both Midwestern Conference squads Chris Warwick kicked field goals of 27 and 20 yards for Knox a SPORTS FANS! for 285 yards and three scores (7) NORTH CAROLINA 23 INDIANA 6: At Chapel Hill NC Jonathan Linton rushed for a career-high 121 yards and North Carolina's defense had five first-half sacks to give spoil Cam Cameron's debut as Indiana coiich (8) COLORADO 31 (24) COLORADO ST 21: At Boulder Colo interceptions by Rashidi Barnes and Marcus Washington early in the third quarter helped Colorado rally to beat Colorado State Colorado was trailing 14-7 when Barnes returned his theft 26 yards for a tying touchdown with 13:58 left in the period Washington's interception and 10-yard return two minutes later set up the first of two touchdown passes from John Hessler to Phil Savoy (17) STANFORD 28 SAN JOSE ST 12: At Stanford Calif linebacker Jon Haskins returned an interception 22 yards for a touchdown and the Cardinal remained undefeated in 16 season-openers against San Jose State (18) CLEMSON 23 APPALACHIAN ST 12: At Clemson SC Nealon Greene threw for two touchdowns and a career-high 250 yards as the Tigers won their 33rd straight against Southern Conference teams Raymond Priester rushed for 138 yards his 13th career 100-yard game (20) IOWA 66 NORTHERN IOWA 0: At Iowa City Tavian Banks ran for a career-best 203 yards and scored three times as Iowa earned its most lopsided victory since 1914 Matt Sherman threw three TD passes for the Hawkeyes who ruined the debut of Northern Iowa coach Mike Dunbar (25) MICHIGAN ST 42 MICHIGAN 10: At East Lansing Mich Amp Campbell returned an interception 43 yards for a score one of four turnovers Michigan State turned into Notre Dame opened a new era with an unimpressive victory Saturday while Northwestern was upset by Wake Forest for the second straight year Playing for a new coach in a newly expanded stadium the llth-ranked Fighting Irish edged Georgia Tech 17-13 on Autry Denson's 1-yard touchdown run with 2:37 left "We didn't play as well as we could have and we didn't play as well as we should have" Bob Davie said after winning his debut as Notre Dame coach before a crowd of 80255 about 21000 more than the old stadium at South Bend "We're going to have to play a lot better in the future But it certainly is fun to build on a win" Notre Dame trailed 13-10 with 7:42 left in the game before quarterback Ron Powlus who had thrown interceptions on the two previous series engineered the winning drive Powlus scrambled for 10 yards and completed an 1 1 -yard pass to Denson to set up the score The Yellow Jackets who missed two field goals in the fourth quarter had a final chance to win But they were forced to punt and the Irish ran out the clock At Winston-Salem NC Brian Kuklick directed three second-half touchdown drives that gave Wake Forest a 27-20 victory over No 21 Northwestern Last September the Demon Deacons stunned then-No 13 Northwestern 28-27 "1 think this one was more significant" Wake Forest receiver Desmond Clark said "because I think the press was looking at the last one as a fluke" Kuklick completed 23 of 33 passes for 273 yards He was nearly flawless on Wake's three TD drives in the second half completing 15 of 19 passes for 183 yards and two scores In other Top 25 games Saturday: Associated Press MACOMB Aaron Stecker ran for 1 55 yards and three touchdowns including a 92-yard dash in the first quarter in leading Western Illinois to a 45-18 win over Truman State The Bulldogs a Division II team opening their season against the Division I-AA Leathernecks began the scoring on a 12-yard TD run by Karega Scott They also scored in the final quarter on a 56-yard pass from Mike Vaughn to James Ross But the Leathernecks (2-0) dominated the rest of the afternoon outscoring Truman 35-7 by half-time Quarterback Jeff Hecklinski an Illinois transfer completed 14 of 24 passes for 1 83 yards He was sacked twice but had no interceptions Western Illinois rushed for 301 yards and passed for 230 and Truman ran for 129 and passed for 246 Two of Truman's passes were intercepted In other Illinois college football action: ILLINOIS 42 TENN-MARTIN 6: At Charleston Jabarey McDavid ran for three touchdowns and Justin Lynch rushed for two more to lead Eastern Illinois to a win over Tennessee-Martin In the Ohio Valley Conference opener for both teams Eastern Illinois (1-1) recovered two Skyhawks fumbles intercepted two passes and blocked a punt All four turnovers led to scores Martin (0-2) was held to 52 yards rushing ILLINOIS COLLEGE 27 PRINCIPIA 7: At Jacksonville Dane Wear rushed for three touchdowns in leading Illinois College to a victory over Principia Wear ran 85 yards for a third quarter TD after scoring runs of 2 and 5 yards in the first half Principia's only score came on a second-quarter pass from Brian Wolf to Scott Farwell TRINITY TEX 20 MILLIKIN 11: At Decatur Michael Burton assed for 161 yards and two touch- CLUTCH: Notre Dame's Autry Denson scored the winning TD offensive display it needed going into a Sept 20 showdown with No 3 Tennessee (3) TENNESSEE 30 UCLA 24: At Pasadena Calif Peyton Manning passed for 341 yards and two touchdowns as Tennessee held off UCLA despite Cade McNown's 400-yard passing performance Manning a preseason Heisman Trophy favorite completed 28 of 49 passes and was intercepted once in his return to the Rose Bowl where he played his first college game in 1994 (4) WASHINGTON 42 (19) BRIGHAM YOUNG 20: At Provo Utah Rashaan Shehee ran for 171 yards and scored two touchdowns as Washington ended BYU's nation-best 12-game winning streak Brock Huard threw (1) PENN ST 34 PITTSBURGH 17: At State College Pa Mike McQueary threw for a school-record 366 yards and two touchdowns as Penn State won its season opener McQueary a fifth-year senior who was a backup the last four years also set a school record with 370 yards in total offense as the Nittany Lions resumed their series against a traditional rival (2) FLORIDA 82 CENTRAL MICHIGAN 6: At Gainesville Fla Doug Johnson tied a school record with seven touchdown passes in the first half and the Gators set a school mark with nine overall in a rout over Central Michigan Florida (2-0) set a modern school record for points scored and put on the kind of I BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW rj4 mm Brought to you by TIM ABBOTT Jack Schmitt AutoNet Belleville Incredibly there was a college football (coach who coached 11 YEARS (BEFORE HE LOST HIS FIRST GAME! Gil Dobie started coaching at North Dakota State with 2 undefeated pj a seasons in 1906 and 1907Then he was head coach at the University of Washington where he went undefeated every vear from 1908 -through 1916 Finally in his 12th "SEASON in 1917 Dobie lost his first Struggling Irish keep Davie glum today I I Davie wanted to start his era All week he'd talked of reviving the fire the Irish have been missing the past few years He wanted to make it fun again And fans bought it Parking lots were packed four hours before the game When the players left Mass two hours before kickoff thousands of people were lining the sidewalk to cheer them on But somewhere along the way the enthusiastic coach disappeared Wearing a blue-and-gold tie he was one of the last to leave Sacred Heart Basilica He was solemn as he Instant Rebate Sunday Only Most Tires not good with anv other tire offer walked to the stadium Davie took his place on the sidelines his arms folded and clapped his hands together folded his arms again and started pacing as his team took the field He didn't look nervous But there was something missing He stood at the edge of huddles and spoke to the occasional player but for the most part he was alone pacing showing little emotion "He's the head coach it's a different job" kicker Jim Sanson said "It seemed he was walking around and asking people's opinions" Associated Press SOUTH BEND Ind Life was good But just barely Bob Davie left the field a winner Saturday the scoreboard showing No 11 Notre Dame with a 17-13 victory over Georgia Tech in his first game as Irish coach But the Irish kept him pacing and worrying until the end when the running game finally came to life and Autry Denson crossed the goal line on a 1-yard run Davie had a smile on his face as he crossed the field to shake the hand of Georgia Tech coach George O'Leary then turned and strolled into the locker room "Anytime you can win particularly with a new coaching staff it is a big big big win" Davie said This couldn't have been the way Special Purchase game gg Amazingly there was a game in which the fans were allowed to call the plays It was the idea of master showman Bill Veeck who owned the old St Louis Browns of baseball's American League On Aug 24 1951 flhe gave posters reading "YES" and "NO" to the fans and allowed them to vote on what the Browns should do at various points in the game It worked as St Louis won 5-3 For the first time in football history 3 members of the same family are head coaches at major colleges this year Bobby Bowden is head coach at Florida State His son Terry is head (coach at Auburn and another son Tommy is the new head coach at Tulane gi bet you didn't know that Jack Schmitt Auto Net Downtown "Belleville is the 1 Pre-Owned Dealer on the East Side Come See P18560R14 99 41 P19560R14 P19560R15 P20560R15 Rated Performance Tires CONGRATULATIONS JOE HOWELL AUGUST Salesperson of the Month Many Thanks To All My Customers Jennifer For a free no-obligation car insurance rate quote Call or visit today 632-7837 717 Hwy 50 OTallon IL 62269 NEED REPLACEMENT i WINDOWS OR DOORS? mm vv ny: Alignment 12 OFF Regular Price with 4 tire purchase Quaker Wlrtdom 4 Doon Call Us Today! fa I i I GE1CO SM 512 West Main Downtown Belleville 234-0087 HEIGHTS BELLEVILLE 90 St Clair Square 232 Main Street 632-9002 sjrin 233-0888 3500 Lebanon Ave (Shiloh Road) Belleville IL 62221 (618)624-5400.