The Macon Telegraph from Macon, Georgia • 9

Sport (HjelirdconO'elctjrdph MB Scoreline: 744 4399 8D Outdoors 11D Work begins on Luther Williams Page 9D Sunday 4 wv Oct 16 1994 XM 49ers at alcons 1pm WGXA fhyraifiSw alcons seeking respect Sanders ready to hear boos By Kelly Villiers The Macon Telegraph ATLANTA Mike Kenn and June Jones have been through their share of losing with the Atlan ta alcons Both know that can change beginning at 1 pm today with a win over the San rancisco 49ers at the Georgia Dome Kenn who is retiring at the end of this season has seen his share of small crowds and losing seasons as a tackle for 16 years with the al cons At 4 2 the alcons have a chance to control their own destiny against the 4 2 49ers If Atlanta wins it would be the earliest the alcons have been in sole posses sion of first place in the NC West since 1980 That year the alcons finished 12 4 and won the their last division title Since then the 49ers have gone 17 7 1 against the alcons and won four Super Bowls been the king of the mountain for the whole decade of the 1960s and Kenn said think any of the teams in our division can like them because of that But you have to respect them for what been able to ac Jones was a backup quarterback for the alcons from 1977 79 and 1981 He has been affiliated with At lanta as a coach since 1991 looking to win the divi sion not just make the Jones said hope the crowd comes out and supports us What got to get is a homefield ad vantage where the place is noisy and everybody is The sellout crowd may be yelling at alcon cornerback Deion Sand ers who will be making his first ap pearance in Atlanta since signing with the 49ers on Sept 14 always been a big player in these types of Jones said game we ever had whether it was a Monday night game or a big game he was there to make the big plays why they call him Prime Time" Sanders expects to receive a lot of boos get Sand ers said a visitor and booing is a respect to myself I feel like Please see ALCONS 9D 4 Dogs have no defense for Vanderbilt By Ed Grisamore The Macon Telegraph ATHENS The fans wore red ribbons in Sanford Stadium on Sat urday to observe a week long drug awareness campaign at the Univer sity of Georgia After Vanderbilt embarrassed the Georgia Bulldogs 43 30 on a sun splashed homecoming afternoon there were more than red ribbons There were red flags and red fac es in the crowd of 78741 fans (al most 7376 below capacity) thanks to a blue ribbon effort by the Com modores between the hedges lined up and whipped us from start to said Georgia coach Ray Goff are no ex cuses Obviously we looked like a team that prepared and come to play It was a poor display of football The whole foot ball team players coaches ev erybody was out of sync On Saturday when Aubum upset top ranked lorida and Mississippi State beat South Carolina Georgia (4 3 2 3) could have climbed back into the title chase in the Southeast ern East Division But that was not a happy topic of conversation in a humiliation filled Georgia locker room give a (dam) what hap pened in that football game (Au bum Goff said only one I care about is ours and we just had our rear ends handed to Homecoming is supposed to be a 43 30 time when you schedule a light weight opponent pat everyone on the back and roll up a lopsided vic tory to please the alumni Georgia did none of the above losing its first homecoming game in 15 years and bowing to Vanderbilt in Athens for the first time since 1961 It was the most points the Commodores have scored against The Associated Press rank Sanders catches the winning touchdown pass over lorida's Michael Gilmore CV 3 A I ifer rV1 fiaA Georgia The Commodores (3 2 1 3) piled up 415 yards rushing with their league leading rushing attack and the frustration piled higher and deeper for the Dogs practiced hard all week we just forgot to load it up and take it over here on the bus with said defensive tackle Matt Storm at halftime nobody went back to get Led by a pair of Georgia natives running back Jermaine Johnson and quarterback Bobby Gordon option game ran over and around poorest de fensive effort at home since a 43 7 loss to Maryland in 1951 Please see DOGS 4D 4 big games (6) Auburn 36 lorida 33 (2) Nebraska 17 (16) Kansas St 6 (3) Penn St 31 (5) Michigan 24 (22) Oklahoma at (4) Colorado (n) (10) Alabama 17 Tennessee 13 BYU 21 (17) Notre Dame 14 OTHERS Arkansas 31 Ole Miss 7 Mississippi St 41South Carolina 36 Kentucky at LSU(n) Duke 19 Clemson 13 North Carolina 41 Maryland 17 NC State 34 Wake orest 3 ort Valley St Miles 14 Ga Southern 34 Appalachian St31 GMC 28 Middle Georgia 14 Details 4D 7D Just In the Nix of time Late drive beats No 1 Honda The Associated Press GAINESVILLE la Aubum simply refuses to lose under Terry Bowden even in the backyard of the nation's No 1 team Patrick Nix threw an 8 yard touchdown pass to rank Sanders with 30 seconds left Saturday giv ing the sixth ranked Tigers a stun ning 36 33 victory over lorida and extending the longest win ning streak to 18 everybody will stop talk ing about us being lucky and admit this is a good football said Sanders who leaped between two defenders to make the winning catch Although the Tigers are on pro bation and ineligible for a bowl Bowden said they deserve to be No 1 after beating lorida in The Swamp where the Gators had won 17 straight Southeastern Conference games was ranked No 1 and we came down here and beat them" said Bowden who is 1B 0 as Auburn's coach It was only second home loss in 28 games since Steve Spurrier became coach in 1990 told our team that we coach our best game and a lot of players play their best Spurrier said that happens sometimes you get Auburn which has shown amaz ing resilience during its winning streak did it again before a record crowd of 85562 at lorida ield lorida's Danny Wuerffel came off the bench in the second half and threw three touchdown passes in cluding a 28 yarder to Jack Jackson that put the Gators ahead 33 29 with 5:51 left But Brian Robinson in tercepted his third pass with 1:20 re maining to set up the winning 55 yard drive by the Tigers (7 0 5 0 SEC) ollowing the kickoff lorida Please see AUBURN 6D 4 GMC downs Middle Georgia By Milton Hooper The Macon Telegraph COCHRAN Old rivals re newed acquaintances at Shelly Hayes ield in Cochran as 12th ranked Georgia Military College de feated Middle Georgia 28 14 after a 35 year hiatus The Bulldogs (6 1) answered the game tying scoring drive in the third quarter with a 10 play 78 yard drive dominated by the run ning of Eric Hendley and Myron Newton Newton carried on the last four plays of the drive including a 1 yard run to give the Bulldogs the go ahead score The Bulldogs added another touchdown later in the quarter Georgia Military coach Robert Nunn was pleased with the perfor mance of Newton and Hendley the game is on the line they come up with the big said Nunn are both good kids and can grind it out Georgia Military quarterback Patrick Mullins directed the Bull first scoring drive as he com Please see GMC 5D 4 Tech fans can enjoy only loss ATLANTA As Georgia Tech fans trudged wearily out of Bobby Dodd StadiumGrant ield here Sat urday afternoon following a 2A 1 thrashing at the hands of Virginia one was heard to remark to anoth er it for that Georgia game in Athens there have been the slightest bit of enjoy ment for me on this day" What happened in Athens that gave this Yellow Jacket booster some semblance of excitement un doubtedly shared by other Georgia Tech Ixxisters? The Bulldogs favored by a whop ping 20 points over Vanderbilt were taking their own thrashing at the hands of the Commodores who eventually won 4300 public address announcer made the most of the only thing that excited Tech thns on this day reixiatedly calling attention to Geor gia's woes in Athens Even that though gener ate tlio usual response A pitiful crowd had shown up for the game Just 38365 turning out de spite it being bright sunshine and a nice breeze all afternoon Harley Bowers during the first five weeks of the 1994 campaign with the Jackets having lost four out of five If they previously fed up they probably were after the outing against Virginia whose victory stamped Tech with a 1 5 mark and eliminated them from bowl consid eration even should they reverse things and win their last five en counters the lone victory having come against a Division 1AA foe Six wins over Division I A teams are required for ixiwl consider ation Not that tills matters in case This team shake Its suicidal Most Tech fans were undoubted ly(t)d up with wliat they liad seen Please see BOWERS 5 4 Barni Cnboll 1 1 Muron lcgraph Rondo Barber breaks up a Intended for Omar Cassii few i i Z1 A' 1 VI1 T' Georgia Tech still is for Division I By Carroll Rogers The Macon Telegraph ATI ANTA If such a tiling as going from bad to worse in a four game losing streak Georgia Tech did it Saturday Not that the last two losses were particularly comforting but at least there was something redeeming in them the Yellow Jackets played well except for a few turnovers in losses to Top 25 trams But after 24 7 loss to Virginia at Bobby Dodd Stadium Tech begin to say because there was just too much territory to cover Hie running game was complete ly ineffective with only 19 yards on 32 attempts That is the worst total since 1964 when the Jackets rushed for only 13 yards against Navy The passing game was useftil at times but unproductive And the defense had a hard time forcing third downs much less a punt The loss wasn't frustrating as much as it was depressing for Geor gia Tech (1 5 64) which stays in the Atlantic Coast Conference cellar behind Wake orest disappointed said Tech 24 7 coach Bill lewis had no conti nuity on offense and we didn't tack le well on defense" The Yellow bowl pros pects ofllctally became unofficial Teams must have at least six wins over Division IA opponents and with only five games remaining only win was over Division IAA Western Carolina All of the pieces for im provement were there but the puz zle stayed scattered on the artificial turf Running back Jiiny Lincoln re turned Saturday after missing three games because of a separated shoulder quarterback Tommy Lu ginbill was coming off liis best Ptcasosce TECH 5D 4 1.