Koral, who had appeared in two games and taken only five snaps for UCLA, put the Bruins up 14- 10 with his first TD pass to Bragg. "He's going to go around you, or he's going to hurt you" Simpson said his teammate rarely chooses subtlety. BOSTON — Mark Messier doesn't always look as if he'd just as soon rip your head off as shake your hand. The Boilermakers grabbed control of this game with an 11- 2 run midway through the first half. Arnold (Cookie) Cook at the controls of the Sportking departing on his 4,000th fishing trip in a career that has spanned more than 40 years As he pulls out from the dock of L. A. The Tar Heels 17- 4 run way in the second half gave them a 53- 30 lead and they twice were up by as many as 25 points " The used their athleticism very, very well " Florida State coach Sue Semrau said. Paris, a 6- foot- 4 freshman center, entered the game second in the Big 12 in scoring with a 20 7 average and tops in rebounding at 15 0 Moore finished with 14 points and Higgins had 11.
The Runnin' Rebels took their only lead 62- 61 on Amundson' s slam dunk with 8: 22 left. The Cardinal also did a good job getting to the free- throw line and led 45- 32 at halftime Tisdale, Baylor' s leading scorer with a 15. Out of 24 players on every team, there are five or six guys who are your 'foundation players-players you should almost bend over backwards to take care of "Wally Joyner's a foundation player for the Angels He should be taken care of. Just as he did in the teams' first meeting, when Taylor scored 21 points in the last eight minutes, the junior guard began pouring in 3- pointers. Playing in its fourth SEC tournament final, Florida will be going for its first championship. MINNEAPOLIS( AP- There was nothing pretty about Minnesota' s victory over Ohio State on Saturday, and that' s just the way the Gophers like it " It was a poster for our slogan this season- get a game ugly " coach Dan Monson said " Some may think it was an ugly win, but for us it was pretty " Vincent Grier had 14 points and 10 rebounds and J' son Stamper came up with two big plays down the stretch to lift Minnesota to a 52- 50 victory Stamper tipped in a loose ball with 34.
Belmont( 3- 1, 1- 0 Atlantic Sun Conference) had an 11- 3 run in the last 42 seconds, including a 3- pointer from Goodwin, to pull back from an eight- point deficit and set up for Hare, who had been 0 for 6 from the arc. The noise level along Ventura Boulevard is higher these days-and not only because of the din from construction and increased traffic. The Hawkeyes looked to be on their way to the same type of rout with their first half against Colgate. 4 per game, rallied behind two strong layups by McLaren and a 3 by Thomas to trail 36- 32 at halftime " People doubted us, if we would be able to compete " said Morrow, a McDonald' s All- American in high school at Murry Bergtraum in New York who spurned offers from Louisville and Georgia Tech to play for the Orange " But we lost by six, so we showed we can compete with the top teams in the country ". With 10 minutes remaining, punter Anthony Thornton threw a 25- yard pass to Roger Williams on a fake punt to convert a 4th- and- 13. If Beathard has a cure-all-besides owning the remarkable ability to loosen Cooke's purse strings-it may be his sense of creativity as he searches for a way to keep his players hungry and humble. WASHINGTON — If money talks, then Washington Redskins money currently has laryngitis.
Miller's time in Baltimore was theirs, too-from 1978 to 1985 Three of them won 20 games Martinez led the league in wins And Davis looked for a while as if he'd be the best of all. Her driving scoop shot in the lane with 35 seconds left gave North Carolina a five- point lead. Few is concerned that his team keeps playing to the level of its opponent " We can be really good " Few said " Yet we need to understand that we need to give a lot better effort than we gave tonight " That will be especially true when the Bulldogs travel to Seattle for Sunday' s showdown with Washington( No 19 ESPN/ USA Today, No. The Titans were 5- for- 9 from 3- point range in the first half but just 1- for- 13 in the second. 1 Maryland closed the first half with a 20- 0 run in a 77- 33 romp of Northern Iowa on Wednesday night. "We knew that LSU had a good relay team, and it didn't help that Alabama scratched from the race, but we weren't going into the race just to push the stick around" Nor was the men's team just content to lope easily through the 1,600 relay, knowing they had clinched the championship hours earlier. Tomorrow we have to start all over " Using the ingredients that vaulted the Fighting Irish to wins in Willingham' s first eight games two years ago, Notre Dame used a stingy defense, an opportunistic offense and a key special teams play to beat Michigan( No 7 ESPN/ USAToday; No 8 AP) 28- 20 on Saturday.
But it was Frazier who provided the spark they needed to get past Stanford( 18- 13. — UCLA's Kevin Young had a notion that he had won the 400-meter intermediate hurdles by a comfortable margin when he heard that he had recorded a time of 47. 85 seconds Friday in the National Collegiate Athletic Assn track and field championships. Associated PressLITTLE ROCK( AP- Lekheythan Malone scored 23 points as Arkansas- Little Rock held Troy to only one made free throw for a 79- 71 victory Saturday night in a Sun Belt Conference game. Grant made a dunk for the Tigers and Gulina converted two free throws with 20 seconds left to tie it again before Ervin' s jumper won it for Tennessee State. Randall Gulina led Samford with 15 points and Jerry Smith added 14. We' ll let them have a sandwich and a Coke on the bus, then put the screws to them at practice tomorrow " The Blue Raiders beat the Lady Bulldogs for the first time in 12 tries, but didn' t sneak up on Georgia.
Rudd, who won the 400 here in 1983 as well as the 1985 Winston Western 500, said he hopes to drive the entire 400 kilometers-248. 9 miles-Sunday, even though his team has West Coast driver Jimmy Insolo ready to fill in if Rudd tires. The Bengals charged into the break on a 9- 2 run after the Ducks pulled to within one point, 22- 21, with 2: 30 to play. Penn State overcame a Mastodon defense that turned 19 turnovers into 22 points and limited the Nittany Lions to 4- of- 15 shooting from 3- point range. CORVALLIS, Ore( AP- The last time Oregon State played Washington, the Beavers were routed 108- 68. On the road for seven months, alternatively ignored and vilified, they make split-second decisions hundreds of times a game.
Penn State had scored 17 straight points to take the lead before Matt Szymanski kicked a 38- yard field goal for A& M to tie it at 17 with 3: 57 in the third quarter. A team of 18 players will be chosen at the end of today's final game of the three-game North-South series to play an all-star team from Oklahoma next weekend at San Diego State. NORMAN, Okla( AP- Oklahoma doesn' t often enjoy an advantage inside. Austin missed 11 of 16 shots and committed eight turnovers in the first 12 minutes of the second half " They knew what we were trying to do, and they just took it away from us " said Stephen F Austin point guard Nikki Carr. 20 AP) to an 81- 58 victory over Arizona on Saturday in the WBCA Classic.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn( AP- Tennessee' s Alexis Hornbuckle wanted a peaceful Christmas at home in West Virginia. After the game Lions Coach Dave Snow alluded to Sparks' appropriate nickname He said, "It's kind of funny. Trailing by one point at halftime, Colgate fell behind by as many as eight points with 9: 40 left in the game, 49- 41. Darius Washington added 17 for Memphis, and, along with Banks, had six assists. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio( AP- Steve Gansey' s 3- pointer down the stretch gave Cleveland State the lead for good in a 78- 77 win over Youngstown State on Saturday night Gansey broke a tie at 72 with a 3- pointer with 1: 50 left.
Alexis Serna' s first- quarter field goals from 25 and 33 yards were sure despite the obvious visual trouble caused by the fog- and the chilly 43- degree temperature at game time. The previous five meetings between the teams had been decided by five points or fewer, including an 81- 80 overtime victory for Fairfield at Canisius on Dec 4. The lead changed five more times before Zavecz' s runner tied the game at 67 with 1: 19 to go. Bogut couldn' t find his shot in the first half and didn' t pull down a rebound. The 7-footer scored 23 points to match his total for the first two games. Deveny' s 3- pointer gave the Eagles a 73- 51 lead with just over seven minutes left.
Southern Mississippi( 9- 3) got 15 points from Jasper Johnson, who was a perfect 5- of- 5 from the free- throw line Johnson also grabbed seven rebounds Rashaad Carruth added 12 points for the Golden Eagles New Orleans led 37- 24 at the half. You looked around that locker room, there wasn' t one ounce of panic or doubt " Teel said " It was just a matter of continuing to do what we' ve done to get us into this position " Teel' s pass to Britt with 8: 30 to play proved to be the winning touchdown. To be successful in cricket you need application, dedication and discipline. When Bales came back, she immediately scored again, giving Duke a 61- 51 lead with 2: 17 left " I don' t think we were surprised she scored " Eagles forward Brooke Queenan said " I thought overall we did a good job on defense in the post, but we weren' t surprised " Still, the Eagles weren' t done. "If you ask me, considering all the invariables and the luck factor, it's incredible" Bob Ickes, Mater Dei coach, said But not unprecedented.
