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PAGE TEN THE PROGRESS, Clearfield, Curwensville, Philipsburg, Moshannon Valley, Pa., Saturday, October 5, 2002

Week SixSCORES

AreaCleartield 48, Philipsburg-Osceola 21St. Marys 36, DuBois 21Glendale 9, Juniata Valley 6 (OT)Moshannon Valley 10, West Branch 2CurwensvillG 20. Kane 6

OthersBradford 33, Brookville 27Punxsutawney 35, Lewistown 28Cqudersport 42, Otto-Eldred 7Smothport 7, Eisenhower 6Ridgway 48, Youngsville 13Brockway 23, Cameron County 0Elk County Catholic 14, Johnsonburg 12Huntingdon 50, Bald Eagle Area 19Indian Valley 15, Bellelonte 14Bellwood-Antis 49. Penns Valley 21Chestnut Ridge 34, Mount Union 6Claysburg-Kimmel 35, Everett 7Northern Bedford 14, So. Huntingdon 9Tussey Mountain 36, Williamsburg 24Blairsville 7. United 0Ligomor Valley 13, Homer-Center 7Northern Cambria 6, Saltsburg 0

SUMMARIESClearfield 48

Philipsburg-Osceola 21Score By Quarters

Clearfield 13 15 13 7-48P'burg-Osceola 7 7 7 0-21

First QuarterC-Saycrs 1 run (Kulling kick), 10:49C-Richards 1 run (kick"blocked). 6:34.PO-White 80 run (LaFuna kick). 6:20.

Second QuarterPO-White 57 run (LaFuna kick). 11:10.C-Richards 13 run (Richards run). 7:56.C--Richards 55 punt return (Kullingkick). 1 02

Third QuarterC-Richards 67 run (Kulling kick). 9:06.PO-Chmtella 2 run (LaFuna kick), 7:06.C -Richards 43 run (kick failed), 6:48.

Fourth QuarterC Richards 9 run (Kulling kick), 7.25

TEAM STATISTICS

Total First DownsRushes-YardsComp-AtMnlPassing YardsTotal Plays YardsFurnbles-LostPunts-AvgPenalties-Yards

CL1948-3496-12 -15060-3993-11-129-55

PO1133-2313 10-14843-2793-24-292-10

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRushing

Clearfield-Richards 34-325. Harbold8-25, Queen 1-1, Sayers 5-( 2).

P-0--White 21-197. Chmtella 8-28,Einigh 1-7, Koguc 1-3, Winters 1-(-2).Team 1 (-2)

PassingClearfield-Sayers 6-of-12, 50 yds , 1

mlP 0--Winters 3-of 10. 48 yds., 1 int.

ReceivingClearfield-Shaw 331, Gardner 2-13.

Shadeck 1-6.P-0--Jnhns 1-44, Watson 1-7. Koguc

H-3).

Mo Valley 10West Branch 2

Score By QuartersWest Branch 0 0 2 0 - 2M o Valley 0 0 0 10-10

Third QuarterWB- Safety, ball snapped out of end zone,:46.

Fourth QuarterMV—Passmore 81 pass from Kephart(Deao kick), 8:22.MV-Doao 26 field goal, 1:26.

TEAM STATISTICSWB MV

Total First Downs 12 7Rushes-Yards 45-169 27-29Comp-Att-Int 7-18-1 6-13-1Passing Yards 43 135Total Plays-Yards 63-212 40-164Fumbles-Lost 3-2 2-2Punts-Avg 3-34 4-38Penalties-Yards 3-20 1-6

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRushing

West Branch—Ricolta 18-81, 1,McDowell 12-47, Sudik 6-31, Tice 4-21,Owens b - ( - t l ) .

Mo Valley-Glass 19-58, Esposti 1-3,Hayward 3-0, Kephart 3-(-13), Teamt - ( - 1 9 ) .

PassingWest Branch-Owens 7-of-18, 43 yds, 1

Int.Mo Valley- Kephart 6-of-13. 135 yds, 1

TD, 1 Int.Receiving

West Bianch -Z McDowell 3-20,Ricotta 3-13, Andrasko 1-10.

•Mo Valley-Passmore 3-108. Holencik1-14, Esposli2-13.

Glendale 9Juniata Valley 6

OTScore By Quarters

Juniata Valley 0 0 0 6 0 - 6Glendale 0 6 0 0 3 - 9

Second QuarterG-Collms 26 run. (kick failed). 10:01.

Fourth QuarterJV-Fox 5 run, (kick failed), 11:53.

OvertimeG—Thomas 26 field goal.

TEAM STATISTICSJV G

Total First Downs 11 10Rushes-Yards 46-196 39-126Comp-Att-Int 2 -11 -1 3-16-0Passing Yards 13 48Total Plays-Yards 57-209 55-174Fumbles-Lost 1-1 0-0Punts-Avg 4-27 4-21Penalties-Yards 9-99 630

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRushing

Juniata Valley -Hoffmaster 9-57.Whittakor 11-57, Taylor 6-41. Fox 11-23.Franks 9-18.

Glendale—Bungo 14-68, Collins 9-63,Francisco 10-10. Lamg 5-(-4) Team 1- ( -11) .

PassingJuniata Valley—Franks 2-of-7. 13 yds.,

1 Int., M. Hall O - o f - 1 . McGinnis O-of-3.Glendale—Lamg 3-of-16, 48 yds.

ReceivingJuniata Valley—McGinnis 1 - 1 1 . Fox 1-2.Glendale—Potutschnig 1-28, Grega

1-10, Vereshack 1-10.

Curwensville 20Kane 6

Score By QuartersCurwensville 7 13 0 0-20Kane 0 6 0 0 -6

First QuarterCU-Gilbert 39 pass from McDonald,(Bailor kick), 5 : 4 1 .

Second QuarterCU—Farley 1 run, (Bailor kick), 6 28.CU—Struble 3 pass from McDonald, (passfailed), 2:59.K—Jamerson 3 run. (kick failed), 1:43.

TEAM STATISTICSCU K

Total First Downs 14 6Rushes-Yards 54-258 24-80Comp-Att-Int 4-5-0 8-18-2Passing Yards 67 76Total Plays-Yards 59-325 42-156Fumbles-Lost 3-1 2-1Punts-Avg 3-37 2-40Penallies-Yards6-55 2-16

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRushing

Curwensville-Collms 33-166, DougSwatsworth 10-59. McDonald 2-12,Kephart 2-7, Nelson 1-7, Sipes 3-4. Farley1-3. Team 2-0.

Kane—Morrison 2-52, Jamerson 10-28.Burton 1-4, Tyler Smith 11-(-4).

PassingCurwensville—McDonald 4-of-5. 67

yds . .2TD.Kane—Tyler Smith 8-of-18, 76 yds,. 2

Int.Receiving

Curwonsville-Gilbert 1-39, Struble2-15, Collins 1-13.

Kane-Rich 3-27. Morrison 2-19,Jefferds 1-16, Tim Smith 2-14.

St. Marys 36DuBois 21

Score By QuartersDuBois 0 0 14 7-21St. Marys 0 22 7 7-36

Second QuarterSM-Surra 76 run. (Mulcahy kick), 11:12.SM-Mulcahy 34 field goal, 7:22.SM-Surra 32 run. (kick failed), 6:17.SM—Surra 5 run, (kick failed), 2:33.

Third QuarterD—Gusky 72 kickoff return, (Guthendgekick), 11:45.SM—Surra 3 run, (Mulcahy kick), 6:45.D—Stuby 6 run, (Guthendge kick), 1:09.

Fourth QuarterSM—Luchmi 50 run, (Mulcahy kick),11:26.D-Foltz 10 run, (Guthendge kick), 4 :55.

TEAM STATISTICSD SM

Total First Downs 9 6Rushing Yards 197 366Comp-Att-Int 2-13-0 0-5-1Passing Yards 6 0Total Yards 203 366Fumbles-Lost 6-3 2-0Punts-Avg 4-20 4-32Penalties-Yards 7-85 8-80

Editor's note: Individual statistics werenot available.

Anaheim pushesYanks to the brink

Dutch keep Beaverswinless, 36-21

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -The Anaheim Angels have beenhere before.

One victory away from win-ning their first postseasonseries. They failed all six times— but never with a team asresilient as this.

The Angels again rallied tobeat the New York Yankees, thistime overcoming a five-rundeficit to win 9-6 Friday nightand putting the four-time defend-ing AL champions on the brinkof elimination.

Darin Erstad hit a tiebreak-ing double in the eighth inningand Tim Salmon followed with atwo-run homer as the Angelstook a 2-1 lead in the best-of-fiveAL division series.

Now, one of baseball's least-successful teams can knock outits most successful.

"We've put ourselves in posi-tion to close it out," Erstad said."We'll see what happens."

So will their red-clad fans whohaven't forgotten collapses inthe 1980s.

"They've been through a lotthrough the history of thisorganization. You wouldn'tbelieve how many people comeup to you, season ticket-holdersfor 30 years or whatever, theycome up to you and they're like,'We've been waiting for this.We've been loyal,"' Erstad said.

While Erstad and Salmon gotthe key hits, the Angels stayed inthe game because of an out-standing effort from 20-year-oldrookie Francisco Rodriguez andthe rest of their relievers.

"It wouldn't have been possi-ble if not for our bullpen," Angelsmanager Mike Scioscia said.

ST. MARYS - The DuBoisBeavers fell behind 22-0 to St.Marys on Friday evening andcouldn't recover, falling 36-21.

With the loss, the Beaversremained winless at 0-6.

DuBois finally got on theboard in the third quarter whenJimmy Gusky returned the open-ing kickoff of the half 72 yardsfor a touchdown.

Teammate Eric Stuby addedhis own score with 1:09 remain-

Selig apologizes to Cardinals fansST. LOUIS (AP) — Commissioner Bud Selig has apologized to

St. Louis Cardinals fans for a late playoff start Time this week, andvowed it won't happen again.

The Cardinals opened the NL division series at Arizona onTuesday night. The game began after 10 p.m. CDT, making it hardfor many local fans to stay up to watch.

"To say I'm sorry is the understatement of the year," Selig toldthe St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Friday. "You can't imagine howbadly I feel. The team fights all year to get into first place andthis was not good."

The game started so late because the television networks thatshow the playoffs, along with baseball officials, do not want tohave two games going on at the same time.

The Yankees had only twobaserunners in the last sixinnings. John Lackey, ScottSchoeneweis, Rodriguez andTroy Percival teamed up toretire the last 12 batters.

The Angels can win their firstpostseason series ever whentheir ace, Jarrod Washburn,fakes David Wells in Game 4.

Should the Yankees win, afifth and deciding game will beplayed Sunday night in NewYork.

"You judge how good a teamis by how they respond to thenegative stuff," Yankees manag-er Joe Torre said. "It was a ter-rible night tonight. We were win-ning 6-1, we just couldn't hold it.

"One game gets us goinghome. That's what we're lookingforward to."

The Yankees faced an evenmore desperate situation lastyear in the first round againstOakland. After dropping the firsttwo games at home, they cameback to advance.

The Angels had been in theplayoffs only three times sincebecoming an expansion fran-chise in 1961.

Anaheim blew a 2-0 lead inthe 1982 AL championship seriesagainst Milwaukee and was onestrike away from the WorldSeries in 1986 before losing thelast three games to Boston.

Now, the Angels are one winaway — again.

"I don't know what else theycan do to surprise us," NewYork's Derek Jeter said.

When asked if the Yankees aregoing to win the series, Jeterreplied: "Yeah, that's the plan. Ifyou don't think you're going to

AP PhotoAnaheim'sTim Salmon is mobbed by his teammates after hit-ting a two-run homer during the eighth inning on Friday nightagainst the New 'York Yankees. The Angels defeated theYankees, 9-6, to take a two games to one lead in the ALDS.win, you can go home right now."

Athletics <iTwins :<

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -Barry Zito didn't need his beststuff.

The Oakland star simply wig-gled his way out of jams on a daywhen things weren't working aswell as usual.

Zito's teammates hushedMinnesota's noisy fans withback-to-back homers to start thegame Friday, and the A's beatthe Twins 6-3 to take a 2-1 lead inthe AL division series.

Zito gave up five hits, threeruns and four walks in sixinnings, but he used an effectivehigh-arid away fastball to strikeout eight and strand six runnerson base.

"He kept us iti the game," saidTerrence Long, who hit one offour homers off Twins starterRick Reed. "That's what ourstarting pitchers do ... evenwhen they don't have their best

stuff. I've been watching theseguys for three years. I knowwhat to expect."

Ray Durham led off the gamewith a sinking liner that skiddedunder Gold Glove center fielderTorii Hunter's glove and letDurham circle the bases.

Scott Hatteberg followed witha drive over the right-field wall,quickly quieting the crowd of55,932 — a Twins' playoff record.

"There's no reason to be intim-idated here," Long said. "Baseballis won between the lines."

The Twins realized that, too."They gave us a lot of ener-

gy," left fielder Jacque Jonessaid. "But you can have 100,000fans in the stands, and it won'tmatter because you play thegame on the field."

A's left fielder David Justicewas on the Atlanta team that lostGame 7 to Minnesota in the 1991World Series — the last time theTwins played a postseason gameat home.

Curwensville hands Kane its first lossFrom Page !>

Curwensyille jumped all overthe Wolves in the first half, scor-ing the first 20 points of the game.

The Tide went 60 yards onnine plays in their first drivethat culminated with a 39-yardtouchdown pass from TravisMcDonald to Greg Gilbert.

Curwensville got on the boardagain in the second quarter afterDerek Bracken recovered aKane fumble on a punt return,setting the Tide up with fantasticfield position at the Wolves24-yard line.

The Tide were able to punchthe ball in on fourth-and-goalwhen Sean Farley plunged infrom the one-yard-line.

Curwensville scored again onits next possession, going 42yards in five plays.

The big play on the drive was a37-yard scamper by DougSwatsworth that gave the Tidefirst-and-goal from the Wolves'two. Swatsworth had 59 yardsrushing on 10 carries in the game.

McDonald threw his secondtouchdown pass of the game threeplays later, finding Jeremy Strublein the back of the end zone.McDonald was 4-oi'-5 on the nightfor 67 yards and two touchdowns.

Kane finally got on the score-board late in the first half on athree-yard run by MikeJamerson. The score came twoplays after Matt Morrison went54 yards on a sweep.

Other than that big run,Curwensville held Kane to just 29total yards in the first half.

In the second half,Curwensville fed the Wolves'defense a steady diet of Collinsto keep the clock moving and theball away from Kane. Of the 25offensive plays the Tide ran inthe second half, Collins carriedthe ball 17 times.

While Collins and the Tideoffensive line were controllingthe clock, the Curwensvilledefense was keeping the Wolvesout of the end /.one.

Struble came up with a hugeinterception in the third quarterdeep in Tide territory to snuffout one Kane drive, and the restof the defense stopped the

Wolves on downs in their othersecond half possessions.

Brad Sopic and Collins eachhad big sacks on separateWolves' drives to help put Kane'sbacks to the wall.

"Our seniors stepped uptonight. Brooks Collins, CoryBailor, Josh Orcutt, TravisMcDonald, Paul Stephens, thewhole gang was great," Evankosaid. "The offensive line, I can'tsay enough about them and thedefensive effort out there was anabsolutely stellar performancetonight."

The Tide (4-2) continue theirplay against AML South rivalsFriday when they host Ridgway(4-2), another team right in thethick of things.

Sterling Marlin to switch to HANS in 2003From Pago 5)

The HANS is a U-shapeddevice, resembling a set ofshoulder pads that fit behind theneck and over the shoulder,attaching to the helmet with twoleather straps. The HANS is gen-erally considered more confin-ing but has gotten into more gen-eral use as more drivers havehad them custom made.

Marlin has worn the HutchensDevice since restraints becamemandatory. He decided to try theHANS in the race last month inDover, the week after he slammedthe wall hard in Richmond.

"You look at all the researchNASCAR has done and the stud-ies and it looks like the HANS isa little safer deal," Marlin saidFriday at Talladedga, whererookie Jamie McMurray willtake his place in Sunday's race.

Marlin was still aching fromthe big hit in Richmond andswitched back to the Hutchensfor the Kansas race.

"My chest was so sore I could-n't wear (the HANS)," he

explained. "The Monday afterDover it felt like I'd wreckedagain. I couldn't hardly get mybreath. My back was hurtingbad before the race last week atKansas City.

"There wasn't anythingwrong with the HANS. It wasjust my chest was sore fromRichmond, 1 wanted it to gethealed up. I decided to use theHutchens and go with the HANSnext year."

Bobby Labonte, who has wornboth devices but has used, theHANS since late in 2001, didn'twant to speculate on whetherMarlin would have been injuredif he had worn the HANS.

He did say though that thesafety experts he has talked tofavor the HANS.

"Just from the data that theyshowed me, it makes more senseto me," said Labonte, whowalked away without injury froma very hard crash in practice atKansas City. "The speeds we'rerunning and the crushabilitythat our cars don't have enoughof, we're going to take the brunt

of the accident. If you don't haveeverything just right with theHutchens Device. . . . "

Dale Earnhardt Jr., one ofseveral drivers who have hadserious concussions from crash-es this season, is one of thebiggest supporters of theHutchens because of the comfortissue.

"1 don't think you could haveavoided having a concussion inthe crash I was in," saidEarnhardt, whose admissionlast week that he hid his concus-sion from NASCAR for most ofthe season prompted the sanc-tioning body to change its post-crash medical procedures.

"It was a solid hit, not reallynose to tail or anything, just flaton the door," he added. "Youcould have had all kinds ofthings on your head and itwouldn't have meant anything.It's your brain moving around inyour head."

Asked if he planned to stickwith the Hutchens, Earnhardtsmiled and said, "Yeah, until Iget any problems other than just

banging your head."Marlin didn't think he had

been seriously injured in thebrutal crash at KansasSpeedway.

"My neck hurt then, but it did-n't hurt bad," said Marlin, whowas wearing a neck braceFriday. "It surprised me afterthey did X-rays and saw it. If Ihadn't gone and got the X-ray, Iwould be driving right now witha cracked vertebra."

If it hadn't been for the urgingof Al Shuford, an athletic trainerwho works with Chip GanassiRacing with Felix Sabates,Marlin might not have even gonein for testing. As it was, he wait-ed until Monday to go for anMRI, then had the injury con-firmed in a CT Scan on Tuesdayin Charlotte.

"Al Shuford is a lifesaver,"team co-owner Sabates said."Sterling, like most of the driv-ers, they just want to wait whenit comes to injuries. Al kept bug-ging him. He asked Sterling tohumor him. He knew somethingwas wrong."

ing in the frame.The Beavers finished up the

evening with one final score — a10-yard run from Justin Foltz toset the final at 36-21.

St. Marys' Doug Surra hadfour touchdowns in the game tolead the Flying Dutchmen. Hefinished the nignt with 215 yardson 30 carries.

DuBois returns to action onFriday when it travels toBradford.

Glendale boots Juniata Valley in overtime, 9-6From Page 9

With a fourth-and-8 staringhim in the face, Kutz sentThomas out. The sophomorelooked like a pro teeing up andmaking a perfect kick, despiteslipping in the mud.

The 26-yard field goal split theuprights and cleared the bottombar by at least two yards.

"How about that sophomorekicker," said Kutz. "He bailed usput. He even slipped and fell. Butit's pretty exciting up here when

you can kick a field goal and winit. After missing the extra point,I am sure he feels pretty goodright now. But I am not sure thatwe blocked all that well on thatextra point."

With a 9-6 lead, it was up tothe Viking defense to keep theHornets out of the end zone.

Juniata Valley took its firstpossession six yards on a Foxrun then managed to get to the1-yard line after a LukeWhittaker three-yard run.

With a fourth-and-1, Juniata

Valley decided to go for the winand sent Dustin Hoffmaster intoa wall of Glendale defensemen.

As the Hornets wailed for thereferee to signal the touchdown,the Glendale players began tocelebrate as the ball was judgednot to have broken the plane.

"They ran a pretty good mix-ture of plays," said Kutz. "Forour kids to come out there andmake a play like that — I amextremely proud of them."

Zinoble disagreed with thecall on the fourth down play.

"It's a shame," he stated. "I amnot one to usually complain aboutthe refs, but that was embarrass-ing. That's ridiculous. Our guycame across and he was a rootand a half over the daggone endline. And they didn't give it to us.They should be embarrassed. Ihave never seen anything likethat before in my life."

Glendale improved to 2-4 withthe victory and 2-1 in theInter-County Conference SectionIII. The Vikings travel to Allportto face West Branch on Friday.

PSD play callers dropped the ball against IowaFrom Page 9

While many footballobservers would have toldJohnson to take the knee afterthe second one, Paterno appar-ently didn't, and even defendedthe fifth-year senior on Tuesday.

"I think he had a shot at itand took it out," Paterno said. "I

am not about to temper hisaggressiveness. If you want to becritical, we didn't do a goodenough job blocking. They werenot kicks that were deep in theend zone, and a couple of themwere not even in the end zone."

Ah, yes they were, Joe.

Joe can still run

I've seen Paterno run onto thefield before games and afterhalftime, but I've never seen himshift it into a higher gear like hedid after Saturday's game.

Paterno, who wilfturn 76 inDecember, started jogging offthe Beaver Stadium field, spot-ted referee Dick Honig andsprinted after him like a line-

backer chasing a running back.Grabbing the back of the ref-

eree's shirt to complain abouttwo overtime calls doesn't set agood example for his players, butyou have to admire the speed inwhich he did it.

The Big Ten Conference, bythe way, will not be taking anyaction against Paterno.

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