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Show Page 18 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 11, 1988 Sunday, September Bears have lots of offensive fire power to throw at Colts By DAVE GOLDBERG AP Football Writer Chicago controlled the ball for 45 minutes and rushed for 262 yards against Miami last week. Indianapolis gave up 174 yards rushing to Houston and allowed the Oilers the ball for 38 minutes of their overtime loss. If there's an encore this weekend, the Colts will be run out of the Hoosier Dome by the Bears, who are trying to reprise their 1985 Super Bowl as, an offensive power rather than a defensive one. "It's obvious," says Indianapolis Coach Ron Meyer, "that they have their offense back in gear." The Bears have a balanced u vv I 13-1- ff Ejic Jacobsen. Idaho State opened the scoring when Matt Bombard connected on a field goal with 1:53 left in the first quarter. Utah moved ahead with 8:49 left in the half when Mitchell hit Carl Harry at the 20 and he motored into the end zone to complete a pass play. Scott Lieber's PAT made it 36-ya- rd 48-ya- rd 7-- 3. Utah kicked a Wags-ta- ff field 46-ya- rd goal. Jacobsen set that up when he recovered a Bengal fumble at the Idaho State 30. But, the Utes couldn't stand prosperity. After the Utah defense held the Bengals, Mitchell and his offense started at their own 13. Following two incomplete passes, the Ben- gals' Tony Manu stepped picked off a Mitchell pass and rambled 13 yards for a touchdown. Bombard's PAT made it with 6:29 left. ; However, the Utes rebounded from that series by moving from their 32 to the ISU 15 before settling for a field goal from Wagstaff. Jacobsen kept the Bengals from a potential tying field goal a series later when he 10-1- 0 31-ya- rd ; sacked the Bengals' Jason Whitmer after he had moved his team to the Ute 25. Hawaii 31, Colorado St. 23 FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) Senior running back Heikote Fakava ran for 132 yards and a touchdown and Hawaii's defense stiffened four times in the fourth quarter as the Rainbow Warriors beat Colorado State 3 in a WAC game. 31-2- Fakava, a scored his touchdown in the second quarter on a slam up the middle to give 210-pound- er, rd Hawaii a 0 lead. overall and Hawaii is in; the WAC. Colorado State is in the WAC. 3 ; Hawaii led just moments into the fourth quarter when Mike Brown of the Rams kicked a field goal. 28-1- 2-- 0 0 Ot-- 31-2- 20-ya- rd OK, Herald Sports Editor Io a brief pause before Thursday's kickoff between BYU and Texas, BYU running back coach Lance Reynolds shook his head in wonder at the talent, speed and tradition of the Longhorns after watching the warmups. "Texas. I remember when we beat UCLA a few years ago everybody wrote it was the biggest win in school history. Then last year we go and beat Texas and nobody savs anything. It's like 'so what?'" Well, Reynolds, let's not let Thursday's 47-- 6 romp over the Horns go without noting. It was one of the more significant wins in BYU history. Why? Because it was Texas. It was on national TV viewed by more than 25 million people. And if BYU ever needed a win, it was then. And offensively and defensively (minus penalties) it was a gem. For the record: BYU's 516 yards total offense was the most ever run up against Texas. The record -- CJ : f ( the Minnesota; Los 0 S. Nielson, N.Y. did not pitch. R. Aguilera, N.Y. did not pitch. Angeles Raiders at Houston; Detroit at the Los Angeles Rams; Kansas City at Seattle and Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 4 p.m. The Cardinals play their first home game in Phoenix when they host Dallas Monday 0 COLLEGE: night. (Continued from Page 17) Oklahoma 28, N. Carolina 0 s, J , CHAPEL HILL, N.C. 'V The Rainbows had held CSU three times inside the line to force the field goal. Moments later the Rams had driven inside the 10 again, but Mike Tresler intercepted quarterback Scooter Molander in the end zone. CSU had one final chance to tie late in the game when the line. Rams drove to the l, the But on a e Hawaii line threw Scott loss. for a 240-pou- nd fourth-and-goa- 17th-rank- White-hous- 44, Wyoming Louisville 45-1- 0. " 9 LOUISVILLE, Kent. -Quarterback Randy Welniak racked up 307 yards of total offense and accounted for two touchdowns before leaving the game in the third quarter as d Wyoming rolled over Louisville 44-error-plague- 9. Welniak threw a touchdown pass to Freddie Dussett to make it 0 with 3:58 left in the first quarter one play after Cowboy safety Ronald Dean had recovered a 32-ya- rd 7-- Louisville fumble. And on the ensuing kickoff, Louisville's Walter Wise failed to field a short kick and Wyoming's Daryl Harris downed it on the 25. One play later, Welniak faked a handoff to the right and scored on a bootleg. Missouri 35, Utah St. 21 COLUMBIA, halfback Junior Mo. Smiley Elmore scored two touchdowns on runs and rushed 187 yards for Missouri as the Tigers defeated Utah State Following a scoreless third quarter, Missouri broke a 1 deadlock with 8:41 left in the 35-2-1. 21-2- as Elmore's game plunge capped a drive that gave Missouri a 1 edge. A few minutes later, freshman halfback Charles Quint scored again for the Tigers on an run that made the score Missouri had jumped out to 7 lead but Utah State a scored a pair of touchdowns in the final minutes of the second quarter to send the game into a 1 tie at the half. Utah State's first-ha- lf points came as senior quarterback Brent Snyder completed touchdown passes of 13, 50 and 20 yards. Split end Kendal Smith caught two of them and Pat Newman snagged the other. 99-yar- d, 19-pl- ay 28-2- 35-2-1. 21-- 21-2- -Fo- Oklahoma, directed by its speedy quarterback tandem of Jamelle Holie-wa- y and Charles Thompson, racked up nearly 400 rushing yards Saturday in opening its season with a 28-- 0 victory over North Carolina. Iowa 45, Kansas St. 10 KAN. -CMANHATTAN, huck Hartlieb passed for 253 yards and Brad Quast, a linebacker, lumbered 94 an interception rewith yards turn to tie an Iowa record and Hawk-eye- s spark the Kansas State past Ohio State 26, Syracuse 9 COLUMBUS, Ohio Greg Frey completed 12 of 17 passes, including all three attempts during two touchdown drives in a span of the second quarter, as Ohio State 9 Saturdefeated Syracuse to the end nation's longest day unbeaten streak at 14 games, The victory marked the debut of John Cooper as coach of urth-ranked - .,T Steffi Graf blasts a backhand on her way to winning her first U.S. Open title. Graf finishes Grand Slam; Lendl,- Wilander in finals the top seed her only two NEW YORK (AP) Steffi Graf slammed her way to the grandest feat in tennis Saturday. The West German won- der won the first Grand Slam in 18 years by beating teenage rival Gabriela Sabatini 6-- 3, in the U.S. Open women's final. "I'm glad to have the talk over about the Grand Slam," Graf said. "It's a nice relief to not have any pressure on me. No one else will have to tell me I have to do it here." Graf, 19, became the first player to sweep the Australian, French, Wimbledon and U.S. championships in the same year since Margaret Court in 1970. "I'm very thrilled. It's a very happy feeling at this moment," said Graf, who ran over to the stands to hug her parents and her coach, Pavel 3-- 6, 6-- 1 after the match. Graf is the second youngest player to win the Grand Slam. Maureen Connolly was 18 when she won the four major titles in 1953. The only other Slam winners were Don Budge in 1938 and Rod Laver in 1962 and 1969. Budge, 73, attended Satur day's match and kissed Graf during the awards ceremony. Sabatini, 18, had handed Slozil, defeats this year in . 61 matches. But the first Argentine woman to play in a Grand Slam final couldn't stop Graf from winning her 34th straight match and her ninth tournament of the year. It was Graf's first U.S. Open title. Graf took leads of 1 and 3 in the first set, then won it with a forehand blast that Sabatini barely got a racket 3-- 5-- on. Graf started to misfire on her groundstrokes in the second set as Sabatini took a 1 lead and finally closed out the set with a forehand winner to even the match. It was only the second set Graf had lost in 27 Grand Slam matches this year. "In the second set, I was not so tough," Graf said. "I didn't have many chances to go for winners and Gaby played much better." With her Grand Slam hopes riding on one last set,' Graf took command and surged to a lead, breaking Sabatini at love in the second game. MEN'S SEMIFINALS Ivan Lendl moved to the edge of an unprecedented fourth straight U.S. Open tennis championship on Saturday 4 with a victory 4-- 3-- 0 4-- 6, ; 6-- 2, 6-- 3, 6-- three-minu- te 26-- the over Andre Agassi in a semifinal match. Lendl, the top seed, meets Mats Wilander of Sweden, the second seed, in today's final, Syracuse Buckeyes. dropped to Southern Cal 24, Stanford 20 QuartSTANFORD, Calif. erback Rodney Peete threw a 1. - touchdown pass to 10-ya- rd flanker John Jackson with 1:19 remaining as No. 6 Southern 0 California rallied for a Pac-1- 0 victory over Stanford. Peete's pass into the back of the end zone capped an march to give Southern Cal the lead for good. Alabama 37, Temple 0 APHILADELPHIA (AP) a rematch of last year's title showdown. Wilander beat Darren Cahill of Australia 64, 2 in the other semi- 24-2- 6-- 4, 6-- final. The power and steadiness of Lendl's strokes were too 80-ya- rd much for the Agassi to overcome. The fourth seed from Las Vegas, labama's winNev., saw his ning streak snapped. Agassi was the youngest semifinalist in Open history. "I think his strength is he is a lot faster," Agassi said of Lendl, "and he doesn't only get the ball back, but he's prepared. It's tough to get him on the run or on the ch - Bobby Humphrey proved Saturday night serious offseason that two injuries served only to slow him, not stop him. "I feel I did pretty well for a start," the running star after running for 91 yards and a touchdown in No. 14 Alabama's 0 college football romp over Temple Saturday night. "I was a little rusty. It took me awhile to get going," Humphrey said. "They came after me pretty well. When I did get hit, they hit me two and three times. But there were no cheap shots." Humphrey, who suffered a stress fracture of his left foot in April and a broken jaw in July, ran eight yards in the first quarter for his 38th career touchdown. That tied the Alabama career record of 38 set by Johnny Musso in 1971. 201-pou- 37-- defensive." Agassi won the first set with a break in the 10th game. Lendl took control of the next two sets with precision groundstrokes and forceful serves. Lendl, winner of 27 consecutive U.S. Open matches, is seeking his first Grand Slam title this year and seventh of his career. Wilander, who won the Australian and French Opens this year, also has six Grand Slam crowns. Texas win one of Y's biggest By DICK HARMON : s. Mc-Maho- n. sJ (Continued from Page 17) 0 Utah' led at the half, thanks to a pair of Tim Wags-tafield goals and a great defensive play from the Utes' scored again when Tim c, i attack featuring the running of Neil Anderson and the quarter-backin- g of a healthy Jim The Colts' chief threat is Eric Dickerson. In other games Sunday, Miami is at Buffalo; New Orleans at Atlanta; Pittsburgh at Washington; San Francisco at the New York Giants; Tampa Bay at Green Bay; San Diego at Denver; the New York Jets at Cleveland; New England at FOOTBALL: Four plays later, t R H Bl AB HITTING 0 0 0 0 V.Law, Chi did not play Friday or Saturday. 0 0 0 0 WJoyner.Cal f 1 0 4 Friday single and sacrifice fly in Friday win over Texas. Played late game Satur' day. 0. 0 0 0 C. Snyder.Cle out for undetermined amount of time with fracture to left foot. 0 0 0 0 D. Murphy.Atl 2 2 4 0 Friday singled twice Friday in 4 win over Padres. h er so PITCHING ip 0 0 0 0 J.Gott, Pitt 0 0 0 2 Friday 5-picked up 28th save Friday in 2 win over Phillies. 6 7 6.1 11 J. Morris, DET took the loss in 4 loss to was 513 by Southern Cal in 1956. The 402 passing yards was the most on the Longhorns since they began football in 1893. The previous high was 378 by SMU in 1969. 47-- 0 in 1956. It was the sixth worst defeat ever suffered by Texas and only the 12th opening game loss ever. It could have been worse. Texas writers were unmerciful on BYU after the Wyoming loss, especially BYU's Texas athletes. One referred to quarterback Ty Detmer (San Antonio) as a boy trying to play a man's game and snick- ered that cornerback Brian Mitchell (Waco) was beaten by Wyoming receivers who couldn't carry the shoes of Longhorn Copies of that article found its way to BYU's locker room. "Ty took such a lot of enough garbage in Texas that he deserved to get a TD pass," said senior receiver Chuck Cu- pass-catcher- J s. Mike O'Brien. He Bob Murdock, then hit Cutler TD. for a over-thre- w 20-ya- rd It was the worst defeat of Texas since losing to TCU tier. "It was my pleasure to catch it." Detmer completed passes, the first a 33 yarder to "Now you know why I didn't go to Texas," said the redshirt freshman. In home town San Antonio, the Express News headline read: "Longhorns Crushed BYU Wins." The S.A. Light headline read: "Cougar Air Attack Bombs Longhorns." Mitchell, whose attempt at an interception was deflected into the hands of freshman linebacker Rocky Biegle, said "It just shows we play football up here too." Mitchell said his teammates stood up in a pre-gapep meeting and declared they would pull together for the BYU Texans against the Longhorns. "It (the Texas articles) really inspired this team. It was a great feeling to have your friends stand up for us Texans and then we kicked their butts. I know some coaches on their team and they didn't talk to me afterwards. But that's OK." Quarterback Sean Covey is enamored with the shotgun formation BYU used against Texas. "They were pretty tall, but the shotgun enables me to see better. We'll use a lot of it." Other than that, Covey's e comments were standard stuff: praising everybody from receivers, linemen, backs and water boys for a good performance. Covey also wanted the record corrected. He has not suffered three concussions in the last four games, as reported by his coach. "I had a neck injury against CSU, a concussion against Utah and a slight concussion at Wyoming. That is all." post-gam- "Norm Chow's play calling was excellent and I had great protection. The receivers ran great routes." - 1 ,. re-(S- ee Page 22) I. Si.- - t " 1 .;. v. Covey was disappointed in his second half performance when he overthrew some BYU, V i hp. ... ' V, IkouK Fred Whittingham kills Texas on the draw play. t lho( I ; |