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Show D D Scoreboard D3 Classifieds D4 The Daily Herald Tuesday, October 15, 1996 Jacke field goals boot Packers past 49ers Burgess VIOIl uuuco By CLARK JUDGE well for BYU When Chris Burgess left Provo Sunday, BYU left all its dominoes on the table. Burgess, ranked by many recruiting services as the No. 1 high school basketball player in the country, will now take similar trips to defending champion Kentucky, UCLA and Duke. So how did Burgess' visit to BYU go? "It was sensational," said San-Burgess in a fax Monday. The Burgess visit culminated a di f 3 Dick Barman San Jose Mercury News On a GREEN BAY, Wis. night when Green Bay's Chris Jacke was mobbed by teammates for a winning field goal, it was the 49ers who had to answer how they kicked away a victory. atmosIn a playoff-charge- d phere, in front of a national TV audience and without quarterback Steve Young, the 49ers should have done something Monday they could not nine months ago beat Green Bay and failed. in overtime in They lost, 23-2front of a stadium-recor- d 60,7 6 at Lambeau Field, and they lost as much as Green Bay won. They lost because they could wide not cover second-strin- g receiver Don Beebe. They lost because a reserv e Steve Israel, committed two unforgivable penalties on Green Bay's tying drive in the closing minutes of regulation. And they lost because Jacke kicked five field goals, the last a with 11:19 left in overtime. "This is a tough loss to swallow," Coach George Seifert said. "Our team is pretty depressed. We played well enough to win, but we didn't." The loss was the first for the 49ers in three weeks and the first in five starts dating to 1995 for quarterback Elvis Grbac. Making his third straight start this season for the injured Young, Grbac overcame a slow start to throw two first-hatouchdown passes to Jerry Rice and stake the 49ers to a 6 lead. But that margin evaporated by the fourth quarter and, despite a potential winning field goal by Jeff a kick Wilkins with 1:50 left that put the 49ers ahead 20-1- 7 they could not hold on. Much of the credit goes to Jacke, who tied the score at 20 with eight seconds left on a field goal and who hit the so hard he could game-winnhave stepped back 5 to 10 yards and still been successful. Much of it goes to Packers quarterback Brett Favre, who threw a 61 times, completing d 28 for 395 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions and who led g the Packers on their drive from their 44 in overtime. Much of it goes to Beebe, too. He stepped in for the injured who sprained his Robert Brooks right knee on the Packers' opening 0, 1 k, er Sidelines attack by Roger Reid and his staff, which first met the 0 power forward when he came visiting BYU practices with his father Ken as a fifth grader. Now it is a waiting game while Burgess tours some of the nation's top programs. What are BYU's chances? Probably as good as any of the other schools, if not better. The Cougars drove stakes into the Burgess Campaign. While BYU's coaches cannot comment on recruiting, a receipt comparison on expense accounts will reveal no other school has invested as much chasing Burgess as the Cougars. If BYU does not get a commitment from Burgess in November after the Duke visit, it won't be for a lack of effort or resources. BYU's staff has followed Burgess to tournaments throughout the summer and watched him play whenever the NCAA has allowed evaluations during the season, extensively throughout July, going to more of his tournaments than UCLA or Duke. Kentucky is on the Burgess scene, with the KU propaganda hard and thick in this, the final stretch. Reid's staff has long been on the Burgess trail, hitting him with phone calls, letters, followup calls consistently. His family and coach John Halligan at Wood-bridg- e High in Irvine, Calif., have been shadowed by the Cougars. During this past weekend on his campus visit to BYU, Burgess toured BYU's Communications Department, which showed its wares as a broadcast launching pad, his chosen vocation after a basketball career. Burgess was reminded of BYU's long line of successful TV on-apersonalities, which include Houston KHOU-Tsports anchor Gifford Nielsen, Philadelphia's Vai Sikahema. TBN's Danny Ainge. Chicago's Glen Kozlows-k- i. ESPN's Charlene Hawks, ESPNZ's Todd Christensen, NBC golf analyst Johnny Miller, and others. It didn't hurt that in BYU's homecoming football game, the entire network affiliate sports anchors for ABC, NBC and CBS in Las Vegas were BYU graduates (Dave McCann, Andrew Smith and Ron Futrell). Which somebody at BYU must have pointed out. Burgess met with sports information specialists who outlined BYU's ability to promote athletes, including the Heisman campaign of Ty Detmer, Outland Trophy effort "for Jason Buck and publicity for first round draft picks Shawn Bradley and Michael Smith. He was presented with a mock-u- p Sports Illustrated cover with himself featured front and center with the headline: "Burgess leads Cougars to NCAA Final Four." He toured BYU's training grounds and the Marriott Center, ranked among the nation's best athletic facilities. Burgess just hapin pened to bump into Nielsen Provo for homecoming, to see his daughter and meet with the Varsity Club of which he is president. Burgess met with LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley, who was on campus speaking at an alumni meeting. He later bumped into the LDS leader at the football game, touring the press box facilities and president's box. Burgess met with BYU President (Elder) Merrill Bateman, a second cousin to his father Ken. He also went over a vision of BYU athletics with director and all-st- ar Johnny-Come-Late- ly m Jj lf lliix i i ft I " ,4-- :. 1- t I - r J. 1 7-- rd er team-recor- game-winnin- g AP Photo mons during third quarter action Monday night in Green Bay, Wis. In a meeting between two San Francisco running back Anthony Lynn (29) is tripped up by Green Bay's Wayne Sim- play and is lost for the season and finished with a career night: catches for 220 yards and a disput- TD. ed But let's not forget Israel, in the game as part of the 49ers' 1 59-ya- sive back package when the club lead in the last held a three-poitwo minutes of the fourth quarter, On the Packers' second play, an incomplete pass to tight end Keith Jackson. Israel was called for ille- nt gal use the strongest contenders Packers edged the 49ers in the NFC, the in overtime. of 23-2- of the hands. That was bad enough, but what he did afterward was downright stupid. He protest- ed the call, was penalized 15 yards for unsportsmanlike conduct and got thumbed. Instead of second- - 0 at their 25. the Packers 0 at their 45. From were there, they drove to the 49crs' 3. where that man Jacke sent the and-thr- first-and-1- (See PACKERS, Page 1)2) Braves dominate punchless Cards By BEN WALKER AP Baseball Writer ir V (See HARMON, Page D2) kr ST. LOUIS The Atlanta Braves made it seem too easy. As if they just decided it was time to win, the Braves staved off elimination in the NL championship series with one of the most overpowering performances ever in October. The defending World Series champions, heeding manager Bobby Cox's pregame call, matched the biggest postseason rout in history Monday night with a romp over St. Louis that cut the Cardinals' lead to "I had a short meeting, nothing real big. It wasn't like "Let's all have a nice winter.' It was more more like I expect to play games." Cox said. Marquis Grissom set the lone with a single on Game 2 winner Todd Stotllemyre's first pitch. By the end of the inning, helped by a misplayed fly ball that turned into a two-otriple for JelT Blauser. Atlanta had six hits and led 1 4-- 0 3-- AP Pholo Atlanta '8 Fred McGrirf hits a two-ru- n ninth inning to cap off the Braves' 14-- 0 homer in the win Monday night in Atlanta. St. Louis still leads the National League Championship Series 3-- 5-- The Husch Stadium record crow d of 56.782. meanwhile, was silent. "Bclore they could even gel their popcorn and beer, they were down five." said Chipper Jones, double. "What who had a two-ruI really liked is that we had the killer instinct. We kept piling it on. Last night. I didn't sense that." Coming off a 3 loss in w hich the Braves blew a three-ru- n lead in a postseason game for the first lime in franchise history, they made sure there would be no letup. By the lime Javy Lopez singled in the fourth, every Braves batter had a hit. When he homered to dead center (he next inning, and already had Atlanta led ll-an NLCS record with 7 hits. The Braves finished with an d 22 hits, including two by pitcher John Smoltz, who worked seven shutout innings. "The only thing is when we w in a game like this, you wish it counts for iwo," Smoltz said. "You would n 4-- 1 LCS-recor- (See BRAVES, Page 1)2) Eagles conservative Tulsa gears up to host BYU during Detmer's start By JEAN PAGEL Associated Press Writer By JOHN F. BONFATTI AP Sports Writer In Ty DetPHILADELPHIA mer's first NFL start, he got three quarters to get a feel for the job. courtesy of the Philadelphia Eagles defense. Detmer finally got the Eagles going in the fourth quarter of Sun0 day's victory over the New York Giants, but even then, it was the defense that scored Philadelphia's only touchdown. Maybe that explains why coach Ray Rhodes was reserved in his praise of Detmer, who took over as the Eagles' quarterback following Rodney Peete's season-endin- g 19-1- knee injury. "This was Ty Detmer's first opportunity." Rhodes said Monday. "We'll see what he can gel done next week." Detmer wasn't asked to do anything fancy or heroic, although he did take several big hits standing in the pocket as he waited thai extra second to complete a pass. And he didn't have impressive for 170 yards. statistics: Philadelphia's points came on Gary Anderson's four field goals and a fumble return for touchdow n by William Thomas. "We had chances to get it in." IX-I-- The Okla. game between No. 18 Brigham Vuing and Tulsa this weekend should be a wild ride, the coaches say. "We have to play one of our best games of ihe" year in all areas because I think ffs going lo ball be a real lough, game." Cougars coach LaVell Edwards said Monday. Golden I lurricane coach Dave Rader hos fans will show up to TULSA. ESPN2-ielevise- hard-hillin- g watch. Rader felt compelled Monday to uige crowds lo mm out al 7 p.m. I Ml )T) Saturday for the Western Athletic Conference game. "Everybody that I've ever met in this town, they need to buy a ticket." said Rader. who grew up in Tulsa. "I'm asking lor their help. I'm asking for the place to be extremely loud." 5 last When BYU beat Tulsa year in Provo. tlie game drew 63.754 people. But typical home attendance in Skelly Stadium, for Tulsa which seals 40.385 runs closer to last week's total of 24.556. "All I know is when you go up there, that crowd is loud." 45-3- Rader said. The Cougars (6-off a 63-2- 8 victory over UNLV in which senior Steve Sarkisian passed for four touchdowns and rushed for another. The Golden Hurricane (3-1, 2-- made three interceptions to last edge Colorado Slate 20-1- 4 week. Tulsa had beaten then-N19 Iowa and Oklahoma the two previous games. "We met more goals on our defensive sheet than we have in a the most that long, long time we've had all season. Offensively it was the same way." Rader said. "This team has accomplished in three weeks in a row things that I don't know that we've ever done before." He said he was pleased with his defense against Colorado Stale. But Rader said an even belter defense will be needed to shut down Saikisian's game-avera345.4 passing yards. o. (See DETMER, Page D2) HJfthJtlMteICN-- Sfwi'frN81'-- lfcttfcftMttiiMMlBMH |