Show f Aggie stats 10 The Malone show 1 1 W 4 The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday December 24 1989 Bills nab second straight AFC East By Dave Raffo UPI sports writer EAST RUTHERFORD NJ (UPI) — The Buffalo Bills clinched dieir second straight AFC East title Saturday with the help of two Jim Kelly touchdown passes in a 37-- 0 victory over the New York Jets Kelly hit James Lofton and Ronnie Hannon on consecutive e possessions to help die Bills snap a losing streak and road slide to finish 7 They will play on the road Jan 6 or ' 7 in the division playoffs d run by Thurman Thomas Lofton's TD was followed by a thud quarter that helped Buffalo on the next drive capping a win its final regular-seaso- n game for die first time since 1980 Kenneth Davis added a touchdown run with 2:44 left run and Scott Norwood Larry Kinnebrew scored on a kicked a field goal for a 10-- 0 halftime lead The Jets finished and probably played dieir last game under Coach Joe Walton New general manager Dick Steinberg is expected to fire Walton in their scheduled Tuesday meeting Walton is in seven seasons as head coach The Jets finished 7 at home and were shut out in dieir final two home games After Buffalo took its 16-- 0 lead die fans chanted "Joe must go" midway through the third quarter Only 21148 showed up at Giants Stadium in temperatures with a win chill factor of minus-- 1 1 and 13 winds with 55743 no shows out of 76JS91 tickets sold third-quart- er 25-ya- rd three-gam- 9-- five-ga- four-yar- 20-poi- nt 17-ya- rd one-ya- 26-ya- rd rd 4-- 12 54-59- -1 mile-per-ho- ur Buffalo went ahead 16-- 0 on Kelly’s pass to Lofton down die left sideline 4:11 into die second half Kelly’s consecutive passes of 23 yards to Andie Reed and Pete Metzelaars put Buffalo on the IS and Lofton sewed after a holding penalty Lofton caught die pass at die 18 shook off James Hasty's tackle attempt and sprinted down die sideline for die score The extra point failed when Adam Ungner’s snap sailed high The Bills rushed for 233 yards led by Kinnebrew's 91 on 17 Thomas finished with 73 yards on 17 carries giving him 1244 for the season Kelly completed 13 of 21 passes for 208 yards and an interception Outside linebacker Cornelius Bennett returned after missing five games with a knee injury and had two sacks recovered a blocked field goal and set up Thomas’ TD by intercepting a Tony Eason pass Bruce Smith added two sacks carries ' UNLV Rebels hire Strong help for football a constructive individual I have a total and Knute Rockne has passed away commitment to graduating student we're going to win a national champion-Notr- e athletes Strong told pparten gathered ship next year’! Athletic Director Brad at the Thomas and Made Center on the ‘“V k rji UNLV htmd“ " ' makes school officiak personality ' r'7 '’' ‘t-? “move our program to' confident be can ment promises ‘‘I want tiie type of athlete who when "I’m not going to stand here and tell national prominence” he graduates can go into society and be you that just because fun Strang is Strong 35 replaces Wayne Nunnely LAS VEGAS Nev (UPI) — Jim Strong formerly offensive coordinator at Dame was introduced Saturday as tiie new head football- coach at Nevada-La- s Vegas and' Said he ktresSes acadeinic 'as well as ' athletic' achieve--' - ! who resigned earlier tills year The teams coach for tiie Los Angeles Rams Portland State Head Coach Pokey n Rebels were 4--7 in each of the Allen originally applied for the job but j over John Jenkins o addukmr his name from consideration for the University 'Saying he wanted to remain in FortUnd' of HoqstoniPmMurphyheaddoacfa all: UWUV President Bob Maxson said the Fullerton Pat Hifl offensive school investigated how much each' of line coach and recruiting coordinator at the candidatea for head coach em-Fresno State and Artie Gigantino special phasized academics Cal-Sta- fe Even Brown’s 22 couldn’t help Jazz -- - SAN ANTONIO (UPI) — Terry Cummings scored 28 pointaend ''rookie David Robinson added 27 Saturday night to boost the San Antonio Spun to dieir fifth straight win s 115-9- 8 victory over die Utah Jazz San Antonio 17-- 6 won its 11th straight home game with little trouble leading by as many as 30 points on a Vernon Maxwell jumper Isle in the third period The closest the Jazz 16-- 9 could come down the stretch was 1 points The Spin put tiie gone away early shooting s franchise record 727 percent in the first period for a 8 lead Cummings capped s 12-- 2 run with s nine-fojumper with 8:20 left in the opening period1 The trend carried into the second quarter ss San Antonio shot 683 halftime lead on Frank 9 percent for die half and took a Brickowski's basket with four seconds left Robinson led all first-ha-lf scorers with 17 points Willie Anderson added 14 points for the Spurs and Brickowski had 22 points for die Jazz and 10 Mike Brown scored a career-hig- h Malone scored 18 points and Karl 20 Edwards Theodore Darrell Griffith dropped in 10 LAS VEGAS! rr- David Budctcclehradng Us nmnnjlqllJinem- scored 18 f Travis Bice' fiVeof 10 ftomf:three-J- 3 scared 1916 36-1- ot !Nevade-Lu- yi 65-3- day overf fcwa- vrj Butler -- lhe 610 jisentar center who was academically' ineligible the first semester mT the Rebels fell to 4--2 helped the Rebels control the inside as they improved their record to 2 dealing the Hawkeyes their first loss far dght games Larry Johnson with 19 and1 i:i:8taeey Augment with 18 lOunoed out I potent Rebel effuse while James Moses with 20 and Jepsen with 18 led dw Hawkeyes UNLV spotted lows five points at the V Nal-rank- pre-seas- on 5-- A outset ed Seattle's Steve Largent gets a trophy from owner Ken Behring beforeWOfcf NfCgame 15tb-rank- ed but ? coerced die into 24 first-harolled 'to a and ? (Hoovers lf jHawkeyes 4W9 mdaie leatLf &V w Rabdawho couldn’t convert "even !?diij simplest hdtind MUMrBudafhftdM first’ free throw at fiva minuses into the gunssnd Bice dropped in Seflrst field goal ’from outside at 14:24 left UNLV was finally off and came right beck to 'tie the game at 5 and 5-- Aug mon: connected hacMMack on a alam pnd a tiMemdstar to out fca Ra- - Overtheynext eight UNLV ran off a 29-1-1 string on a combine-do- n of Iowa turnovers and a! Rebel offense feat dominated ntowtn jffev Largent farewell spoiled i By Dermis Anstine U fitted Press International the season The Seahawks 9 nmtied under 500 for the first time in seven years under Coach Chuck Knox Four of their losses came at the hands of NFC East teams Largent was honored beforethe game the 200th in a career with the Seahawks Largent who holds six NFL' career receiving records had two receptions to extend his record of conseutive games with a recep-tionto 177 Rypien had in easy time with 7-- SEATTLE — Mark Rypien threw for 290 yards and a touchdown and Ernest Bynerren for two scores to help Washington spoil Steve Largent’s farewell game Satur-' day with a 29-- 0 victory over the Seattle Seahawks The Redskins 10-- 6 foiled to make the NFC playoffi for the second straight year despite winning their last five games of BYU recruits - 14-ye- ar tiie Seattle secondary until leav- - ing die game early m die fourth quarter He compieted 22 of 31 attempts for 290 yards and had one pass interested His favorite receiver Was Gary Clark who caught ninepasses for 149 yards and a touchdown The Redskins had no trouble moving the ball against Seattle and didn’t punt untilthe third quarter was 11 minutes old They could have scored more but let the clock nm out after reaching d line the Seattle's PROVO Utah (UPI) — Junior college transfers Scott Brumfield of Dixie College and Scott Giles of Snow College hive signed football letters of intent with Brigham Young University school officials said Thursday “Both these players had outstanding careers in junior college and they will fit In with us for nn immediate Impact In our program” said coach LaVell Edwards ' We are hippy to have both of them” Brumfield Is a 325-pou- nd 42-2- 225-pou- nd yields same results - LAS VEGAS Nev (UPI) Rtameat Robinson soared 26 points and Michigan held off a second-ha- lf Seton Hall rally 8-- Saturday to blip the Wolverines to a 6 victory over the Pirates In a rematch of their 1989 NCAA champi-' onshty final Robinson hit five of six shots from three-poi- nt range and handed out nine assists helping tiie Wolverines bn- - prove to 1 Loy Vaught scored 22 and Sean Higgins 19 for Michigan The Pirates were led by Frantz Volcy’i 25 point! and Giver Taylor who added 21 Seton Hsu which lost ill five starters from last year’s ' NCAA runner-u-p fell to 2 The game was the second half of a nationally-televise- d doubleheader In the ' first game No 12 Nevada-La- s Vegas downed No 16 lows 91-8- - 5-- five-yar- offensive tackle from Spanish Fort and at Dixie was a first team College' Sl George Utah He was recruited by Arizona Stale Arizona US£ Oregon Pittsburgh Tennessee Oklahoma Nebraska ind Utah after luting Dixie to a 10-- 1 1 season end a victory in the Rotary 1 Giles is s 6--4 linebacker from Provo end wu second at Snow College team Pi— m Utah whan ha riayed on die lftSMtioeri cbampioarimMsam He Tlmpvlew High and wu a state an NCAA title rematch Division wrestling champion at 167 pounds He was recruited by UCLA Stanford Oregon Arizona ASU Ten-nessee and Houston 3-- A Big WesTs best San Jose State guard Troy Batiste has hem selected as the Big West Basketball Player of the Week after leading the Spartans to two victories during action last from Loi Batiste a Angeles came off tiie bench hat Monday jute m ivui uinsuin in contributed 17 points seven rebounds an three assists In a 9 victory He score 12 of his points In tiie second hal Including the Spartan’s last nine points j the final three minutes and five seconds at it again ore Monday Batiste wu more comi He scored: Batiste r niv Junes Anderson Barbus Curick DeHart and the Unlveristy Nevede-L- u Vegas’ Larry Johnson in ti honor this season yum 70-6- UC-San- ta i |