Show I I 1 I B2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday October 6 2003 v L Continued from B1 thwarted by foe spectacular play of Aggies start 2-- 0 rest of the German defenders “We brought our ’A’ game in terms of the attacking” US coach April Heinrichs said “That’s a great team we played Fve got to think that maybe V: this was the greatest game ever play ed in women’s soccer" Hamm and foe rest of foe aging core of US players had wanted so badly to go out with another Cup triumph this year and then Olympic gold in 2004 Now only foe games in Athens provide an attainable goal After that Hamm will retire “It was a hard loss because of foe way it wait down” US goalkeeper B riana Scurry said “They were bending and bending but they didn’t West for first time ever in Big Jason Tumar sports writer By te last year and a half the Over the course of after ' Utah State women’s soccer team is allowing the game’s first goal first-ha-lf So when the Pacific Tigers took a lead over USU Sunday afternoon at Bell Field the Aggies were in dire straits right? Wrong Thanks to a formation change in the second half die Aggies battled back sewing two goals in overtime to defeat including the game-winn! the Tigers 2-- 1 v With the victory Utah State improved to 2-- 0 in the Big West Conference (8-- 4 overall) for the first time in school history and tied the team record for most wins in a season with seven 10 1- -0 break”'' Kerstin Garefrekes’ header off Renate Lingor’s comer kick glanced off the crossbar and into the net in foe 15th minute then the Germans with-stoone US threat after another Two goals in foe final two minutes sealed foe win Fittingly enough they came from German stars Maren Mein- ert and Birgit Prinz ' lift': Meinert foe MVP of the WUSA pro-fessional soccer league this year in its final season had planned to retire but was coaxed back to foe national team' Prinz scored seven of Germany’s 23 goals in its five World Cup matches “Everybody had a chance” Prinz said “and I think in the end we were lucky and we finished our chances We were totally excited to beat foe US : : V We usually lose important games to er od games to go “We never thought we were going to lose this ' game so it had a lot to do :a UTAH STATE with our mentality” Aggie " SOCCER head coach Heather Cairns gglM2 It certainly looked like USU might lose the way Pacific moved the ball in the opening 45 minutes and the way it was striking set pieces Fresh off of a road victory over Idaho UOP 1 in the BWC hardly played like a team that has struggled to find its form this season creating a number of dangerous scoring : y opportunities from the right flank The Tigers were especially dangerous when forward Sadye Reishe was taking comer kicks — UOP had an astounding seven of them in the first half — and it showed in the 11th minute the 10:14 mark Kim Jones was foe redpi of ft’ent a perfect Reishe comer heading foe ball past Aggie goalie Megan MiUsin foe middle of lead the box to give the Tigers a Jones nearly made it 0 a couple of minutes later on another Reishe corner kick just heading V" - 2-8- -1) (1-- T foem”4t-':l'v-7-' r - I' - - 1- -0 2-- V ’ d v 11 ia r 1 soon as we figured out who they were going to and bodied up I don't think we started worrying any more i Obviously they were good at set pjaysftft thero- v wmic me Aggies wen selves a couple of scorin two Chanel Blaquiere he Pacific outshot Utah State 9-- 7 in the first half ' ami had a lot more dangerous attacks- -' ' But unlike it has over the past couple of years i USU would respond in the second half and it started with a change in formation : set the Aggies' moved to a V After using a (defenders midfielders forwards) for the first time this season and it paid off as USU out-sh- ot OOP 13-- 3 the rest of the game “We felt that was what was going to give us foie most chances so we went out aid did it” Cairns said Yes the Aggies did thanks to what Kelley called “a huge team effort" In addition to this USU started showing more hustle and determination to win more aerial bat-tiand beat the Tigers to loose balls prompting UOP head coach Keith Coleman to mumble to his assistant coaches “they’re outhustling us” “All we did was we told every one that evay one had to play with heart” Aggie sophomore Charlsie ) 23-1- Paul Edinger kicked a field goal on the final play as the Bears rallied from an 1 8--3 half-tim-e to win their first game The Raiders (2-- got five field goals from Sebastian Janikowski but he also missed the first extra point of his career and had a attempt blocked in the second half The Bears (1-finally showed some punch against the Raiders' soft defense moving from its own 27 to the Raiders 30 in the final 3 minutes and 30 seconds to set up foe winning score m Bills 22 Bengab 16 OT Travis Henry’s plunge capped a five-pla- y drive 4:53 into the extra period lifting the Bills With Buffalo trailing 16-1- 3 Drew Bledsoe marched foe Bills 59 yards on 13 plays to set up Rian Lindell’s field goal with 28 seconds remaining in regulation It was the 22nd fourth-quart48-ya- rd 3) 47-ya- rd 3) rd 29-ya- rd er comeback of Bledsoe's career Patriots 38 Titans 30 Mike Cloud returned from a e suspension for a substance-abus- e violation and TD with ran for a 3:14 left to give foe Patriots four-gam- 15-ya- rd Brent StevansHerakl Journal Clegg (right) heads the ball into the goal past Pacific's Sadye Reishe' Harris said ‘Every one the second half especially' “We just had to start fronting them and basical- came out and played their hardest They went to ly that’s how they scored their goal — we weren’t every single tail and were fighting for every thing” fronting them” USU defender Elizabeth Masson This determination finally paid off in the 55th said “I think we just weren’t use to them pushing minute when Amber Tracy beat the UOP defense us so much and giving us so much of a fight” - With the game in overtime Utah State to a loose ball and fired a cross to Harris Harris found Ally Clegg in the middle of the penalty the comeback when Nicole Feuz fobbed a box and the senior’s flick header made it Amber Tracy that split two Tiger defendto pass The goal rejuvenated the Aggies and their ers The senior forward capitalized a bacldine shut down the Tigers with foe exception fob over Laura Guerin who was off her line of a Reishe rocket off a counterattack that just giving the Aggies the victory — USU’s first QT went over the crossbar late in the half win in its last 10 tries Utah State's Ally com-plet- 'r-- i Kr f placeriW& “I said to the German coach after foe!5: game ‘Go and win it”7 Heinrichs said “because that certainly is me of foe best teams Fve seen in a long time It was foe second World Cup loss itever for the United States and first since it was beaten by Norway in 1995 semifinals The Norwegians went on to beat Germany for the champi- in ( onship The United States is World Cup competition ' The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in China but was moved to foe United States because of a SARS epidemic The stage seemed s set for a US repeat as the Americans advanced through a tough group and a difficult quarterfinal victory over‘ :'s Norway '"Jr Germany meanwhilerolled through its preliminary competition outscoring its opponents 20--3 going into the semis one-timi- the lead then iy Law clinched interthe win with a ception return for a score The ending was wild First Steve McNair bulled into the end zone from a yard out to give the Titans (3-a 25-2- 4 lead and threw for a conversion to rookie Tyrone Calico But Bethel Johnson returned the kickoff 71 yards to foe Tennessee 30 for the Patriots (3-Three plays later Cloud ran up the middle for the win-ning TD capping a day in which he gained 73 yaris on seven carries Cowboys 24 Cardinals 7 Emmitt Smith sprained his left shoulder against his former teammates in the first half then watched as the Cowboys won their third straight for the first time since 1999 Quincy Carter threw for 277 yards and two TDs and the defense had two safeties in a four-pla- y span in the third as quarter Bill Parcclls won his first home game as coach of the Cowboys (3-Smith the leading rusher in NFL history who was released six weeks after Parcclls was hired lost a yard on six carmarkries for Arizona (1-ing the first time in his 206 games foal he failed to gain at least 1 yard Dolphins 23 Giants 10 Olindo Mare kicked three field goals and receiver James McKnight scored on a reverse as the Dolphins took ed 1) 4) 68-ya- rd ng 2) Vikings 39 Falcons 26 Gus Frrrotte filled in for foe injured Daunte Culpepper again and threw a pair of touchdown passes to lead the Vikings Moe Williams ran for a pair touchdowns as of second-hal- f outscored the Vikings (5-Atlanta 27-- 6 in the second half The Vikings haven’t missed a beat with Frerotte as the starter winning the last two games by a combined score of 74-3Panthers 19 Saints 13 Relying on a steady dose of Stephen Davis who ran 159 yards and a touchdown the Panthers moved to 4-- 0 for the first time Rod Smart — aka “He Hate Me” — had foe flashiest play for the Panthers returning a kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown John Kasay added field goals of 49 and 23 yards 49ers 24 Lions 17 Terrell Owens caught five passes for 79 yards and a touchdown as the San Francisco 49ers spoiled Steve Mari-ucc- i's 2) 0) 3- fa AP photo Chicago Bears wide receiver Marty Booker (86) celebrates his touchdown reception with teammate Desmond Clark advantage of four New York turnovers and an injury to kicker Matt Bryant to win Ricky Williams who was held in check until a fourth-quartdrive iced the third straight win for Miami (3-with a touchdown run He finished with 22 carries for 39 yards his worst game as a Dolphin Tiki Barber scored on a run and Biyant added a field goal for the Giants game-clinchi- ng er 1) rd 43-ya- rd 14-ya- rd Packers 35 Seahawlu 13 Brett Favre guided Green Bay on five consecutive touchdown drives to help the Packers beat their former coach Mike Holmgren That was sweet revenge for Favre who in Holmgren's first return to Lambeau Field when he committed six turnovers in a 27-- 7 loss to the Seahawks in 1999 Holmgren helped resurrect the Packers from 1992-9- 8 ed ' homecoming Jeff Garcia completed 15 of 27 passes for 192 yards and rushed for another score for the 49ers (2-- 3) V one-on-o- ne winning one Super Bowl and two NFC crowns This time Favre completed 19 of 25 passes for 185 yards two touchdowns and no interceptions for Green Bay (3-Ahman Green ran 27 times fa 118 yards and two touchdowns against his forma team 2) 7 ? Hamm sent a perfect feed to Tiffeny Milbrett in the 74th minute leaving the American forward with foe German goalkeeper But her shot sailed ' high over the net The last gasp eame on Hamm’s cor-- 1 ner kick in the 89th minute It fell harmlessly to the ground and the Germans kicked the ball out of danger “We had opportunities but it’s one thing to create them it’s another to finish them” Hamm said 1- -1 65-ya- rd Continued from B1 his third field goal a for a 7 lead Bears 24 Raiders 21 ' -- r: 1- -0 -2 NFL ft - 4-3- -3 es : 19-2- -2 r xr ft' M 2' Wk i — ’ - Germany will play the winner of match Sunday night’s Sweden-Canad- a for foe World Cup title next Sunday in Carson Calif The United States will face foe other semifinal loser for third ft jftAt v’" X V 'a'-- who snapped a three-gam- e losing streak with just enough offense to extend the Lions’ road losing streak to 19 games Jaguars 27 Chargers 21 Byron Leftwich threw like a veteran and returning receiver Jimmy Smith played as though he hadn’t missed a day as foe Jaguars won their first game e Smith returning from suspension for violating foe league’s substance-abus- e ’ policy caught eight passes for 137 yards including a highlight-re- el for 36 yards four-gam- one-hand- er Eagles 27 Redskins 25 Defensive end ND Kalu returned an interception 15 TD and yards for the Brian Westbrook had a TD run for foe Eagles had a Washington (3-chance to tie it but Patrick Ramsey overthrew Laver-anuColes on a conversion with 13 seconds left Browns 33 Steelers 13 Urn Couth threw for two touchdowns and ran for another before halftime as Cleveland ended a six-galosing streak to their biggest rivals The Browns (2-shook off the absence of foe injured Kelly Holcomb and two tough losses in Pittsburgh a year ago to beat the Steelers (2-for only the third time in 16 games Tommy Maddox had force turnovers — his fumble on the Steelers third play from scrimmage led to Phil Dawson's field goal and a 10-- 0 Browns lead go-ahe- ad 19-ya- rd 2) es 3) 3) 19-ya- rd A 0 |