Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday October 17 2003 7 ifj'ii B3 :VSI 1 FORT COLLINS Colo (AP) ran for two touch-- 7 s downs and passed for another— all 7 in the second quarter —as Coir orado State beat Air Force 30-2-0 Thursday nighL:--Van Put’s versatility helped foe£ Runs (3-- 3 1 Mountain West) generate 364 total yards and moved the defending champions back into contention in the conference " was led by Air Force (6-Chance who Harridge 'quarterback ran for 136 yards and two scores iHe was intercepted twice both f times by safety Benny Mastropaolo fVan Pelt ran for 125 yards and completed 14 of 22 passes for 238 David Anderson caught nine passes for 199 yards — both career scoring highs — including a 'r‘-C '':'iAPpholo pass 7 After a scoreless first quarter that Colorado State's Ben Stratton back drags down Air Force's Matt Ward during a ' included Air Force's block of a Col- orado State field goal attempt the Mountain West Conference game Thursday l?f?' e Bradlee Van Pelt iCollegelfootballl 3-- 1) 2 7! £ t V v ’i' (K (I Van Pelt put the Rams back in drive front culminating a teams combined for 37 points in a $$ with a scoring nm wild second quarter with CSU !t iVan Pelt’s pass to Ander-"so- n another State' Colorado set 4 vj'f 'a up leading Pelt got it started capping an ? score with 1:01 left in the half Van ' scram- - Pelt faked to his tailback going drive with 4 ble barely three minutes into the right then found Anderson wide open on the left side of the end period seme zone for a Pass plays — a rarity in Air Anderson hadi catches for 148 Force’s wishbone offense — played yards in the half including recep- key roles in the Falcons’ two scores N tions of 3 1 36 and 38 yards in the quarto Matt Ward turned a run and into a screen pass Marcus Houston’s gain Harridge hit Joe Schieffer on a 41- put Colorado State ahead 4 late the next on in the third period setting pass play yard '$ Air Force responded with a 15- sewing run up Harridge’s drive that ended on After Colorado State’s Jeff play TD run but a & field goal cock kicked a Harridge’s conversion pass on the equaling his career longest Air Force got a quick score when halfattempt fell incomplete back Schieffer took a pitchout and V' NC State 17 Clemson 15 At Raleigh NC Philip Rivers heaved a scoring pass to a leopen Alec Messerall for a 14- - threw two touchdown passes to tie lead---the Atlantic Coast Conference 65-ya- rd 38-ya- rd 23-1- IvS’rVan 2-- '' 89-ya- 13-ya- rd 12-ya- rd 30-1- Bab-yar- 48-ya- 80-ya- rd ds rd rd int ?' 69-ya- rd ' h w i - v - V JsY'l’i - 'S"‘ 'hV career record as the Wolfpack beat J the ’ngers'if: f Rivers had scoring tosses to TA McLendon and Richard Washing' ton fw the Wolfpack (5-- 3 2-5-who improved to 0 at home this season Rivers now has 19 touchdown passes in his career tying the mark set by Florida State’s Chris Weinke Chad Jasmin scored the only ' for die Tigers t touchdown who trailed the contest (4-- 3 2-- 2) '’ throughout Aaron Hunt added three field goals i'h as Clemson fell to 0-- 5 in nationally televised Thursday night games i Clemson had won three of the ” last four meetings here but the lead Wolfpack took an 1 early in the fourth quarter and held off a comeback attempt by the V v Tigers The Wolfpack held a 6 halftime y lead and increased the margin on its first drive of the second half' ' t 7-- f ‘V s' ) MvalaricheistillihaveiWild’shumbers By The jrXZ Associated Press 36 saves as die RedWings extended 4 their winning streak tofiuee games $y: - S' Canadians 4 Penguins 1 secscored two with Sergei Brylin Montreal Mike Ribeiro had a i the New Iw-pmfs left in regulation goal and two assists and the Canadians sey Devils salvaged a 2 tie with the 1 scored three power-pla- y Toronto after their Leaf! goals extend-raising y Maple v g Stanley Cup championship banner -- u£ ing their winning: 7 7:7'::lhursday rujdtt in East RufoetfbtdNJ7£ streak to three gamesr Ribeiro set op a goal by Richard 7'" Jay Pandolfo also sewed for Zednik late in the second and Jason made 12 7y'7 Jcrsey and Martin Brodeur saves as the Devils remained unbeaten vr Ward’s power-pla- y goal in the third Avalanche 5 Wild 2 At St Paul Minn Peter Forsberg had a goal and an assist and Teemu Selanne scored his first goal for Col- At 2-- ’ season-openin- New'y: y-ftr- ms Y Forsberg scored the first of three sec goals ond-peri- od fw the Avalanche Jassen Cullimore scored 23 seconds ?"'7fwho beat the Wild for the 12th time in games’ apart in the second period as the Light-- " I 16 regular-seaso- n Predators 4 Blues 1 X y ning spoiled Phoenix’s bid fw its first At Nashville Tenn Jotdin Tootoo kf '4--0 shut in franchise histwygot his first NHL point and Marek during a power play at 8:07 v 7 C Zidlicky scored a power-pla- y goal and assisted on another ‘!f Blue Jackets 2 Blackhawlu Tootoo die first person of Inuit :v7RickNash had a goal and an assist Xi and Marc Denis stopped 30 shots descent to play in die league assisted Columbus won its third straight game - on Dan Hamhuis’ power-pla- y goaf at 'X-at Nationwide Arena --“the best homeX 310:53 of the second 'r7 stand irf the team's Sharks 0 Flyers 0 ' Todd Marchant had a goal and Geoff - £ At San Jose Calif Jeff Hacketr X SSanderson added two assists for the Blue made 27 saves and Evgeni Nabokov made 26 fw the Sharks Jackets who are off to a ‘‘'I V A Vincent Damphousse thought he had ''A7X7'Thrasheri 0 Rangers 4 M New York Pasi Nurminen won it ft San Jose 3:47 into overtime Si stopped 29 shots far Atlanta and he deflected the puck under p Rangers counterpart Mike Dunham vlHackett’s pads as die goalie slid into turned aside 30 But Hacked swept the puck k' It was die first scoreless tie in the away with his leg and video replay X 'didn’t show conclusive evidence of a ' history of die Thrashers :’ who are off to their best start ever at :' Oilers 4 Sabres 1 X' ' ij At Edmonton Alberta Ales i Red Wings 3 Canucks 2 Hemsky At Detroit Ray Whitney broke a tie and Raffi Tones had a goal and an - with 1 :06 left and Dwninik Hasek made assist each fw the Oilers V as-'y- fb'seMwis'KX!'77i' -- : starL'y -0 - r t :Jf-wh- five-seas- on : '7 ! dosing seconds of the third period vs Toronto Thursday night Giants drop bid for ’08 Super Bowl Bowl-readEAST RUTHERFORD NJ y by 2009” J Super John K Mara die Giants’ (AP) — The New York Giants " ' v? and their landlord have aban- - -a toward landing the Super v'X executive vice president and : ' chief operating officer said in dwied dieir effwts to bring the £ Bowl ' 2008 Super Bowl to Giants 7 That leaves Arizona Wash-- a statement Stadium and will offer a “far ington and Ttuiqia as the duee 7 He has said he hoped i’ for die would begtn after V 2009 bid candidates fw the 2008 superior” ’ NFL championship game which will be awarded Oct :V the 2004 season and take two : ' The announcement by the 30 at a league meeting in years but noted Thursday Giants and the New Jersey that there is no “definitive Chicago The 2009 game is be : to scheduled Sports and Exposition tentatively ry agreement’’ on when it would be done Authority came less than four awarded in March 2005 weeks after they reached an “We are convinced howev- 7 “We believe the renovadem : Stathat the bid we will offer Giants er we have fw agreement on renovating plans for 2009 will be far superior Stadium with an eye dium will make it more than' to any bid we could make' earlier’’ Mara said ' A renovation agreement is be later this to sighed likely year the authority said I on ! j' £ ' - : - : Busch looks to rebound MARTINSVILLE Va (AP) — Everything looked rosy fw Kurt Busch when the season began Starting his third Winston Cup season Busch was one of the favorites to win j the series championship mostly based on a big finish in 2002 that included three wins in the last five races That streak began with a victory at Martinsville Speedway the track where Busch will try to turn around a slump at Sunday’s Subway 300 “I’d say 2002 was a complete success ‘ and this year we tried to build off of that” the driver of the No 97 Roush Racing Fwd said “We were able to start out in that fashion but you could say there are a lot of things that are out of your control that I had to adjust to’’ Things did start well this season with a finishes in victory and three second-plac- e the first six races Busch was third in the points after thefirst 11 races and appeared ready to contend for the title as expected - Instead his season took some unexpected turns Busch has failed to finish six of the first 31 races in 2003 after having only Iate-sea-s- on I would allow more renovations to the stadium Zoffinger also said the later date would give the authority more time fw a planned rede- velopment of the Meadow- lands Sports Complex which includes the stadium at Martinsville "I four such failures all of last season “We haven’t had as much luck as we had last year” Busch said “Things that are out of our control are adding up to where we are in points right now so you can say it’s been a learning year” His education also includes some knowledge about bring responsible fw his actions hard-earn- : NJSEA president George Zoffinger said that a 2009 bid ed Busch’s feud with Jimmy Spencer blew up in August at Michigan when Spencer punched Busch in the k face after some laterace bumping It later came out that Busdi was heard on a radio transmission saying he was trying to intentionally flatten Spencer ’s fenda In the aftermath Busdi has been booed by fans and roundly criticized by on-trac- other driven fw bring too brazen and brash fw a with so much yet to prove Jimmy Fennig his crew chief thinks Busch has handled that well “There is no change at all in Kurt” Fennig said “His drive to win is there “The fans he kind of blocks that out i : As soon as that car starts up he doesn’t really pay attention to Jimmy Spencer or what happened He’s focused on winning that race at that time” Despite the problems Busch was still sixth in the points after winning at 23 — his fourth win of the still a long way behind was He year Roush teammate Matt Kenseth the series leader but Busch stayed deter1 mined to move up the standings It hasn’t worked out that way Since that last win Busch's only top-1- 0 finish in seven races has been a sixth last month at Talladega Busch’s last two races have been disastrous with an engine failure and subsequent fire relegating him to 40th at Kansas and a crash leaving him 41st last week at Charlotte All that has also left Busch tenuously holding onto 10th in the points with five Bris-tplonA- ug races remaining' “I don’t think the team needs improvement” he said "I believe what has happened over the past few months is that the Chevys have been able to polish up on what they can build fw vV-- : 2) rd 32-ya- rd 'r-- V ‘2wr" GREENSBORO NC (AP) — Peter Jacobsen always enjoyed playing Forest Oaks ' Country Club Then the course got a makeoveir and now he really loves it ' Jacobsen birdied his first six holes — and 11 overall — 63 to while shooting a d set a tournament ' record and take the lead at the Chrysler Classic of Greens- boro on Thursday first-roun- The course was redesigned over die winter by Davis Love m who opened it up by moving around several tee boxes while reconfiguring all 18 greens “Davis has retained a lot of the old course flavor but also added a lot of variety’’ Jacobsen said “The golf course is more like a roller coaster — some holes are easy some holes are hard back and forth That’s exciting to a golfer nobody wants to play the same hole over and over” The varfpty helped Jacobsen to the best start to a single round in his career He birdied the first five holes in Las Vegas last weekend “I didn’t think I would win ' again on the PGA Tour” he said “My game has come back since that surgery I feel like I’m swinging pretty well and I’ve been working hard on V my game” : 1 - Behind Jacobsen was Stephen : Ames at 64 followed : by David Toms and Shigeki 65 Maruyama at Toms who won $1 million fw winning the Wachovia Classic in Charlotte earlier this year has a dilemmaon his hands in his return golf outing to North Carolina: If he con- tinues playing well he’ll have to miss watching his beloved LSU Tigers this weekend ' He’s on target for a late tee time on Saturday which would min any chance of making it to Columbia SC in time to watch LSU play South Carolina That would be disappointing fw Toms an LSU alum who matches his fall golf schedule against the Tigers’ “I took foe month of September off — I've been to “This is a personal best” four home games already and said Jacobsen I was hoping to make it to He seems to be playing his Columbia” he said “I’m best golf in years He won the going to find some way to be Greater Hartford Open in July in that stadium Saturday night his first victory since 1995 He “Really my schedule is not ' went through a horrible slump based around that A couple of in the years that followed weeks are just because it's then had hip surgery in 2001 something 1 love to do It’s a that gave him a “glimmer of hobby and a passion that 1 have" hope to win again” V'- - 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