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Show f, J mmm V PASS ON THE WAY. Southern Utah State's Scott Burns sprints out, still looking for a pass receiver in Saturday's 5-3 T-Bird win over Adams State. Mike Powell (20) leads interference, while Indian Darrell Meis (65) 1 pursues. Yes it's Football Safety, Field Goal give T-birds 5-3 win over rival Adams State . State College Thun-derbirds Thun-derbirds picked up a 5-3 victory over Adams State to boost their Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference record to 1-1 in action at T-Bird Stadium Saturday afternoon. af-ternoon. The score looks like a tercepted pass by the Indians In-dians on their own ten. Two pass attempts and a rush for two yard left them at the 12 with a fourth and eight. On the next play the ball was snapped over the punters head and through the end zone for the two point safety. Another pass to Hernandez in the end zone was long and with 27 seconds remaining Doug Bills a junior linebacker came onto the field and booted a '38 yard fieldgoal to boost the T-Birds to a 5-3 victory. baseball score and fans would have to have been there to understand the unusal 5-3 scoring. SUSC got on the boards first early in the second quarter of play when they took advantage of a bad snap from center on a punting situation and trapped the Indians in the End Zone for a safety and 2 points. Just the previous week the T-Birds had a safety scored on them by Mesa and could never make up the difference. dif-ference. This week the safety held up to make the difference for the T-Birds to score a win. SUSC dominated the first quarter of action giving the visiting Indians only one first down and 10 offensive plays. SUSC however did turn the ball over on a fumble on the first series of downs and the Indians had possession on the T-Bird 42. They moved to the nine yard line before they lost possession on a fumble that was trapped and recovered by Darrell Meis. SUSC began a drive from that point and late in the period lost possession on the Adams State 23. Again the SUSC defense held and took possession on the Indians 29 after a short put. The safety was actually set up following an in- Late in the period a fumble by the T-Birds on an Adams State punt set up a field goal opportunity for the visitors. Rich Hernandez mishandled the punt on the T-Bird 22 with just 11 seconds left in the half. A pass failed, but on the next play Robin Thomas of the Indians booted a 40 yard field goal with one second remaining to give the Indians a 3-2 advantage at the intermission. The third period belonged to the Indians as they dominated action. SUSC had an early opportunity after a recovered fumble on the Indian 18 but could not move the ball. The Indians took the ball midway in the period and drove on a series of plays for a first and 10 on the T-Bird threee yard line. Quarterback Quar-terback Loren Ulrich went to the air for an attempted TD but John Borla picked it off in the end zone and ran it out to the 8 for the T-Birds. A pass interception early in the fourth quarter gave the Indians another scoring opportunity, but again the T-Bird T-Bird defense stopped the drive after they had driven to the four yard line. A fieldgoal attempt was low and wide and SUSC had possession on their own 20. The score looked like a final at 3-2 with just 1 :41 left on the clock but the T-Birds. behind the passing of Scott Burns went to work. Taking over after another fieldgoal attempt on their own 20. Burns promptly hit split end Ben Dodson for 21 yards to the 41. Three plays later he connected with Mike Powell out of the backfield down to the Indian 40 with 1:08 remaining. Another pass to Dodson on the sideline moved the ball to the 33 another pass picked up a first down on the 26. Powell carried off tackle to the 23 with 37 seconds remaining and a Burns to Dodson p;s carried the ball to the 19 |