I The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - Monday, September 18, 1995 - 5B far Ryan Wh )aily Sports Edi CHESTN eisbach di ervous bef gainst Bost Dreisbach' erback Mar "ore out of The tale o "Iwasner id. "I was aking the That migh At one point had badly m But as he debut, he br big play. Dreisbach middle of th .ump-started propelled it Dreisbach and 177 yar Aside fro game going, to the game Dreisbach- offensive lin "I just wa down and st okay,"offen Against V line that ma the end zone Thatplayen winning tou eisbach, i t { z: , Y .. t a4S l . M1, U... .. ii .v Hartsell less than perfect ito Michigan coach Lloyd Carr, who has litor shown confidence in Dreisbach all along, UT HILL, Mass. - Scott continued to be impressed by his quarter- dn't really know why he was back. ore Saturday night's game "He's a kid. He's a youngster, but in on College, but he was. my mind he'smade some big-timethrows i's counterpart, Eagle quar- in there," Carr said. "From the time he rk Hartsell, expected a lot threwtheinterception(inthesecondquar- himself than what he gave. ter) through the rest of the game, I don't f two quarterbacks. remember a bad throw. vous coming out," Dreisbach "But up until then,I don't remember a s overthrowing people and good one." wrong reads." As far as remembering goes, Hartsell it be a slight understatement. would probably like to forget that Satur- Dreisbach was 1-for-11 and day night ever happened. issed a number of receivers. The Eagles' quarterback was coming did against Virginia in his offofwhat coach Dan Henning described oke out of the slump with a as his best game ever a week earlier against Virginia Tech. ihit Mercury Hayes up the Henning described Hartsell's game e field for 52 yards. The play against Michigan as his worst ever. J the Michigan offense and The junior completed just eight of his on to its 23-13 victory. 20 passes for only 74 yards. Hartsell also h finished the game 9-for-21 through three interceptions, onemore than ds. he had given up all season. m the big plays to get his "I never got in the groove," Hartsell there was another similarity said quietly after the game. "It was just e against the Cavaliers for one of those games." -he gotmoreadvice fromhis According to Hartsell it wasn't the e. Michigan defense so much as his own nted to let him know to settle poor play that contributed to the Eagles' ay in the pocket and he'd be lack of offense. sivetackleJoe Marinaro said. "They were good," he said ofthe Wol- Virginia it was the offensive verines' defenders. "They have quick de sure Dreisbach threw into guys, but it's nothing we haven't seen on the final play ofthegame. before and we'll see it again." dedinMercury Hayes' game- Hartsell, however, is hoping he won't chdown grab. ever have a similar performance. GAME STATISTICS PASSING Player Hartsell C-A Yds TD nt 8-20 74 0 62 1 3 1 Hasselbeck 5-8 Totals 13-28 136 1 4 RUSHING Playerj Smith Walker Cloud Hartsell Totals A 2 tt Yds Avg ?4 71 3.0 3 15 5.0 LgTD 130 6 1 1 5 5.0 5 5(-)39(-)7.8 0 33 52 1.613 0 0 I RECEIVING Player No. Grice 3 Yds 47 Avg 15.7 LgTD 21 0 AP PHOTO Miami (Ohio) players celebrate after Chad Seitz's 20-yard field goal lifted the team to a 30-28 win over Northwestern. Wildcatslose g and respect in shock 1s Smith 3 12 Pollack 2 32 Everson 2 23 Cloud 2 9 Watson 1 13 Totals 13 136 4.0 5 16.0 27 11.5 13 4.5 9 13.0 13 10.0 27 0 1 0 0 0 I Je can't aford to have any more sat like that" - Joe Marinaro Michigan offensive tackle, on the Wolverines' slow start 3 13 7 tailed) Northwestern made its No.25 ranking and opening victory over Notre Dame look like flukes, blowinga21-point fourth- quarter lead Saturday and losing 30-28 to Miami (Ohio) on Chad Seitz's 20-yard field goal at the final gun. The winning score was set up when punter Paul Burton couldn't gather in Larry Curry's low snap. The ball rolled 36 yards down to Northwestern's I- yard line before Burton recovered with 43 seconds left. Miami (2-1) took over and lost 2 yards on three plays before Seitz, who had missed two earlier attempts, made the 20-yarder. Coming off its stunning triumph at Notre Dame two weeks ago, North- western (1-1) was ranked for the first time since the final poll of 1971 - its last season with more than four wins. Steve Schnur's touchdown passes of 27 and 36 yards to D'Wayne Bates and 12 yards to Darnell Autry put North- western up 21-0. And Rodney Ray's scoring interception return on the sec- ond play of the second half gave the Wildcats a 28-7 lead. But Northwestern then began play- ing like the "Mildcats" of old - blow- ing snaps and holds on field goal at- tempts, generating little offense and failing to contain Miami's attack. Northwestern still led 28-7 in the fourth quarter when Sam Ricketts - playing quarterback in place of Neil Dougherty, who hurt his foot late in the first half- rallied Miami to vic- tory. Ricketts, a redshirt sophomore who led Miami to two victories at the end of last season, capped a 55-yard drive with a 3-yard touchdown pass to Jay Hall with 11:14 to play to make it 28-14. After Northwestern failed to get a first down, Ricketts completed four passes to account for all 68 yards on the Redskins' next drive, which he finished with a 9-yard scoring pass to Jeremy Adkins as Miami pulled to 28-21. Miami gotthe ball back with 5:38 togo and Ricketts threw passes of 32 yards to Adkins and 26 yards to Hall before Ty King scored on a 2-yard run with 2:22 left. But Northwestern stayed in front when Ricketts overthrew Eric Henderson on the 2-point conversion try. Northwestern wasn't able to run down the clock, and then came the Wildcats' final failure from punt formation. Ohio St. 30, Washington 20 Eddie George ran for 212 yards and two touchdowns, and Bob Hoying threw a pair ofTD passes as No. 10 Ohio State beat No. 18 Washington 30-20 Satur- day. Ohio State (2-0) had been idle for 20 days - the longest in-season layoff during its 106 years of football - after opening with a 38-6 victory over Bos- ton College in the Kickoff Classic. The Buckeyes showed they weren't stale by building a 23-7 lead at the half as George piled up 149 yards on the ground and scored once. George's 212 yards and 36 carries were thesecond highest totals of his career. He accounted for 98 yards in two Ohio State drives in the second season- opener since 1991 with a 31-7 win over Ball State. T h e Golden Gophers ( 1 -0), whose de- fense fin- ished tenth in the Big raced to the end zone. Both offenses were overwhelmed by stout defenses until the fourth quarter when a 47-yard field goal by Illinois' Bret Scheuplein broke a scoreless tie. On the next possession, the Wildcats moved 80 yards in nine plays, capped by Dan White's 17-yard touchdown pass to Rodney Williams. Illinois (1-2) had only nine first downs and less than 150 yards of offense. With the home fans booing Johnny Johnson, the Illini replaced their starting quarter- back Minnesota 31, Ball St. 7 Cory Sauter shone in his first college start Saturday, hitting Ryan Thelwell three times in the end- zone as Minnesota won its first Roundup: Games played 'Sept 16 from lHasselbck** for friends, fml Eagles jumped out to a lead on Michigan. And like last season, the Wolverines came out on top. Boston College coach Dan Henning, however, felt alot better afterthis season's loss. "At the end of this game, I thought we were a lot closer to them than last year," Henning said. WHAT IS HE WEARING?: Michigan coach Lloyd Carr was caring and sharing in his postgame press conference until something odd caught his eye at the back of the room. A stadium employee came in to remove something from a coin-operated locker at the back of the room. He was wearing an "Ohio State hockey" shirt. Carr stopped in mid-sentence and made some unanswered comments toward the teenager. "That guy's wearing Ohio State in here for crying out loud," Carr quipped. "What are you doing in here with that shirt on?" DON'T PUT ME IN, COACH: The game wasn't close at the end, so Carr didn't have to resort to a secret weapon he unveiled early last week. Carr joked that since the cross country teams were in Boston and that he would use distance runner Kevin Sullivan if the game went into "overtime." After he developed large blisters in Saturday morning's cross country meet, Sullivan's availability would have been limited anyway. Not to mention the fact that the 5-foot- 10, 150-pound Sullivan wanted nothing to do with any football game. "He i'may have tot come tin to the stands and find me," Sullivan said. Ten in points allowed last season, held the Cardinals (2-1) to 176 yards of total offense, including just 53 in the first half, and converted two Ball State turn- overs into touchdowns. The last Division I-A team in the nation to begin play this seasonMinne- sota hadn't won an opener since 1991 - the year before Jim Wacker took over as head coach. The Gophers opened last season by getting thrashed 56-3 by Penn State. Minnesota was denied its first shut- out in 49 games when Matt Knisely hit Ed Abernathy with a 14-yard scoring pass with 12 seconds left to play. Penn St. 66, Temple 14 Wally Richardson, trying to emerge from Kerry Collins' shadow, rebounded from a mediocre opener and threw for 198 yards and three touchdowns as No. 7 Penn State beat Temple 66-14 Saturday. A week earlier, Richardson looked confused and tentative in a 24-23 victory over Texas Tech. On Saturday, he ap- peared comfortable and confident, using an array of short passes and rollouts to carve up the Temple defense. Penn State (2-0) led 31-0 before Temple got a first down or crossed midfield. Penn State coach Joe Paterno tried to hold the score down by using backups much of the second half. Iowa 27, Iowa St. 10 Iowa continued its domination of Iowa State, getting a career-high 178 yards rushing from Sedrick Shaw in a 27-10 victory. Shaw, Tavian Banks, Rodney Filer and quarterback Matt Sherman each scored on short touchdown runs as Iowa (2-0) beat the Cyclones (1-2) for the 13th straight time. It was Iowa State's first game in the series under coach Dan McCarney who played at Iowa and later coached there for 13 years. The Cyclones stunned the Hawkeyes by taking a 7-6 lead on Troy Davis' 63-yard touchdown run with 20 seconds left in the first quarter. But Iowa rallied behind Sherman and Shaw, a junior who carried 32 times in topping his previous high of 145 yards against Northern Illinois in 1993. Sherman's 31-yard pass to Scott Slutzker set up Filer's 1-yard touchdown run, which gave Iowa a 12-10 halftime lead. Runs of 15 and 24 yards by Shaw led to Banks' 5-yard touchdown burst up the middle in the third quarter and Sherman hit Slutzker on third down for 15 yards to keep the Hawkeyes moving in the drive that led to Romano's field goal, which made it 21-10. Michigan St. 30, Louisville 7 Scott Greene rushed for two touch- downs and an aggressive Michigan State defense smothered Louisville with five turnovers and a safety in a 30-7 victory Saturday. Michigan State (1-1), coming off a 50-10 loss to No. 2 Nebraska last week in which it yielded 666 yards, allowed just 163 in handing Louisville (2-1) a home-opener loss on a rainy afternoon. Tony Banks completed 13-of-23 passes for 116 yards and ran 19 yards for atouchdown on a broken play. Marc Renaud rushed 29 times for 150 yards to power the Michigan State offense. Wisconsin 24, Stanford 24 Mark Butterfield threw for 335 yards and had three touchdown passes, in- cluding an 8-yard scoring toss to Greg Comella with 5:21 left, as Stanford tied Wisconsin 24-24 Saturday. Butterfield, who was 30-of-42, led the Cardinal (2-0-1) from their own I into Wisconsin territory in the final two minutes, but time ran out as a despera- tion pass fell incomplete in the end zone. Carl McCullough, making his sec- ond collegiate start, ran for 204 yards on 34 carries and scored once for Wis- consin (0-1-1). Darrell Bevell passed for 172 yards and two scores for the Badgers, but threw an interception that set up Stanford's tying touchdown. Kentucky 17, Indiana 10 One run up the field more than made up for all those times Billy Jack Haskins was thrown backward. The sophomore quarterback, sacked sexen times in his first collegiate start, ran 42 yards for the go-ahead touch- down Saturday as Kentucky snapped the nation's longest major college los- ing streak at 12 games with a 17-10 victory over Indiana. The Wildcats (1-2) took advantage of Indiana.penalties that set up both of their touchdowns and a fourth-quar- ter Indiana fumble that set up a clinch- ing 49-yard field goal by Brian Sivinski. Player No.Yds Watson 2 37 Funke Totals 1 11 348 DEFENSE Player Haff Storz M orabito M aye Edmonds Giancakos Porter Wiggins Colinet Clifford Sullivan O'Brien Speight Blount Cloud Gibbons Monk Walker King Tolefree PUNTING Player Malecki Totals Solo 10 3 7 6 4 4 4 4 2 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 Ast 1 7 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 I Tot 11 10 8 7 5 5 5 5 5 4 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 No. Yds Avg Lg, 9 33337.052 9 33337.0 52 PUNT RETURNS Player No. Yds Avg Watson 2 6 3.0 Lg TD 6 0 Totals 2 6 3.060 KICKOFF RETURNS Avg Lg' 18.5 25 11.0 11 16.0 25 TD 0 0 0 INTERCEPTIONS Player Speight Totals No. Y& 1 a TEAM STATISTICS MICH First Downs Third Down Rushing Passing Total Offense Plays Turnovers Penalties Time 21 5-15 162 177 339 76 2 7-48 34:32 s TD 9 0 9 0f BC 14 5-15 52 136 188 61 4 6-48 25:28 Dig T"n Stanig a rame Ani Games ... ........ . I mom l4AV "!'l! is c