European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday november 7,198b the stars and stripes Pago 23 still unbeaten top 20 Roundup second half Wake up Call lifts mountaineers 51 -13 West Virginia s Anthony Brown 41-Yard touchdown run Cincinnati a no. 4 West Virginia had to gel Over a Flat Altitude before it could flatten the University of Cincinnati to stay unbeaten. West Virginia coming off an emotional Victory Over Penn stale struggled through a ragged first half before overwhelming Cincinnati 51-13 saturday. Major Harris threw three touchdown passes As the 9-0 mountaineers used he big play to make up Tor their emotional drop off coming off the 51-30 win Over Penn slate. We kind of went through the motions today coach Don Nehlen said. I think we weren t very Sharp  we were lackadaisical in the first half said har Ris who left the game with a bruised hip in the third Quarter. Once we got going in the second half look  Harris threw touchdown passes of 14 Yards and 68 Yards to Reggie rom Bart and a 40-yarder to Grantis Bell to give the mountaineers a 24-13 half Lime Lead West Virginia put the game out of reach with a 24 Point third Quarter. Anthony Brown went 41 Yards with a Pilch out from Harris to score and Rembert sprinted is Yards on an end around Tor a 38-13 Lead Midway through the Quarter we did t make enough big plays Cincinnati coach Dave Currey said. We run a reverse and get six Yards they run a reverse and gel a  West Virginia s record is its Best since the school started playing football in 1891. Cincinnati 2-7, has lost its last six games by a combined score of 243-54. Cincinnati pestered Harris by blitzing heavily in the first half but ended up getting burned twice on Long touchdown passes. Harris left the game after suffering a bruised hip in the third Quarter the second Lime this season tie s left a game with a hip injury. After Phil Insalaco opened the scoring with a 36 Yard Field goal on Cincinnati s first Possession Harris hit his first three passes to put West Virginia ahead to stay. His 14-Yard toss to a wide open rom Bart capped a seven play 64-Yard drive. Alvoid Mays interception Sci up a 45-Yard touch Down pass from Harris to Bell on West Virginia s next play. Bell slipped past the us secondary to gel open by 10 Yards. Cincinnati surprised the mountaineers by tightening on defense and using Al Mckinney s Rushing to Cut the Lead to 17-13 Midway through the second Quarter. Mckinney rushed for 94 Yards on 17 first half carries. After Insalaco and Charlie Baumann traded Field goals Leonard cry took a Short pass from Don Hoog and slipped four tackles for a 16-Yard touchdown play. Us heavy blitzing Hen held West Virginia to three plays and a punt on each of its next two possessions but us s secondary collapsed again just before the half. Harris lobbed a Long pass of third-and-27 to Rembert who got behind us two deep safeties to Complete a 68-Yard touchdown play with 42 seconds left. -. The mountaineers third Quarter spurt pushed them ahead of their 44-Poinl scoring average. In addition to the runs by Brown and Rem bin Baumann kicked a 35-Yard Field goal and Jamie Lemon caught a to Yard touchdown pass from backup quarterback Greg Jones. West Virginia has topped so Points in its last three games and five times this season. Harris completed 6 of 13 passes for Iso Yards with one interception. Wyoming Routs step for Holiday berth Laramie Wyo. A films of Wyoming s Sti fling defense impressed Texas Elpaso coach Bob Stull but not As much As inc real thing. Wyoming is a great football team. They just Flat out kicked our Butts Stull said saturday after the loth ranked cowboys routed Texas Elpaso 51-6 to claim a share of inc Western athletic conference title. I did t expect their defense to be As Strong As it was. They re very solid.". Heading into inc game Stull hoped to prevent Wyoming from jumping to a big Lead which would Force the miners Init a passing game and unleash the cowboys pass Rush. Unfortunately for Texas Elpaso Wyoming led 14-0 after the first 13 minutes and Settle pass Rush Loose on minor quarterback pal Hegarty. "1 think they came in ready to play. Their coach told me he fell they were said Wyoming coach Paul Roach whose cowboys arc now 10-0 with two games left and 7-0 in the wac. But i think what they found today or were met with were a snarling Bunch of cowboys really ready to �0.� -. -. Three limes Hegarty was sacked As he completed seven of 25 passes for 66 Yards. Texas Elpaso did fare much belter on inc ground gaining 96 Yards. Wyoming meanwhile scored almost at will in Roll ing to ils 19lh consecutive regular season Victory. Dabby Dawson ran for 134 Yards and one touch Down while Quant rack Randy Wilnia completed 15 of 21 for 197 Yards and three touchdowns in a Little More than one half of action. I it s a great Day for Wyoming Roach said. Today was maybe As dominant a defensive performance Asive Ever been around. We Felt we would dominate the line of scrimmage. If we did t turn it Over we d beo1c" the Victory sends Wyoming to the Holiday bowl on dec. 30 As the wac s representative. Brigham Young lost a Chance to tic for inc league title by bowing to Sandiego state 27-15 saturday night. Texas Elpaso 8-2 Overall and 4-2 in the conference could t Hall the nation s top offensive team and was muffled by Wyoming s defense. The miners managed just two Chris Jack held goals one in the second Quarter and another in i he third. Dawson who surpassed the 1,000-Yard Mark for the season on his eighth carry of the game helped Wyom ing score first when a pass bounced from his hands to Freddie Nusselt in the end zone Wilh 9 27 left in the first Quarter. Two possessions later due Mai scored on a 22-Yard run that Pul Wyoming ahead 14-0. Wyoming which led 31-3 at the half finishes its season on the Road. Saturday against Houston and at Hawaii a week later. Bruins still smelling roses beat ducks 16-6 Eugene Ore. A Troy Aik Man s usually prolific passing game look the Day off. The Urcla defense did t. ". Vas a result the sixth ranked Bruins Are Back on the winning track and still in the Rose bowl race. I had a Tough Day passing air Nan said after his team struggled to a 16-6 Victory Over Oregon on saturday and that was even when i had the wind at my Back,1 Aikman did manage one touchdown pass and backup tailback Brian Brown went 68 Yards for another score As the Bruins pulled away from a 3-3 halftime tic. V Urcla 5-i in the Pac 10 and 8-1overall, had trouble moving the Ball through most of the afternoon As Aik Man completed 12 of 23 passes for 114 Yards his lowest total in two seasons at Urcla. Aikman May have had an off Day passing Bui his scrambling gave Ore Ion fits. ". Oregon .1-3 in the conference and 6 3 for the season could t manage a touchdown despite Good Field position most of the game. The Bruins rebounding from a 34 30 loss at Washington state last wee that knocked Urcla out of he no. I ranking took the Lead for a Good on a 12-play, 47-Yard drive in the third Quarter. ". On third and nine at the Oregon 11-Yard line Aikman found David keat ing alone in the end zone to give the Bruins a 10-3 cad with 3 41 left in the period with Pete Nelson playing for regular starting quarterback Bill Musgrave out for he season after breaking his Collar Bone last week Oregon drove from its 29 to the Urcla 25 on its next posses Sion after the drive stalled. Kirk Dennis who kicked a 23-Yard Field goal nine1 seconds before Hammic added a 43-.yardcr to Cut the Bruins Lead to 10-6 at 45 seconds into the final period. On the second play of Urcla s Nix Possession Brown a Sophomore play ing because starting tailback Eric Ball suffered a sprained right ankle in the first half raced 68 Yards for the score. -. The Pat failed Bui Urcla had a id Point Lead with 13 11 to play.,