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Zwick leads Ohio State to Alamo win
The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO - Justin
Zwick hardly looked like a
quarterback who had been
on the bench for more than
two months.
Zwick replaced suspended
starter Troy
Smith and
threw for
189 yards
and a touch
down in his
first action
for Ohio
State since
Oct. 16, and
Ted Ginn Jr.
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No. 24 Ohio State
33, Oklahoma
State 7
and Lydell Ross each scored
Wednesday night as the 24th
ranked Buckeyes defeated
Oklahoma State 33-7 to win
the Alamo Bowl.
“Justin did an excellent job
and did what was asked of
him,” Ohio State coach Jim
Tressel said. “I told someone
that Justin was playing as
best as he’s ever played.”
Zwick, who lost the start
ing job to fellow sophomore
Smith after the sixth game
of the regular season, com
pleted 17 of 27 passes despite
a mild hamstring pull.
“If any of you have played
with a pulled hamstring, well,
it’s pretty painful,” Tressel
said. “Justin did an excellent
job.”
Zwick, who rode a station
ary bicycle on the sideline so
his hamstring didn’t tighten,
wasn’t about to pass on the
chance to end the season on
a positive note.
The Buckeyes went 3-3
under Zwick to start the sea
son before he injured a shoul
der in a loss to lowa. Smith
stepped in and led Ohio State
Fake punt leads to Colorado victory in Houston
The Associated Press
HOUSTON - Texas El-
Paso had the lead midway
through the fourth quarter,
the mostly
orange
clad crowd
was on its
feet and
Colorado
was about
to punt.
That’s
when Gary
deep into his
Colorado 33,
Texas-EI
Paso 28
Barnett went
bag of tricks.
Punter John Torp ran 22
yards on a fake punt for the
first down and Joel Klatt fol
lowed with his second touch
down pass of the game, lead
ing Colorado to a 33-28 vic
tory in the Houston Bowl on
Wednesday night.
Barnett was right, and the
Buffaloes (8-5) went on to
rebound from a humiliating
42-3 loss to Oklahoma in the
Big 12 title game with its
first bowl victory since the
1999 Insight.com Bowl.
Klatt finished 24-of-33 for
333 yards and directed a
fourth-quarter comeback by
Georgia's Ware working
By CHARLES ODUM
AP Sports Writer
TAMPA, Fla. - Georgia
tailback Danny Ware is
wearing a cast on his right
hand, the hand he normally
uses when carrying the ball.
After battling injuries all
season, the freshman says
he won’t allow the latest
setback to keep him out of
Saturday’s Outback Bowl
game against Wisconsin.
Since suffering a broken
bone in his right hand in the
final regular season game
Anderson also considering early entry into NFL
By CHARLES ODUM
AP Sports Writer
TAMPA, Fla. - Thomas
Davis, Max Jean-Gilles and
Odell Thurman are not the
only Georgia juniors who
are testing the NFL draft
waters.
Defensive tackle Gerald
Anderson confirmed
Wednesday he also has sub
mitted his name to an NFL
advisory panel to see where
he might be picked if he enters
the April NFL draft. Though
he lacks all-star billing or
flashy statistics, Anderson’s
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The Ohio State team celebrates its 33-7 win over Oklahoma State in the Alamo Bowl,
Wednesday in San Antonio.
(B-4) to victories in four of its
last five games.
But Smith was suspended
for the Alamo Bowl by the
team last week after univer
sity officials said he accepted
an unspecified gift from a
team booster - a violation of
NCAA rules.
Tressel declined to talk
about what’s next for the
football program, which has
been marred this season by
a series of arrests and allega
tions by former star player
Maurice Clarett that play
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Colorado’s Hugh Charles (2) rushes for a first down as
Texas-EI Paso’s Chris Mineo (70) pursues during the sec
ond quarter of the Houston Bowl Wednesday in Houston.
the plodding Buffaloes (8-5),
who tried to keep pace with
UTEP which ranks eighth
in the nation in scoring
offense.
Colorado led 3-0 midway
through the first quarter and
trailed until seizing the lead
late in the game.
The Miners (8-4) still had
against Georgia Tech, Ware
has worked on carrying the
ball exclusively with his left
hand.
“It just gets on my nerves
when I want to switch it over
and I know I can’t,” Ware
said Wednesday. “I realize
that I just can’t. I have to
keep it over there in the left
hand for the time being.”
Ware opened the season
as the starter but has bat
tled lung problems as well
as knee and ankle injuries
before his hand injury.
size (6-2, 318) and value as
a run-stopper might make
him a potential surprise in
the draft. Anderson says
he expects to return for his
senior season.
“I have done that just
out of curiosity,” he said
before practice Wednesday
for Saturday’s Outback
Bowl against Wisconsin.
“Everybody is curious. That’s
about as far as it’s going to
go right now. I have put my
name in there just to see
where I stand.”
Anderson acknowledged
ers routinely took cash gifts
from boosters.
Ginn, a true freshman
with dazzling speed, caught
six passes for 78 yards and
rushed for another 51 yards
and a touchdown. Ross rushed
for 99 yards on 12 carries,
and Mike Nugent kicked four
field goals for the Buckeyes
to become the school’s career
scoring leader.
Ohio State took advantage
of two early turnovers, and
never let the Cowboys (7-
5) get anything going often
a chance to win in the final
minutes.
On third-and-4 from the
UTEP 25, Jordan Palmer
completed a 15-yard pass to
Johnnie Lee Higgins, keep
ing a late drive alive. But
Palmer misfired badly on his
final four passes, and the
comeback try fizzled.
on one-handed approach
Even though he rushed
for 631 yards, Ware says it
hasn’t been an easy season.
“Oh man. I just take it and
learn from it,” Ware said.
“I’ve just got to get in the
weight room and work hard
and get my body right and
get on a better meal plan
and prepare for next year.”
Ware is expected to share
time with Georgia’s leading
rusher, Thomas Brown.
Ware also struggled with
fumbles while trying to
remain healthy, but coach
that if told he would be a
high pick in the draft, “That’s
an opportunity you’ve got to
take.”
Davis, a safety, and
Thurman, a linebacker, are
regarded as more likely to
leave the defense and declare
for the draft, as is Jean-
Gilles, an offensive tackle.
All are waiting to hear from
the advisory panel.
Anderson started all 11
games this year, though his
tackle total dropped from 55
in 2003, when he had eight
starts, to 29 this season.
SPORTS
sively.
Oklahoma State quarter
back Donovan Woods com
pleted 15 of 34 passes for 137
yards and rushed for another
80 yards.
Vemand Morency, one of
the nation’s top rushers this
season, was limited to 24
yards on eight carries.
Oklahoma State scored
its only points on a 4-yard
touchdown run by Shawn
Willis that capped an 80-yard
drive midway through the
fourth.
Barnett’s program was the
target of sexual assault claims
dating to 1997, followed by
an investigation that discov
ered sex, alcohol and drugs
were used as recruiting tools,
although there was no evi
dence that university officials
sanctioned it.
Then, Barnett was put
on three months of admin
istrative leave for making
insensitive remarks about
two accusers, including a
former kicker who said she
was raped by a teammate in
2000.
Barnett was reinstated
May 28, and began building
the foundation for a turn
around from a 5-7 record in
2003.
Colorado won its last three
games of the season to earn
a share of the Big 12 North
title, and Barnett was voted
the Big 12 coach of the year.
“We sort of finished the
way we started the season,”
Barnett said. “We were
determined to fight and stay
together. Every game has
been a fight. Nothing has
been easy.”
Mark Richt says the latest
injury may actually help
Ware hold the ball.
“I don’t think he’s put
the ball on the ground at
all since we started practice
after the final exams,” Richt
said.
“It may be helping him
to know you can’t switch
from one hand to the other.
Sometimes that’s good.”
By gametime, Ware will
have had 13 practices while
wearing the cast on his
hand.
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Northside and Lamar County players wait for a poten
tial rebound Wednesday in Roberta.
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finish with a 75-14 win.
Turnovers played a key
roll in Northside’s domi
nation. Lamar County
coughed up the ball more
than 50 times. Twenty of
them were steals. Levi and
Janay Wilson led the team
with four steals each.
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A Lamar County player goes in for a layup against
Northside Wednesday in Roberta.
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(McGee).
“At the end of the game,
we did a good job of keeping
the ball away from him.”
Brunson’s three-point
play with a minute left
gave Northside a three
point margin.
That didn't appear to be
enough with McGee hover
ing just beyond the arc, but
the Eagles shut him down
and the Trojans’ Wilkerson
had to take the desperation
shot.
His miss led to a despera
tion foul on Ward. Thus
Northside's win.
Lamar County took
advantage of 10 Northside
turnovers in the second
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2004
SCOREBOARD
NORTHSIDE 75, LAMAR COUNTY 14
LC: 3 7 2 2-14
NS: 22 21 15 17-75
Halftime: (NS) 43-10. Scorers: (LC)
Hill 2. Walker 2, McMichael 7. Williams '
3; (NS) Wilson 7, Davis 2, Danielle
Dawsey 10, Billings 4, Ferguson 4,
Turner 5, Holder 4, Brooks 2, Lakeshia
Levi 16, Mitchell 4, Trycee Brown 17.
3-pointers: (NS) Dawsey. Records: (LC)
1-6; (NS) 10-1.
half to stay within striking
distance.
“We’re a post con
scious team,” Smith said.
“Sometimes we try too hard
to get the ball inside.”
Still, 30 of their points
came from inside the
paint.
SCOREBOARD
NORTHSIDE 64, LAMAR COUNTY 61
NS: 14 19 21 11 -64
LC: 11 17 16 17-61
Halftime: (NS) 33-28. Scorers: (NS)
Stewart 5, Rodriquez 2, Stefan Lewis
11, Jeremy Holden 13, Brown 2, Taylor
3, Grayer 3, Jamal Brunson 13, Kenith
Ward 13; (LC) J. Williams 2, Mikyle
McGee 30, Evans 2, D. Williams 5,
Demarcus Jordan 15, Wilkerson 5,
Respress 2. 3-pointers: (NS) Stewart,
Lewis 2, Brunson; (LC) McGee 6,
Jordan 2, Wilkerson. Records: (NS) 5-6;
(LC) 2-5.
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