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ï~ . : ; •%. - • • • ' - * * • w* *..*.*< > - ./ f - ? Ù -Z J . .• ?. « -♦ «IW»- Page B5 SEPT. 23,1998 P tf rtlawò .T > . Seahawks off to flying Start t I ■ M oon fooled the Redskins badly on a m isdirection play for S eattle’s second touchdown o f the quarter. < Steve Erickson and Seahawks coaching staff guide the team to an 3-0 start. Their next contest is against the Pittsburg Steelers SEATTLE - Steve Broussard got the unbeaten Seattle Seahawks o ff to a perfect start. Then their defense kept their record perfect against the w inless W ashington Redskins. G am e notesN FL com m issioner Paul Tagliabue attended Sunday’s game. He said he was in Seattle to get updated over the plans for the team ’s new outdoor, sta d iu m .... Seahawks w id e r e c e iv e r Jo e y G a llo w a y sprained an ankle, while linebacker C had B row n and d efensive end P hillip D aniels had concussions. Erickson said he expected all three to play in S eattle’s next gam e at Pitts burgh next Sunday. ... The R edskins’ Tw an Russell suffered a sprained toe in his left foot. W ashington guard Joe Patton and safety safety Jesse Cam pbell had sprained right knees. ... Top draft choice Anthony Simmons m ade his debut with the Seahawks at outside linebacker after Brown went out with his concussion in the third q u a rte r.... The Seahaw ks are a plus- 8 in turnover ratio, while the Redskins are m in u s-8 .... M oon hasn’t thrown an interception this year. Broussard ran back the gam e’s opening kickoff 90 yards for a touchdow n and the Seahawks ran their record to 3-0 - their first since 1986 - w ith a 24-14 victory over the Redskins on Sun day. " I t w as b lo c k e d p e r f e c tly ,” Broussard said. " I r a n through a hole as big as a truck.” The Seahawks also took advan tage o f three turnovers on a day when their offense cam e up short statisti cally. " O u r goal every gam e is to get three turnovers,’ ’ safety Jay Bellamy * 4 ' T ' • • > /. * said. " T h e re ’s nothing like taking the ball aw ay to deflate your oppo nent.” Ricky W atters had his second straight 100-yard rushing game and scored his first touchdow n for the Seahaw ks, w ho also got W arren M oon’s sixth TD pass o f the season. The Redskins (0-3) are o ff to their w orst start since 1981, when they dropped their first five games. ‘ ’T here’s no question our team is as frustrated as you can b e,” dow n cast Redskins coach Norv Turner said. "W h en you start the game out w ith a kick return for a touchdown, that really hurts.” Said W ashington linebacker Ken H arvey. " I t w ould be easy to give up. But we have 13 gam es left and we have to believe w e can win all 13 gam es.” W ashington lost despite getting a 300-yard passing gam e from Trent Green. G reen was 27-of-54 for 383 yards and tw o touchdow ns. The R edskins h ad 27 first dow ns to S eattle’s 16 and 465 yards to the Seahaw ks' 299. "S ta ts are stats,” Seattle coach D ennis E rick so n said. " B u t the scoreboard is the scoreboard. T hat’s w hat it’s all about.” " W e had a lot o f good perfor m ances, b ut w e still d idn’t w in,” said G reen, W ashington’s starter the past two w eeks. W atters ran 24 tim es for 146 yards and one touchdown, w hile M oon was 16-for-33 for 141 yards and one touchdow n with no interceptions.The Seahaw ks inter cepted two passes by G reen and also recovered a fumble that cost the Redskins a chance for a second to u chdow n.S eattle’s d efense had three sacks, giving it 19 in three games. The Seahawks have outscored their first three opponents 95-28. Broussard, 31, gave the Seahawks a 7-0 lead 15 seconds into the game when he took David A kers’ kickoff at the 10 and sprinted 90 yards un touched for a touchdown. Leading 10- 7 at halftim e, the Seahawks scored two touchdowns in the third quarter to take a 24-7 lead. W atters scored on a 13-yard run with 2:22 gone in the second h alf after Darrin Smith intercepted a pass by G reen on the W ashington 19. IS YOUR FUTURE UP IN THE AIR? The Oregon Air National Guard Is looking for men and women to fill part-time positions Minimum Qualifications: Excellent Health Minimum of a GED Must Lnter Basic Training Before Age 35 Desire to Excel U.S Citizen Benefits: USAF Technical Training Worldwide Travel Opportunities Pay Lifetime Friendships Montgomery GI Bill Retirement Join a World Class Organization with the Oregon Redhawks Contact: Your Air Guard Recruiter at 1-800-392-1801 Griffith Joyner autopsy inconclusive An autopsy on Olympic sprinter ^Florence Griffith Joyner did not immediately determine the cause o f death, a sh e riffs spokesman said Tuesday. " I t could take a few days or a few w eeks’ ’ before a cause is determined, said Lt. Hector Rivera o f the Orange County SherifT s Department. Rivera said the coroner started the autopsy M onday at 1 p.m. PDT, but didn't know how long the procedure took. The coroner conducted a series o f standard tests, including toxicology, done when the cause o f death is un known, Rivera said. The stylish 38-year-old athlete, the world record holder in the 100- and 200-meter dashes, died early Monday at her Mission Viejo home. She had suffered from heart problems in re cent years. Her husband, Al Joyner, the 1984 Olympic triple jum p champion, called authorities after finding her "u n re sponsive and not breathing,” Rivera said. "S h e died in her sleep sometime during the night,” he said. A decade ago this week, Griffith Joyner won three gold medals at the Seoul Olympics, where her sister-in- law, six-time Olympic medalist and world heptathlon record-holder Jackie Joyner-Kersee, also starred. In an NBC interview Tuesday, Joyner-K ersee praised her as " a woman o f sub stance.” Griffith Joyner, or FloJo, as she was known, still holds world records in the 100- and 200-meter dashes. She set the 100 mark o f 10.49 seconds in the quarterfinals o f the 1988 Olympic trials at Indianapolis, and since then, no one has even broken 10.60. At Seoul, she won the gold medal in a wind-aided 10.54. Griffith Joyner then smashed the world 200 record in the Olympic fi nal, clocking 21.34. American Marion Jones, with a 21.62 at the W orld Cup in South Africa this month, is the only other w oman to run the 200 in under 21.70. G riffith Joyner also won a gold medal in the 400 relay and just missed a fourth gold medal when the U.S. team finished second in the 1,600 relay, which Gri ffith Joyner anchored. ‘ ’ It' s an amazing legacy. Many ha ve tried and all have failed in terms ofher records,” said nine-time Olympic gold m edalist Carl Lewis. "(H er death) is something that impacts the sport when the sport is hurting very, very bad.” Track and field had never pro duced such an exotic creature. At the 1988 trials, she stunned fans and com petitors by running in a purplebodysuit with a turquoise bikini brief over it, but nothing on her left leg. "S h e proved a beautiful woman could go out and be a phenomenal athlete,” said Dwight Stones, a two- time Olympic bronze medalist in the high jum p. " W e w on’t know for a long time how many female athletes she inspired by being her own per son. "S h e was very, very determ ined,’ ’ said Jeanette Bolden, a former O lym pic teammate and head w om en’s track and fieldcoachat UCLA. "T herew as no impossibility to anything. She re ally tried to live that.” Lloyd Center 282-8500 * (Call for an appointment) 1998 Walk-A-Thon to Benefit The College Fund/UNCF Y INTERNAL AUTOMATA NSMISSION REPAIR S SATURDAY. OCTOBER3. 1998 COTTMAN TRANSMISSION 2 0 4 6 N.E. 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