MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2005
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Chiefs spoil Raiders' opener
BY JOSH DUBOW
THE ASSOCIATED PRINT
Oakland Raiders' wide receiver Jerry Porter, left, tips the ball away from Kansas City Chiefs' Dexter McCleon (22) to save an interception in the fourth quarter last night in Oakland, Calif. Kansas City won 23-17.
OAKLAND, Calif. - In what has become a welcome change, the Kansas City defense was the difference in a victory for a second straight week.
Trent Green engineered two second-half field goal drives and the Chiefs stopped Oakland at the 10-yard line in the final minutes to spoil Randy Moss' home debut for the Raiders with a 23-17 victory last night.
17 Victory last night
Kansas City overhauled its defense in the offseason after another season in which its high-scoring offense wasn't enough. After taking a shutout into the final minute of a season-opening 27-7 win over the New York Jets, the Chiefs (2-0) proved to be just tough enough to beat the Raiders for the fifth straight time.
straight time.
After Samie Parker's fumble set up a final drive for Oakland, Kerry Collins led the Raiders (0-2) to the 10 with 1:58 to go. He threw an incomplete pass to LaMont Jordan on third down and then lofted a last-ditch pass to Jerry Porter in the back corner of the end zone. Porter leaped and had the ball on his fingertips, but Benny Sapp knocked the ball away.
Kansas City then ran out the clock.
skills that made him the NFLs most dangerous receiver during his seven years in Minnesota with another long touchdown catch. But he was not a factor on the final drive and finished with five catches for 127 yards.
After the Raiders took over on their 36 early in the third quarter, Collins dropped back for a play-action pass. Moss ran past Patrick Surtain and then outleaped Kansas City's other key secondary acquisition, Sammy Knight, at the 20 before running it in the rest of the way. He
Moss showed off the big-play
lynes.
Green was 18-for-28 for 238 yards and Holmes ran for 75 yards and a score for Kansas City.
turned back toward the defense as he crossed the goal line and then did a dance move in the back of the end zone as he celebrated with his new fans.
related with the Chiefs answered with a methodical 15-play drive that was slowed by back-to-back holding calls against Jordan Black after Priest Holmes' 20-yard run set up a first-and-goal at the 9. A 39-yard field goal by Lawrence Tynes made it 20-17 lead entering the fourth quarter.
Green then led Kansas City on an 11-play, 54-yard drive.
completing key third-down passes to Parker and Tony Gonzalez to set up a 42-yard kick by Tynes.
Moss was the last player introduced before the game and received the loudest cheers. He caught an 18-yard pass to set up Oakland's first score, a 1-yard touchdown on the first play of the second quarter by Jordan.
Volleyball
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The only bright spot of the
third game was when senior setter
Andi Rozm recorded her
4,000th career assist. She now
has the third-most assists in
Kansas volleyball history.
Kansas volleyball history.
After that game, Bechard told his team it needed to make some adjustments. "I just said 'We're going to change business defensively,'" he said. "They were out打击ing us, out playing us."
clearly in kenyan history. Whatever their motivation, the Jayhawks responded by waxing the Sooners in game four 30-14. As a team, Kansas tallied 17 kills and hit .696.
The deciding fifth game, however, started poorly for Kansas. Oklahoma had the serve and a 2-0 lead when controversy struck. A spike by Kansas' Brown near the line was called in-bounds, sparking an argument from Oklahoma coach Santiago Restrepo. Oklahoma had been upset with calls throughout the day, but none were as important.
Rozum said the Jayhawks were determined not to lose at home, where the advantage was clearly in Kansas' corner.
Bechard was happy with the way the Jayhawks bounced back, especially facing defeat.
back, especially "We turned it around big time in game four, and that carried us into game five." Bechard said.
lead. From there the Jayhawks were able to keep distance between themselves and the Sooners for the rest of the game and won 15-13.
Bechard said his team showed a lot of heart coming from behind.
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Kansas took the point and ran off the next three as well, which gave them momentum and a 4-2
"I'm extremely proud," he said. "It wasn't our best technical effort, but we worked extremely hard to make that happen."
— Edited by Jonathan Kealine
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