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SportsSunday, September 3, 19893b 13Iopltn (Slob*♦ Section CLions launch Lantz regime with victoryGlobe Photo/VINCE ROSATISouthern’s Rodney Lee looks for running room against Lincoln defenders Jerald Lewis (left) and DelMichael Bell (22).By Wendell ReddenGlobe Sports EditorMissouri Southern struggled at times, but the Lions ushered in the Jon Lantz era with a 24-9 Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association football victory over Lincoln University before an estimated 4,500 fans in Fred Hughes Stadium Saturday night.Predominantly a passing team last year, the Lions threw only 13 times against the Blue Tigers, using a time-consuming ground assault out of the veer to score in every quarter but the third.Rodney Lee, Scott Wynn and Alan Brown scored the Southern touchdowns and sophomore Rick Lairmore added a 24-yard field goal.Lee had a 22-yard touchdown run with 7:01 left in the first period: Wynn scored on a 3-yard run with 1:46 to go before halftime and Brown scored from a yard out in the fourth after Southern's defense had held Lincoln on fourth-and-one at its 20.Lairmore’s field goal came in the first period and gave Southern a 100 lead.Lincoln, like Southern striving to shake a losing habit, scored in the second quarter on a 14-yard pass from quarterback Steve Bohlken to Brad Binkley and in the fourth on Bohlken’s 35-yard field goal.Defensively, Southern strong safety Jason Wright had a game worthy of player of the week honors in the MLAA. The 6-foot-1, 205-pound sophomore from Butler, Mo., had 16 tackles — 4 for minus 21 yards — and picked off a pass that set up Lairmore’s field goal. He had one of Southern’s three quarterback sacks.Overall, Southern’s defense had nine tackles for minus 56 yards and limited the Blue Tigers to 166 net yards, 121 of it coming on 44 rushing plays. Bohlken, the MIAA player of the year in 1988, was held in check. He completed only 4 of 15 passes for 45 yards and had only one yard on eight rushing attempts before leav-See Wright’s, Page 6C
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Sun, Sep 03, 1989
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