49ERS WIN IN SPITE OF THEMSELVES : SAN FRANCISCO 25, CAROLINA 23.Byline: Dennis Georgatos Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. With Steve Young hurt, the San Francisco 49ers Detmer, who had four of San Francisco's six turnovers, led a drive to set up Richey's 46-yard field goal with 33 seconds left, lifting the 49ers past the Carolina Panthers 25-23 on Sunday. ``I think most guys would like to have the ball in their hands toward the end of the game,'' Detmer said. ``For me, it's satisfying knowing we put that drive together. We had made mistakes, but we didn't let them stand in our way.'' Detmer, also the holder for Richey, calmed the rookie before the decisive field goal. ``He said, `You see those big yellow posts? Just kick it right in between them,' '' Richey said. ``I just repeated to myself again and again and again that I was going to make it.'' But Richey nearly became a goat when he botched botch tr.v. botched, botch·ing, botch·es 1. To ruin through clumsiness. 2. To make or perform clumsily; bungle. 3. To repair or mend clumsily. n. 1. a squib kick after his field goal, sending it only 17 yards downfield down·field adv. & adj. Sports To, into, or in the defensive team's end of the field. Adj. 1. downfield - toward or in the defending team's end of the playing field; "he threw to a downfield receiver" before it was stopped by Anthony Johnson. The Panthers, who once led by 16 points, advanced to the San Francisco 39, but John Kasay's 57-yard field-goal try fell short as time expired. Carolina's Steve Beuerlein didn't buy the argument the 49ers lucked out. ``Give San Francisco credit,'' he said. ``That team has been there and knows how to win close games. The 49ers are never lucky. They're a great ballclub.'' The 49ers (7-2) have won their last 13 regular-season games at home, including comeback wins this season over Indianapolis and the New York Jets Detmer, making his first start since joining San Francisco as a free agent, threw three interceptions in the first half and fumbled once. But he came back to throw touchdown passes of 36 and 5 yards to Terrell Owens and a 29-yarder to J.J. Stokes. ``It was mindset mind·set or mind-set n. 1. A fixed mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person's responses to and interpretations of situations. 2. An inclination or a habit. more than anything,'' he said of his improved play in the second half. ``We mixed the pass and run well and started getting in a rhythm. We didn't feel they could stop us in the second half.'' Young, ending a string of 24 straight starts, missed the game with an abdominal strain from the nine-sack pounding last week in Green Bay. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1--Cover--Color) HOW THE WEST WILL BE WON Falcons, 49ers win to set up showdown. Page 10. Associated Press (2) DETMER |
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