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Jeff
Garcia threw two TD passes to Jerry Rice, building the NFL's leading career
receiver's stats. |
SAN DIEGO (AP) _
Jeff Garcia and the San Francisco 49ers quickly brought the San Diego Chargers
back to reality.
One week after the Chargers snapped
their 11-game losing streak, they lost 45-17 to San Francisco on Sunday
to tie the team record with their 12th loss.
Garcia threw two touchdown passes
to Jerry Rice, and with 323 yards had his fourth 300-yard game of the season.
The 49ers, coming off their bye week, won their third straight game and
their 45 points were a season-high. Garcia had no touchdown passes in the
previous two victories.
San Francisco (5-8) has beaten the
Chargers six straight times, twice since embarrassing them 49-26 in the
1995 Super Bowl.
Garcia threw a 1-yard scoring pass
to Rice as the 49ers scored 17 straight points in the second quarter to
take the lead for good. Garcia threw a 12-yard touchdown pass to Rice midway
through the fourth quarter, on the first play after Monty Montgomery intercepted
Ryan Leaf.
The remnants of the crowd of 57,255,
many of them 49ers fans, saluted the NFL's career leading receiver with
chants of ``Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!''
Garcia completed 18 of 32 passes.
Leaf had a horrible fourth quarter, throwing interceptions on four straight
possessions. Montgomery and Zack Bronson had two apiece, with Montgomery
returning a pickoff 46 yards for a touchdown with 1:39 left.
Three Chargers quarterbacks have
combined for an NFL-high 27 interceptions, with Leaf throwing 15. Leaf
was 24-of-47 for 266 yards.
The Chargers set the franchise record
with 12 losses in 1975, then matched it in 1986, 1997 and this year.
After falling behind 7-0 on Terrell
Fletcher's 7-yard run midway through the first quarter, Garcia led the
49ers on three straight scoring drives in the second quarter. He threw
five passes of 28 yards or longer in the first half, connecting for big
plays on each of the scoring drives.
He threw a 34-yarder over the middle
to tight end Greg Clark to set up Wade Richey's 22-yard field goal, then
hit J.J. Stokes on a 53-yarder down the left sideline that led to a 1-yard
TD run by Fred Beasley for a 10-7 lead.
Garcia then had completions of 28
yards to Rice and 39 yards to Tai Streets on the drive that Rice finished
by catching a 1-yard pass in the right front corner of the end zone for
a 17-7 lead with 1:10 left in the quarter.
John Carney kicked a 34-yard field
goal to pull the Chargers to 17-10 at halftime.
The 49ers put the game out of reach
in the third quarter, with a 28-yard field goal by Richey and a 4-yard
run by Charlie Garner to make it 27-10. Garner's TD was set up when Bronson
forced tight end Freddie Jones to fumble, which safety Lance Schulters
recovered and returned 16 yards to the San Diego 15.
Garcia hit Terrell Owens on a 43-yarder
to set up Richey's 38-yard field goal with 9:23 left.
Leaf threw a 17-yard pass to Curtis
Conway early in the fourth quarter before throwing the four interceptions.
| FINAL |
1st
|
2nd
|
3rd
|
4th
|
Total
|
| San Francisco |
0
|
17
|
10
|
18
|
45
|
| San Diego |
7
|
3
|
0
|
7
|
17
|
.....
| SCORING
SUMMARY |
| 1st
Quarter |
| SDG |
TD |
TERRELL FLETCHER 7 YD
RUN (JOHN CARNEY KICK), 9:17. Drive: 8 plays, 51 yards in 4:41. Key plays:
Leaf 12-yard pass to Conway on 3rd-and-8 to San Francisco 37; Fletcher
13-yard run to San Francisco 15. SAN DIEGO 7-0 |
| 2nd
Quarter |
| SFO |
FG |
WADE RICHEY 22 YD, 2:29. Drive:
6 plays, 43 yards in 2:17. Key plays: Garica 34-yard pass to Clark to San
Diego 9. SAN DIEGO 7-3 |
| SFO |
TD |
FRED BEASLEY 1 YD RUN (WADE RICHEY
KICK), 8:56. Drive: 9 plays, 83 yards in 4:22. Key plays: Garcia 10-yard
run on 3rd-and-5 to San Francisco 32; Garcia 53-yard pass to Stokes to
San Diego 15; Garcia 8-yard pass to Owens on 3rd-and-7 to San Diego 4.
SAN FRANCISCO 10-7 |
| SFO |
TD |
JERRY RICE 1 YD PASS FROM JEFF GARCIA
(WADE RICHEY KICK), 13:50. Drive: 6 plays, 74 yards in 2:23. Key plays:
Garcia 28-yard pass to Rice to San Diego 46; Garcia 39-yard pass to Streets
to San Diego 2. SAN FRANCISCO 17-7 |
| SDG |
FG |
JOHN CARNEY 34 YD, 14:54. Drive:
6 plays, 40 yards in 1:04. Key plays: Leaf 18-yard pass to Conway to San
Francisco 37; Leaf 13-yard pass to Graham to San Francisco 24. SAN FRANCISCO
17-10 |
| 3rd
Quarter |
| SFO |
FG |
WADE RICHEY 28 YD, 8:29. Drive:
8 plays, 75 yards in 3:46. Key plays: Garcia 17-yard pass to Clark to San
Francisco 48; 25-yard pass interference penalty on Chargers' Brown to San
Diego 15. SAN FRANCISCO 20-10 |
| SFO |
TD |
CHARLIE GARNER 4 YD RUN (WADE RICHEY
KICK), 12:04. Drive: 5 plays, 15 yards in 1:24. Key plays: Schulters 16-yard
fumble recovery of F Jones fumble to San Diego 15. SAN FRANCISCO 27-10 |
| 4th
Quarter |
| SDG |
TD |
CURTIS CONWAY 17 YD PASS FROM RYAN
LEAF (JOHN CARNEY KICK), 2:13. Drive: 5 plays, 61 yards in 1:58. Key plays:
Leaf 14-yard pass to Gaylor to San Francisco 47; Leaf 25-yard pass to F
Jones to San Francisco 17; Leaf 4-for-5 for 61 yards. SAN FRANCISCO 27-17 |
| SFO |
FG |
WADE RICHEY 38 YD, 5:37. Drive:
6 plays, 49 yards in 3:24. Key plays: Garcia 43-yard pass to Owens to San
Diego 26. SAN FRANCISCO 30-17 |
| SFO |
TD |
JERRY RICE 12 YD PASS FROM JEFF
GARCIA (JEFF GARCIA PASS TO JJ STOKES FOR TWO-POINT CONVERSION), 6:16.
Drive: 1 play, 12 yards in 0:06. Key plays: Montgomery 18-yard interception
return to San Diego 12. SAN FRANCISCO 38-17 |
| SFO |
TD |
MONTY MONTGOMERY 46 YD INTERCEPTION
RETURN (WADE RICHEY KICK), 13:21. SAN FRANCISCO 45-17 |
| Team
Stats |
SFO |
SDG |
FIRST
DOWNS
Passing
3RD-DOWN EFFICIENCY
4TH-DOWN EFFICIENCY
TOTAL NET YARDS
Total plays
Average gain
NET YARDS RUSHING
Rushes
Average per rush
NET YARDS PASSING
Completed-attempted
Yards per pass
Sacked-yards lost
PUNTS-AVERAGE
RETURN YARDAGE
Punts-returns
Kickoffs-returns
Interceptions-returns
PENALTIES-YARDS
FUMBLES-LOST
TIME OF POSSESSION |
19
13
6-14
0-1
385
63
6.1
73
28
2.6
312
19-33
8.9
2-7
4-40.0
241
3-34
4-92
4-115
8-60
0-0
33:48 |
18
12
2-11
0-1
303
62
4.9
49
13
3.8
254
24-47
5.2
2-12
6-41.5
186
2-7
9-179
0-0
8-68
1-1
26:12 |
| INDIVIDUAL
LEADERS |
Missed field goals
None.
San Francisco rushing
Charlie Garner 13-28, Jeff Garcia
3-19, Fred Beasley 5-16, Paul Smith 5-11, Tim Rattay 2-minus 1.
San Diego rushing
Terrell Fletcher 12-47, Ryan Leaf
1-2.
San Francisco passing
Jeff Garcia 18-32 for 323 yards,
0 INT, 2 TD, Tim Rattay 1-1 for minus 4 yards, 0 INT, 0 TD.
San Diego passing
Ryan Leaf 24-47 for 266 yards, 4
INT, 1 TD.
San Francisco receiving
Terrell Owens 4-93, Charlie Garner
4-14, Jj Stokes 3-74, Greg Clark 3-62, Jerry Rice 3-41, Tai Streets 1-39,
Fred Beasley 1-minus 4.
San Diego receiving
Curtis Conway 7-88, Freddie Jones
7-69, Jeff Graham 4-67, Trevor Gaylor 3-29, Terrell Fletcher 2-13, Fred
Mccrary 1-0.
San Francisco tackles-assists-sacks
(unofficial)
Winfred Tubbs 7-1-1, Jason Webster
5-1-0, Lance Schulters 3-3-0.5, Julian Peterson 4-1-0, Brentson Buckner
4-1-0, Zack Bronson 3-0-0, Ken Norton 2-1-0, Monty Montgomery 1-1-0.5,
Ahmed Plummer 1-0-0, Jeff Posey 1-0-0, Reggie Mcgrew 1-0-0, Chike Okeafor
1-0-0, Anthony Parker 1-0-0, Ronnie Heard 1-0-0, Bryant Young 0-1-0.
San Diego tackles-assists-sacks
(unofficial)
Rodney Harrison 7-1-0, Michael Dumas
4-2-0, Junior Seau 4-2-1, John Parrella 5-0-0, Fakhir Brown 4-0-0, Deron
Jenkins 3-0-0, Jamal Williams 3-0-0, Steve Tovar 2-1-0, Orlando Ruff 2-1-0,
Shannon Taylor 2-0-0, Darren Mickell 2-0-0, Darryll Lewis 2-0-0, Greg Jackson
1-0-0, Gerald Dixon 1-0-1, Albert Fontenot 1-0-0.
Interceptions
San Francisco (Monty Montgomery
2 for 63 yards, Zack Bronson 2 for 52 yards).
Fumbles lost
San Diego (Freddie Jones).
Opponent's fumbles recovered
San Francisco (Lance Schulters).
Officials
Referee-Gerard Austin, Umpire-Jim
Duke, Head linesman-Sanford Rivers, Line judge-Ron Baynes, Field judge-Keven
Mack, Side judge-Ken Baker, Back judge-Jim Howey.
A: 57,255; T: 3:14. |
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