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ATHENS, Ga. -- Auburn is hoping to have its best running back healthy when the No. 8 Tigers visit Georgia on Saturday hoping to continue their run for a Southeastern Conference championship.The status of Kamryn Pettway, the SECs leading rusher, has been uncertain all week. The 240-pound Pettway hurt his left leg on a long run in last weeks 23-16 win over Vanderbilt .Auburn coach Gus Malzahn said Pettway, the nations No. 4 rusher, will make the trip.Hes healing, so well see, Malzahn said. Were a run, play-action team so no matter who our running back is we need to be successful.Auburn (7-2, 5-1 SEC, No. 9 CFP) controls its destiny in the Western Division and still has another conference game remaining against No. 1 Alabama. Georgia (5-4, 3-4) is trying to become bowl eligible following an encouraging 27-24 win at Kentucky last week.Backup Kerryon Johnson has two 100-yard games this season. Converted wide receiver Stanton Truitt and freshman Kam Martin could get some carries, too. Ditto for backup quarterback John Franklin III.Obviously were going to need to continue to run the ball, Auburn right tackle Robert Leff said. Who knows what the running back situation will be like, but I dont think it will really matter as long as we make holes for them.Georgia coach Kirby Smart, who recruited Pettway as Alabamas defensive coordinator, said Auburn will bring a strong running game to Athens, no matter who starts at running back.We have to prepare as if hes going to be there, Smart said. If hes there or not, theyre going to be able to run the ball, trust me. They did it at the beginning of the year sometimes without him.---Some other things to watch in No. 8 Auburns visit to Georgia:WHITE RETURNS: Malzahn said quarterback Sean White will start after playing in a reserve role last week due to an undisclosed injury. With Franklin at quarterback, Auburn trailed Vanderbilt 13-10 at halftime.UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: There is a long history of close ties in the rivalry. Former longtime Georgia coach Vince Dooley was an Auburn graduate. Former longtime Auburn coach Pat Dye played at Georgia. Smart has seen the rivalry up close as a player at Georgia. He said Georgia-Auburn is one of greatest rivalries in college football, in part because the series, which began in 1892 and the Bulldogs lead 56-55-8, has great balance. Its always heated, Smart said. It never ends because it goes on recruiting trail. Both schools recruit the same area primarily.NEW GO-TO RECEIVER: Javon Wims, a junior college transfer, has emerged as a new favorite target for Georgia quarterback Jacob Eason . Wims set career highs with five catches for 90 yards in last weeks 27-24 win at Kentucky. It felt good, Wims said. It just confirmed that my hard work is just starting to pay off. Ive just got to continue to work hard. Wims (6-4, 215) has excellent size.HOLSEYS CLUTCH PICKS: Cornerback Josh Holsey leads the SEC with 10 pass breakups. He has three interceptions, including a late theft in Auburn territory that helped save last weeks 23-16 win over Vanderbilt. On Oct. 29, Holsey had an interception in the fourth quarter to set up the Tigers final touchdown in their 40-29 win over Mississippi.SAME DEFENSE, DIFFERENT RIVALRY: Malzahn and Auburn are very familiar with Smarts defenses from his time at Alabama. We know each other very well, have a lot of history, Malzahn said. Weve been against each other a lot. In fact, Smart also interviewed with Auburn before Malzahns hiring in 2013.---AP Sports Writer John Zenor contributed to this report.---More AP college football: www.collegefootball.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP-Top25 Seattle Mariners Store . The Hall of Fame defenceman told Landsberg that he believes fighting still has a place in todays game, but thinks staged fighting needs be outlawed. Custom Seattle Mariners Jerseys . Louis Blues absence from top spot in the TSN. https://www.cheapmariners.com/ . It was Kerbers third final of the year after losing to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia in Monterrey in April and to Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic in Tokyo two weeks ago. The 10th-ranked German improved her record in finals to 3-5. Seattle Mariners Shirts . 1 position. The Mustangs (6-0), who beat Queens 50-31 last weekend, earned 17 first-place votes and 287 points in voting by the Football Reporters of Canada. Western was last ranked first in the country in October 2011. Mariners Jerseys 2020 . Its the second straight game Bell has scored in extra time for Kelowna, which beat the Brandon Wheat Kings 6-5 on Friday, and he now has four game-winning goals on the season.University graduate Jan Bakelants pulled away close to the finish line to win Sundays second stage of the Tour de France and take the race leaders yellow jersey for the first time in his injury-plagued career. The 27-year-old Belgian made his move with a few hundred meters remaining and the RadioShack rider did enough to withstand a late charge from Slovak sprinter Peter Sagan for the biggest achievement of a frustrating career that only saw him turn professional at the age of 23. "Its difficult to believe what happened today, its fantastic," said Bakelants, who had a knee operation earlier this year. "Today it may be the first and last time I ever wear the yellow jersey." He won in three hours 43 minutes 11 seconds, with Sagan and third-place finisher Michal Kwiatkowski one second behind him. In the overall standings, Bakelants is one second ahead of veteran British rider David Millar. Victorias Ryder Hesjedal finished in 40th a day after crashing in the opening stage. The 156-kilometre trek started from Bastia and, after four moderate climbs, finished in Ajaccio where French emperor and military mastermind Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769. With the finish in sight, Bakelants found himself with five other riders and instinct told him that he may never get a better chance to make a name for himself. "I felt the others werent going at 100 per cent so I stayed back, but then I saw the peloton were closing in on me," he said. "With 500 metres to go I had a look and I saw that I was still 100 metres clear of the peloton. I gave everything I had and I made it by one second. But that doesnt matter, I have the yellow jersey." It has been a difficult career for Bakelants so far. "I had a lot of bad luck. Ive had two operations. I fell at the Tour of Lombardy in 2010, I fractured my right knee and left elbow. You know, things like that take time to heal," he said. "This year I had bad luck as well, an operation on my right leg. I worked very hard to come back." Prior to Sunday, his proudest achievement was off the bike -- namely a bachelors degree in bioscience engineering from the university of Leuven in Belgium. "I think theres more in life than just cycling," he said. "But at the moment cyclings in first place." German sprinter Marcel Kittel started the day in the lead after winning Saturdays crash-marred first stage, but the rolling hills took their toll and he finished nearly 18 minutes behind in 169th spot. "Itss a difficult stage and Im a sprinter, thats why I suffer," said Kettel, who retained the sprinters green jersey.dddddddddddd "I had goose bumps when I went up the hill. So many people were screaming my name. But we were expecting to lose it (the yellow jersey)." The days last climb up Cote du Salario was much shorter than the other ones but far steeper. By the time the pack reached the foot of it, Kittel and British sprinter Cavendish were among a small band of strugglers drifting further and further away. Spaniard Juan Antonio Flecha and Cyrille Gautier attacked up the final ascent, and Tour favourite Chris Froome then launched a surprise attack to go after Gautier when the Frenchman pulled away. But Froomes attack fizzled out and the main pack swallowed him up. "I thought it might be a good time, just to push on a little bit," Froome said. "Its always good to keep people on their toes." Although he did not lose any time to his rivals, two-time former champion Alberto Contador felt the after-effects of his crash on Saturday, when his left shoulder was grazed. "There is pain in your whole body," the Spaniard said. "Im hoping to be better tomorrow." The day after more than a dozen riders crashed, a small white dog ran out into the road some 4 kilometres and a potentially dangerous situation was narrowly avoided by a matter of seconds. A bystander started to run after the dog and then changed his mind, and the dog just managed to reach the other side of the road before the marauding pack passed through. Cavendish was in trouble all day, struggling to keep up as his teammates tried to drag him up the second climb up Col de la Serra. However, French veteran Thomas Voeckler had a lot in reserve and chased the four early frontrunners. Lars Boom and Ruben Perez Moreno were soon caught up, leaving just Canadian David Veilleux and Blel Kadri at the front. Voecklers attack reeled in Veilleux, who hails from Cap-Rouge, Que., but then fizzled out quickly, leaving Kadri alone in the lead. Veilleux finished in 116th. Chasing his third career Tour stage win, French rider Pierre Rolland attacked on the third climb -- the days most difficult, a sinewy category 2 ascent up the Col de Vizzavona. But the pack accelerated and chased him down. Svein Tuft of Langley, B.C., is in 182nd. Mondays third stage is the last of the Corsican trio and is again hilly, with four moderate climbs dotted along the 145.5-kilometre route from Ajaccio to Calvi. ' ' '