NFC 49ers clinch division with win

Terrel Owens caught the game-winning touchdown pass with 12 seconds left.
IRVING, Texas (AP) -- Jeff Garcia has shown he can rally like Joe Montana and run like Steve Young.
Now, just as his San Francisco predecessors did so often, Garcia has also led the 49ers to an NFC West title.
Garcia threw his three touchdowns in the fourth quarter Sunday, the game-winner an 8-yarder to Terrell Owens with 12 seconds left, as the 49ers overcame a 10-point deficit for a 31-27 win over the Dallas Cowboys (5-8).
San Francisco (9-4) won its first division title since 1997, two years before Garcia followed in line behind Young and Montana, both two-time NFL MVPs and Super Bowl MVPs who won 13 division crowns in 17 years.
The 49ers clinched the title after Garcia rallied San Francisco to win in the fourth quarter for the fourth time this season, and eighth in his career, and St. Louis lost 49-10 at Kansas City.
"That's not something you want to keep doing, having to come back in the fourth quarter," Garcia said. "It was an amazing finish for this team. It was a struggle."
It sure didn't seem that way at the end.
Difference-maker
Garcia completed 36 of 55 passes for 276 yards -- including 14 of 21 for 129 in the fourth. He also had a team-best 50 yards rushing, including a 21-yard TD in the second quarter and two third-down keepers for first downs on the game-winning drive.
Running back Garrison Hearst left the game with a hyperextended knee.
"No. 5 [Garcia] was the difference in the game," Dallas coach Dave Campo said. "No. 5 made plays all day."
At the end, so did Owens, who had half of his 12 catches, 61 of his 123 yards and both of his touchdowns in the fourth quarter. He leads the NFC with 12 TD catches, including five two-TD games.
Unlike two years ago, when he punctuated both of his scores at Texas Stadium with dances on the midfield logo, Owens' celebrations were relatively tame.
On the first, he struck a statue-like pose, then pounded the ball on a wooden box behind the end zone. He followed the second by bumping chests with Garcia after only a slight pause on the smaller Cowboys' star logo in the end zone.
"I wasn't going to do anything -- unless you were going to pay my fine," said Owens, who after the game sported a leather jacket, leather pants and shoes all colored Cowboys blue. "It's nice to have the last laugh."
Owens made a juggling catch in the back of the end zone early in the fourth, on a 3-yard play that Garcia completed while being hit, to put the 49ers up 17-13.
Back and forth
Woody Dantzler returned the ensuing kickoff 84 yards for a touchdown, as he spun out of tackles to leave at least six 49ers in a pile and then did a bunny-hop along the sideline to stay in bounds. Emmitt Smith added his second TD, a 1-yard run, with 6:56 remaining to put the Cowboys ahead 27-17.
Garcia responded with a four-play, four-completion drive that ended when he hit Tai Streets for a 23-yard TD.
After Smith was stuffed by Dana Stubblefield on third-and-1 at the 28, Dallas' Billy Cundiff missed a 47-yard field goal, giving the 49ers the ball back at their 37 with 2:16 remaining and no timeouts.
Garcia calmly led his team to victory, going 6-of-10 with his two first-down runs in the 13-play drive.