The Greenville News du lieu suivant : Greenville, South Carolina • Page 9

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1989 FOOTBALL OUTDOORS SECTION HQ Dan LJXLJ o) Foster I Clemson gains revenge on N.C. State, 30-1 0 ATLANTIC COAST Conference Overall OffDel Off Def N. Carolina St. 4 1 0 125 87 6 1 0 202 123 Virginia 4 1 0 183 117 6 2 0 234 171 Duke 2 1 0 95 91 4 3 0 198 204 Clemson 3 2 0 126 88 6 2 0 217 118 Georgia Tech 3 2 0 113 107 3 3 0 123 128 Wake Forest 1 3 0 69 117 1 5 1 106 163 Maryland 1 4 0 89 122 2 6 0 143 177 North Carolina 0 4 0 53 124 1 6 0 115 156 Saturday's Games Clemson 30, N. Carolina St.

10 Duke 46, Maryland 25 Georgia Tech 17, North Carolina 14 Virginia 47, Wake Forest 28 Next Week's Games Georgia Tech at Duke Louisville at Virginia N. Carolina St. at S. Carolina North Carolina at Maryland Wake Forest at Clemson ative about this one. We didn't play perfect, but we played, we had fun and we won." Wearing orange knickers for the first time this season, the Tigers seemed unusually animated early in the game, and they made the break they needed when free safety James Lott returned a first-quarter punt 28 yards to the State 25.

Lott's return set the tone for the first half. Following Wesley McFadden's nine-yard touchdown run with 8:09 to go in the first period, Clemson's defense made the first of five takeaways when linebacker Doug Brewster intercepted a pass from Shane Montgomery and returned it to the Wolfpack 41. Given another break, the Tigers' offense used nine plays to go ahead by two touchdowns, See Clemson, Page 6C and provided the Tigers' offense with wonderful field position with a combination of turnovers and punt returns. With the advantages given them by their defense, the Tigers' offense never needed to drive farther than 57 yards for a score. The result was a smashing workday for a Clemson team that head coach Danny Ford said had forgotten how to enjoy football.

Having fun, Ford said last week, was the number one priority against the Wolfpack. That goal, said Ford, was accomplished. "Our people were motivated," he said. "They played with enthusiasm and effort. It was the real Clemson football team on the field today.

"I thought we played well. I'm not going to say anything neg out of the ACC title chase by losing to Duke Sept. 30 and getting flattened a week ago by Georgia Tech. And it was, as Tigers assistant coach Tommy West put it, "football the way we like to play it." In a nutshell, Clemson's defense stuffed State's rushing game at the line of scrimmage Workmanlike effort gives (Vs. Did this team lose2inACC? CLEMSON If demson can soundly beat Florida State Sept.

9 and six weeks later rout N.C. State, 30-10, how could it lose to Duke and Georgia Tech between times. That's the subject of today's term paper. The professors say we must first understand that the rosters college football teams hand out say they have three units offense, defense and special (kicking) teams. But! They have two others they don't advertise.

One is an emotionally, mentally, psychology "flat" team. The last thing it does right game-day is eat the pre-game meal, where it has great concentration. After that, it's only a matter of time until it slinks to its locker room, burping and wondering what happened. The other "other" team is, Did you see Clemson play Florida State? Did you see it play N.C. State? On those kind of days it could bite a crowbar in two, catch a jet plan on takeoff, block a runaway tank into a ditch.

The books are full of teams getting high for big games and winning, going flat and losing to teams not in their class. Do they expect us to believe that the Clemson team that beat a previously unbeaten N.C. State team is the same one that couldn't handle Georgia Tech or Duke? You could see the difference from the first series of downs here Saturday. The Clemson defense was everywhere, stuffing N.C. State running plays, intercepting State passes, recovering State fumbles.

The Tigers were so good the first half that the offense almost went stale before the half ended. You have a 17-0 lead over a State team that's beaten you three straight seasons and wants "your" Citrus Bowl spot, and no matter what anybody says, you quit attacking and start protecting. You "have it won." You don't want anything to happen the last 36 minutes, so you try to keep anything from happening. And for the next 28 minutes Clemson scored three points. Matter of desire The Clemson defense was another matter.

The final score was 30-10, but those 14 Clemson points in the first 11 minutes were enough. The defense played well enough even to let State have superior momentum the last half, and still save the game by a wide margin. Four quarters like the first one Saturday would have beaten Florida State again. Four quarters like the Tigers played against Duke or Georgia Tech is the perfect formula for spending New Year's at home. An hour after the State game, Tf" it i TvA AS) 1 IMt NfcWb HON MUNNERLYN touchdown By Woody White New staff writer CLEMSON The Clemson Tigers exorcised some of their demons Saturday, ending three years of frustration and a month of doubts by belting 12th-ranked North Carolina State 30-10 as watched on a clear, cool afternoon at Death Valley.

The Tigers, who had lost three consecutive games to coach Dick Sheridan's Wolfpack, broke cleanly for a 17-0 lead in the Atlantic Coast Conference game, then stunted State's attempts to rally. The result left Clemson 6-2 overall and 3-2 in the ACC while State lost for the first time in seven games. The Wolfpack now is tied with Virginia atop the ACC standings with a 4-1 record. It was a different Clemson team Saturday from the one that had apparently played its way 1 I USC's Mike Dingle goes Tony Rice saves No. 1 Irish SOUTH BEND, Ind.

(AP) Tony Rice solved the vaunted rushing defense of ninth-ranked Southern Cal, running for two touchdowns and engineering two more scores on the ground, and No. 1 Notre Dame twice rallied for a 28-24 victory and its 19th straight triumph. Notre Dame (7-0) rushed for 266 yards against the Trojans (5-2), whose defense had allowed only 37 rushing yards a game and not a single touchdown. The Irish have beaten Southern Cal seven straight in this old rivalry, which didn't even get underway this time before a fight broke out in the tunnel leading to See Irish, Page 7C 1 USC 2 By Charles Bennett Newt staff writer COLUMBIA It wasn't exactly accomplished in spectacular fashion, but the University of South Carolina did what it set out to do Saturday against Western Carolina. South Carolina beat the Catamounts 24-3, and while the Gamecocks seemed to go about the business of playing their Division I-AA opponent with all the enthusiasm of someone taking out the garbage, USC Coach Sparky Woods couldn't fault his team's effort.

"I don't know what the definition of flat really is," Woods said. "I think we were excited about playing. I didn't see a lack of effort or anything. I doubt the emotional pitch was as high as it Sterling again the rushing star for the Paladins; statistics, Page 9C. Southern Conference games that are next on the schedule.

For the second consecutive week, senior fullback Dwight Sterling was the offensive star. The Rock Hill native rushed for 166 yards and one touchdown on 17 carries to lead all rushers. Of his total, 107 yards were accumulated in the first half. "Dwight Sterling is a great runner and a super guy," Furman head coach Jimmy Satter-field said. "He's a real leader on our team and they couldn't stop him today." Quarterback Frankie DeBusk, Paladins start early in Wofffford blowout, 42-7i tut NEWS HAY UHONBtHL; Clemson's Levon Kirkland sacks Shane Montgomery wd in was at Georgia or something, but I didn't expect it to be.

I think they were serious." i The victory, achieved in front of a Williams-Brice Stadium crowd of 62,000 as well as scouts from the Gator and Peach Bowls, leaves the 24th-ranked Gamecocks 5-1-1. Western Carolina is 3-3-1. The Gamecocks trudged to a 7-0 halftime lead, and it wasn't, until Western Carolina drove for a field goal on its opening possession of the second half that South Carolina snapped awake and put the game away. USC proceeded to score on its next three possessions, getting a touchdown run of 5 yards from Harold Green, a 3-yard touch-See USC, Page 14C who suffered a supbar performance a week ago, returned to form Saturday. He completed 11 of 17 passes for 164 yards, including a 21-yard touchdown pass to Brad Stephens.

For the fifth time this season, he was not intercepted. "We came in here thinking we could do anything we wanted," DeBusk said. "Wofford proved to be better than we thought. If we had played this way against Marshall or Appalachian State we would have lost." Despite DeBusk's disappointment, Satterfield was pleased and losing coach Mike Ayers was effusive in his praise of the Paladins. See Paladins, Page 7C Vincent said other factors more than the storm system -would likely determine whether the Series resumes.

If Candlestick Park is not certified as safe or if the mayors in San Francisco and Oakland are strongly against playing baseball, Vincent said the Series could be over. "If it's not the right thing to do, it will be canceled," he said. "We will not move the series out of the Bay area. I can guarantee that." The Oakland Athletics lead the Giants 2-0. City officials will Inspect Candlestick on Monday to See Series, Page 5C up and over WCU for the first THE NEWS DORAL CHENOWETH Dwight Sterling gains some of his 166 yards rushing "Bill ran all day and didn't have any problems.

I ran him down to 24 points." In trying to succeed Elliott, Wallace will take a 37-point lead over Dale Earnhardt (3,758 points to 3,721) and the pain of being so close last year to the 21st starting position at North Carolina Motor Speedway. Alan Kulwicki, winless this year, will be on the pole. Earnhardt will start from the fifth position. Lurking in the distance is Mark Martin, third in the points race with 3,630 and start-See Wallace, Page 15C to SI Jtr 'm' Clemson coach Danny Ford still sat behind his stadium interview room. Was this the best first quarter since that 21-0 lead over Florida State? Ford: "It was the best enthusiasm concentration wanting to, we've had since Florida "I give them a big A-plus for being ready to play.

I think right now on this football team here 1989 I think that's our biggest concern. Not depth, not talent, not whatever." Desire. Intensity. "I know everybody says, 'That's "It's no different from the people sitting in the stands. The people in the stands, the band, came ready to play.

The cheerleaders came ready to cheer." If he had a pill, or a speech, or a routine that could produce Ford: "I would farm and sell books if I could do that. And I'd own about all this property here," his hand indicating approximately the whole Clemson campus and Lake Hartwell, "because I don't think anybody in the world could do it." 'They played better' All teams have some of that up and down days problem. Clemson has had an extreme case of it this year, though, and it has shoved some lesser bowls into their picture and nudged the Citrus Bowl on the brink of being out of reach. State coach Dick Sheridan said he felt his team was intense, but that Clemson was just so good it was hard to show that until the second half. Then the State fumbles and Clemson's recoveries and interceptions closed the Pack out of Saturday's game.

"They played better than we did," he said. Now danger looms again. Wake Forest comes next week. They've won only one game. Just like Duke and Georgia Tech had.

By Willie T. Smith III News staff writer Furman won another football game Saturday, a proficient 42-7 whipping of Wofford at Paladin Stadium. It was a clean, powerful demonstration by the I-AA defending champions against the Division II Terriers. All Furman did was: Score touchdowns on its first four possessions; Gain 531 yards in total offense; Hold the Terriers to nearly 200 yards under their rushing average. In defeating its opponent from neighboring Spartanburg, third-ranked Furman raised its record to 6-1 in a tuneup for the four THE ASSOCIATED PRE: Rusty Wallace is in an unfamiliar spot: the leader Rain may force Series cancellation Marked man Role reversed for 1988's runnerup ROCKINGHAM, N.C.

(AP) Rusty Wallace has been the hunter. Now, in Sunday's AC Delco 500, he'll be the hunted, and one who was there before him can sympathize. Wallace was trying to run down Bill Elliott for the 1988 NASCAR driving championship and was closing the gap before a race at Atlanta. "Elliott came up to me (Friday) morning and said, 'Hey, I know how you Wallace said. "I went into Atlanta last year with a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of drive just off of winning four straight races.

I was 75 points behind. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Rain forced the San Francisco Giants to cancel practice Saturday and caused the Oakland Athletics to cut theirs short, and Commissioner Fay Vincent admitted the World Series might get called off, too. "It's not likely, but it's possible," Vincent said in a 30-minute interview with The Associated Press. "We can't wait forever. We can't just tread water." The National Weather Service forecast showers into early next week.

Game 3 is tentatively set for Tuesday, following a week's layoff after a disastrous earthquake struck the Bay area..