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8. 1987 Section Scores Standings Outdoors Recreation Clemson Slips Past UNC, 13 10 Treadwell Vs. Clock YdTime YearOpp. Result 360:00 85Va.Tsch 20-17 460:00 '86Georgia 31-28 210:10 BeMaryland T17-17 312:50 T21-21 190:02 '87Georgla 21-20 300:32 87UNC 13-10 ville, Fla. "I felt confident that I could make It.

I'm out there in my own little world, with only my holder and snapper. I'm able to block everything else out." Carolina, wearing its all-blue uniforms, had tied the game at 10-10 midway through the fourth quarter on a 48-yard field goal by Kenny Miller. Clemson (5-1, 8-1) started its game-winning drive on its own 19. The Tigers marched 67 yards in 19 plays, all of them on the ground, to set up Treadwell's kick. Fullback Tracy Johnson carried the ball on 11 of those plays.

Johnson finished with 124 yards on 25 carries, while tailback Terry Allen had 73 yards on 17 carries. Tail back Torin Dorn, who has missed most of the season with an ankle injury, led UNC (3-2, 5-4) with 92 yards on 19 attempts. "Treadwell did a great job and it was a great drive there at the end," said Clemson coach Danny Ford. "He's kicked a lot of them. David is Just a tremendous kicker when the pressure is on." North Carolina had rallied from a 7-0 deficit early in the third quarter.

Dorn scored on a 20-yard run, capping a 38-yard drive that took five plays. Miller kicked the extra point for a 7-7 tie late in the third quarter. The touchdown was set up when Allen fumbled the ball after being hit by defensive end Reuben Davis. Middle guard Carlton Bailey made the recovery for the Tar Heels. It was one of four fumbles the Tigers lost in, the game.

Two possessions later the Tigers moved ahead 10-7 on Treadwell's 42-yard field goal early in the fourth quarter. Miller's game-tying three- j0 -i Mocs Put End! To Cats9 SC if Title Hopes By DOUG MEAD Citizen Sports Editor CHAPEL HILL It was another day at the office for Clemson placekicker David Treadwell. Treadwell kicked a 30-yard field goal with 32 seconds on the clock to give the nationally lOth-ranked Tigers a 13-10 victory against North Carolina and inside track on the Atlantic Coast Conference title here Saturday. Before a crowd of 53,115, fourth largest in the history of Kenan Stadium, Treadwell's kick went squarely through the uprights. It was the sixth boot of his career that has kept the Tigers from defeat "I've been there before," said Treadwell, a senior from Jackson tin wsliJS i 1 1 1 iter il ill lIMl pointer came with 7:45 on the clock after linebacker Brett Rudolph recovered another Allen fumble.

Carolina still had a shot at vie-: tory after Treadwell's second field goal. Wide receiver Randy Marriott got behind the Clemson defense, only to drop a long pass over the middle from QB Mark Maye. "We just came up a little short at the end," said UNC coach Dick Crum. "The ball went right through Randy Marriott's hands. He looked back and the ball got lost in the- ughts." Clemson can win the ACC title outright next Saturday with a victory: See CLEMSON, Page 7B But Waters added, "I thought we stayed away from it." 1 Roach left quickly after the game and was unavailable for comment, Waters said regardless of the ruling on the kick, a failure to capi- lalize on numerous scoring oppor- tunities resulted in the loss.

"It was not a pretty ball game." he said. "They were coming after us like we expected them to. But fumbles and breakdowns we got there too often to just put 11 points on the board." The Cats lost two of six fum- bles, while Smith (21-of-39 passing, -204 yards) was intercepted three times. WCU (2-2, 4-5) trailed 7-3 early when, after Roach kicked a 22-yard field goal on the Cats' opening possession, UTC (3-3, 5-4) countered bri tailback Andre Lockhart's 2-yard touchdown run with 7:07 on the first-, quarter clock. The Cats appeared on the verge of striking back early in the second quarter after driving to the UTC 5.

But on third-and-goal, Smith's pass to the left corner of the end zone was batted around and landed in the hands of Moc free safety Marlon Rig-gins for an interception. The Mocs expanded their lead to at intermission on Dennis Wa- ters' 34-yard field goal on the last play of the first half. They made it 13-3 on his 19-yard kick just 1: 42 Into the third quarter. The third-quarter field goal was set up when Smith fumbled on a sack -at the WCU 25 after the Cats received the second-half kickoff. Early in the fourth quarter, WCU was inside the UTC 40 twice, but turned the ball over each time on an interception and another fumble by Smith.

WCU's frustrations continued when another drive deep into Moc territory was thwarted. The Cats marched 79 yards to a See MOCS, Page 7B SAC-8 L-Rhyne 40 Mars Hill 35 Catawba 73 Guilford 14 C-Newman 34 Wotlord 3 G-Webb 27 Presbyterian 26 Elon47 Newberry 28 -I- -l Doug Mead Tiger Football At Its Best CHAPEL HILL It was Clemson football at its best run the ball, run the ball and run the ball some more. And that's just what the Tigers did here Saturday as they powered their way past North Carolina 13-10 in a bruising Atlantic Coast Conference battle. The difference between victory and defeat was placekicker David Treadwell's 30-yard field goal with 32 seconds on the clock. But it was the Clemson ground game that got Treadwell in position for his game-winning three-pointer.

Clemson had the football for 74 plays and ran the ball on 64 of them. On the Tigers' game-winning drive, which covered 67 yards and took 19 plays, Clemson stayed exclusively on the ground. The closest the Tigers came to going to the air on that final drive was Treadwell's kick, which sailed up and over the UNC defense and through the goal posts. Clemson fullback Tracy Johnson, a 230-pounder, led the ground game with 124 yards on 25 carries. The Tigers finished with 267 yards on the ground.

Even when the Tar Heels knew what was coming, which was most of the time, especially in the Tigers' last drive, they couldn't stop the Clemson ground attack. "North Carolina's defensive line seemed to tire there at the end," said Johnson, a native of Kannapolis. "We used a lot of subs during the game and they didn't. I think that was the difference." Clemson's last drive started on its own 19-yard line. Johnson carried the first three plays, all of them up the middle.

Tailback Terry Allen took an outside pitch on the next play, but Johnson got the call on four of the next six plays. When Johnson wasn't going up the middle or off tackle, Allen was taking a pitch from quarterback Rodney Williams and sweeping to the outside. Johnson picked up two key first downs on third-and-short situations in that last drive, and Allen got the necessary yardage on a fourth-and-2 to keep the Tigers going. Johnson said he expected to get a lot of opportunities to carry the football, especially since the Tar Heels were keying on Alien and reserve tailback Joe Henderson. "Coach Ford said earlier in the week that I would probably get called on a lot," he said.

"And we talked about it again just before the game. So I knew what to expect going in." Leading the Clemson charge up from was Outland Trophy candidate John Phillips, the former Mitchell High standout. It was the blocking of Phillips from his guard position that opened up sizable holes in the Carolina defense. "That's what we like to do best, power football," said the former Citizen-Times Lineman of the Year. "That's what has worked for us all year and that's what worked for us today." Phillips admitted that it wasn't any secret what the Tigers were going to do In short-yardage situations.

"When it's thlrd-and-1 or thlrd-and-2, we're going to give the ball to Johnson," he said. "He's a workhorse for us. It usually takes more than one man to bring him down." Treadwell, who seems to have made a career out of kicking game-winning field goals, used some inspiration supplied during the summer by his grandmother. She had said to him, "Throw your heart over the bar and the ball will follow through." And Treadwell remembered those words just before his decisive kick. "I repeated it to myself while I was waiting along the sidelines to go in and kick the field goal," he said.

"And it sure seemed to work." Moc Tailback Andre Lockhart Tries To Evade Cat Cornerback Toussaint Kennedy Mistakes Cost Catamounts Crucial Game Against Mocs trfWVit Staff Photo By DAN MAXHIMER to clinch the conference crown. The Catamounts were mistake-prone throughout the game, giving up five turnovers and committing several other miscues to stall repeated would-be scoring drives. And with the loss, a couple of trends continued. The Cats (2-2, 4-5) suffered their third straight loss, while dropping their fourth straight decision to the Moccasins (3-3, 5-4). Recent matchups with UTC have been particularly frustrating to See MISTAKES, Page 7BS "I looked up and saw the baU.

It was floating, floating, and I was just going to I can't explain it," the 6-0, 172-pound senior catback said of the pass that managed to slip through his arms and fall incomplete inside the UTC 30-yard line. "That's the first time that's ever happened to me." It was that type of day as well for the rest of the Catamounts, who with their 13-11 defeat were eliminated from the Southern Conference race. The loss, coupled with Appalachian State's 17-10 win Saturday over Marshall, enabled the Mountaineers By CHRISTOPHER HORETH Staff Writer CULLOWHEE The drought continued Saturday for Western Carolina. But not without 1 WCU, beset by turnovers and missed opportunities throughout the afternoon, watched Its fourth-quarter rally fall short in a 13-11 loss to Southern Conference foe Tennessee-Chattanooga at Whitmire Stadium. It marked the Catamounts' third consecutive loss and eliminated them from the Southern Conference title race.

But at least one Western player felt UTC's effort received some unwarranted assistance. Trailing by two after freshman quarterback Mark Smith's 10-yard scoring pass to split end Otis Washington with 1 16 left to play, the Catamounts lined up for a critical onside-kick attempt. Placekicker Kirk Roach then squibbed a slow roller that appeared to just cover the required 10 yards before he pounced on it for an apparent Catamount recovery at the WCU 45. But the officials spotted the ball roughly a half-yard short and awarded possession to the Moccasins. Ceasar Hunt, a member of the special teams, didn't see it that way.

"It was over the 10-yard mark by a least a couple of inches before he even touched the ball," Hunt said. "We were supposed to be holding back, and he (Roach) had us waiting for it to cross. I was right beside him. I saw the play real clear." UTC coach Buddy Nix disagreed, while WCU coach Bob Waters voiced mixed emotions. Said Nix: "I thought it was a good call on the onside kick.

They touched it before it got to the line." Said Waters: "They said we touched it before it went 10 yards. They're the ones who call it they're in a better position than we were." Saturday's Games ACC Clemson 13 N. Carolina 10 E. Tenn. St.

29 N.C. State 14 Wake Forest 30 Duks 27 Virginia 23 Tech 14 Penn State 21 Maryland 18 SOUTHERN 13 WCU 11 App. St. 17 Marshall 10 Furman 38 VMI 0 Citadel 34 Boston U.7 SEC Georgia 23 Florida 10 Tennessee 41 Louisville 10 Vanderbllt 38 Kentucky 29 Florida St. 34 Auburn 6 Tulane30 Miss.

St. 19 Alabama 22 LSU 10 By CHRISTOPHER HORETH Staff Writer CULLOWHEE Western Carolina's Vince Nowell couldn't have asked for a better pass. He just needed it on a better day. Late in the third quarter Saturday afternoon against Tennessee-Chattanooga, Nowell broke deep down the right flat, putting a good 5 yards between himself and the Moccasin coverage. WCU quarterback Mark Smith lofted a perfect pass, hitting NoweU In fuU stride right on the letters.

Deacons Nip Devils, 30-27 The Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM Mark Young rushed for 135 yards and a key third-quarter touchdown on 27 carries as Wake Forest held off Duke for a 30-27 victory Saturday. Young's touchdown with 1:38 left in the period gave the Demon Deacons a 30-21 edge. Wilson lloyle missed the extra point, but the score was enough of a cushion to help Wake Forest (3-3, 6-3) snap a three-game losing streak. The Wake Forest defense had shut down Duke's offense In the third period, and produced a touchdown when A.J. Greene intercepted a Steve Slayden pass and ran 38 yards for a touchdown with 11:42 left in the third period, giving the Demon Deacons a 24-21 lead.

In the fourth period. Duke's offense regrouped and got within the final margin on Stanley Monk's 7-yard run with 6:58 left. Doug Peterson missed the extra point. Duke took the ball for the last time at its own 14 with three minutes left. The Blue Devils reached the Wake Forest 9, where Slayden was sacked for a 6-yard loss.

He gained the yards back on thlrd-and-9, but his fourth-down pass was batted down at the line of scrimmage. The Demon Deacons were down 14-0 in the first quarter on a Slayden touchdown run on Duke's first pos-session and a Slayden touchdown pass to Clarkston lllnes, which was set up on a Wake Forest turnover. Wake Forest rallied when Tony Mosley fell on a blocked punt in the Duke end zone late in the first quarter and Tony Rogers tied the score on a 4-yard scoring run al 12: 16 of the second quarter. lloyle got a 21-yard field goal with 23 seconds left, but Duke took the halftlme lead when reserve quarterback Anthony Dilweg threw his only pass a 49-yard touchdown play to Keith Daniel as time ran out in the half. Duke (1-4, 4-5) has lost five of its last six games.

Wake Forest was assessed 117 yards on 14 penalties, six of (he calls against the defense. One of those was an un.sxirlmanlike conduct call following a 40-yard Slayden-lo-llines pass. Two plays later, Monk scored. Duke's no-huddle offense and two defensive penalties helped produce the first touchdown and a Wake Forest mistake led to Duke's second score. The Blue Devils marched 80 yards and scored on Slayden's 1-yard dive at II :57.

The drive was helped by face mask and pass Interference penalties. Following the klckoff, Young couldn't handle Mike Elkins' pilch and Seoll Del.ura recovered for the Blue Devils at the Wake Forest 39. The Demon Deacons lost an interception on a penally on Hie next play, and the Blue Devils turned it Into a quick scoring drive..