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ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES COLLEGE FOOTBALL SUNDAY, SEPT. IS, 1996 E3 a Ga. Tech, reality hit Wake 30-10 Dingle's dfy enough for Virginia win THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -Tony Dingle returned an interception 10 yards for a touchdown and recovered a fumble to set up another score Saturday as Virginia beat Maryland 21-8 in an Atlantic Coast Conference opener. ACC THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA C.J.

Williams scored on a pair of 1-yard runs and freshman quarterback Joe Hamilton guided Georgia Tech with the calm hand of a veteran, leading the Yellow Jackets past Wake Forest 80-10 Saturday night pr5 Conference Overall W-L-T W-L-T Tech is 2-0 iui una unsii uine 2-0-0 2-00 1- 0-0 2- 04 1- 1-0 0-2-0 2- 1-0 0-1-0 2-1-0 2-0-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 Georgia Tech N. Carolina Florida St Virginia -Ctemeon Duke Maryland N.C. State Wake Forest (T) since 1990, when the Yellow Jackets won a share pi) jMmi .7,: v-vr 't i of the national it Saturday's Game Virginia 21, Maryland 3 Northwestern 38, Duke 13 Ga. Tech 30, Wake Forest 10 championship. Wake Forest (2-1) was coming off a shocking upset of Northwestern, but the Demon Deacons Virginia (2-0, 1-0 ACC) was clinging to a 7-3 lead late when Ronde Barber intercepted Maryland backup Ken Mastrole's pass at the Terrapins 19.

Five plays later, after the PoifaliafHi OA. I THE ASSOCIATED PRESS son-opening victory over North Carolina State, was held to 63 yards on IB carries by Wake. But sophomore fullback Charles Wiley had the first 100-yard game of his career, rushing 20 times for 111 yards, and the Yellow Jackets finished with 309 yards on the ground. Wake Forest was almost completely stifled on offense other than one play in the first half. Two plays after Williams' second score, Brian Kuklick connected with Kai Snead on a 75-yard touchdown pass when the Yellow Jackets blew a coverage.

Snead slipped free down the were brought CJ. Williams back to reality in their Atlantic Coast Conference opener. Wake Forest, which already has doubled its win total from last season, was held to 22 yards rushing. Williams scored his first touchdown on Tech's opening drive, leaping over right guard with 11:22 left in the first quarter. His second TD came with 4:22 left in the first half and pushed the Yellow Jackets to a 17-0 advantage.

Williams, who rushed for 147 yards and two touchdowns in a sea- cepted an off- TonjflMnfle sides penalty and took a field goal by Rafael Garcia off the scoreboard, Tiki Barber ran six yardB for a TD. Maryland (2-1, 0-1) lost quarterback Brian Cummlngs on a big hit by Dillon Taylor late in the first quarter and couldn't get untracked. Mastrole, a redshirt freshman, was 9-for-15 for 66 yards with two ATLANTA Wake Forest's Dustln Lyman grabs mrt eaougli of Georda Tech quarterback Joe Hamilton (14) to keep him out of the end lone. right sideline and coasted to the end cons' 257 yards. qidckness and irunmng ability to 12 a futile dive by free safe- Tech pUed up 636 yards, led by create gaping holes the Wake ty Mike Dee to break up the fourth- Hamilton in only his second college Forest defense.

Ct pass play in Wake Forest start At 5-fooUO, the redshirt Finn's alette abty was Wsto. That one play accounted for freshman is hardly the classic delayed best on tfm final play of the nearly a third of the Demon Dea- dropback passer, but he used his first halt Crosby runs wild in Furman SOUTHERN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GREENVILLE, S.C. Tailback Ernest Crosby rushed for 243 yards and scored four touchdowns, three of them on runs of longer than 40 yards, to lead Furman to a 27-13 victory over South Carolina State. WILLIAM A MARY 40 VMI 21 WILLIAMSBURG, Va. Mike Cook threw for 825 yards and three TDs, and Ahin Porch gained 161 yards as William Mary beat Virginia Military Institute 40-21.

Overall W-L-T Conference W-L Furman I sr. 2-0-0 2-0-0 2-1-0 1-1-0 1-1-0 1-1-0 1-1-0 0-2-0 0-2-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 wcu Marshall E. Tenn. SL Ga. Sou.

App. State Furman The Citadel VMI 1 5 ViJ'j VMI tailback Thomas Haskins, who is coming off consecutive rushing seasons, had 121 yards and one score on 22 carries. The Key-dets had 152 yards rushing, hut onlv 83 (1-1) gained a total of 431 yards in the contest while limiting South Carolina State (0-2) to just 161 yards. S.C. State's Kenny Bynum, who ran for 204 yards during the Bulldogs' first Saturday's Games WCU 24, Wotford 6 William Mary 40, VMI 21 Furman 27, S.C.

State 13 Marshall 42, W. Virginia St. 7 ETSU 49, Glenvllle St. 17 Middle Tenn. St.

16, UTC 9 Citadel 13, Richmond 10 7L a. i "fern yards passing. Thomas Haskms Whipple caught six Cook passes for 127 yards. The victory extends the Tribes domination of VMI to 11 tive games, and 14 of the last 15. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS game, was held Ernest Crosby to 39 yards on 18 carries.

The Bulldogs had just 76 yards total on the ground, while Furman racked up 355 rushing yards. The Paladins took control of the game by gaining 296 of their rushing yards in the second half. Furman led 14-13 with 2:20 left in the third quarter when Crosby broke away for a 46-yard touchdown run. Crosby sealed the victory with a 58-yard touchdown run with 8:04 left in the game. He also had a 41-yard scoring run early in the third quarter.

The Bulldogs capitalized on one Furman error, recovering a fumble in the third quarter on the Furman 18. Three plays later, quarterback Reggie Curry scored on a 9-yard keeper around left end. MARSHALL 42 W. VIRGINIA STATE 7 HUNTINGTON, W.Va. Marshal wide receiver Randy Moss scored three first-half touchdowns to lead the nation's top-ranked Division I-AA team over Division II West Virginia State 42-7.

Marshall (2-0) had a 35-0 lead at halftime, at which point head coach Bob Pruett pulled all of his starters and called almost exclusively running plays up the middle. Erik Thomas opened the scor- BOSTON Shyrone Sttth drves into the end zone to score for Wgmta Tech. The Hokles blasted Boston College 45-7. RlicBiigan survives final Buffalo pass this time ing for the Thundering Herd on an 8-yard run less than live minutes into the game. Marshall scored again two minutes later on Melvin Cunningham's 21-yard interception return.

Marshall quarterback Mark Zban then hit Moss with touchdown passes of nine, 67, and five yards to round out first-half scoring. Zban was starting in place of Florida transfer Eric Kresser, who suffered minor injuries last week against Howard. Pruett said Kresser was well enough to play, but said he wanted to give his younger players some experience. MIDDLE TENNESSEE 16 UTC 9 MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -Ronnie Gordon scored Middle Tennessee State's only touchdown to help the Blue Raiders beat Tennessee-Chattanooga 16-9.

Gordon, who was 10-of-20 for 83 yards, scored on a 7-yard run early in the first quarter to give Middle Tennessee (1-2) a 7-0 lead. Rhett Kopp added to that in the second with field goals of 37 and 45 yards. E. TENN. STATE 49 GLENVILLE STATE 17 JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.

Tyson Taylor had two interceptions for 55 yards and a touchdown as East Tennessee rolled over Glenville State 49-17. The defense scored two of the Buccaneers (2-1) first three touchdowns, including Taylor's 58 yard TD run. James Russell had six sacks for 36 yards to add to a hot night for the defense. They got no closer, as East Tennessee added 21 more points. CITADEL 13 RICHMOND 10 CHARLESTON, S.C Stanley Myers ran in from the 1-yard-line with 44 seconds left to give The Citadel a 13-10 win over Richmond, breaking the Bulldogs' 10-game losing streak.

Aaron Green rushed for 139 yards and Kenyatta Spruill added 110 rushing yards for The Citadel U-D. The Bulldogs gained SOI yards on the ground, while passing for just two. AP TOP 25 yards and Mike Lawrence added two TDs as No. 17 Kansas State beat Cincinnati 36-0. NO.

19 VIRGINIA TECH 45 BOSTON COLLEGE 7 BOSTON Brian Edmonds and Shyrone Stith each had two scoring runs and No. 19 Virginia Tech's no-huddle offense led to 11 Michigan 20, Colorado 13 0 Penn Stale 49, Northern Illinois 0 Notre Dame 35, Purdue 0 Washington 29, 14BYU 17 Southern CM 46, Oregon Stats 17 1T Kansas State 35, OnclnnstlO Arizona State va. North Texas (n) Vs. Tech 45, Boston College 7 Iowa 38, Iowa State 13 24 Kansas at Texas Christian (n) SW Louisiana 29, Texas MM 22 and raced along in front of the WCU bench and toward the Ramsey Center. He had just one man to beat and when Wofford comerback Paul Humphries tried to knock Hooks out of bounds near the 10, the senior from Chesnee, S.C., merely bounced off.

"I heard the crowd roaring," Robinson said, "and looked up just in time to see Darius crossing the goal line." It was the play that put the game out of reach though the Catamounts would yet add a third period touchdown on a 1-yard run behind Robinson by Brooks. Wofford avoided the shutout when Terrier quarterback Brad Smothers covered the final 7 yards on a quarterback keeper off the Terriers' wishbone attack. His passing attempt for a two-point conversion never came close to the intended target and Western owned the 24-6 lead that became the final score. Defensively, it also was an Impressive game for the Catamounts who came up with three interceptions they had only four all of last year and recovered two Wofford fumbles. Western, which had 12 turnovers defensively in 10 games last season, now has 11 in two contests this year.

Western Continued from page El blocks, but the cost was that Robinson missed most of the most dramatic plays of the game. With Western leading 10-0 on a 10-yard touchdown run by Hooks and a 26-yard field goal by Ken Hinsley, Hooks took a pitchout left from Brooks from the Catamount 47. Robinson arose from his left guard position, rolled into the flat with Hooks on his heels and buried a Wofford defensive back. Hooks stepped past the block THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOULDER, Colo. This time there was no miracle.

Two years after a Hail Mary pass completion produced an agonizing defeat, Michigan got the chance to celebrate when Koy Detmer's last-second pass was batted away, preserving the 11th-ranked Wolverines' 20-18 victory over No. 6 Colorado. Michigan seemingly had Colorado beaten in 1994 at Ann Arbor, but Kordell Stewart's 64-yard pass was pulled down in the end zone as time expired and the Buffaloes had a 27-26 victory. Incredibly, it came down to the final play in the rematch but this time there was no receiver there to catch the ball after it was tipped away from intended receiver James Kldd. NO.

6 PENN STATE 49 NORTHERN ILLINOIS 0 STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -Playing without ailing tailback Curtis Enis and with unspectacular quarterback Wally Richardson, No. 6 Penn State still had no trouble beating Northern Illinois 49-0. In place of Enis, the Nlttany Lions (3-0) were led by Joe Jurevicius, who caught.three passes for 104 yards and two touchdowns. Enis, who rushed for 241 yards In Penn State's season-opening 24-7 defeat of Southern California, missed two days of practice with strep throat but had been expected to play.

NO. 9 NOTRE DAME 35 PURDUE 0 SOUTH BEND, Ind. For someone with no interest in being -Wotre Dame's next ultraback, Autry Denson is sure playing like one. scores in its first three possessions in beating Boston College 45-7. It was the Hokies' 12th consecutive victory, surpassing the school record of 11 set from 1917 through 1919.

It's the second-longest active winning streak in the nation, behind two-time champion Nebraska's 26. NO. 21 IOWA 38 IOWA STATE 13 IOWA CITY, Iowa Tavian Banks ran for a career-high 182 yards and three touchdowns, including an 89-yard score, to lead No. 21 Iowa past Iowa State 38-13. SW LOUISIANA 29 NO.

25 TEXAS AIM 22 LAFAYETTE, La. Britt Jackson latched onto Southwestern Louisiana's three Interceptions and danced his way 80 yards into the end zone as the Ragin Cajuns took advantage of seven Texas i turnovers for a 29-22 victory. Damon Mason intercepted Branndon Stewart on the Southwestern 13-yard line with 81 seconds left to preserve the victory and touch off a massive celebration with fans flooding the field, hugging players and ripping down one goal post after police surrounded the other one. It was the first time Southwestern ever beat a top 26 team. The sophomore rushed for two touchdowns and caught a pass for one as No.

9 Notre Dame (2-0) rolled over Purdue 35-0. It was Denson's first three-touchdown game. WASHINGTON 29 NO. 14 BYU 17 SEATTLE Rashaan Shehee ran for two touchdowns in the first half and Shane Fortney rushed for one and passed for one after half-time to lead Washington to a 29-17 victory over No. 14 BYU.

NO. 16 SOUTHERN CAL 46 0RE00N STATE 17 LOS ANGELES LaVale Woods, starting while USC's flrst-and second-string tailbacks served the final game of NCAA suspensions, ran for a school-record 96-yard touchdown and the 16th-ranked Trojans downed stubborn Oregon State 46-17. NO. 17 KANSAS STATE 35 CINCINNATI 0 MANHATTAN, Kan. Marlon Charles scored twice and gained 106 Stokes' sanctuary, he said.

"When it first happened, I just wanted to run away and disappear. But it helped when I came back up here," Stokes said. Some of his teammates asked for explanations, he said. "Mostly students (with whom he has classes) have just said, 'Hey, man, how's it Stokes said he is haunted by the possibility his misdeed could have ended his football career and could have changed his life so completely he might have had difficulty even finding a job. Now, after a year, he will have no criltilnal "Now I've got to get back on track and move on," he said.

"It was a mistake I will never forget Or repeat" Now he waits for the Saturday when he will once again put on his No. 9, no longer exiled to the sidelines. "I want to play next week (at The Citadel)," he said. "But no one has said anything. I'd really like to play two weeks from now.

Coach Howie will be here, and that's im- -portanttome." WOt Browning's columns ap- pear re-uarfy in theVltken-Tlmes. Browning Continued from page El Bunn when he was growing up, knows the Bhock Btill Is there. He has been placed by the courts on a first-offender program. "I didn't exactly get off," he said. "I've got to put in 220 hours of community service and stay out of trouble for a year.

And once I got back to school, I got extra study hall." Staying out of trouble and the study hall, he said, will be the easy part Cullowhee now has become.