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ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES Section Sports Business Sunday. Nov. 15, 1981 Relieved James UNC Edges Cavs Beads Western Over Marshall By MIKE BROWN Special To The Cftfxen-Tfmef HUNTINGTON, W. Va. An- thony James relieved a lot of frustra CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.

(APj North Carolina's 13th-ranked Tar Heels drew praise from Coach Dick Crum for a second-half reversal Saturday that produced a 17-14 ACC victory over upset-minded Virginia. Stunned by a vicious Virginia passing attack that left them seven points behind at half time, the Tar Heels prevailed on Tyrone Anthony's touchdown and Brooks Barwick's 34-yard field goal in the third quarter. "We didn't play well in the first half. We were still flat after last week's disappoint," said Crum, whose club was a 10-8 loser to second-ranked Clemson Dorsey suffered a shoulder injury in the second quarter, accounting for 46 yards on six carries. He scored with 4:58 remaining in the third quarter.

Marshall then drove to the Western 36 where the Cat defense stiffened and forced a punt Western took over on its own 13 and drove from that point to the go-ahead score. "That was a critical series for our defense," said Waters. "That turned things around for us when we were able to stop them there and then drive it for a score." James got the Catamounts out of a hole when he bolted 25 yards on a first down to put the ball on the 38. After James lost a yard, quarterback Ronnie Mlxon teamed up with fullback Mark Womack for a 31-yard gain to the Herd's 32. Womack took the ball at Western's 45, swung left and then tightroped his way down the sidelines before being knocked out of bounds.

WCU then scored from there in five plays with James bouncing in from, the 12, breaking three tackles en route to the end zone. "Anthony did things today a great back has to do," noted Waters. "He's always been quick and has run hard, but he wasn't breaking tackles. He more than did that today." James score made it 24-21 with 11:35 to play and four minutes later the Cats had another score when Mixon passed five yards to Kristy Kiser to cap an 80-yard march that required only six plays. James blasted his way 64 yards to the Marshall 16 on the first play of the drive and it was a Cakewalk from there as WCU led, 38-21.

A Western pass interference penalty with two seconds left In the game put the Herd at WCU's two. The ensuing TD rounded out the scoring. Mixon finished the day with 175 Turn To Page 7B tion here Saturday afternoon: James, a starter last year but relegated to a reserve roll this season due to a bad back and the presence of Mel-vin Dorsey, rushed for 243 yards and scored three touchdowns to lead Western Carolina to a come-from-behind 38-28 victory over Marshall. "I needed this," a smiling James said afterwards. "It's been a very frustrating yearevery week it's been the same old thing.

I've either been in the stands or sitting on the sidelines. The offensive line has to get the credit, though. They just took it to them." James' performance equaled the school record for, most yards rushing in a game set by Darrell Upford against Marshall here In 1977. James, who had 44 yards rushing before Saturday, had 210 yards in the second half. He equaled Lipford's record when he rambled 43 yards for a touchdown with one minute remaining in the game.

"All we wanted him to get was one yard," said Western coach Bob Waters. "They called down from the press box and said he needed one yard for 200 (James already had his 200) so we sent him back in for one more play." The dash capped an outstanding comeback for the Catamounts in the Southern Conference contest that relegated Marshall to another last-place finish, its filth in as many years in the league. The Thundering Herd, which defeated Appalachian State last week for its first league win ever, led 13-10 at the half and 21-10 with 9:20 left in the third quarter. From that point on, however, the game belonged to Western and James. Following the Marshall score, the Cats drove 07 yards in 10 plays with James, who go into the game when HfV 'S f- AP Phott Clemson's Perry TutUe Jumped High For TD Against Maryland's David Taylor Tigers Clinch ACC Title Clemson Whips Terps in a battle for first place in the "But I've got to give our kids credit They got off the deck in the sec- ond half and did what they had to do to win," Crum said.

'j Crum said he was concerned about Carolina's pass rush because its secondary has been riddled with in-' juries. But he added that "the pass rush makes your secondary, anyway. No-body can slop them if they have all day i to throw. We got more pressure on the 1 passer in the second half than we did in the first." Virginia Coach Dick Bestwick said it would be the understatment of the year to say he was disappointed "I thought we got a great, great ef-' fort from our young people. They played with great intensity.

They are not happy to accept close losses to anyone, nationally ranked teams or un-' ranked teams," Bestwick said. Bestwick said the Virginia passing attack stemmed from observations of different game films. "We thought there were some: things we could do with them, and I felt we did them. We programmed omV game plan with nine plays that we had sequenced and kept coming back to' them for the most part," he said. Anthony's score from 2 yards out was set up by quarterback Rod who first passed 32 yards to Jon Richardson at the Virginia 43, then 20 yards to Anthony at the Virginia 19.

Barwick's game-winning field goal came Walter Black intercepted a pass at the North Carolina 43 and Kelvin Bryant, who had registered the Tar Heels' first touchdown, ran yards to the Virginia 24. The boot came' with 1:45 left in the third period. i Following Bryant's 2-yard scoring plunge with 5:12 left in the first period," I Virginia went on top as quarterback'! Gordie Whitehead threw second-quar-' ter touchdown passes of 37 yards to! I Greg Taylor and 30 yards to Henry; Johnson. Whitehead had a third apparent! I scoring pass to Taylor nullified- by backfield-in-motion penalty. -1 The victory upped North Caroll-j; na's season record to 8-2 and left the Tar Heels at 5-1 in the ACC.

Virginia! fell to 1-8 overall and 0-5 in the confer-) ence. In attempting 48 passes against! the Tar Heels, Virginia tied a school' record for one game. But the 320 yards! the Cavaliers garnered through the air) were 12 shy of a school mark. Whitehead seemed well on his way to shattering the school's individual' passing record But with 5:38 to go in' the third quarter, he was injured while, completing his 18th pass, and he took' only two more center snaps the rest of the day. He finished with 243 yards on 31 attempts.

With first freshman Mike Eck and: then senior Todd Kirtley replacing' Whitehead, the Cavaliers were unable to maintain their aerial momentum and did not muster a serious scoring threat down the stretch. i Virginia's principal receivers were Taylor with six catches for 106 yards and Mark Sanford with nine receptions for 74 yards. Virginia's hopes of pulling out 'a victory down the stretch were crushed by four second-half pass interceptions, three by Black. '4 CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) Quarterback Homer Jordan threw three touchdown passes to lead undefeated, 2nd-ranked Clemson to a 21-7 victory over Maryland for the Atlantic Coast Conference championship Saturday.

Jordan completed 20 of 29 passes for 270 yards and was the Tigers' leading rusher with 58 yards. Meanwhile, wide receiver Perry Turtle continued his assault on Clemson's record books by catching 10 passes for 151 yards and two TDs. The senior, who keeps adding to his school-record for career reception yardage (now 2,432 yards), eclipsed another Jerry Butler standard for number of career receptions with 142. Butler's record was 139 catches. All of Clemson's scoring came in the first half, but it took Jordan nearly all of the first quarter to get the Tigers on the scoreboard.

He lofted the ball 14 yards over the head of the nearest defender Into Tuttle's hands for the initial score. Then in the second quarter, Jordan threw a 5-yard scoring pass to Tuttle and followed that with a 12-yarder to Jerry Gaillard for Clemson's final tally. Maryland, which was hampered by a swarming Clemson defense most of the game, finally got on the scoreboard early in the fourth quarter after Jordan fumbled on his 7. Defensive right tackle Gurnest Brown fell on the ball and tailback Charlie Wysockl carried the ball in on the next play. Clemson's offense stumbled through the second half hampered by penalties three for 104 yards.

But it was the tenacious Tiger defense that preserved Clemson's 10th victory this year. While the Terrapins were able to complete 18 of 45 passes, Clemson sacked quarterbacks Norman Esiason and Bob Milkovich five times, two of those by defensive end Joe Glenn. Turn To Page I1B Wins 314th STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) The Alabama players were more excited about their 31-16 victory over fifth-ranked Penn State Saturday than Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant appeared to be about tying ine national collegiate coaching record of 314 victories. "It was the biggest game anyone on this team ever played," said sophomore quarterback Walter Lewis, whose two touchdown passes to Jesse Bendross and a tenacious Alabama defense triggered the Crimson Tide's triumph.

Bryant was almost smothered in a small room adjoining the Alabama locker room as several hundred members of the media tried to record one of the magic momemts in college football history. Bryant was badgered to make known his thoughts about equaling the record held by the late Amos Alonzo Stagg since 1946. "I haven't had time to think about it," said the 68-year-old Bryant, now in his 37th year of college coaching. "I really didn't tie the record. There have been multiple people with a hand In it," he said.

"I'm grateful to all of them." Bryant now has to wait two weeks until sixth-ranked Alabama closes the regular season against Auburn to try and break the record. As far as the Penn State game sin miw IIIUMB ACC SOUTHERN Alabama's Bear Bryant was concerned, Bryant said his team "played as well as we can play. We played over our heads in the first half. In that first half, we played a little better than we're capable of playing." But Lewis said Alabama should have won by a bigger margin. "We had two touchdowns called the quarterback reminded.

Lewis was asked what Bryant said before the game. "He said, 'Go out and play like it was the last game of your lives. Play every play like you're Lewis said. Then Lewis volunteered, "Fifty percent of the reason for everybody on this team coming to Alabama was Coach Bryant" Lewis conjectured that if Alabama could beat Auburn, win a bowl -TurnToPageSB Marshall tt 11 Catawba 79 Wofford TtnntsMt St. SI.

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7 Virginia Tech 14 Newbtrry 17 1 Florida tt Unolr-Rnvna Pmbvttrlan Duncan's Tennis Potential Almost Unlimited said Duncan. "I dont think he'd do any of that stuff if he really thought it was hurting him. But sometimes I think people just dont understand him. They don't realize that tennis is whole life." Duncan has some rather ambitious goals for this season top five in the nation and the Junior Davis Cup team. His future plans also include college, with Clemson, UCLA, Stanford and Southern Cal high on his list However, he has even given some thought about jumping straight from high school (he's a junior this year) to the professional ranks.

"I'm considering turning pro after I finish high school, but more than likely 111 go to college," he said "I'm planning to play in some small Grand Prix tournaments during the spring and summer just to see how I do." Blocher feels Duncan's two strongest'! points are his natural athletic ability and dedi-, cation. "But his mental toughness is and he's a real never gives up," he said. "He's also getting more and more coach-' able aU the time, lie's still a little stubborn School, and other than a two-hour supper break, he works on his game until 11 p.m. "1 here have been times where I've seen him out on the court working on his serve until 2:30 a.m.," said Blocher. "He works unbelievably hard.

And it's paid off. When we first started to play a year ago, I could beat him 6-1, 6-1. It wasn't even close. When we play now, it's usually a heckuva match." There's no doubt in which direction Duncan Is headed He wants to play professional tennis. He wants to play on the grass at Wimbledon, the clay at Roland Garros (in Paris) and the cement at Flushing Meadows.

And he wants to win there. "That's all 1 really think about," he said. "Playing on the pro circuit Is always In the back of my mind. That's my goal in life." Soft-spoken and polite, both on and off the court Duncan is the exact opposite of his favorite player fiery Ilie Nastase. "He's so strong and has such great reflexes," he said.

"He can put the ball just about anyplace on the court and can hit just about any shot there is." But what about Nastase's temperment? "Yeah, it's really a shame he acts like he does," question that Duncan has the potential to be a world class player. He competed In a series of national 16-and-under tournaments this past summer and fall and did well. He won both the Southern Open in Birmingham, Ala. and the Western Open In Columbus, Ohio. He also: Was runner-up at the National Clay Courts Championships in Nashville, Tenn.

Was In the round of 16 at the National Hard Courts Championships in San Jose, Calif. Was in the round of 16 at the National Boys 16-and-under Championships In Kalamazoo, Mich. He has worked with Blocher on a daily basis for the past year, and his game has improved considerably. "Working with Woody has strengthened me a lot," said Duncan, who was recently named the most outstanding junior tennis player in North Carolina. "Not only am I a better player physically, but the mental part of my game has improved too." In all his years of playing and teaching tennis, Blocher has never run Into anyone who works as hard as Duncan.

He comes directly to the Hilton Racquet Club from Ashevllle High "Right now Lawson can play wilt anybody fa In WorM from file baseline. How matt ke Improves on Mi serve and volley will determine jus? now good ne becomes. Woody Blocher Lawson Duncan streaks across the Indoor surface at the Hilton Racquet Club, working his opponent from side to side with series of groundslrokei before finally putting away a winner with a crushing forehand. Teaching pro Woody Blocher watches Intently from the sidelines, his eyes following ever flick of the racket "I thought you were going to work on your serve-and-volley," he barked out. "Didnt we just finish talking about got to start moving into the net Lawson." Duncan's head dropped for a moment be-' fore moving back to the center of the court to hit another serve.

"Yeah I know, but." he said, his voice trailing off. He had heard tt all before. And he knew Blocher was right "It's lough to make myself come Into the Doug Mead net," said the 17-year-old Duncan, after completing a brisk two-hour workout "I feel I can hit groundstrokes with anyone. I never get nervous hitting my forehand because I've bit so many of them. "But It's different when I try to serve and volley," he added "It's the only part of my game that's holding me back.

But It's a very Important part" sometimes, out tie improving mere too. (i.