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sports Sunday October 1, 1995 Rocky Mount Telegram Page ID ame devoers Pack passun Focus for N.C. State turns to salvaging rest of season Tigers9 By Mark Aumann porta editor a big turnaround, a lot of momentum." Instead, the momentum stayed with Clemson in the second half, as Smith scored on a one-yard run following another Harvey pick for a 33-14 lead, as the-Tigers missed a two-point conversion. Harvey finally connected with Jimmy Grissett on an 8-yard TD in the fourth quarter, but it was too little, too late. With time running out on State, Harvey was picked off two more times, resulting in another Priester TD and a field goal. "It's hard to sustain anything when you're throwing interceptions," O'Cain said.

for 1-4 N.C. Statethe Wolfpack can't seem to shake what has become a nightmarish season. "It's kind of unbelievable," sophomore linebacker Morocco Brown said. "You wake up and you're 1-4. "Each person on the team has to look deep down at himself.

Each man has to do his job." Things looked very good right from the outset for the Wolfpack, which played in red jerseys and red pants, as Harvey and Tremayne Stephens led State to the Clemson 24. But Stephens tumbled on first down, a harbinger of bad things to After a Clemson punt, the Pack went back on the attack, culminating in a 20-yard flare hit that long scoring pass to Home, I think he felt a load was off of his shoulders." State once again put together a nice drive, as Harvey tossed two first-down passes to Greg Addis. The Pack went up 14-7 when Harvey, scrambling to his left, pushed what looked almost like a basketball chest pass to fullback Rod Brown, who rumbled in from the 13 with 26 seconds left in the quarter. That was the extent of the N.C State highlights. Raymond Priester scored on a three-yard run one play after a -controversial no-fumble call on Clemson's Emory Smith at the State 8.

And the Tigers went ahead for good midway through the second quarter when Greene pass from Harvey to Stephens. The sophomore tailback tight- a 7-0 lead at the 8:25 of the fust quarter. But the Wolfpack secondary was burned on the first of many long passes when Clemson's -Tony Home got 1-on-l coverage and caught a 29-yard TD pass from Nealon Greene to tie the i Tremayne Stephens gets play. I can't explain it We had everything ready. It just didn't turn out how we wanted." game one minute later.

Guffier but the Wolfpack was "Our big plays rcallyJielpedwhistiedJforJiaving 12 men on us Clemson head coach the field. Tommy West said. "(Greene's) "Instead of being down confidence was shaken in prac- 27-14, it could have been tice this week, but when Nealon 27-21," O'Cain said. "That was Navy bombards Blue Devils, 30-9 RALEIGH Mayday, mayday. N.C.

State's football season is going down in flames and the Wolfpack can't find the eject button. Quarterback Terry Harvey threw six interceptions to tie an ACC record and the Wolfpack couldn't stop the Clemson passing attack, of all things, as the Tigers roughed up the punchless Pack 43-22 Saturday before a shocked crowd of 46,074 at Carter-Finley Stadium. fewof those in attendance stayed long enough to see the final play as a sea of red made an early trip to the exits. "There's not a whole lot to a hoarse N.C. State head coach Mike O'Cain said in a- voice not much more than a whisper.

"We just aren't playing very well as a team right now. Our offense came out and didn't do the things we need to do and defensively, we didn't get it done, either. "Any time you lose, it's a tough situation. We're not used got to do some; thing about this." But with a trip to big, bad Alabama next on the schedule Heels roll past Bobcats CHAPEL HILL (AP) North Carolina found out they can walk "'and chew gum at me same time. The Tar Heels, a comedy of errors in their first three games after a preseason ranking of No.

20, rolled up 637 yards of offense fourth most in school history Saturday for a 62-0 victory over Ohio University. Octavus Barnes piled up 211 receiving yards and tied the North Carolina record with three touchdown receptions in a game as the Tar Heels broke out of their scoring slump and turnover doldrums in a big way. 1 Barnes remembered coach Mack Brown's last words before the team boarded a bus en route to Kenan Stadium. "He challenged us to a perfect performance," said Barnes. "As far as I saw it was a perfect performance.

"After an 0-2 start our backs were against the wall and now we have to fight our way out," he added. Brown said he banned the word "turnover" because it was becoming an issue and started talking about individual accountability. "It's a team game but I wanted each one of them to play the best they could. Turnovers I II" Harvey six interceptions tied conference record set by North Carolina's Chuckie Bumette. He finished the game 30-of-54 for 395 yards, as the Wolfpack churned up 509 total yards of offense.

But it was the inability of the defense to halt Clemson, which finished with 418 yards of total offense, that was the major factor. "We made mistakes, and you can't make mistakes and win in the ACC," Brown said. "We came out all emotional, ready to AP photo. picking up a key block played a tough football team today." Barnes' yardage was the second highest single-game mark in school history and 11th best in the 43 years of the Atlantic Coast Randy Marriott set the Tar Heel mark of 247 yards in 1987 against Georgia Tech. The Bobcats came into the fame lame Urn in the nation in rush- 249.5 yards per game.

DURHAM-tAPTT Chris McCOyrushed for 144 yards and one score and ran Navy's option game to near perfection Saturday night as the Midshipmen rolled over Duke 30-9, snapping the Blue Devils' 20-game non-conference home winning streak. Navy (2-2) rebounded from a six-turnover, 30-7 loss last week to Wake Forest with a ball-control offense and a defense that held Duke to minus 1 yard rushing on 24 carries through three quarters. Duke falls to 2-3 and a return bowl trip now appears a longshot with road games remaining against No. 11 Virginia, Clemson and North Carolina. The Blue Devils' winning streak against non-Atlantic Coast Xtan-ference teams in Wallace Wade Stadium dated back to a 56-17 defeat against Miami in October 1983.

McCoy, who carried 22 times, scored on an 11-yard run in the second quarter and his 56-yard keeper helped set up Omar Nelson's second TD run of the game with 2:16 left in the third quarter for a 21 -point lead. Nelson's scoring runs were 2 and 18 yards. McCoy's key run came after the Navy defense held Duke to a field goal as the Blue Devils drove to the Midshipmen 7. Duke's already banged up defense, unable to stop the rim i if found Home behind the defense again, this tune for 38 yards. Then Harvey unraveled, throwing two interceptions deep in Wolfpack territory, leading to two Clemson field goals and a 27-14 halftime deficit State could have had a last-play.

Hail Mary touchdown of 71 yards from Harvey to Mike It was the worst loss for the Bobcats (1-3-1) since a72-0 drubbing to Syracuse in 1916. Meanwhile, North Carolina scored the fourth most points in a game and most since getting a school-record 65 against Wake Forest in 1928. "We're not going to accept losing," said Ohio first-year coach Jim Grobe. Our players understand that we McPhail, before Holcomb came on for the field goal. "We were thinking about winning on a field goal last week," Holcomb said.

"We knew that one of the first five games would come down to a winning field goal. It just happen to be West Virginia." ECU forced starting quarterback Johnston out of the game with a sprained ankle, but was then forced to deal with the more mobile Eric Boykin. Boy-kin was able to avoid the rush which had victimized Johnston throughout the first half and was very effective rolling out The Mountaineer defense helped their own cause, sacking Crandell in the end zone for a safety to make it 20-17, and Bryan Baumann's 31-yard field goal tied the game at 20 with 11:38 remaining. The Mountaineers had two chances to pull the game out late in the fourth quarter, including a recovery of CrandeU's fumble with 44 seconds left but Boykin threw four incomplete passes. a UNC's Leon Johnson looks to make a move after -AP photo crunched by Tigers State wore red, but Clemson made the Wolfpack see red Saturday.

uke lost at home to a 1 non-conference team tor the first time since a 56-17 toss to Miami in 1983. much of the season, suffered artnthar Mnu nMr thf. WlH rtf the first naif when all-AOC linebacker John Zuanich separated his shoulder. Duke took a 3-0 lead early. but Navy may have won a morale victory as the Blue Devils elected to kick instead of going for the touchown on fourth-and-goal from the 1.

Less than four minutes later Matt Scomavacchi burned the Duke defense with a wide receiver reverse off the option for a 44-yard score. Another Tom Cochran field goal narrowed the Navy margin to one, but Duke quarterback Spence Fischer fumbled a low snap out of the shotgun and surrendered the ball deep in Blue Devil territory 6:50 before intermission. McCoy scored four seconds later on an 11 -yard keeper to increase the score to 14-6. A 34-yard run by Marcus Starks after a pair of key thjrd-down conversions set up a 22-yard field goal just seconds before halftime for the Midshipmen, who rushed for 217 yards on only 26 carries. AP photo stop a Mountaineer drive I Pirates escape Mountaineers are individual mistakes that lead to team errors, 'Brown said." "We told them if we have 63 guys play well then the game will take care of itself." Barnes, who also caught the game-winning pass in the final seconds in last week's win over Louisville had scoring catches of 42, 56 and 23 yards as North Carolina (2-2) built a 35-point halftime lead.

the kids all week long there would be definition this Saturday for us." Marcus Crandell engineered a 53-yard, 11-play drive that set up Holcomb's game-winner, fol-lowing a recovery of a Mountaineer fumble at the Pirate 37-yard line, as the Mountaineers were driving for a potential game-winning score. With the score tied at 20, Crandell hit Mitchell Galloway with an 1 1-yard pass giving the Pirates a first down at the West Virginia 41. Jerris McPhail slipped a tackle and picked up 23 yards on a draw play down to the Mountaineer 18 on the next play. Two plays later, Crandeli hit 'his tight end Scott Richardson as he was chased on a roll out Richardson bulled his way to the Mountaineer three where he was forced out of bounds. The Pirates tried unsucces-fully on the next three plays to find the end zone, suffering losses of 2 and 5 yards', on running plays and Crandell overthrew By Dave Bach Sporti writer GREENVILLE East Carolina coach Steve Logan told his football team their program would be defined against West Virginia.

Saturday, Logan discovered what the Pirates are made of. Chad Holcomb kicked a 27-yard field goal with 2:12 left in the game to give the Pirates a 23-20 win over the Mountaineers. The victory over West Virginia is the first by East Carolina in nine meetings and the Pirates now stand at 3-2. West Virginia slinoed to 2-3. bjT What was discovered was the b.

pirate offense, after being shut rt, -gown ior lz quanere, comu marcn oown me uaa worn uic game was on the line. "The ability and willing to get down and dirty and fight it out to the very end, mat's what I didn't know about this team and mis Logan said. "I saw a kx or oenniDon out mere, i uuu 'if OD Of Emmanuel McDaniel leaps for an interception to.