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PAGE 4-D SUN -DEMOCRAT, PADUCAH, KENTUCKY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17 On 74-yard scaring run with 2:51 to play CD Tomcats trip Blue Tornado, 18-7 Neither team made much progress In the second quarter until Tilghman fumbled at its own three. From there, It still took Ashland four plays to pot the first touchdown on the scoreboard. Charlie Whitehead stopped Thomas for no gain and Larry Elmore stopped Jeff Stone at the line of scrimmage. Elmore then dropped Thomas for a one-yard loss before Anderson executed a sterling double fake and pitched wide to Greg Jacksdh who scampered around left end for the TD. Jim Johnson kicked the extra point to put the Tomcats on top, 7-0, 2:02 before the half.

See TONY CLARK, Page 6D 7 the pass. I thought I blew it but the kids came back and won it. I'm real proud and tickled at the way we fought back." Tilghman failed to score immediately after Smith's return when Tpny Clark slipped at the one on a fourth-and-goal thrust from the two. After the Tornado defense held, Robert Young got a hand on Rick Sang's punt and Tilghman was back in business at the 17. Clark, who picked up 125 yards in 21 carries, carried four straight times and scored from the four with 6:50 to go in the game.

Kelly Cromwell kicked the placement to deadlock the count at 7-7 and send Tilghman rooters into a frenzy. The tempo picked up the next series when Clark ripped off 11 yards to the Ashland 44. On the next play, he broke a 25-yard gainer to give the Bluemen a 14 carries, burst through a gaping hole in the Tilghman line on a counter, sped past a pair of Blue defenders and raced the final 60 yards untouched. "Gary Thomas had a headache all day," Ashland Coach Herb Conley noted, "but he says everything is all right now. He made the big run and he's the big hero.

"Terry Bell, Terry Lewis and Casey Jones knocked out a big hole and Gary Just outran a couple of people." "We had nine people on the line and twin safeties," Coach Haley explained. "He popped through and split the safeties and that was it." "In seven years of coaching, I don't think we ever had a better defensive setup," added assistant Coach Larry Krouse. "And then we got beat on it." Until Thomas' game- breaker, Paducah Tilghman appeared to be on the verge of an upset The Bluemen converted a pass interception Into a touchdown that knotted the score at seven early In the fourth quarter. And, the Bluemen appeared to be knocking at tlje door again after a short punt. On the first play of the final stanza, Tilghman wrecker Mitch Smith picked off a pass in the flat at the Blue Tornado 15 and returned it 75 yards to the Ashland 10 before being knocked out of bounds by Ashland quarterback Chuck Anderson.

"The momentum actually changed a play earlier when we were penalized 15 yards for holding," Coach Conley observed. "We were going in to put the icing on the cake. "After the penalty, I wanted to make it back up and called first down at the 19. Following a one-yard pickup by Kenny Anderson, quarterback Bill Walden fired for the corner and spilt end James Greer but Tomcat safety Mark Conley sliced in to intercept the pass at the four. A 160-pound junior and a nephew of the coach, Conley returned the ball to the Ashland 81.

After an illegal procedure penalty, Thomas exploded on the game-deciding scamper. "If the pass had been a foot or another two feet higher, it would have been a touchdown," Coach Haley lamented, "and we'd all be throwing rice on one another right now." The first three quarters were a defensive blood-letting. Ashland threatened late in the opening period after Thomas picked off a Walden pass but Larry Stewart answered with a theft of an Anderson toss at the Blue Tornado 23. Making the hit Paducah Tilghman's Larry Elmore (24) and James Greer (85) haul down Ashland's Gary Thomas during first half action in the statewide Class AAAA championship at McRlght Field Friday night. Thomas scored the winning touchdown with 2: 51 to play in the fourth quarter to give the Tomcats a 13-7 win over the Blue Tornado.

(Staff photo by Bill Matlock) Ludlow earns Class A football title Panthers stun ton-rated Pirates BY PAT MOYNAHAN Sun-Democrat Sports Editor Ashland halfback Gary Thomas had a headache all day Friday after a flight to Paducah for the Class 4A state championship game. But that was nothing compared to the migraine he unloaded on Paducah Tilgh-man. A 160-pound Junior, Thomas broke loose for a 74-yard touchdown run with 2:51 to play to lift top-ranked and unbeaten Ashland over fifth-rated Paducah Tilghman, 13-7, in the title skirmish at McRlght Field. The staler dashed a spirited Blue Tornado comeback and sends the Tomcats into a showdown with St. Xavier next weekend in Louisville for the over-all Class 4A crown.

Thomas, who was the game's leading rusher with 130 yards in remaining in the game, Heath elected to gamble on the conversion. Tailback Clarence Johnson slashed his way over left tackle for the the go-ahead points but the clip erased the effort. Furthermore, officials marked off 15 yards against the Pirates and kicker Scott Wells was unable to reach the uprights with a placement from son didn't quite agree that the Cardinals controlled matters throughout, but he admitted that he was "tickled to death" with the final outcome. "I think our kids were a little weary sorta flat," said Wilson in trying to explain how his team fell behind 14-0 with just nine minutes left in the game. But Scott County rallied spectacularly when Tom Mitchell passed 42 yards to Carl Collins and Clarence Jackson romped 51 and 58 yards to make it 22-14.

But Middlesboro, which lost for the first time in 14 starts, didn't quit. The Yellow Jackets moved 71 PHIL I GIVE 2 I SPORTING 5 1625 Kentucky BY PAT MOYNAHAN Sun-Democrat Sports Editor BOWLING GREEN, Ky. -Heath's Cinderella drive toward an unblemished record and Class A state football championship shattered here Friday on a granite Ludlow defense and a series of frustrating mistakes and penalties. Ludlow squeezed out a 7-6 mjT OPEN X. Jlpr SUNDAYS-1 P.

M. mJ AND EVENINGS A TO 8:30 llflfuV UNTIL 2ND 71 KliiScn AVENUE "Vlf IN THE PADUCAH MALL Scott County shocks Middlesboro with late rally for Class AA title Despite Heath's offensive troubles and Ludlow's defensive prowess, the Pirates gained almost twice as much yardage as' the Panthers. Heath finished with 104 yards rushing and 114 passing for 218 total yards. Ludlow had 112 yards and all of it came on the ground. In fact, Ludlow's offense was almost a one-man show.

Senior halfback Jim Lokesak, 5-11 and 180 pounds, carried on 36 of 46 offensive plays by the Panthers and collected 119 yards to run his season's total to 2,002. He also scored Ludlow's only touchdown on a four-yard run in the second quarter and kicked the extra point. The rest of the Panther offense amounted to the following: quarterback Nick Scharf failed on two passes and lost 16 yards in four carries; Harry Settle had six yards on two carries; Gary Wooley, two See LUDLOW, Page 6D Hath 0 0 (-4 Lmflow 0 7 0 0-7 U-JtaLoteMMnn (Lotewkkick). Ardell Ntoce, 17 pu from Terry Fletcher (Uck (all after penalty 36 yards away against the wind. "I want to see the films," a distraught Heath Coach Jack Haskins said of the clipping call.

"I can't say their wasn't a clip without seeing the films but I can't believe anyone could clip on that kind of play. "Don't get me wrong. The officials didn't beat us. We didn't play well offensively. What can you expect to do when yards on- Jay Welch's passing and two key penalties against Scott County, making it 22-20 with 24 seconds left on Billy Hamblin's three-yard run.

But Welch's pass for the two-point conversion that would have tied the game fell incomplete. "Listen, buddy," Wilson intoned, "Middlesboro is a fine ball club, a well-coached ball club. We knew that coming into the gams. We knew we'd have to play a heckuva ball game to beat 'em. "And I think that's what we did in that eight minutes, we played one heckuva super football game." upset victory over the top-ranked and previously unbeaten Pirates in the title match at L.T.

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