The Gazette from Cedar Rapids, Iowa • 23

1 INSIDE Major league baseball, 2B Dukes column, 4B 0 Sports Open Forum, 10B ILsaG Wolfpack score twice late to defeat Iowa, 24-14 f1 T7T TTT FTTm 'fM (Swjrttr Ol KEaQ Mike Hlas Gazette sports columnist By Jim Ecker Gazette sportswrlter Danan Hughes 'i i August as bad for Hawkeyes as January is I AST RUTHERFORD, N.J. All the scribes and I seers kept mentioning Mi ami and Colorado as the potential assassins in Iowa's killer 1992 nonconference football schedule. It was as if the Kickoff Classic clash with North Carolina State was a mere exhibition, like most football games in August. Certainly, most people recognized N.C. State as a worthy opponent for the Hawkeyes.

Still, not many envisioned the Wolfpack triumph, one of the most treasured in their athletic history if you exclude basketball. To reverse David Letterman's wise-guy introduction for his show's Stupid Pet Tricks, the game at the Meadowlands Saturday night was a competition, not an exhibition. And as Letterman always' ends that crack, please, no wagering. All bets were off in the second half at Giants Stadium, the only place that treats Hayden Fry's teams as harshly as the Rose Bowl. The Hawks don't fare too well in August or January.

Iowa's offense was discombob-ulated after halftime against a defense that isn't top-heavy with All-America types. Meanwhile, N.C. State ran an option attack with enough success to give option-ism to Jim Walden when he brings Iowa State and its new offense to Kinnick Stadium Sept. 12. That's the game after Miami, which isn't a name Iowa followers may be ready to come to grips with today.

If Wolfpack quarterback Terry Jordan was too quick and cagey for the Hawkeye defense, the Hurricanes will well, one disaster at a time, please. Jordan had proved himself to be an able passer in the past, but the senior from Tampa hadn't given much indication he would be a dangerous runner. Please turn to 3B: Hlas 0 a f.Jj VL -1 v.3' I AST RUTHERFORD, N.J. The Iowa Hawkeyes re turned to the Kickoff Clas sic Saturday night trying to exorcise some demons and get ready for top-ranked Miami next week. Forget it.

The 16th-ranked Hawkeyes got ambushed by North Carolina State, 24-14, before 46,251 fans at Giants Stadium. Iowa squandered great scoring opportunities in the second half and succumbed to a Wolfpaqk team hungry for recognition and respect. The 10th Kickoff Classic was tied 14-14 for a long time in the second half until Steve Videtich kicked a 46-yard field goal for N.C. State with 6:50 left in the game. It was the sophomore's first attempt of his career and it put the Wolfpack ahead to stay.

Shortly after, Iowa gambled on 4th-and-3 at its own 47-yard line KICKOFF CLASSIC with 4:45 left to play, but Jim Hartlieb's pass to Danan Hughes was intercepted by Mike Reid and returned 22 yards to the Hawkeye 33-yard line. Seven plays later N.C. State's Terry Jordan, the MVP, passed five yards to Eddie Goines for a touchdown that put the Hawks away for good. Iowa Coach Hayden Fry defended his gamble on fourth down from his own 47. "We were trying to win the ballgame," he snapped.

The Hawkeyes wanted to exorcise demons from the 1987 Kick-off Classic (a 23-22 loss to Tennessee) and the 1988 Peach Bowl (a 28-23 loss to North Carolina State). It didn't happen. Iowa had the ball deep in N.C. State territory three times in the second half with the game still tied at 14, but the Hawks came up empty each time. A sack ruined one opportunity.

A delay of game penalty foiled0 a field-goal try. And later, Todd Romano missed a 36-yard field goal attempt on the second play of the fourth quarter. "I think we had an excellent ballgame going until we missed that field goal," said Fry. "North Carolina State obviously deserved to win the ball-game," he said. "When the chips were down, they produced." Nobody produced better than Jordan, the N.C.

State quarterback who missed most of the 1991 season with a broken arm. the 1 991 -A Gazette photo by J. Scott Park 4 He killed Iowa on option plays, running for 71 yards on 13 tries hitting 15 of 24 passes for 160 yards, mostly in clutch situations. "Terry had another outstanding game," said Wolfpack Coach Dick Sheridan. "He had an interception and a fumble when he was hit from behind, but aside from that he couldn't have played any better." Fry appeared to have harsh words for Paul Burmeister, the holder on field-goal attempts, when Iowa was called for delay of game on what would have been a 41-yard try in the third quarter.

The five-yard penalty would have made it a 46-yarder, and Fry elected to punt instead. Scott Fisher booted the ball to the 1-yard line, where Bo Porter downed it for Iowa, but North Carolina State escaped, Earlier, Fisher pooched a punt to the 3-yard line, where Scott Slutzker downed it, but the Wolfpack escaped that time, too. Inura ant snmo ctmnff mances by its New Jersey and New York kids. Hughes caught emmrt naccoc fnr B7 vnrHa nnrf two touchdowns, giving him the of I record with 17 TD catches in his career. Larry Blue had a good game at defensive end, but the better team won.

The Hawkeyes, six-point favorites, -appeared stunned by the defeat. Stunned and beaten. It has been a long time now muLc; luvva vvuu an uiiuiii lciiil game agamsi a ijucuny iiun-wun- ference opponent, and now the Hawks have to regroup and face Miami Saturday night at Kin-nick Stadium. "With the schedule we have, it's going to be a real test of courage," said Fry. i "We have to put this game behind us and get up for next week," said Blue.

"Otherwise we will get run off the field." North Carolina State fooled Iowa with an offense that blended Please turn to 3B: Hawks season Driscoll did it all for Lions By Jeff Dahn Gazette sportswriter inn-Mar baseball coach 1 1 Phil Katz has an interest-Lsiing assessment of Ryan Driscoll, his former all-state utility player. I'If'Ryan gave up football and concentrated just on baseball, he'd be a hell of a catcher," Katz said. He makes a valid argument, even when talking about a play- ALE ATHLETE er who is 6-foot-4 195 pounds and was used primarily as a pitcher, infielder and outfielder as a prep. "He has a great feel for the game and he has complete vision of the entire field. He knows what to do, when to do it and how to do it, in any situation, Katz said.

Sounds like someone who might make a pretty decent quarterback in football pr point guard in basketball, doesn't it? Driscoll, a three-sport standout at Linn-Mar High School AP photo Iowa quarterback Jim Hartlieb looks for a way around North Carolina State's John Atkins in first-quarter action Saturday night at the Kickoff Classic. Iowa spotted the Wolfpack an early lead, but Hartlieb passed twice to Danan Hughes for touchdowns as the Hawkeyes tied it at halftime, 14-14. The Wolfpack did all the scoring in the second for a 24-14 victory. Gazette honors the area's top Individual Galers have accomplished great deal together preps from Or 8 By Laura Palmer, Gazette sportswriter E4 eidi Galer remembers the 18 years ago last Sunday birth to twin daughters, Kate day well. It was when she gave and Kara.

was laying there crying tears of joy," Heidi recalled fondly. "My, gynecologist said, 'Heidi, what's I said, I'm going to have three teenage girls at one time, and they're all going to hate me at the same time." Heidi had a 3-year-old daughter, Natasha, at the time. But three daughters, and a son, Nathan, 13, have FEMALE ATHLETES brought Ernie and Heidi Galer 'nothing but fond memories, busy schedules and car pools. Right that first day, Heidi influenced Kate's and Kara's lives. Her just-try-it attitude encouraged the twins to run the gamut of activities.

I "Our mom always said, 'right now your education is free. You should get a broad scope. You might as well try everything. If you don't like it, at least you've experienced it and you can say you don't like it for a reason. You just can't say you don't like it because someone else said Kate.

The two girls tried everything from sports to music to foreign languages. With each new sport or activity, Kate and Kara continued to excel. credentials mirror each other and, except for hair length, so do the girls who have achieved an abundance of athletic and academic honors. Their most recent honor 1991-92 co-Gazette Fe-, male Athletes of the Year. Pleae turn to 58: Galers The Gazette's prep Athletes of the Year gathered in Iowa City recently for a group photo.

The female honorees are the Galer twins of Iowa City West Kara, left, and Kate and Linn-Mar's Ryan Driscolt. The Galers are at Northern Iowa on volleyball scholarships. Driscoll is on scholarship at the University of Iowa, where he will play football and baseball. who three weeks ago began his freshman year at the University of Iowa, was both of those and Please turn to 5B: Driscoll.