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Page 22 JOHNSON CITY PRESS Sunday October 25 1987 Appalachian State stops Mocs eSfe Footbal1' Others of points in the final quarter when Randy Norris tackled Chowans Gary Campbell in the end zone Brawley booted a 34-yard field goal for his teams final score With the loss Chotfan falls to 3-3-1 Former Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson will make his NFL debut Sunday when the Los Angeles Raiders face the Seattle Sea-hawks Jacksons name was on the 45-man roster submitted by the Raiders Saturday to the NFL for Sundays game against the Sea-hawks Jackson 24 won the Heisman trophy following his senior season at Auburn two years ago The following spring Tampa Bay made him the first selection in the NFL draft but Jackson opted to play baseball instead signing a contract with the Kansas City Royals The Raiders chose Jackson in the seventh round of last springes NFL draft and the 6-foot-l 230-pounder signe with them during the summer Jackson finished out the baseball season with Kansas City and reported to the Raiders Oct 17 13 days after the Royals final game Running back Craig James of the New England Patriots underwent surgery Saturday to repair ligament damage in his right knee James underwent the operation at Massachusetts General Hospital He was expected to remajn hospitalized for five days then wear a brace six to eight weeks The 2 '2-hour operation was performed by Dr Bertram Zarins James is expected to miss the rest of the season times in the contest breaking the Catamounts four-game winning streak and dropping them to 4-3 Georgia Southern is now 5-3 Emory i Henry 56 Sam ford 37 EMORY Va Quarterback Gary Collier threw for a school record 384 yards on 28 for 41 passing with no interceptions and a Division III record six touchdowns to lead the Wasps over previously undefeated Sam-ford Paul Overbay a former Science Hill standout had 11 receptions for 151 yards and tied a school record with three TDs Emory racked up 667 yards total offense to also set a school record Lees-McRae IB Chowan Eastern Kentucky 14 Youngstown State 7 YOUNGSTOWN Ohio East-em Kentuckys James Crawford ran 175 yards on 29 carries and scored one touchdown as the Colonels beat Youngstown State Eastern Kentucky moved to 5-2 overall and 2-1 in the OVC Youngstown State fell to 4-3 overall and 2-1 in conference play The Associated Press BOONE NC Tim Sanders rushed for 124 yards and scored two touchdowns after a pair of blocked punts as Appalachian State defeated Tennessee-Chattanooga 17-3 in Southern Conference football Saturday The defending Southern Conference champs the No 2 ranked I-AA team in the country improved to 5-2 and 3-0 while the 17th-ranked Moccasins fell top 4-3 and 2-2 Sanders scored the games first touchdown on a 14-yard run 3:38 into the first quarter after Keith Collins blocked a Moccasin punt In the fourth quarter Quincy Bethea blocked his school-record fifth career punt to set up the Mountaineers on the Tennessee-Chattanooga 10-yard line Two plays later Sanders scored on a 3-yard run with 13:58 remaining Earlier Dennis Waters kicked a 41-yard field goal to pull the Moccasins to within 7-3 in the first quarter Georgia Southern 37 Western Carolina 16 CULLOWHEE NC Quarterback Raymond Gross scored three touchdown runs and Georgia Southern held Western Carolina to 13 yards rushing in its win over the Catamounts Defending NCAA I-AA champion Georgia Southern sacked Western Carolinas freshman quarterback Mark Smith seven Murray State 24 Tennessee Tech 21 COOKEVILLE Fullback Rodney Payne ran one yard up the middle to score the winning touchdown in Murray States victory over Tennessee Tech Paynes touchdown capped a 17-play 84-yard drive that consumed seven minutes on the clock and gave the Racers the go-ahead for good The Golden Eagles had two chances to come back in the final minutes but Tech quarterback Patrick Pope was intercepted twice once by defensive back Greg Sanders and finally by defensive back Kirk Brumson Presbyterian 19 Mars Hill 7 CLINTON SC Tailback Stevie Riggins rushed for 97 ards to lead Presbyterian past ars Hill Coupled with Gardner-Webbs lncq tn rioiwm-NAwmnn win enabled Presbyterian to take over sole possession of first place in the SAC-8 The Blue Hose are now 6-2 overall and 4-0 in conference play Louisville 31 Akron 10 LOUISVILLE Ky Jay Gruden threw for 258 of his 357 vards in the first half as Louisville broke open a close game with 21 second-quarter points and went on to beat Akron Tennis Western Kentucky 27 Austin Peay 0 CLARKSVILLE Western Cesarone threw for one touchdown and ran for another to lead the Hilltoppers to a rout of Austin Peay Hilltopper junior Dan Maher also contributed to the winning cause with two field goals from 39 yards and 24 yards respectively The victory improved independent Western Kentuckys record to 5-2 Austin Peay of the Ohio Valley Conference dropped to MURFREESBORO NC The Lees-McRae Bobcats kept their record unblemished at 7-0 with the win Robert Hardy put his team ahead for good in the first quarter with a two-yard run and Craig Brawley added the point after In the second period Jesse Davis fired a 47-yard touchdown pass to teammate Charles Whit-tenburg as L-M went ahead 13-0 The Bobcats picked up a couple Ivan Lendl the worlds top-ranked player exchanged ground strokes with Mikael Pemfors of Sweden and beat him 6-0 6-2 in a tuui Saturday ui Uie oouuu seiKo super Tennis tournament in Tokyo Lendl of Czechoslovakia will meet Swedens Stefan Edberg ranked second in the world in todays finals Edberg struggled through a tie-breaker before beating Slobodan Zivojinovic of Yugoslavia 7-6 (7-5) 4-6 6-2 in the other semifinal Before a crowd of 13000 on the supreme court of the Yoyogi National Stadium Edberg and Zivojinovic kept serves through the eighth game of the first set Fifth-seeded Jonas Svensson of Sweden defeated Swizerlands Claudio Mezzadri 6-2 6-3 Saturday to advance to the final of the $155000 "CA Trophy Grand Prix tennis tournament in Austria In todays title match Svensson wilLface sixth-seeded Amos Man sdorf of Israel who stopped Austrias Thomas Muster 2-6 6-4 6-2 In the doubles semifinals brothers Emilio and Javier Sanchez of Spain easily defeated Petr Korda of Czechoslovakia and Diego Nargiso of Italy 6-2 6-1 Americans Mel Purcell and Tim Wilkison downed Carl Limberger of Austria and Mansdorf 4-6 fi-3 7-K Top-seeded Pam Shriver and No 2 uanneia babatmi easily won semifinal matches Saturday in the $200000 Volvo Classic womens tennis tournament in Brighton England Shriver of the United States needed to save one set point in the second set before beating unseeded compatriot Kathy Jordan 6-1 7-5 Sabatini of Argentina ousted third-seeded Helena Sukova of Czechoslovakia 6-1 6-3 The winners meet today for the title Tech On their next possession the Vols went 57 yards in 10 plays covering four minutes with Cobb scoring from the one to take a 12-0 first-quarter lead The Vols were on their way again from their 18 when William Howard picked up eight yards on the last play of the first quarter Eight plays later Keith Davis scored on a 40-yard run and Reich got the point for a 19-0 lead Tennessee then added three points prior to halftime on Reichs 24-yard field goal with three seconds remaining in the first half Auto Racing- SOBS vL (Continued from Page 17) Darrell Cast to split end Steve Davenport putting the Yellow Jackets on the scoreboard Gast then passed to Stefen Scotton for the two-point conversion Cobb returning the Georgia Tech kickoff fumbled losing seven yards and leaving the Vols at their own four-yard line Cobbs 19-yard run to the 23 was the last play of the third period Charles Wilsons 17-yard run gave the Vols a first down at their 40 but they fell short of a first down at the 47 and Bob Garmon was back to punt The punt was blocked by Techs Danny Harrison and senior cor-nerback Sammy Lilly got possession and ran the ball 15 yards' into the endzone to cut the Tennessee lead to 29-15 following Thomas Palmers extra point "A lot of good things happened in the kicking game except for the blocked punt That was the most disappointing thing of the whole game Majors said Tech head coach Bobby Ross said "it was apparent to me in the first half that we werent ready to play And I take responsibility for that I told the football team that and also that there will not be another game where were not ready to play Ross added: "we had a lot of things going wrong We must have had five or six drops We must have under-thrown tne ball five or six times We get down and have a couple of opportunities and then break down in protection Referring to the absence of injured starting quarterback Rick Strom who was replaced by Cast Ross said "Darrell (Cast) is capable of playing a lot better than he did today I dont want that to sound negative It doesnt help to practice get your game plan in and then have to come back and start the other guy But you have to- deal with those things The Vols won the toss but like last week against Alabama decided to receive Forced to punt the Yellow Jackets took the ball on their 39 and reached the Vol 34 before Tennessees defense stopped them At that point following Techs punt Tennessee launched an 80-yard drive in 11 plays with Cobb scoring from 13 yards out Phil Reich had his first missed extra point of the season 1 The stock car racing pit crew of driver Dale Earnhardt led by crew chief Kirk Shelmerdinewon the 20th annual Unocal 76 Pit Crew Competition for an unprecedented third straight time Saturday at North Carolina Motor Speedway in Rockingham The Shel-merdine-led crew changed four tires and added gasoline from two seperate refueling cans in a new record time of 23831 seconds eclipsing the old record of 27601 seconds set by the same team in last years competition "We changed our plan of attack after we noticed one of the earlier runs Shelmerdine said "There are three or four different ways to go about a pit stop We have a play book like football or basketball We were really pumped up for this (pit crew race) Its great to be the first team to win it three fames in a row and set a new record at the same time Now were going to go for four straight next year For their record performance the team won $7000 which included a $1000 bonus for setting a new record SPORTS SHED and GOLF COURSE will both be moving to one new location at: 1716 Uosf ftarhet St (beside McDonald's) to better serve our customers Please stop by and see us at our new location 2510 -G0 Golf- NISSAN Fuzzy Zoeller overcame the effects of a chronic bad back to shoot five birdies on the back nine Saturday and take a two-shot lead after three rounds of the $600000 Tucson Open Golf Tournament Zoeller troubled with back problems for much of his career birdied the 10th through 13th holes and capped a round of 8-under-par 64 with a 10-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole Zoeller finished three rounds over the new TPC course at Star Pass in 197 19 under par Second-round leader 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ALL 3 SERVICES 4 CYLINDER Was 7190 NOW '6600 6 CYLINDER Wat 7890 NOW '7200 8 PLUG ENGINE ws 0390 now The Johnson City Silver Bullets Rugby Club lost to Asheville 20-3 at Science Hill on Saturday Pete Cholerton scored the lone goal for Johnson City now 2-4 with four games remaining this season The Silver Bullets travel to Radford Va this Saturday before returning home the following weekend to play Columbia SC FFEGC1 cndBCSAHE SE30P 2006 ROAN STREET (across from Johnson City Mall) JOHNSON CITY 202-5923 MONDAY 7:30 PM TUE-FRI 7:30 PM SATURDAY 7:30 PM frBoxingft SKILLED rSOEESSIONALS BACKED ST SENUME NISSAN EASTS AND ACCESS0KS 2111 Roan St Johnson City 282-2121 Elizabethton 543-1211 Frank Bruno knocked down Joe Bugner near the end of the eighth round Saturday and stopped the 37-year-old Australian in their scheduled 12-round heavyweight bout The fight ended when Bugners comer threw in the towel after the knockdown Compiled from staff and wire reports Call For An Appointment or Drive In Amy Time LI 4.